2. Supplementary Clerks.-1. Exercises designed to test Handwriting and Orthography. 2. Arithmetic (including Vulgar and Decimal Fractions). 3. English Composition. 4. Précis.

POST OFFICE.

1. Clerks in the Solicitor's Office (3rd Class).-1. Writing from Dictation. 2. Arithmetic (including Vulgar and Decimal Fractions). 3. English Composition. 4. General Principles of Equity and Common Law. 5. Conveyancing.

2. Clerks, Supplementary Clerks, and Temporary Extra Clerks, in London, Edinburgh and Dublin, Surveyor's Stationary Clerks, and Clerks in the Solicitor's Office (4th Class). -1. Exercises designed to test Handwriting and Orthography. 2. Arithmetic (including Reduction, Rule of Three, and Practice).

3. Clerks in Country Offices.—1. Exercises designed to test Handwriting and Orthography. 2. Arithmetic (elementary). 4. Letter Carriers, Auxiliary Letter Carriers, and Mail Guards.-1. Writing from Dictation.* 2. Reading Manuscript. 3. Arithmetic (elementary).

PRISONS DEPARTMENT.

1. Clerks.-1. Writing from Dictation. 2. Arithmetic (including the Rule of Three and Practice and the Arithmetical Tables).

2. Stewards.-1. Exercises designed to test Handwriting and Orthography. 2. Arithmetic (including Vulgar Fractions). 3. Book-keeping (elementary).

3. Schoolmasters.—1. Exercises designed to test Handwriting and Orthography. 2. Reading. 3. Arithmetic (including Vulgar and Decimal Fractions). 4. Grammar and English Language. 5. Religious Knowledge (the Bible). 6. School Management. 7. Two at least of the following, at the option of the Candidate :-(a) English History; (b) Geography; (c) Elements of Geometry, or of some branch of Mathematics; (d) Latin.t

The examinations for Mail Guards is to be the same as that for Letter Carriers, although educational acquirements are considered of less consequence than activity.

+ In examinations which are not competitive the exercises in Languages are restricted to translation.

PRIVY COUNCIL OFFICE.

Supplemental Clerks.-1. Exercises in Handwriting and Orthography. 2. Accuracy in copying French and English. 3. Arithmetic (elementary). 4. English Composition.

PRIVY SEAL OFFICE
Nothing fixed:

PUBLIC WORKS LOAN OFFICE.

1. Exercises designed to test Handwriting and Orthogra

phy. 2. Copying from MSS.

Vulgar and Decimal Fractions).

3. Arithmetic (including

QUEEN'S PRISON.

1. Exercises designed to test handwriting and Orthography. 2. Arithmetic (including Vulgar and Decimal Fractions.) 3. English Composition.

QUEEN'S REMEMBRANCER'S OFFICE.

Nothing fixed.

RECORD OFFICE.

1. Exercises designed to test Handwriting and Orthography. 2. Arithmetic (including Vulgar and Decimal Fractions). 3. Book-keeping by Single Entry. 4. Précis. 5. Geography. 6. History of England. 7. Latin (translation). 8. French (translation).

REFORMATORIES, OFFICE OF INSPECTOR OF. 1. Exercises designed to test Handwriting and Orthography. 2. Arithmetic (elementary). 3. English Composition.

SCIENCE AND ART, DEPARTMENT OF.

1. Ordinary Clerks.-1. Writing from Dictation. 2. Transcribing. 3. Arithmetic (including Vulgar and Decimal Fractions). 4. Précis. 5. Geography. 6. Translation from one Ancient or Modern Foreign Language.

2. Supplementary Clerks.-1. Writing from Dictation. 2. Transcribing. 3. Arithmetic (the first four rules, with Practice and the Rule of Three). 4. Grammatical structure of sentences of a simple character.

STATIONERY OFFICE.

1. Exercises designed to test Handwriting and Orthography. 2. Arithmetic (including Vulgar Fractions). 3. English Composition.

SEAMEN'S REGISTRY OFFICE.

(The same as "Supplementary Clerks" in the Board of Trade.)

1.

TRADE, BOARD OF.

Ordinary Clerks.* — 1. Writing from Dictation. 2. Transcribing. 3. Arithmetic (including Vulgar and Decimal Fractions). 4. Précis. 5. Geography. 6. Translation from one Ancient or Modern Foreign Language.

2. Supplementary Clerks.*-1. Writing from Dictation. 2. Transcribing. 3. Arithmetic (the first four rules, with Practice and the Rule of Three.) 4. Grammatical structure of sentences of a simple character.

TREASURY.

1. Establishment Clerks. 1. Exercises designed to test Handwriting and Orthography. 2. Arithmetic (including Vulgar and Decimal Fractions). 3. Précis. 4. Geography. 5. History of England. 6. First Three Books of Euclid. 7. Translation from one of the following languages,-Latin, French, German or Italian,-the selection being left to the Candidate.

2. Clerks in the Solicitor's Office. 1. Writing from Dictation. 2. Arithmetic (including Vulgar and Decimal Fractions). 3. English Composition. 4. General Principles of Equity and Common Law. 5. Conveyancing.

3. Supplementary Clerks.-1. Writing from Dictation. 2. Arithmetic (including Vulgar and Decimal Fractions).

WAR DEPARTMENT.

1. Permanent Clerks.-1. Exercises designed to test Handwriting and Orthography. 2. Arithmetic (including

"My Lords would also be glad to receive a report of the Candidate's proficiency in any other subject or subjects, to be selected by him, in which he may desire to be examined."-(James Booth, Esq., to the Civil Service Com.. missioners.)

Vulgar and Decimal Fractions). 3. English Composition. 4. Précis. 5. Geography. 6. History. 7. Latin, or one Foreign Language.*

2. Permanent Clerks at Out-Stations.-[Clerks in Military Store Service, Clerks in Royal Engineers' Offices, and Clerks in Barrack Offices.] 1. Exercises designed to test Handwriting, Orthography, and Grammatical correctness. 2. Arithmetic (including Vulgar and Decimal Fractions). 3. Geography. 4. History.

3. Clerks at the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, and at the Manufacturing Branches of the War Department.+-1. Writ ing from Dictation. 2. Arithmetic (the ordinary rules, including Avoirdupois Table). 3. Timber Measurement. 4. Correspondence. 5. The distinguishing Characteristics of the Materials used in the Service, and the Mode of Computation employed for each.

4. Clerks at Out-stations and temporary Clerks, at the Royal Gun Factories (when they are Non-commissioned Officers of the Line).-1. Writing from Dictation. 2. Arithmetic (including Vulgar and Decimal Fractions). 3. Correspondence.

5. Temporary Clerks.-1. Exercises designed to test Handwriting, Orthography, and Grammatical correctness. 2. Arithmetic (elementary).

COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF'S OFFICE.

1. Permanent Clerks.-1. Exercises designed to test Handwriting and Othography. 2. Arithmetic (including Vulgar and Decimal Fractions). 3. English Composition. 4. Précis. 5. Geography. 6. Latin, or one Foreign Language.*

2. Supernumerary Clerks.-1. Writing from Dictation. 2. Arithmetic (elementary). 3. Correspondence.

3. Clerk to the Council of Military Education.-1. Writing from Dictation. 2. Arithmetic (elementary).

In examinations which are not competitive the exercises in Languages are restricted to translation.

+On account of the peculiar knowledge required from Candidates for these Clerkships, "it has for the present been decided that Non-commissioned Officers from the Royal Artillery and Royal Sappers and Miners alone shall be admitted as competitors."

QUARTERMASTER-GENERAL'S OFFICE.

1. Permanent Clerks.-1. Writing from Dictation. 2. Arithmetic (including Vulgar and Decimal Fractions). 3. English Composition. 4. Précis. 5. Geography. 6. English History.

2. Extra Clerks.—1. Writing from Dictation. 2. Arithmetic (elementary).

ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S-OFFICE.

Clerks and Temporary Clerks.—1. Writing from Dictation. 2. Arithmetic. 3. Correspondence. 4. Précis. 5. Geography. 6. History.

JUDGE ADVOCATE-GENERAL'S OFFICE. 1. Writing from Dictation. 2. Copying.

COMMISSARIAT.

1. Dictation. 2. Book-keeping, Double Entry, and Exchange Operations. 3. English Composition. 4. Arithmetic (including Vulgar and Decimal Fractions)._5. Geography. 6. History. 7. Political Economy. 8. French.

WOODS, OFFICE of.

1. Clerks.-1. Writing from Dictation. 2. Arithmetic (including Vulgar and Decimal Fractions). 3. Précis. 4. English History. 5. Translation from either French or Latin.

2. Clerks to Surveyors of Forests.-1. Exercises designed to test Handwriting and Orthography. 2. Arithmetic (including Vulgar and Decimal Fractions). 3. Book-keeping. 4. Correspondence. 5. Copying a Plan. 6. Measuring with a Chain.

WORKS, OFFICE OF.

1. Writing from Dictation. 2. Arithmetic (including Vulgar and Decimal Fractions). 3. Book-keeping (Principles of). 4. Correspondence. 5. Précis.