PRÉCIS OF CORRESPONDENCE. N.B.-The following Directions are placed in the hands of the Candidates, along with the Correspondence of which a Précis is required :— Time allowed, 3 hours. Having read the accompanying Correspondence 1. Make a short Abstract, Schedule, or Docket, of the several letters. 2. Draw up a short Memorandum, or Précis, stating briefly and distinctly what passed, in the form of a narrative. DIRECTIONS. (1) The object of the Abstract, Schedule, or Docket, is to serve as an You are recommended to read the whole correspondence through carefully before beginning to write, as the goodness both of the Abstract and of the Précis will depend very much on a correct appreciation of the relative importance of the different parts. Brevity should be particularly studied. The Abstract should occupy 1 page only, or 2 at the most. The Précis about 2 pages, or 3 at the most, of ordinary handwriting. I. Parliamentary Paper. Despatch of Troops to India from the Cape of Good Hope, Ceylon, and Mauritius, December 1857. V. Parliamentary Paper. Submarine Telegraph Company, 1859, p. 1 to 5. VI. Parliamentary Paper. Spanish occupation at Tangiers, 1860. VII. Parliamentary Paper. Island of San Juan, 1860. VIII. Parliamentary Paper. Isle of Man Harbours Bill, 1860, p. 6 to end. Parliamentary Paper. p. 1 to 7. IX. Navy (Steam Ferry and Tug Boats) 1860, X. Parliamentary Paper. Further Correspondence with Mr. Bruce, March 1860 (Extracts from). XI. Parliamentary Paper. Further Correspondence respecting the landing of Garibaldi in Sicily, 1860. INDEXING. Time allowed, 2 hours. Make an Index to the Correspondence appended to the 3rd Report of the Civil Service Commissioners, beginning at p. 165 (House of Commons). The following Index to the letters in pp. 145 and 146 is given as a specimen of what is required : Correspondents Date of Letter. 1. Mr. Rothery to the Civil Service Commissioners. 6th February 1853. 2. Mr. Maitland to Mr. Rothery. 9th February 1858. Substance of Communication. Proposing standards of qualifica- The Civil Service Commissioners LATIN. Passages given to be translated into English. Inter duas acies tantum erat relictum spatii, ut satis esset ad concursum utriusque exercitus: sed Pompeius suis prædixerat, ut Cæsaris impetum exciperent, neve se loco moverent aciemque ejus distrahi paterentur: idque admonitu C. Triarii fecisse dicebatur, ut primus excursus visque militum infringeretur aciesque distenderetur, atque in suis ordinibus dispositi dispersos adorirentur : leviusque casura pila sperabat, in loco retentis militibus, quam si ipsi immissis telis occurrissent simul fore, ut, duplicato cursu, Cæsaris milites exanimarentur et lassitudine conficerentur. Quod nobis quidem nulla ratione factum a Pompeio videtur, propterea quod est quædam animi incitatio atque alacritas naturaliter innata omnibus, quæ studio pugnæ incenditur. Hanc non reprimere sed augere imperatores debent, neque frustra antiquitus institutum est, ut signa undique concinerent clamoremque universi tollerent: quibus rebus et hostes terreri, et suos incitari existimaverunt.-Cæsar. : Me quoque juvat, velut ipse in parte laboris ac periculi fuerim, ad finem belli Punici pervenisse. Nam etsi profiteri ausum, perscripturum res omnes Romanas, in partibus singulis tanti operis fatigari minime conveniat; tamen, quum in mentem venit, tres et sexaginta annos (tot enim sunt a primo Punico ad secundum bellum finitum) æque multa volumina occupasse mihi, quam occuparint quadringenti octoginta octo anni a condita urbe ad Ap. Claudium consulem, qui primus bellum Carthaginiensibus intulit; jam provideo animo, velut qui proximis litoris vadis inducti mare pedibus ingrediuntur, quicquid progredior, in vastiorem me altitudinem ac velut profundum invehi, et crescere pæne opus, quod prima quæque perficiendo minui videbatur. Pacem Punicam bellum Macedonicum excepit; periculo haudquaquam comparandum, aut virtute ducis, aut robore militum : claritate regum antiquorum, vetustæque fama gentis, et magnitudine imperii, quo multam quondam Europæ, majorem partem Asia obtinuerant armis, prope nobilius.-Livy. O nata mecum consule Manlio, Seu facilem, pia testa, somnum; Te Liber, et, si læta aderit, Venus, Vivæque producent lucernæ, Dum rediens fugat astra Phoebus.-Horace. Cornelius Nepos :— 66 Agesilaus, cap. vii. and viii. "Sine dubio.... admirari satis." Cato, cap. xii. Quæ dum in Asia....consueverat, sumpsit." Epaminondas, cap. vii. "Fuisset autem....gessit imperium." Timoleon, cap. iii. "Quibus rebus....quod fuit, vixit.” Cæsar : De Bello Gallico "Quum dies..... persuasum habebant." "Vercingetorix.... incolumes receperunt." "Omnia experti....consilio destiterunt." "Fuit hæc oratio....existimarent." Lib. iii. cap. 2. Sallust: Livy Catilina 66 Quos ubi Afranius....castra ponit." "Qua re animadversa.... pervenit." Cap. lvii. and lviii. "Sed Catilina.... vestris portare." Cap. xxxii. "Legati in Africam.... copia non fuit." Cap. lv. 66 Lib. v. cap. 23. Cicero: "Romæ ut nuntiatum est....gratior fuit." "Marcius et Atilius....dimicaturi essent." 4th Catil. Orat., sec. x. .... "Nunc antequam. ..... revertantur." "Sed antequam. cæsum videri." De Senectute, cap. vi. "A rebus gerendis.....accepimus." "Mundum autem.....consulendum." De Finibus, iii., 19. De Officiis, i., 31. "Omnino si.....aspiciendus fuit." "Permagni interest.... facere possis." Ep. ad Atticum, lib. ix. 11 (A). "Ut legi....amicissimus." Tacitus-Annal., i., 35. "Silentio hæc..... raperetur." Virgil: Georg., lib. iv. 149-164. Horace : Od. lib. iv. 15. "Nunc age.....nectare cellas." "Corripuere viam... fragrantia mella." "Eneas mœsto....deducere certant." "Interea videt....lætere reperta." "Tum mihi....invitat acerno." "Vix ea fatus.... fœdera rumpant." "At non Evandrum.. cecidisse juvabit." "Aurora interea... fulgentibus aptum." "Illi hæc inter se..... inferat arma." "Phœbus volentem....Hesperio cubili." Lib. ii. 20-36. 66 Ergo corpoream.....in veste cubandum est." Passages given to be translated into Latin. At last when Romulus had reigned nearly forty years, it chanced that one day he called his people together in the field of Mars. When, all on a sudden, there arose a dreadful storm, and all was as dark as night; and the rain and thunder and lightning were so terrible, that all the people fled from the field and ran to their several homes. At last the storm was over, and they came back to the field of Mars, but Romulus was nowhere to be found; for Mars, his father, had carried him up to heaven in his chariot. The people knew not at first what was become of him; but when it was night, as one Proculus Julius was coming from Alba to the city, Romulus appeared to him in more than mortal beauty, and grown to more than mortal stature, and said to him, "Go and tell my people that they weep not for me any more; but bid them to be brave and warlike, and so shall they make my city the greatest in the earth." Then the people knew that Romulus was become a god; so they built a temple to him, and offered sacrifice to him, and worshipped him evermore by the name of the god Quirinus. Arnold's Rome." 66 66 66 Tully was the first who observed that friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy, and dividing of our grief; a thought in which he hath been followed by all the writers upon friendship that have written since his time. Bacon has finely described other advantages, or as he calls them fruits of friendship, and indeed there is no subject of morality which has been better handled and more exhausted than this. Among the several fine things which have been spoken of it, I shall beg leave to quote some out of a very ancient author. How finely has he described the art of making friends by an obliging and affable behaviour, and laid down that precept which a late excellent author delivers as his own-" that we should have many "well-wishers but few friends." He says, "Sweet language will multiply friends, and a fair-speaking tongue will increase kind greetings. Be in peace with many, nevertheless have but one "counsellor of a thousand." With what prudence does he caution us in the choice of our friends, and with what strokes of nature (I could almost say of humour) has he described the behaviour of a treacherous and self-interested friend? He says, "If thou wouldest get a "friend prove him first, and be not hasty to credit him for some man " is a friend for his own occasion, and will not abide in the day of thy "trouble. And there is a friend, who, being turned to enmity and "strife, will discover thy reproach." Again, "Some friend is a companion at the table, and will not continue in the day of thy "affliction; but in thy prosperity he will be as thyself, and will be bold 66 over thy servants. If thou be brought low he will be against thee, "and will hide himself from thy face." What can be more strong and pointed than the following verse? Separate thyself from thine "enemies, and take heed of thy friends."-Spectator. 66 "Even in war..... Romans." (See p. 332.) "(For) how few..... dejected by their censures." Arnold's Rome : : Vol. ii. p. 134. "The Romans, however....great emergencies." |