5. Political History of Europe | 7. Maritime and Interna

a general knowledge of
the Political History of
Europe, and of the
United States of North
America, from the
Treaty of Versailles, in
1783, to the Treaty of

tional Law (a general knowledge to be acquired from Vattel, Wheaton's "Elements of International Law," and the first volume of Kent's "Commentaries")

Villafranca, in 1860, 8. A General Report on the

comprising the most important international transactions during that period 6. Political Economy (a general knowledge to be acquired from Adam Smith's "Wealth of Nations," and Mill's Political Economy)

Commerce and Political

Relations of the several

Countries in which they have resided. Candidates must be prepared to answer any questions put to them by the Examiners within the limits of such report.

IV. Translators to Missions.

Exercises in Translations from and into that language or those languages upon which the candidate is destined to be employed.

VII. Student Interpreters in China, Japan, and Siam.

VIII. Foreign Service Messengers.*

1. Arithmetic (first four rules) | or Italian (conversational 2. Either French, German, knowledge).

IX. Clerks in Mixed Commission Courts.

XI. Supplemental Junior Clerks in Consular Department.

1. Writing from Dictation 3. Arithmetic.

2. Copying

XII. Temporary Clerks in Librarian's Department.

1. Handwriting and Ortho- | 2. Précis

graphy

3. French (translation).

XIII. Home Service Messengers, Office-Keepers, Office Porters, Door Porters, Extra Messengers at Missions abroad;

and others Employed in Subordinate Capacities.

1. Reading

2. Writing from Dictation

3. Arithmetic (first four

rules).

*Candidates must be "able to ride and competent to perform journeys on horseback.”

1 Reading

XIV. Housekeepers.

2. Writing from Dictation

3. Arithmetic (sufficient for simple accounts).

FRIENDLY SOCIETIES' REGISTRY.
Clerks, Temporary Clerks, and Messengers.

II. Secretary to the Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey.*

3. English Composition

position, and speaking)

* Accountant-Subjects, 1, 2, Arithmetic, and Book-keeping.

5. Intelligence

100

In Accountant General's Department, Book-keeping 150 instead of Précis.

IV. Door-keepers, Porters, and Messengers.

1. Handwriting and Ortho- 2. Arithmetic (elementary).

graphy

II. Clerks in the Secretary's Office; Clerks in the Legacy Duty Office; Clerks in Offices of Receipt and Account; and

Assistant Surveyors of Taxes.

II. Junior Clerks in the Solicitor's Office, London.*

100

(t) 1. Writing from Dictation | 6. The general principles of

(t) 2. Arithmetic

(t) 3. English Composition

4. Précis

5. Latin

Equity, Common Law, and Conveyancing

7. The Practice of the

III. Extra Clerks, Copying Clerks, and Temporary Clerks.

1. Exercises designed to test

Handwriting and Ortho-
graphy.

2. Arithmetic (elementary).

* For Clerks in the Solicitor's offices, Dublin and Edinburgh, the examination is the same as that for the Secretary's office.