SIXTEENTH REPORT OF HER MAJESTY'S CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSIONERS, TOGETHER WITH APPENDICES. Presented to both Hauses of Parliament by Command of Her Majesty. PRINTED BY GEORGE E. EYRE AND WILLIAM SPOTTISWOODE, PRINTERS TO THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY. FOR HER MAJESTY'S STATIONERY OFFICE. [C. 445.] Price 38. 6d. 1871. a.w. THE NEW YORK 336713 ASTOR, LENOX AND CONTENTS. APPENDIX I.-Regulations for Competitive Examinations framed by the Civil Service Commissioners and approved by the APPENDIX III.-Specimens of Examination Papers APPENDIX IV.-Military Entrance Examinations: Correspon- dence, Examination Papers, Statistics, &c. - PAGE SIX TEENTH REPORT. WE, Your Majesty's Civil Service Commissioners, humbly offer to Your Majesty this our Sixteenth Annual Report. In our Fifteenth Report, which we had the honour of submitting to Your Majesty in July 1870, we stated that important alterations in the method of appointing to the Civil Service of the United Kingdom had been introduced by an Order of Your Majesty in Council, dated the 4th of the previous month, but we forbore to enter into any details respecting those alterations because the time had not yet come at which the most material of them were to take effect. Another year has now passed, during which the changes to which we then referred have been embodied in Regulations framed in pursuance of the Order above mentioned. Various causes, however, have delayed the full development of the new system thus inaugurated, and we are not yet in a position to furnish any adequate statement respecting its operation. We think it better, therefore, again to defer the giving of details on the subject, and to reserve them for a further Report, which we hope to submit to Your Majesty early in the coming year; to which Report will be appended copies of correspondence that has passed between ourselves and the chief authorities of various departments respecting the Home Civil Service. We have thought it desirable also to reserve for the same occasion the remarks which we have to offer on the subject of the Entrance Examinations for the Army and of the Examinations for admission to the Civil Service of India; confining ourselves at present to a brief statistical account of the more prominent facts concerning them. Two examinations for appointments in the Military Service have been held since the date of our last Report, viz., one for the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, and the other for the Household Brigade. At the former of these examinations 177 candidates competed for 40 appointments; at the latter, 37 candidates competed for 16 appointments. The Open Competition for the Civil Service of India was attended by 229 candidates, the number of appointments being 35. The Final Examination of the candidates selected in 1869 was held in May last, when 47 candidates were passed by us as qualified for immediate service in India. 27910. a 2 Two examinations have been held by us for appointments in the Forest Service of India. In one of these, held in November 1870, 32 candidates were examined, and six selected for training in Germany. In the other, which was held in March 1871, 24 candidates were examined, and three were selected for training in France. An Open Competition for entrance into the Indian Civil Engineering College was conducted under our directions in June last. At this examination 220 candidates presented themselves, of whom 50 were selected. All which we humbly submit to Your Majesty's most gracious consideration, Witness our hands and seals this Eighteenth day of August |