1. Handwriting 2. Orthography II. Accountants. 3. Making fair copies from rough notes and Indexing 4. Arithmetic 5. Calculation of Per-cen- 6. English Composition 8. Précis and digest of re- In Competitions.-Not more than two other subjects, to be named by candidate. EXCHEQUER AND AUDIT DEPARTMENT, Clerks (Competitive Examination). NOTE.-Associate's Office and Common Pleas are the same as the above. FOREIGN OFFICE.* New Regulations for the Examination of Candidates for SUBJECTS FOR EXAMINATION. Obligatory.-1. Orthography and Handwriting (this should include, besides correct spelling, writing a good bold hand, and forming each letter distinctly, proof that the candidate can write quickly and correctly from dictation). 2. Arithmetic (including vulgar and decimal fractions). 3. English Composition. 4. Précis Writing. 5. French (translation from and into, writing from dictation and conversation, paying particular attention to accent, genders, and tenses). 6. Latin (paying especially attention to parsing, as in the examination for attachés). 7. General Intelligence Exercise (as in the attachés second examination). Optional.-8. German (translating from and into, writing, speaking, and reading manuscript). 9. Geography and History of Europe, from 1783 to 1847, inclusive. 10. Constitutional History of England (Hallam and May). 11. Geometry (Euclid I-IV.). 12. Ancient Greek. 13. Italian or Spanish. The limit of age for candidates is between 18 years complete and 24 years complete, except in the case of those who may not reside with relatives, or have an established and respectable home in the metropolis or in its immediate neighbourhood; in this latter case the minimum of age is 20 years complete. There are 12 Queen's Messengers for Foreign Service, £400 each; 8 do. for Home Service £200 to £250 each. A second examination must be undergone in the interval between the grant of a commission as Third Secretary and that of a commission as Second Secretary. SECOND EXAMINATION. 1. General Intelligence, as evinced by the manner in which they acquit themselves, and specifically by the quickness they may show in seizing the points in papers read by them or read over to them once or twice 2. Précis writing 4. German (Grammar, and If the Candidate between his first and second examination has not resided a reasonable time, 12 months, for instance, in Germany, he may substitute for German some other foreign language besides French. • Candidates who have passed the first public examination in classics at one of the Universities in Great Britain or Ireland, or at the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich, or one of the public examinations for the Army or Navy, will be exempted from being examined in Latin. Blackstone's Commentaries and Hallam's Constitutional History. 8. 5. Political History of Europe 7. 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 Villafranca, in 1860, 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) Maritime and International Law (a general knowledge to be acquired from Vattel, Wheaton's "Elements of International Law," and the first volume of Kent's "Commentaries") A General Report on the 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, ana 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 1 3. Arithmetic (first four rules). * Candidates must be "able to ride and competent to perform journeys on horseback." |