TABLE showing the MARKS obtained by the CANDIDATES for ADMISSION to the ROYAL MILITARY ACADEMY.-UNSUCCESSFUL CANDIDATES-continued.

4.—EXAMINATION FIE DRENT COILSSONS I THE EITSEERD ERIGADE

fit for military RETUR.

He will be required to provides the forng ceruncate be forwarded to the Mit

possible after the receipt of the order to set 10 GRL 118

a. A certife of 1670s or other satisfactor praní en ze agu b. A certifat from a mile of the Crimes or of the dƏT MÜSSE to which be belongs the IF 1 car instructer principles of reRFIOL

c. A certifeE TË BONG Thoth surfacer signed or & CHEETTIST the parish to vid be legong, ở by the tuner of Deal of the school or endere I VIN DE DISA TROVITed Lie education for least the two preceding the: of such other proof of gou mora character as vessamart to the Commander-1-met. d. A statement of the subveze in wine, be wishes to be examine IV. The folowing will be the spinerts of examination, but la didate will be adjowel to be examined in more that free of thee subjects, or six, if freehand drawing be me of them >

to one of the following subjects, Len a, Chemistry
and Heat, or (b) Electricity including_Magnetism
10. Free-hand Drawing figure and landscape

2,000

1,999

V. Of the foregoing subjects the elementary branches of mathematics and the English and French for German languages, to the extent stated in the following paragraph, will be obligatory;

(1.) In mathematics, 1,000 marks will be given to the following obligatory portions, viz., arithmetic, including suigar and decimal fractions, proportion, extraction of the square root, and simple interest. Geometry not beyond the standard of the first book of Euclid.

HOUSEHOLD
BRIGADE.

June 1871.

Of the marks allotted to the foregoing portions of mathematics, onethird will be required for qualification.

(2.) In the English language, the candidate will be required to write correctly and in a good legible hand from dictation, and to compose an essay or letter. 1,000 marks will be allotted to this portion of English, of which 500 will be required for qualification.

(3.) In French or German 300 marks will be required for qualification.

VI. Of the remaining subjects, the candidate may select any two, or three if free-hand drawing be one of them.

VII. No candidate will be allowed to count the marks gained in any one of the three voluntary subjects, unless amounting to one-fourth of the whole number of marks allotted to that subject; and for qualification, he will be required to obtain on his five (or six) subjects a total of 2,000 marks.

VIII. In the examination in classics passages will be given for translation from the books usually read at schools; grammatical questions will be set, and passages from English prose authors will be also given for translation into the Latin language.

W. F. FORSTER,
Military Secretary.

EXAMINATION PAPERS.

SUBJECTS FOR ENGLISH COMPOSITION.

Tuesday, 6th June. 10 A.M. to 1 P.M.

(For Composition and Dictation.)

In this exercise attention should be paid to handwriting, spelling, punctuation, grammar, and style.

I. Cavalry in modern warfare.

or

II. The Mitrailleuse.

or

III. The burning of Paris.

The Composition should fill not less than two folio pages.

DICTATION.

It is true, that the appropriation of supplies, and the established course of the Exchequer, render the greatest part of the Public Revenue secure from misapplication; but, under the head of secret service money, a very large sum used to be annually expended without account, and some other parts of the civil list were equally free from all public

examination.

The committee of secrecy, appointed after the resignation of Sir Robert Walpole, endeavoured to elicit some distinct evidence of this misapplication, but, the obscurity natural to such transactions, and the guilty collusion of subaltern accomplices who shrouded themselves