other matter and thing therein contained, al
though the same be not continued from time
to time by adjournment.

Given at Our Court, at Balmoral, this
seventh day of October, in the year of
Our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and fifty-four, and in the eighteenth year
of Our Reign.

By Her Majesty's command,
(Signed) NEWCASTLE.

ROYAL COMMISSION OF THE PA-TRIOTIC FUND.

NOTICE.

The Offices of the Royal Commissioners of
the Patriotic Fund are, for the present,
at No. 16a, Great George Street, corner of
Parliament-street, Westminster.

The hours of attendance will be from 11
a.m. till 4 p.m., daily.

The Commissioners in aid of the Patriotic
Fund are earnestly requested, without fur-
ther notice, to take immediate steps for giving
publicity, within their several jurisdictions, to
the Royal Commission, in order that Local
Committees be formed wherever practicable
with the least possible delay.

Local Committees will, according to their
discretion, obtain contributions to the Pa-
triotic Fund, either by public meetings, es-
tablishing subscription lists, or otherwise.

The acknowledgment of individual dona-
tions, where obtained through the Commis-
sioners in Aid, or by Local Committees, must
in all cases, to avoid error and expense, be
left exclusively to the Local Committees.

Local Committees are requested to make up
their first Subscription Lists and Accounts in
or before the first week in December next, and
to remit the amounts in or before the follow-
ing week by drafts payable to the Patriotic
Fund, crossed "Bank of England," to the
Secretaries of the Commission, or direct to
the Bank of England.

Total amounts only, as transmitted by Lo-
cal Committees, will be acknowledged at fixed
periods in two London daily newspapers.

Donations, subscriptions, and contributions
to the Patriotic Fund, other than those paid
to Local Committees, will be received by the
Secretaries at the Offices of the Royal Com-
mission as above, at the Bank of England, and
by all London Bankers. Acknowledgments
of the receipt will appear, from time to time,
in the London Papers above mentioned; but
it is hoped, that no separate receipts or ac-
knowledgments will be required from the
Honorary Secretaries, whose duties will be
otherwise sufficiently laborious.

Downing-street,
9th February, 1855.

SIR,

I transmit to you for your informa-
tion a Copy of the Rules, which have been
recently drawn up by the Commissioners
for the affairs of India, for the examination
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of Candidates for the Indian Civil Service
in July next.

You will give the most extensive pub-
licity to these Rules. It is not to be ex-
pected that such publicity will enable per-
sons to come forward for examination in
the present year, but it will prepare them
for the probable continuance of the same or
similar regulations for the examinations
of the years 1856 and 1857.

I have, &c.,
SIDNEY HERBERT.

The Officer
Administering the Government
of New Zealand.

Examination for Appointments to
the Civil service of the East India
Company.

1. In July 1855 an examination will take
   place, by examiners appointed by the Board of
   Commissioners for the Affairs of India, ofean-
   didates for appointments to the Civil Service
   of the East India Company.

2. Any natural born subject of Her
   Majesty who shall be desirous of entering the
   Civil Service of the Company will be entitled
   to be examined at such examination, provided
   he shall, on or before the 1st of May, 1855,
   have transmitted to the Board of Commis-
   sioners:

(a) A certificate of his age being above
eighteen years and under twenty three
years.

(6) A certificate, signed by a physician or
surgeon, of his having no disease, consti-
tutional affection, or bodily infirmity, un-
fitting him for the Civil Service of the
Company.

(c) A certificate of good moral character,
signed by the head of the school or college
at which he has last received his educa-
tion; or if he has not received education
at any school or college since the year
1852, then such proof of good moral cha-
racter as may be satisfactory to the Board
of Commissioners.

(d) A statement of those of the branches of
knowledge hereinafter enumerated, in
which he desires to be examined.

3. The examination will take place only in
   the following branches of knowledge:

English Language and Literature :--
Composition ................................. 500
English Literature and History, in-
cluding that of the Laws and Con-
stitution ................................. 1000

Language, Literature, and History of
Greece .................................... 1500
Ditto ditto ditto Rome...... 750
Ditto ditto ditto France 375
Ditto ditto ditto Germany ... 375
Ditto ditto ditto Italy ... 375
Mathematics, pure and mixed ........ 1000
Natural Science, that is, Chemistry,
Electricity and Magnetism, Natural
History, Geology, and Mineralogy .. 500