86

Moral Sciences, that is, Logic, Mental,
Moral, and Political Philosophy...... 500
Sanscrit Language and Literature...... 375
Arabic Language and Literature.......
375
6875

4. The merit of the persons examined will
   be estimated by marks, according to the or-
   dinary system in use at several of the Univer-
   sities, and the numbers set opposite to each
   branch in the preceding paragraph denote the
   greatest number of marks that can be obtained
   in respect of it.

5. No candidate will be allowed any marks
   in respect of any subject of examination unless
   he shall, in the opinion of the examiners, pos-
   sess a competent knowledge of that subject.

6. The examination will be conducted by
   means of printed questions and written an-
   swers, and by viva voce examination, as the
   examiners may deem necessary.

7. After the examination shall have been
   completed, the examiners shall add up the
   marks obtained by each candidate in respect of
   each of the subjects in which he shall have
   been examined, and shall set forth, in order of
   merit, the names of the twenty candidates who
   shall have obtained a greater aggregate number
   of marks than any of the remaining candidates;
   and such twenty candidates shall be deemed
   to be selected candidates for the Civil Service
   of the East India Company. Their choice of
   the Presidency in India to which they shall be
   appointed, shall be determined by the order in
   which they stand on such list.

8. In August 1856, and August 1857, fur-
   ther examinations of the selected candidates
   will take place by examiners appointed by the
   Board of Commissioners for the Affairs of India
   in the following subjects:
   Law, including the ordinary rules of
   taking evidence and the mode of
   conducting civil and criminal trials 1000
   The History of India ............... 400
   Political Economy ............... 400
   Any Language of India in which the
   selected candidate shall have given
   notice of his desire to be examined 200
   and such further examinations, will be conduc-
   ted in the same manner as that above described.
   (The numbers set opposite to each subject de-
   note the greatest number of marks which can
   be obtained in respect of such subjects.)

9. Each selected candidate, desirous of
   being examined at either of the further exam-
   inations of 1856 and 1857, shall, two months
   previously to such examination, transmit to
   the Board of Commissioners for the Affairs
   of India a statement mentioning the language
   or languages of India in which he is desirous
   of being examined.

10. Any selected candidate who, having
    been examined at the further examination of
    1856, shall not have passed, may, nevertheless,
    be again examined at the further examination
    of 1857.

11. Any selected candidate who shall not
    have passed at one or the other of the further
    examinations of 1856 and 1857, shall be struck -
    off the list of selected candidates.

12. The selected candidates who, at either
    of such further examinations, shall be deemed
    by the examiners to have a competent know-
    ledge of Law, the History of India, Political
    Economy, and at least one Language of India,
    shall be adjudged to have passed and to be en-
    titled to be appointed to the Civil Service of
    the East India Company; and the names of
    the selected candidates who shall have so
    passed shall be placed in a list in the order of
    their merit in such examinations, estimated as
    above by the total number of marks which
    they shall have obtained in respect of all the
    subjects in which they shall have been ex-
    amined at such examination.

13. The seniority in the Civil Service of
    the East India Company of the selected can-
    didates shall be determined by the date of the
    further examination at which they shall be
    adjudged to have passed; and, as between
    those who passed at the same further exami-
    nation, their seniority in such Civil Service
    shall be determined according to the order in
    which they stand on the list resulting from
    such examination.

14. No person will, even after such exam-
    ination, be allowed to proceed to India unless
    he shall comply with the regulations in force
    at the time for the Civil Service of the East
    India Company, and shall be of sound bodily
    health and good moral character.

Downing-street,
22nd February, 1855,

SIR, I transmit to you, herewith, a
Circular Despatch which the Earl of Cla-
rendon has addressed to Her Majesty's
Diplomatic and Consular servants abroad,
instructing them to protect the Subjects
and the Navy of Sardinia against Russian
hostility.

By the Duke of Newcastle's Circular of
the 24th of February, 1854, you were di-
rected to impress on all the Local Autho-
rities under your Government, the duty of
affording protection to the Subjects and
Commerce of France. It will now be your
duty to extend similar protection, assis-
tanee, and good offices to Sardinian Sub-
jects, and especially to the Sardinian Navy,
and to establish with Sardinian Agents, or
with the Commanders of Sardinian Ships
of War, the same concert in all that affects
the interests of the War, as with the
Agents and Officers of the Emperor of the
French.

You will report to me without delay any
measures which you may take in pursuance
of the present instruction.

I have, &c.,
SIDNEY HERBERT.

The Officer Administering
the Government of New
Zealand.