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The effect of the prohibition of the
direct Trade in these Articles from the
United Kingdom to Foreign Countries,
and of the rstrictions placed on the
Trade in other Articles of Contraband of War,
by former Orders of the Lords of the Council,
will probably be to induce persons interested
in carrying on this Trade, to endeavour to find
an indirect channel for the supply of Military
and Naval Stores to Foreign States through
the British Colonies; and, in order to carry
into effect the intentions of Her Majesty's Go-
vernment on this subject, it is necessary that
considerable vigilance should be used by you,
and the Custom-House Officers of New Zea-
land to defeat expedients of this nature.

I take this opportunity to transmit to you
Copies of the two previous Orders of the Lords
of the Council dated the 20th September
last.

I have, &c.,
H. LABOUCHERE.

XXV.
AT THE COUNCIL CHAMBER,
WHITEHALL,
The 1st day of November, 1855,
BY THE LORDS OF HER MAJESTY'S MOST
-HONOURABLE PRIVY COUNCIL.

The Lords of the Council having taken into
consideration the Expediency of extending the
Prohibition to export from the United King-
dom certain Articles used in the Manufacture
of Military and Naval Stores, in pursuance of
Her Majesty's Proclamation of the 18th Feb-
ruary, 1854, are pleased to order, and it is
hereby ordered, that the Officers of Her Ma-
jesty's Customs do prevent the exportation of
Saltpetre, Nitrate of Soda, Sulphate of Potash,
Muriate of Potash (Chloride of Potassium),
and Chlorate of Potash, to all Foreign Coun-
tries: and that the Officers of Her Majesty's
Customs do permit the Articles herein men-
tioned to be carried coastwise to any Port in
the United Kingdom, or to be exported to any
of Her Majesty's Colonies, Plantations or Pos-
sessions Abroad, or to the Territories of the
East India Company, upon taking from the
Persons exporting the same, a Bond that the
said Articles shall be landed and entered for
Use and Consumption within such of Her
Majesty's Dominions or within the Territories
of the East India Company.

Whereof the Lords Commissioners of Her
Majesty's Treasury, and Officers of Her Ma-
jesty's Customs, and all other persons whom
it may concern are to take notice and govern
themselves accordingly.
C. C. GREVILLE.

Downing-street,
23rd November, 1855.

SIR,-I transmit to you herewith, with the
request that you will give to it every publicity
a Notification which has been published by
the India Board of the conditions upon which
Candidates for the Civil Service of India will
be examined in July, 1856.

I have, &c.,
H. LABOUCHERE.

CIVIL SERVICE OF INDIA.

1. In July, 1856, an examination will take
   place of candidates for appointments to the
   Civil Service of India. Notice will be here-
   after given of the days and place of examina-
   tion.

2. Any natural-born subject of her Ma-
   jesty, who shall be desirous of entering the
   Civil Service of India, will be entitled to be
   examined at such examination, provided he
   shall, before the 1st of May, 1856, have trans-
   mitted to the India Board, Cannon Row,
   Westminster:--

(a) A certificate of his birth showing
that his age, on the 1st of May, 1856,
will be above eighteen years, and under
twenty-three years.

(b) A certificate, signed by a physician
or surgeon, of his having no disease,
constitutional affection or bodily in-
firmity, unfitting him for the Civil Ser-
vice of India.

(c) A certificate of good moral character,
signed by the head of the school or
college at which he has last received
his education; or, if he has not re-
ceived education at any school or col-
lege since the year 1853, then such
proof of good moral character as may
be satisfactory to the India Board.

(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 knowlege :-

English Language and Literature :-
Composition ........................ 500
English Literature and History,
including that of the Laws and
Constitution ........................ 1000
1500

Language. Literature, and His-
tory of Greece.. ................... 750
Ditto ditto ditto Rome ............ 750
Ditto ditto ditto France .......... 375
Ditto ditto ditto Germany.. ...... 375
Ditto disto ditto Italy ............ 375

Mathematics, pure and mixed ... 1000

Natural Science, that is, Chemistry,
Electricity and Magnetism, Na-
tural History, Geology, and
Mineralogy ........................ 500

Moral Sciences, that is, Logic,
Mental Moral and Political Phi-
losophy.............................. £0)
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 Uni-
   versities, and the numbers set opposite to each
   branch in the preceeding paragraph denote
   the greatest number of marks that can be ob-
   tained in respect of it.

5. No candidate will be allowed any marke
   in respect of any subject of examination un