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LONDON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26.

TO OUR

be comeguence of the absorption of space by the
mann at proceedings in Parliament, the Proprietors
have determined to liens a DOUBLE NUMBER
an SATURDAYS, so se to prevent the postpone.
mist et interacting matter. No change will take
piece in the price. The THIRD DOUBLE
NUMBER of the EXPRESS will appear on
SATURDAY NEXT, Feb. 28.

Tax Second Report of the Civil Service Commis-
sioners is now before us. These Commissioners, it
will be remembered, began their operations in the
meth of May, 1846, under an order in Council, by
which they were empowered to examine candidates
Sr the Civil Service. The experiment was novel,
sad the first results were looked to with oonsidas-
tie mi.:shy, though perhaps the Report which has
jest been published will possess still we interest sir
those who are desirous of testing the ultimate rae-
ass of the experiment. When a new plan is brought
into operation, the effect of which met be to rid the
Mil Stevie* of incompetent persona at the expense
no
doubt of much private dimappoistment, it is ab-
solutely emential, as the Report says, that,
with regard to the principles of the examinations
sad their general results, the Commissioners
should be explicit and anreserved. For it is
natural to expect that in some instances
*Rohm will be cast on the propriety at the judg-
ment exercised by the Commissions in rejecting
candidates, and it is therefore asemilial that the
public should be tally satisfied of the fairness of
the examination. But it is no Ism modal that ths
Oommissimen should exercise their lintslime milk
perfect freedom, and without being abject be amp'
thing like external control. It is clear, harm",
that something like interference has been attempts&
by some elthe Public Departments; eadwienwitiMee•
ran Replan& the C 011121640111711 for the dent wiii
they have thought fit to make in behalf of Oak nu
inonedeaes. In order to show the massair of
being explicit and unreserved in their In
port es to the results of the examkaliems
the Cseassionimers say : "We see the we
Odin' of adopting this cane Mum we hit
waraelvia obliged to nine hilinesties wills
spent to the details Of iailvHaal enniedina
doting qua this view, we Mined Se meek is the
request of ewe et the pile dqpnessees te -*suit
to it the eninhailta et a amain le
when we heed rinsed wave wring
the reasseablense of the privilege we elained, len
ea priasiple sad with retsina to coridwatisn of
pulls eseenalwee. We Mt that if we ebitaisen,
es the pert of oesestese mad of ear Annan Ma-
none, the privilege inesiehily airesised hp pewees
parfersigg Minim If 1W silme-vgfunedieg
aa hapsimine Agana via the perhommen
if the main whin* the *whew d eq
ensued inihility—lt nail he gain Mips.
ibis MS Ohs invidious bliss enniall
as nail he Jo*add ellestively eseensi."
Then sea he se dealt lit Os Cesninasne la
Wig amOms pii=saily did what wee
ineshielp esphite to Air own dignity
Ind that iipasisave b inliquesehie to the
proper yedielitmee of theiredsa Ashes hr they
deserve the mild thanks el the pill.

The ardisery exanindierns, we nay observe, have
a twofold purpose. They are Weeded to ascertain
the senillidels Omar for the add& idles Isaiah he
will le need rpm to perked apes his Set eiedrien
to did end May en ads Wiped to lust hie law
rd wheaden end idelligenen Per thelnt elide
pesperbe is Must invariably erandedin make,
eyelid" sod aritiddis. Far the deed pd.
peek Mara and 'seraph'. we the twe sub-
jects seleded. Bodin the eadhary, dine see
deo esdpedtive dandatim in eases where any
intrados is thrown splay lie Heed of the Depart-
neat. Is erenplitiee sontedirtions et dud the
sabjede of essmindien are dud wadded. Bit in
erdinery analdnalione M shield der that in with-
retie the insedens newer melt beyond vatted and
deciani !-head Sees of no gnat dideulty.
With raped le lid*, it is rwaseicable that is this
anlidsed inhibit a grist delkiesey.
sera aliseq sae es the Foreign and the
Ossassittee of Cdowil ea Edusaties, the stasibed
Q welting is high, and them the rapiresent
las bed =heed with a strictness awrapand-
de with the dendard died by the ease in

question. On one occasion of a oompedlive riut-
mhiation for • aisckship in an important depart-
ment, it hem mesentery to affect a candi-
date in raped at bad haad*ft, although ha
would elliewbe have been It is, we
think. of saw impartamest to draw public attention
the erdimery abtmard applied to andidates for the
Civil kinke, Wines k ad ammo= to hear the
most simonises sesseels of diweeiteirs posed by
prelims Is medemstko, sod letter-carrion re-
jssbi iselaky to makes the Georgia of
Visou., By • gismo et the Blue-book, however,
any am may eatery bier& that the qualifications
respired at andidares kw the Cell Service are of a
meek kinkier aireedue.

la ache la gnu some main of the extent of the
operations el this Commandos we may observe that
the needier d naididatee boa the illst of May,
INK to the Mtd Denatbse, 1868, we 3,001. Of
than I,ON way whiny ersiabsed, 1,187 ehtened
artlitatee of amillilsatisa. NO wen Nested se not
sullied, sad 119 were aaressanhl won competi-
tion. It mess that in 1866 the member of rejec-
tions was 29.5 par cent., sad in 1856 the amber of
rejection was 38.8 per cent. it of all the enhistes
examined, after deducting unaccesefel cempstitere
and 99 ether persons when we shall antics
presently. As to the num of *stirs, we
find that out of the INS rojestiemt, 41$ were re-
jected for spelling acme er with ether saltnets,
except arithmetic ; 147 he 'Athos*, either name
or with other seldectiormegt welling ; MI he
spelling and ant * with or without ether sab-
juts. flo that oar 111 hens, sine May, 1886, been re-
jected for dellelemin it hushing spelling or arith-
untie, or both It mums hese these Agnes that the
rejection of ant et the amdidatee is eased not by
fallen in the NON besaelies ot katowlehps, bat in
the vary elemode deieation, and that this system
of szeminatisa, whisk saippliss a ten he endieary
einsehmel cinellhatims, will penally have a most
bmilsieldhet in ingswring the shondenal standard
*the lawn end middle chute.

It wiR be elesevredthat al the $lB whe are imploded
in thell" but wen ardaetmelly examined. we Ind
me ism theslllterhewenadmitisd without examinatica
era reports Meer Beads d Nygaard'. The order
in Coma& indeed mdheileallleade stDepartments to
make appoisbente aim spesial qoallisatieue were
atmensey, thrash the plumb at smelt appointment
ware requlred to be ressied. If these 90 maws
have ban appointed audit this ahem at the ceder
in Osenell, there can be se doubt that the lam& of
deportamate are quite satithd to exert the privilege
seared to them by the mar. We are not certain,
bewever, that them pram lave been so appointed ;
he we mademtand that there are a attain number of
sleeks who eamplad albedo= in the various depart-
ments bobs the 0711111 ball wee appointed, and
who woe examined by the partienier dspertmeat
WI Bach perms, it mew sn appahtted perm.
aratly, or promoted without anilargeing arty exami-
ned= at the hands at the Civil Service Commis-
/Asa. If this be so, we antainly ie act uderstand in
what seam their came can be said le be "adjudi-
cated on' by the Civil Berries Osemaimioners, or
why they should appear in this Repeat at all. The
natter requires some explanation, sad perhaps a
q 11111116311 might be usefully put I. Waiters on the
subject. But in whatever way these SO may have
been appointed, it seems abundantly dear that the
public ought to insist upon every civil servant being
acquainted with the elements et abeatica. The
number 99 is vary large, mid aneidering
that the candied., ridested amount to 311.9 per
cent. of those examined. it MOMS not unremismable
to require that away @bleb eambiate should perm
the ordinary exameimalism is writhe, spelllag, and
arithmetic. If, indeed, se large a membar as 99--nearly
a thirtieth of the mess atutbeated en by the COMMlLl-
timers—we admitted without any examination at all,
it seems not impoesible that thiepratiticemay be drawn
into as argument for an extended application of the
same principle, and that I. test the exception may
ultimately beams the general Me. At all events it
is well that the alai d Departammte should know
that the eye of the pubis is upon them, and that if
the privilege in question is to be retained, it mast be
exercised swiftly.

ranoN OF GLASGOW:

no writ itt del obeelina et • member to represent
lo=la geollemel tir room of Mr. Jolla Macgregor,
asap& the Chiltern limarode, erred lowa
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