The Sun.
London, England, 1855-01-19 00:00:00

THE INDIA CIVIL SERVICE.

The following code of regulations for the exami-
nation for appointments to the Civil Service of the
East India Company, which will take place in July
next, has been framed by the Board of Commis-
sioners for the Affairs of India, under the provisions
of the act 16th. and 17th of Victoria, chapter 95,
sec. 38 ---
" 1. In Ye!y, 1855, an examination will take place by
examiners appointed by the Board of Commissioners for
the Affairs of India, of candidates 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 Com-
pany will be entitled to be examined at such examina-
tion, provided he shall, on or before the Ist of May,
1855, have transmitted to the Board of Commissioners:—
_ _

" (a) A. certificate of his age, being above 18 years and
under 22 years.

"(b) A:certificate, signed by a physician or surgeon,
of his having no disease, constitutional affection, or
bodily infirmity, unfitting 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 re-
ceived his education.; or, if he has not received educa-
tion at any school or college since the year 1852, then
such proof of good moral character as may be satisfac-
tory to the board of commissioners.
" (d) A. statement of those of the branches of know-
ledge hereinafter enumerated, in which he desires to be
examined.
" 3. The examination will take (place only in the fol
lowing branches of knowledge :
English Language and Literature :
Composition 5OO
English Literature and History, including that of '
the Laws and Constitution

1,500
Language, Literature, and History of Greece 750
/t Rome 750
„ Franco 375
„ Germany 375
If ff II It Italy
Mathematics, pure and mixed l,OOO
Natural Science—that is, Chemistry, Electricity,
Magnetism, Natural History, Geology,, and
Mineralogy
Moral Sciences—that is, Logic, Mental, Moral,
and Political Philosophy
Sanscrit Language, and Literature 375
Arabic Language and Literature

500

6,875
4. The merit of the persons examined will beresti-
mated by marks, according to the ordinary system in
use at several of the universities, and the numbers set
opposite to each branch in the preceding paragraph de-
note the greatest number of marks that can be obtained
in respect of it. 0

" 5: No candidate will be allowed any marks in re-
spect of any subject of examination unless he shall, in
the opinion of the examiners, possess a competent knew-
ledge of that subject.
"6. The examination will be conducted by means of
printed questions and written answers, 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 20 candidates who shall have
obtained a greater aggregate number of marks than any
of the remaining candidates ; and such 20 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, further
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 evi-
dence, and the mode of conducting civil and
criminal trials
The History of India
Political Economy
Any language of India in which the selected can-
didate shall bave given notice of his desire to
be examined . 2OO
And such further examinations will lee conducted in the
same manner as that above described. (The numbers
set opposite to each subject denote the greatest number
of marks which can be obtained in respect of such sub-
jects).
" 9. Each selected candidate desirous of being exa-
mined at either of the further examinations of 1858 and
1857 shall, two months previously to such examination,
transmit to the Board of Commissioners for the Affairs
of India, a stateruent mentioning the language or lan-
guages of India in which he is desirous of being exa-
mined.
" 10. Any selected candidate who, having been ex-
amined at the further examination of 1856, shall not
have passed, may, nevertheless, be again examined at
the further examination of 1857.

1,000
400
400

" 11. Any selected candidate who shall not have
passed at one or the other of the further examinations of
1856 and 1357 shall be struck off the list of selected can-
didates.
" 12. The selected candidates who, at either of such
further examinations, shall be deemed by the examiners
to have a competent knowledge of law, the history of
India, political-economy, and at least one language of
India, shall be adjudged to have passed, and to bo outi-

tied to be appointed to the civil service of the East India
Company; and the names of the selected candida, ee
who shall have so passed shall be placed in a lint in Vie
order of their merit in such examinations, estimated as
above by the total number of raarks which they shall
have obtained in respect of all the subjects in which they
shall have been examined at such examination.
" 13. The seniority in the Civil service of the East
India Company of the selected candidates shall be deter-
mined 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 examination, their
seniority in such civil service shall be determined accord-
ing to the order in which they stand on the list resulting
from such examinations.

" 14. No person will, even after such examination, he
allowed to proceed to India, unless he shall comply with
the regulations in force at the time for the 'civil cervice
of the East India Company, and shall be of sound bodily
health and good moral character.
" JAMES C. 111ELITILL, Secretary."

THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF
DINING IN PARIS.

Yesterday the Socidtd de Gastronomic, of which M.
Emile de Girardin is a leading member, opened their
monster restaurant, the Diner de l'Expositioe, in the
Rues Lopelletier and Laffitte. The directors of the
" Grand Exhibition Dinner" are not the inventors of a
new system. They inerely profess to improve upon a re-
cent experiment, which has been attended with great
success. It is very possible that, as in the case of
gunpowder, the steam-engine, and numerous other great
discoveries, the credit of the invention may be given to
those whose names are associated with its universal diffu-
sion, while the real inventors are forgotten. In the course
of last summer one of the many journalists whose °coup-
Akin was gone in consequence of the greet political revolu-
tion of 1851, out of the abundance of his leisure and men-
tal activity, conceived the idea of a dining establishment
upon a scale never before attempted, which should com-
bine the advantages of a table d'hote with those of a
restaurant, at a fixed price. He was a man of small
capital, but ho had faith in his project, and found
friends to supply him with money to carry it out. You
must have heard of the Diner de Paris, on the Boule-
vard, at the corner of the Passage Jouffroy, the first
restaurant of the kind in question ever opened in
Paris. This-retired journalist was the founder of this
establishment. He started from premises something
like these. The conveniences of a table d'hote are a
variety of well-cooked dishes, a handsome, well-warmed,
well-lighted, and well-ventilated dining-room, and the
cheerful buzz of society at the very moment in the 24
hours at which mankind is most disposed to be cheerful,
combined with a moderate rate of payment. The incon-
yeaiences are the fixed hour, and the necessity to a cer-
tain extent laid upon you of snaking acquaintance, how-
ever slight, with the strangers who may happen to sit
near you. At the restaurants, at a fixed price, which
have long abounded in Paris, a dinned' at a moderate—
often at a very cheap rate, selected at pleasure from an
infinitely varied bill of fare, may be had at any
reasonable hour. But the frequenters of such places
too well know that, when soup, fish, entries,
hors-d'oeuvres, roasts, game, vegetables, salads, desserts,
and wine, are given for 2 francs, the stomach has small
rejoicing when all is ueallowed. Even if the viands may
not be of second or third-rate quality (as for the most
part they are) they must of necessity, in the majority of
instances, be spoilt by overcooking, because the cook
who is expected to have everything in season always
ready can never tell when any particular dish may
be called for. The main idea of the Diner de Paris
was to have but one bill of fare for the day, as at a
table d'hote, but to have, during the ordinary dining
hours, a constant succession of the same series of
dishes. The bill of fare was conspicuously posted up
at the door, so that every customer might pause at
the threshold if he saw anything prima facie
not pleasing to him, arid a promise was made that a
first-class cook, whose attention would not be dis-
tracted by sudden calls for any dish that a man might
fancy out of a list of three hundred, would send up to
table nothing but the best things of the season, and these
cooked to a nicety as if ordered for a fixed hour. The
new system pleased the Parisians. All last summer the
vast saloons of the Diner de Paris were thronged with
diners at 31 francs each, which price included a bottle of
via ordinaire, or half a bottle of better quality. The
success of the parent establishment speedily encouraged
speculators to start others of a similar kind. Within
the last few months we have seen the Diner de Com-
merce, the Diner Europaen, the Diner Universal, and
some others, all rather cheaper than the Diner de Paris,
and at the same time as good, or nearly so. Now comes
M. de Girardin's scheme for dining the well-to-do million
on the same system, but on a much grander scale. His
argument is this. There are in Paris thousands of na-
tives and foreigners who dine daily or frequently at first-
class restaurant, where, without any particular luxury,
they spend 15 francs for their dinner. If we can, by a
grand combination and judicious outlay of capital, give
this class of society the same dinner for 5f., shall we not
surely attract them to our tablet Such is the substance
s'r s PreeiDeCtUS circulated in Paris for,some months past.
An important part of the project is that the undertaking
is divided into shares, at the low rate of 25f. a share. The
directors offered the tempting terms of a free ticket for
one dinner to every shareholder; and a contract to take
the shares at par (in dinners) whenever the holder might
wish to eat them out. The opening of this giant estab-
lishment has been postponed from time to time, and
people began to think it would never open at all. A few
days ago the 25f. shares were at 15 discount, and many
fortunate purchasers are now proceeding to eat five splen-
did diinners for the ridiculously small sum of 10f. Yes-
terday it was positively announced that the Exhibition
dinner -would open at four o'clock. The two entrances
were besieged by long queues of people long before the
hour. A formidable footman, in gorgeotre livery, six feet
high, maid 4,000 people had dined, and that there was
not a !mingle vacant place in the establishment. Having
obtain ed admission into a gorgeous saloon, covering an
area sic least as jarge as that of Lincoln's-inn Hall, after
waiting a few rEoments an elegant chamberlain, in black
with :a golden chain, found me a seat on a velvet
cushioned chair. Dinner was served with extraordinary
regularity. Every dish was perfect in its kind, and
quite hot. A. very hungry man might perhaps have ob-
jected that there was a want of a " piece de resistance."
The wine was excellent, but the grand feature of the
thing is the miss en scene, the brilliant light, the num-
bers who sit comfortably without crowding, and, above
all, that recommendation which the best restaurants in
Paris want—geed ventilation. There are numbers of
private rooms, and another public dining room upstairs.
The waiters are elegant men, resembling "gentlemen's
gentlemen "of the first water. A little footman of 14,
in smart livery, appeared to have nothing else to do but
to touch his hat to corners and goers, and excited much
amusement by the diligence with which he performed
this duty. There were but few ladies present on account
of the crowd, but after a few days they will doubtlest ap-
pear in great numbers. This afternoon the approaches to
the monster temple of gourmandise were even more
crowded than yesterday.