The Sun.
London, England, 1855-12-13 00:00:00

London : Edward Stanford, 6, Charing-cross.

MEXICAN AND SOUTH • AMERICAN
COMPANY.
Ihe TWENTY-FIR4T DIVIDEN r of sevea shillings and six..
p.,nce per share on the shares of this Cemnany, free of income tax,
will be paid on or after the 19th January, between the hours of
eleven and three.

Forms for claiming the Dividend may be obtained by the share-
holders on application at the office.

lIYDE CLARKE, Secretary.
7, Gracechurch-street, 12th December, 1855.

CIVIL SERVICE of the EAST INDIA
COMPANY.
1. In fuly, 1856, an examination will take place of candidates for
appointments to the Civil Service of the East India company.
Notice will be here fter given or the days arid place of examination.
2. Any natural-born subject of her Majesty who shall be desirous
of entering the Civil Service of the East India Company will be
entitled to be examined at such examination, provided he shall,
before the Ist of Mav, 185,, have transmitted to the India Board,
Cannon-row, Westminster :
(a) A certificate of his birth, showing that his age, on the let of
May, 1856, will be above eighteen years and under twenty-three
years.

(h) 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 East India Company.
(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 received education at any school or college since the
year 1853, then suck proof of good moral character as may be satis-
factory to the Board or Commissioners for the affairs of India.
(d) A statement of those of the branches of knowledge herein-
after 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
English literature and history, including that of the laws
and constitution

1,000

1,500
Language, literature, and history of Greece
PP PP „ Rome 750
~ ~ France
lIP PP„ Germany
PP PP Italy
Mathematics, pure and mixed
Natural science—that is, chemistry, electricity and magne-
tism, mitural history, geology, and mineralogy 5OO
Moral sciences—that is, logic, mental, moral, and political
philosophy 5OO
Sanscrit language and literature
Arabic language and liter ature 375

4. The merit of the persons examined will be estimated by marks,
according to the ordinary system in use at several of the Universi-
ties, and the number set opposite to each branch in the preceding
paragraph denotes the greatest number of marks that can be obtained
in respect of it.

5. No candidate w, 1 be allowed any marks in respect of any sub-
ieet of examination, unless he shall obtain, in re+oeet ,f that subject'
one• sixth of the number of marks set against that particula subject.
6. The examination will be conducted by means of printed ques-
tions and written answers, and by viva voce examination.

7 After the examination snail have been completed, the marks
obtained by each candida e, in respect of each of the subjects in which
he shall have been examined, shall he added up, and the names of the
twenty candidates who shall have obtained a greater aggregate num-
ber of marks than any of the remaining cand dates shall be set forth
in order of merit; and such twenty candidates shall be cleerne i to be
selected candb,ate3 for the Civil Service of the East 'ndia Company.
Their choice, so tar as it cart be allowed, 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, 1857, a further examination of the selected midi-
dates will take place in the following itijects :
Law, including the ordinary rut .s of taking evidence and
the mode of c,mducting civil and trim nal trials .. •.. 1,000
The History et/ India
Pot flea! Economy

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Any verna, ular language of India, to be previously fixed
by the Board of Con.m,ssioners for the aftairs of India 200
and such further examination will be conducted in the same manlier

as that above described. (The um ier set opposite to each subject
denotes the greatest number of marks which can be obtained in
AnylBsse7l,e cotbetda candida
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sixth of tne number of marks set against such particular subject,
shall be struck off the li.t of selected candidates.
10. The s,le. ted candidates who, at such further examination,
sha'l be de med by the examiners to have a competent tnowledge
( ascertained in the manner mentioned in the preceeing paragraph)
of Law, the History of Political Economy, an I one Language
of beta, shall be entitled to be appointed to the civil service of the
East India Company ; and the names of such candidates shall be
placed in a list in the rder of their merit in such examination, esti-
mated 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
examined at such examination.
11. The seniority in the civil service of the East India Company
of such candidates shall be determined according to the order in
which they stand on the list resulting from such further examination.
12. No person will, even after such examination, be allowed to
proceed to India unless he shall comply with the regul:tions 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.
13 The Commissioners for the Affairs of India will be ready
to rvelv, at any time previous to the Ist of May, 1856, the
testimonials of persons desirous of being appointed to the office of
Examiner; but, with respect to the examinations above mentioned,
no such appointment will be made until after the date above men-
tioned.

14. All papers relating to the above-mentioned examinations are
to be sent, and all inquiries are to be addressed, thus :

"E. I.C. Civil Service
"Examination."