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until the criminal proceedings had terminated. Under
the circumstances, he asked for an adjournment for six
m piths.
! Mr. Lawrence objected to so long an adjournment.
The accountant hoped to produce the balance-sheet
within a month, and the whole might be examined by
the assignees in a fortnight.
Mr. Lewis said, without going into the question here,
he might say that questions of great importance with
reference to the criminal proceedings had arisen with
the counsel, and it was impossible to say when
the trial would take place.
Mr. Lawrence said it was not for the court to take
notice of proceedings in other courts. This was a
meeting for the last examination of the bankrupts- The
accounts had not been filed, but the accountant re-
ported they would be ready in a month ; and if so, it
was probable they would not require more than a fort-
night to examine them. He should suggest that the
adjournment be for six weeks. It was desirable, both
for the sake of the bankrupts and the public, that the
actual position of affairs should be known as soon as
possible. At the end of six weeks, if Mr. Lewis could
make out a case for further adjournment, no doubt his
honour would accede to it ; but he (Mr. Lawrence)
thought six months an unreasonable period.
His Honour adjourned the examination for two
months.
Mr. Lawrence said the official assignee had no objeo-
tion to the continuance of the allowance to Mr. Strahan
and Mr. Bates, but he did not consider it necessary to
make any for Sir J. D. Paul, who, immediately before
the closing of the house, drew out a sum of money
which the official assignee thought sufficient for him.
His Honour granted the application.
Mr. Lawrence said, with reference to the securities
which the bankrupts had disposed of, and were the sub-
ject of investigation elsewhere, it was thought better, in
justice to all parties, that the assignees should claim for
the value of the securities at the time of the bankruptcy,
or their misapplication ; and, therefore, the persons so
interested might be saved the trouble and expense of
attending for that purpose.
His Honour said the claims must be sworn to.
Mr. Lawrence said it was proposed to do that at some
other time, but to admit them for the present without
being sworn to. He intended on Friday next to lay
before his Honour a list of such securities, with the
names of the persons to whom they belonged. The as-
signees also thought it right to protect the interest of
those creditors who were absent, and they therefore
suggested, without prejudice, to enter claims on behalf
of those naval and military officers on foreign service
who had not been able to forward their proof. That could
be done by a little trouble in going through the books
and ascertaining the amounts as due from and to Hal-
ford and Co., and the bank.
His Honour said he saw no objection to such a course
being adopted.
Mr. BAGLEY said probably Mr. Laurence would state
on Friday what had become of the various securities he
had referred to.
Mr. LARITENCE said that could a:ready be seen by the
proceedings.
A claim was made by the City of Glasgow Insurance
Company for 20,0001. on the private estate of Mr.
Strahan, i■ accordance with the terms of a deed dated
June 2, 1854, and of which Mr. Strahan and the other
bankrupts were parties.
Mr. LARITENCE asked that the claim might be allowed
to stand over to give him time to examine the deed, be-
cause if the claim was admitted, it would absorb the
whole of the private estate of Mr. Strahan for what
was a joint debt. This was one of those wretched
transactions entered into with Gandall, Brothers,
whereby the bankrupts entered into a joint and separate
covenant with Gandall Brothers and the Insurance
Company for the advance of 20,0001., and the Insurance
Company suspecting Mr. Strahan's private estate was
better than that of the joint estate, were endeavouring
to prove as against the former. It was therefore neces-
sary the assignees should have time to investigate the
claim and examine the deed.
Mr. Linklater, for the company, resisted the delay
asked for by the assignees. The covenant in question
was contained in six lines in the deed, and he had every
reason to believe a copy of it had been in Mr. Lawrence's
possession a sufficient time for him to make himself
thoroughly acquainted with it. Gandall Brothers he
believed had become bankrupts since the bankruptcy of
Messrs. Strahan, Paul, and Co.
His Honour directed the claim should stand over for

expecting that he would take his (oornplainant's) advice,
but as the noise continued ho returned. He then found
another police-constable trying to induce them to go
home, and complainant observed, "Why do you make
such a disturbance et this time of the morning ?" The
prisoner and some of his companions then said that they
wou:d not move a peg, and that they would stop out
ti;l the pupae-houses opened at 5 o'clock in the morn-
ing. Complainant was then struck violently by a
man cf the name of Harding, who gave him a very
♦iolent b'ow on his head with a glass bottle, from
the effects of which he lost a large quantity
of blood. He was also struck with stones by
some of the prisoner's companions, and also by the pri-
soner. Harding and another man had been sent for
trial at the sessions.

The prisoner, without the infliction of any fine, was
summarily sent to the House of Correction for one

month.

WIFE-BEATING.—John rraus,, No. 51, Devonshire-
street, Lisson-grove, was charged with a desperate
assault upon his wife, Jane

It appeared from the evidence that the previous even-
ing the complainant was in Earl-street, Lisson-grove,
when she was met by the prisoner, from whom she had
separated. Upon seeing her, he struck her on the left
cheek, and knocked her down. She was assisted up,
when she was found to have a severe cut under the left
eye, from which flowed a great quantity of blood. She
was taken to the Dispensary, where she had the wound
dressed. The prisoner made his escape, but he was
afterwards taken into custody by policeman 384 A.

The prisoner was sent to the House of Correction for
three months, with hard labour.

the present.
Mr. Colombine asked, on the part of CaptainlMorris,
to enter a proof for 9 bonds of 1,000 Dutch guilders en-
trusted to Halford and Co., which had been transferred
to the banking house and disposed of in accordance with
the value of the bonds at the date of the bankruptcy.
The bonds were disposed of in February last, and he had
been unable to trace them to ascertain their value. He
also asked to be allowed to inspect the proceedings.
Mr. Lawrence suggested it would be to the interest
of Capt. Morris for his claim to be inserted with that of
others similarly situated, rather than make a separate
claim. He had no objectioe to Mr. Columbine ex-
amining so much of the proceedings as referred to his
claim, but he had to his making a voyage of discovery,
as it were, through the whole of the evidence, that had
been taken in private and for another purpose. No doubt
these bonds, with others, had been pledged, on which a
question would arise whether, in the event of any surplus
on them, it would not belong to the prisoner, whose pro-
perty the bonds were, in preference to the assignees,
whose duty it was to claim all they could for the benefit
of the estate, and which, if attached by the Court of
Equity, he might feel some moral and legal objection in
opposing.
The claim was admitted, with permission to inspect
so much of the proceedings as referred to the claim.
After the admission of a few other claims, the pro-
ceedings were adjourned for two months.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—(This Day.)

SOUTHWARK.

SINGULAR CHARGE OF ROBBERT. —Robert Lambell, a
respectable-looking young man, described in the charge
sheet as a linen-draper, residing at Montpelier-terrace,
Walworth, was brought before Mr. A'Beckett, charged
with stealing a foreign gold coin, called half a doubloon,
from Mr. Manuel Garrido, of 11, Bennett's-place, Fen-
church-street, under the following singular circum-
stances : —The prosecutor stated that he had recently re-
turned from France, and a fortnight ago, about ten
o'clock at night, he went into a public-house called the
Blue-eyed Maid, in High-street, Southwark, where he
saw the prisoner, of whom he had some previous know-
ledge. Witness treated him, and had two or three
glasses of porter himself, and when the landlord called
for the score, amounting to eighteenpence, witness found
that he had not any silver. He had, however, several
gold half-doubloons with him, and he took one out to
show the landlord, telling him that as soon as he got
them changed he would call and pay the score. He
threw one of the gold pieces on the counter for the land-
lord to inspect, when the prisoner dexterously picked it
up and ran out of the house with it. He thought he
would have returned with it, as he had known him by
sight some time and believed him to be an honest young
man, consequently he did not follow him ; but on Tues-
day following he met him again in the same public-house,
when he asked him to return the coin. The prisoner
admitted having taken it for a lark and that he had lost
it. He also expressed his great regret for having lost
it and promised to make up the loss. The prisoner
then went away and he saw nothing of him until last
evening, when he gave him into custody.
In cross-examination by Mr. Solomon—Witness said
he had been drinking a little, but was sufficiently sober
to know what he was about at the time. When he
threw the piece of gold upon the counter he allowed
the prisoner to take it up and examine it, but he did not
think he intended to have put the coin into his pocket
and go away with it.

Mr. Solomon—Did he not keep the coia for the 2s.
Bd. score which he paid for you?
Witness—No, he did not. _ I paid the score since.
The landlord told me at the time that he would have al-
lowed me to have what refreshments I required had I
left the coin in his charge. I agreed to take the value of
the coin from the prisoner as he told me he had lost it.

Mr. A'Beckett —Then you treated it as a debt 11
Witness—No, not exactly, as I put some value on
the coin, but he agreed to restore it to me or its value,
and lad he done so I should not have given him into
custody.

Mr. A'Beckett said he did not believe that any jury
would convict on such evidence, therefore he should
discharge the prisoner, cautioning him to be more care-
ful for the future.

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!ADMINISTRATIVE .LEFORIT. • arising out of the facilities of distribution afforded by the
new postal arrangements, for the publications of the
SECOND ADDRESS OF THE COMMITTEE. Aseociation.
At this period of the year, . and until the close of the i The Bill, and the further measures of Administrative
harvest, there is invariably a pause in every public ! Reform, essential to a condition of the highest efficiency
movement. It is, however, the duty of the Association i of every department of the public service, at home and
to make provision for prosecuting the agitation for Ad- abroad, in peace and war, must be urged upon the at-
ministrative ReforM a ith renewed vigour. tention of the Legislature by petitions ; and that the pe-
The progress of the movement so far is encouraging. titions may be entitled to respect, is the expression of
The principle of fitness has been admitted in the ap- informed opinion upon the subject, it is essential that
pointment of the existing Board of Examiners of nomi- the official papers of the Association and such other
nees to the office of junior clerk. publications and documents as throw a light upon the
The claims of merit have been conceded in the estab- existing deficiencies of the public service, and the best
lishment of open and cornpetitiva examination for cadet, means of their amendment, shall be printed for general
ships in the Royal Artillery, circulation, and that the petitions must also be printed
The common sense business practice of holding the in very great numbers, as, wherever the sheets are placed
heads of offices responsible for their management has for signature, copies must be distributed to all who may
been acknowledged in the reorganisation of the War and ask for them.
Ordnance Departments. Meetings, too, must be held for the adoption of the
The evil of appointments for the support of party, in- petitions in every Parliamentary borough in the king-
stead of the good service of the public, is yielded, solar dorsi, and every district of the metropolis. No move-
as mechanics are concerned, in the recent Admiralty in- I silent can be carried to a successful issue without meet-
structions to the superintendents of dockyards, to em- inns ; they are the legitimate means of instruction, the
ploy and promote, without regard to political influences, only means of a safe expression of earnest opinion on the
for fitness only, and to spare no effort to ensure fitness. part of the people ; and meetings are unavoidably at-
These, however, are but uncertain stops in the right tended with a large outlay. It will not do to wait for
direction. The private examination of nominees will local effort or local contributions ; they will follow, but
scarcely be received by the public as anything beyond a the expenditure must be first incurred ; there are adver-
prohibition of utter ignorance. The public examination ti-ements, placards, handbills, places of meeting to be
for artillery cadetships omits matters of every-day im- paid for ; besides travelling expenses, agents, too, mutt
portance, and is overleaded with matters of no relation- be sent to organise committees in the several towns ;
ship to the profession, and of no practical value. It is local committees are essential for correspondence, distri-
plain that, notwithstanding these changes, the ablest bution of publications, attention to petitions, memorials
men, without patrons, can never reach the Board of to representatives, enrolment of members, 'collection of
Examiners ; that, however well devised may be the subscriptions, and to make arrangements for meetings
division of labour and arrangement of duties in the and elections,
War and Ordnance Departments, their performances It is idle to suppose that the systematic corruption
can be no better than the practical ability and ex- of Parliament can be effectively prevented, or the man-
perieace of those employed ; whilst, unless the heads agement of the official business of the country be placed
have full powers of appointment and dismissal, their re- on a secure basis, unless the constituencies determine to
sponsibility must be either unreal or unreasonable. Nor begin the reform by choosing their own candidates—
is it to be supposed that the shipwrights and other choosing them not for mere promise of what they intend
handicraftsmen, and skilled and unskilled labourers, in to do, but for what they are told they have done; choos-
the dockyard towns, will feel safe that the full exercise ing the best, and ablest, and worthiest men ; choosing
of their franchise shall never again stand in the way of them not for mere family connection, nor for party as-
their employment and advancement, so long as there is sociation, nor for titles nor wealth ; but for what of in-
no better security for the measure that gives able work- dividual soundness of opinion, firmness of purpose, and
manship precedence of votes at an election, than an Ad- unswerving honesty they have shown to be in them.
miralty order, which, under another Mini-try, or dif- We say to the constituencies, Find such men in your
ferent temper of the public, may at any time be re- own locality if you can ; if you have not got them
scinded, or suffered to lapse into disuse. amongst you, or cannot persuade them to take upon
But, however incomplete those changes may be, or themselves the labours, the anxieties, the expenses
however much—being at best but based upon Orders in of Parliament, then, in good time and in good earnest,
Council—they may wear the aspect of experiment, look abroad for men of mark and merit—men who will
they are of importance as a surrender of the system as it add to the ableness and dignity of Parliament—men
was ; and it is idle to suppose they would have been wbo, having had some experience, will have some
made at all had there been no organised move power to bring there, some right to the high trust you
ment for Administrative Reform. The able report confer upon them, and of whom you may be justly proud

of the commission on the organisation of the perma-
nent Civil Service, and its attendant volume of papers,
abounding in valuable suggestions for the reconstitution
of the service, were suffered to remain a dead letter.
Even at the commencement of the session, and during
the disclosures of the Sebastopol Committee, those very
branches of the service concerned in the war were de-
clared perfect ; and it was not until this association be-
came organised that examiners were appointed, and not
before the experience of elections, debates in Parliament,
the earnest spirit of provincial meetings, the meetings in
Drury-lane Theatre, and the zealous and almost unani-
mous demand of the public press for the " right men in
the right places," had shown that the tide of popular
opinion was unmistakeably set in for Administrative
Reform, that the changes were made in the War and
Ordnance Departments, the Artillery thrown open, or
the mechanics of the dockyard districts, even nominally,
enfranchised from the bond of patronage and party.
But it will not do to be misled by these concessions,
nor to mistake the ready assent of parties on all sides of
the house to the theory of Administrative Reform for a
hearty determination to have Administrative Reform
carried into practice. It is one thing to yield that the
favoured nominees to places shall be shown to possess
some fitness for their duties ; it is quite a different
matter to surrender nomination altogether, and to esta-
blish fitness without patronage as the sole title to
offices. How strenuously this will be resisted by those
who have hold of the influence that enables them to live
upon Government—those to whom Parliament is the
stepping stone for younger sons—the way by which the
door is opened to independence, at the public cost, for
the least competent of their relatives and friends, and
by which boroughs are kept in hand—able candidates
put down—able representatives silenced, and parties
kept together without measures, without principles,
and in defiance of the public good—may be judged
of by the opposition with which even the half-way pro-
posal, that proof of fitness should precede nomination
and should be determined in open competitive examina-
tion, was met and defeated in the last session.
There will, doubtless, be some further peddling with
the matter—some few more good appointments here and
there, as occasion may compel a change—here and there
an order of Boards or in Council in aid of merit, bet
loose enough to slip out of force, by and bye ; and there
will be a great show of work—abundant pledges at the
hustings—a marvellous pretence of sympathy with fit-
ness and merit ; but there will be no fixed principle of
Administrative Reform established, unless the question
be taken up in earnest by the people. The monopoly of
the good things of Government is far too precious to be
readily surrendered by the favoured circles of Lords and
Commons, who, keeping a lion's share to themselves, dis:
tribute the remainder so judiciously as to secure office,
and the reversion of office, in perpetual round, to their
especial cliques.
There must be no occasion left in the next session, or
the next Parliament, for any doubt as to the will of the
people upon Administrative Reform. It must be demanded
on the ground of the purgation of Parliameut from the
corruption of place-hunting—demanded on grounds of
public economy -_demanded as an impulse to education,
as a right of knowledge, as essential to the character of
the nation and to the safety of the State. It must be
oontended for in the registration courts, at the hustings,
at the poll, and before election committees.
It has been determined upon, as the leading principle
of the association, that the system of patronage shall he
brought to an end ; that the representatives of the people
shall be placed beyond suspicion of subserviency to Go.
vernment or party, in the hope of preferment on their
own account, or of places to secure their hold upon can-
stituents ; that the control of the Treasury over mem-
bers of Parliament, by gifts of appointments, shall
cease ; and that a system of appointment and promotion,
based upon character, merit, and proved fitness, shall
be established throughout every department of the pub-
lic service.
As a first practical step in this reform a bill has been
prepared, by which, if it become law, the gift of junior
clerkships in the civil service will be taken from the
Treasury, and the whole of the appointments of that
class thrown open to public competitive examination.
This is but a beginning. It is not intended that
junior clerkships shall alone, or the civil service only,
be rescued from the degrading system of patronage, aid-
secured to merit; and that all other appointments shall
remain to be given by Parliamentary influence, nepo-
tism, and party. It is intended that this bill should be
followed by others, carrying out, to the fullest extent,
the principle of fitness, not favouritism, in every branch
of the service of the public and the Crown. But before
those measures of reform essential to a sound naval,
military, and diplomatic system can be stated in detail,
a vast amount of information, involving the necessity of
extended inquiries under able assistance, at considerable
cost, both here and in other countries, more particularly
as to the Army and Navy, the Consular and Diplomatic
services, has still to be collected, popularised, published,
and circulated amongst the electors, who must be tho-
oughly prepared to meet their representatives and can-
didates, at all points, upon the question.
It should be understood, too, and constituencies
should spare no effort to impress upon their representa-
tives, that Ministers must expect to be challenged upon
the grounds of every appointment they may make. It is
of the utmost moment to the prevention of attempts to
quarter incapacity upon the public service, that the Mi-
nister properly responsible shall, in every instance where
there is no public competitive examination test, be called
upon to show that he has conferred the appointment for
fitness fully established by some acknowledged criterion
of merit, or as the reward of public service, or of devo-
tion to the public good.
It is also essential to sound Administrative manage-
ment that the heads of departments shall be responsible
for the whole duties of their several offices ; they must
be armed with a power over their subordinates commen-
surate with that responsibility ; and if, thus armed, they
fail, abler men must be sought to take their places. The
nation can never hope to have its business properly con-
ducted until, as in private business, it insists on the
dismissal of servants who have shown themselves un-
equal to their work.
On all these points the people have much to learn ;
and it cannot be taught them without a considerable
outlay, and no small sacrifice of time and effort ontokhe
part of those to whom, in the several localities, they
for counsel and guidance. It is not possible an agitation like
the present can be carried on without a large expenditure,
of which printing necessarily forms an important item,
he more considerable from the increased demand

to have it said they are your representatives. Let there
be an end of having candidates thrust upon you either
by great neighbours or the great clubs, for mere personal
or party ends.
To support constituencies in the selection of candi-
dates those chosen by themselves, and to prevent the
system of patronage being upheld by bribery at elections,
are two of the most important duties of the association ;
and it is of the utmost moment that preparations should
be made to frustrate the evil influences of bribery and
corruption, and, where needful, to bear the expense of
petitions in defence of honestly-won elections.
These objects cannot be effected without a large ex-
penditure. Hitherto the subscriptions have been con-
fined to the metropolis. London has subscribed first,
because, having originated the movement, it was felt that
the metropolis must set the example of subscription ;
but steps will now be taken for the formation of loc it
committees, the enrolment of members, and collection
of subscriptions throughout the country ; and the com-
mittee are satisfied that sufficient means will be fur-
nished them for a vigorous effort to teach the consti-
tuencies the value of administrative reform, and to be
ready for the next election.
But, however desirable it may be to obtain a large
amount of subscriptions, it is still more important that
the association shall have the influence of numbers, and
that it shall comprise all classes. Administrative Re-
form is neither a party nor a class movement ; it wages
no war against any order ; it attacks no existing right ;
it seeks but the end of an exclusiveness that sets up
party and incapacity, and shuts out merit. Men are to
be found fit for the public service in every class ; there
are those amongst the humblest who, if the barriers
against them be removed, will work their own way to in-
dependence and distinction through public usefulness.
The association desires their help, their energy, their
influence, their numbers ; and it has therefore deter-
mined that, in future, every subscriber, from a shilling
upwards, shall be enrolled and receive a card of mem-
bership.
Administrative Reform is no mere question of theory;
it is a matter of downright business, in which all are con-
cerned, and which the war renders doubly important to
all. It would have saved millions already in the war,
and thousands of brave lives, had our administrative sys-
tem been amended even a couple of years since ; and, i f
the country be now silent upon administrative reform, or
suffer the Government to sleep over the question, or to
compromise the full principle by partial and unstable
amendments, it will still cost us millions in absolute
waste— millions to be borne for years in increased taxes
and new hardens upon industry.
But independently of the gain from that best of all
economy—having the public work thoroughly done by
the ablest men who can be found to do it for fair pay,
whether in our offices, our contracts, and purchase of
stores and muniments of war, the service of transports,
the use of our soldiers in the field, the care of the sick
and wounded, the management of our diplomacy, the
conduct of our consular service, the husbanding of the
time of Parliament Administrative Reform has the
claim to universal help that the tendency of the agita-
tion for its attainment is to elevate the whole people, to
put an end to that vicious system which forgets the pub-
lic good in private interest, quarters inefficiency upon
the public purse, barters the national weal to the sup-
port of party, for the maintenance that party yields,
and bars with corruption the door of the public service
against merit and fitness. Nor is this all. Administra-
tive Reform opens a new career upon equal terms to all.
It gives a new value to education—it opens a new way
to independence ; hitherto a comparatively few have had
to themselves all the good things of Government ; Ad-
ministrative Reform makes them the reward, amongst
all, of ability and industry.
Whatever objections it may be possible to take against
the proposed system of open and competitive exainin a-
tion—and it would be impossible to devise any system
of determining merit against which objection would net
be taken—the system at least has the advantage that,
fairly and honestly conducted (as under the public eye
and the public press it must be), it will have a wider
usefulness than merely to test fitness for Government
employment ; it will afford every one an opportunity of
obtaining certificates of fitness which it will become a
distinction to possess, and which, in proportion to the
strictness and high character of the examinations, will
be readily received as sufficient testimonials of qualifica
tion for employment both at home and abroad.
The difficulty now continually besets young men in
search of employment of proving their acquirements.
Private testimonials are known to be given in many in-
seances with too little consideration, or too much good.
natered carelessness, to have much weight. Many a
man of ability, possessed of real information, and capable
of adapting himself to almost any occupation, is sent
away disheartened from application after application at
public offices, board-rooms, and private counting-houses
such a man is really wanted in those very places,
and if he were once employed he would make his
way, and would not readily be parted with ; but he
has no proof of his capacity to furnish but his
own account of himself, while others, a little better
known, but, it may be, greatly hisinferiors,areemployed
instead. The certificate of a public court of examina-
tion would serve to remedy this evil. Private testimo-
nials, being subject to investigation by the public exa-
miners, would be given with more care ; and the certi-
ficate of the examiners would at least obtain every can-
didate for employment more respect in the course of his
applications, and would more readily gain him the op-
portunity of establishing his fitness by actual trial.
Hitherto the very ablest, those who would have done
honour to public service, have bad to make their
way to
it by
by humbling themselves to patrons, often
even by suppression of their real opinions, or support
of political questions in opposition to their convictions.
It will better suit the genius of Englishmen to have
an open field—to be free to make their own way by
their own merit —to feel that knowledge knows
no distinction of classes—to be without the necessity
for patrons without the humiliation of having
to ask as favours positions that by their own effort
and their own intelligence they can gain as a right. It
is to accomplish this end that the Administrative Reform
Association seeks the cordial co-operation of all classes.
The committee observe, with pleasure, the tone in
which the subject has so far been discussed. No great
question has, perhaps, ever been kept so entirell free
from personalities, party spirit, and all effort to excite
angry feeling or hostility between classes ; and in this
spirit, as a question in which all classes and parties have
a common interest—as a question of progress, of educ-a-

Lion, and the rights of knowledge—the committee trust
to see the discussion continued.
SAMUEL MORLEY, Chairman.
J. I. TRAVERS, Treasurer.
King Williatr-'treet, Oct. 1, 1855.

The following is the bill referred to in the foregoing
address :
A BILL FOR REGULATING THE APPOINTMENT OF ILERKS IN
THE CIVIL SERVICE.
Be it enacted, &c., as follows :-1. Her Majesty and
her successors may from time to time appoint three compe-
tent 'persong to be a Board of Examiners of candidates
for appointment as clerks in the civil service, and may
from time to time remove any such person.
2. The' Board of Examiners may from time to time
appoint a secretary and a registrar, and so many assis-
tant examiners, clerks, messengers, and servants, as may
be approved by the Lords of her Majesty's Treasury,
and may from time to time remove any such secretary,
registrar, assistant examiner, clerk, messenger, or ser-
sant.
3. The Board of Examiners shall from time to time
frame a scheme of examination and regulations for the
Purpose of ascertaining the natural ability and rudimen-
tary acquirements to be required as a qualification for
admission to compete for employment in the civil ser-
vice. They shall once at least in every year cause a de-
scription of the existing scheme of such examination to
be published in the _London Gazette.
4. They shall from time to time appoint convenient
places in England, Scotland, and Ireland for making
such examinations. Tney shall, on the let of January
arid I,t of July in every year, give notice in the Lon-
don Gazette of the times and places at which such exa-
minations will be made during the ensuing half-year.
They shall direct one or more of the assistant examiners
to attend at such time and place to make such examina-
tion.

I 5. Every male subject of her 'Majesty, who has rot
been dismissed from any branch of the public service,
way present himself at any such time and place for exa-
mination, and shall be then and there examined accord-
Mg to the regulation of the board. If any person so
examined shows thereby that he has the qualifications
required to admit him to compete for employment in the
civil service, he may require, and the assistant examiners
shall deliver to him, a certificate of the same.
6. The board shall cause a register to be kept of the
names, descriptions, and addresses of all persons so ad-
mitted to compete.
7. The board of examiners shall, from time to time, by
inquiry of the heads of offices and departments, ascer-
tain the special qualifications required for the service of
each office or department or of any particular branch or
division thereof. They shall from time to time frame a
scheme of a series of competitive examinations for the
purpose of ascertaining the qualifications of candidates
for clerkships in the civil service. And the first class of
such series shall be framed with a view to ascertain the
general qualifications of candidates, and the other classes
of such series shall be framed with a view to ascertain
the special qualifications required in clerks in particular
departments or divisions of the civil service. And in
every class of such series a number of marks shall be
fixed for the maximum of excellence i❑ respect of each
subject of examination and a number of marks consti-
tuting the minimum of qualification. They shall on the
Ist of January in every year, and so often as the scheme
of competitive examination is altered, cause to be pub-
Lhed in the London Gazette a copy of such scheme.
8. They shall on the Ist of January in every year give
notice in the London Gazette of the places and times ap-
pointed for such examinations. They shall conduct
the examination of all persons who duly present them-
selves for competitive examination in some place to which
the public may freely resort. They may, for the purpose
of examination in any special class, be assisted by any
person or persons whom they may think proper.
9. Every person who has obtained a certificate of ad-
missibility to compete may present himself at any such
place and time for examination ; and ho may require to
be examined as to his qualifications in any particular
class or classes exclusively ; and if in such examination
he obtain a number of marks equal to that fixed as the
minimum of qualification, the Board of Examiners shall
enter his name, description, and address on the register
of candidates for appointment as clerks in the civil ser-
vice, with the number of marks obtained by him on exa•
mination, and the class or classes iu which they were so
iiotained ; and shall deliver to him a certificate of the
same under their hands.

10. The board shall keep a register of all persons who
have passed the competitive examination, distinguishing
the classes in which they have passed, and the number of
marks obtained in each class respectively. The board
shall keep a register of the address of every such person
so long as such person remains on the list of candidates,
and until he has accepted of some probationary or other
appointment in the civil service ; and whenever such
person gives notice to the board of any change in his
address they shall cause such change to be made in the
register accordingly.
11. After the first competitive examination under this
act, whenever it became necessary to appoint a olerk in
any office or department maintained by funds provided
by Parliament (including the civil departments of the
army and navy), unless some person previously employed
in the public service be appointed as such clerk, the
head of such office or department shall notify the same
to the Board of Examiners, and shall state whether the
qualifications required in the clerk to be appointed be
general or special, and it they be special, of what class.
And the Board of Examiners shall thereupon, by letter
directed to the address from time to time given by
each candidate, •r otherwise, offer such appointment
to that person on the register of candidates who has
obtained the greatest number of marks in the class
from which the appointment is required to be made ;
and if the same be not accepted by such person within
days, then to the person on the register who has
obtained the next greatest number of marks, and PO on
in succession. And if no person in the class for whom
the appointment is required to be made accept the same,
such appointment shall be thrown open to all those per-
sons who have passed a competitive examination, and
every such person may claim such appointment, and the
board shall cause notice thereof to be exhibited publicly
in some place open to all candidates ; and if more than
one such person make such claim, that person who has
received the greatest number of marks shall b• entitled
to be appointed ; and if amongst such persons there be
two or more who have obtained an equal number of
marks, they shall be re-examined in respect of the sub-
jects of examination of the class from which the appoint-
ment was first required to be made, and every one mem-
ber or the board may conduct such examination ; and the
person who at such examination obtains the greatest
number of marks shall be entitled to the appointment.
12. If any candidate accept of such appointment be
shall be appointed on probation for one year, but be may
be dismissed during such year for incompetency or im-
proper conduct. When any person has so received an
appointment, the same shall be entered in the register of
candidates, and he shall be no longer deemed a candi-
date for appointment.

13. But in case any person having received an ap-
pointment resign the same, if he produce a certificate of
good conduct from the head of the office or department
to which he was so appointed, he may present himself
again for any competitive examination, and if he pass
the same shall be again entered on the register of can-
didates accordingly.
14. Provided always that nothing in this act con-
tained shall alter or affect the powers of any bead of any
office or department or other person to regulate the
duotnieosradnidsmpirsosamlotthioenresfroofmc.lerks therein, or their suspen-
sils. The Board of Examiners shall, on the
in every year, make a report in writing of their proceed-
ings, during the year preceding, under this act ; and
shall include therein a list of the names, descriptions, and
addresses of all persons who within the year have passed
a competitive examination, distinguishing the class or
classes passed, and the total number of marks obtained
by each person. And also a list of all persons who,
having passed an examination under this act, have with-
in the year accepted any appointment under the pro-
visions of this act.

16. No examiner, assistant examiner, secretary, or
registrar appointed under this act ehail be competent to
be elected or to sit or serve in the Commons House of
Parliament.

PRINCE ALBERT'S PRIZES FOR MODERN
LANGUAGES.

ETON COLLEGE, Oct. B.—The annual examination for
Prince
Highness
prizes given by his Royal theAlbert
for modern languages commenced on Monday last, and
terminated this morning.
The result was given out in school at noon by the
Rev. Charles Old Goodford, D.D., head master, as fol-
lows :

GlRlElN.—Brownrigg ma., first ; Puller, second.
The following candidates! were honourably mentioned :
1. Champion ; 2. Brownrigg, mi. ; 3. Jeffirson ; 4.
Bosancptet ; 5. Grove ; G. Divett ; 7. Orred ; 8. Mr.
Stanley.
First Examiner—Dr. Schneider, private tutor to the
lion. Mr. Saville.
Second Examiner and Master—Frederick Sclaiiner-
stedt, Esq.
The examinations were in Schiller, Goethe, Gellert,
Schlegel, and Spectator.
FRENCH.—Mr. Stanley, first prize ; Butler Johnstone,
second prize.

Selecied for Honourable Mention-1. Cleasby ;2. Mr.
Legge ; 3. Leveson Gower ; 4. Milner ; 5. Puller ; 6.
Sauderson, ma. ; 7. Stopfurd ; 8. Willes ; 9. Wilson ;
10. Wood, ma.

First Examiner—M. Ch. J. Delille.
Second Examiner—M. Tarver, master.
The prizes for Italian will be awarded next week.
C. Proctor, Esq., Fellow of King's College, Cam.
bridge, has just been appointed one of the assistant mas-
ters in the lower school.

PEDESTRIANISL—A match came off last week between
Thomas Breakell, farmer, of Broughton, and James
Blackburn, farmer, of Howick. The match was to walk
from Preston to Whitewell and back, a distance of 36
miles, and the former party being 73 years of age, and
the latter 62, the match created a more than ordinary
degree of interest. At seven o'clock on Monday morn-
ing a start was made from the Legs of Man Inn, Fisher-
gate, and both set eff in tip-top spirits, each apparently
sure of hie opponent's 51. The pace was well maintained
to the Bowling-green at Ribbleton, Breakell, however,
arriving first. Here he waited until Blackburn came up,
and offering to bet another sovereign on himself. Black-
burn took the wager, when Breakell immediately threw
off his coat, and telling Blackburn he should never see
him again, setting off at a rattling speed, and kept his
word. C At Whitewell Blackurn gave in, but Breakell
started on his return walk, and reached Preston again at
a minute past four, completing his task in nine hours
and a minute

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SUN OFFICE, Seven o'Clock.

ARRIVAL OF THE --ALLIED FLEET
OFF ODESSA.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)

A telegraphic despatch received this afternoon
at Hamburg from St. Petersburg states that the
Allied fleets anchored off Odessa yesterday (the
Bth).

The bombardment of the city was momentarily

expected.

At the time that this very important telegra-
phic announcement was sent from Odessa to the
Russian capital the bombardment had not com-
menced.

NAVAL APPOINTMENTS.—(This Day.)

The following appointments have been made at the
Admiralty this day : . . .

Mr. David Shannon, Acting-Assistant-Surgeon to
the Impregnable.

Mr. Francis Cook Alton, second chug Assistant-En-
gineer of H. M. S. Exmouth, has been promoted to be
first class Assistant-Engineer in her Majesty's fleet, in
consequence of the zeal and skill exhibited by him on the
occasion of the bombardment of Sweaborg.

NEWMARKET RACES.

Saraband
Triton ...

(BY ELECTRIC TELEG.RAPH.)
HANDICAP SWEEPSTAKES.

Pharos
Strutaway

1
2

Three ran.
SELLING HANDICAP.

Six ran.
SWEEPSTAKES OF TEN SOVS.
Exchange walked over, after a dead heat with Flageolet.

Chalice .
Claret....

ROYAL STAKES.

Five ran.
SWEEPSTAKES OF FIVE SOVS.

L9.acelles

Anglo-Saxon

Nine ran.

No Betting on the Course.

THE LONDON GAZETTE.

(THIS EVENING.)

DOWNING-STREET, OCT. 5.
The Qneen has been pleased to appoint William John-
stone Ritchie, Esq., to be one of the Puisne Judges of the
Supreme Court of New Brunswick.

WAR-OFFICE, OCT. 9.
Ist Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Lieutenant Robert,
Earl of Sinc,°ston, from half-pay Unattached, to be Lieu-
tenant, vice Sher wen, promoted, without purchase, to an
Unattached Company ; Cornet Arthur James Phillips
Wadman to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice the Earl of
Kingston, who retires.
2d Dragoon Guards—Quartermaster Silvester Calvert to
be Cornet, without purchase ; Cornet Silvester Calvert to
be Adjutant, vile Price, promoted; Regimental Sergeant-
Major William Rae to be Quartermaster, vice Calvert,
appointed Cornet and Adjutant.
3d Dragoon Guards—To be Lieutenants, without pur-
chase—Lieutenant H. F. Richmond, from 10th Light
Dragoons ; Cornet H. W. Berkeley.
7th Dragoon Guards—Cornet Hume Nichol' to be Lieu-
tenant, without purchase.
2d Dragoons—Lieutenant R. S. Hunter to be Captain,
without purchase, vice Brevet-Major Boyd, deceased ;
Cornet Nicholas Mills to be Lieutenant, without purchase,
vice Hunter.

4th Light Dragoons—Cornet and Sub-Lieutenant Lord
Ernest Mc D. Vane-Tempest, from the 2d Life Guards, to
be Cornet, vice Booth, promoted ; George Paxton, Gent.,
to be Cornet, without purchase, vice Hunt, promoted.
9th Light Dragoons—Cornet W. B. Gifford, from the
7th Dragoon Guards, to be Cornet, without purchase, vice
Jones, promoted.
13th Light Dragoons—Lieutenant John Davis to be
Captain, without purchase, vice Honourable J. W. H.
Hutchinson, deceased ; Cornet H. 0. Munn to be Lieu-
tenant, without purchase, vice Davis ; Cornet and Adju-
tant George Gardner to have the rank of Lieutenant ;
Cornet T. P. Gratrex to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice
Munn, whose promotion by purchase, on the 25th Sep-
tember' 1855, has been cancelled.
14th Light Dragoons—Cornet L. Mackenzie to be Lieu-
tenant, without purchase, vice Mayne, promote) in the
3d Light Dragoons.
15th Light Dragoons—To be Lieutenants, without pur-
chase—Lieutenant J. A. Clark, from 10th Light Dra-
goons ; Lieut. Charles Steel, from 12th Light Dragoons.
Royal Ecgineers—The name of the Gentleman Cadet
appointed Lieutenant in the Gazd e of 17th August, 1855,
With date Ist August, 1855, is Reginald Gother Thorold,
and not Reginald Gother Thorald, as previously stated.
Grenadier Guards—Ensign and Lieutenant J. B. B.
Coulson, to be Lieutenant and Captain, by purchase, vice
Honourable Frederick Ponsonby, promoted ; Lieut. the
Honourable Arthur Annesley, from the 92d Foot, to be
Ensign and Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Coulson.
Coldstream Guards—The name of Officer appointed
Adjutant on 2d October, 1855, is A. J. Fremantle, and
not A. .1. Freemantle, as previously stated.
Scots Fusilier Guards—Ensign and Lieutenant C. G.
Tottenham to be Lieutenant and Captain, without pur-
chase, vice Buckley, killed in action.
Ist Foot—Lieutenant James Deacon to be Paymaster,
vice Espinasse, who retires upon half-pay ; Lieutenant F.
P. Muller to be Adjutant, vice Brown, promoted.
3d Foot—Thomas John Stafford Hotchkin, Gent., to be
Ensign, by purchase, vice Heywood, promoted ; Assistant-
Surgeon Theophilus Dolan, from the Staff, to be Assistant-
Surgeon, vice Day, appointed to the Staff.
7th Foot—To he Lieutenants without purchase—Ensign
James A. Gardner, vice Wright, killed in action ; Ensign
Henry J. Barnard, vice Colt, killed in action. To be En-
signs without purchase.—Lieutenant Anslem Tibeaudu,
from the 6th Royal Lancashire Militia, vice Gardner ;
George J. Franklin, Gent., vice Barnard, To be Adju-
tant—Lieutenant John Henry Waller, vice Hobson, killed
in action.

Landon, from the Hereford Militia, to be Ensign, without
purchase ; George Dobree Lys, Esq., to be Paymaster,
vice Macdonnell, appointed to a Depot Battalion.
:,Bth Foot —Lieutenant George Henry Wynyard to be
Captain, by purchase, vice Balneavis, who retires.
60th Foot—Ensign Matthew Tilford to be Adjutant.
62d Foot—Lieutenant C. C. Cubitt, to be Captain, with-
out purchase, vice Cox, killed in action. To be Lieute-
nants, without purchase—Ensign W. L. R. Scott, vice
Cubitt; Ensign A. F. Walsh, vice Blakiston, killed in
action. To be Lieutenant, by purchase—Ensign C. F.
Holder, vice Dickson, promoted. To be Ensigns, without
purchase—Lieutenant Archibald George Keen, from the 2d
Stafford Militia; Lieutenant James O'Hara, from the An-
trim Militia Artillery, vice Walsh; George Augustus
Crickett, Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase, vice
Scott.
68th Foot—Ensign Reginald Brocas to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Edwards, promoted.
71st Foot—Staff-Surgeon of the Second Class William
Simpson, M. 8., to be Surgeon, vice Dods, appointed to
the Staff.
77th Foot—Lieutenant Charles Ernest Knight to be
Captain, without purchase, vice Pechell, killed in action ;
Ensign Charles B. Saunders to be Lieutenant, without
purchase, vice Knight; Ensign Rowland B. Hill, from the
36th Foot, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Richards,
who retires ; John Jordan, Gent., to be Ensign, without
purchase, vice Saunders.
82d Foot—Edward Snow Mason, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase; Lieutenant C. E. Gore Browne to be Adju-
tant, vice Mauls, promoted.
The proper designation of the Ensign appointed on the
3d Sept., 1855, is Charles Thomas Benjamin Spiller.
83d Foot—Captain the HOD. Emilius J. Weld Forester,
from half-pay Unattached, to be Captain, vice G. F.
Moore, who exchanges.
85th Foot—Ensign B. Reeves to be Lieutenant, by pur-
chase, vice Athorpe, promoted.
87th Foot—Second Lieutenant the Hon. D'Arcy Godol-
phin Osborne to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Adam
Steuart, who retires.

90th Foot—Brevet-Colonel Matthew Chitty Downes St.
Quintin, from half-pay Unattached, to be Lieutenant-
Colonel, vice Deverell, who exchanges ; Major William
P. Purnell to be Lieutenant-Colonel, by purchase, vice
Brevet-Colonel St. Quintin, who retires; Captain Ro-
bert Grove to be Major, by purchase, vice Parnell ;
Lieutenant J. C. Rattray to be Captain, without purchase,
vice Preston, killed in action. To be Lieutenants without
purchase—Ensign W. H. L. Carleton, vice Rattray; En-
sign R. H. Synge, vice. Swift, killed in action ; Ensign H.
Bingham, vice Wilmer, killed in action. To be Ensign
by purchase—John Vander Horst Rees, Gent., vice Moul-
trie, promoted. To be Ensigns without purchase— Lieut.
James William Knox, from the sth Middlesex Militia,
vice Carleton ; George Edward Perryn, Gent., vice Synge ;
Henry B. Savory, Gent., vice Bingham.
92d Foot —To be Lieutenants, without purchase—Ensign
Francis Pike, from the 96th Foot ; Lieutenant C. A. Hum-
frey, from the 53d Foot ; Lieutenant C. J. R. Bedford,
from the 9th Foot.

94th Foot—To be Ensigns, by purchase—Robert Stock-
ham Brydges Leech, Gent., vice Rolls, promoted ; William
Clegg, Gent., vice F. H. Elliot, promoted.

ail Foot-I-Lieutenant John Seaton to be Adjutant,
vice Braybrooke, who resigns the Adjutantcy only.
9fth Foot—Lieutenant William Alphonso Kirk, from
Paymaster, 16th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Archer, who
retires upon half-pay ; Ensign George Irwin Thompson, to
be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Kirk, who retires; Ed-
ward Johnston, Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase,
vice Pike, promoted in the 92d Foot.
Rifle Brigade—Captain the Honourable L. W. Mlles,
from the 96th Foot, to be Captain, ♦ice Clifton, who re-
tires.

Ist West India Regiment—The Christian names of En-
sign Samson, appointed on the 25th September, 1855, are
Alexander Milburn Wellington.
Gold Coast Corps—Richard Saunders, Gent., to be En-
sign, without purchase, vice Wright, who resigns.
TURKISH CONTINGENT.—WiIIiam Frankish, Gent., to
have the local rank of Acting Assistant-Surgeon in Turkey,
while employed with the Turkish Contingent ; John Falls,
Esq., to be Paymaster to the Irregular Cavalry attached
to the Turkish Contingent.
BRITISH ITALIAN LEGlON.—George Washington Chas-
seaud, Esq., to be Paymaster.
UNATTACHED.— Major and Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel
Alexander Cameron, C.B. 42d Foot, to have his Brevet
Rank converted into Substantive Rank, in conformity
with the Royal Warrant of 6th October, 1854 ; Lieutenant
Matthew White, from the 76th Foot, to be Captain, with-
out purchase.
STAFF.—Major John Martin Bladen Neill, 40th Foot, to
be Deputy Adjutant-General to the Troops serving in
Australia, with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in the
Army, vice Macarthur, placed on the Staff, with the local
rank of Major-General.

HOSPITAL STAFF.—George Alfred Plenty, Gent., to be
Purveyor to the Forces ; Surgeon G. D. Dods, hI.D.,
from the 71st Foot, to be Staff-Surgeon of the Second
Class, vice Simpson, appointed to the 71st Foot; Assist-
ant-Surgeon Wm. H. Day, from the 3d Foot, ,to be As-
sistant-Surgeon, vice Divorty, appointed to the 11th Foot;
Assistant-Sargeon Archibald Wm. Pultney Pinkerton,
M.D., to be Assistant-Surgeon to the Forces ; John
Douglas Tapin, Gent., to be Acting-Assistant-Surgeon ;
Acting-Assistant-Surgeon F. W. Peskett has been struck
off the strength of the army in the Crimea, from the 7th
June, 1855, and Acting-Assistant-Surgeon H. J. French,
from the 15th August, 1855.