The Sun.
London, England, 1860-03-19 00:00:00

THTS DAY.

CIVIL SERVICE.

This committee assembled this morning—Lord Stanley
in the chair.

Mr. J. G. Maitland, secretary to the Civil Service Com-
missioners, was examined on various points with respect to
age and ability of the candidates nominated for Government
situations. The rejections on account of age amounted
to comparatively few. The rejections on account of want
of ability and defective education amounted in the year
1855 to the end of 1856 to 880, in 1857 to 490, in 1858 to
292, and in 1859 to 310—making in all, 19,072 rejections.
The reason the number had fallen off in the latter years was
attributable not to the improved education of the candidates,
but to the diminished number of persons examined, as the
vacant situations had been such that a very easy standard
of examination had been fixed upon.

SERPENTINE.
This committee re-assembled this morning, Mr. Cowper.
First Commissioner of Works, in the chair.
Upon the admission of the public, which took 'place at a
late hour,

Mr. Page took his seat, and was examined by the public
with respect to the mud in the Serpentine. He was of
opinion that if are mud was removed from the bottom by
dredging, and fresh water turned in, the Serpentine would
be very greatly improved, and filtering would then not be
required. There would be less inconvenience in getting rid
of th 3 mud by dredging than by the "burning" process,
but ho was not prepared to recommend the dredging pro-
cess on account of economy. He did not think there was
sufficient water in the Serpentine at the present time to ad-
mit of its being cleaned out.

By Sir J. Shelley—A quarter or half a million gallons of
water per diem would keep the Serpentine in a clean
state, provided the bottom was thoroughly cleansed.
He was aware that Mr. Easton had made a proposition to
carry out his plan for the purification of the Serpentine at
his own expense in the event of its not being considered to
have fully accomplished all that was required. Mr. Easton
was a person of great experience, and was not one at all
calculated to mislead the public. His plan was a good one,
and he thought it ought to be considered by the committee.
He did not think the houses in Westminster would be at all
injured by:carrying out the plan of Mr. Easton. There
was more danger to be apprehended from the making a
sewer than from Mr. Easton's well.

By Lord Fermoy—He did not place much reliance on
the experiment made near the Receiving-house of burning
the mud. He did not think it was burned at all, but merely
baked.

BERIVICIC ELECTION.
This committee met this morning, and proceeded with
the scrutiny. Nothing of the slightest interest occurred
up to the time of our going to press.

LA TV INTELLIGENC.E.—(This Day.)

ROLLS COURT.
(Before the Master of the Rolls, Sir John Romilly.)
TUDGNIENT-13ERTOLLACdf V. WILSON.
This was an application for an injunction to restrain the
sale of mortgage property.
His Honour the Master of the Rolls granted the injunc-
tion and declared it perpetual. His Honour, with consent of
counsel (Mr. Lloyd, Q.C.), turned the suit into a foreclosure
suit, and granted the usual redemption decree with costs,
and dismissed the bill as against the defendant, Mrs.
Wilson, with costs, and remitted to the taxing master to
tax the oosts, and to look into the proceedings to see in
what proportion the property was let, and what was the
proper interest of the defendant in it. The defendant un-
dertaking to pay the plaintiff in equity his costs in the
action at law, the one set of costs might be set off against
the other.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Goulburn.

IN RE SYMONS.

This was a meeting for thoice of assignees under the
estate of this bankrupt, an iron-founder, Cambridge-street,
St. Pancras.