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CIVIL SERVICE OF INDIA.

rIANDIDATES intending to present themselves
ll J at the Open Competition, commencing ou March 16, 18C9,
are reminded that Certificates of Birth, Health, and Character
should be sent to the Secretary to the Civil Service Commis-
sioners, London, S.W., on or before the let of February. Regu-
lations may be obtained on application.

I NDIA OFFICE, DECEMBER 10, 1868.
By order of the SECRETARY of STATE for
INDIA in Council.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that it is intended to
send to India annually a certain number of YOUNG
MEN, trained and educated for ultimate employment in
the higher branches of the Department for the conserva-
tion and management of the Forests under the Govern-
ment of India.

Eight young men will be selected in February next to
go to India at the end of 1871.

The salary will be at first £'oo a year, and the salaries
of the appointments in the throe Presidencies range be-
tween that sum and £1,900 a year. Promotions will de-
pend upon efficiency, and the occurrence of vacancies in
the higher grades.
Applicants must be British subjects above 17 and under
25 years of age.
As active habits and a strong constitution are most im-
portant, candidates will have to undergo a strict medical
examination.

They must send to the Revenue Department of the
India Office, on or before the Bth of January, 1869, a
statement of their names and plrentage, with a certificate
of birth, and of being posssesod of a competent knowledge
of the following subjects, and they must be prepared o
undergo an examination in them :-
1, English writing from dictation and English com-
position.
2. Arithmetic in all its branches.

3. Algebra, elementary principles, simple and quadratic
equations, ratios and propitious, logarithms, arithmetical
and geometrical progression.
4. Geometry (Ist, 2d, 3d, 4th, and 6th books of Euclid)
and plane trigonometry.
5. Free hand and plan drawing.
6. A good colloquial knowledge of either French or
German, with the facility to read and translate the works
of some classical writer in the language.
A preference will be given to those candidates who
obtain a certain proficiency in,-
1. Surveying and land measuring.
2. The elethents of any of the following natural
sciences :

Mechanical and natural philosophy.
Chemistry.
Botany.
Geology.
If selected, they will be further required to go through
a course of training and instruction in Forestry and cog-
nate sciences for two years and a half, in France or Ger-
many, previous to their departure for India, and the Sec-
retary of State will contribute £5O at the end of each half
year towards the expenses of their training, in the case of
such candidates as are favourably reported on by their in-
structors. In addition to this, if it should be found prac-
ticable, the young men will be required to place them-
selves under an approved forester in Scotland for a few
months before they go out to India.
More detailed information as to these appointments may
be had on application to the Under Secretary of State for
India, India Office, Westminster.
(Signed) HERMAN MERIVALE.

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INCORPORATED LAW SOCIETY,I U.K
LECTURES and LAW CLASSES, 1868-69.

LECTURES.

Three Courses of Lectures on Common and Mercantile
Law, Conveyancing, and the Law of Real Property and
Equity, will be delivered in the Hall of the Society in the
mouths of December, January, February, March, April,
May, and June next.

LAW CLASSES.
In connexion with the lectures classes will be conducted
under the guidance and superintendence of the lecturers,
and will proceed concurrently with the lectures. The
number of subscribers to each class will be limited, and
the instruction given will be confined to an examination
of the students upon the subject of a preceding lecture, or
on portions of a given book bearing on the same subject.
A sufficient number of classes will follow each lecture, and
be of such duration as shall provide for the efficient instruc-
tion and examination of the students. The teaching of the
lectures will thus be amplified; and impressed on the
memory- by the classes ; and the system of constant ex-
amination will test, from time to time, the progress made
by the students.
LECTURES on COMMON and MERCANTILE LAW,
by CHARLES HENRY ANDERSON, Esq., Barrister-
at-Law.
The Course will consist of Nine Lectures upon the fol-
lowing subjects:—
a. Simple Contracts.
b. Contracts under Seal.
c. The Contract of Sale.
d. Bills of Exchange, Promissory Notes, and Checks ;
with the distinction between negotiable instruments and
other simple contracts.
e. Freight and Contracts of Affreightment, with the pe-
culiarities of Charter-parties and Bills of Lading.
f. The Loss of a British Vessel and its consequences-
1. To the Owner of the Vessel.
2. To the Owner of the Cargo.
3. To the Underwriter.

g. In connexion with the foregoing will be considered
the Rule of the Road at Sea as contrasted with that on
Shore: also the Law of Negligence and the Liability of a
Master for the acts of his Servant.
In his private classes the reader will use as text-books
—The Law of Contracts (Smith), An Action at Law
(Smith), A Digest of Common Law (Anthrson).

LECTURES on CONVEYANCING find the LAW of
REAL FROPERTY, by T. LL. MURRAY BROWNE.
Esq., Barrister-at-Law.
This Courso will consist of Nine Lectures:—
Lecture I. Introductory.—Practical Hints on the perusal
and examination of Abstracts.

Lectures 11., 111., IV. Settlements.-1. Settlements of
Personal Estab.; a. Investment of Trust Funds ;
jsual Trustee Clauses, Appointment of New Trustees; c,
Jsual Powers and Covenants, d. Remarks on the

Effect of Recent Statutes-2. Settlements of Real Eats

a. Estates for Life and in Remainder, Waste; b. Jointures,
Portions, &-c : c. Usual Powers: Remarks on the Leases
and Sales of Settled Estates Act; d. The Succession Duty
Act-3. Digentailing Do-ds, the existing Law of Entail-
4. Practical Suggestions in connexion with the subject of
Settlements.

Lectures V., VI. Vv ills.-1. Usual Frame and Contents
of a Will-2. Principles of Construction of Wills-3.
Practical Hints on Drawing Wills.
Lecture VII. Copyholds.-1. Introductory Remarks,
Fines-2. Surrenders and Covenants to Surrender-3.
Admissions-4. The Enfranchisement of Copholds.
Lectures VIII., IX. Miscellaneous Deeds.-1. Credi-
tors' Prust Deeds-2. Separation Deeds— 3. Articles of
Partnership, &c.
In these lectures and classes the Introductions and
Notes to Mr. Davidson's Precedents will be especially
referred to.

As elementary works, Mr. Joshua Williams's Books on
Real and Personal Property are recommended.
EQUITY LECTURES, by Sir GEORGE YOUNG, Bart.,
•

Barrister-at-Law.

This course will consist of Nine Lectures :
Lecture 1. Review of Equity, and suggested arrange.
ments for purposes of Study.
Lecture 11. The Jurisdiction in matters of Account ;
generally, Apportionment and Contribution.
Lecture 111. The Jurisdi.,:tion in matters of Account,
continued : specially, between Principal and Agent.
Lecture IV. The Jurisdiction in matters of Account,
continued: specially, between Partners.
Lecture V. The Jurisdiction in matters of Administra-
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tion : 1. The Administration of Assets.
Lectures VI., VII. The Administrative Jurisdiction,
continued: 2. The Administration of Trusts, as enlarged
by recent statutory enactment.
Lectures VIII., IX. Injunctions.
Books recommended : —Story's Equity Jurisprudence,
chapters 8,9, 10, 13, 23 ; Iladdan's Administrative
Jurisdiction of the Court of Chancery.
Smith's Manual of Equity and White and Tudor's Lead-
ing Cases in Equity will be the books principally referred
to during the course.
The subscription payable for the Lectures—
For all the Foreach
three courses. course.
By clerks of members
By clerks of gentlemen not
members

By all other persons not being
members
The subscription payable foi the law classes—
For all the
branches of Foreacli
instruction. branch.
By every subscriber
Members of the Society may attend the lectures without
subscribing.
To prevent interruption at the lectures, subscribers
cannot be admitted to the hall after the lecture has com-
menced.

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E. W. Williamson, Secretary.
Law Society's Hall, Oct., 1868.
N.B. Gentlemen may subscribe for and attend the lec-
tures and classes, either separately or collectively ; but as
the instruction given in the classes will have special re-
ference to preceding lectures, it is recommended that those
who desire to attend the classes should also attend the
lectures.