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INDIA-OFFICE., 27Tim JULY, 1868.
THE SECRETARY of STATE for INDIA in
COUNCIL having confirmed the following RULES
promulgated by the Governor-Generel of India an Council
regarding LEAVE of ABSENCE to COVENANTED
CIVIL SERVANTS, publishes the same in supercossion
of all previous Rules and Orders on the subject.
These Rules will take effect from the Ist July, 1868, and
aro not intended to apply to Covenanted Civil Servants,
who are Members of the Councils of the Governor-General,
or of the Governors of Bombay and Madras, or who are
Judges of a High Court.
RULES REGARDING LEAVE OF ABSENCE TO
COVENANTED CIVIL SERVANTS.
DEFINITIONS.
I. In the following Rules—
" Actual Service" includes the period during which an
officer is on duty, also periods spent on privilege and sub-
sidiary leave, and periods during which an officer, not on
leave, may be out of employ on subsistence allowance in
India.
"Extraordinary Leave" means any leave granted other-
wise than under these Rules.
" Long Extraordinary Leave" means extraordinary
leave extending beyond a period Of three months.
" Long Furlough" means furlough extending beyond a
period of three months.
"Salary" includes acting allowances.
An Officer's "Station" means that station to which he
stands appointed, or such other place as the Government
to which he is subordinate may determine.
CHAPTER I.
FURLOUGH.
11. The maximum period of furlough, which can be
granted to any officer daring the whole period of his ser-
vice is limited to six years.
111. Subject to the above Unlit, onesear's furlough shall
be placed to the credit of each officer for every four years
of actual service.
IV. No furlough shall be taken before the completion
of eight years' actual service, except under Rule VIII. -
V. Furlough shall not berepeated until three years from
the date of the last return from long extraordinary leave,
or long furlough, except under RuleaVlll. Leave taken
under Chapters 11. and 111., but no other leave, shall ba
reckoned as part of the sai three years.
VI. The maximum term of furlough to be taken at any
ono time shall be two years.
VII. Except as hereinafter provided, an officer when on
furlough shall retain a lien on his substantive appoint-
ment, or on an appointment of similar character and not
less salary, and he shall be granted allowances at the rate
of 50 per cent. of his average salary for the previous three
years, or for the period which has elapsed since his last
return from long furlough, or long extraordinary leave, if
that period be less than three years.
In calculating such average, the time spent and the
allowances drawn under any leave, excepting privilege
leave under Chapter 11., shall bo omitted.
Provided that no officer on furlough shall draw more
than £1,200 or less than £3OO per annum.
VIII. Under Medical Certificate
(a.) Furlough may be taken on the above-mentioned
conditions, without reference to the amount at credit under
Rule 111.
(b.) Furlough for a period not exceeding one year may
be taken, even if less than three years have elapsed since
the last return from long extraordinary leave or long fur-
lough. When on furlcugh under this clause an officer
will not retain a lien on his appointment, and will be en-
titled only to subsistence allowance, unless he has com-
pleted six months actual service since his last return from
long extraordinary leave or long furlough, and theme re-
main some leave to his credit under Rule 111., in which
case the officer will retain a lien on his appointment, and
will draw allowances as calculated under Rule VII., until
that credit be exhausted, but in no case for a period ex-
ceeding one year.
(c.) Furlough taken without medical certificate, or under
clause (a) of this Rule, may be extended beyond fwo
years for a period not exceeding one year. When on fur-
lough under this clause an officer will not retain a lien on
his appointment, and will be entitled only to subsistence
allowance.

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ficate, in accordance with these Rules, will be granted
without restriction.
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be necessary to place any limit on the number of officers
who may be absent on furlough at the same time, applica-
tions not supported by medical certificate will be granted
in the following order :
The applicant to whose credit the greatest amount of
furlough remains under Rule 111. shall have the preference.
If two or more applicants are on an equality in this
respect, the preference shall be given to the applicant,
whose actual service in India is longest, reckoning, in the
case of an officer who has not taken long extraordinary
leave or long furlough, from the date of arrival in India,
and in the case of an officer who has taken long extraor-
dinary leave or long furlough, from the date of his last
return from such leave or furlough.
If two or more applicants are equal in both respects,
the preference shall be given to the senior in the Grada-
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London, 24th June, 1868.

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XVI. The term of residence qualifying for pension shall
be 21 years, but no leave, exsept privilege leave and sub-
sidiary leave, shall count as residence.
XVII. The term of service qualifying for pension shall
be 25 years.

CHAPTER 11.
PRIVILEGE LEAVE.
XVIII. Subject to tho exigencies of the State, an officer
who has completed eleven months' continuous duty may
take privilege leave for one month without deduction from
his salary, retaining a lien on his appointment, whether
substantive or officiating,
his holding an officiating Provided that, in the case of
appointment, such lien and his
acting allowance will cease on the resumption of charge by
the officer to whom the substantive appointment belongs.
XLX. In the same manner, and under the same condi-
tions, two or three months' privilege leave may be taken
when an officer has completed continuous duty of twenty-
two or twenty-three months respectively.
XX. Privilege leave may, at the discretion of the local
Government, be taken in separate instalments. No second
instalment shall be taken until after the completion of six
months' continuous duty from the expiry of the first in-
stalment. In this case the eleven months qualifying for
fresh privilege leave will be reckoned from the expiry of
the first instalment, the period of the second instalment
being omitted from the calculation.
Provided that the whole privilege leave taken at any
one time shall not exceed three months, and that no
accumulation of privilege leave beyond that period shall
be admitted.

XXI. If an officer shall over-stay his privilege leave, he
shall forfeit all salary during the time of his remaining so
absent; and, if he shall so continue absent for more than
one week, his office shall become vacant.
XXII. Privilege leave shall be reckoned as residence
and service.

CHAPTER Hr.
SPECIAL LEAVE.

XXIII. Special leave,onurgeniprivate affairs, may be
granted at the discretion of the local Government for a
period not exceeding six months. In respect of retention
of a lieu on appointment, of allowances drawn during the
leave, and of subsidiary leave, the conditions of special
leave shall be the same as those prescribed for furlough.
Special leave shall not be reckoned as residence.
XXIV. Rule XXI. shall, mutatis mutandis, apply to an
officer overstaying spacial leave.
XXV. Special leave may be repeated 'without allow-
ances after intervals of at least six years' actual service.
CHAPTER JV.

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at work, aided by those within, who hal long be-
lieved in secret, and now were not ashamed to pro-
fess their faith in public.
Pass we over the steps by which the gloi•ious re-
formation advanced: how caterers for public amuse-
ment cleverly availed themselves of the progress of
education, and proved the utility of our public
schools by showing that their pupils really did ma-
nage to take away with them enough classical learn-
ing to know who Venus, and Mar,s and Bacchus,
and Jupiter were, and to appreciate the subtle
humour of a pretty impudent girl, representing one
of these deities, kicking her legs about in
a breakdown. Then the Music Halls were ele-
. 'eating the masses ; and comic songs, in which
vulgarity just stopped short of indecency,
had become household words among us. Finally
came the Paris Exhibition, and thousands of our
countrymen and countrywomen rushed to Paris ;
they must of course live there " ong Frctncy,"—s o,
just as they drank claret at breakfast and took
more chocolate than was good for them, so did they
go and see some of those naughty pieces of Offen-
bach, of which they had heard the music, but not
the words. Many were in raptures. " Schneider
was delightful 1 so iefined with all her vulgarity—
so full of sheep;,' as she called it, pronouncing the
word with all the point which utter ignorance of its
meaning could lend. Others confessed that she was
very clever, but did not think it would do over in
England ; others pretended to like it, as they did
absinthe, but the after-taste of both, they confessed
to themselves, was not clean or pleasant ; a very
few saw what both actress and piece really were,
and said nothing. But the seed was sown, and it
only needed perseverance to reap the harvest. Bri-
tish morality was already on the wane. The new
creed would find plenty of converts in chaste Eng-
land if a proper missionary could be procured.
As the envoy is sent with presents to the doomed
barbarian, merely to prepare the way for the general
and his army, so was Finette sent before the all-
conquering Schneider. The mission was, on the
whole, successful. The stalls were crowded during
the performance, and she reaped many honours.
What if some voices were heard in execration of
this recherche remnant of classical times ? Finette
paid, and it was evident that the sect was large and
influential enough to warrant the despatch of the
missionary-in-chief.
And so Schneider came, and appeared first as the
Grand Duchess of Gerolstein, a vulgar edition of
Catherine of Russia—appeared before the most
brilliant audience that ever •we!conied any aspirant
to the favour of the British public. Royalty, and
every grade of the aristocracy except the spiritual
peers, wei-e present; and even they might have been
present in spirit, if not in the flesh. The great
apostle of the new creed was on the first night rather
modest ; she restrained somewhat the freedom of her
gestures,and only introduced a few pieces of superflu-
ous vulgarity, out of compliment to the English taste.
The experiment was thoroughly successful ; the pro-
fessors of the new creed were in ecstacies ; the
sternly decorous matrons, the bashful, innocent
maidens of England had received their great apostle
with the most perfect cordiality. Alas, for the
blind confidence of mankind ! The great cause was
destined to be betrayed by its greatest champion.
Determined that her new converts should have their
eyes opened to what they were really worshipping,
she gave free vent to her enthusiasm ; she carried
shamelessness to its extremest limits, and abso-
lutely frightened away some of the more timid spec-
tators, who were on the point of falling down be-
fore the new divinity. This was the first check
which the victorious proselytisers received.

It is difficult to speak too highly of Schneider's
honesty, and of her noble truthfulness. She could
lend herself to no artifice. La Belle Helene gave
her the opportunity which La Grande Duchesse but
imperfectly afforded. She seems to have said to
herself, "These foolish English have been told to
fall down and worship me ; they have been told that
lam full of esprit,' of ' verve,' and what not ; that
they really ought to bring their daughters, their
sisters, their wives, to see me. Poor fools ! they
always do what they are told. They shall see me
without any mist of fascination, without any veil
of elegance to hide the real coarseness of my per-
formance ; they do not understand the language in
which I play, therefore I will make my meaning
plain by my gestures. What before I suggested, I
will now describe in action. They shall not be able
to say that, dazzled by my wit or by my grace,
they did not clearly see what it was they were
applauding."

Bravely she fulfilled her purpose. It was pos-
sible even to invest such a vulgar " travestie" as
La Belle Ilelbie with a sort of spurious refine-
ment which might have blinded people to the gross
indecency of the plot and dialogue. But Schneider
resisted the temptation ; she showed to the noble
and the pure ladies there assembled Luch a portrait
as probably they had never before had the oppor-
tunity of admiring. Well might the parents and
husbands steal doubtful glances at one another's
faces ; well might their daughters and wives seek
refuge behind an astonished stare, or a sickly smile
of idiotic vacancy. But we must not wrong the
audience by inferring that such conduct was at
all general. No ! there were scores of women who
watched with eager and delightful faces every move-
ment of La Belle IleAne. Such gigantic strides
has the new religion made in this age of enlightened
progress ! It is possible that the new Gospel of In-
decency may not be so popular as its predecessor.
We shall owe it to the courageous frankness of
Mdlle. Schneider if it dawns upon the minds of the
ornaments of Society that they really will be com-
pelled to blush if they go on assisting at such
talented representations. Royalty was absent on
Monday night, but on Tuesday night they shed the
glory of their presence once more on the goddess of
the nineteenth century. Let the heads of families
devote their holidays to the study of so interesting a
religion. Let us by all means awake and be joyful ;
let us forget the musty precepts of purity and de-
cency which we have been taught in our dreary old
churches. Let us grasp the beautiful creed, let us
worship the beautiful goddess that Imperial France
has sent us. But, for heaven's sake, let us hear no
more of British Morality.

The Berlin correspondent of a contemporary,
writing on the 23rd inst., says :—" The appoint-
ment of Mr. Petre as her Majesty's secretary of
embassy at Berlin has given general satisfaction
throughout the diplomatic body. Though young
in years, Mr. Petre is old in the public service.
Some sixteen years ago he was charge d'affaires at
Naples, and his despatches, which were published
by order of Parliament, excited great attention at
the time. Mr. Petre belongs to a noble family of
that name, and is connected with all the great
Roman Catholic aristocracy of England. The
Hon. F. Plunkett, son of the Earl of Fingall, has
been named senior secretary in the chancery of the
same embassy. He also, though young, has been
many years in the public service, and is con-
sidered one of the most efficient second secretaries
on the Foreign Office list."

The Paris Liberte of Sunday publishes in con-
spicuous type, and under the heading " Latest In-
telligence," this statement :—" Our London corre-
spondent makes us acquainted with the following
fact, which appears to us worthy of attention :
Dr. Pusey, head of the Anglican Church party
which bears his name, has just abjured the Angli-
can faith and been converted to Roman Catholi-
cism. This example has been imme liately fol-
lowed by Dr. Hamilton, Bishop of Salisbury, who
has also gone over to Catholicism, giving up an
income of £5,000 a year.'"
The newspapers have been lately teeming with refer-
ences to economy in tea by co-operation. Horniman and
Co. have for 30 years co. operated through Agents to
supply tea on more advantageous terms than by the ordinary
channel; their tea reaches the consumer in the same pure
state as it leaves the grower; as it is secured in packets.

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