The Sun.
London, England, 1868-08-13 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TvWII6DAY EVENING, AUGUST 13, 1868.

INDIA-OFFICE, 27TH JULY, 1868.
rpm SECRETARY of STATE for INDIA in
IL COUNCIL having confirmed the following RULES
gomulgated by the Governor-General of India in council,
regarding LEAVE of ABSENCE to COVENANTED
OE VIL SERVANTS, publishes the same in supersession
,f all previous Rules and Orders on the subject.
These Rules will take effect from the Ist July, 1868, and
are 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 Cotrt.
RULES REGARDING LEAVE OF ABSENCE TO
COVENANTED CIVIL SERVANTS.
• DEFINITIONS. '

I. In the following Rules—.
" Service" includes the period during which an
officer is on duty, also periods spout 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 v Leave" moans 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 during the whole period of his ser-
vice is limited to six years.
111. subject to the above limit, ono year'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 be repeated until three years from
the date of the last return from long extraordinary leave,
or long furlough, except under Rule VIII. Leave taken
under Chapters 11. and 111., but no other leave, shall be
reckoned as part of the said three years.
VI. The mamimum term of furlough to be takon at any
one time shall be two years.
VII. Except as hereinafter parvided,'an officer when on
furlough shall retain a lien on his substantive appoint-
ment, or on an appointment of similar caracter 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 be 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 excee ling 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 furlough under this clause an officer
will not retain a lien on his appointment, and will be en-
titled only to subsistence allowance, unless ho has com-
pleted six months actual service since his last return from
long extraordinary leave or long furlough, and there 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 bo extended beyond fwo
years for a period not exceeding one year. When on fur-
tough under this clause an officer will not retain a lien on
his appointment, and will be entitled only to eubsistenco
allowance.

IX. Furlough taken or extended. under Rule VIII. is
subject to the provision of Rule IL
X. Furlough taken in India will be reckoned from the
date of the officer quitting his station to the date of his
return thereto. Furlough taken out of India will be
reckoned from the date of embarkation to the date of
return.

In the event of the furlough being taken partly in India,
and partly out of India, the commencement and termina-
tion of the furlough will be determined by the above Rules,
according as the furlough
,begins or ends in or out of
India.

XL For the interval elapsing between departure from
his station and the commencement of furlough, and be-
tween the termination of furlough and the re-arrival at his
station, an officer shall be allowed subsidiary leave not
ordinarily exceeding in each case thirty days. During
those periods his allowances; will be calculated in the same
way as his furlough allowances, but without limitation as
to maximum and minimum. Provided that, if the officer
has, under these Rules, lost his lien on his appointment, he
shall draw subsistence allowance of his rank. Subsidiary
leave shall count as service and residence.

XII. Applications for furlough will in all cases be sub-
mitted to the Government to which the applicant is sub-
ordinate, and will be dealt with in such manner as the
Governor-General of India in Council may from time to
time prescribe.
VIII. Subject to the exigencies of the service, both as
regards the number of furloughs available at any one time,
and as regards individual applications, of n hick exigencies
the Government of India, Madras, or Bombay, as the case
may be, shall be exclusively the judge, furloughs will be
granted under these Rules.
XIV. All applications for furlough under medical certi-
ficate, in accordance with these Rules, will be granted
without restriction.

XV. lf, owing to the exigencies of the service, it may
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 tho applicant,
whose actual service in India is longest, reckoning, in the
case of an offieer 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 takeh 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-
tion List.

XVI. The term of residence qualifying for pension shall
be 21 years, but no leave, except privilege leavo and sub-
sidiary leave, shall count as residence.
XVII. The term of service qualifying for pension shall
be 23 years.

CHAPTER 11.
PRIVILEGE LEAVE.
XVIII. Subject to the 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. Provided that, in the case of
his holding an officiating appointment, such lien and his
acting allowance will cease on the resumption of charge by
the officer to whom the substantive appointment belongs.
XIX. 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, tho period of the second instalment
being omitted from the calculatlo.i.
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.

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XX _
I. 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 bo reckoned as residence
and service.

CHAPTER HI.
SPECIAL LEAVE.

XXIII. Special leave, on urgent private 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 special leave.
XXV. Special leave may be repeated without allow-
ances after intervals of at least six years' actual service.

CHAPTER IV.
GENERAL.

XXVI. Furlough, privilege, leave, and special leave
shall not be taken as such in continuation of each other;
but, if an officer absent on one of those classes of leave be
allowed to change it for another, the whole period of his
absence strdl be held to be under the class of leave for
which it was ch9nged.
XXVII. Subject to considerations of State, there will
b 3 no restriction as to the places where an officer may
reside when on leave. _

XXVIII. Leave allowance shall be payable monthly, if
payment is taken in India, and quarterly if payment is
taken in England.

!CHAPTER V.
TEMPORARY RULES.

XXIX. Whatever aggregate amount cut of the three
years' furlough and three years' sick leave, under the
Rules until now in force, at presert remains to be taken by
an officer under the said Rules, shall remain to be taken by
him under Rules now promulgated.
XXX. Any officer now in the service shall, when next
proceeding o❑ furlough, elect whether he will draw allow-
ances at the higher minimum rate of £5OO per annum (not
exceeding his total salary at the time). If ho shall so
elect, he will, in any future furlough, be limited, as to
allowance, to the lower maximum rate of £lO 00 per
annum.

XXXI. Any officer now absent on leave, who has no
appointment, may, on his return, and until he again holds
an appointment carrying equal pay to that of the substan-
tive appointment which ho last held, draw the subsistence
allowance of his rank, together with 75 per cent. of the
pay of any appointment in which ho shall officiate. Pro-
vided that the total salary so drawn by him shall not ex-
ceed the pay of the appointment in which he is officiating.
This Rule shall apply to any officer who may have already
returned from furlough.
XXXII. Any officer now absent on furlough, or under
medical certificate, may elect whether the remainder of his
leave shall bo taken under these Rules from the date of
theirpromulgation. If he shall so elect, Rule XXX. shall
not apply to him.
RULES REGARDING ACTING ALLOWANCES.

I. An officer holding a substantive appointment, and
officiating in an appointment of a higher grade or class,
shall draw acting allowance calculated at 30 per cent. on

the first 2,000 re., and •0 per cent. on the remainder of the
pay of the appointmentin which he is officiating.
Provided that, if the acting allowance so calculated do
not amount to two-thins of the difference between the
pay of the two appointmon's, it shall be raised to two-
thirds.

Provided further, thai in no case shall the whole salary
so drawn exceed the payof the appointment in which the
officer is officiating.
I[. An officer holding lo substantive, but only an offi-
ciating, appointment, gall, subject to the provisoes in
Rule 1., draw, in addition to the subsistence allowance of
his rank, 50 per cent. of the pay of the appointment in
which he is officiating.
111. In the case of an officer officiating in an appoint-
ment the pay of which if progressive, his acting allow
ances shall be calculated on the mean pay of the said
appointment, provided that the whole salary so drawn
shall not exceed the miumitiro pay of the said appoint-
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CONTRACTS FOR SUGAR, TOBACCO, AND PORT
WINE.

CONTRACT DEPARTMENT, ADMIRALTY,
Somerset House, 6th August, 1868.
THE COMMISSIONERS for EXECUTING the
-a- OFFICE of- LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of the
UNITED KINGDUM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRE-
LAND do hereby Give Notice, that on Thursday, the 20th
instant, at Twelve o'clock at Noon, they will be reaely to
treat with such persons as may be willing to CONTRACT
for supplying and delivering into her Majesty's Victualling
Stores at Deptford, the undermentioned Articles, viz :
To be ten-
Quantities. dered
for at rates
SUGAR 500,000 Pounds per 100
TOBACCO lOO,OOO f Pounds

PORT WINE 2,000 GallVms
Wben to 13) Delivered.

per Gal.

One half of each quantity in throe weeks from date of
Contract, and the remainder thereof in three weeks after-
wards, or earlier if preferred by the party tendering.
Tenders may be made for the whole or any portion of the
Articles.
Separate Tenders are to be made for each Article.
Their Lordships reserve to themselves the power, when
the Tenders are opened, of contracting either for the whole,
or for such part thereof only as they may deem fit, or for a
greater quantity, or of not contracting for any, and also an
unlimited power of selection in accepting the Tenders.
The Sugar, Tobacco, and Wine to be exempted from the
Customs' Duties, and parties tendering are to state whore
they are lying.
Each Tender for Sugar must specify the mark and land-
ing number of each cask or packages, the ship in which ha-
ported, and the coLntry or place of its growth or produce;
and an average sample (not less than 21b lot each import
mark) must be produced by the parties tendering, and not
an average of different marks or several imports; and any
parcel that is found not to be of the same mark or average
quality as the samples tendered and accepted will be re-
jected by the officers.
Each Tender for Tobacco must specify the several trade
marks and numbers, and the countriesor places of its growth
or produce, and a fresh-drawn dock sample of each cask
or package must be produced by the parties tendering ; and
any cask or package that is found not to he of- the same
mark, number, or quality as the sample tendered and ac-
cepted, will be rejected by the officers.
Samples of the Wine (two pints) for each import mark
must be produced by the parties tendering.
No Tender will be received unless made on the printed
form provided for the purpose, which may be obtained on
application in the Lobby of thel Department of the Con-
troller of Victualling, Admiralty, Somerset House, where
the conditions of the Contracts may be seen.
No Tender will be received after Twelve o'clock at
Noon on the day of treaty; and it will not be required
that the party tendering or an agent on his behalf should
attend at the office on the day of contract, as the result
of the offer received from each person will be communi-
cated to him and to his p-oposed sureties in writing,
when, but not before, the rejected samples aro to be re-
moved.

Every Tender must be addressed to the Secretary of
the Admiralty, and bear in the left-hand corner the words
"Tender for ," and must also be delivered at the
Department of the Controller of Victualling, Admiralty,
Somarset House.

By order,
ANTONIO BRADY, Registrar of Contracts
and Public Securities.

CO;!TTRAOT FOR VEGETABLES AT PORTS-
MOUTH.

Contract Department, Admiralty, Somerset
House, July 31, 1868.
ruHE COMMISSIONERS for EXECUTING
the OFFICE of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of the
UNITED KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRE-
LAND, do hereby give Notice, that on MONDAY, the
17th August next, at Twelve o'clock at Noon, they will
bo ready to treat with such persons as may be willing
to CONTRACT for supplying and delivering into her Ma-
jesty's Victualling Stores at Gosport all such quantities of
VEGETABLES

as may be demanded for thousoof her Majesty's Ships
and Vessels from Ist October, 1868, to the 30th Septem-
ber, 1871, both days included.
The Contractor is to reside on the spot or to have an
agent resident there.
Tenders are to be made at a rate per 100 lb., and not at
per cwt., and no attention will be paid to offers not so
made. The Contractor, in claiming payment for vege-
table supplied, is to make out his invoices in pounds at per
100 lb. _

The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty reserve to
themselves an unlimited power of selection in accepting
the Tenders.

No Tender will be received unless made on the printed
form provided for the purpose, which may be obtained on,
application in the Lobby of the Department of the Con-
tr of Victualling, Admiralty, Somerset House, and
also by applying to the Captain Superintendent of her
Majesty's Victualling Yard at Gosport. The conditions
of the Contract may also be seen at the above places.
No Tender will be received after Twelve o'clock at noon
on the day of treaty, and it will not be required that the
party tendering, or an agent on his behalf, should attend
at the Office on the day of Contract, as the result of the
offer received from each person will be communicated to
him and to his proposed sureties in writing.
Every Tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the
Admiralty, and bear in the left-hand corner the words,
"Tender for Vegetables at Gosport," and must also be
delivered at the Department of the Controller of Victual-
ling, Admiralty, Somerset House, signed by two respon-
sible persons, engaging to become bound with the person
tendering in the sum of £lOO for the due performance
of the Contract.

By order,
ANTONIO BRADY,
Registrar of Contracts and Public Securities.

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CONTRIPZiTIONSGii;Tupport of the lElOmes in 18G8 are ear-
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stead. 48, Church-street, Stoke
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WINDSOR AUTUMN RACES—August 13th and 14th.
On each day of the Races TRAINS will run between PAD-
DINGTON and WINDSOR at 6.55 a.m., 7.20, 9.18 (Bishop's-road),
10.10 (Fast), 10.30. 11.30 a.m., 12.10 p.m. (Special), 12.20, 1,30, and
2.0 p.m (Fast); Returning from Windsor at 4.20 p.m., 5.40, 6.0
(Special), 6.40, 8.10, 9.0, and 10 50 p.m.
A Through Train, without change of carriage, will also leave
the Metropolitan Station (Moorgate-street), for Windsor at 8.53
a.m., calling at all Stations on the Metropolitan Line.
Passengers will also be booked to WINDSOR from Victoria,
(Pimlico), Battersea, Chelsea, West Brompton, and Kensington
Stations by the Trains leaving Victoria Station at 6.22 a.m., 8.30,
9.55, ant 11.43 am.; Returninz from Windsor at 4.20 p.m., 6.40,
and 8.10 p.m. for Victori t.
The Great Western Station at Win Isor is close to the Race-
course.
For full particulars see Handbills.
J. GRIERSON, General Managz.x.
Paddington, Aug. 11.

SCHOOL OF NAVAL ARCHITECTURE, &c.
ADMIRALTY, Bth August, 1868.
THE LORDS COMMISSIONERS of the AD-
A- MIRALTY HEREBY GIVE NOTICE that the
arrangements for the ADMISSION of persons, not already
in tho Government service, to the Royal School of Naval
Architecture and Marine Engineering as ADMIRALTY
PUPILS, will, for the present year, be as follows :

,
Candidates must not be less than 18 or more than 21
years of age, and must have served at least two years in
private shipbuilding or engineering establishments, or
must give satisfactory proof that they have in some way
been so connected w th shipbuilding or engineering opera-
tions as to become well-grounded in the elementary prin-
ciples and practice thereof.
The pupils will be selected by competitive examination,
the subjects for which, andaumbers of marks assigned for
each, are as follows :
Marks.
Pure mathematics, including arithmetic, mensura-
tion, geometry (plain and descriptive), plane tri-
gonometry, and the elements of the differential
and integral calculus ... 2,500
Applied mathematics, including mechanics and
hydrostatics ... ••• ... 1,000
Practical shipbuilding, including laying-off (for
shipwright'. candidates only) ... 2,500
Practical marine engineering (for enginner candi-
dates only) ... 2,500
French ... ... 500
Elements of physic and chymistry 750
English grammar and composition ... 750
Geography and History ... 750

No candidate will be admitted who does not obtain at
least two-thirds of the full number of marks in the two
first-named subjects, and three-fifths of the full number,
either for practical shipbuilding or marine engineering.
The last four subjects, although counting in the compe-
tition, will not be considered obligatory.
The candidates who may be selected will be treated,
while attached to the School, in all respects as the Admi-
ralty pupils; they will • receive wages the same as dock-
yard apprentices, commencing at Is. 6d. per day for six
-days per week for first year, and increasing yearly 3d. per
day till it reaches 2s. per day ; and in addition a subsist-
ence allowance of 3s. par day for seven days per week
while away from their homes, either at the Szhool or in
the dockyards.

Seven months of each year—viz., from October till May
—will be devoted to study at the School, and the remaining
five months to actual work and the acquirement of practi-
cal knowlt-dgo in the dockyards.
_ _ _

It is to be understood that the Admiralty make no en-
gagements to employ these pupils after the completion of
their course of study; and they must rely on their own
worth as educated naval architects for obtaining employ-
ment in theirsubsequent career. The number of such pupils
to be selected this year is one shipwright and one engineer.
Persons desirous of competing must forward their names,
with a certificate of birth, and of the grounds on which
they consider themselves practically qualified, enclosing
proper certificates to that effect, to tho Secretary of the
Admiralty, not later than the Ist September.
The can tidates should also state whether they wish to
be examined as engineers or shipwrights.
. .

The examination will take phice on the 28th Saptembor
and three followi❑g days.

By command of their Lordships,
HENRY GORDON LENNOX.

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There is a story in the published life of I'. P.
Barnum, which will not be new to some of our
readers. A gentleman came into the great show-
man's museum one day, inquired for its proprietor,
and expressed a particular wish to see "the club
with which Captain Cook was murdered." He
was conducted to a glass case, from which the
weapon was carefully lifted and delivered into his
hand. Ah, Mr. Barnum," said the stranger, on
returning the club to its owner, after gazing upon
it with apparent interest, " I was sure I should
find it here. I have been to five museums, and
every one of them had the club that Captain Cook
was murdered with, and I was sure yours would
not be without it." On the principle that it would
never do to be without anything that the public
demands, a Dublin journal has published an
analysis of the report of the Irish Church Com-
mission, which was " laid on the table " of the
House of Commons on the last day of the session.
It appears, however, that it was only in a peculiar
and Parliamentary sense that the report was thus
presented. There are forms to be observed in
these things, and often when we read in the Par-
liamentary reports that this or that bill was laid
on the table, the so-called bill was merely a piece
of blank paper folded in the accustomed manner,
and endorsed with a title and the names of its in-
troducers. This Irish Church report, it now ap-
pears, was a dummy ; the report itself is not com-
plete, nor will it be for a month, and the full and
interesting particulars supplied by our contempo-
rary must have been derived from some other
source. There is something appropriate in this
close attendance of fiction and unreality upon the
fortunes of the Irish Church. For all the purposes
of a national establishment of religion that Church
itself is only a gigantic dummy.—Daily News.

The Irish Central Protestant Ddence Associa-
tion have passed a resolution repudiating the
calumny uttered by Mr. Gladstone in addressing
his constituents in South Lancashire, that " Ireland
is at present only in a degree removed from civil
war." They appeal to the remarkable absence of
crime at the late aisizes, and to the fact that " not
a single individual, native or foreign, is now in im-
prisonment under the Habeas Corpus Suspension
Act," as proof that the country is in a state of
quietude.