"Students to provide themselves with a table-spoon, tea-spoon, knife and silver fork, half-a-dozen towels, tea equipage, and a looking-glass; also, with not less than two pair of sheets, two pillow-cases, and two breakfast cloths. “Ten guineas to be paid on leaving College, by each student. for the use of the library.

COLLEGE TERMS.

"First, commences 19th January, and ends 30th June; second, commences 10th September, and ends 15th December in each year.

"N. B. The students are to provide themselves with proper academical habits."

CIVIL SERVICE.-FURLOUGH REGULATIONS.

Civil servants coming to England under the absentee regulations, or on special leave, shall, immediately on their arrival, report themselves with their address by letter to the Secretary, forwarding at the same time the certificates which they received in India.

That in all cases of leave, civil servants be required to join the establishment to which they belong at the expiration of the term for which leave may have been granted, unless they shall have obtained an extension of it from the Court six months before the expiration of the said leave.

That extensions of leave be not in future granted except in cases of sickness, certified to the Court's satisfaction, or in cases in which it shall be proved that a further residence in Europe is indispensably necessary.

That when under any such circumstances a civil servant shall have obtained an extension of leave to a given period, he must, at the expiration thereof, apply for and obtain permission either to return to his duty or to reside a further time in Europe; failing in which he shall be liable to be struck off the list of civil servants.

That the Act of the 33rd Geo. III., cap. 52, sect 70, as it respects civil servants, applies only to cases of sickness or infirmity, and that no civil servant be hereafter considered eligible to return to the service after five years' absence under that enactment, who has failed to obtain, agreeably to the foregoing regulations, an extension of leave under the circumstances referred to in the act.

Arrived in India, and duly qualified for the earliest stage of employment by the acquisition of the vernacular language, the civil servant is despatched into the Mofussil, or interior of the country, where he serves a sort of apprenticeship as an assistant magistrate, or deputy collector, or assistant secretary, or junior commissioner, or some such subordinate officer. Thenceforward, his advancement depends upon his talents, his industry, and the interest he may have with the Governor for the time being. The latter qualification often renders the others quite superfluous. An act of Parliament has regulated the maximum of the civilian's income, but compared with the salaries of functionaries in England, it is princely; and when he gets to the top of the tree-that is to say, becomes a Resident, a Sudder Judge, a Commissioner, a Chief Secretary, or a Member of Council, his receipts range from 5000l. to 10,000l. per annum. Annuity and other funds, to which he contributes a per centage during his service, provide him with the means of proceeding to England on furlough for a time, and of ultimately retiring in comfort; and it is seldom, if he is in the receipt of a handsome salary, at an inexpensive station, that he does not lay by a sufficiency to constitute, with his annuity or pension, a comfortable independence.

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MILITARY SERVICES IN INDIA.

A CADETSHIP is the next best appointment in the gift of the East India Directors. There are degrees in its value, however. An infantry or cavalry appointment is positively good; an artillery cadetship is better, but one in the engineers is the best. To obtain either of these latter, a preparation at Addiscombe College is indispensable; and the youth whose parents or friends may place him there, has the satisfaction of knowing that even if his indolence or the want of natural capacity prevents his obtaining the superior cadetships, he is still sure of his infantry appointment, and may at some later period turn his modicum of acquired knowledge to account.

The rules of the Addiscombe College are as follows:

TERMS OF ADMISSION.

Conditions and Qualifications for a Candidate.

"1. No candidate can be admitted under the age of fourteen, or above the age of eighteen years.

"2. No person can be admitted who has been dismissed or obliged to retire, from the army or navy, the Royal Military College at Sandhurst, the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich, or from any other public institution.

"3. Every candidate must produce a certificate of his birth, taken from the parish register, and signed by the minister, and countersigned by the churchwardens; or if born in Scotland, by the Sessions clerk and two elders, accompanied by a declaration from his father, mother, or nearest of kin, the forms of which may be had at the cadet-office in the military department. In the event of there being no register of his birth or baptism, the candidate will be furnished with the form of a declaration to be taken by him previously to his being appointed.

4. No candidate will be admitted without a certificate that he has had the small-pox, or has been vaccinated; nor without a certificate, in the prescribed form, to be given by two practising surgeons, that he has no mental or bodily defect whatever to disqualify him for military service.

"5. Every candidate must produce a certificate of good conduct from the master under whom he has last studied.

"6. Every candidate must deliver the names and addresses of two persons residing in London or its vicinity, who engage to receive him if he shall be dismissed from the seminary, or removed from sickness or any other cause.

"Test of Admission.-7. Every candidate is required to write a good legible hand; and to write English correctly from dictation. He is also required to construe and parse Cæsar's 'Commentaries' correctly. He must likewise possess a correct knowledge of all the rules of arithmetic usually taught in schools, especially the rule of three, compound proportion, practice, interest, vulgar and decimal fractions, and the extraction of the square root. If a candidate is deficient in any part of the preceding test, his reception into the institution will be deferred for such length of time as the head master shall report to be necessary. "8. The qualifications mentioned in the last article are all that are absolutely requisite for the admission of a cadet into the Military Seminary. Parents and guardians are, however, informed, that it will be of great advantage to a cadet in his future studies at this establishment, if, before being admitted, he make

himself well acquainted with the following portions of the second edition of Cape's 'Course of Mathematics,' in the order in which they are given below. viz :

1. Algebra. Part I.

2. Geometry. Chaps. I. II. III., and the Problems, page 338.

3. The Use of Logarithms.

4. Trigonometry. Arts. 1-79.

5. Analytical Conic Sections, omitting the Hyperbola.

6. Statics. Sections I. II. III., omitting Arts. 45-63, and those articles dependent on the Differential Calculus.

"It is also very desirable that a cadet, on joining the Seminary, be able to draw with facility in pencil and shade with Indian ink.

"9. Every cadet, upon his admission, is considered a Probationary pupil for the first six months; at the end of which period the public examiner will be required to report to the Military Committee, on the probability of the cadet being able to pass for the artillery or infantry in the required period of four terms. Should this appear improbable, either from want of talent or diligence, the cadet will then be returned to his friends.

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Payments, &c.-10. The parents or guardians of the gentleman cadet are required to pay 50l. per term (of which there are two in a year), towards defraying the expense of his board, lodging, and education; also an entrance subscription of 21. 2s. to the public library; which payments include every charge, except for uniform clothes, books, and pocket-money, as hereafter specified.

"11. The payment for the fixed charges for each term is to be made in advance; and the payment for clothes, pocket-money, and books for the preceding term, is to be made previous to the cadet's return to the seminary.

"12. A cadet entering in a term, at whatever part of it, must pay the regulated sum for the whole term in which he enters, which will count as one of the four terms of his residence; and no return of any portion of the advance will be made in the event of a cadet's quitting the seminary.

"13. Such articles of uniform dress as may be considered by the Military Committee to be necessary, shall be provided at the cost of the cadet. The amount of pocket-money issued to him at the ratest fixed by the rules of the seminary is also to be defrayed by his parents or guardians.

"14. The following class-books will be provided at the public expense, the mutilation or destruction of which to be chargeable to the cadets, viz.:

Shakespear's Hindustani Dictionary.
Latin Dictionary.

"15. The cadets will, on their first joining Addiscombe, be supplied with the following books, the cost of which will be charged to their parents or guardians, viz. :—

Cape's Mathematics.

Straith's Treatise on Fortification.

Shakespear's Hindustani Grammar.

Do. First Vol. Hindu Selections.

Viz., jackets, waistcoats, stocks, foraging caps, trousers, shoes, gloves, together with a proportionate share of the expense of any other periodical supplies, and the repairs of the same. The average cost is 67. 6s. per term.

† Viz., 2s. 6d. a week, with 1s. additional to censors, and 2s. 6d. additional to corporals.

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Fielding's Perspective.

French Grammar.

De la Voye's French and English Lexicon.

De la Voye's French Instructions.

Cæsar's Commentaries.

"Any books not included in the above enumeration, or which may be hereafter required at the seminary, to be paid for by the cadets.

"16. Previous to the cadet's admission, his parents or guardians shall furnish him with the following articles (to be repaired, or, if necessary, to be renewed by the parents or guardians at the vacation), viz.:

"Two combs and a brush, twelve shirts (including three night shirts), eight pair of cotton stockings, six ditto worsted ditto, six towels, six night-caps, eight pocket-handkerchiefs, one pair of white trousers, a tooth-brush, a Bible and Prayer-book, a case of mathematical instruments of an approved pattern, to be seen at Messrs. Troughton & Simms', 136, Fleet-street; Mr. Jones's, 62, Charing-cross; and at Messrs. Reeves & Sons, 150, Cheapside.

“Prohibition.-17. The cadet must not join the seminary with a greater sum in his possession than one guinea, and a further supply from any of his relations during his term may subject him to dismission from the seminary.

"Vacations.-18. Midsummer commences about the middle of June, ends 31st July. Christmas commences about the middle of December, ends 31st January. "19. Before the close of every vacation, the cadet must apply at the Cadetoffice, Military department, East India House, for an order for his re-admission, and all sums then due to the Company must be paid up. This order will express that he is only to be re-admitted upon his returning with the same number of books and instruments which he took home with him, that his linen is put into proper repair, and that he is in a fit state of health to renew his duties.

"Notice to Parents and Guardians.-The friends of every cadet are hereby informed, that provision being made for furnishing him with every requisite, he cannot really want a supply of money to be placed at his disposal while at the seminary; and if they do, notwithstanding, think proper to furnish him with money, they put it in his power to commit irregularities, which must always retard his studies, and may eventually lead to his removal from the institution. "The parents and friends are further particularly desired not to attend to any application from the cadet for money, under the pretence of his having incurred any debts at Croydon, or elsewhere, or for the purpose of subscribing to the public charities, or any other pretence whatever.

"It having become known that cadets have been in the habit of writing to their friends for money, under the pretence that there were so many stoppages from their weekly allowance, that they had scarcely any money left, the committee have ascertained that these stoppages have arisen, not only from wilful and wanton destruction of public property, but in a considerable degree from the postage of letters and the carriage of parcels addressed to the cadets. It has in consequence been ordered, that no letter or parcel shall be admitted into the seminary unless the postage or carriage of such letter or parcel shall have been previously fully paid for by the person sending the same. It has also been ordered, that every parcel shall be opened in the presence of one of the orderly officers and the cadet to whom it is sent; that should it contain wine, or any thing prohibited in the regulations, the parcel, upon the first offence, will be returned to the person sending the same; and that upon the second offence, the cadet will be ordered home, and will not be re-admitted until a written apology has been sent to the committee by the person who has committed a breach of this regulation.

EXTRACT FROM THE STANDING REGULATIONS

OF THE SEMINARY.

Sect. 1, Clause 1.

"No professor, master, or other person in the institution, shall receive from the cadet, or the parents or friends of any cadet, any pecuniary present or consideration, on any pretence whatever.'

"By resolutions of the Court of Directors, dated on the 14th March, 1786; 8th April, 1807; 30th August, 1826; and 8th January, 1836, all cadets appointed to the Company's service in Bengal, are required to become subscribers to the Military Orphan Society, and to the Military Widows' Fund at that Presidency.

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'By a resolution of the Court of Directors, dated on the 30th April, 1823, all cadets appointed to the Company's service at Fort St. George and Bombay, are required to become subscribers to the Military Fund at their respective Presidencies.

"The engineer cadets are required to embark and sail for their respective destinations within three months after quitting Chatham, and the artillery and infantry cadets within three months after passing their public examination.

"Memoranda.-The gentlemen cadets educated at the Military Seminary are eligible for the corps of engineers, artillery, and infantry. Admission to the two first of these branches, viz., the engineers and artillery, is only to be obtained by these cadets, none others being eligible. Those who are most distinguished are selected for the engineers, according to the vacancies in that branch. Those immediately following in order of succession are promoted to the corps of horse and foot artillery.

"Those cadets for whom there is no room in the engineers, but who are reported to have attained to a high degree of qualification, receive honorary certificates, and their names are announced to the governments in India, and published in general orders to the army, as meriting particular notice. They have the privilege of choosing the Presidency in India to which they shall be stationed. The cadets not appointed to the engineers or artillery are, when reported qualified, posted to the infantry, and rank together according to the rank which they obtained at the seminary.

"The gentlemen cadets may pass through the seminary as rapidly as their attainments and qualifications will enable them to pass after a year's residence, provided that they are of the age of sixteen years on or before the day of their final examination. Their stay at the institution is limited to four terms.

"The cadets educated at this institution take rank in the army above all other cadets who are appointed from the commencement of three months previously to the date of the seminary cadets being reported qualified; and all the time passed by them at the institution after they attain the age of sixteen, counts as so much time passed in India, in calculating their period of service for retiring pensions on full pay.”

CAVALRY OR INFANTRY CADETS.

"Cadets nominated for either of the above corps must be sixteen years of age, and under twenty-two, unless they have held a commission in her Majesty's service for one year, or in the militia or fencibles when embodied, and have been called into actual service, or from the company of cadets in the royal regi