Rlimanumn.
THE INDIAN CIVIL SERVICE.
As there are at the present time vacancies in the establishment of the Secretary of State for India for eight writers, Lord Stanley has resolved to fill those vacancies by means of an open competitive examination. The salaries and allowances attached to the appointments are as follows— For the first five years, 80/. per annum, with an additional allowance of Is. per sheet of 480 words for all work in excess of five sheets per day ; from 5 to 10 years' service, 90/. per annum; 10 to 15 ditto, 100/. per annum; 15 to 20 ditto, 120/. per annum ; 20 to 25 ditto, 150/. per an- num, 25 upwards, 200/. per annum ; with an allowance for each of Is. &I per sheet as above. The writers are for the most part employed in copying, but they are at other times employed in accounts, and in as- sisting in the ordinary duties of clerks. The age for admission is from 16 to 26, and the Civil Service Commissioners are about to prepare a scheme for the examination of candidates for these appointments.
It will have been observed that, under the regulations which have been recently promulgated for the examination of candidates for the Civil Service of India, the maximum age, which, since the introduction of the competitive system, has been twenty-three, was reduced to twenty- two. Having regard, however, to the just claims of students who are now preparing for the expected examination in July next, many of whom this new rule, if immediately enforced, would have excluded from the right of competing, the Secretary of State for India in Council has determined to suspend its operation until the examination in 1860. In July next, therefore, the maximum age for candidates will be twenty- three and after that occasion, twenty-two.—Daily Newt, December 13.
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