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Itttrrs To Tyt Diritnr.

FIRST-CLASS MEN. Regents Park, 17th April 1859. Sin—I sympathize strongly with your intelligent correspondent J. J. in his letter on " First - Class Men in Second-Clasa Places......

The Best Tests For Civil Service Candidates. The Question Of

Civil Service Reform divides itself into two parts —1. How best to test the candidates for the Civil Service ; and 2. How to manage them when admitted. The public have never got......

Drinking Fountains—a Plea For Animals.

April 20, 1859. Sin—In the arrangements of the "public drinking fountains" for the working classes, I very earnestly trust that the wants of the four-footed working classes will......

Army Examinations.

MAJOR-GENERAL LORD DE B,os has published a small pamphlet on army examinational' which is timely and very well worth attention. It obviously never could have been intended by......

The Deaths In London Last Week Only Exceeded One Thousand

by eighty- four. The total is no less than 146 under the calculated average of deaths at this season. There was a decrease of death from scarlatina, diphtheria, and small-pox.......