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45. Any disease of or pertaining to the alimentary canal.

46. Paralysis, weakness, impaired motion, or contraction of the upper or lower extremities from whatever cause; aneurism, a varicose state of the veins, especially of the leg. Bunions, distortion, malformation of the feet, or malposition of the fingers or toes.

47. Distortion of the spine, of the bones of the chest or pelvis, from injury or constitutional defect.

The above Regulations will be generally followed, but my Lords will modify them from time to time as may be considered desirable.

By Command of their Lordships,

ROBERT HALL.

The Papers set at the previous Examinations of Candidates for Engineer Students have been published by the Civil Service Commissioners, and are sold, price Sixpence, by W. Clowes & Sons, 13, Charing Cross; Harrison & Sons, 50, Pall Mall; Griffin & Co., The Hard, Portsea; A. & C. Black, Edinburgh; A. Thom, Abbey Street; and E. Ponsonby, Grafton Street, Dublin.

LIST of ARTICLES recommended as an OUTFIT for an ENGINEER STUDENT on joining the TRAINING ScHools of HER MAJESTY'S DOCKYARDS, with their probable cost.

Uniform, estimated to last three years with care.

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Washing personal clothing will cost on an averag 18. 6d. per week.

A subscription of 6d. per week by each Student is made to a Recreation Fund," which is found to be sufficient to cover all expenses attending out and indoor games, purchasing papers, &c.

A small sum, say 9d, per week, should be included for repairs to clothes, soap, and blacking.

On the whole, a Student's annual expenses, exclusive of the yearly payments of 251. for the first three years, will be about 22, la. 6d.

Admiralty, 8th September 1879.

REGULATIONS RESPECTING ASSISTANT
CLERKS.

1. Two examinations for Assistant Clerkships will be held annually at the Civil Service Commission, under the direction of the Civil Service Commissioners, viz., on the second Tuesday in June, and the third Tuesday in November, but the appointments of the successful candidates will date from the 15th July or 15th January following.

2. No candidate will be eligible for examination in November whose age will not be within the prescribed limits on 15th January following, or for examination in June whose age will not be within the prescribed limits on the 15th July following.

3. No candidate will be examined who is under 15 or above 17 years of age.

4. The number of Assistant Clerks to be entered at each examination will be regulated by the requirements of the Service, and their Lordships reserve to them. selves power as to the number of Candidates to be nominated to compete for each vacancy.

5. Every candidate will be required to pass the medical examination according to the prescribed regulations, before the Medical Director-General of the Navy, and must be found physically fit for the Royal Navy before going up for the educational examination.

He must be in good health and free from any physical defect of body, impediment of speech, defect of sight or hearing, and also from any predisposition to constitutional or hereditary disease or weakness of any kind, and in all respects well developed and active in proportion to his age.

The decision arrived at by the Medical Officers will be considered final, subject to their Lordships' approval. 6. The candidate will be required to produce (1) a registrar's certificate of birth (a certificate of Baptism will not be accepted) or declaration thereof made before a magistrate; (2) a certificate of good conduct from the masters of any schools at which he may have been educated within the two previous years, or, if educated at home, from his tutors or the clergyman of the parish in which he resides; (3) a certificate of good health from the medical attendant of his family; (4) a certificate of ability to swim.

7. The Examination to consist of two parts:(a) TEST. (b) VOLUNTARY FOR COMPETITION. (a) Test Examination.

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legible hand. Handwriting 40 Writing a Letter on a given subject. Writing the substance of a chapter, or portion of a chapter read out, taking into consideration the time in which this exercise is performed

(4) French. Reading and translation from French into English, and from English into French, and grammar

(5) Addition, Simple and Compound, with refer

ence to time

(6) Arithmetic, generally

(7) Modern geography and English history (8) Scripture

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Candidates will be required to show a competent knowledge of each of the test subjects.

(b) Voluntary.

(9) Elementary mathematics, viz., algebra, including quadratic equations and problems producing them, and first three books of Euclid'

(10) Latin. Translation of passages from books usually read at schools, translation of English into Latin, and grammatical questions (11) The German, Spanish, or Italian languages, as in French

(12) Elementary Physics,

properties of it, viz., chemistry, heat, and fluids, electricity

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and magnetism (13) Drawing, freehand, and from models Not more than three of these subjects may be selected, unless drawing be one, when four may be selected. In order to secure a proper proficiency in all the voluntary subjects taken up, a certain number will be deducted from the marks obtained by each candidate in each of such subjects.

S. If a candidate pass the test of qualification, and yet not be one of the successful competitors, he will be allowed to compete once again at the following exami

nation, notwithstanding that at the second examination he may exceed the limit of age; but a candidate failing to pass the test will have no claim to present himself at any subsequent examination. By Command of their Lordships,

REGULATIONS

ROBERT HALL.

RESPECTING EXAMINATIONS FOR FIRST APPOINTMENTS TO THE ROYAL MARINES.

Admiralty, 18th February 1879.
For the information of Candidates.
FIRST APPOINTMENTS TO ROYAL MARINE
ARTILLERY.

REGULATIONS FOR ADMISSION, &C.
(Under revision.)

1. Admission to the Royal Marine Artillery as Probationary Lieutenants will be offered to the successful Candidates in order of merit (according to the number of vacancies) at the open Competitive Examination for admission to the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich, taking place in July of each year. The Examination will be conducted by the Civil Service Commissioners. Candidates must first obtain permission from the Military Secretary, Horse Guards, to attend the Examination, and those who are desirous of obtaining an ap pointment in the Royal Marine Artillery, should send in their names to the Secretary of the Admiralty, to whom all enquiries on the subject should be addressed.

2. The limits of age will be from 16 to 18, the Candidates being required to be within those limits on the 1st of July. They must be 5 ft. 5 in. in height.

3. The successful Candidates will be appointed Lieutenants on Probation. They will proceed to the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, on the 1st October.

4. Two Examinations of Probationary Lieutenants will be held in each year at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich. Those that pass a satisfactory Examination at the end of the first session after entry, will remain at the College for another session, at the end of which they will be again examined, and, if they pass satisfactorily, will receive Commissions in the Royal Marine Artillery, in order of merit, bearing date from the time they received their probationary appointments. 5. Probationary Lieutenants who do not pass a satisfactory Examination at the end of the first session after entry will be finally excluded from the Royal Marines. Those who, after passing the first Examination, finally fail to qualify for the Royal Marine Artillery, may receive Commissions in the Royal Marine Light Infantry, bearing the same date as the Infantry Officers who passed the Army Examination at the same time, but be posted below them.

6. Artillery Officers will be posted on the list of their Corps in the order in which they pass their final Examination at Greenwich.

7. Officers of the Royal Marine Artillery on Probation, will receive 58. 3d. a-day. Those who are permitted to remain after the first session will be allowed 18. 6d. a-day Mess Allowance, until the expiration of their period of study at Greenwich.

8. Officers, on passing out, will be attached to H.M.S. "Excellent," for a course of Gunnery and Torpedo Instruction; on the conclusion of which they will join Head Quarters, and be instructed in their Drill and Military Duties for service ashore and afloat.

9. Each successful Candidate must deposit the sum of Sol. with the Accountant-General of the Navy, before he can be appointed Lieutenant on Probation for the Royal Marine Artillery, to provide for his equipment at the Royal Naval College, and on joining his Division. If the payment is made by cheque, the same should be drawn in favour of the cashiers of the Bank of England, and be made payable in London.

10. The Uniform for Officers on Probation will be Blue Patrol Jacket, Blue Working Jacket, Blue Mess Jacket, and Scarlet Waistcoat, Undress Trowsers, Sword, Sword. belt, and Forage Cap.

FIRST APPOINTMENTS TO ROYAL MARINE LIGHT INFANTRY.

REGULATIONS FOR ADMISSION, &C. 1. Admission to the Royal Marine Light Infantry will be offered to the successful Candidates, in order of merit (according to the number of vacancies), at the Open Competitive Examinations for admission to the Royal Military College at Sandhurst.

The Examinations will be conducted by the Civil Service Commissioners, and will take place twice a-year, in the months of July and December.

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Candidates for admission by Competition

On the 1st of January next following the Winter Examination, and on the 1st of July for the Midsummer

Examination.

4. The successful Candidates will be appointed Lieu tenants in the Royal Marine Light Infantry, and will be posted on the list of their Corps in the order in which they passed their Examination. They will join their respective divisions at once, and be Instructed in their Drill and Military duties for service ashore and aflost. They will also undergo a course of Garrison or Military instruction.

5. Each successful Candidate must deposit the sum of Sol. with the Accountant-General of the Navy, before he can be appointed Lieutenant in the Royal Marine Light Infantry, to provide for his equipment on joining his Division. If this payment is made by cheque, the same should be drawn in favour of the cashiers of the Bank of England, and be made payable in London. By Command of their Lordships, ROBERT HALL.

NAVIGATING AND PILOTAGE DUTIES OF THE FLEET.

FLEET CIRCULAR No. 41.-C. (Re-issuing the provisions of Circular No. 5 C. of 27th March 1877, with slight alterations.) Admiralty, 27th May 1879. The entry of Navigating Cadets having ceased, Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty are pleased to issue the following regulations for the performance of the Navigating and Pilotage duties of the Fleet, and for ihe carrying out of the necessary arrangements affecting the present class of Navigating officers.

1. Circular No. 5 C, of 27th March 1877, is hereby can celled, and its provisions, so far as they are retained, the embodied in this circular.

2. All Naval Cadets who, entered the service after 31st December 1875 will be required to pass an examination in Pilotage, and after completing the examination in Gunnery for Lieutenant they will be appointed to the Flag Ship at Portsmouth for a period of two months for instruction; they will then be required to pass the Pilotage examination in the Hydrographic Office, Whitehall,

3. Officers now on the Lieutenants' and Sub-Lieu tenants' Lists who apply to be appointed to Navigating and Pilotage duties will, if approved by their Lordships, be appointed to the Flag Ship at Portsmouth for instruction, for a period of two months; they will then be required to pass the Pilotage examination in the Hydrographic Office, Whitehall.

4. No Lieutenant will be eligible for appointment to Navigating and Pilotage duties until he has com pleted one year's service at sea as a Lieutenant. Every Sub-Lieutenant who has elected Navigating duties will, when promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, be appointed to a sea-going ship to serve one year as a watch-keeping officer.

5. Lieutenants may, after performing Navigating duties for three years, pass for First-Class Ships; but no Officer, after promotion to the rank of Commander, will be considered eligible for a Navigating appointment, unless he has passed for First-Class ships, either in the rank of Lieutentant or Commander.

6. Officers electing Navigating duties will be required to keep themselves efficient in gunnery, and will, from time to time, be required to go through a short course of gunnery in the "Excellent" or "Cambridge;" and

In the Quarterly Returns of gunnery from Her Majesty's ships, it will be reported whether they are com petent to drill Quarters, and are conversant with the Ride and Sword Exercises. The Captains of the ships in which they serve will take care that facilities are afforded these officers for keeping up their knowledge on these subjects.

7. Officers who elect Navigating duties will not be required to continue those duties after promotion to the rank of Commander, unless they should wish to do so.

8. Lieutenants and Sub-Lieutenants appointed for Navigating duties will be required to take a share in the ordinary duties of their ships, such as Watch-keeping, acting as Divisional Officers, &c., as in the case of Gunnery Lieutenants. But this participation in the ordinary duties should not interfere with their special Navigating duties, and is to be arranged at the discretion of the Captain.

9. If the Commander, Lieutenant, or Sub-Lieutenant appointed for Navigating duties should be senior to the Executive Officer, he will, in the absence of the Cap. tain, succeed to the command of the ship. But he is not to take upon himself the routine duties of the Executive Officer except by order of the Captain, or in case of necessity.

10. Officers selected for Navigating duties will remain eligible for promotion to the highest rank in the Service; and, as Captains and Commanders, they, as well as Staff Captains and Staff-Commanders, may be appointed Masters Attendant, Assistant Masters Attendant, and Queen's Harbour Masters.

11. The pay of the under-mentioned Officers performing Navigating duties will be as follows:Commanders.-The full pay of their rank, and additional pay of from

At the discretion of their Lordships.
Lieutenants.-The full pay of their
rank, and, if of five years' seni-
ority and upwards, extra pay of
Under five years' seniority, ex-
tra pay of

If passed for First Class Ships,
without regard to seniority,
additional pay of

48. to 58. a-day.

FLEET CIRCULAR, No. 13.-N.

Admiralty, 24th April 1880. INSTRUCTION OF JUNIOR EXECUTIVE OF FICERS IN NAVIGATING AND PILOTAGE DUTIES OF THE FLEET.

(Queen's Regulations and Admiralty Instructions
Art. 998.)

My Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty are pleased to issue the following Regulations with a view to the extension of instruction in Navigation and Pilotage duties to all junior Officers who have not passed their examination in Navigation in England.

1. The provisions contained in Article 908, page 320 of the Regulations, to the effect that the Navigating Officer in each ship shall instruct the junior Officers appointed for Navigating duties in Pilotage and the practice of Navigation, is to be in future extended to all the junior executive Officers who have not passed their examination in Navigation at the Royal Naval College. 2. The Captain of each ship in which junior Officers are borne is to appoint one or two of such Officers, for periods of from two to three months, to assist the Navigating Officer in his special duties, such as taking observations by day and night, finding the position of the ship, and the variation and deviation of the compass; taking observations when swinging the ship to adjust compasses; piloting the ship into and out of harbour and in narrow channels; laying off the position of the ship on a chart; ascertaining the errors and rates of chronometers, and all other practical duties connected with Navigation and Pilotage.

3. During the time that a junior Officer is appointed for these duties he will not necessarily be exempted from attendance for instruction by the Naval Instructor, but the duties above specified will take the place of his ordinary duties, such as watch keeping, boat duty, &c. By command of their Lordships. ROBERT HALL.

To all Commanders-in-Chief, &c.

38. a-day.

28. 6d. a-day.

48. a-day.

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All Officers of the Military Branch are liable to be called upon to perform Navigating and Pilotage duties in Her Majesty's ships, but additional pay to Commanders, Lieutenants, and Sub-Lieutenants for doing 80 is contingent on their having passed in Pilotage.

12. All Officers now on the lists of Staff-Captains, Staff Commanders and Navigating Lieutenants, will continue to perform the same duties, and be eligible for the same appointments as at present.

13. Navigating Sub-Lieutenants, on being selected for promotion, will be allowed the option of being placed either on the Lieutenants' or on the Navigating Lieutenants' list; but if they elect the Lieutenants' list they will still be required to perform Navigating duties, if called on to do so, until promoted to the rank of Commander.

14. Officers promoted from the Navigating SubLieutenants' list to the Lieutenants' list, will, within the first six months of their service, be required to go through a course of Gunnery in the "Excellent" or "Cambridge," and in the Quarterly Returns of Gannery from Her Majesty's ships, it will be reported whether they are competent to drill Quarters, and are conversant with the Rifle and Sword Exercises. The Captains of the ships in which they serve will take care that facilities are afforded these officers for keeping up their knowledge on these subjects.

15. Commanders, Lieutenants, and Sub-Lieutenants who perform Navigating duties, and officers transferred from the Navigating class to those lists, will be shown in the "Navy List" with the letter N against their By Command of their Lordships, ROBERT HALL.

names.

To all Commanders-in-Chief, &c.

REGULATIONS FOR THE EXAMINATION, &c. OF INTERPRETERS.

Admiralty, 10th March 1880.

My Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty are pleased to sanction the following Regulations for the examination of all Officers below the rank of Commander for the grade of Interpreter:

I. Candidates may offer themselves for examination in French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, and such other modern languages as may be selected from time to time.

II. Candidates, if on active service, are to apply through their Captains, naming the language in which they wish to be examined, and if on half-pay, to the Secretary of the Admiralty, who will inform them on what day the examination will take place. The examination will be held from time to time at the Civil Service Commission in London.

III. The names of officers who pass successfully will be noted for employment in flag and senior officers ships as Interpreters, 1st or 2nd Class. When appointed they will receive an allowance of two shillings and sixpence a day in addition to their pay of 1st Class, and one shilling and sixpence if 2nd Class, and will act as Interpreters in addition to their other duties; if the appointment be held by a Senior, Gunnery, or Torpedo Lieutenant, he will receive the extra pay of an Interpreter in addition to his other allowances.

IV. A thorough knowledge of the language selected by the candidate will be required, and he will be examined orally, as well as by written papers, in the following

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V. No candidate will be considered as qualified unless he has shown an adequate amount of general proficiency. Qualified candidates will, according to the amount of proficiency shown by them in their examination, be recommended by the Commissioners for certificates either of the 1st or of the 2nd Class.

VI. Rejected candidates will be re-examined after a lapse of six months from the date of rejection, but candidates who have been twice examined and rejecter will not be allowed to go up again for examination whether such examinations have been provisional o not.

Provisional Examination.

VII. Officers, when serving abroad, may be permitted to pass a provisional examination, to be conducted on board a flag or senior officer's ship, in the presence of a Captain and Naval Instructor, by an experienced teacher of languages, or by an officer who has passed for Interpreter at the Royal Naval College or before the Civil Service Commissioners.

VIII. The successful candidate is to be granted a cer tificate, and will be eligible to act as Interpreter should his services be required; but will have to pass a final examination before the Civil Service Commissioners within one month after his arrival in England, or being paid off, as the case may be, or as soon after one month as can be arranged with the Commissioners.

IX. All provisional examinations and appointments are to be forthwith reported to their Lordships.

X. Each flag or senior officer's ship on a foreign sta tion is to be allowed to bear an Interpreter who has qualified in the languages commonly spoken within the iimits of the command. By command of their Lordships, ROBERT HALL

THE BEAUFORT TESTIMONIAL.

The Beaufort Testimonial consists of some instrument or work of a kind to be practically useful to a Naval Officer.

It is bestowed annually on the Officer who, in quali fying for the rank of Lieutenant, passes at the Royal Naval College the best examination in the subjects laid down in the Queen's Regulations and Admiralty Instructions as comprised in Navigation.

Candidates for the Beaufort Testimonial must signify their intention of competing one month before the time for their examination, and more searching questions will be set them on all subjects.

THE GILBERT BLANE MEDAL.

In 1830 the late Sir Gilbert Blane, Bart., formerly a member of the Board for sick and wounded seamen, established, with the sanction of the Board of Admiralty, for the encouragement of Naval Medical Science, a fund vested in the Corporation of the Royal College of Surgeons of London, in trust, for the purpose of con ferring a gold medal once in every two years on each of the two Medical Officers (Fleet, or Staff Surgeons, or Surgeons) who shall produce the most approved journals of their practice "in the form in which they have been kept from day to day" while in Medical charge of a ship of war in the Royal Navy.

The Presidents of the Colleges of Physicians and of Surgeons, and the Medical Director General of the Navy award the medals biennially for the two best journals sent into office during the preceding period of two

years.

NAVAL RETIREMENTS.

GAZETTE NOTICE.-REGULATIONS AS TO RETIREMENT OF FLAG OFFICERS, CAPTAINS, COMMANDERS, AND LIEUTENANTS.

Admiralty, March 2, 1870.

Her Majesty, by Her Order in Council of the 22nd February 1870, having been graciously pleased to sanctien proposals relating to Flag Officers, Captains, Commanders, and Lieutenants, with a view to the benefit of the Naval Service, the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty give notice of the mode in which such arrangements will be carried out. The Regulations will take effect from the 1st April 1870.

Officers on Half-pay, to whom option is hereby given of electing to come under the Regulations herein laid down or those formerly in force, as regards retirement or pay are to signify, in writing, before the 21st March,

to the Secretary of the Admiralty, the selection they have made; stating, moreover, whether they are anxious to be allowed to retire in order to facilitate the reduction of the Active Lists.

Officers not signifying their intentions before that date will be considered to have elected the New Regulations.

The subjoined Scale will show the age at which Officers will be compulsorily retired, and also that at which they may optionally retire:

[See Order in Council, 5th August 1875, modifying this temporarily.]

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Officers should state their wishes in the following form, which it is requested may be transmitted in duplicate:

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