Department and Qualifications required.

FOREIGN OFFICE-continued.

V. THIRD SECRETARIES.

Third secretaries who desire a certificate of having satisfactorily passed an examination in public law (see section 6 of the Regulations for H. M. Diplomatic Service, dated 16th December 1872), will be required to show a competent general knowledge of the ordinary rights and obligations of sovereign states in time of peace, and of belligerents and neutrals in war.

They will also be expected to be able to give an account of

(1.) The nature and authority of international law.
(2.) The sources from which it is derived, the lead-

ing authorities (British and Foreign) on the
subject, and the manner of referring to and
applying those authorities.

(3.) The political constitution of the several States,
and Unions of States, in Europe and America,
so far as the constitution of each may affect its
international relations.

(4.) The status, duties, and privileges of public
ministers, and diplomatic agents.

(5.) The general principles of the law of nationality

and of domicil.

The books recommended are Wheaton's Elements of International Law; Heffter, Das Europäische Völkerrecht der Gegenwart, either in the original German or in the French translation of Jules Bergson, and for (5) Westlake's Treatise on Private International Law, Chapters I., II., III., with the Naturalization Acts, 33 Vict. c. 14., and 35 & 36 Vict. c. 39.

VI. [.] TRANSLATORS TO MISSIONS

Exercises in Translations from and into that language or those languages upon which the candidate is destined to be employed.

Limits of Age.

25 and 55.

25 and 35.

They must be British subjects.

VIII. [N.] CLERKS IN CHANCERY OF LEGATION, Tehran ;
CLERKS TO LEGATION, TANGIER.

18 and 40.

Fee for Examination.

1. Handwriting and Orthography.

2. Arithmetic (including Vulgar and Decimal Frac

tions).

3. French.

IX. [.] CONSULS AND VICE-CONSULS

1. English Composition and Writing from Dictation.

2. French (written and spoken).*

3. The language of the port at which the candidate

may be appointed to reside.+*

25 and 50.

A candidate for appointment as Second Vice-Consul at New York was examined in Nos. 1, 4, and 5 only. In the case of Denmark, Norway, and the Baltic ports, German. In the case of ports on or towns near the Mediterranean, and some of the Black Sea ports, Italian. For Mazagan, Spanish, for Mosul, Arabic (on one occasion French only), and for Galatz, and Samoa, French have been prescribed. Consuls for the United States and Polynesia have been examined in French only. For Nicolaieff either Italian or Russian has been allowed.