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THE POPULAR EDUCATOR. 



Great Bear Lake, British North 

 America. 



Great Slave Lake, British North 

 America. 



Athabasca, British North America. 



Winnipeg, British North America. 



Winnipegoos, British North Ame- 

 rica. 



SUMMJLRY OF ISLANDS. 

 Greenland, N.W. America. 

 Arctic Archipelago, comprising 



Grinnell Laud. 



North Devon. 



Coruwallis. 



Melville Island. 



Banks Land. 



Prince Albert Land. 



Prince of Wales Island. 



North Somerset. 



Cockburu Island. 

 Newfoundland. 

 Anticosti. 



Prince Edward Island. 

 Cape Breton. 

 Long Island. 

 West India Islands. 

 Bermudas. 

 Vancouver Island. 

 Queen Charlotte Islands. 

 Prince of Wales Archipelago. 

 Sitka. 

 Kodiak. 

 Aleutian Isles. 



CIVIL SERVICE PAPERS.- 



GEOUP III. 



-III. 



GROUP III. will be treated in this and one or two subsequent 

 papers. It is the largest of the groups, and comprises the 

 British Museum, the Charity Commission, the Civil Service 

 Commission, the House of Lords Office, the House of Commons 

 Office, the Copyhold and Tithe Commission, Ecclesiastical 

 Commission, Emigration Office, Lunacy Commission, Mint, 

 National Debt Office, Patent Office, Paymaster-General's, 

 Kecord Office, and General Kegistry Office. 



1. BRITISH MUSEUM, GREAT RUSSELL STREET. (Nomination.) 



This office is charged with carrying out the administrative 

 detail of the duties of the trustees for the Museum. Patronage 

 in the three principal trustees, who are the Primate, the Lord 

 Chancellor, and the Speaker of the House of Commons. Limits 

 of age of candidates assistants, 18 and 30 ; attendants, 18 

 and 30 ; messengers, 18 and 40. The attendants are examined 

 in 



1. Writing from Dictation. 



2. Elementary Arithmetic. 



Assistants are examined in 



1. Writing from Dictation. 



2. Arithmetic (elementary). 



3. English Composition. 



4. Precis. 



5. Geography. 



6. British History. 



7. Translation from one Ancient and one Modern Language. 



8. Orthography. 



[Persons possessing a special knowledge, whose services are 

 particularly needed, will be examined with regard to the know- 

 ledge in which special proficiency is required rather than with 

 regard to the general subjects of the qualifications for assis- 

 tants. In such an establishment as the British Museum, where 

 special scientific or antiquarian knowledge is required, such a 

 regulation is obviously necessary.] 



Besides the heads of departments and other chief officers, 

 there are 25 first-class assistants, 250 to 450 ; 44 second- 

 class assistants, 120 to 240 ; clerk, lower division, 95 to 

 250 ; 56 first-class attendants, 105 to 120 ; 83 second-class 

 attendants, 60 to 100 ; and 3 messengers, 100 to 150. 



2. THE CHARITY COMMISSION, YORK STREET, ST. JAMES'S 



SQUARE. (Open Competition.) 



This office is charged with the detail of the duties thrown 

 upon the Commissioners by the Act of Parliament which, in 

 1853, empowered them to deal with lands and money left for 

 charitable purposes in such a way as would most thoroughly 

 promote the objects of charity without reference to the special 

 objects named in the bequests. Salaries : 4 principal clerks, 

 650 to 800 ; 3 first-class clerks, ,400 to .550 ; 4 second- 

 class clerks, senior division, <300 to .400 ; 6 second-class 

 clerks, junior division, .200 to .300 ; 21 lower division men 

 clerks, .95 to .250; and 5 messengers, .70 to .100. 



3. CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION, CANNON BOW, WESTMINSTER. 



(Open Competition.) 



Instituted in 1855, for the purpose of testing educational 

 acquirements of candidates for the Civil Service. Clerical staff 

 small. Salaries: 10 supplementary clerks, 95 to 250; 6 

 junior clerks, 100 to 350; 5 senior clerks, 400 to 600. 



4. HOUSE OF LORDS (CLERK OF PARLIAMENTS). (Nomination.) 



Establishment as follows : Five senior clerks, various 

 salaries, from 850 to 1,000; 15 clerks, 100 to 600; 

 1 receiver of fees and accountant, partly paid by poundage on 

 sums received, 250 ; 1 assistant accountant ditto, 350 ; 7 

 messengers, 80 to 170. 



5. HOUSE OF COMMONS. (Nomination.) 



There are three departments the patronage resting with the 

 Speaker, the Treasury (Department of the Sergeant-at-Arms), 

 and the Clerk of the House. The limits of age for clerks are 

 19 and 25, but for candidates who have previously been in the 

 public service as temporary clerks, or otherwise, the maximum 

 limit shall be extended to 30, provided the candidate was under 

 25 when he entered the service, and has served continuously ; 

 messengers must be between the ages of 25 and 40 to be 

 appointed. 



I. CLERKS AND SUPERNUMERARY CLERKS. 



1. Handwriting and Orthography. 



2. The Power of Accurate Comparison of Copies with Originals. 



3. Arithmetic (including Vulgar and Decimal Fractions). 



4. English Composition. 



5. History of England, and of the Constitution. 



6. Latin or French (Translation). 



7. Bookkeeping by single entry. 



Salaries : Junior clerks, 100 to 250, by 10 a year; 

 assistant clerks, 300 to 600, by 15 a year; senior clerks, 

 650 to 800, by 15 a year. The prizes are the principal 

 clerkships, with salaries ranging from 850 to 1,000, by 

 annual increments of 25. 



6. COPYHOLD, ENCLOSURE, AND TITHE COMMISSION, ST. 



JAMES'S SQUARE. (Nomination.) 



' Commissioners assist in the enclosure and utilisation of 

 waste lands ; in the commutation of tithes, and in arranging 

 for payment of fines to lords of manors. Their work is a 

 purely artificial one, created by Acts of Parliament to meet 

 exigencies arising out of a change in English home policy. 

 There is a great deal of strictly professional work for surveyors, 

 architects, and lawyers. Office patronage in the Commissioners. 

 Ages : clerks and assistant record keepers, 18 to 25. Salaries : 

 Chief clerk, .600 ; senior first-class clerk, .550 ; 4 first-class 

 clerks, .300 to .500 ; 6 second-class clerks, .100 to .300 ; 2 

 building clerks, 100 to 300 ; 4 lower division clerks, 80 to 

 .200 ; surveyor, .250 to .350 ; 5 assistant surveyors, .150 

 to ,250 ; record keeper, J680 to 200 ; assistant record keeper, 

 80 to 150 ; 2 messengers, 60 to 80. 



LESSONS IN ALGEBRA. XVH. 



SIMPLE EQUATIONS (continued). 



NUMERICAL SUBSTITUTION. 



172. In the reduction of an equation, as well as in other parts 

 of algebra, a complicated process can often be rendered more 

 simple, by using letters for the given numbers, and also by 

 introducing a new letter which shall be made to represent a 

 whole algebraic expression. This process is called SUBSTITUTION. 

 After the algebraic operation is completed, the numbers, or the 

 compound quantity for which a single letter has been substituted, 

 must be restored, in order to obtain the numerical value. 



o 



EXAMPLE. Eeduce 4. - =1. 



750 J 375 

 Here, by substituting a for 750, b for 3, and c for 375, the 



equation becomes | = 1. Now, clearing of fractions, we 



a c ab 



have ex, + ob =ac ; and x = a . On restoring the numbers, 



we have z=750 _ = 744. Ans, 



375 



