June 8.
Some one at Home has kindly sent us a copy of the ''regulations respecting competitive examinations for appointment to the General and Levant Consular Services and to Student Interpreterships in the Far East''—though why we do not know, as they are too late to be of any use this year; those of our readers who have an eye on the Consular Service for their sons will long ago have informed themselves on all conditions; and as regards the staff of this paper few are young enough to compete and none is sufficiently learned. The list of subjects which a candidate may, nay rather, must offer, driven as he is by the haunting thought of rivals who -will offer so much more, is horrific. If the perusal of the regulations have no other' result, it will at least inspire us
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.