Inspector of Military Stores-Clerk to the Political and Mili Col. John G. Bonner lary Committee-Wm. Eade, Esq. Clerk to the Revenue, Judicia!, and Legislative CommitteeDavid Hill, Esq. Esq. Loftus Wigram, Esq. Edward Lawford, Esq. Horace H. Wilson, Esq., M.A., F.R.S. Sanscrit Professor, Oxford ƒ standing counsel. librarian. Thomas Horsfield, Esq., M.D., F.R.S... keeper of the museum. John Walker, Esq.... Thomas Lynn, Esq. Dr. John Scott, 13, Stratton Street .... Rev. Henry Higginson, A.M. Mr. Francis Beal Mr. Samuel Proctor. William Sewell, Esq. George Harrison John Saunders Augustine Raymont.. E. B. Doggett, G. Shipway geographer. astronomical examiner. examining physician. chaplain, Poplar hospital. surgeon, aitio. { inspector surgeon for inva lid seamen and soldiers. Sexaminer of veterinary medicines and instruments for India. clerk of the works. .. head door-keeper. assist. do. door-keepers. The Corps of Royal East-India Volunteers, commanded by Colonel Astell, was disembodied on the 25th March 1834. His late Majesty was graciously pleased, as a mark of his royal approbation, to allow the officers to retain the rank and honours belonging to their respective commissions. Bristol Cork... Dartmouth Deal... Falmouth.. AGENTS. AT HOME. Robert Bruce, Esq. Daniel Callaghan, jun., Esq. ..Messrs. John and Edward Iggulden . Messrs. John Carne and Sons Glasgow and Greenock Messrs. Eccles, Burnley, and Co. Gravesend Thomas Elkin, Esq. Messrs. James Wyld and Co. Messrs. Thomas Westrop and Son .William Rathbone, Esq. Cape.. ..... ...... .... William Cobb, Esq. Messrs. Fox, Sons, and Co. Messrs. Garnatt and Gibbon ABROAD. Messrs. Forsyth, Richardson, and Co. Egypt (Alexandria). Captain Lyons, R.N. H. Johnson (H.M.S.) Dep. Agent (Cairo)........ A. Walne, Esq. (Suez) Genoa.. Messrs. Jack and Co. Messrs. Cotterill, Iggulden, and Co. St. Helena .......... Messrs. Thos. Baker and Co. xxii EAST-INDIA COLLEGE. Visitor. The Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of London. Principal. The Rev. Henry Melvill, B.D. Dean. The Rev. James Amiraux Jeremie, A.M. Classics Mathematics Registrar. The Rev. Frederic Smith, A.M. PROFESSORS: European Department. The Rev. J. Á. Jeremie, A.M. History & Political Economy The Rev. Richard Jones, A.M. Law... Wm. Empson, Esq.,A.M., F.R.S.L. ORIENTAL DEPARTMENT: NOMINATION OF STUDENTS. Regulations and Preparatory Instructions. No Candidate for the College can be nominated thereto, whose age is less than seventeen or above twenty-one years. And no person who has been dismissed from the Army or Navy, or expelled from any place of education, will be nominated to the College. The parents or guardian of every candidate for the college will be required to address the following letter to the nominating Director: , to whom you Sir:-1 beg to assure you, on my honour, that my have been so good as to give a nomination to the college, has not been dismissed from the Army or the Navy, and that he never has been expelled from any place of education. I have the honour to be, &c. Candidates for the college must produce the undermentioned documents, previously to their being nominated as students. An extract from the parish register of their birth or baptism, properly signed by the minister, churchwarden, or elders; and, in addition thereto, A certificate, agreeably to the following form, signed by the parent, guardian, or near relation. I do hereby certify, that the foregoing extract from the register of baptisms of the parish of- in the county of, contains the date of the birth of my who is the bearer of this, and presented for a nomination as a student at the EastIndia College, by -, Esq.; and I do further declare, that I received the said presentation for my -gratuitously, and that no money or other valuable consideration has been or is to be paid, either directly or indirectly, for the same, and that I will not pay or cause to be paid, either by myself, by my, or by the hands of any other person, any pecuniary or valuable consideration whatsoever, to any person or persons who have interested themselves in procuring the said presentation for my —, from the director above mentioned, Witness my hand, this day of ——, in the year of our Lord In the event of no parish register existing or to be found, a declaration of such circumstance is to be made before a magistrate to the following effect, viz. I do presented as a student for the East-India College by declare, that I have caused search to be made for a parish register whereby to ascertain my age, but am unable to produce the same, there being none to be found; and, further, I declare, that from the information of my parents (and other relations), which information I verily believe to be true, that I was born in the parish of - in the county of year -, and that I am not at this time under the age of sixteen, or above twenty-one years. on in the Witness my hand, this day of —, in the year of our Lord The parent, guardian, or near relation, must then add his certificate as to the truth of the declaration, which must be similar to that ordered to be annexed to the extract from the parish register. The above-mentioned certificate (and declaration, in cases where a declaration shall be required) are to be annexed to the petition to be written by the candidate, and they are to sign a declaration therean, that they have read these printed instructions. The same declaration is to be signed by the parent, guardian, or near relation of the candidates respectively. Candidates will be interrogated in an open Committee as to their character, connexions, and qualifications, conformably to the General Court's resolution of the 6th July 1809. The nature of this interrogation may be known on application to the Clerk of the College department. And the following Rules and Regulations are to be observed with respect to the examination of Candidates: Each candidate shall produce testimonials of good moral conduct, under the hand of the principal or superior authority of the college or public institution in which he may have been educated, or under the hand of the private instructor to whose care he may have been confided; and the said testimonials shall have reference to his conduct during the two years immediately preceding his presentation for admission. Each candidate shall be examined in the Four Gospels of the Greek Testament, and shall not be deemed duly qualified for admission to Haileybury College, unless he be found to possess a competent knowledge thereof; nor unless he be able to render into English some portion of the works of one of the following Greek authors:-Homer, Herodotus, Xenophon, Thucydides, Sophocles, and Euripides; nor unless he can render into English some portion of the works of one of the following Latin authors: -Livy, Terence, Cicero, Tacitus, Virgil, and Horace; and this part of the examination will include questions in ancient history, geography, and philosophy Each candidate shall also be examined in English history and geography, and in the elements of mathematical science, including the common rules of arithmetic, vulgar and decimal fractions, and the first four books of Euclid. He shall also be examined in the first part of Paley's Evidences of Christianity. It is, however, to be understood, that superior attainments in one of the departments of literature or science, comprised in the foregoing plan of examination, shall, at the discretion of the Examiners, be considered to compensate for comparative deficiency in other qualifications. The examinations are held at the East-India House, halfyearly, in the months of January and July, A student publicly expelled the college will not be admitted into the Company's civil or military service in India, or into the Company's Military Seminary. No person can be appointed a member of the Company's Civil Service whose age is less than eighteen or more than twenty-three years, nor until he shall have resided four terms at least, in the college, and shall have obtained a certificate signed by the Princi. pal of his having conformed himself to the statutes and regulations of the College. On a student's appointment to be a Member of the Civil Service he will be required to attend at the Secretary's Office, East-India House, to make the necessary arrangements for entering into covenant, and for giving a bond for £1000 jointly with two sureties for the due fulfilment of the same, and a legal instrument is to be entered into by some one person (to be approved by the Court of Directors) binding himself to pay the sum of £3000, as liquidated damages, to the Company, for breach of a covenant to be entered into that the student's nomination hath not been in any way bought, or sold, or exchanged for any thing convertible into a pecuniary benefit. The rank of students leaving the college is determined by the certificate of the Principal, which is granted with reference to the industry, proficiency, and general good behaviour of the stu dents. Such rank to take effect only in the event of the students pro ceeding to India within six months after they are so ranked whether they proceed viâ Egypt or the Cape of Good Hope, |