§ LORD GARLIESasked the Secretary of State for War, Whether he has yet received a reply from the Civil Service Commissioners in respect to the mode of conducting the examination of the Candidates for Commissions in the Household Regiments at the examination hold on the 5th of June; and, whether it is admitted that the dictation was read with rapidity, and that the Candidates were given, no time for correction, punctuation, or writing a fair copy before their papers were collected?
§ MR. CARDWELLSir, I have received the reply, which is at the service of the noble Lord if he would like to see it. It contains the following passage:—
1. That the exercise in dictation consisted of one passage only, of the length that is usual in ordinary examinations for clerkships in the Civil Service; 2, that this passage was read on the occasion in question with rather less rapidity than usual; 3, that the candidates had the usual opportunity of correcting and punctuating what they had written; 4, that it is not the practice of the Commissioners to allow time for making a fair copy.
§ LORD GARLIESsaid, he should take an early opportunity of calling the attention of the House to the subject.