January 11, 1868.]

PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

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CIVIL SERVICE EXAMINATIONS.

Sir,—The Civil Service Examination Commissioners beg to inform you that in future Candidates will be required to pass in the
more important duties of the particular branch of the service they mav enter ; for instance, the Foreign Office Candidates will have to pass
in Hair-Dressing and the Cultivation of Moustachios.” The Home Office in “ The Use of the Umbrella,” and so on. The Commissioners
wish it to be understood that all Candidates will have to pass in the following :—Three Commissioners will be in attendance with gimlets,
skates, printed forms, and a Surgeon, from 11 till 3 o’clock, at the Bridge, St. James’s Park (3s. 6d. will have to be deposited in the Commis-
sioners’ hands till the skates are returned).—Yours, &c.

2. THE BUSTER.—Is this Considered a
Dignified Position ?

3. THE LADIES’ SETTLE.—Give names of various Ladies of
Distinction who have fallen in this Position, with dates.

1. THE CRACKSMAN.—State yoor Feed-
ings in this Position.

5. THE MUGGER.—Give the Reason this

WAS SO NAMED.

4. THE ARROW.—It being a Position full of Poetry,

6. THE SIDE SLOM.—State reason for Assuming
this Position.

8. “ WALKER.”—State the number of times you have — —-

HEARD “ Walker ” used during your life, and the 9. yHE SPREAD EAGLE.-Describe Sensation.

NATURE OF THE CONVERSATION AT THE TIME ?

10. THE CHURCHWARDEN.—State whether

VOU CONSIDER A CHURCHWARDEN A Man

and a BxOTnm.

11. THE MONUMENT.—Give the Date when
Nelson's Monument was Finished.

12. PASSED.—3s. Pd. returned, less 6d. for Skates.