The president of the jury directs and superintends the whole of the arrangements for conducting the examination; and during each kind of examination, a member of the corps, upon the science of which the student is being questioned, assists the examiner, and, as regards the military instruction, each examiner is aided by a captain belonging to the battalion. The examination is carried on in precisely the same manner as that already described for the end of the first year’s course of study. And the final classification is ascertained by adding to the _numerical_ credits obtained by each student during his second year’s course of study, in the manner already fully explained, _one-tenth_ of the numerical credits obtained at the examinations at the end of the first year. The same regulations as to the minimum credit which a student must obtain in order to pass from one division to the other, at the end of the first year, which are stated in page 160, are equally applicable to his passing from the school to become a second lieutenant in the army. A list of the names of those students who are found qualified for the rank of second lieutenant is sent to the minister at war, and a second list is also sent, containing the names of those students that have, when subjected to a second or revised examination, been pronounced by the jury before whom they were re-examined as qualified. Those whose names appear in the first list are permitted to choose according to their position in the order of merit, the staff corps or infantry, according to the number required for the first named service, and to name the regiments of infantry in which they desire to serve. Those intended for the cavalry are placed at the disposal of the officer commanding the regiment which they wish to enter. Those whose names appear in the second list are not permitted to choose their corps, but are placed by the minister at war in such corps as may have vacancies in it, or where he may think proper. The students who are selected to enter the staff corps, after competing successfully with the second lieutenants of the army, proceed as second lieutenants to the staff school at Paris. Those who fail pass into the army as privates, according to the terms of the engagement made on entering the school. THE CAVALRY SCHOOL AT SAUMUR. This school was established in 1826, and is considered[19] the most perfect and extensive institution of the kind in Europe,--perhaps the only one really deserving the title, the others being more properly mere schools of equitation. [Footnote 19: “Report of Observations in Europe during the Crimean War,” by Major Gen. McClellan.]