1. The fall of Man.

For the Upper Children of a School.

2. The punishment of Gehazi.

3. The baptism of our Lord.

SECTION III.

1. Give, as far as you can, in the Evangelist's words, the miraculous cure of the ten lepers, and shew two important lessons to be drawn from it.

2. Write, if you can, in the words of St. John, our Lord's discourse with Nicodemus.

3. Quote some passages of Scripture from which the doctrine of the Holy Trinity has been drawn.

SECTION IV.

Quote passages of Holy Scripture to prove three or four of the following truths :

1. The truth of God.

2. His Almighty power.

3. His infinite love.

4. His hatred of sin.

5. His perfect justice.

6. The Holy Catholic Church.

7. The forgiveness of sins.

8. The resurrection of the body.

9. The future judgment.

10. The life everlasting.

SECTION V.*

1. "What did your Godfathers and Godmothers then for you?" Answer this; shew carefully, and with instances, the difference between a "promise" and a "vow," and give reasons for the order in which the answer is made.

2. "What desirest thou of God in this prayer ?" Write out the answer. Explain "all goodness," "as we ought to do," "dangers ghostly and bodily," with instances. Why do we the difference between sin and wickedness? What say in dangers, not from dangers? What

is everlasting death ?

3. What difference is there between the requirements for Holy Baptism, and for the Lord's Supper? Shew the reason for it.

SECTION VI.*

1. What is the meaning of general confession in the order for daily prayer? What other general confession is there ? Write some portion of it.

2. Name, in order, the chief Feasts and Fasts of the Church, and state briefly the cause of their appointment.

3. Write out one of the Collects, beginning

1. "O Lord Jesus Christ, who at thy first coming."

2. "Almighty God, who hast given us thy only begotten Son."

3. "O God, who by the leading of a star."

4. "Almighty and Everlasting God, by whose Spirit."

5. "O God the King of Glory, who hast exalted."

6. "Lord of all power and might."

7. "Stir up we beseech thee. Ŏ Lord."

Assign as many of them as you can to their proper days, and shew how the last is suited to its day.

SCOTLAND.

*N.B.-Two questions to be answered in place of Sections l'. and VI.

1. What is the duty towards man, which we are taught by consideration of the Goodness of God?

2. "I the Lord thy God am a jealous God." Explain this, with reference to the Sin of Idolatry.

3. Give some examples from Scripture of the Sins forbidden in the Fifth Commandment, and their punishment.

4. What lesson of moderation is contained in the petition, "Give us this day our daily bread"?

5. Mention some of the instances, recorded in Scripture, of answer to Prayer.

You are not permitted to answer more than one question in any Section, except in that headed

"Latin."

You must answer Section I.

SECTION I.

Write ont the following passage with correct spelling:

"Observe the accomodation of the most comon artifficer or day laburer, in a civillised and thryving countrie, and you will percieve, that the number of peple, of whose inddurstrie a part,

thow but a small part, has been emploied in procureing him this acommodation, excedes all compiutacion. The woolen cote, for exampel, which cuvers the day laiborer, corse and ruff as it may apere, is the projuice of the joynt laber of a grate multitude of werkmen. The shepperd, the sortter of the wooll, the wooll coamer or cardour, the dier, the spinnor, the weever, the fullor, the dresser, with many others, must all joine there differant arts, in order to compleate even this homly produxion."-Irish Fourth Book, p. 239.

SECTION II.

1. What is an adjective, and why so called? Shew, with examples, the different ways in which adjectives are compared. What kinds of adjectives are not compared ?

2. How do you understand "tense" and "mood"? What tenses has the English verb? Give the past tense and past participle of the following verbs,

Think, ride, see, run, give, hide, write, break, seek, shew, shoot, steal, find, read,

3. Explain the name preposition." What is its use ? Shew it in these sentences: "I am going with him to York." "For several reasons he would not come." "You cannot now sail from Dover."

SECTION III.

1. Parse carefully the following expressions, "What o'clock is it ?""How do you do?" "It is very wet to-day." "Did you believe that story that that man told?" "Two and two

make four."

Or, 2. Parse the marked words in this sentence: This is indeed a great vanity and a great misery, to use that labour and gain nothing by it, which, duly used, would be of all others most advantageous and gainful, and yet all meetings are full of this."

SECTION IV.

Analyse carefully one of these passages :

"Knowledge will be ever a wandering and indigested thing, if it be but a commixture of a few notions that are at hand and occur, and not excited from a sufficient number of instances, and those well collated."

"Men are but children of a larger growth;

Our appetites as apt to change as theirs,
And full as craving too, and full as vain."
SECTION V.

1. Write out a short first lesson in grammar.
2. A lesson on the formation of the plural in nouns.
or, 3. On the predicate of a sentence, to a first class.

or,

SECTION VI.

1. Give the derivation and first meaning of each of the following words :

Telegraph, abstemious, innocent, theatre, despise, radical, crisis, excursion, station, minis

terial, transpire, franchise, vote, polling-place, independent, candidate.

2. Pick out the words of Latin and Saxon origin in the first verse of " God save the Queen." 3. Name the chief writers of the present day, and the character of their writings.

LATIN.

The following questions are for Candidates who have been taught Latin Grammar.

1. How do you know nouns of the second declension ? Give instances, and decline one of them.

2. Decline hic in the singular and plural number.

3. Put in Latin these men (vir, a man), those women (mulier, a woman), that business (negotium), three horses (equus, a horse).

4. Give instances of verbs in each of the conjugations, writing the present, the imperfect, the perfect, and future tense of each in the indicative mood.

5. What cases do these prepositions govern, Juxta, pro, per, absque, tenus, de? Put nouns to them in the proper case.

6. Translate,

Vir bonus est quis ?

Da mihi librum

Ille facit versus, sed non est poeta.

ARITHMETIC.

N.B.-Male Candidates to answer One Question in each Section: Female Candidates to answer Two Questions in each of the first Four Sections.

The solution must in every instance be given at full length. A correct answer, unaccompanied by the solution, or not obtained by an intelligible method, will be considered of no value. SECTION I.

1. Multiply 17 miles, 7 furlongs, 29 poles, 3 yards, by 27, and divide 7 tons, 2 cwt., 18 lbs., 12 ozs., by 45.

2. Find by Practice the value of 76 quarters, 4 bushels, 3 pecks, at £2 16s. 6d. per quarter.

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3. If I buy 10 lbs. of cheese at 94d. per lb., 6 pairs of gloves at 1s. 94d. per pair. 3 lbs. tea at 3s. 8d. per lb., 6 score of eggs at 10d. per dozen, and 15 yards of flannel at 2s. 74d. per yard,-what change shall I have out of a £5 note?

SECTION II.

1. How many yards of carpet 30 inches wide will be required for a room 28 feet long by 18 feet wide; and how many if the carpet be 2 feet wide ?

2. If a wall costs £215 8s. 4d. per mile, what will it cost for a park, the boundary of which is 17 miles, 3 furlongs, 118 yards ?

3. What is a person's income who pays £86 16s. 4d, when the income tax is 6d. in the £1, and what will he pay when the tax is reduced 25 per cent. ?

SECTION III.

"mixed

1. What relation does a 66 proper fraction" bear to unity ? Can it be made into a number"? Define exactly an "improper fraction," and shew the value of 13 of £1 17s. 2d. 2. Add together,,, and, and substract their sum from 1.

3. What fraction divided by 3 will give 74 ?

4. Compare the magnitudes of 11, 18, and §.

1. What is a decimal fraction ?

them togther as decimals.

SECTION IV.

Write as decimal fractions, f, o, o, 18, and add

2. Find the product of the sum and difference of 21.8 and 324.

3. What is the difference between the fifteenth and sixteenth parts of 297.6832 ?

4. What decimal of £1. is 17s, 92d. ? How much greater or less is it than 78965 of £1. P

SECTION V.

1. 1f 7 of an article cost £29, 8s. 7d., what share of it will be worth £15. 10s. 4d. P

2. If a cubic foot of water weighs 1000 ounces, what is the weight of water in a vessel which holds 7 gallons 3 pints?

3. Find a man's earnings who spends 12 guineas in 35 days, and saves £100 per annum.

SECTION VI.

1. What sum put out at interest will amount to £1310. 14s. in six years at 4 per cent. ? 2. Find the interest on £5208. 16s. at 7 per cent. for 11 weeks and 3 days.

3. A man buys goods for £600, ready money, and sells them directly for £680, giving 3 months credit-what does he gain per cent. per annum ?

SECTION VII.

1. Shew at length how you would teach young children to subtract 3476 from 5004. 2. Write out fully a lesson in practice to Standard 6; on "What is the cost of 17 articles at £6 19s. 9d each "?

3. Give an introductory lesson on Vulgar Fractions to the first class in a Boys' School.

SCHOOL MANAGEMENT.

You are not permitted to answer more than one question in any Section, except in that on Music.

Write in large hand "North and South America;" in round hand, "London is the capital of the United Kingdom;" in small hand, "Constantinople has a magnificent harbour, called the Golden Horn."

1. Draw up a Time table for

SECTION I.

(1.) A juvenile school at work for 6 hours per day. Or, (2.) An infants' school at work for 4 hours per day. Or, (3.) A night school open 3 times a week for two hours. 2. Explain the term "Apparatus," as applied to consider to be nccessary in a boys' and what in a girls' school? "Method ?"

SECTION II.

schools, and state what you What do you understand by

1. On what principle do you draw up notes of a lesson ? What ought to be included in them, and what generally avoided ?

2. Write notes of a lesson on

(1.) Discipline; or,

(2.) Punctuality; or,

(3.) Good Temper; or,

(4.) Patience.

3. What are exactly the duties of the Head Master or Mistress, in a large school, with two assistants and four Pupil Teachers?

SECTION III.

1. What do you consider the best mechanical arrangement of classes in a school? Give your reasons.

2. Describe the advantages and disadvantages of writing and ciphering on slates.

3. Write down the heads of a lesson to the first class of a good school on

(a.) Geography, or,

(b.) Grammar, or,

(c.) English History.

SECTION IV.

1. Whose Registers are used in your School ? Shew how results are obtained by them. 2. At what hours have you received private instruction from your Teachers ? On whet plan was it given ?

3. Make out a "Quarter's Summary" from imaginary attendances and payments in a School.

SECTION V.

1. Give your idea of a thoroughly good lesson in Dictation.

2. How are lessons in reading Poetry to be given to the fifth Standard? What are the chief faults to be avoided?

3. Describe your method of teaching Numeration and Notation.

MUSIC.

1. Describe the different sorts of notes in general use, and the rests corresponding to each. 2. Give on the adjoining staves two examples of time; one of simple common, and one of compound triple time.

3. Write down the diatonic major scale on the treble stave, ascending and descending, in the keys of C (Do) and G (Sol) shewing in each the positions of the semitones, and naming the notes.

4. What are the uses, respectively, of a sharp

double sharp (×); of a double flat ()?

; of a fiat

; of a natural (4)

; of

5. Transpose the following passage three semitones lower, with the proper key signature.

GEOGRAPHY AND HISTORY.

You are not permitted to answer more than one question in each section.

1. Describe the Baltic Sea, naming its gulfs and islands, its chief ports, and the articles in which they trade.

2. Describe carefully the course of one of the following rivers, naming the tributaries on either bank, the chief towns and use for inland navigation:-(1) Danube, (2) St Lawrence, (3) Nile, (4) Ganges.

3. Give an account of either the Atlantic or Pacific Ocean, naming boundaries, size, islands, currents, and rivers running into it

4. Give somc account of the North American lakes, and contrast them with the lakes of Switzerland.

1. Say from what places we obtain some of the following articles and for what purposes they are used:-arrowroot, madder, tapioca, quicksilver, log-wood, gutta percha, maize, jute, cochineal, Peruvian bark, cocoa, currants, manna, rum, box-wood, and indigo.

2. Name, and describe the situation of six of the chief ports from which we obtain wheat, hemp, linseed, tobacco, cotton, sugar, tea, coffee, silk, wool and timber.

SECTION V.

1. Describe one of the following chains of mountains, and say what minerals or metals are obtained from it :-(1) Andes, (2) Alleghany, (3), Oural, (4) Carpathian.

2. What are the chief fishing-places of the cod, the herring, the pilchard, the anchovy, and the pearl oyster ? Describe one of them.

3. Write what you can about coal, mentioning parts of the world where it is to be found, especially those belonging to England.

HISTORY.
SECTION I.

1. Name, with dates, the interruptions of hereditary succession to the crown of England, since the Norman Conquest, and give a short account of one of them.

2. State briefly what portions of France belonged at any time to the English Crown, and when and how they were lost.

3. Give instances of benefit and mischief arising to England from foreign alliances before the 19th century.

SECTION II.

1. What were the most important civil events in the reigns of Henry II., John, Henry IlI., and Henry VII.?

2. What was the cause of the battle of Bannockburn; when was it fought, and with what result P

3. When, and by whom were the manufactures of woollens and cottons introduced into England?

SECTION III.

1. Contrast the first two wives of Henry VIII.

2. Who were Archbishops of Canterbury in the times of Henry II. and Charles I. ? Compare them.

3. Shew briefly how almost invariably, in the Plantagenet line, kings were succeeded by others of different character and conduct. Point out an exception if there be one.

MALE CANDIDATES FOR ADMISSION.

EUCLID AND ALGEBRA.

EUCLID.

1. Give the definitions of the following terms, "plane superficies," "plane rectilineal angle," "circle," "semicircle," rhomboid," and "trapezium."

2. From a given point, draw a straight line equal to a given straight line. State what "axioms" are required in this problem.

3. Bisect a given finite straight line. What is to bisect ? Need the line be finite ?

4. If one side of a triangle be produced, the exterior angle is greater than either of the interior opposite angles.

Is this Theorem or Problem? Why?

5. Straight lines, which are parallel to the same straight line, are parallel to each other. 6. Describe a square upon a given straight line. What corollary follows from this problem?

ALGEBRA.

The solution must in every instance be given at full length. A correct answer, unaccompanied by the solution, or not obtained by an intelligibe method, will be considered of no value. 1. What are the chief symbols and signs made use of in Algebra ? Explain the terms "coefficient," "indices," "like" and "unlike," "positive" and "negative" quantities, and find the value of

(x2 — y2) — (x − y)2 + a [x—(y—z)]

when = 4
y
3
#=1
@=

2. What is the rule for the division of algebraic quantities ? Divide 1 by 1+2x+x2.

3. Express without brackets m n (m + n),

xy (x − y). (a + b) × (a−b), − (b + ac) x, and -[x2 +(n−1)]y.

4. What is a <<

common measure"? Find the greatest common measure of the numerator and denominator of the fraction,

8a2b2-10ab3 + 2b+

9a4b-9a3b+3a2b3 — 3aba *