EXAMINATION PAPERS. AUGUST 1867. ENGLISH. G. W. DASENT, D.C.L. Write an Essay on one of the following subjects: 1. The Cotton Famine and its consequences. 2. The National Debt. 3. Free Trade. HISTORY. G. W. DASENT, D.C.L. 1. Write a short life of Mr. Pitt. 2. Describe the social and political condition of England in the year 1800. 3. Describe the events which led to the union between England and Ireland. 4. Write a short life of Lord Nelson. 5. Mention the principal events which occurred during the reign of George IV. 6. What do you understand by "Catholic Emancipation"? By whom was that measure carried? 7. For what events at home and abroad was the reign of William IV. remarkable? 8. Give a list of the colonies acquired or founded by Great Britain during the present century. 9. How and when were the Corn Laws and the Navigation Laws repealed? GEOGRAPHY. G. W. DASENT, D.C.L. 1. Explain accurately the meaning of the term Geography. 2. Explain the meaning of the terms Latitude and Longitude. 3. Enumerate the chief States in Europe, and mention the form of Government established in each of them. 4. Mention the countries which produce most corn, copper, iron, coal, and gold. 5. What advantages as regards commerce do Constantinople, Alexandria, and Hamburgh derive from their geographical position. 6. Enumerate the advantages which England derives from her Indian Possessions. 7. Give some account of the physical features and natural products of the British Colonies in Australia. 8. Give some account of the physical features, natural products, and form of Government of the Japanese Empire. 9. Give a list of the Colonies and Possessions formerly belonging to Great Britain, but which she has now lost. ARITHMETIC. REV. W. N. GRIFFIN, M.A. 1. If one-millionth of unity is subtracted from one-thousandth of unity, write the remaining decimal in words. 2. Find the cost of a ton at the price of 14s. 10d. the pound. 3. Compute the value of 3 lb. 3 oz. of silver plate, when 2 oz. 4 dwt. cost 16s. 6d. 4. Find the number of square inches in 1 acre 7 perches of land. 5. A waggon travels 480 miles in 12 days of 12 hours each. How many hours in the day must it travel at the same uniform speed as before to go 280 miles in 4 days? 6. Find the difference between and 6 of 41, and if the unit be a bushel find the number of pints which the result expresses. 7. Divide 86:38 by 007. 8. Express 3.35 shillings as the decimal of 17. 12s. 9. A room is 20 feet long, 16 feet broad, and 12 feet high. How many yards of paper 30 inches wide will cover it, the windows and doors having together an area of 87 square feet? 10. If 3 per Cent. stock is purchased at 94, what will be the half-yearly dividend to the nearest penny to be received on an investment of 1000 sovereigns in this stock, after an income tax of 4d. in the pound has been deducted? 12 11. Extract the square root of 2 to the fourth place of decimals. MATHEMATICS. Voluntary Paper, No. I. REV. W. N. GRIFFIN, M.A. 1. Employ logarithms (1) to divide 237 by 008375649. (2) to find the number of years in which a hundred pounds will amount to a million pounds at 6 per cent. compound interest payable annually. 2. Divide a2+4b2+ c2-4b(a+c)+2ac by a -2b+c. 3. Add together the three fractions 5. A sum of money is to be divided by 25, but the computer by an oversight divides by 15, and thus brings out his result wrong by 17. 2s. 6d. What was the sum to be divided? 6. Find three quantities in Geometrical Progression of which the first and second added together make 5, and the third exceeds the second by 12. 7. Expand by the Binomial Theorem (a- √bx). 8. Explain the difference between Permutations and Combinations. Prove that the number of permutations to be formed of n different things taken r together is n (n − 1) (n − 2)... (n—r+1). |