27. Reduce 13 cubic yards, 105 cubic feet, to cubic inches. BOY 28. If 9 men can build a wall 6 feet high and 3 feet thick in 13 days, CLERKSHIPS. in how many days can 12 mer build one 5 feet high and 4 feet thick? 29. Find (by Practice) the price of 3 cwt. 3 qrs. 21 lbs. at £200 a ton. 30. At what rate per cent. will £625 amount to £730 9s. 44d. in 33 years? 35. Add together 242 352, 1·98705, 000303, and 13.5412. 36. Subtract 101 056 from 200.9. 37. Multiply 71.0013 by 010303. 38. Divide 13 113 by 6015 to three places of decimals. 39. Express £3 5s. 10d. as the decimal of £5. LOWER DIVISION. June 1876. SUBJECT FOR ENGLISH COMPOSITION. Time allowed, 2 hours. In this Exercise attention should be paid to handwriting, spelling, punctuation, grammar, and style. The Sun; Give some account of the character and career of one of the following persons: King Alfred, Henry VIII., Alexander the Great, Napoleon I., The Composition should fill not less than two folio pages. GEOGRAPHY. Time allowed, 2 hours. 1. On the accompanying outline map mark the names and trace the courses of the principal rivers of Europe, and give the names and positions of the chief towns upon their banks. 2. Write a geographical account of Canada, New Zealand, and the Sandwich Islands. 3. Describe the courses of the Mersey, the Tweed, and the Shannon, stating in order the counties through which they flow, and the towns and cities on their banks. Bor CLERKSHIPS. LOWER DIVISION. June 1876. 4. Where are the following places, to whom do they belong, and for what are any of them remarkable :-Mocha, Sêvres, Goojerat, Cairo, Washington, Callas, Zanzibar, Pekin, Basle, Yokohama ? 5. Draw a map of the Austrian empire, as large as your paper will permit, giving its different provinces, with their chief towns, mountains, and rivers. 6. Describe the course of the principal rivers of Africa, and give a short account of modern discoveries in that country. 7. Whence do we get gold, diamonds, tobacco, rice, opium, cotton, indigo, and sugar; and in what foreign countries do coal fields exist? N.B.-In all your exercises attention should be paid to orthography, handwriting, punctuation, grammar, and correctness of expression. EXCISE. Dec. 1876. COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION FOR THE EXCISE, HELD Meanwhile all Europe was looking anxiously towards the Low Countries. The great warrior who had been victorious at all points had not left his equal behind him. The new general had been the King's playmate when they were both children, had then become a favourite, and had never ceased to be so. In those superficial graces for which the French aristocracy was then renowned throughout Europe, he was preeminent among the French aristocracy. His stature was tall, his countenance handsome, his manners noble, and somewhat haughtily polite, his dress, his furniture, his equipages, his table, magnificent. No man told a story with more vivacity: no man sate his horse better in a hunting party: no man staked and lost heaps of gold with more agreeable unconcern: no man was more intimately acquainted with the adventures, the attachments, the enmities of the lords and ladies who daily filled the halls of the royal palace. But there ended his acquire ments. He was profoundly ignorant both of books and of business. At the Council Board he never opened his mouth without exposing himself. For war he had not a single qualification except that personal courage which was common to him with the whole class of which he was a member. At every great crisis of his political and of his military life he was alternately drunk with arrogance and sunk in dejection. Just before he took a momentous step his self-confidence was boundless : he would listen to no suggestion: he would not admit into his mind the thought that failure was possible. On the first check he gave up everything for lost, became incapable of directing, and ran up and down in helpless despair. The King however loved him; and he, to do him justice, loved the King. EXCISE. Dec. 1876. ORTHOGRAPHY. Time allowed hour. Copy the following passage clearly and legibly, correcting mistakes in spelling, but not otherwise altering either the words or their order. The In aproching the axess to this supurb catheedrel, the travellers found it obstructed, as is usuel in catholic countries, by the number of mendecants of of both sexes, who crouded round the entrance to give the worshipers an opertunety of descharging the duty of armsgiving, so possetevely enjoyned as a cheef observance of their church. Englishmen extrecated themselves from their importunety by bestoing, as is usual on such occasions, a small coin on those who apered most needy or most disserving of their charrety. One tall woman stood close to the door and extended her hand to the elder travveler, who struck with her aperence, exchanged for a peece of silver the copper coins which he had been destribbuting among the others. A marvell, she said in the English languidge, ay a mirracle! An Englishman still possesses a silver peece and can aford to bestow it on the poor! Arthur was senseble that his father started somewhat at the words, which bore, even in his ear, somthing of deeper import than the observation of an ordnery mendecant. But after a glance at the feemale who thus adressed him, his father passed onwards into the body of the church, and was soon ingaged in atending to the sollum serrymony of the mass, as it was performed by a preest at the alter of a chapple, devided from the main body of the splendid eddyfice, and deddycated, as apered from the immidge over the alter, to Saint George; that millytery saint whose real histery is so obscure, though the poppuler ledgend rendered him an object of peculiar veneration during the fudle ages. The serrymony was begun and finnished with all custumary forms. The oficeating preest with his atendents wethdrew; and though some of the few wershipers who had asisted at the sollemnety remaned telling their beads, and, ocupied with the performance of their private devotions, far the greater part left the chapple to visit other shrines, or to return to the prossicution of their secculer affairs. |