HISTORY OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE.-PART II. Professor Elkington. Answer fully and clearly TEN, and only Ten, of the following questions. 1. Give some account of David the First of Scotland. 2. Explain the nature of Henry the Second's dealings with the tribal chiefs of Ireland. 3. What circumstances were peculiar to the Reformation in Scotland? 4. Why was William the Third generally unpopular in England? 5. Explain the political importance of the Sacheverel case. 6. To what period, and for what reasons, would you refer the beginning of the profession of letters in England? 7. Shew the political importance of the contest with John Wilkes. 8. Trace the history of events in Ireland from the accession of George the Third to the year 1782. 9. In what material provisions did the India Bill of Mr. Fox differ from that of Mr. Pitt? 10. Describe the course of the commercial expansion of Great Britain in the eighteenth century. 11. What were the ordinary qualifications of electors in shires and boroughs respectively, in England, before the Reform Act of 1832 ? What changes as to electoral qualification did that measure introduce? 12. To what constitutional questions did the marriage of Her Majesty the Queen give rise? 13. Give the history of "army purchase." POLITICAL ECONOMY. Professor Elkington. Answer fully and clearly TEN, and only Ten, of the following questions. 1. Give a classification of human wants, and explain the cause of their diversity. ? 2. What inquiries does Political Economy pursue What practical issues ought to stimulate economic investigation at the present time? What is meant by an economic law? 3. Shew that the problem of poverty is economically an urgent one. 4. How may the efficiency of natural agents be increased? 5. What is invention? How is it distinguished from (a) discovery, and (b) improvement? What are the conditions most conducive to the increase of inventions? 6. What are the secondary industrial aids? 7. Can capital be considered one of the primary agents of production? Justify your answer. 8. Discuss the causes affecting the efficiency of labour. 9. What portion of the product of industry falls to the labourer ? What becomes of the other portions ? 10. Why is the rate of interest higher in Australia than in Great Britain? 11. How do you account for the tendency of profits to fall as a nation advances? How may the tendency be counteracted? 12. Adam Smith mentions the "policy of Europe" as a cause of inequality in the remuneration of labour and of capital. To what does he refer? 13. Shew that "all socialism involves slavery." FUNDAMENTAL LAWS OF EXPRESSION AND INTERPRETATION OF SPECIFIED WORKS. FIRST YEAR. Professor Marshall-Hall. 1. Carefully phrase, point, and add expression marks to the subjects of all the two-part Inventions of Bach. BB 2. Phrase and add expression marks to bars 1-16 of Beethoven's Op. 2 No. 1 second movement (Sonata No. 1 F. minor). 3. Phrase and add expression marks to the different figures of Op. 14 No. 2 of Beethoven as far as the double bar of the first movement (Sonata No. 10). 4. Discuss the rendering of all the different phrases of the first movement of Sonata No. 10, indicating as nearly as possible the spirit and emotional significance of each. |