BRITISH HISTORY.

Candidates are not to answer more than two questions in any Section.

SECTION I. (1603-1714.)

1. Trace the Spanish policy of James I. in connexion with the other foreign relations of England.

2. Give an account of the arrest of the Five Members, and comment on its constitutional aspects.

3. Compare the several Declarations of Indulgence put forth by Charles II. and James II. What were the immediate results of the last?

4. What difficulties was the union of Scotland with England designed to meet? How did it accomplish its purpose?

SECTION II. (1714-1760.)

1. Sketch the ministry of Sir Robert Walpole. 2. By whom was the battle of Preston Pans fought? Relate the occurrences with which it was connected. .

3. What event led to the foundation of the English Empire in India?

4. Sketch briefly the foreign disasters of England about the beginning of the Seven Years' War. By whose policy were they retrieved?

SECTION III. (1760-1815).

1. What gave rise to the Independence of America? How far did the personal feelings of the king affect the struggle?

2. Contrast the views of Pitt, Fox and Burke respecting the French Revolution.

3. What circumstances led to the Union of Great Britain and Ireland? State its terms.

4. What was the origin of the Peninsular War? and what was the purpose of England in entering into it?

GEOGRAPHY.

SECTION I.

1. Draw a full map of the basin of the Tweed, marking all mountains, hills, and tributaries; and describe in words the physical features of each portion of it.

2. Describe fully the mountain ranges of Great Britain; and compare them with each other in respect of their appearance, geological character, and their connection with river systems and lakes.

3. Explain what is meant by "Denudation;" and give examples of it in Great Britain, and in other parts of the British Empire.

SECTION II.

1. Draw a full map of that part of Scotland, which lies to the North and West of the Caledonian Canal, with the adjacent islands.

2. Describe fully the lakes of Scotland and Ireland. 3. What causes affect the distribution of Rain? Illustrate your answer by reference to places in the British Isles, and to different portions of the British Empire.

SECTION III.

1. Draw a full map of British North America; or describe in words its divisions and political constitution. 2. Describe the productions, modes of agriculture, and other industrial pursuits, of British India. Distinguish clearly in your answer the different parts of the country.

3. Describe minutely the "mineral wealth" of the British Empire.

SECTION IV.

1. Give instances, in England and Wales, or in the Colonies, of very rapid growth of towns during the last half century; explain the causes of the growth in each case, and draw sketch maps showing the position of each town.

2. What kind of land, and what situation, are suitable for

(a.) Corn growing?

(b.) Hop growing?
(c.) Fruit growing?
(d) Cheese making?
(e.) Cattle breeding?

Illustrate your answer by examples from the counties of Great Britain and Ireland.

3. Describe minutely the colonial trade of Great Britain, showing the articles traded in, the colonies traded with, and (if you can) the average amount of exports and imports.

SECTION V.

Write a short essay, or give notes of a lesson, on one of the following subjects, viz.:

1. A Canadian Winter.

2. The Life of a "Squatter" in Australia.
3. A Typhoon in the China Seas.

4. The Tea Trade.

N.B.-Fullness and exactness of statement will be of more value than general descriptions.

SECTION VI.

1. What causes affect the temperature of any country? Give examples, showing how the different causes counteract each other. Explain the phrase "Isothermal lines."

2. Why are degrees of latitude and longitude not equal in length? What is the difference between a degree of latitude and a degree of longitude in the latitude of London?

3. Explain, with illustrations, the terms "Equinox," "Solstice," "Precession of the Equinoxes," "Eccentricity of the Earth's Orbit;" and show how each of them is connected with the seasons.

EUCLID.

Capital letters, not numbers, must be used in the diagrams. The only signs allowed are + and. The square on AB may be written "sq. on AB," and the rectangle contained by AB and CD, "rect. A B. Č D."

SECTION I.

1. To draw a straight line perpendicular to a given straight line of unlimited length, from a given point without it.

Through a given point within an angle BAC, to draw a line cutting off equal parts from AB, AC.

2. If a side of any triangle be produced, the exterior angle is equal to the two interior and opposite angles; and the three interior angles of every triangle are together equal to two right angles.

The alternate sides of a polygon are produced to meet; show that the angles at their points of intersection together with four right angles are equal to all the interior angles of the polygon.

3. If a straight line be divided into any two parts, the squares on the whole line, and on one of the parts, are equal to twice the rectangle contained by the whole and that part, together with the square on the other part.

Produce a given line so that the rectangle contained by the whole line thus produced and the part produced may be equal to the square on half the line.

SECTION II.

1. If in a circle two straight lines cut one another, which do not both pass through the centre, they do not bisect each other.

The only parallelogram that can be inscribed in a circle is rectangular.

2. To draw a straight line from a given point, either without or in the circumference, which shall touch a given circle.

CA, C B are tangents at A, B, and A D is a diameter. Shew that the angle ACB is twice the angle BAD.

3. The opposite angles of any quadrilateral figure inscribed in a circle are together equal to two right angles,

The lines bisecting any angle of the inscribed quadrilateral and the opposite exterior angle meet in the circumference.

SECTION III.

1. In a circle, the angle in a semicircle is a right angle; but the angle in a segment greater than a semicircle is less than a right angle; and the angle in a segment less than a semicircle is greater than a right angle.

The greatest rectangle that can be inscribed in a circle is a square.

2. From a given circle to cut off a segment which shall contain an angle equal to a given rectilineal angle. Divide a circle into two segments, such that the angle in one of them shall be five times the angle in the other.

3. If two straight lines cut one another within a circle, the rectangle contained by the segments of one of them, is equal to the rectangle contained by the segments of the other.

Through any point in the common chord of two circles, which intersect one another, draw two other chords, one in each circle, and shew that a circle can be described through their four extremities.

SECTION IV.

1. In a given circle to inscribe a triangle equiangular to a given triangle.

If the triangle be equilateral, the radii drawn to the angular points will bisect the angles.

2. To inscribe a circle in a given triangle.

Inscribe a circle in a given sector of a circle. 3. To inscribe an equilateral and equiangular hexagon in a given circle.

Inscribe a regular hexagon in a given equilateral triangle, assuming the trisection of a straight line.