ENGLISH HISTORY.-Time allowed, 2 hours.

1. What do you know of the divisions (1) of ranks or classes, (2) of the soil during the Anglo-Saxon period?

2. Describe the relations existing between Rome and England in the reigns of William I., Henry II., John.

3. Write the military history of the reign of Edward I.

4. What claim had Henry VII. to the throne ? Give an account of the rebellions against him.

5. What do you know of Thomas Cromwell, Cranmer, Knox, Lord Burleigh, the Earl of Tyrone?

6. Describe briefly the course of political and military events either in Ireland or in Scotland from 1640 to 1651.

7. When and how were England and Scotland united (1) under one Crown, (2) under one Parliament ?

8. Explain the causes of the wars between England and Louis XIV. Give the names, dates, and results of the principal battles by sea and land.

9. Name the Prime Ministers between 1820 and 1850, stating the important measures carried by any of them.

BOOK-KEEPING BY DOUBLE ENTRY.-Time allowed, 3 hours.

On the 1st January, 1882 the affairs of J. Roby & Co. stood as follows:

£ S. d. 35 10 0

224 15 0

216 10

006460463

38 19 1,200 0 326 7 4 134 8 6 41 2 3

160030

The transactions during the month of January were as follows:-

1882.

£ S.

Jan.

1. Sold to G. Webster, goods...

162 3

1. Advanced in cash to our clerk for petty expenses

10

130002

4. Received from A. Todd his cheque for £10 18s. 2d., and
E. Bell's acceptance to him for £90 3s. 2d., endorsed,
due Jan. 15, and allowed for discount £1 2s.........

5. Bought of A. Sellick, goods

...

102

126 8 9 84

484

10. Received from C. Reid consignment of goods invoiced at
12. Sold C. Furnivale, goods

342

421

2606

3004

1882.

Jan. 12. Sold A. Todd, goods...

12. Our acceptance in favour of J. Sharpe due this day

paid at Bank

12. Paid into Bank for collection E. Bell's acceptance
13. Paid R. Dobel by cheque

Viz., Account

Less discount allowed

82

4 8

£ s. d. 84 6 8

2 2 0

90 3 2

15. E. Bell's acceptance due this day paid at Bank
15. Sold the whole of C. Reid's consignment for cash and
paid into Bank

15. Commission gained by us on the above consignment
18. Received A. Furnivale's acceptance at one month on
account

20. Bought of R. Dobel, goods.

385 0 0 7 15 0

350 O 123 6 199 13

£ s. d.

080

26. Allowed G. Webster for discount ...

30. Paid into Bank for collection T. Alwood's acceptance

due Feb. 1...

49 13 0

1 10 0

31. Trade charges during the month paid by clerk out of
petty cash...

1. In the form of Cash Book enter all the cash transactions and, if you are able to do so, all the Bank transactions also. You may employ one or both sets of money columns.

2. Carry all the transactions through the Journal, using one of the two forms provided.

3. Post all the transactions into the Ledger, inserting the proper folio references.

4. Balance and close the Ledger, showing the Trial Balance and opening a Balance account. The goods on hand may be valued at £700.

5. Have I gained or lost in the month? By how much?
6. Was I solvent or insolvent on Jan. 31? By how much?

[The following should not be attempted until you have done all that you can of the above.]

7. What Journal entries would C. Reid make for the transactions recorded above on the 10th and 15th January? For what would he wait before recording the transaction of the 15th ?

8. What Journal entries would E. Bell make in his books for his share in the transactions recorded above on the 4th, 12th, and 15th January?

9. Give the Journal entries which (1) J. Roby & Co., (2) J. Sharpe, would respectively make in their books to record the transaction of the 12th January if, instead of

"Our acceptance in favour of J. Sharpe due this day paid at Bank

£ 8. d.

326 7 4

it had stood as follows:--

"Renewed our acceptance due this day, for one month, in favour of J. Sharpe (including interest)

328 7 4

INLAND REVENUE.-ASSISTANTS OF EXCISE.

Papers set at an Examination held in November, 1882.

Copy, on the form supplied, as much of the following, including the table of figures, as you can, taking care to write as well as you can.

CYPRUS.

Extract from the Report of Her Majesty's High Commissioner, 1880. Statement showing the amount of correspondence, exclusive of newspapers, books, and patterns, received in and despatched from Cyprus, from and to Countries beyond sea (except the United Kingdom, India, and British Offices in the Mediterranean and the Levant) during the year ended 31st December, 1880.

At the occupation there was great difficulty in obtaining suitable accommodation for post offices in Larnaca, Nicosia and Limassol, except at most exorbitant rentals. It was therefore decided to adapt for post office purposes a portion of the ground floor of the building occupied by the Commissioner in each of those towns. Except, however, in the case of Larnaca, this arrangement was not found satisfactory, the Commissioner's house being at a considerable distance from the centre of the town, and quite away from the principal stores.

DICTATION.-Time allowed, hour. [For specimen paper, see page 113.]

ORTHOGRAPHY.-Time allowed, hour.

Copy the following passage clearly and legibly, correcting mistakes of spelling, but not otherwise altering either the words or their order.

England had come to be the moral and intelectual senter of sivillization. Whatever tendensies directed the streme of progress in various parts of the Continent were to be diskovered in England. She had orriginated nothing of her own. Satyrists said that an Englishman borowed his dress and all his outward akomplishments from forane nations. "He bawt his doublet in Ittaly, his round hose in France, his bonnet in Germany, and his behayvior everywhere." The words were ackewrate in a larger sense. The dommynant ideas of the Pewritans were derived from Geneva; the dommynant ideas of the Catholics were derived from Rome and Spane. Litterateur looked for its moddells to Ittaly. But, though here and there faxions held to extreem views, the bulk of the nation blended together theeories and practises till it had assimmillated them in spite of their vayrious orrigins. In the church, in the stait, in litterateur, in the habbits of daily life, there arose something which was indisputeably English, and which nevertheless allowed free skoap to the variety of indivvideval life. As yere by yere pass by, the nashonal ewnity established itself more firmly in England, becawse, here, there was less represhion than anywhere else, there was less inkwizishon into opinyon, a freer permishon ackorded to unrestraned devellopment. Such a people obtaned the pre-emminense because it desserved it. England was not torn in peaces by internal disenhons like France, nor split into petty staits like Germany or Italy, nor given up to intelectual dedness like Spane. Its mariners ransacked the seas for booty and overwhelmed with dyzaster, the prowdest navy that had ever saled. Its staitsnen held their own against the craftiest heds of France and Spane. Its poets arose to an uneekwalled emminence, culminating in the grate drammatist hoose noledge of the human heart knows no eekwall or rival. In Hooker it posest the most juditious and large-minded of ecklesiastical writers, and in Bacon the thinker, who was endowed, beyond all other men, with the spirit of the fiture change, which was to tranceform the world.

ARITHMETIC (to Vulgar and Decimal Fractions).

Time allowed, 2 hours.

N.B. You are requested to put the number to each question, to send up the working as well as the answers, and (1) you are particularly recommended to answer the questions in the order in which they are set; not omitting any one unless you are unable to do it. (2) You should occupy the whole time allowed. No extra marks will be given for completing your answers in less than the time allowed.

1. In 2315619 inches how many miles, furlongs, &c ?

2. If 5 tons 6 cwt. qr. 17 lbs. cost £186 4s. Oąd., what will be the cost of 1 ton 12 cwt. 1 qr. 9 bs. ?

3. Find (by practice) the dividend payable on £6,610 at 13s. 94d. in the £. 4. Find simple interest on £2,340 in 6 years at 34 per cent. per annum. 5. Add together,,, and .

6. Substract 94 frm 11.

7. Multiply 18 by 4.

8. Divide 1 by 47.

9. Add together 9001, 163:59, 00915, 51.275, and 212.

10. Subtract 15.95935 from 211.867.

11. Multiply 29-7931 by 4:605.

12. Divide 4.375448 by 616.

13. Reduce 0739 of 13 bushels 2 gallons to pints and the decimal of a pint.

14. Reduce 3 tons 16 cwt. 11 lbs. to ounces.

15. What will be the weight of the sixpenny loaf when wheat is at 8s. 3d. per bushel if it weighed 2 lbs. when wheat was at 6s. 9d. per bushel ?

16. Find (by Practice) the value of 1 ton 17 cwt. per ton.

qrs. 15 lbs. at £4 13s. 4d.

17. Find the amount of £3,200 in 3 years at 4 per cent. per annum compound interest (neglecting fractions of a penny).

18. Add together 31, 23, 51%, and 723.

19. Subtract 935 from 20

20. Multiply together 13, 25, 115, and 1.

21. Divide 151 by 23.

22. Add together 1:05, 1731.56, 009378, 58.957, and 3.96501.

23. Subtract 119.6561 from 295.19847.

24. Multiply 37132 by 04503.

25. Divide 1551 by 58.75.

26. Express 0063 of 2 qrs. 14 lbs. as the decimal of 3 tons 3 cwt. 27. In 9789561 sq. ins. how many acres, roods, &c. ?

28. If 21 men can excavate 15876 cubic yards of clay in 85 days, working 9 hours a day, in how many days will 34 men remove 25704 cubic yards of the same soil, working 8 hours a day?

29. A ship laden with 321 tons 10 cwt. of sugar lost by leakage 3 qrs. 16 lbs. 9 oz. upon every ton; find (by Practice) the total loss upon her

cargo.

30. What principal will amount to £954, 18s. 9d. in 4 years at 3 per cent. per annum simple interest?

31. Add together 511, 335, 15, and 211.

32. Subtract 2317 from 287.

33. Multiply together 42, 2, 77, and 1,10.

34. Divide 23 by 411.

169

35. Add together 031 of £1 13s. and 76 of 5s. 1d., and express the answer in pence and the decimal of a penny.

36. Subtract 0043 of 1 week 3 days from 3.89 of 4 lours 53 minutes, and express the answer in minutes and the decimal of a minute.

37. Multiply 2:25 by '832, and express the answer as a decimal.

38. Divide 21792 by '059.

39. Express 9 of 135 of 8 oz. 2 dwt. as the decimal (f a lb. troy.

ADDITION.-Time allowed, hour.

[For specimen paper of Compound and Cross Additions, ee pages 115 & 116.]

SUBJECTS FOR ENGLISH COMPOSITION.-Time allowed, 2 hours.

In this exercise attention should be paid to handwriting, spelling, punctuation, grammar, and style. 1, Mother-wit and book-learing; or, 2, Agricultural Exhibitions. One subject only is to be attempted.