ARITHMETIC.-Time allowed, 2 hours.

You are requested to put the number to each question, and to send up the working as well as the answers.

N.B.-(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 9850673 square inches, how many acres, roods, &c., are there? 2. Find the value of 3 lbs. 5 ozs. 18 dwts. 18 grs. at £1 10s. per ounce. 3. Find (by practice) the value of 68972 articles at £9 14s. 6d. per dozen. 4. Find the simple interest on £6,845 15s. for 4 years at 5 per cent. 5. Add together, 1, 8, and 23.

6. Subtract from 13.

91

7. Multiply #3 by 129.

8. Divide by

9. Add together 1.85003, 960-941, 29-0087, 8675013, and 408.67. 10. Subtract 19.8069 from 25.312.

11. Multiply 9.564 by 2:058.

12. Divide 93115809 by 25 801.

13. Reduce 1.5871 of 2 miles to yards and the decimal of a yard.

14. Reduce 18 bushels 2 pecks 1 gallons to pints.

15. If the freight of 6 tons 16 cwt. of merchandise from London to Edinburgh be £7 19s. 3d., how much must be paid for the carriage of 5 tons 2 cwt. 1 qr. 14 lbs.

16. Find (by practice) the value of 5 ozs. 17 dwts. 12 grs. at £1 7s. 6d. per oz. 17. Find the compound interest on £2,685 for three years at 34 per cent. per annum (neglecting fractions of a penny).

18. Add together 5, 65, 7%, and 1.

19. Subtract 517 from 7.

20. Multiply together 73, 35 117, and 11.

119

21. Divide 38 by 7128.

22. Add together 97 608, 13.00907, 275 65003, 2-735842, and 8306.

23. Subtract 805 920381 from 972.1063.

24. Multiply 784-9 by 006073.

25. Divide 53.351117 by 758 to three places of decimals.

26. Find the value of 513 of 15 of £5 4s. 2d.

27. In 17 weeks 5 days 37 minutes how many seconds are there?

28. If a travelling party of five persons spend £36 16s. 8d. in 17 days, how much would another party of eight persons spend in 19 days, supposing the daily expenditure of each of the latter party to be half as much again as that of each one in the former party?

29. Find (by practice) the dividend on £5,806 10s. at 18s. 10}d. in the £. 30. In what time will the simple interest on £2,345 amount to £395 14s. 44d. at £3 15s. per cent. per annum?

35. Add together 0387 of 17 cwt. and 35 681 of 3 lbs. 7 ozs., and express the answer in ounces and the decimal of an ounce.

36. Subtract 2.8571 of an hour from 0375 of a week, and express the answer in minutes and the decimal of a minute.

37. Multiply 1.27702 by 4.07, and express the answer as a decimal.
38. Divide 6.30 by 14-18, and express the answer as a decimal.
39. Express 1.085 of £1 16s. 44d. as the decimal of of £14 11s.

ADDITION.-Time allowed, hour.

No additional

N.B.--You had better occupy the whole time allowed. marks will be given for rapidity. Do not copy out the sums. Six Compound Addition and 18 Cross Addition sums were given similar to those on pages 115 and 116.

COPYING MANUSCRIPT.-Time allowed, hour.

(See specimen Lithograph.)

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

In this exercise attention should be paid to handwriting, spelling, punctuation, grammar, and style.

(1) Compare a sailor's life with a soldier's; or, (2) "A rolling stone gathers no moss;" or, (3) write a letter to a friend describing a visit to a factory.

You are to choose only one of these subjects, and your composition should fill not less than two folio pages.

GEOGRAPHY.-Time allowed, 3 hours.

[Extra marks will be given for neatly drawn maps, but only so far as they are accurate.]

1. Distinguish between river-bed and river-basin; and right bank and left bank of a river. Name in order (1) the counties which lie along the left bank of the Thames, and (2) the tributaries on its right bank.

2. Explain the terms watershed, embouchure, delta, estuary, plateau, defile, lagoon, atoll; and give examples of each.

3. Give the names and situations of the British possessions in Africa, with some account of the trade of each with England.

4. On the outline map of Italy supplied to you, mark the position of the chief mountains, rivers, capes, parts of the sea, islands, and of six of the principal cities, writing the names neatly in their proper places.

5. Trace the course of one of the following rivers, proceeding from source to mouth :-Danube, Nile, Indus. Describe the physical characteristics and productions of the countries drained by the river and its tributaries, and give any particulars you can of the important towns which lie on or near the river. Your answer should be illustrated by a sketch map.

6. Describe the exact geographical positions of the following :--Buenos Ayres, Labuan, Munich, Inverness, Palermo, Mont Blanc, Tangier, Durban, Han-kow, Tobolsk, Socotra, Brisbane, Trincomalee, Oporto, Baikal, Tiflis, Andover.

7. Draw an outline map of the Baltic Sea, and mark upon it the countries surrounding it, with their principal seaports; the islands in it, and the rivers flowing into it.

8. What are the principal towns in the United Kingdom connected with the cotton, woollen, linen and silk manufactures ? Enumerate the countries from which the raw materials used in these manufactures are chiefly obtained.

9. Describe the journeys made by two passengers from London to Exeter, one travelling by the Great Western and the other by the South-Western Railway, noticing, in order, the chief towns and places of interest through or near which each would pass.

TEMPORARY MEN COPYISTS.
Papers set at an examination held in 1883.
DICTATION.-Time allowed, hour.

A

Perhaps the greatest event of Elizabeth's reign was the defeat of the Invincible Armada. Ever since that achievement England has been "Queen of the Seas." The Armada was a great fleet sent by Philip II. of Spain to conquer England. The royal navy of England then consisted of only thirtysix sail, and these of small size. But nobles, merchants, citizens, came with their money to the Queen, and equipped vessels at their own expense. fleet of 140 ships soon rode on the English waters; and though the vessels were small, the best seamen and the bravest hearts in England were on board. Storms delayed the Armada, but at length the English Admiral stationed at Plymouth saw them on the horizon, stretching in a crescent form seven miles broad. At once he sailed out to meet them, and, keeping at a distance, lest the Spaniards might board his vessel, poured in his shot with great effect. The Spaniards replied with heavy guns; but from the height of their decks their shot passed clear over the English ships. Slowly the Armada bore up the Channel towards Calais, the English fleet following. Off Calais they anchored, but eight fireships sent amongst them by the English admiral caused them to cut their cables in alarm. He was not the man to lose the golden moment. He fell at once upon the disordered fleet, and destroyed twelve ships. The great Armada was now in full flight. They could not return by the Straits of Dover, for the wind was against them, and the English ships lay in the adjacent harbours. The only way to Spain lay through the Pentland Firth; the storms of those wild seas completed the ruin, and only fifty-three shattered hulks returned home.

COPYING MANUSCRIPT.-Time allowed, hour.-(See specimen Lithograph.)

COPYING FIGURES AND TABULAR STATEMENTS.-Time allowed, hour. 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.

Extract from a Report by Vice-Consul Dickson on the trade and commerce of Beyrout and the Coast of Syria for the year 1879, In shipping there has been an increase in 1879 over the year 1878, as there was in the latter year over 1877. This increase amounted to 131 vessels and 18,907 tons. Return of Shipping at the Port of Beyrout during the years 1878 and 1879.

There has been an augmentation in the number of vessels of most of the principal nations, but in this respect British shipping carries of the palm. Thirty-seven more British vessels visited this port in 1879 than in 1878, and the tonnage was greater by 3,930 tons. Ottoman vessels show an increase in number, but a diminution in tonnage. Most of the extra steamboats that made the voyage between Alexandria, Syria, and Cyprus, ceased to run in 1879. The additional Austrian steamer that began to perform this voyage in September, 1878, stopped running in January, 1879. The Italian Company, which sent steamers to the coast of Syria and to Cyprus in September, withdrew their boats altogether a year later; while the Russian line of mail steamers, which had suspended its voyages on the Syrian coast during the war with Turkey, resumed them on the 1st September, 1879.

ARITHMETIC (Optional).—Time allowed, 1 hour.

You are requested (1) to put the number to each question; (2) to show the working as well as the answers; (3) to answer the questions in the order in which they are set; not omitting any one unless you are unable to do it. 1. Write down in words 780030516.

2. Write down in figures Ninety-five million fifteen thousand and eleven. 3. Write down in words 11004670.

The following questions are to be answered in the order in which they are set, and the working is to be shown up.

8. Multiply 95376 by 81042.

9. Multiply £4937 19s. 34d. by 49.

10. Divide 7868281 by 1169.

11. Multiply £9237 13s. 8d. by 753.

12. Divide £80775 19s. 84d. by 81.

13. Divide £6868607 16s. 43d. by 781.

14. In 14978631 sq. inches how many acres, roods, &c.

15. If 25 men can do a piece of work in 24 days, in how many days will

15 men finish the same work?

16. Find (by practice) the dividend on £4,750, at 9s. 10 d. in the £.

17. Add together 4, 3, 1, and 95.

18. Subtract 94 from 11.

19. Multiply together 7, 11, 2, and 13.

20. Divide 4 by 213.

21. Add together 95.378, 00681, 97529, and 473.

22. Subtract 99-83756 from 201·385.

23. Multiply 33.0867 by 3.703.

24. Divide 0163917 by 3.51.

25. Reduce 543 of 19s. 34d. to pence and the decimal of a penny.

Add these up,

N.B.-You had better occupy the whole time allowed. No additional marks will be given for rapidity. Do not copy out the sums. placing the answers in the spaces indicated.

Six Compound Addition and 18 Cross Addition sums were set, similar to those on pages 115 and 116.

TEMPORARY BOY COPYISTS.

Papers set at an examination held in 1883.

DICTATION.-Time allowed, hour.

The

The waters subsided in the night as quickly as they had risen, but at daylight a living stream of French grenadiers glided swiftly down the bed of the river, and, as if assured of victory, arrived, without shout or tumult, within a few yards of the walls, when, instead of quitting the hollow to reach the breach, they, like the torrent of the night, continued their rapid course and dashed against the gate. The British soldiers, who had hitherto been silent and observant, as if at a spectacle which they were expected to applaud, now arose, and with a crashing volley smote the head of the French column! leading officer, covered with wounds, fell against the gate, and gave up his sword through the bars to the English colonel; the French drummer, a gallant boy, who was beating the charge, dropped lifeless by his officer's side, and the dead and wounded filled the hollow. The remainder of the assailants then, breaking out to the right and left, spread along the slopes of ground under the ramparts, and opened a quick irregular musketry. At the same time, a number of men coming out of the trenches leaped into pits which had been dug in front, and shot fast at the garrison, but no attempt to scale the walls at any other point was made, and the storming column was dreadfully shattered.

COPYING FIGURES AND TABULAR STATEMENTS.

The papers set in this subject were similar to those for Men Copyists.

ARITHMETIC (Elementary).—Time allowed, 1 hour.

N.B.-You had better occupy the whole time allowed. No additional credit will be given for rapidity. You should put the number to each question. 1. Write down in words 896035007.

2. Write down in figures Three hundred millions seventeen thousand and seventy-five.