15. Multiply 65 43 by '00376.

16. Di vide 39 49 by 13 476 to 4 places.

17. Di vide 154 28 by '0064.

18. Reduce 2 furlongs 11 yards 1 foot 9 inches to the decimal of a mile.

MISCELLANEOUS.

N.B. You are not required to answer any of the following questions; but if you have time (after finishing those on the preceding page) it will be well for you to do as many as you can.

19. If 56 cubic feet 1,044 cubic inches of timber are required to floor a room 29 feet 3 inches by 25 feet 4 inches, what is the thickness of the boards?

20. A tradesman starts with a capital of 9601., and after 3 years takes another into partnership with 2,1007. After 4 years more the whole profits amount to 2,3047. How ought this to be divided between them?

21. Extract the square root of 2854*7649.

22. Extract the cube root of 1194389981.

23. Multiply, by the method of duodecimals, 6 feet 7 inches 5 parts by 8 feet 3 inches 10 parts.

24. Express the result obtained in the last question in square feet, square inches, and a fraction of the square inch.

25. A tradesman's annual losses during 5 years average 14 per cent. on the capital with which he began, and at the end of the 5 years his effects are worth 2,531l. 5s. What capital did he begin with?

26. A person sells out of the 3 per cent. consols at 99, and invests in exchequer bills, bearing interest at the rate of 24d. a day per cent., when the bills are at a premium of 7s. 6d. What effect has this on his income?

27. In the month of December last the number of paupers in a certain union was 336, the number of women being double that of the men, and the children being as many as the men and women together. If a man cost more than a woman, and 3 children as much as a man and a woman together, and the whole cost for the month be 831. 6s., how much is the daily cost of each man, woman, and child?

28. In 1858 the value of 1007. tithe rentcharge, reckoned on the average price of corn in the 7 years immediately preceding, was 1051. ; in 1859, reckoned in the likeway, it is 3 per cent. more. If it were reckoned on the price in 1851 only, it would be but 691. What would it be if reckoned on the price in 1858 only?

N.B.-Be careful throughout the examination to write your name and number on the printed paper given you, and on every sheet of answers which you send up. You are particularly recommended not to send up your answers on scraps of paper, which are liable to be lost. Write the number of each question before the answer. Before leaving the room arrange your papers in proper order, and leave them unfolded at your seat, and the printed paper of questions with them.

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II. ADDITION.

Add up as many of the columns as you can in the time allowed († of an hour), placing the answers in the spaces below the columns.

It is important the addition should be quite correct; additional credit will also be given for rapidity.

£ 134

£ S. d.

7319 2

1211 6

S. d.

21

6

8

31

3144 18

III. DICTATION.

(In writing from dictation attention should be paid to clear and legible handwriting, to correct spelling, and to proper punctuation.) [N.B.-The following extract from a memorandum sent to examiners in the country will show the method pursued in dictating :

"The examiner is requested to read the printed paper headed "Dictation' at first so that the candidate may gather its general "purport; a second time slowly, that he may have ample time to "write it down; a third time, that he may have an opportunity of correcting and punctuating what he has written. Ruled lines should "not be allowed."]

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Columbus remained but a short time at the University, barely sufficient to give him the rudiments of the necessary sciences; the thorough acquaintance with them, which he displayed in after life, must have been the result of diligent self-instruction amidst the cares and vicissitudes of a rough and wandering life. He was one of those men of strong natural genius, who, from having to contend at their very outset with privations and impediments, acquire an intrepidity in braving and a facility in vanquishing difficulties. Such men learn to effect great purposes with small means; supplying the deficiency of instruments by the resources of their own energy and invention. This is one of the remarkable features in the history of Columbus. In every undertaking the scantiness and apparent insufficiency of his means enhanced the grandeur of his achievements.

Copy the following passage clearly and legibly, correcting mistakes of spelling and grammar, but not otherwise altering either the words or their order: write figures and contractions at full length.

From the geeoggraffikal possishun of the iland of Jamaka, so near the ecquater, the cleimat in the low grownds is neccessareley very hot, with littel vareashun threwout the yeer; the days and knights, for the same reesun, is neerly of eekwell durashun, their not being more then too hours differrance betweene the longest day and the shortist. Their is very littel twylite; and we may had, that when it is noone in Lundun, it is about sevon in the mornin in Jamaka. The meediom tempretuir of the yeer near Kingston rainjes betweene 70° and 80°; but littel differrances of elivashun has a wundurfull affekt over the tempretuir and the sallyoubrety of the cleimat. At about 4,200 ft. abuv the leval of the see the vejetashun of the troppiks disapere and are suplantid by that of temprait rejuns. Shours is common in the hinteereer allmoste threwout the hole yeer, but they do not fall withe the saim violanse has in the planes, and the quantetey of rane aperes to be less. The ayre is exseadinley hewmidd, subject to dence foggs, and those rapped alternaishuns of tempretuir peekulyer to hall mowntane rejuns. Wheil the pestelanse of yallar fevar raijes in the low grownd and along the coaste of this iland, cutting of its thowsends anewelly, these elevaited rejuns injoy a cumpleat immewnety from its affekts; for that bain of Uroppeen life has never bin knowne, in any cleimat, to ecstend beyond the

heighth of 2,500 feet. The inhabbetents are said to injoy a degree of lonjevvety rairly ataned in othar countrys, and to exibet that ruddey glo of helth, which marckes the countinense in northern climbs, and formes a streikin contraste to the palled, sikley and dispeptik-looking ressidants of the less elevaited distriks. The midd day heet is greatly moddefyd by an enviggoreating see-breaze, which generaley prevales during the day, and is sucseaded toords evening by the lande wind from the mowntanes.

V. COPYING EXERCISE.

(See lithographed specimen, post facing p. 210)

VI. SUBJECTS FOR ENGLISH COMPOSITION.

(Time allowed, 24 hours.)

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

I. A review of any book which has been published within the last ten years.

II. A short essay in the form of a lecture or an article for a magazine or newspaper on one of the following countries :-British Columbia, Corfu, Australia, New Zealand, Cuba, Algeria.

III. The benefits or evils which have resulted from any law passed in England during the present century.

IV. Anonymous journalism-its advantages and disadvantages. One or two of these subjects, but not more than two, may be attempted.

VII. EXERCISES TO TEST ENGLISH COMPOSITION.
(Time allowed, 2 hours.)

No. 1.

Express as concisely and clearly as you can, in your own words, the meaning of the following passage:—

I. Of the various kinds of speaking or writing which serve necessity or promote pleasure, none appears so artless or easy as simple narration; for what should make him that knows the whole order and progress of an affair unable to relate it? Yet we hourly find such as endeavour to entertain or instruct us by recitals, clouding the facts which they intend to illustrate, by losing themselves and their auditors in wilds and mazes, in digression and confusion. When we have congratulated ourselves upon a new opportunity of inquiry, and new means of information, it often happens that, without designing either deceit or concealment, without ignorance of the fact, or unwillingness to disclose it, the relator fills the ear with empty sounds, harasses the attention with fruitless impatience, and disturbs the imagination by a tumult of events, without order of time, or train of consequence.