Practice. 5. Find the cost of 75 cwt. 1 qr. 16 lbs. of sugar at 21. 4s. 11d. per cwt. 6. A bankrupt owes 25,9627. 10s. What must his assets be worth in order that he may pay 7s. 114d. in the pound? Interest. 7. Find the simple interest on 1,9231. 15s. for 2 years and 8 months at 33 per cent per annum. 8. Find the amount of 4,8007. in 3 years at 3 per cent per annum compound interest. Vulgar Fractions. 9. Add together 7, 1, 1, and 27. 10. Subtract 5 from 73. 11. Multiply 22 by 43. 12. Divide 192 by 17. Decimal Fractions. 13. Add together 42.79, 2105, 047, and 140. 14. Subtract 42.946 from 161'06. 15. Multiply 65.43 by ⚫00376. 16. Divide 39.49 by 13.476 to 4 places. 17. Divide 154.28 by 0064. 18. Reduce 2 furlongs 11 yards 1 foot 9 inches to the decimal of a mile. MISCELLANEOUS. Note to Candidate. -"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 years average 14 per cent on the capital with which he began, and at the end of the 5 years his effects are worth 2,5317. 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 I union was 336, the number of women being double that of the men, and the children being 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. 68., 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 1057; in 1859, reckoned in the like way, 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? Note to Candidate.—“ 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." SEPARATE ADDITION. Twelve sums in Compound Addition, of twenty-three lines each, were given to each Candidate, with the following note. Add up as many of the columns as you can in the time allowed (3 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.. DICTATION AND ORTHOGRAPHY were tested in the usual manner, after the examples given at p. 69-71. (Time allowed, 1 hour.) COPYING EXERCISE. Candidates were required to copy distinctly, correctly, neatly, and as rapidly as possible, some lithographed specimens of MSS. purposely interlined, and containing many abbreviations, which were to be written by the Candidate at full length. SUBJECTS FOR ENGLISH COMPOSITION. Note to Candidate.-"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. Note. One or two of these subjects, but not more than two, may be attempted. EXERCISES TO TEST ENGLISH COMPOSITION.. (Time allowed, 21⁄2 hours.) Note to Candidate.-Express as concisely and clearly as you can, in your own words, the meaning of the following passage: No. 1. 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 an 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. No. 2. Write a short essay, letter, or lecture, on the "Proclamation of Queen Victoria in India," touching on the following heads : Great benefits anticipated from it. It came at a most fortunate time; when vengeance was nearly satiated, and when the Great Mogul was dethroned. Evils of "Double Government;" especially division of responsibility and waste of time. Measures now most required ::-to extinguish the rebellion: to guard against famine next year: to develop railways, &c.; to promote education. (You are at liberty to give the substance of the above in any form that you please, and to add any other considerations which occur to you.) No. 3. Write the following passage in prose, so as to show that you understand its construction and exact meaning : "To die; to sleep :- To sleep! perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub: When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause. There's the respect That makes calamity of so long life : For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, That patient merit of the unworthy takes, GEOGRAPHY. (Time allowed, 3 hours.) 1. On the accompanying map of Europe insert the names of the chief seas, capes, and mountain chains; trace the course of the Guadalquivir, Rhone, Arno, Oder, Theiss, and Dniester; and place Bremen, Turin, Munich, Jassy, Seville, Helsingfors, Cracow, Lucerne, Corfu, Inverness, Limerick, and Palermo. 2. Sketch a rough outline map of India (as large as your paper will admit), marking the positions of the British territories, the dependent and independent native states, the principal mountain ranges, six principal rivers, and eight principal towns. 3. Write a brief geographical description of Scotland, or Ireland, or Wales. N.B.-One country only is to be described. 4. Where are the following places, to whom do they belong, and for what are they known: Burgos, Panama, Jellalabad, Utrecht, Port Mahon, Nankin, Trebizond, Rangoon, Medina, Londonderry, and Amiens? 5. Mention the rivers which flow into the German Ocean, and describe carefully the course of any one of them. 6. Where are the rivers Murray, Mackenzie, and Fraser: the lakes Tchad and Erie; the Platten See; the sea of Okhotsk; capes Guardafui and Race; the mountains Tabor, Valdai, and Cevennes ; the straits of Belle Isle, and the gulfs of Manaar and Obi; the Bight of Benin ? 7. What are the principal exports and imports of Brazil, Western Africa, and France? 8. Explain the following terms: — - longitude, isothermal lines, plateau, simoon, gulf stream, frith, and mirage. 9. Mention the principal discoverers of North America, and give some account of the travels and discoveries of any one of them. HISTORY. (Time allowed, 3 hours.) In all cases dates should be given. 1. Give a list of the sovereigns of England from Richard II. to James I. inclusive, stating the title of each monarch to the throne, and mentioning any one important event in each reign. 2. Show clearly the relationship between the Kings Stephen and John, Henry VI. and Henry VII., Charles II. and George I. 3. For what events in English History are the following places famous:Acre, Seringapatam, Copenhagen, Quebec, Runnymede, Carisbrook, St. Alban's, Torbay, and St. Helena ? 4. What do you know of the following persons: John of Gaunt, Lord Burleigh, Lord Bacon, Lady Arabella Stuart, Lord Peterborough, Sir Robert Walpole, Lord Clive, Warren Hastings? 5. With respect to any six which you may select of the following battles, state when they were fought, who were the contending parties, who were the leaders, and what were the results:-Hastings, Barnet, Bosworth Field, Worcester, Sedgemoor, the Boyne, Prestonpans, 6. Mention the principal causes and circumstances of the Revolution of 1688, or of the American War of Independence. 7. Mention the date and the principal terms either of the union with Scotland or of the union with Ireland. 8. What intermarriages have taken place between the royal families of England and Spain? Mention briefly the circumstances in which the history of the two countries has been connected. 9. Mention the names of any four of the principal writers of English history, and give some account of the work of any one of them. 10. Give the dates of the following enactments, and describe fully the nature and most important provisions of two of them :- -Habeas Corpus Act, Statute of Fræmunire, Petition of Right, Bill of Rights, Act of Settlement. OPEN COMPETITION FOR THE CIVIL SERVICE OF INDIA. CANDIDATES ARE REFERRED TO THE FOURTH REPORT OF THE CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSIONERS, WHICH MAY BE OBTAINED THROUGH ANY BOOKSELLER. IN IT WILL BE FOUND VERY FULL PARTICULARS OF A SIMILAR OPEN COMPETITION HELD IN JULY, 1858, FOR APPOINTMENTS IN THE CIVIL SERVICE OF INDIA. REGULATIONS. 1. In July, 1860, an Examination of candidates will be held in London.* Notice will hereafter be given of the days and place of examination. 2. Any natural-born subject of Her Majesty, who shall be desirous of entering the Civil Service of India, will be entitled to be examined at such Examination, provided he shall, on or before the 1st May, 1860, have transmitted to the Civil Service Commissioners, Dean's Yard, London, S. W. (a) A certificate of his birth, showing that his age on the 1st May, 1860, will be above eighteen years and under twenty-two years; (b) A certificate, signed by a physician or surgeon, of his having no disease, constitutional affection, or bodily infirmity, unfitting him for the Civil Service of India; (c) Satisfactory proof of good moral character; (d) A statement of those of the branches of knowledge hereinafter enumerated in which he desires to be examined. *The competition will be for Eighty appointments; the number in each presidency will be hereafter made known. |