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BEDELL IRISH SCHOLARSHIP EXAMINATION.

PROFESSOR FOLEY.

Translate the following passage into English:

Ar an adbar so is ró ¿uairimeaṁuil, náć raib aon dúil ag Beda dul ar lorg naom 'Eireañać do mair roime; agus cumniużað do déanaṁ orrta 'na seancas. An feað bí sé 'na fear ró macánta cum clú apstoil na h-'Eireann do lagdúgað, agus smál do čur ar flóir naoiṁ Pádpuig, ní deanfað sé an fear do molad noć do rocruig eagluis do taisbeán í féin ceapaizte gan cuir asteać na Roma d'fulang, d'a laifead é an tansin seać an cuir asteać do bi aice d'a iarraid na diaid sin.

As so is féidir linn an firinne iongantaċ so do ṁíniugað, eabon, náċ ainmniztear naom Pádruig a seancas Bheda

Agus ní misde dúinn maċtnaṁ lánċrom do cuir síos an so. Dá mbeit naom Pádruig úṁal do'n Róim,—dá n-aidṁeóċað sé aon nío cormuil leis an uaċtaránaċt iarrañ sí anois, tá sé cinnte nac fágfað béda a ainm amaċ; is beag d'ainmneacaib a buailfead uime duine níos mionca ná a ainmpean a seanċas Bheda-do brig go d-tugañ Béda cúntás iomlán ar na deifriocaib agus na confpóidib idir an ¿léir Róṁánać agus an ¿léir 'Eireañać, 6 aimsir naoiṁ Padruig go d-tí a aimsir féin.

Translate accurately the following passage into Irish :

Paul, a prisoner of Jesus Christ, and Timothy our brother, unto Philemon our dearly beloved, and fellow-labourer,

And to our beloved Apphia, and Archippus our fellowsoldier, and to the church in thy house:

Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

I thank my God, making mention of thee always in my prayers, Hearing of thy love and faith, which thou hast toward the Lord Jesus, and toward all saints;

That the communication of thy faith may become effectual by the acknowledging of every good thing which is in you in Christ Jesus.

For we have great joy and consolation in thy love, because the bowels of the saints are refreshed by thee, brother.

Wherefore, though I might be much bold in Christ to injoin thee that which is convenient,

Yet for love's sake I rather beseech thee, being such an one as Paul the aged, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.

I beseech thee for my son Onesimus, whom I have begotten in my bonds:

Which in time past was to thee unprofitable, but now profitable to thee and to me:

Whom I have sent again: thou therefore receive him, that is, mine own bowels:

Whom I would have retained with me, that in thy stead he might have ministered unto me in the bonds of the Gospel:

But without thy mind would I do nothing; that thy benefit should not be as it were of necessity, but willingly.

For perhaps he therefore departed for a season, that thou shouldest receive him for ever.

Write out in Irish the answers to the following questions, with proofs from Holy Scripture :-

1. Is any one righteous in himself before God?

2. Prove your answer accurately from the Word of God.

3. What has faith to do in our being accounted righteous, and proof? 4. Is it true, and if so, prove it, that every one that believes is justified before God, at once, complete, and for ever?

5. The doctrine of the eleventh Article of our Church is declared "full of comfort;" prove this.

6. It is said to be "a most wholesome doctrine;" what is the meaning of this, and what the proof?

7. "The Homily of Justification" is referred to in the Article,-what are the Homilies, how originated, what their object and authority?

8. How are the Romish doctrines of penances, fastings, masses, and purgatory, opposed to the doctrines of the eleventh Article?

Write out in Irish your opinion on the duty, and the nature and extent of the obligation, implied in the following question from the Ordination Service :

"Will you be ready with all faithful diligence to banish and drive away all erroneous and strange doctrine contrary to God's Word ?"

1. What does O'Donovan consider to be the substitute for eclipsing when a word begins with a vowel? Give examples.

2. a. What are the two significations of the article, according to Wright? b. What change does it cause in the beginning of a noun ?

3. The article is used in Irish in some instances where in English it would be omitted?

4. When one noun governs another in the genitive, how is the article used?

5. How is the indefinite article expressed in Irish?

6. a. Decline Fearaṁuil; of what declension is it? b. What is the meaning of the termination amuil, according to Wright, and to what Latin word does he consider it cognate?

7. What is the usual position of adjectives, and what are the exceptions?

8. Difference between do riżne mé an sgían geur, and do riżne mé an sgían geur ?

9. What numerals in Irish take the noun in the singular number? 10. What cardinals aspirate, and what eclipse the initial mutables of the nouns to which they are prefixed?

11. When an adjective is used to describe the quality of two nouns, with which does it agree?

12. a. When does the relative pronoun a aspirate, and when does it eclipse, the initial mutables of verbs? b. What is the exception to its eclipsing?

13. What are the emphatic increases for the compound pronouns?

14. What is the usual sign of the conditional mood? What other conjunction is frequently prefixed to it, and what changes in the verb do each of those particles cause?

15. Write out the personal endings of the consuetudinal past tense, active and passive, and of the conditional mood, active and passive.

16. What peculiarity of construction has the infinitive mood of active verbs in Irish?

17. How are auxiliary verbs formed in Irish? Give examples.

18. a. Give the past, consuetudinal past, and future tenses active of abai throughout. b. How did the past tense come to have its present form?

19. a. Wright inserts it among the irregular verbs; give those portions of it that are irregular. b. What is the regular past tense? In what form does the past appear in the New Testament? How are these forms connected?

20. What peculiarity is there in the present tense active of tabair? 21. What is the usual position of the nominative? There are two exceptions to this collocation?

22. What two prepositions eclipse the initial mutables of words to which they are joined, and what two prefix h to vowels?

CIVIL LAW EXAMINATION.

PROFESSOR ANSTER,

The books ordered for the Examination of the Regius Professor of Civil Law are:-Schrader's Justinian's Institutes; Gibbon's Decline and Fall, chap. xliv., with Guizot's and Warnkönig's Notes; Arnold's History of Rome, vol. 1. chap. xiv.; Milman's Latin Christianity, Book ni. chap. v.; Creasy's Rise and Progress of the English Constitution; Story's Conflict of Laws, first three chapters; Whewell's Grotius, Prolegomena, and first book; Essay on Legislation, in the 7th edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica,―article “Legislation;" the Civil Law Class Examination Papers of 1851, 1852, 1853, 1854, and 1855; and the Class Lectures of the year.

1. Give Justinian's definition of Liberty. State whether you think it adequate, or, if inadequate, how far or in what way inadequate.

1. The GREAT CHARTER has been often described as a mere piece of class legislation, devised by the Barons of England for their own special interests. Is this capable of being disproved; if so, disprove it?

2. Were the rights of the serfs provided for in the Charter; if so, in what way? State what Mr. Creasy says on the subject.

3. What were the provisions of the Great Charter with respect to the clergy?

4. State its provisions with respect to the laity.

5. In what way did the Great Charter provide guarantees for the King's adhering to its obligations?

6. In what sense of the words can trial by jury be said to be recognised in the early charters of the Norman kings of England?

7. Give Mr. Creasy's statement of the general principle of trial by jury.

8. State the characteristics of trial by jury, which it had equally in the early periods of that mode of trial and in modern times.

9. State a remarkable distinction between such mode of determining facts in ancient times, and in the form it has assumed at a comparatively late period, and with which we are at the present day familiar.

10. State the precise words of the Great Charter which are supposed to refer to trial by jury.

11. M. de Toqueville states that the jury system, if confined to criminal trials, would probably not continue to be used even in such investigations. State his reasoning.

12. What does M. de Toqueville regard as the chief advantage of trial by jury?

13. What does Arnold regard as the chief value of this institution? State his reasoning.

14. State the provisions of 25 Edw. I., to insure the immediate punishment of any persons daring to violate the Great Charter.

15. State the further provisions of 28 Edw. I. to secure the same object. 16. Sir James Mackintosh says, that "on the English nation undoubtedly the Charter has contributed to bestow the union of establishment with improvement." State his reasoning, as fully and as accurately as you can.

17. Mr. Hallam tells us that a Statute, passed in the year 1322, "not only establishes, by a legislative declaration, the present constitution of Parliament, but recognises it as already standing upon a custom of some length of time." State the language of the Statute which supports this assertion.

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18. In the reign of Edward III. we find a new principle fully established by the Commons in their opposition to the royal power. what that principle is.

19. Notwithstanding the strong and steady growth of parliamentary authority, which may be traced during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, a King of England still possessed many and splendid attributes that were strictly constitutional. State them, as fully and with as much particularity as you can.

20. State the distinction between Laws and Ordinances.

21. In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, in England, "the power of dispensing with particular statutes, by particular individuals, in special cases, was admitted to belong to the sovereign." To what acknowledged principle of our constitution is this to be referred?

22. This power has been declared illegal; at what time? And state the words by which it is declared illegal.

23. State briefly, but as distinctly as you can, the principal enactments of the Petition of Right, 3 Car. I., cap. 1. In stating it, mention each section of the Act, and what it particularly expresses.

24. What is the Bill of Rights?

25. At what time were the judges of England rendered independent of the Crown?

26. Among the Romans, whose jurisprudence has come down to us in a far more perfect and comprehensive shape than that of any other nation, there cannot be traced out any distinct system of principles applicable to international cases of mixed rights. To what does Huberus refer this? Does Mr. Story regard this as an adequate account of the matter? If inadequate, why inadequate? State what Mr. Story says on the subject.

27. The Law of Nations, strictly so called, is described as the slow growth of modern times, under the combined influence of Christianity and Commerce. State its progress, as nearly as you can in the words of Mr. Story.

28. The study of what Mr. Story calls private international law has been more cultivated in America than in England. From what cause? 29. Define Domicil.

30. Domicil is of three kinds. State them.