ENGLISH GRAMMAR.

1. Passage for grammatical analysis :

"Him, haply, slumbering on the Norway foam,
The pilot of some small night-founder'd skiff,
Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell,
With fixed anchor in his scaly rind

Moors by his side under the lea, while night
Invests the sea, and wished morn delays.

So stretch'd out huge in length the arch-fiend lay,
Chained on the burning lake; nor ever thence
Had risen or heaved his head, but that the will
And high permission of all-ruling Heaven
Left him at large to his own dark designs."

2. Paraphrase the following:

"They heard, and were abash'd, and up they sprung
Upon the wing; as when men wont to watch
On duty, sleeping found by whom they dread,
Rouse and bestir themselves ere well awake.

Nor did they not perceive the evil plight

In which they were, or the fierce pains not feel;
Yet to their general's voice they soon obey'd,

Innumerable."

3. Parse the following words :-lost, rose, rais'd, forbade, fell, built.

4. The correct use of to, at, in, applied to names of places. Give examples.

5. The general rule for forming the plural of nouns. Mention the principal exceptions.

ENGLISH HISTORY.

PERIOD II.

Explain Petition of Right, Puritans, Independents, Roundheads, Cavaliers.

2. Give the causes of Charles I.'s unpopularity. Was it all earned by his own acts, or was any of it due to the acts of his predecessors ?

3. Compare Cromwell and Monk. Give dates.

4. Explain Habeas Corpus Act, Rye House Plot, Bill of Rights, and Act of Settlement.

6. What constitutional principles were established by the Revolution?

7. Give a sketch of Marlborough's life, and compare him with the Duke of Wellington.

8. Give an account, with dates, of the attempts of the Stuarts to recover the English Crown after the accession of the House of Brunswick.

9. State the claims of the House of Brunswick to the throne: give the dates of the accession of each Sovereign of that House, and the character of each.

10. What treatment and events led to the revolt of our North American Colonies, and what have been the most important consequences of that Revolt.

GRECIAN HISTORY.

1. What was the Dorian Migration, or Return of the Heracleids ?" What Greek States were Dorian, and what Ionian ?

2. Define the Greek tyrant, king, and archon: what offices were held by the different members of the government of the Nine Archons in Athens ?

3. Name the battles (with dates) fought between the Greeks and Persians during the reigns of Darius and Xerxes: also the commanders on both sides.

4. Compare Themistocles and Pericles, their lives, characters, policy, and the effect they produced on Athens.

5. State the real and the apparent causes of the Peloponnesian War.

6. Compare the policy of Sparta and Athens, both during the time when they were respectively the rulers of Greece, and during the Peloponnesian War.

7. Compare Nicias, Brasidas, and Alcibiades. Give the chief events in the life of each, with dates.

8. Trace the rise of the Theban Power, give the dates of Leuctra and Mantinea, and shew what led to the supremacy of Macedon.

9. Give a slight sketch of the career of Alexander the Great, and shew the effect of his conquests in (1) the spread of the Gospel, and (2) the direction of the world's commerce.

GEOGRAPHY.

1. What is meant by Lat. 25° 16′ N,, Long. 64° 28′ E.How are Latitude and Longitude measured? Do all degrees of Longitude contain the same number of miles ? Give a reason for your answer.

2. Draw a map of the West Coast of England, naming the harbours, headlands, and river-mouths.

3. What counties principally supply iron, cotton, silk, woollen and straw goods; lace, crape, stockings, coal, carpets, tin, copper, lead, plumbago, salt, cider, herrings, pilchards, salmon ?

4. Near what towns does the Great Western Railway pass ?

5. Give in order the names of the various portions of the chain of hills running from the Cheviots to Land's End.

6. On what rivers are the following situated :-Hereford, Manchester, Chester, Bristol, Ludlow, Preston, Worcester, Warwick, York, Ely, Yeovil, Caernarvon, Lincoln, Maidstone, Limerick, Totnes, Stamford, Perth, Dublin, Northampton, Glasgow, Strasburg, Treves, Bordeaux, Rouen, Bedford ?

7. What is the staple manufacture of Ireland ? Name the counties and capital towns in the province of Munster.

8. Between what counties do the following rivers flow :-Tamar, Stour, Wye, Welland, Teivy, Tees, Tyne, Humber, Mersey, Dee, Dudden, Dove?

9. Name the principal possessions of Great Britain iu Asia, Africa, and America.

10. Place Skiddaw-Ben Nevis-Cape Clear-Cape Wrath -Cape Horn-Arran-Belfast-Balmoral-Ceuta-Spike Island.

ARITHMETIC.-I.

1. If a person complete a journey of 442 miles, 3 furlongs, 38 poles in 37 days, what distance does he travel each day?

2. If 1000 sovereigns weigh 21 lbs., 5 oz., 16 dwts., 6 grs., what weight of gold will be contained in 384 sovereigns?

3. If 2 horses eat 8 bushels of oats in 16 days, how many horses will eat 3000 quarters in 24 days?

4. If the carriage of 13 cwt., 2 qrs., 19 lbs., for 35 miles come to £4 17s. 6d., what must be paid for the carriage of 41 cwt., 1 lb., for 49 miles ?

5. If 69 yards of carpet 3 qrs. wide, cover a room 8 yds., 2 qrs., 2 nls. long; find the width of the room.

6. Put 78, 1010, and 264 into fractions of the same denomination.

8. Reduce of a guinea, of a half-guinea, and 69 of a crown to fractions of £1.

6. Required the price of 68 gals., 2 qts., 14 pt. at 5s. 3 d. f. the gallon.

10. Explain how fractions are multiplied or divided by any quantity integral or fractional. Give examples.

11. Determine the square root of 3364 and the cube root of 704969.