potatoes, for an Irish-stew, and for cooking a sheep's head.

SECTION IV. (Sickness.) 1. What instructions have you received to help you in your attendance on the sick? What should be done in the following cases :a person fainting: a child suffering from a fit of epilepsy; insensibility after a fall; a child rescued from drowning?

2. What precautions have you been instructed to. take upon the breaking out of any infectious disease in your neighbourhood? Describe any simple remedies for a severe chill, for a sick headache, for a troublesome cough.

SECTION V. (Clothing and Washing.) 1. What instruction have you received with regard to laundry work? Explain the benefit of such teaching.

2. What would be the cost of fitting out a girl of 13 years of age for service? Make out a bill of such charges, showing the quantity and price of each article.

3. To what extent has cutting out been taught in your school? Explain any successful plan which has been adopted to give children a practical knowledge of this subject.

DICTATION AND PENMANSHIP.

TWENTY MINUTES allowed for these Exercises.

Candidates are not to paint their letters in the Copy-setting Exercise, but to take care that the copy is clean and without

erasures.

Omissions and erasures in the Dictation Exercise will be counted as mistakes.

The words must not be divided between two lines; there is plenty of room for the passage to be written.

Write in large hand, as a specimen of penmanship, the word, Originality.

Write in small hand, as a specimen of penmanship, the sentence,

"One truth is clear: whatever is, is right."

Dictation and Penmanship.

DICTATION.

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Write the passage* dictated to you by the Examiner, and punctu ate it correctly.

"It is natural to suppose that a Government thus arbitrary and vigilant must have looked with extreme jealousy on the diffusion of free inquiry through the press. The trades of printing and book-selling, in fact, though not absolutely licensed, were always subject to a sort of peculiar superintendence. Besides protecting the copyright of authors, the Council frequently issued proclamations to restrain the importation of books, or to regulate their sale."-Hallam.

A2

"The king at length sent a message, requesting that a supply might be granted, with a threat of dissolving Parliament unless it was done. But the days of intimidation were gone by. The House voted that they would first proceed with the business of impositions, and postpone supply till their grievances should be redressed. Aware of the impossibility of conquering their resolution, the king carried his measure into effect by a dissolution."-Hallam.

*The passages A1, A2, were given alternately where the number of Candidates was large, and there was danger of copying.

SCHOLARSHIP QUESTIONS,

1874.

NOTE. The time allowed for each Paper in the following series was three hours, if not otherwise mentioned. Candidates were restricted to one question in each section. Candidates are not permitted to answer more than one question in any section, except in that headed "Latin." Candidates must not, however, confine themselves to the questions or Latin Grammar; they must answer at least four questions in the other part of the paper.

TWO HOURS AND A HALF allowed for this paper. SECTION I. Parse the words printed in italic in the following passage:

"Far differently the mute Oneyda took

His calumet of peace and cup of joy;

As monumental bronze unchanged his look;
A soul that pity touched, but never shook;
Trained from his tree-rocked cradle to his bier
The fierce extreme of good and ill to brook
Impassive-fearing but the shame of fear—
A stoic of the woods-a man without a tear."
CAMPBELL.

SECTION II. Paraphrase the same passage.

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SECTION III. Analyse fully the following extract:— 'It was not long ere a new and more fortunate leader presented himself, who conducted them to liberty, to victory, and to vengeance." HUME.

SECTION IV. 1. Give the various rules for the formation of the plurals of nouns, with illustrative examples. 2. What are the comparatives and superlatives of many, red, old, barren, interesting, heavy, indifferent, tidy, low, and sad?

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SECTION V. 1. What attempts have been made to classify the English irregular verbs? Supply a brief classified list of these verbs.

2. What are participles, and to what uses are they applied in the formation of sentences?

SECTION VI. 1. How do you distinguish between adverbs and conjunctions, adverbs and prepositions, adverbs and adjectives ?

2. Give instances of the employment of adverbial and prepositional phrases, and classify them according to their meaning.

SECTION VII. Account historically for the presence of so many words of foreign origin in the English language.

GEOGRAPHY AND HISTORY.

GEOGRAPHY.

SECTION I. Draw a map of—

(a) The six northern counties of England, marking the rivers, lakes, mountains, principal towns, and boundaries between the counties.

Or (b) The Baltic Sea.

Or (c) Africa, marking the mountains, lakes, rivers, and British Possessions.

Or (d) Central America.

SECTION II. 1. Trace in words the courses of the Trent, the Tay, and the Shannon.

2. Describe the productions, manufactures, and principal industries of Scotland, naming the localities of each.

3. Give a short account of the lakes and mountains of Switzerland.

SECTION III. 1. Describe the physical features of the New Dominion.

2. What British Possessions would be passed by a ship going from Southampton to Wellington, New Zealand, via Suez, Point de Galle, and Melbourne ? Give a brief account of one of those possessions.

3. Describe the mountain and water systems of Western Asia.

SECTION IV. 1. What forms the great watershed of North America ? Name the most important rivers whose courses it separates, and sketch the course of any one of them.

2. Name the States of South America, and describe briefly their social, political, and industrial condition. What are their chief exports ?

3. Where and what are: Barcelona, Frigid Zone, Niagara, Chili, Madagascar, Formosa, Obi, Alsace, Tropic of Cancer, New Orleans, Ashantee, Etna, Nijni Novgorod, Khiva, Brisbane, Roumania, and Bilbao ?

HISTORY.

SECTION I. 1. Give a list, with dates, of the English sovereigns who met with violent deaths.

2. What kings reigned in Scotland from 1165 to 1406 ? Give the dates of each reign.

3. Name all the pretenders to the crown of England at various periods. What became of them?

SECTION II. 1. What queens have reigned in England? Give an account of the reign of any one of them. 2. Give particulars of the struggle between England and Scotland in the reigns of Edward I. and Edward II. 3. Name the most distinguished men who lived in the seventeenth century, and write brief lives of any two of them.

SECTION III. 1. Of what races is the English nation composed? Give the date of the introduction of each element.

2. Assign events to the following dates: 84, 597, 827, 1138, 1171, 1296, 1346, 1415, 1650, and 1688.

3. Explain the allusion in the following extract :—

"Great Edward with the lilies on his brow,

From haughty Gallia torn."

SECTION IV. 1. How often has England been invaded by Continental princes, and with what results ? 2. What insurrections or civil wars have broken out from time to time in England? Give a brief account of one of them.

3. Write the notes of a lesson illustrating the following passage: "The history of our country during the