and that labour not immediately productive of wealth may sometimes be very useful.

3. Investigate the general advantages of producing on a large scale; and examine critically the particular case of large and small farming.

4. State the manner in which Rent is determined by competition; what objections to this theory have been made? How are Rents affected by (1) a reduction in the rate of profit, (2) the introduction of improved implements, (3) a rise in agricultural wages, (4) an increase of population?

5. Of what elements are profits composed? On what does the rate of profit depend? Illustrate your answer, with reference to America, Australia, India.

6. What is meant by the Value of Money? Point out the advantages of the use of Gold and Silver as circulating media What disadvantages attend the use of a double standard, and how may they be obviated?

How is it

7. What are the functions of Credit? measured? Describe the chief forms of Credit, and their respective uses.

8. Explain the nature of a Land-tax; and show that it neither (1) diminishes the profits of the cultivator, nor (2) increases the price of agricultural produce. By whom is a House-tax ultimately paid? How should it be assessed when the occupier is also the owner?

MODERN HISTORY.

Examiner.-MR. LETHBRIDGE, M. A.

Describe briefly the rise of the Papal power. When

did it attain its greatest elevation ?

2. Give some account of the Norman conquests in Europe.

3. Sketch the history of the consolidation of the French Monarchy by the acquisition of the Great Fiefs.

4. What was the extent of the empire of Charles V ; and how came it to be centred in his person?

5. Compare the characters and positions of Charlemagne and Alfred the Great. Sketch briefly the lives of (1) Lorenzo the Magnificent, (2) Charles XII of Sweden.

6. Who were Charles Martel, Mazarin, Rienzi, Mirabeau, Wallenstein, Olivares? What do you know of the Golden Bull, the Salic Law, the Family Compact, the Jacquerie, the Sicilian Vespers ?

7. Describe and criticise the Continental policy of the Cabal Ministry. State fully the circumstances of (1) the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, (2) the Secret Treaty of Dover.

8. Give some account of the life of Albert of Brandenburg. What was the origin of the Prussian Monarchy ? Sketch briefly its progress from the earliest times to the reign of Frederic the Great.

HISTORIES OF GREECE AND ROME.

Examiner.-MR. LETHBRIDGE, M. A.

1. What races inhabited Peloponnesus at the time of Lycurgus? Give an account of the Return of the Heraclidæ, and rationalise the legend.

2. Write a brief sketch of the history of Athens from the usurpation of Pisistratus to the establishment of the Democracy. Give an account of the legislation of Clisthenes.

3. What do you know of the history of Corcyra? What is its modern name?

4. Give some account of (1) the Peace of Antalcidas, (2) the Peace of Callias. Who were the Achæans, and at

what periods did they take a leading part in the affairs of Greece?

Describe the campaigns (1) of Brasidas in Thrace, (2) of Pyrrhus in Italy, (3) of Scipio in Africa.

6. Sketch briefly the legends (1) of the Battle of Lake Regillus, (2) of Coriolanus, (3) of Cincinnatus.

7. Distinguish between Tribunes of the Plebs, rarian Tribunes, Legionary Tribunes, Military Tribunes. What were the duties of the Censor, Prætor, Quæstor, Edile ?

8. Describe the constitution, functions, and power of the Senate at the time of the Second Punic War. On what points was it attacked by Caius Gracchus ?

HISTORY OF ENGLAND AND INDIA.

Examiner.-MR. LETHBRIDGE, M. A.

1. What are the chief independent and extraneous sources of evidence from which we may obtain confirmations or corrections of the received accounts of ancient history? Illustrate your answer with reference to English and Indian History.

2. Give some account of the social and political system of the Saxons in England. How was it modified by the Danish and Norman conquests?

3. Write a short account of each of the following: Waltheof, Pandulf, Lord Peterborough, Lord Bute, Raguji Bosla, the Marquis Wellesley. Sketch briefly the lives of Marlborough, Nadir Shah.

4. Write a brief history of the Covenanters.

5. Describe the Home and Foreign policy of Clarendon. What were the charges on which he was impeached, and how far may they be justified?

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Who were the Undertakers, the Abhorrers, the Non

jurors? Give an account of (1) the Pilgrimage of Grace, (2) the Rebellion of 1715.

7. Describe briefly Alexander's expedition to India; and write a short account of the Bactrian and Indo-Scythian Monarchies.

8. Compare Akbar's policy towards the Hindus with that of Aurangzib, and illustrate the effects of each by the history of the Rajputs during their reigns.

9. Give a short account of the Bahmani kingdom. What States were formed on its ruins ?

10. Whence arose the Burmese war of 1824-26, and what were its results ?

L. M. S. and M. B. First Examination.

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ANATOMY.

Examiner.-S. B. PARTRIDGE, F. R. C. S.

Morning Paper.

Describe the Sphenoid Bone?

Describe the Hip-joint, and compare and contrast it with the articulation of the Shoulder.

3. What structures would be exposed to view in making a transverse section of the middle of the thigh, and what would be their relative relations ?

4. Describe fully the various steps of a dissection for the purpose of exposing the trunk and principal branches of the Facial nerve.

Afternoon Paper.

5. From what sources does the cerebro-spinal nervous centre derive its vascular supply?

6. From what spinal nerves is the Anterior Crural nerve derived, and to what structures is it distributed?

7. Describe the Peritoneum, explain its use and point out the relation which it bears to the different abdominal and pelvic viscera.

8. Describe, in the order in which they would be met with in a dissection, the different structures situated in the Palm of the Hand.

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PHYSIOLOGY.

Examiner.-J. EWART, M. D.

Morning Paper.

Describe the minute anatomy of Bone and Cartilage. 2. Give an account of the phenomena, and the causes of the coagulation of the Blood.

3. Describe the mechanism of the circulation of the Blood.

4. Describe the minute anatomy of the Liver, and explain the uses of its secretion-the Bile.

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Afternoon Paper.

Describe the structure and functions of the umbilical vesicle, allantois and placenta.

6. Describe the three forms of nerve-matter, and the functions of each.

7. Give a concise account of the uses of the saliva, gastric juice, and pancreatic juice in the digestion of the food.

8. Describe the minute anatomy of a Malpighian body of the kidney and spleen, and the functions of each.