IV.-1. The History of the English and of the French Colonies in America, respectively, illustrates the leading characteristics of the two parent nations?

2. What description of Colony, according to Heeren, has alone prospered in the hands of the French, and why?

3. Give a short account of the nature and duration of the struggle between the English and French in the South of India; and briefly sketch the characters of the leading officers of both nations who took a prominent part in the contest?

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4. Nature of the communications which passed between 3 the Governor General and Tipú Sultán before the opening of the last campaign against Seringapatam, in 1799, together with the subsequent events of the war, closing with the dismemberment of the Mysore Empire?

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1. Prove that a commodity is never permanently im- 4 ported unless it can be obtained from abroad at a smaller cost of labour and capital, on the whole, than is necessary for producing it.

2. Explain "the equation of international demand." Effects on this equation of an improved process of production in one of the countries? Three cases?-of the three, which is the most probable?

3. Money is obtained in precisely the same manner as any other foreign commodity? Money artificially detained in a country is a loss to the country? The case of international trade in which one nation takes nothing from the other but money?

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4. Distribution of the precious metals among the different countries in the world? Ricardo's theorem? Is it possible for a country which exports nothing to the mining countries to obtain bullion cheaper than any of the countries which do export to them?

5. Adam Smith's four fundamental rules of taxation? Taxes falling on capital are not necessarily objectionable?

6. Mill's opinions of the Income Tax, both as to its desirability, and the practicability of levying it fairly?

7. The discussion on the question whether the same percentage should be levied on perpetual and terminable incomes?

8. The alterations advocated by Mill in the laws of partnership? Connexion between this question and the condition of the artizan? Some of the chief points in the evidence lately given on this subject before a Committee of the House of Commons?

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H. GREEN.

MILL'S LOGIC.

The first five Chapters.

APRIL 17TH.

Paper Questions.

1. Mill's definition of Logic? What definitions does he previously discuss, and what are his objections to them?

2. The "classification of all nameable things" which Mill proposes in the place of the categories of Aristotle ? 3. Taking "feelings" as a genus, what are the species which he places under it?

4. The discussion commencing with "It is apt to be supposed that the copula is much more than a mere sign of predication"?

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5. The various doctrines on the import of propositions 12 discussed by Mill, and rejected: with his reasons for their rejection?

6. In all propositions of which the predicate is a concrete name, what is really predicated is one of five things: name the five things, and give illustrations?

7. Explain the assertion "Individuals have no essences." What do you understand by an essential proposition?

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1. Determine the conditions of a function being a maximum or a minimum, and apply it to find the maximum values of the fraction xm (u-x)" Is this function susceptible of a minimum?

2. Find the equation of a cycloid; and apply the calculus to determine its length.

3. Explain the method of finding the evolute to any y2 x2 curve, and apply it to the evolute of the ellipse+2=1. 4. Give a geometrical method of describing the osculating circle of an ellipse, and thence find the usual expression for the radius of curvature.

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5. State distinctly the principle of virtual velocities, and prove that it is true in all the mechanical powers.

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6. Describe the Danish balance, and show how to graduate it.

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7. A stone is heard to strike the bottom of a well after 7 seconds: what is the depth of the well?

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8. Give a general solution of the problem of a projectile on an inclined plane, and thence derive the common expressions for the range when the point of projection is on the plane. Prove that two elevations correspond to each range, and that they coincide when the range is a maximum.

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10. The length of a second's pendulum, in London lat., 8 51° 30′ is 39.14 inches, what is the length in Bombay lat., 18° 58′ the earth's ellipticity being assumed

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1. Enumerate the principal classes of salts, giving examples of each.

2. By what methods may acetic acid be formed artificially? Explain the nature of the changes which occur in the ordinary process, and mention the general characters of the salts it forms with bases.

3. Describe the processes by which iron is reduced from its ore to the state of malleable metal, and the object of each process. What is the difference in the mechanical and chemical constitution of cast iron, wrought iron, and steel?

4. Describe the organs through which the respiration of plants is carried on. What are the functions of the leaves, the root, and the pith?

5. What are the general botanical characters of the umbelliferæ, and the most usual characteristics of their fruits and juices? Mention such exceptions as may occur to you.

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ROBERT HAINES, M. B.

SECOND NORMAL SCHOLARSHIP.

LITERATURE..

APRIL 19TH.

Paper Questions.

I. Explain the following passage fully :-
"But oh how alter'd was its sprightlier tone!
When Cheerfulness, a nymph of healthiest hue,.
Her bow across her shoulder flung,

Her buskins gemm'd with morning dew,

Blew an inspiring air, that dale and thicket rung-
The hunter's call to Faun and Dryad known;

The oak-crown'd sisters, and their chaste-eyed Queen,
Satyrs and sylvan-boys were seen,

Peeping from forth their alleys green;

Brown Exercise rejoic'd to hear,

And Sport leapt up, and seized his beechen spear."

COLLINS.-The Passions.

2. What do you understand by the terms "Strophe," "Antistrophe," and "Epode," used to mark the divisions in some of the odes of Collins and Gray; and what would you call a lyric piece so divided, in contradistinction to one where the same metre is repeated, from stanza to stanza, to the close of the poem?

3. "Th' exploit of strength, dexterity, or speed
To him nor vanity nor joy can bring;

His heart, from cruel sport estrang'd, would bleed
To work the woe of any living thing."

BEATTIE.-The Minstrel'.

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There is an exact parallel for these lines in the selections which you have read from Wordsworth? What do you the stanza in which "The Minstrel" is written, and what other distinguished poets have used it?

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