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5. In the case of an invalid who cannot be moved, how should you Appendix. change the bed clothes? Describe the best way to warm a garment Section III., before putting it on the patient.

6. Describe three different ways of investing small savings.

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7. Mention, in connection with food, clothing, and the feet, some Questions. precautions which help to ward off a cold.

8. When may Amusements be described as beneficial; and when not?

9. What do you know about the red corpuscles of the blood?

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10. Describe the air cells of the lungs; and mention what the blood gramme. gains and parts with through their provision.

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I have to thank you for the copy of your complete edition of Goldsmith's Poetical Works, which I found on reaching home last evening, and especially for the inscription therein with which you have honoured me.

I will do my best towards reading these noble volumes worthily; and welcome so fair an occasion for studying once more, and with such excellent assistance, the Poet who fascinated me in my youth, and of whom my reverence remains undiminished, and my estimate scarcely altered after twenty long years.

I am, Dear Sir,

W. M. Rosetti, Esq.

Yours truly,

JAMES THOMPSON.

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DICTATION AND SPELLING BOOK SUPERSEDED

50 Marks (including 20 for Dictation).

One hour and a half allowed for this subject.

Questions. N.B.-Only five questions to be attempted. The Examiner will read only the first five answers left uncancelled. The questions in this paper are all of equal value, six marks being allowed for each.

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D Papers.

Mr. DEWAR, Head Inspector.

Mr. WORSLEY, District Inspector.

1. Explain how the spelling of the following words is determined by their etymology:-vigilance, credible, valour.

2. What reason does Dr. Sullivan give for the doubling of the letter l in counselling? Write out the rule to which the spelling of this word is an exception.

3. Write notes on the spelling of the following words:-inquire, misspell, almost.

4. What is the reason of the second rule of spelling? Illustrate your answer by an example.

5. Write out the rule for spelling, or exception to rule, exemplified in the following words:-likeness, retrieve, courageous.

6. Write notes on the spelling of the following words in italics: beauteous, the Sicilies, the Atlas Insurance Company.

7. Explain clearly how Dr. Sullivan accounts for the spelling of the words entire and replete.

8. Write notes on the spelling of the following participles of verbs : -enjoying, frolicked, hieing.

9. In what grammatical inflections is the first rule for spelling exemplified? Illustrate each case by an example.

10. Write out the rule of spelling exemplified in the word admirable.

DICTATION.-20 Marks.

Mr. DEWAR, Head Inspector.

Mr. WORSLEY, District Inspector.

To the observing and imaginative traveller, Ireland must present a great number of peculiarities of aspect which will not fail to excite his notice, and impress themselves indelibly upon his mind. The scantiness of wood-for its natural timber has nearly all disappeared -and the abundance of water, are two of the characteristics that will most strike him; and, next to these, the great extent of prospect usually afforded to the eye. Sparkling streams are visible everywhere, and shining lakes and noble rivers come into view in rapid succession; while ranges of blue mountains are rarely wanting to bound the distant horizon.

The colours with which nature has painted the surface of our island are equally peculiar. There is no variety of green, whether of depth or vivid brightness, which is not to be found covering it. They are hues which can be seen nowhere else in equal force; and even our bogs, which are so numerous, with all their mutations of colour-now purple, now red, or brown, or black-by their vigorous contrasts, give additional beauty and life to the landscape, and assist in imparting to it a sort of natural individuality.

GRAMMAR AND COMPOSITION.-60 Marks.

Two hours allowed for this paper.

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N.B.-In addition to the question in Parsing, namely, No. 1, which is Monitors. compulsory, only four questions are to be attempted. The D Papers. Examiner will read only the Parsing and the first four other answers left uncancelled. The questions in this paper are all of equal value, twelve marks being allowed for each.

Mr. SULLIVAN, Head Inspector.

Dr. BEATTY, District Inspector.

1. It is probable that, when this great work was begun, which must have been many hundred years ago, there was some religion among this people, for they gave it the name of a temple, and have a tradition that it was designed for men to pay their devotions in.

Parse fully the words in italics. (It is not allowable to parse, instead of a word given, one substituted for it.)

2. Correct (giving your reasons) or justify the following expres

sions:

(a.) She always appears amiably.

(b.) He was heard say worse things.

(c.) I believed it to be she.

(d.) I have no interests but that of truth and virtue.

3. Write down (in columns) the past tense and past participle of each of the following verbs:

meet, hurt, sweep, forbear, grow, sling.

4. State in full the rule with regard to the formation of the plural of nouns ending in o; and mention at least four exceptions to the rule.

5. Define the following classes of Adjectives:

(a.) Cardinal Numeral;

(b.) Ordinal Numeral;

(c.) Pronominal;

and give an example of each.

6. Frame sentences to illustrate the use as adverbs of:—little, best, more, ill.

7. Give six instances of Nouns being used as Adjectives.

8. State fully the force of the Pluperfect Tense and of the Second Future Tense.

9. Give an instance of each of the following:

(a.) The Nominative Absolute;

(b.) A Double Comparative;

(c.) An Objective Case after an Interjection.

10. Name the two parts of Syntax, and give a definition of each.

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Two hours allowed for this paper.

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to it only four questions are to be attempted. The Examiner will read only the answer to the map-drawing question and the first four other answers left uncancelled. The questions in this paper are all of equal value, twelve marks being assigned to each.

Mr. EARDLEY, Head Inspector.

Mr. MURPHY, District Inspector.

1. Draw an outline map of Ireland, showing the principal coast features of Connaught and Munster.

2. Mark, upon the outline map supplied to you, the Orange, Niger, and Zambesi rivers; Capetown, Sierra Leone, and Durban; Abys sinia, and Natal.

3. Draw out a neat diagram showing how the seasons are produced, and add short explanatory notes.

4. What industries flourish on the Severn and Clyde? towns of importance on these rivers.

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5. Where are Cronstadt, Simla, Auckland, Palermo, Ava, and Riga? 6. Explain (a) how the length of the earth's circumference was determined; (b) why degrees of longitude vary in length.

7. Describe as accurately as possible the position of Seychelles and Madeira Islands; Delagoa Bay and Gulf of Pechili; the Fraser and Amur rivers.

8. What countries supply us with (a) coffee; (b) sugar; and (c) wines?

9. Describe the exact position of Melbourne, Patna, Manilla, and Aden; and say what you know about two of these places.

10. In what counties are Falmouth, Peterhead, Eton, Wrexham, Galashiels, and Bristol? For what are these towns noted?

ENGLISH LITERATURE.-50 Marks.

Two hours allowed for this paper.

N.B.-Only five questions to be attempted. The Examiner will read only the first five answers left uncancelled. The questions in this paper are all of equal value, ten marks being allowed for each. The first question must be attempted by all candidates.

Mr. STRONGE, Head Inspector.

Mr. MCALISTER, District Inspector.

1. As an exercise in composition, give in your own words the substance of the Essay on Clubs, or write a description of your present school and its routine.

2. "Upon my return home, I fell into a profound contemplation on the evils that attend these superstitious follies of Mankind." Quote, or give a summary of, the remainder of the passage.

3. What were the three tasks which the Spectator's correspondent in the essay on "Sign Posts" proposes to accomplish?

4. Quote, or give the substance of, the satire on the dress of the Appendix. women of the period contained in the essay Indian Kings in Eng- Section III.,

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(b.) Strange that one who has all the birds and beasts in nature to choose out of, should live at the sign of an ens rationis.” Give the context in which these passages occur, and explain the meaning of the words italicised.

6. "Are not these, O Mirzah, habitations worth contending for"? Describe the habitations here referred to.

7. With the rules of what other clubs does the Spectator compare those of the Two-penny Club?

8. Explain, as you would to a class:

(a.) "A surly choleric fellow generally makes choice of a bear." (b.) "Several brevets have been granted for the converting of subalterns into scarf-officers."

9. Quote from "The Deserted Village" the passage in which Goldsmith bids farewell to poetry.

10. Complete the couplets in which the following lines occur:(a.) But a bold peasantry, their country's pride.

(b.) Yet he was kind, or if severe in aught.

(c.) Those matted woods where birds forget to sing.

(d) The fond companion of his helpless years.

(e.) And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.

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ARITHMETIC.-100 Marks.

Two hours allowed for this paper.

N.B.-Only five questions to be attempted. The Examiner will read only the first five answers left uncancelled. The questions in this paper are all of equal value, twenty marks being assigned to each. Brief explanatory notes of your work should be given.

Mr. DEWAR, Head Inspector.

Mr. D. P. FITZGERALD, District Inspector.

1. Find, by Practice, the cost of making a fence 13 miles 7 furlongs 25 perches long, at £27 18s. 4d. per mile.

2. Find the rent of 171 English acres at £1 4s. 6d. per Irish acre. 3. The prime factors of two numbers are respectively 2, 5, 11, 11, Express, in factors, the Least Common

17 and 2, 2, 5, 11, 13. Multiple of the numbers.

4. If ·0625 lb. cost 458s., find the cost of 0375 of a ton.

5. By how much does the commercial discount on a bill of £445 10s., due 3 months hence, exceed the true discount on the same bill, the rate of interest being 5 per cent.?

6. What vulgar fraction would, if multiplied by 2916 give the same result as

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