well as acts. They must be capable of fulfilling the conditions of action, and the conditions of self-restraint, which are necessary either for keeping the established polity in existence, or for enabling it to achieve the ends, its conduciveness to which forms its recommendation.-J. S. MILL on Representative Government.

Translate the following passage into Latin Prose :

There may be persons ready to make a question here, whether it be so certain that, giving the people of the lower order more knowledge, and sharpening their faculties, will really tend to the preservation of good order. Would not such improvement elate them, to a most extravagant estimate of their own worth and importance; and therefore result in insufferable arrogance, both in the individuals and the class? Would they not, on the strength of it, be continually assuming to sit in judgment on the proceedings and claims of their betters, even in the most lofty stations, and demanding their own pretended rights, with a troublesome and turbulent pertinacity? Would they not, since their improvement cannot, from their condition in life, be large and deep, be in just such a half-taught state as would make them exactly fit to be wrought upon by all sorts of crafty schemers, fierce declaimers, empirics, and innovators? Is it not, in short, too probable that, since an increase of mental power is available to bad uses as well as good, the results would greatly preponderate on the side of evil?-FOSTER'S Essays on Popular Ignorance.

Translate the following passage into Latin Verse :

And now farewell to Italy-perhaps
For ever! Yet, methinks, I could not go,
I could not leave it, were it mine to say,
'Farewell for ever!' Many a courtesy,
That sought no recompense, and met with none
But in the swell of heart with which it came,
Have I experienced; not a cabin door,
Go where I would, but opened with a smile;
From the first hour, when, in my long descent,
Strange perfumes rose, rose as to welcome me,
From flowers that ministered like unseen spirits;
From the first hour, when vintage songs broke forth,
A grateful earnest, and the Southern lakes,
Dazzlingly bright, unfolded at my feet;

They that receive the cataracts, and ere long
Dismiss them, but how changed-onward to roll
From age to age in silent majesty,

Blessing the nations, and reflecting round

The gladness they inspire.

SAMUEL ROGERS. A Farewell.

Experimental Physics.

GEOLOGY.

DR. HAUGHTON.

1. How does the moon form an exception to the nebular theory of Laplace ?

2. How has this exception been explained by modern theorists ?

3. Prove Clairaut's theorem for the case of a fluid attracted by an infinitely dense centre.

4. Describe the east and west chains of mountains on the globe. 5. Define the rocks

Granite.
Diorite.
Dolerite.

6. What are the chief minerals found in volcanic rocks?

7. What are the chief minerals found in granites?

8. State Mr. Babbage's theory of the slow elevation and depression of large tracts of land and sea bottom.

9. What are the observed rates of molecular impulse in sand and granite?

10. Describe the phenomena of conjugate and secondary faults.

CHEMISTRY.

DR. APJOHN.

1. Describe the original mode of making peroxide of hydrogen, the improvement of the process by Regnault, and the manner of effecting the analysis of the peroxide.

2. How is the sesquicarbonate of ammonium most easily converted into the bicarbonate, and how is this change explained? State also t proportions by volume in which gaseous ammonia, carbonic acid, and the vapour of water should be mixed in order to the production of the bicarbonate.

3. The chlorine from 4.8 grains of a commercial peroxide of manganese was passed into a solution of iodide of potassium, and the colour thus produced was found to be just discharged by 80 measures of a volumetric solution of hyposulphite of sodium, including in 100 alkalimeter measures 4th of an atom of this salt; what is the percentage of pure peroxide of manganese corresponding to the mixed oxides of manganese in the commercial specimen experimented on?

4. Calculate the volume of nitrous oxide which one ounce avoirdupois of anhydrous nitrate of ammonium is capable of yielding, the barometer standing at 30.67 inches, and the thermometer at 68°.

N. B.-Specific gravity of hydrogen

Weight of cubic inch of air at 60° and 30°

5. Millon prepares the iodate of potassium by a very simple process; what is it, and how is it explained? Give also the reaction between sulphurous acid and iodate of potassium-first, when the salt is in excess; second, when the acid is in excess.

6. Describe and explain Persoz' method of making marsh gas, and deduce the analysis of a mixture of CO and C2H4 from the following data:— a. The bulk of the mixture 130 volumes.

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b. The mixture requires for complete combustion 200 volumes of oxygen.

7. It has been recently maintained by M. Prat that fluor spar is not a fluoride, but an oxyfluoride of calcium; assuming such to be the case, what must be its atomic weight, that hitherto ascribed to it being 19 ?

8. If tartaric acid added to a solution of iodide of potassium developes free iodine, what impurity must be present in the salt?

9. Write the formula of the ferro and of the ferridcyanide of potassium; and explain how the former may be converted into the latter, and the latter into the former. Give also the reaction of each of these compounds upon sulphate of copper.

10. What is the theoretic amount of hydrocyanic acid which an ounce of ferrocyanide of potassium is capable of yielding when distilled with dilute sulphuric acid? Describe also, and explain, the action of hydrocyanic acid, when saturated with potash, on chloride of silver.

History and English Literature.

HISTORY.

PROFESSOR BARLOW.

1. In the ninth year of Henry IV. a remarkable dispute took place between the Lords and the Commons in Parliament; give an account of the dispute, and show what important points of constitutional law are illustrated thereby.

2. What legislative measures respecting High Treason were passed in the reign of (a) Edward III., (b) Henry VIII., (c) Edward VI. ?

3. Give an account of the Statute of Fines.

4. What instances does Hallam give of the unconstitutional violence of the reign of Mary I. ?

5. Hume describes the dispute between the Houses of York and Lancaster as a "fatal quarrel which was signalized by twelve pitched battles." Give the names and dates of these battles, and say which side was victorious in each of them.

6. What account does Hallam give of the progress of the free imperial cities of Germany from the tenth till the fifteenth century? Meaning of the terms Pfahlbürger and Ausbürger?

7. Arrange in chronological order the leading events in French history during the reign of Louis XII.

8. What was (a) the Massacre of Vassy, (b) the Peace of Monsieur, (c) the Edict of Amboise?

9. Alfonso V. of Aragon was also King of Sicily and of Naples; what circumstances led to this union of the three crowns?

10. Mention the most important events in Italian history which occurred during the Papacy of (a) Alexander III., (b) Innocent IV., (c) Urban IV.

1. Name all the most remarkable writers of sonnets in the English language. Explain the structure of the sonnets of Shakspeare and Milton. Criticize those of any one writer in comparison with those of another.

2. What is Nash's allusion to "Hamlet"? What is Lodge's? What are the dates of these? When was Shakspeare's "Hamlet" entered in the "Stationers' Register"? What are the dates of the first and second quartos? What is remarkable about the first quarto? Under what names do Polonius and Reynaldo appear in it? There must have been some other early edition of the original besides the two quartos?

3. Give some account of Neville's "Plato Redivivus." and Mandeville's "Fable of the Bees."

4. Give the substance of Johnson's criticism on the versification of Dryden.

5. Write notes on the following passages. What is the thread of Hamlet's thought in the first?—

a.

"Ros. Truly, and I hold ambition of so airy and light a quality that it is but a shadow's shadow.

"Ham. Then are our beggars bodies; and our monarchs and outstretch'd heroes the beggars' shadows."

b. "Child Rowland to the dark tower came; His word was still,-Fie, foh, and fum,

I smell the blood of a British man."

c.. "Woo 't drink up eisel?"

d. "Here's a farmer that hanged himself in the expectation of plenty Faith, here's an equivocator that could swear in both the scales against either scale; who committed treason for God's sake, yet could not equivocate to heaven.”

e. "There is a master of scoffing that in his catalogue of books of a feigned library sets down this title of a book, The Morris-Dance of Heretics."

f.

"There is a cunning which we in England call 'the turning of the cat in the pan.""

"If his wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen, for they are cymini sectores."

6. Write a criticism on Dryden and Pope, considered as students of human character.

7. Johnson wrote “His [Addison's] criticism is condemned as tentative or experimental, rather than scientific; and he is considered as deciding by taste rather than by principles.” What is the meaning of this? What is "scientific" criticism? What is "taste"? What are "principles"? Is what Johnson says true of Addison? What are the merits and defects of Johnson himself as a critic? What are the respective excellences of "scientific criticism," and "the criticism of taste"? Throw your answers to these questions into the form of a short essay.

JUNIOR SOPHISTERS.

Mathematical Physics.

A.

DR. STUBBS.

1. Prove that the direction of elevation which corresponds to the maximum range of a projectile on an inclined plane bisects the angle between the plane and the vertical line passing through the point of projection.

2. Deduce from the equations of motion the velocity acquired, and the time of falling through a given space, the force varying inversely as the square of the distance from the centre.

3. A body, descending vertically, draws an equal body 25 feet in 24 seconds up an inclined plane, inclined to the horizon at an angle of 30°, by means of a string passing over a pulley at the top of the plane; determine the force of gravity.

5. Find for the point x, y the radius of curvature of the curve

6. Find the centre of gravity of the area intercepted between any two parallel chords of an ellipse or hyperbola.

MR. TOWNSEND.

7. A force Facts at the point xyz, in the direction aẞy; required the values of its moments round the axes of X, Y, Z, respectively.