1. Describe the position of the following places, and say with what branch of industry each is connected:-Belfast, Coventry, Dundee, Halifax, Kilmarnock, Luton, Paisley, Preston, Stroud, Tiverton.

2. Draw a map of Germany; or, mention its boundaries, mountains, rivers, and chief States with their capitals.

3. Describe the position of the following places, and state some fact about each :-Agra, Barcelona, Dresden, Genoa, Port Said, Quito, Stuttgart, Trincomalee, Upsala, Zanzibar.

4. What additions have been made to our knowledge of the interior of Africa during the last thirty years?

5. Give a complete list of British possessions in Europe and Asia.

6. What provinces constitute the Dominion of Canada? Give the capitals of each. What portion of British North America is not included in the Dominion?

7. Give a list of the States of South America, with the capitals of each. Mention also the form of government in each State.

8. Quebec (latitude 47°) and Drontheim (latitude 64°) have both the same mean annual temperature. How do you explain this ?

1. Exhibit in a tabular form the descent of Edward IV. from Edward III. How many years elapsed between the death of the one and the accession of the other?

2. Write down three important events in the reign of Henry II., and three in that of Henry VII. (Three only, adding no details.)

3. Who were the parents and grandparents of George I.? State and discuss his right to the throne. Who claimed the throne in opposition to him?

4. State all you know about the swindling transactions of John Law and Sir John Blunt.

5. Give an account of the rebellion in favour of the Young Pretender in 1745.

6. What were the causes and results of the Seven Years' War? Give the principal events of the war without any details whatever.

7. Write an account of what is called the Reformation of the Calendar from the time of Julius Cæsar downwards.

8. What was the Septennial Act? What advantages was it supposed to have over the Act which it replaced?

1. Give a sketch of the life of King Alfred (omitting carefully all trivial details).

2. Connect the names of the following persons with English history by some one good event:- Julius Agricola, and the emperors Adrian, Severus, and Constantine the Great.

3. Give six important events in the reigns of Henry I. and Stephen. (Three in each reign, and three only.)

4. Narrate the circumstances which led to the assembling of the first House of Commons. Mention any Acts by which the duration of a parliament has been fixed, or its constitution or mode of election altered.

5. Give an account of the insurrection in the reign of Henry VI. or of the Pilgrimage of Grace.

6. Exhibit in a tabular form the descent of Henry VI. and Henry VII. from Edward III., with the date of the accession of each king to the throne.

7. Write a short account either of the first Duke of Marlborough or of the Earl of Chatham (one only).

8. What important measures were passed at the following dates:-1164, 1279, 1600, 1662, 1679, 1701 ? with a short notice either of that in 1279 or that in 1701 (one only).

1. What number multiplied by 402 will give the same product as 536 multiplied by 150 ?

2. Find the area of the walls of a rectangular room 23 ft. 8 in. long, 15 ft. 10 in. wide, and 11 ft. 11 in. high.

3. Find the G. C. M. of 30599 and 271469; also the L. C. M. of 24, 48, 64, 192.

4. Find the sum and the difference of

of 72, and 12 divided

6. Add together the fractions 1, 2, 3; next reduce them to decimals, add the decimals together, and show that the result is the same as when the fractions were added.

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7. Extract the Square Root of 236144689 and of 4 to four places of decimals; also express the cube of as a decimal to three places.

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8. If, with a capital of £1000, a tradesman gains £100 in 5 months, in what time will he gain 49 pounds 5 florins with a capital of £225 ?

9. Brown and Robinson each lends £256 for 3 years at 4 per cent. per annum, the former at Simple Interest, the latter at Compound Interest: find the amount each money-lender receives.

10. In a late cricket match, the 11 Eton men played as follows:-one obtained th of the total number of runs, each of two others th, and each of three others th. The rest made up between them 126, and 4 of these last scored 5 times as many as the other. Find the total and the score of each man.

1. In a Simple Division sum, the dividend is 152181255, the quotient is 3854, and the remainder is 2211: find the divisor. 2. Divide £344. 0s. 81d. by 129; and 178 cwt. 3 qrs. 14 lbs. by 53.

3. Reduce £1857. 14s. 3d. to rupees at the rate of 1s. 11åd. for 1 rupee.

4. Find, by Practice, the value of 9 yds. 2 ft. 10 in. of silk at 58. 7 d. a yard.

5. Reduce to Simple Fractions:

6. Find the respective values of 432 of 13s. 4d.; 3.8375 of an acre; and 3.5 of 18 gallons.

7. Express 4, 1, and as decimals.

8. Find the number of square feet and inches in the floor of a room 23 ft. 10 in. long, 18 ft. 4 in. broad, and 11 ft. 3 in. high, and the number of cubic feet and inches it contains.

9. If a soldier be allowed 12 lbs. of bread in 8 days, how much will serve a regiment of 850 men for the year 1884 ?

10. What is the Simple Interest on £250 at 3 per cent. per annum? and what sum of money, lent at 5 per cent. per annum Simple Interest, will produce in 4 years the same amount of interest?