EXAMINATION PAPERS

USED AT THE

Examination of Candidates for

APPOINTMENT TO THE

Commissariat,

HELD

IN APRIL 1866.

London

HARRISON, 59, PALL MALL,

BOOKSELLER TO THE QUEEN AND H.R.H. THE PRINCE OF WALES

EXAMINATION PAPERS.

APRIL 1866.

ENGLISH.

G. W. DASENT, D.C.L.

Write an Essay on one of the following subjects:

The National Debt."

"Free Trade."

"The Right of Search."

BRITISH HISTORY.

G. W. DASENT, D.C.L.

1. Describe the line of policy pursued by England when the first French Revolution broke out.

2. Describe the social and political condition of England in the year 1800.

3. Mention the chief points of difference in the policy of Mr. Pitt and Mr. Fox.

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4. Enumerate the principal events which occurred in India between the years 1790 and 1810.

5. Write a short life of Leopold, King of the Belgians.

6. Describe the agitation which resulted in Catholic Emancipation.

7. Mention the chief legislative changes which took place between 1830 and 1850.

8. Give a list of the colonies which England has either settled or acquired since the year 1800.

9. Describe the efforts made by England to suppress the Slave Trade during the present century.

PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY.

G. W. DASENT, D.C.L.

1. Mention the principal races which inhabit the Continent of Europe.

2. Describe the physical causes which affect the climate of Great Britain.

3. Mention the countries of Europe which produce the following minerals most abundantly: coal, iron, tin, copper, and quicksilver.

4. Enumerate the chief articles of export and import which pass between England and France.

5. Fill up, as completely as you can, the accompanying map.

6. Mention the chief rivers and mountain chains in Asia.

7. Mention the locality of Aden, Aleppo, Benares, Buffalo, Cairo, Damascus, Hong-Kong, New York, New Orleans, Palermo, Odessa, and Washington.

8. Mention the nations which still maintain protective tariffs and those which favour free trade. 9. What is meant by "the Danubian PrincipaliGive some account of their Constitution and

ties?"

History.

1. Divide 43021. 13s. 91d. by 271.

2. In the currency of India, 12 pice make one anna and 16 annas make a rupee; if the value of a rupee be 2s., how many pice are equivalent to 3d.?

3. If a quantity of flour serve 7500 men for 12 weeks at the rate of 20 ounces a-day for each man, for how many weeks will the same quantity of flour supply 11250 men at the rate of 18 ounces a day for each man?

4. One pound avoirdupois weighs 7000 grains troy, one pound troy weighs 5760 grains troy; compare the weight of one ounce troy with one ounce avoirdupois.

5. Find by the rule of practice the value of 42 cwt. 1 qr. 21 lbs. of sugar at 127. 11s. 8d. per cwt.

6. What principal will amount to 18001. in 4 years, at 6 per cent. simple interest?

7. Gunpowder being composed, in weight, of nitre 15 parts, charcoal 3 parts, and sulphur 2 parts, what weight of each ingredient is required for 1 ton 12 cwt. of gunpowder ?