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Classes II. C & III. A.B.

(Five questions to be done, among which must be those marked.*)

* 1. What is the meaning of ?-Feudal system, Monarchy, Anarchy, House of Anjou, Civil War, an

usurper, Crusades, a pretender, intrigues, Prince of Wales, Constitution, Provisions.

* 2. Who were--John Balliol, Becket, Wallace, Simon de Montfort, Perkin Warbeck, Cœur de Lion Earl of Warwick, Wycliffe, Wat Tyler, Prince Arthur, The Black Prince, Queen Maud, Sir Walter Tyrrel, Beauclerc, Longshanks, Joan of Are?

3. In what reigns were the following?-Barons War, Battle of Bosworth, Crecy, Agincourt, Magna

Charta, Bannockburn, Poitiers, Domesday Book.

4. Write a short character of Richard I. or Henry V,

5. Give in their order the principal battles in the Wars of the Roses, and say by which side they

were won.

6. What right had Edward I. to the throne of Scotland; and how did he enforce it?

7. What right to the throne of England had-William I., William II., Henry II., Edward IV.,

Henry IV., Richard III?

DICTATION AND TRANSLATION INTO CHINESE.

Class I.

It is noble to seek truth, and it is beautiful to find it. It is the ancient feeling of the human heart, that knowledge is better than riches; and it is deeply and sacredly true.

To mark the course of human passions as they have flowed on in the ages that are past; to see why nations have risen, and why they have fallen; to speak of light, and heat, and the winds; to know what man has discovered in the heavens above and in the earth beneath; to hear the chemist unfold the marvellous properties which the Creator has locked up in a speck of earth;-it is worth while in the days of our youth to strive hard for this great discipline.

A life of knowledge is not often a life of injury and crime. Whom does such a man oppress? With whose happiness does he interfere? In the pursuit of science he injures no man, and in the acquisition he does good to all.

Class II. 4.

It is evidently the continent most thickly covered with cities and towns; and with high-roads, canals, and railways, weaving the towns into a living and ever-busy net-work. There civilisation has struck its roots deepest, and stretched its branches widest. There the arts and sciences have reached their highest development. There the great mechanical inventions which have knit the world into one vast inter-dependent society have had their birth; and commerce, manufactures, and agriculture have been brought to the greatest perfection. Europe has laid the whole world under contribution for the supply of her physical wants. In return the whole world has been laid under obligation to her for not less real benefits.

Class II. B.

The mason

It is so with all the crafts, and they are inseparably dependent one on another. waits on the carpenter for his mallet, and the carpenter on the smith for his saw; the smith on the smelter for his iron, and the smelter on the miner for his ore. Each, moreover, needs the help of all the others—the carpenter the smith, as much as the smith the carpenter; and both the mason, as much as the mason both. This helplessness of the single craftsman is altogether peculiar to the human artist. Amongst the lower animals it is not seen; and they have never heard of such a doctrine as that of the division of labour.

DICTATION.

Class II. C.

Shot is made by pouring melted lead through a colander, from a great height, into water beneath. In the descent, the shot becomes globular, from the same cause that drops of rain assume that form in falling. In various manufacturing towns shot of all sizes is made on a large scale, more or less as follows. High towers, which the workmen can ascend, are hollow, so that from the top molten lead may be made to fall as a shower into water beneath. The opposition of the air causes the roundness, and the coldness of the water does the hardening at once.