Questions on Modern Continental History and

Geography.

1. Sketch the character and acts of-Charles VII of France-Cardinal Mazarin-the Regent Duc d'Orleans-Robespierre.

2. What do you know about-Pope Clement VII Wallenstein - Peter the GreatFrederic the Great-Blucher? Give dates.

3. Explain the terms-Pragmatic Sanction, Golden Bull, Diet (in German) - Concordat, Parliament, States-General (in French) — and Serfdom (in Russian history).

4. Narrate briefly the chief events in the war between France, under Napoleon, and the other European powers. What circumstances led directly to the rupture of the Peace of Amiens-the battle of Copenhagen and the Emperor's march into Russia?

5. Where are Ivry-Fontenoy -Hohenlinden-Amiens-the Hanse Towns? Name the territories which make up the Austrian Empire.

6. What is meant by the Houses of Valois, Bourbon, and Orleans, in French history? What were, or are, their respective titles to the crown of France?

EXPERIMENTAL SCIENCES.

PROFESSOR TYNDALL, F.R.S.

Maximum Number of Marks

600

1. Give the chemical name and symbol of red iron-rust. If you throw potassium upon ice it burns; explain the reaction which takes place.

2. Write the names of the substances denoted by the following symbols:

FeO SO,, CaO CO2, NaO NO5, CuO SO3, HCI, HS.

Write the symbols for water, chalk, common salt, and quartz.

3. What is fire-damp? Give its chemical symbol, and describe its properties.

4. What is choke-damp? Give its symbol, describe its production from fire-damp, and state some of its prominent chemical and physical properties.

5. Describe the safety lamp, and state the principles on which its efficacy depends.

6. When sulphur is burnt in the product of its combustion? retted hydrogen, and what is its white-lead of paintings?

the air, what is What is sulphuaction on the

7. Describe a cell of Grove's battery; starting from the upper end of the platinum plate, state the direction in which the current runs.

8. Suppose a voltaic current to be sent through water, hydrochloric acid, fused chloride of lead, and a solution of common salt; what are the substances set free where the current enters the respective liquids?

9. State distinctly what you understand by the "direction" of a current of electricity.

10. You are required to ascertain whether a current is passing through a telegraph wire to which you have access, and the direction in which the current is passing; how will you do it?

11. A current passes from north to south through a wire which passes over a freely suspended magnetic needle; describe fully the effect produced upon the needle.

12. Describe the ordinary multiplying galvanometer; and state the principles of its construction.

13. I rub a glass rod with silk, and bring it near to an ordinary gold leaf electrometer, the leaves diverge, and on the removal of the rod, collapse again; what electricity causes them to diverge, and why do they collapse ?

14. While the leaves referred to in the last question are in a state of divergence, I touch the knob of the instrument with my hand, the leaves instantly collapse. I now withdraw my hand, and afterwards the glass rod; the leaves diverge again; explain the various steps of the process here indicated.

15. I place an electrometer before you, with its gold leaves divergent, and require you to ascertain the quality of the electricity which causes them to diverge; how will you do it?

16. I suspend two magnetic needles side by side; how will their poles act upon each other?

17. I place a bar of soft iron east and west, and find that both ends of the bar attract the north pole of a magnetic needle. I now set the same bar upright, and find that the north pole of the needle is attracted by one end of the bar, and repelled by the other; explain the reason.

18. The north end of a magnetic needle is attracted towards the north magnetic pole of the earth; why then does not the needle move towards the pole when set afloat on water?

19. What is the difference between the conduction and the radiation of heat? Name a few of the best conductors, and of the best radiators.

20. How are the dimensions of bodies affected by heat? Are there any apparent exceptions to the general rule? What is meant by the coefficient of expansion?

21. What is the difference between the propa... gation of heat through a column of water heated at the bottom, and through a column of brass of the same dimensions heated in the same manner?

22. If 2 lbs. of water in the form of steam at 212° Fahrenheit, be added to 11 lbs. of water at the temperature of 32°, we shall obtain 13 lbs. of water, having a temperature of 212°; how is this possible?

23. When you hear it stated that the steam in a locomotive has a pressure of five atmospheres, what do you understand by the expression?

24. Describe the construction and graduation of the ordinary mercurial thermometer; wherein does the thermometer of Fahrenheit differ from the centigrade thermometer, and from that of Reaumur? How may the degrees of one of these thermometers be converted into those of the others?

FRENCH.

REV. TH. MARZIALS, B.D., F.R.G.S.

OBLIGATORY PORTION.

For this portion (including Reading and Writing from Dictation) 400 Marks are allotted, of which 200 must be obtained for Qualification.

Translate into English:

Cincinnatus.

Les Romains, dans un moment de crise, élurent consul Cincinnatus, l'homme le plus distingué de son siècle par ses talents militaires et par la simplicité de ses mœurs. Les envoyés du sénat