INDEXING.

Time allowed, 2 hours.

Make an Index to the Correspondence appended to the 3rd Report of the Civil Service Commissioners, beginning at p. 165 (House of Commons). The following Index to the letters in pp. 145 and 146 is given as a specimen of what is required :

SPECIMEN OF QUESTIONS IN GEOGRAPHY.

[In all such exercises candidates are warned that attention should be paid to orthography, handwriting, punctuation, grammar, and correctness of expression.]

Time allowed, 2 hours.

1. On the accompanying map of England and Wales trace the courses of the Wye, Severn, Trent, and Mersey; place the ports and headlands on the South Coast, and define the limits of the Counties on the south and east.

2. Write a short account of (1) the Shetland Isles, (2) Leinster, (3) Sicily. 3. Where are the following places, and for what are any of them remarkable-Maida, Navarino, Ratisbon, Goojerat, Saratoga, Tien-Sin, Santa Cruz, Valparaiso, Tunis, Oleron?

4. Mention our chief imports from China and Australia respectively. 5. What are the countries comprised in the Russian Empire? Give some account of the different races which it includes.

6. Draw a map as large as your paper will allow of South America, giving the principal political divisions, with the chief town of each, and the principal rivers and ports.

7. Where does the Gulf Stream originate? Give a short account of it. State what you know of the other principal currents of the Atlantic.

Or,

1. On the accompanying map of Europe trace the course of the principal rivers of France and Spain, and show, with asterisks and names written near, the position of the principal towns on their banks.

2. Describe (1) Mexico, (2) the Morea, (3) the Sahara.

3. Give an account of the counties of Norfolk, Roxburgh, Limerick. 4. Where are the following places, and for what are they remarkable :Zurich, Trieste, Prague, Potsdam, Darmstadt, Stockholm, Smyrna, Trebizond, Bagdad, Shiraz?

5. Give some account of Holland, naming its chief divisions and some of their principal towns.

6. Draw and fill up a map of Egypt, as large as your paper will admit. 7. Give some account of the course of the Mississippi, naming the States by which it passes.

Set in cases where "Geography of the British Islands" is required. Time allowed, 2 hours.

1. On the accompanying map of England and Wales trace the boundaries of the Welsh counties, and the counties bordering on Wales, and the course of the Mersey, Itching, Welland, Avon, and Trent, giving the names of the principal towns on their banks; and mark with asterisks, with the names written near them, the situation of Stockton, Great Malvern, Beaumaris, Hungerford, Cockermouth, Tewkesbury, Shaftesbury, Bury St. Edmunds, Oldham, and St. Ives.

2. Write a geographical description of Connaught and Ross-shire. 3. Name in order the principal seaports which a vessel would pass in coasting from Dublin round Cape Clear to Galway, giving the county in which each port is situated.

4. On the accompanying outline map mark the counties into which Ireland is divided, and delineate, with names, the chief mountains, the chief rivers, and the principal cities on their banks, as distinctly and as completely as you can.

5. Mention and describe the position of some of the principal lakes in Great Britain and Ireland.

6. Write a short description of the following towns:- Londonderry, Glasgow, York.

SPECIMENS OF QUESTIONS IN HISTORY.

[In all such exercises candidates are warned that attention should be paid to orthography, handwriting, punctuation, grammar, and correctness of expression; and that in all cases dates should be given.]

SPECIMENS OF QUESTIONS IN ENGLISH HISTORY. Time allowed, 2 hours.

1. Give a sketch of the chief events in the reign of Edward VI.

2. For what events in English history are the following places remarkable:-Chaluz, Fontenoy, Kloster Seven, Flodden, Philiphaugh, Sedgemoor, Isle of Rhé, Mooltan ?

3. Describe the chief events in the foreign affairs of England during the reign of Elizabeth.

4. Give an account of Stephen Langton, Edward Baliol, Dr. Sacheverell, Lord Bacon, Lord Halifax.

5. State what you know of the following events :-the Provisions of Oxford, the Grand Remonstrance, the Toleration Act, the Mutiny at the Nore, and the Peace of Ryswick.

6. What were the chief benefits which arose from the Feudal system?

Time allowed, 24 hours.

1. Give some account of the circumstances which led to the enactment of Magna Charta, and give its principal provisions.

2. Sketch the chief events in the reign of Edward IV.

3. What maritime enterprises were undertaken in the reign of Elizabeth, and what were their results?

4. What do you know of Cardinal Pole, Admiral Blake, Lord Clarendon, Dr. Sacheverell?

5. Give a history of the Long Parliament.

6. Sketch the history of Scotland between the years 1700 and 1800.

7. How does it happen that on his way to Calcutta an Englishman finds the British flag flying at Gibraltar, Malta, Aden, Bombay, and Point de Galle?

SPECIMEN OF QUESTIONS IN GENERAL HISTORY.

Time allowed, 3 hours.

[Not more than 8 questions to be answered.]

1. Write an account of the reign of Henry III.

2. Trace the genealogy of William III. from Edward IV.

3. Sketch the character and views of the parliamentary leaders in the time of Charles I. before the breaking out of the Rebellion.

4. By what steps was the kingdom of Prussia formed?

5. Sketch the history of Portugal during the last three centuries.

6. Write a short biography of the following persons:- Alcibiades, Julius Cæsar, Louis XI. of France, Philip II. of Spain.

7. What have been the chief territorial gains and losses of France since the death of Louis XIV.?

8. Give the names of the commanders on each side, and briefly the circumstances under which the following battles were fought:Poictiers, Murten, Almanza, Arcola, Rocroi, Wagram.

9. Trace the growth of the maritime power of Rome.

10. Give examples of strong religious feeling in the history of Greece. 11. Name the Roman emperors and generals connected with British history; and mention briefly the advance made by any of them in the subjugation of the country.

12. Give a short sketch of the history of British India during the governorship of Lord Dalhousie and Lord Canning.

SPECIMEN OF QUESTIONS IN MODERN HISTORY.

Time allowed, 3 hours.

1. Give a sketch of the history of the Netherlands from the pacification of Ghent to the death of the Duke of Parma.

2. Examine the position of Germany at the date of the peace of Westphalia.

3. Give an account of the foreign policy of Cromwell.

4. Notice some of the leading differences in the systems of colonization respectively pursued by the Portuguese, the Spanish, the Dutch, the English, and the French nations.

5. Give a biography of Maria Theresa.

6. Trace briefly the history of the French Revolution, from the meeting of the States-General in 1789 to the death of Louis XVI.

7. Point out the difference in the position held by Napoleon at the several dates of the peace of Campo Formio, the peace of Amiens, the peace of Tilsit, the peace of Schönbrunn, and the peace of Paris.

8. Give an account of the struggle which ended in the passing of the Reform Bill of 1832.

9. Notice the chief events of the year 1848.

10. How did England become possessed of Gibraltar, Jamaica, Canada, Ceylon, Hong Kong, the Cape of Good Hope, New Zealand, Malta, Aden, Oude, the Punjab, Bombay, Heligoland, and Vancouver's Island?

11. Give an account of the past history and present state of the British settlements in Australia.

(From 1815 to 1860.)

Set to candidates for the Diplomatic Service.

Time allowed, 3 hours.

1. With what object and with what result did the French enter Spain in 1823?

2. Give an account of the events that led to the siege of Antwerp in 1832. 3. What was the political effect on Russia, on Poland, and on Europe generally, of the Polish insurrection of 1830, and of its failure? 4. Give a sketch of the policy of France with regard to the East, in the reign of Louis Philippe, as contrasted with that of England.

5. What were the chief occurrences in Paris in the year 1848?

6. Give an account of the war in Ital from the expulsion of the Austrians from Milan in 1848, to the reduction of Venice by the Austrians in 1849.

7. Under what circumstances and with what professed object did the French occupy Rome in 1849 ?

8. What was the general policy, external and internal, of the party in power in the United States during the quarter of a century that preceded the election of President Lincoln ?

9. State the chief provisions of the following treaties:-Hunkiar Skelessi (1833), London (1852), Paris (1856), Villafranca.

10. Give an account of those operations of the war between Russia and Turkey and her allies (1853-1855), in which the Turks took a leading part.

11. Write a political biography of Queen Christina of Spain.

12. Under what circumstances did the present emperor of Austria accede to the throne? and what were the chief events of the first three years of his reign?

SPECIMEN OF QUESTIONS IN CONSTITUTIONAL
HISTORY AND LAW.

Set to candidates for the Diplomatic Service, the Colonial Office, and the Parliament Office.

Time allowed, 3 hours.

1. Enumerate the chief sources of the public revenue. What are the Civil List, the annual Appropriation Act, and the Consolidated Fund?

2. When it is said that the Church of England is the Established Church, what is meant?

3. State the arguments on each side in Hampden's case.

4. What political duties are attached to the office of sheriff? Illustrate by historical examples.

5. Trace the legal history of the English army from the Conquest to the present day.

6. Trace the steps by which the responsibility of ministers has been gradually established.

7. Under what authority do the judges act in criminal and civil cases respectively? How are county magistrates appointed, and what is the history and the present limit of their jurisdiction?

8. What are the legal qualifications, duties, and mode of appointment of Privy Councillors? Into what Committees is the Privy Council divided? Mention any important epochs in the history of the Privy Council.

9. Give a history of the Long Parliament from its commencement to the outbreak of the war.

10. Sketch briefly the history of the part taken in great constitutional struggles by the City of London.

SPECIMENS OF PASSAGES FOR TRANSLATION FROM LATIN.

Eisdem temporibus Persarum rex Darius, ex Asiâ in Europam exercitu trajecto, Scythis bellum inferre decrevit. Pontem fecit in Histro flumine, quâ copias traduceret. Ejus pontis, dum ipse abesset, custodes reliquit principes, quos secum ex Ioniâ et Æolide duxerat; quibus singulis ipsarum urbium perpetua dederat imperia. Sic enim facillime putavit se Græcâ linguâ loquentes, qui Asiam incolerent, sub suâ retenturum potestate, si amicis suis oppida tuenda tradidisset, quibus, se oppresso, nulla spes salutis relinqueretur. In hoc fuit tum numero Miltiades, cui illa custodia cre