DR. CARSON.

Translate the following passage into Latin Prose :

As to the opinion of the people, which some think in such cases is to be implicitly obeyed, nearly two years' tranquillity which followed the act, and its instant imitation in Ireland, proved abundantly that the late horrible spirit was in a great measure the effect of insidious art, and perverse industry, and gross misrepresentation. But suppose that the dislike had been much more deliberate and much more general than I am persuaded it was; when we know that the opinions of even the greatest multitudes are the standard of rectitude, I shall think myself obliged to make those opinions the masters of my conscience. But if it may be doubted whether Omnipotence itself is competent to alter the essential constitution of right and wrong, sure I am, that such things as they and I are possessed or no such power. No man carries further than I do the policy of making government pleasing to the people. But the widest range of this politic complaisance is confined within the limits of justice. I would not only consult the interests of the people, but I would cheerfully gratify their humours. We are all a sort of children that must be soothed and managed. I think I am not austere or formal in my nature. I would bear, I would even myself play my part in any innocent buffooneries, to divert them; but I will never act the tyrant for their amusement. If they will mix malice in their sports, I shall never consent to throw them any living, sentient creature, whatsoever, no, not so much as a kitling, to torment.

"But if I profess all this impolitic stubbornness, I may chance never to be elected into Parliament." It is certainly not pleasing to be put out of the public service; but I wish to be a Member of Parliament, to have my share of doing good and resisting evil. It would, therefore, be absurd to renounce my objects, in order to obtain my seat. I deceive myself indeed most grossly, if I had not much rather pass the remainder of my life hidden in the recesses of the deepest obscurity, feeding my mind even with the visions and imaginations of such things, than to be placed on the most splendid throne of the universe, tantalized with a denial of the practice of all which can make the greatest situation any other than the greatest curse. Gentlemen, I have had my day. I can never sufficiently express my gratitude to you for having set me in a place wherein I could lend the slightest help to great and laudable designs. If I have had my share in any measure giving quiet to private property, and private conscience; if by my vote I have aided in securing to families the best possession, peace; if I have joined in reconciling kings to their subjects, and subjects to their prince; if I have assisted to loosen the foreign holdings of the citizen, and taught him to look for his protection to the laws of his country, and for his comfort to the good will of his countrymen; if I have thus taken part with the best of men in the best of their actions, I can shut the book; I might wish to read a page or two more, but this is enough for my measure. I have not lived in vain.-BURKE.

MR. ABBOTT.

Translate the following passage into Latin Lyric Verse :

Must thou go, my glorious Chief,
Sever'd from thy faithful few?
Who can tell thy warrior's grief,
Maddening o'er that long adieu?
Woman's love, and friendship's zeal,
Dear as both have been to me-
What are they to all I feel,

With a soldier's faith for thee?

Idol of the soldier's soul!

First in fight, but mightiest now :
Many could a world control;
Thee alone no doom can bow.
By thy side for years I dared

Death; and envied those who fell,
When their dying shout was heard,
Blessing him they served so well.
Would that I were cold with those,
Since this hour I live to see;
When the doubts of coward foes

Scarce dare trust a man with thee,
Dreading each should set thee free!
Oh! although in dungeons pent,
All their chains were light to me,
Gazing on thy soul unbent.
Would the sycophants of him

Now so deaf to duty's prayer,
Were his borrow'd glories dim,

In his native darkness share?
Were that world this hour his own,
All thou calmly dost resign,
Could he purchase with that throne

Hearts like those which still are thine ?

My chief, my king, my friend, adieu !
Never did I droop before;

Never to my sovereign sue,
As his foes I now implore:

All I ask is to divide

Every peril he must brave;

Sharing by the hero's side

His fall, his exile, and his grave.

HISTORY.

STACK.

BYRON.

MR.

1. Write an account of the means and expedients by which the Romans maintained the unity of their empire, and secured the dependence of its parts on the central authority.

2. Write a notice of the contacts and collisions of the Romans with the Celtic races.

3. Write a character of Sulla, and an estimate of the result of his action on the Roman state.

4. Compare the national characters and tendencies of the Greek and Roman peoples, as evidenced by the early direction and development of civilization in each.

5. Point out the manner in which Greek Literature in its several peiods reflects and sympathizes with the political history of Greece.

MR. ABBOTT.

1. Give some account of the evidence on which the Greek, Sanscrit, and Teutonic languages are referred to a common origin.

2. Specify the chief characteristics which distinguish the Aryan from other groups of languages.

3. State and illustrate Steinthal's principle of Classification.

4. State the various theories as to the relation of the Romance languages to Latin, and give reasons in support of the view which you prefer.

5. Exemplify the disinclination of Greek to the use of the spirants. 6. How have verbs in -σow, and in -alw, -iw, respectively, originated? 7. Explain the origin of the forms ἐπεποίθειν, ἐπέπιθμεν, ἐφάνην. 8. Explain the formation of the Greek compound aorists.

9. What traces are there in Latin and Greek of the pronoun which in Sanscrit is sa, sâ, tat? Specify any forms which retain s.

10. Illustrate the peculiar tendency to the loss of initial consonants in Latin. In some cases final consonants also have a tendency to disappear in the Italic languages?

II. Explain the origin of the forms faxo, faxim, fecissem, faciebam, fecerim.

12. Explain the formation of the Latin perfects of the types legi, dixi, amavi.

13. What is the origin of the Latin adverbs in e? What are their Greek analogues?

Moderatorships in Experimental and Natural Science.

JAMES A. MALET, D. D.

Examiners.

JOSEPH A. GALBRAITH, M. A., Professor of Experimental Physics. SAMUEL HAUGHTON, M. D., Professor of Geology.

JOHN LESLIE, M. A.

ALEXANDER DICKSON, M. D., Professor of Botany.

LIGHT AND SOUND.

DR. MALET.

1. An undulation travels from a point A to a point B; if the molecular velocity at A be

t

v = a sin

(2).

show that the velocity at B will be

v' = a sin 27

t

(음-%)

T

where d is the distance from A to B, and λ is the wave length.

2. If undulations travel from two points A, B to a third point C, show that their joint effect is the same as that of a third undulation

*

A = a2 + a22 + 2aa' cos 2π

3. On the 11th June, 1855, the following experiment was made:Light was admitted through a narrow horizontal slit into a dark room, where it was allowed to pass the horizontal edge of an obstacle placed at 960mm from the slit; the dark bands formed by diffraction were caught upon a screen placed 90mm behind the obstacle, and the distance of the third black band from the border of the geometrical shadow was found to be 0.63mm.

Calculate, from this observation, the wave length in inches.

*4. A wave of light is incident upon a plane refracting surface, which possesses a single refraction; given the incident wave, viz.,

find, on the principles laid down by Fresnel, the reflected and refracted

5. Explain the arrangements necessary to exhibit the axes of doublyrefracting crystals, and the mode of measuring the angle between the

axes.

6. Explain the relations between the minor third and major sixth; and between the major third and minor sixth.

7. Explain the theory of beats, and show the relation between the number of beats in a given time, and the number of vibrations of the two notes that produce the beats.

8. State Helmholtz' theory of musical concord and discord, and show how it differs from the common theory.

N. B.-Questions marked thus (*) count double.

MR. GALBRAITH.

ELECTRICITY AND MAGNETISM.

1. In applying the torsion balance to verify the law of the attraction of opposite electricities, what precautions are necessary with regard to the distance to which the balls are to be separated by torsion?

2. Let there be two light balls charged with electricity of the same name, and such that the electric fluid can move on them with perfect freedom; when they are brought near each other, the uniform distribution of the fluid is disturbed. Illustrate this by a diagram, and explain their mutual repulsion as a consequence of this disturbance.

3. If pith balls be attached by fine fibres to the inner and outer coatings of a Leyden jar, which stands on an insulating support; and if the inner coating be connected with the prime conductor of the machine, both balls instantly rise to an equal elevation when the handle is turned. If the jar be uninsulated when the connexion is made, the ball connected with the outer coating never rises, while the other rises but slowly until at last it acquires its greatest elevation. Explain this in precise but general terms.

4. When the jar is charged in the usual manner, and removed from the machine, the ball which is repelled from the inner coating falls slowly until at length it reaches the coating; the other ball all the while remaining in contact with the uninsulated coating. If the jar be insulated, the first ball falls rapidly, while the other rises with equal rapidity until their final angle of elevation becomes about equal to half the original elevation