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2. From a million guineas take £499 2s. IOJd., and divide the remainder by 99. 3. What is the difference between the sum of f and § and the product of -f and T 7g-? 4. Eeduce 18 hours 2J minutes to the decimal of 2 weeks 4 days 2 hours 15 minutes. 5. A youth entered an office when he was sixteen years old, and received a salary of £80 for the first year, which was increased by £20 a year until he was twenty-five, when his salary was doubled, and then remained unchanged until he was thirty. For the first four years he saved nothing, but after that he lived on £150 a year. How much did he save altogether ? 6. If a bankrupt's estate pays 3s. 5Jd. in the pound, how much per cent, do the creditors lose ? 7. How many planks 16 ft. by 8 in. will it take to make a floor 18 ft. by 12 ft.; and what will the cost be at 4f d. per square foot ? 8. At what rate per cent, will the simple interest on £625 for 2-| years amout to £132 16s. 3d. ? 9. "What is a quarter's rent of 91-16 acres at £2-325 per acre per annum? 10. If a tradesman sold eleven articles for the price he had given for eighteen, how much per cent, would he gain ? GEOGEAPHY. 1. If you travelled westward through Australia from Brisbane, what rivers would you cross, what sort of country would you go through, and whereabouts would you hit the west coast? 2. What does England chiefly import from New Zealand, Australia, China, India, and Canada respectively ? 3. Draw a sketch map of the world, and on it mark the chief ocean currents. 4. What planets constitute the solar system, and where amongst them does the earth rank as regards size ? 5. Give some account of the course of the Mississippi, naming the States by which it passes, and the chief towns on its banks. LATIN. 1. Translate— Quisque suos patimur Manes : exinde per amplum Mittimur Elysium, et pauci laeta arva tenemus : Donee longa dies, perfecto temporis orbe, Concretam exemit labem, purumque reliquit Aetherium sensum, atque aurai simplicis ignem. Has omnes, übi mille rotam volvere per annos, Lethaeum ad fluvium deus evacat agmine magno ; Scilicet immemores supera ut convexa revisant, Eursus et incipiant in corpora velle reverti. 2. What different interpretations may be given of the passage, " Quisque suos patimur Manes " ? 3. Conjugate 'patimur, exemit, revisant; decline orbe, sensum, aural; and compare perfecto, purum, simplicis. 4. Translate— Suggere tela mihi; non ullum dextera frustra Torserit in Eutulos, steterunt quae in corpore Graium Iliacis campis. Turn magnam corripit hastam, Et jacet: ilia volans clypei transverberat aera Maeonis, et thoraca simul cum pectore rumpit. Huic frater subit Alcanor, fratremque ruentem Sustentat dextra : trajecto missa lacerto Protenus hasta fugit, servatque cruenta tenorem ; Dexteraque ex humero nervis moribunda pependit. 5. Who speaks and who act in the scene here described ? Eelate the circumstances. 6. Translate'— Sed postea guam nonnulli principes ex ea civitate, at familiaritate Cingetorigis adducti et adventu nostri exercitus perterriti, ad Caesarem venerunt, et|de suis privatim rebus ab co patere coeperunt, quoniam civitati consulere non possent, Indutiomarus, veritus ne ab omnibus desereretur, legatos ad Caesarem mittit; sese idcirco ab suis discedere atque ad cum venire noluisse, quo facilius civitatem in offiicio contineret, ne omnis nobilitatis discessu plebs propter imprudentiam laberetur. Itaque esse civitatem in sua potestate, segue, si Caesar permitteret, ad cum in castra venturum, et evas civitatisque fortunas ejus fidei permissurum. Also — Germani multum ab hac consuetudine differunt: nam neque Druides habent, gui rebus divinis praesint, neque sacriiiciis student. Deorum numero eos solos ducunt quos cernunt, et quorum aperte juvantur, Solem et Vulcanum et Lunain : reliquos ne fama quidem acceperunt. Vita omnis in venationibus atque in studiis rei militaris consistit: ab parvulis labori ac duritiae student. 7. Account for the cases of rebus, sacrificiis, deorum, opibus, and fama. 8. Explain generally the use of the gerund, gerundive, and supines. FEENCH. 1. Translate— La bougie que me faisaieSt remettre les commissaires etait en paquets ficeles. Lorsque j'eus de la ficelle en asge^ grande quantite, j'annoncai au roi qu'il re tenait qua lvi de dormer plus d'activite a sa correspondance, en faisant passer une partie de cette ficelle a madame Elisabeth, gui etait logee au-dessus de moi, et dont la fenetre repondait perpendiculairement a celle dun petit corridor gui communiquait a ma chambre. La princesse, pendant la nuit, pouvait attacher ses lettres a cette ficelle, et les laisser glisser jusqu'a la fenetre gui etait au-dessous de la sienne. On pouvait aussi attacher a la ficelle un peu de papier et d'encre, dont les princesses etaient privees. 2—H. 9.