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English. — For Class D. Time, allowed: 3 hours. [All the Questions are to be attempted.] 1. Distinguish the uses of am ( a) Once a year, ( b) They are all of a sort, (°) Many a man; the uses of that in ( a) lam that I am, ( b) He gave this and took that, (°) That cannot be true ; the uses of what in ( a) What he said, that he would never deny, ( b) What with debts and worries he has a difficult outlook, ( c) What a despicable creature! ( d) What to do I know not; the uses of some in (") Some fail, some succeed, ( b) Somebody said so, ( c) Some few came ; and the uses of the infinitive in ( a) To err is human, ( b) He cannot say so, (°) A house to let, if) I was about to tell him, ( 6) He was sorry to see such a mob, ( £) Just to think of his imprudence ! 2. Point out what you think the merits of style in each of the following passages, and explain, as far as you can, why they seem merits to you : — (a.) What a careless, even'deportment hath your borrower! What rosy gills! What a beautiful reliance on Providence doth he manifest—taking no more thought than the lilies ! What contempt for money—accounting it (yours and mine especially) no better than dross ! What a liberal confounding of those pedantic distinctions of meum and tuum ! or, rather, what a noble simplification of language (beyond Tooke), resolving these supposed opposites into one clear intelligible pronoun adjective ! (b.) The great river-courses which have shaped the lives of men have hardly changed; and those other streams, the life-currents that ebb and flow in human hearts, pulsate to the same great needs, the same great loves and terrors. As our thought follows close in the slow wake of the dawn, we are impressed with the broad sameness of the human lot, which never alters in the main headings of its history—hunger and labour, seed-time and harvest, love and death, (c.) Dry clash'd his harness in the icy caves And barren chasms, and all to left and right The bare black cliff clang'd round him, as he based His feet on juts of slippery crag that rang Sharp-smitten with the dint of armed heels— And on a sudden, lo ! the level lake, And the long glories of the winter moon. 3. State the common element in each of the following sets of synonyms, and then distinguish the words in each: (a) Growth, development, evolution; (6) Education, culture, instruction; (o) Discovery, invention. 4. Eewrite the following so as to avoid its ambiguities, dislocations, intricacies, awkward constructions, repetitions, and archaic uses of words. The words and order of words and of ideas may be changed, but the ideas may not: — " Some few years before these troubles, when the power of churchmen grew more transcendent, and indeed the faculties and understandings of the lay-counsellors more dull, lazy and inactive, (for without the last, the first could have done no hurt) the bishops grew jealous that the countenancing another discipline of the church here, by order of the state, (for those foreign congregations were governed by a presbytery, according to the custom and constitution of those parts of which they had been natives; for the French, Dutch and Walloons had the free use of several churches according to their own discipline) would at least diminish the reputation and dignity of the episcopal government and give some hope and countenance to the factious and schismatical party in England to hope for such a toleration." 5. Write a short essay on the life and character of any great writer as seen in one or more of his best ivritings, or of any great statesman as seen in his policy. 6. Write out the following with correct punctuation : — Mr. Gale went, and opened; whom have you up stairs, asked a voice a rather remarkable voice nasal in tone abrupt in utterance ; Oh Mr. Helstone ! is it you? sir ! I could hardly see you for the darkness, it is so soon dark, now, will you walk in Sir ? I want to know first; whether it is worth my while, walking in, whom have you up stairs. The curates Sir ; what, all of them ! Yes ! Sir ! Been dining here ; Yes! Sir! That will do ! With these words, a person entered a middle aged man, in black ; he, walked straight, across the kitchen, to an inner door; opened it; inclined his head forward; and stood, listening; there was something to listen to for the noise above was just then louder than ever; hey; he ejaculated to himself, then turning to Mr. Gale, have you often this sort of work ? Mr. Gale had been a churchwarden and was indulgent to the clergy; theyre young you know Sir ! theyre young, said he deprecatingly; young ? they want caning ; bad boys, bad boys; and if you were a dissenter John Gale ! instead of being a churchman theyd do the like, theyd expose themselves, but 111; by way of finish to this sentence he mounted the stair. 7. Write down the words which the supervisor dictates. [The words were — Superintendence, defensible, defence, assizes, chevalier, rheum, debauchee, saleable, ellipsis, desuetude, homogeneous, inexcusable, tracheotomy, atrophy, sacrilegious, chrysanthemum, veneer, licentiate, rhododendron, relieve.]

Arithmetic. — For Class D. Time allowed: 3 hours. 1. When it is attempted to measure a length of 77 feet with a certain rod it is found that there are 6 inches over; and when it is attempted to measure 61 feet with the same rod there are 3 inches over : find the greatest length which the rod can have. 2. Keduce to its simplest form ■ — ■ ~7^f'