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History. — For Senior Civil Service. Time allowed : 3 hours. (Candidates are expected to attempt all the Questions.) 1. Give an account of the chief difficulties which William the Third had to contend with as an English king ; and estimate his character. 2. Give a brief sketch of the military career of the Duke of Marlborough. 3. Write two paragraphs on the policy and influence of Robert Walpole. 4. Discuss the chief effects of the French Revolution on English ideas and politics. 5. Indicate clearly what part was played in the history of India (1) by Robert Olive, and (2) by Warren Hastings. 6. Sketch briefly the history of the principle of religions toleration in England between 1688 and 1837. 7. Give some notion of the state of public feeling before the passing of the Reform Bill of 1832 ; and enumerate the leading provisions of the Bill. 8. Describe the chief improvements effected (1) in manufactures, and (2) in the social condition of the people between 1750 and 1837. 9. Add a brief descriptive note to each of the following names: Harley, Wilkes, Fox, Canning, Lord Melbourne, Peel, Bolingbroke, Bishop Atterbury, Sir George Rooke, Tone.

Latin. — For Glass D, and for Junior and Senior Civil Service. Time allowed : 8 hours. (Each section should be attempted?) A. 1. (a.) Decline eadem dea, respublica tola. (b.) Give the comparative and superlative, masculine singular nominative of mobilis, dubhis, frugi, ruber. * (c.) Give the genitive plural of deus, mensis, se, mons, tres, senex. 2. (a.) Parse diligere, confecerim, expellendos, amere, volent, euntibus. (/;.) What is a deponent verb ? What is the meaning of conatus, adeptus, hortandus ? (c.) Explain the use of the supines, and distinguish between the gerund and gerundive. 3. Translate, and explain the construction of the words italicised — (1.) Oderint dum metuant. (2.) Nuui expectatis dum testimonium dicat ? (3.) Mane hie dum redibo. (4.) Non is sum gui haec faciam. (5.) Nihil nos celat. (6.) Ilia res saluti nobis fuit. (7.) Te quotidie pluris facio. (8.) Athenis multos annos visit. B. 1. Translate — Quos quo facilius repellerent, si forte bellum renovare conarentur, ad classes aedificandas exercitusque comparandos quantum pecuniae quaeque civitas daret, Aristides delectus est, gui constitueret, cujus arbitrio quadringena et sexagena talenta quotannis Delum sunt collata. Id enim commune aerarium esse voluerunt. Quae omnis pecunia postero tempore Athenas translata est. Hie qua fuerit abstinentia nulluin est certius indicium quani quod, quum tantis rebus praefuisset, in tanta paupertate discessit, ut gui efferretur vix reliquerit. Quo factum est ut filiae ejus publice alerentur et, de communi aerario dotibus datis, collocareutur. Discessit autem fere post annum quartum quain Themistocles Athenis erat expulsus. 2. Translate, with notes on the words italicised : — Possit quid vivida virtus Experiare licet; nee longe scilicet hostes Quaerendi nobis ; circumstant undique muros. Imus in adversos ? quid cessas ? an tibi Mayors Ventosa in lingua pedibusque fugacibus istis Semper erit ? C. 1. Translate into Latin— (1.) They have been ashamed of their idleness. (2.) Having used up all their corn, they were greatly in need of assistance. (3.) I had to set out on the same day as you. (4.) He has a daughter named Livia. (5.) Give every man his own. (6.) It is the duty of a Judge to obey the laws. 2. Translate into Latin —(1) into oratio recta, (2) into oratio obliqua— Whither are we advancing, men ? All our cavalry, all our nobility has perished. The chiefs of the State have been put to death by the Romans on the charge of treachery, without a trial. Learn the facts from those who have fled straight from the massacre, for I, my brothers having been slain, am prevented by grief from declaring what has been done.

French, — For Glass 1), and for Senior and Junior Civil Service. Time allowed : 8 hours. 1. Translate into English— La crise que l'art .culinairS traverse depuis■ quelques aunees etait ass&z grave pour inquieter la sollicitude gouvernementale ; on la cornpris, et, sans aller jusqu' a constituer une commission de quarante-quatre membres comme pour la criso industnelle, le cabinet —gui devait bien cette petite attention a son "pudding" —s'est enfin decide a faire quelquechosa pour not-re cuisine nationale. 3—E. la.