HISTORY OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE.-PART II.

The Board of Examiners.

1. What political principles do you consider to have been established by the Revolution of 1688 ?

2. Explain the circumstances under which England became involved in the War of the Spanish Succession.

3. Trace and explain the history of the influence of the Crown from the death of Anne to the accession of George the Third.

4. Give the history of the special creation of Peers under Lord Harley. On what later occasion was a similar course suggested and with what result?

5. Explain the historical importance of the quarrel between Wilkes and the House of Commons.

6. Trace the history of legislation for the repression of slavery.

7. By whom and under what circumstances was the Treaty of Amiens agreed to? How long did it last?

8. How far did the efforts of Wellington in the Peninsula contribute to the first downfall of Napoleon?

9. Trace briefly the several stages in the history of Church government in Scotland to the Revolution of 1688.

10. Trace the causes which led to the habit of Hibernicising among the Anglo-Norman settlers in Ireland.

11. What was the legal and what the real relation of Ireland to Great Britain between 1782 and the end of the century?

12. Give some account of the system of Caste in India. To what section of the population is it limited?

POLITICAL ECONOMY.

The Board of Examiners.

1. Shew that in any society industrial wants vary in kind and in intensity directly as the general intelligence of the society.

2. Give instances of social groups that appear to be unthrifty by habit, and explain the cause.

3. Trace some of the consequences which flow from the fact that the productive powers of any given area of land are limited and not unlimited.

4. What is Invention? Give illustrations of the economic advantages which it affords.

5. Cite three or four cases in illustration of the reciprocal influence of the industrial aids.

6. Shew that poverty no less than wealth may be a direct cause of increase of population, and verify your reasoning by historical instances.

7. What, according to Adam Smith, is the principle which gives occasion to the division of labour? What other view may be taken of the subject?

8. Trace the origin and the office of capital.

9. Enunciate Adam Smith's four great canons of taxation, and explain the first as fully as you

can.

10. What are the economic objections to taxes on commodities?

11. What are the characteristic defects of slave labour? Trace some of the industrial consequences of those defects.

12. Trace the origin, and explain the functions, of trades-unions.

JURISPRUDENCE.

Dr. Hearn.

1. Explain and illustrate the secondary objects of a Legal Command.

2. Distinguish between possession, the rights of possession, and the right to possess.

3. State and illustrate the rights in rem other than those of ownership.

4. State the principles which govern the accession of movables to land.

5. A creditor insures the life of his debtor. The debt is paid; but the insurance is continued. The person whose life is insured dies. State the arguments for and against the liability of the company.

6. Explain fully the difference of the duty which the master of an undertaking incurs towards the public and towards his employés.

7. In a recent case it was held that a Bailment is not necessarily a contract. Explain this statement.

8. "The common carrier of goods and the gratuitous carrier of a person mark the opposite extremes of the duties that relate to carriage." Explain and illustrate this statement.

9. Explain the forms of security known respectively as mortgage, pledge, and charge.

10. Explain the difference between a mortgage under the Transfer of Land Statute and a mortgage under the old law.

11. Explain fully the distinction between a negotiable instrument and a document of title.

12. State briefly the principal duties of an Executor.

F

ROMAN LAW.

Dr. Hearn.

1. Translate and comment on the following passage :

"In summa sciendum est de omni injuria eum qui passus est posse vel criminaliter agere vel civiliter. Et si quidem civiliter agatur aestimatione facta secundum quod dictum est poena imponitur: sin autem criminaliter officio judicis extraordinaria poena reo irrogatur. Hoc videlicet observando quod Zenoniana Constitutio introduxit ut viri illustres quique super eos sunt et per procuratorem possint actionem injuriarum criminaliter vel persequi vel suscipere secundum ejus tenorem qui ex ipsa manifestius apparet."-INST. IV. 4. 10.

2. Explain fully the several expressions Jus Civile, Jus Gentium, Jus Naturae.

3. State and account for the various forms of marriage in Roman Law.

4. What was "Manus," and what were its varieties?

5. State and account for the various forms of Testament in Roman Law.

6. What was a Nuncupatory Testament?

7. What was "Bonorum possessio secundum tabulas,” and on what occasions was it used?

8. Why does Justinian call the law of Testaments "Jus tripartitum"?