PAPER NO. 4.

The Board of Examiners.

1. What were the dangers to which Henry the Seventh was exposed? How did he counteract

them?

2. Trace shortly the history of the theory of the Royal prerogative.

3. What were the "monopolies" of Elizabeth's time? How did her Parliaments deal with them?

4. What do you conceive to have been " the principal grievance under the Tudors"? Give instances.

5. Give some account of the administration of Sir Arthur Chichester in Ireland.

6. Give a brief summary of the legislation of the reign of Charles the Second.

7. Mention and discuss some of the principal impeachments since the reign of James the First,

8. Examine briefly any "ebullitions of epidemical enthusiasm" in reference to religion that you may have observed in your reading.

9. What is the meaning of the statement that "the slavery of native Scotchmen continued to be recognised in that country to the very end of last century?"

10. Discuss the obligations of a party leader, and consider in particular the conduct of Sir Robert Peel regarding the great measures of 1829 and 1846.

11. What changes in Indian administration are due to Lord William Bentinck ?

12. Explain the Imperial legislation of 1850 in regard to the Australian colonies.

PAPER No. 5.

The Board of Examiners.

1. What meaning does Adam Smith give to the phrase Political Economy?

2. Into what periods may the economic development of society be divided? Give the characteristics of each period.

3. Consider Political Economy as an aid to the interpretation of History.

4. Consider the relation of Statistics to Political Economy.

5. Can you construct a formula which will define precisely the limits, positive and negative, of State interference?

6. Distinguish between Anarchy, Communism, and Socialism, and trace the different phases of Socialism during the last century.

7. Explain fully what is meant by a Market.

8. Explain the nature and functions of Capital, as understood in modern industrial society.

9. State generally the conditions which determine the purchasing power of money. Discuss the causes which make it difficult to measure changes in the value of money.

10. What are the several evils to which paper currency generally is liable. Do they, or any of them, admit of counteraction?

11. State concisely the main features of the theory of Wages, propounded by Mr. Mill and Professor Walker respectively. Add any criticism you may think requisite.

12. Give an estimate of Malthus as an economist.

PAPER No. 6.

The Board of Examiners.

1. Shew that practical evils have resulted from ignoring the scientific character of the study of Political Economy.

2. Considered logically, an economic law differs in certain circumstances from a law of an advanced physical science. What are the circumstances, and how does their existence affect the solution of economic problems?

3. Shew the error of the ordinary arguments from

historical examples.

4. Shew that discussion upon

forms of government in

the abstract is of no value.

5. What is evolution? What is super-organic evolution?

6. Illustrate the application of evolution to history.

7. Illustrate the application of evolution to industrial lite.

8. Explain and illustrate the statements that in human actions

(a) The absolutely bad may be relatively good. (b) The absolutely good may be relatively bad.

9. Explain and illustrate the statement that an unwritten law enforced by opinion is more peremptory than a written law not so enforced.

10. Trace briefly the chief stages in the growth and development of the body economic since Edward the First.

11. Is it true that the advance of civilization is accompanied by a tendency to pass from superior to inferior soils ?

12. What appears to have been the real question at issue between Anselm and the Crown at the beginning of the twelfth century?

JURISPRUDENCE.

The Board of Examiners.

1. Examine the meaning given by Austin to the word "title," and comment on his objections to the use of the term by English lawyers.

2. State and criticise the meanings which have been assigned to the phrase Jus Publicum, and the place (if any) which should be assigned to it in a scientific classification of law.

3. Criticise the division of the Corpus Juris into jus personarum, jus rerum, and jus actionum, and criticise the statement of Austin that it is a gross logical error.

4. Explain and comment on Austin's statement that the distinction between Law and Equity (meaning by Equity, a portion or department of law) is not deducible from the universal principles of jurisprudence, but is accidental and anomalous.

5. Give a concise statement of Austin's remarks on customary law, and criticise Maine's opinion that they are comparatively unfruitful.

6. Sketch the history of the growth of the conception of territorial sovereignty.

7. "The truth is that the Emphyteusis, not probably as yet known by its Greek designation, marks one stage in a current of ideas which led ultimately to feudalism."-MAINE.

Explain this statement.