it existed in Ireland in early times, and shew its bearing upon the early history of Capital.

2. During the wars of the Roses which of the parties received the support of the Irish, and for what reasons?

3. What was the object, and what the fate, of the Place Bill of William the Third's reign? Give the history of the subsequent legislation on the same subject.

4. Give a summary of the provisions of the Treaty of Union 1707, and comment briefly on any noteworthy matters arising thereout that occur to you.

5. Explain the circumstances under which the conduct of Benjamin Franklin excited the animadversion of the English Government.

6. Explain the consequences of the capitulation of Saratoga.

7. What view did Mr. Pitt take of the Catholic question as it affected the proposals for union with Ireland. Why was that view not adopted?

8. Give briefly the history of the parliamentary proceedings that culminated in the Reform Act 1832.

9. Give the history of legislation on the subject of Life Peerages.

10. When, and by what means, was the system of Army purchase abolished?

11. What appears to have been the condition of India as to government and industrial organization at the time of the earliest English settlement there?

12. Who, among the British governors of India, are entitled to be called "Increasers of the Empire," and for what reasons?

POLITICAL ECONOMY.

The Board of Examiners.

1. The English School of Economists: The Historical School of Economists: The Deductive School of Economists. What distinguishing features would you expect to find in the treatment of an economic question by a writer claiming to belong to any one of these so-called schools?

2. Shew that inconstant employment tends to unthrifty habits, and investigate the conditions under which labour may assume a maximum of efficiency.

3. Give a brief analysis of the aids to labour, and point out the social consequences (a) of a deficiency, (b) of an excess of any of these aids.

4. Distinguish compulsory co-operation from voluntary co-operation. With which has political economy to do? Shew that it is important to recognise the distinction in investigating problems of English medieval history.

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5. "The movement of the progressive societies has been distinguished by the gradual dissolution of family dependency and the growth of individual obligation in its place." Apply this statement of Sir Henry Maine's to the economic development of English history.

6. "The utility of which the economist speaks is not always the utility recognised by the moral philosopher or by the physiologist."-Walker, p. 87. Explain and illustrate this remark.

7. From what sources may State be derived?

the revenue of a modern

8. Examine the influence which Trades Unions may exert on Wages.

9. Discuss Adam Smith's opinion on the subject of the duration of apprenticeships.

10. Give an analysis of the parties to the distribution of wealth.

11. Examine the argument that by encouraging various branches of home industry a community is made less dependent upon foreign countries.

12. In what respects do the arguments of modern protectionists differ from those of the mercantile system as exposed by Adam Smith?

JURISPRUDENCE.

Dr. Hearn.

1. State and illustrate the difference between a custom and a command.

2. State and illustrate the conditions of a lawful consent.

3. State and illustrate the difference between a condition and a representation in Contracts.

4. State and illustrate the difference between a Formal and a Formless Contract. Which of the two kinds is the older?

5. State and illustrate the degrees of the duty of Circumspection.

6. Explain fully the maxim "Once a mortgage always a mortgage."

7. Explain fully the meaning of the expression “A bonâ fide holder of a negotiable instrument."

8. Show the application both to Contracts and to Testaments of the maxim "Modus et conventio vincunt legem."

9. Show the relation of Contracts and of Testaments in the history of law.

10. Show that in Archaic Society the Clan and the State were distinct, and explain the reason of the fact.

11. By what direct methods did the Archaic State modify the Clans that were included in it?

12. Dr. Mommsen observes that "A long succession of phases of political development must have intervened between such constitutions as the poems of Homer and the Germania of Tacitus delineate and the oldest organization of the Roman Community." Criticise this statement.

ROMAN LAW.

Dr. Hearn.

1. "Si quis velit vicino aliquod jus constituere, pactionibus atque stipulationibus id efficere debet. Potest etiam in testamento quis heredem suum damnare ne altius tollat aedes suas ne luminibus aedium vicini officiat vel ut patiatur eum tignum in parietem immittere vel stillicidium habere, vel ut patiatur eum per fundum ire agere aquamve ex eo ducere.”—INST. II. iii. 4. (a) Translate the above passage.

(b) Explain the various technical terms therein. (c) What other means besides those here mentioned existed in the Roman Law for the creation of Servitudes ?

2. "Quaedam enim naturali jure communia sunt omnium, quaedam publica, quaedam universitatis, quaedam nullius, pleraque singulorum."-II. i. pr. Explain fully and illustrate this passage.