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3. What was the cause of the depreciation of the currency in the reign of William the Third, and by what means was its proper state restored?

4. Into what periods does Edmund Burke divide the policy of England in reference to her American

colonies, and what are the characteristics of each period?

5. Give an account of the Darien scheme, and shew its bearing on the question of Union with Scotland.

6. To what extent may Chatham's political career be regarded as a pre-eminent success?

7. "The distempers of monarchy were the great subjects of apprehension and redress in the last century. In this the distempers of Parliament." -(Edmund Burke). Write a careful note on

this statement.

8. Give a short account of the principal measures carried by Mr. Pitt during the first part of his long administration.

9. How do you explain the existence of the financial distress and social disturbances which followed 1815?

10. The Statute Books of England and of Scotland present a remarkable contrast as to the influence of the Crown. What is the contrast, and how do you explain it ?

11. Compare the characteristics of English legislation in the thirty years before the Reform Act of 1832 with its characteristics in the thirty years after. Give instances to shew (a) how far, in your opinion, there has been a continuation of old policy, and (b) how far there has been a new departure.

12. What were the principal changes in the government of India made by the Act of 1858 ?

POLITICAL ECONOMY.

FIRST PAPER.

The Board of Examiners.

1. Define Social Science. Examine briefly how far, if at all, the existence of such a science is possible, and mention its chief difficulties.

2. Bagehot notices certain defects in the mode in which Political Economy has been treated in England. What are they?

3. Give the argument of Mill's chapter "Of Liberty and Necessity."

4. What is a Society? Wherein does it differ from a horde ?

5. What is meant by Political Integration, and what are the principal agencies by which it may be furthered or hindered respectively?

6. What is meant by political differentiation, and what are the principal agencies by which it may be furthered or hindered respectively?

7. Consider briefly the chief forms of bias, whereby sociological conceptions are distorted, or liable to be distorted.

8. Consider briefly by what means, if by any, the influence of bias in distorting sociological conceptions can be eliminated or neutralized.

9. What do you understand by Luxury? Roscher notices certain periods in the historical development of luxury. Discuss them briefly.

10. (a) Distinguish between Slavery and Serfdom. Explain the nature of Serfdom as it existed say,

on the estate of a Saxon thane in the seventh century.

(b) of what did a Manor consist at the time of the Domesday Survey?

POLITICAL ECONOMY.

SECOND PAPER.

The Board of Examiners.

1. What are the functions of Money? What qualities should the material of money possess? State and discuss Gresham's law.

2. What is Paper Money? Is it really money ? What is inconvertible paper money? What are its characteristics? What determines its value?

3. State the case for Bi-metallism and against it.

4. In Great Britain a policy of Reciprocity has been frequently recommended as a remedy for industrial depression. Explain what the so-called policy means, and shew how far, if at all, it is a remedy.

5. Criticise the following propositions:

(a) A high rate of interest is not an evil, but the cure of an evil.

(b) Rent tends continually to increase with the growth of the wealth and population of a country.

(c) Trades unions cannot in the long run succeed in raising wages.

6. State and criticise the canons of taxation laid down by Adam Smith.

7. The National Debt of France caused the Revolution.

The prosperity of England has grown with her National Debt.

How can these two statements be reconciled?

8. Define Invention. What are the principal circumstances affecting its progress? Why is slave labour never inventive?

9. "The history of what man has accomplished in this world is at bottom the history of the great men who have worked there." Comment on this dictum.

10. State and criticise Mill's fundamental propositions respecting Capital.

SCHOOL OF ENGLISH, FRENCH, AND
GERMAN.

ENGLISH.

FIRST PAPer.

The Board of Examiners.

1. Give a brief account of the English works ascribed to King Alfred. In what dialect were they written? Mention any other English dialects used for literary purposes, and some works written in them.

2. In what different forms is Piers the Plowman found? Give the probable date of each. What social grievances does the author denounce? Does he find any support from Chaucer?

3. Describe the metrical system of "Piers the Plowman," and name some other poems written in the same style.

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