10. Translate the following passage from Tag's Ode to Miss Pickle, into a Sapphic stanza, both in Greek and Latin ::

"Not pickled onion, nor yet pickled bean,
Nor pickled cabbage, either red or green,
Nor pickled cucumber, nor pickled Chili,
But my own darling little Picklelilly."

11. Oxford must, from all antiquity, have been either somewhere or nowhere. Where was it in the time of Tarquinius Priscus? If it was nowhere, it surely must have been somewhere. Where was it?

12. Should you, upon consideration, say that the ancients could find the way to their mouths in the dark as well as the moderns? Do you believe the Athenians wore Wellington-boots, or ate mince-pies at Christmas.

Are we

13. Mention any instances that occur to you of ancients visiting any part of the United States. not to infer, from the frequent occurrence of the word yas in their most celebrated authors, that the Athenians were perfectly acquainted with that valuable commodity?

14. Trace the derivation of pump from π, according to the example afforded you of that of bump from Bus.— B85, Ionicé Boos, per apocopen Bos, poetic Bus, per pepper-castor BUT, and per epenthesin Buμ, hence you may easily trace the derivation of pumpkin and bumpkin. 15. State logically how many tails a cat has.

From these specimens, however much he may admire the erudition they display, the reader will, perhaps, not think very favourably of the utility of university examinations, but useful they are. The answers would occupy

too much space; suffice it, therefore, to say, our communicant got off with flying colours, the delight of his connections, and an honour to his house. The answer to the last question, however, amused us so much that we cannot refrain from giving it.

15. State logically how many tails a cat has?—Ans. Cats have three tails-no cat has two tails-every cat has one tail more than no cat-ergo, every cat has three tails.

EXAMINATION II.

1. Give a comparative sketch of the principal English theatres, with the dates of their erection, and the names of the most eminent candle-snuffers at each. What were the stage-boxes? What were the offices of prompter-ballet-master-and scene-shifter? In what part of the theatre was the one-shilling gallery? Distinguish accurately between operas and puppet-shows.

2. Where was Downing Street? Who was primeminister when Cribb defeated Molineux-and where did the battle take place? Explain the terms milling -fibbing-cross buttock-neck and crop-bang upand-prime.

3. Give the dates of all the parliaments, from their first institution to the period of the hard frost on the Thames. In what month of what year was Mr. Abbot elected speaker? Why was he called "the little man in the wig?" When the speaker was out of the chair, where was the mace put?

4. Enumerate the principal houses of call in and about London, marking those of the tailors, bricklayers, and shoemakers, and stating from what brewery each house

Who was the tuteAt what time was his

was supplied with brown stout. lary saint of the shoemakers? feast celebrated? Who was St. Swithin? Do you remember any remarkable English proverb respecting him?

5. Give a ground-plan of Gilead House. Mention the leading topics of the Guide to Health, with some account of the Anti-Impetigines-Daffy's Elixir-Blaine's Distemper Powders-Ching's Worm Lozenges-and Hooper's Female Pills.

6. Give characters of Wat Tyler, Jack Cade, and Sir Francis Burdett. Did the latter return from the Tower by water or land? On what occasion did Mr. Lethbridge's "hair stand on ind?" Correct the solecism, and give the reason of your alteration.

7. Enumerate the roads on which double toll was taken on the Sundays. Did this custom extend to Christmas Day and Good Friday? Who was toll-taker at Tyburn when Mrs. Brownrigg was executed?

8. Distinguish accurately between sculls and oarsboat and punt-jackass and donkey-gauger, exciseman, and supervisor-pantaloons, trousers, gaiters, and overalls.—At what place of education were any of these forbidden? Which? and Why?

9. Express the following words in the Lancashire, Derbyshire, London, and Exmoor dialects:-baconpoker-you-I-doctor-and turnpike-gate.

10. Mention the principal coach-inns in London, with a correct list of the coaches which set out from the Bolt-in-Tun. Where were the chief stands of hackney coaches, and what was the No. of that in which the Princess Charlotte drove to Connaught House? To what stand do you suppose this removed after it set her down?

11. Give a succinct account, with dates, of the following persons-Belcher-Mr. Waithman-Major Cartwright-Martin Van Butchell--and Edmund Henry Barker.

12. Draw a map of the Thames with the surrounding country, marking particularly Wapping, Blackwall, Richmond, and the Isle of Dogs. Distinguish between Newcastle-on-Tyne, and Newcastle-under-Line-Gloucester and Double Gloucester--and the two Richmonds. What celebrated teacher flourished at one of them?—and who were his most eminent disciples?

13. What were the various sorts of paper in use amongst the English? To what purpose was whited-brown chiefly applied? What was size? Distinguish between this and college Sizings, and state the ordinary expense of papering a room.

14. "For every one knows little Matt.'s an M. P." Frag. Com. Inc. ap. Morn. Chron. vol. 59, p. 1624.

What reasons can you assign for the general knowledge of this fact? Detail, at length, the ceremony of chairing a member. What were the hustings? Who paid for them? Explain the abbreviations-Matt. M. P. -Tom-Dick-F.R.S.-L.L.D.-and A.S.S.

15. What was the distinguishing title of the mayors of London? Did any other city share the honour? Give a list of the mayors of London from Sir Richard Whittington to Sir William Curtis, with an account of the cat of the first, and the weight of the last. What is meant by Lord Mayor's Day? Describe the Apothecaries' barge, and give some account of marrow-bones and cleavers.

16. When was Spyring and Marsden's Lemon Acid

invented? Distinguish between this and Essential Salt of Lemons. Enumerate the principal patentees, especially those of liquid blacking.

17. Scan the following lines

But for shaving and tooth-drawing,
Bleeding, cabbaging, and sawing,

Dicky Gossip, Dicky Gossip is the man!

What is known of the character and history of Dicky Gossip?

EXAMINATION III.

1. Find the centre of gravity in a leg of mutton, and determine with precision how much gravy it ought to contain when properly cooked. Is there any difference between a leg and a shoulder? and what? Is it not an anomaly to call the fore-leg of a sheep the shoulder? and in what London market did the absurdity originate?

2. Describe the difference between a jack-ass and a jack-fish; and enumerate the various kinds of jack-asses that are to be found in and about the university.

3. Give an account of the Olympic games, and point out the resemblance that there is between them and the Olympic Theatre in Wych Street. What street is Wych Street, and which is the way to it?

4. In what part of London are there the greatest number of fools? and vice versa. Are the knaves in office more annoying than the knaves out of office? and, if not, why not? Give the characters respectively of a lord mayor, a merry-Andrew, a prime minister, a bishop, and a quack doctor. Mark the difference, if any, between them, and show in what they are all just alike.

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