ARABIC.

Colonel J. W. J. OUSELEY.

Tuesday, 3rd July 1877. 10 A.M. to 1 P.M.

Translate into Arabic:

It is the custom among these tribes for a man to purchase his wife, a certain number of camels, sheep, or cattle constituting the price. The women are valuable as servants; and attend carefully to all household matters; the men giving their attention to the attainment of plunder. It is somewhat singular that, in these bargains, a widow who has been some years married, bears a far higher value than a young girl: the latter will bring from two to four hundred rupees; the former as many thousands. Five camels is a common price for a girl; from fifty to a hundred are often given for a woman who has been married, and is still in the prime of life. The reason assigned for this curious choice is, that the young woman is not supposed to be acquainted with the management of a family, or with the occupations which render a woman valuable to her husband; while a widow, known to excel in such matters, will command the high price above stated.

Translate into Arabic:

From press of business, and continual employment, I was unable to pay attention to your request, but I shall take an early opportunity of laying your case before the proper authorities.

During my stay in that country I hope to write to you very frequently, and at some length, on several important matters.

It is true that in appearance I have been negligent, but he who knows all secrets is aware that you were never out of my thoughts by day or by night.

According to what sect is it lawful or right to forget old friends and esteemed companions?

[Papers were also set in Canarese and Malayalum.]

FINAL EXAMINATION. CANDIDATES

OF 1875.

PRIZE EXAMINATION. CANDIDATES OF 1875.

4.-PAPERS SET AT THE PRIZE EXAMINATION OF

CANDIDATES SELECTED IN 1875.

LAW.

Sir HENRY MAINE, K.C.S.I.; T. C. SANDARS, Esq.; T. S. SODEN, Esq.

Saturday, 16th June 1877. 10 A.M. to 1 P.M.

1. What provisions of the Indian Contract Act modify the severity of the rule that any breach on the part of one party to a contract will justify the other party in avoiding it?

2. What portions of the Hindu law appear to you to justify the position that the normal form of the Hindu Family is the Joint Family.

3. Give a brief account of the Indian Penal Law of Defamation, noting any points in which you consider it to be more stringent than the Law of England.

4. How does Bentham deal with the question of the proper proportion between Offences and Punishments?

5. Notice points in which the Scotch and French laws approach more nearly to Roman law than the English law does.

6. To what extent should what Bentham terms "Satisfaction" be made an object of legislation?

7. Point out the relevancy and weight of evidence of character in civil and criminal cases.

8. Apply tests for determining upon whom the burden of proof lies, and illustrate your answer by cases which may arise (a) on an indictment for bigamy, (b) in an action upon a policy of insurance, (c) in an action against a husband for the price of goods supplied to his wife, (d) in an action for the disturbance of an

easement.

9. Explain and illustrate the maxim, "Usage is the best interpreter of things."

HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY OF INDIA.

CLAUDE ERSKINE, Esq.

Tuesday, 19th June 1877. 10 A.M. to 1 P.M.

1. Give a full account of Mahratta affairs during the rule of the First Bhaji Rao Peishwa.

2. Give a full account of the affairs of Bengal in the interval between the final departure of Lord Clive and the accession to power of Warren Hastings.

3. Describe the chief events in the life of Shah Alum from the date of his installation at Delhi by the Mahrattas (1771) until the date of his liberation by Lord Lake (1803).

4. Give a full account of the Indian careers of Sir Philip Francis and of Sir William Macnaghten.

5. Show on a sketch map the military operations connected with the

first Burmese war.

PRIZE

6. Give a description of the physical geography of the great mountain frontiers of India, and notice the principal effects of those EXAMINATION. external barriers on the commercial and military position of CANDIDATES India.

OF 1875,

POLITICAL ECONOMY.

T. E. CLIFFE LESLIE, Esq.

Wednesday, 20th June 1877. 2 P.M. to 5 P.M.

1. State the reasons for Mr. Ricardo's doctrine that the rate of profit is never increased by any means of abridging labour either in the manufacture or in the conveyance of commodities. Add any qualification you think proper.

2. In what countries do prices habitually range highest, according to Mr. Mill, and why? Show that the prices of both raw products and manufactures might nevertheless be relatively low in such countries, notwithstanding a high price of labour; illustrating your answer by reference to both this country and the United States.

3. Suppose that an English merchant is going to New York, and will require a considerable sum of money there. What circumstances should determine him whether to provide it by sending goods, or by means of a bill of exchange, or by bringing the amount with him in the precious metals?

4. Examine the incidence of tithes in a country which imports no raw produce, and in one which imports it largely and cheaply, respectively.

5. Examine the effects of a land tax of so much per cultivated acre in a country which imports no agricultural produce, and in one which imports it largely and cheaply, respectively.

6. Examine the terms "favourable" and "unfavourable" in reference to the foreign exchanges; showing the points of view from which they are accurate and those from which they are not so, according to both Mr. Mill and Mr. Goschen.

7. Explain carefully, with examples, the various causes which may occasionally cause a discount on foreign bills of exchange exceeding the cost of transmitting bullion.

8. Trace the incidence of a tax on the exportation of the precious metals from a country with rich gold and silver mines, and which exports nothing else.

9. How does the fall in the value of silver affect the profit on the importation of commodities from India, and on the exportation of commodities to it, respectively; and why?

10. How do the rate of interest in this country and in the United States, respectively, and the state of American credit, affect the price of long bills on New York; and why?

11. What is the effect of the imposition of a tribute by one country on another upon the course of trade between them and the terms on which they exchange commodities; and why?

ه مین نی آپکی راء کو در باب تقرر اصول سلطنت و قاعده وصول اخراجات گورنمنت بحصه برابر اون سی جو حفاظت و فوائد سلطنت سی فائده اوٹھاتی هین پژها میری رای هر طرح پر آپ کی راءی سی تمام بحث اور تجاویز اور شکایت مندرجه رساله مین متفق هي ـ عذرات نہایت درست اور واجب هين بهر كيف لائق لحاظ وتوجه حکام بالا دست کی هین ـ آپنی جو دلائل پیش کی هین نہایت معقول و مکتفی هین مین چند امور کی نسبت تاییداً

Translate into Urdû (tálík character):

The Mussulman is a keen foreign politician. His ignorance is still a stumbling-block to him; and his views of modern history and geography are none of the clearest. Still, he contrives to get some general idea of the situation of affairs. Most of the Mussulman newspapers of India teem with enthusiastic notices of the Jehad, affirming that myriads of ghazis are thronging from every side to serve under the "Commander of the Faithful." We have no hesitation in affirming that very few of our Indian Moslem subjects will see fit to risk their skins even in so holy a cause. At the beginning of the Crimean war numbers of volunteers flocked to join the Turkish armies from all parts of the Ottoman Empire, but as may be imagined, their services were worth little, and they were carefully kept out of harm's way. A Jehad in our days has invariably been a failure. Abdul Kadir's war against the French in Algiers and Schamyl's against the Russians in the Caucasus both terminated unfortunately for the Mussulman cause; and the Jehad proclaimed against the Russians in Central Asia, the chief seat of Moslem bigotry, was a fiasco, for the ghazis fled at the first sight of the Russians. With regard to the effect of the proclamation of a general Jehad on our own Mussulman subjects, we need be under no apprehension. In 1857 the Mussulmans could not have attempted to rise without the assistance of the Hindoo Sepoys, and the Mussulman dislike to Christian rule is after all more theoretical than practical. The Tartars of Kiptchak and the Crimea, bigoted Mussulmans as they are, have never taken the opportunity of a Turkish war to revolt against their masters. So thoroughly cowed have they been by the Russians, that even the presence of the allied armies and their brother Turks in the Crimea could not induce them to strike a blow for their faith. Islam has no longer vitality enough to inspire its votaries with the spirit of apostles or of martyrs, and we may say of Asia, as it has been asserted of Europe, that "the age of the Crusades is over."

EXAMINATION.
CANDIDATES

OF 1875.

TELUGU.

J. GOLDINGHAM, Esq.

Friday, 22nd June 1877. 2 P.M. to 5 P.M.

For translation into English:

Brown's Reader, pp. 249, 250.

For translation into Telugu:

a. Justice is that virtue whereby we give or award to every man what is his due. Justice is administered through the medium of courts, to which all persons have access. There are two descriptions of courts, civil and criminal. The plaintiff is examined on oath as to the truth of the complaint. The defendant is required, by a notice, to attend the court, and hear the charge preferred against him.

b. Do you know the parties, the plaintiff and the defendant?

Did you know the plaintiff's father? and how long did you know him?

Was the plaintiff's father a person of property? and at his death how many sons did he leave?

What was the amount of his property? To whom did he leave it, to his children or to some relation?

c. The father said to his son, Tell me what you wish. The son replied, I have seen much in this country, and have known many per

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