“Mr. Littledale and Dr. Wilson examined them in their reading, explanation and grammar. Mr. Cheap in history, Mr. Taylor in geography, Mr. Tucker in their translation, and the head master in arithmetic, algebra and Euclid.

"The third class, consisting of twenty-one boys, passed a good examination in their reading, explanation and grammar, with some few exceptions; their great defect was in explaining their ideas in English. They were not so good in the catechism of history, and many of them were deficient in their geography and arithmetic. These boys have, however, had a disadvantage to contend with, in being without their teacher during the year, as the third master officiated for the second.

"The fourth class, consisting of twenty-six boys, passed a good examination generally. Many of these boys are promising, and I have no doubt, when they are promoted into the third class, they will, in a very short time, be at the head of the class.

"The fifth class, consisting of twenty-six boys,* in their rudiments. I examined these boys, and found only five or six, who had progressed satisfactorily, and these were sharp intelligent boys. The rest appeared to have had little or no pains taken with them. I mentioned this to the master at the time.

"The following are the boys, who, according to their standing in their respective classes from the greatest number of marks obtained at the examination, are entitled to prizes.

"Five of the best boys, their names cannot be given, as no numbers were given to them for their examination, and from the nature of which, it could not be done; but those who are generally at the head of the class will be selected.

"The books of the library are, for the most part, in excellent order, some few volumes require binding which will accordingly be done.

* Sic in Orig.

"The school is a new building, is in perfect order and no repairs therefore will be necessary during the ensuing year.

"What I have seen of the second master is in his favor; he has been regular in his attendance and attentive to his duties. The fourth teacher arrived just before the examination, I have therefore seen very little of him, but he appears to be intelligent. The officiating fourth teacher and the pundit have given every satisfaction, but I am sorry I cannot speak in favorable terms of Babu Chunder Kissore Bose, the fifth master. I have found him irregular in his attendance, and unable to control his class. I have often been obliged to leave my own duties to call his boys to order and silence."

Mr. Assistant Professor Brennand's report of this school follows:

"I arrived at Bauleah on the afternoon of Wednesday, the 21st August, and, as the following day was a holiday, it was not until Friday, that I could examine the school. The whole number of boys is 83. With one or two exceptions they are all Hindus, the sons of respectable parents. Some are from a great distance, but living with relatives, who are employed in the offices or the courts; others are the sons of Zemindars residing in the neighbourhood, at a distance of about a mile. Besides this a free school has been recently established, where English is taught: it is supported by a wealthy native, and it contains from 70 to 80 boys, but it has not had the effect, as at first was feared, of diminishing the numbers in the Government School: it is composed of those, who are either unable to pay the established schooling fees, or whose qualifications are below what is requisite for the classes, which from their age they should enter. It is pleasing to find, that those for whom the Government system of education does not provide, are not wholly neglected, and that the means of the charitable, are thus directed in a proper channel. "The first class consists at present, of only three boys, there being five at the commencement of the year, two have left, one, for bad conduct, the other, Mohun Mohun Roy, to join either the Hindu or the Hooghly College. The latter bears a very high character for his general abilities, having joined the fifth class of this school, in June 1845. He has, during the space of four years, passed through all the other classes, and it is supposed that he will take a high place, should he be permitted to contend for a scholarship at the ensuing examinations. The other three boys

were examined in the subjects of the junior scholarship course. Written questions were given in history, which were answered by all with great credit. The answers to the questions given orally in geography, showed that they had not neglected this subject, though the ideas they possess, of such terms as latitude, longitude, &c., are extremely vague. They had been reading geometry for 15 months, and propositions were selected for examination from the first three books of Euclid, which were demonstrated with considerable facility, and by Hurrihur Mookerjee, in a manner that showed he fully understood the arguments which were made use of.

The demonstrations of the other two, were marked by certain blemishes which implied a misapprehension of the terms which were used, these, however, with a little care in revision, would easily be removed. To the questions given in arithmetic, from vulgar and decimal fractions, and evolution, correct results were obtained, by the two first mentioned boys, the processes being generally clear and direct, and in arithmetic, these boys are well grounded. Their solutions to some of the examples in algebra, show that they were better acquainted with equations, both simple and quadratic, than with the reduction of fractions. A few passages were translated from Bengali, to enable me to ascertain their powers of writing English; the best was that of Doorganauth Talapatra. In literature, they had read from Richardson's Selections, two books of Milton, Roger's Pleasures of Memory, and Addison's Cato.

In the second class there are nine boys, who were all present on my visit to the school. They were examined orally in geometry and geography, and written questions were given to them in the subjects of history, arithmetic and algebra. In reading also a subject was selected from Poetical Reader No. 3, each boy reading a portion, and explaining the passage which he read, which showed that they could read fluently, and generally with a good pronunciation, and also that they possess a pretty fair knowledge of English. In geometry, four boys were well prepared in the first book of Euclid. In the simple rules of vulgar and decimal fractions, they are all, with the exception of two boys, well grounded, but they failed in extracting the square root of a decimal, though they were generally able to apply the rules of evolution to an integer. Four boys have attained considerable facility in operations on fractions in algebra. On the questions from the histories of Greece and Rome the majority of the boys obtained marks higher than the mean number that was given. Some of the answers were remarkable for bad penmanship, one or two of the papers for bad spelling, such words, as oregin," "devide," &c., being used, and some very incorrect sentences occurred, the worst of which was the following: Regulus was one of the consummate generals that Rome could ever produced." With a few such exceptions as these, their knowledge of the subjects they have read in history, is generally good. The most of these boys have neglected geography, some of them not even knowing the general division of countries in Europe, their chief cities, the large rivers, and other similarly elementary matter.

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"The best boys of this class, as far as I was able to ascertain, are the following:

J. E. Burrowes.
Rajchunder Sanul.

Keder Mohun Moitre.
Kalinath Biswas.

"In the third class there are twenty-one boys, all of whom were present. They each read and explained a few sentences from Prose Reader No. 4, and Poetical Reader No. 2. The pronunciation of some of them was not very good, but they generally understood what they read. They answered successfully a few simple questions in geography. They were also able to perform operations on the rule of three, and in the simple rules of vulgar fractions.

"In the fourth class, there are two sections-the whole number in the class is twenty-six. The first section is, I think, in a very promising state. I was much pleased with their reading, which was marked with a good

pronunciation, their parsing of the sentences which they read, and their general intelligence in answering questions which were put to them. The second section, though containing some boys that are much older than those of the first, are rather backward in reading.

"The fifth class, consisting of twenty-four boys, is also divided into two sections. The first section is composed of boys who are reading little lessons, which they are accustomed to explain in Bengali. In the other section they are learning words of one and two syllables to which they give the Bengali meanings.

"From the following table, it will be seen that there has been a small increase in the numbers on the rolls, within the last seven months, that the average age of the boys of the first class is less, than what it is for the next two, and that the attendance is generally good.

"The first class is taught by Mr. Ridge himself. He has also, since the end of July, devoted some portion of his time to the third class, and previous to this, he has had the charge of the second class, about an hour each day, the situation of second master being vacant. The other classes, besides the first, have now each their own master, and excepting the times they are with the pundit, are instructed in English, from 10 A. M. till 4 P. M.

"The new school house is completed, and has been occupied for some time. It is an elegant and commodious building, capable of accommodating two hundred boys. It is situated near the former one, which will be now useless, except it be converted into a residence for the head master. "The library and the school furniture are in good condition."