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officer in their service. Mr. D. Foggo, of the Hindu College, was appointed to succeed him at the Dacca College.

The separate office of Assistant Professor of Literature in the Hindu College was abolished, as it was found that, by a new distribution of the time devoted to teaching by the existing instructional staff, the duties previously assigned to Mr. Foggo could be performed by Mr. Jones, without in any degree impairing the efficiency of, or diminishing the tuition given in, the College.

In May last, the Government directed the Council to report upon the extent to which the 4th

Fulfilment of Lord

Hardinge's Resolu- and 5th paragraphs of Lord Hardinge's Education Resolution of the 10th

tion.

October 1844, quoted in the margin for readier reference,* had

* "The returns when received will be printed, and circulated to the heads of all Government officers both in and out of Calcutta, with instructions to omit no opportunity of providing for, and advancing the candidates thus presented to their notice, and in filling up every situation of whatever grade, in their gift, to shew them an invariable preference over others not possessed of superior qualifications. The appointment of all such candidates to situations under the Government will be immediately communicated by the appointing officer to the Council of Education and will by them be brought to the notice of Government, and the public, in their annual reports. It will be the duty of controlling officers, with whom rests the confirmation of appointments made by their subordinates, to see that a sufficient explanation is afforded, in every case in which the selection may not have fallen upon an educated candidate whose name is borne on the printed returns.'

"With a view still further to promote and encourage the diffusion of knowledge among the humbler classes of the people, the Governor General is also pleased to

direct that, even in the selection of persons to fill the lowest offices under the Government, respect be had to the relative acquirements of the candidates, and that in every instance a man who can read and write be preferred to one who cannot."

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spirit of the above orders. Information was also required as to whether any reports had been received from public officers in

the Mofussil or at the Presidency of the appointment of any

CIRCULAR No. 6 OF 1850.

To the Magistrates and Joint Magistrates of Bengal. Garden Reach, 4th May, 1850. SIR,-It has come to my knowledge that many of the young men who have had the advantage of a good education at the Government*

This includes persons educated at the Mudrissa.

and other institutions would gladly enter into the Police, if encouragement was held out to them, now that the situation of a Darogah has been made more respectable, and promotion is held out for good conduct.

2nd. The admission of this class into the Police

would not only add to its efficiency, but also to the integrity of the body; and I wish you would hold out encouragement to young men of this class to come forward as candidates for employment in the Police, giving them cæteris paribus the preference over others. I have, &c.,

(Signed) W. Dampier,

Supt. of Police, Lower Provinces.

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replied that no report of the kind referred to had been received, except from the late Mr. A. F. Donnelly, of the Civil Service, Abkaree Superintendent of Dacca. Several other public officers were known to have acted upon the resolution, but no returns relating to it had been submitted by them.

The Council's list, as published annually in the appendix to its report, was forwarded to Government. It exhibits what had become of each of them, and shews that the greater number have entered the education service. The Council have reason to believe the qualifications of several of these young men to be such as would fit them for more responsible and better paid situations than any they have it in their power to bestow.

The Council were unable to afford any further information on the subject, as the responsibility of carrying the resolution into effect does not rest with them.

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During the past year the Council have received applications for the establishment of schools at Jonye, Moheary, and Ooterparalı.

Babu Ramnarain Mookerjee, a wealthy and influential inhabitant of Jonye, in July forwarded a memorial from the inhabitants of that and several neighbouring villages, to the following effect: viz., that the villages mentioned were about twelve miles from Calcutta and twenty from Hooghly, and that the want of an English school in the neighbourhood was much felt, as the inhabitants were not wealthy enough to send their children to the Central Colleges for education, that to supply the desideratum the inhabitants had, with aid from benevolent and kindly disposed persons, established a private school there in January, which was flourishing, and well conducted; but they feared that, unless it were taken under the fostering care of the Government, the zeal of its existing friends and supporters might cool, and the school cease to prosper. They wished, therefore, to place it under the control of the Council, promising the continued support of the native community to an extent which they believed would nearly cover the expenses of the Institution.

To this it was replied, that the Council viewed with much satisfaction every effort made by the natives of Bengal, to afford the blessings of education to their children, as they considered that the instruction of the masses must be the work of the people themselves; particularly as the existing state of the education funds would not admit of any expensive addition to the Government Schools now in existence. The petitioners, therefore, were told that their proposition could only be taken into consideration, on their raising a sufficient sum to build a school-house and purchase the ground on which it would stand, as well as guaranteeing an adequate sum to maintain it, without any pecuniary aid from the Council, as it was not in the power of that body to afford such assistance.

The application from Ooterparah was for a grant of thirty rupees monthly, to aid in the maintenance of a vernacular school there, for which a suitable house had been procured.

Much as the Council value the importance of a proper system of vernacular instruction, and of the establishment of schools for its encouragement, they were unable to comply with the request referred to, the funds at their disposal being inadequate to admit of any sum being alienated from the institutions at present under their control.

The Moheary petition was for the Council to take over and maintain an existing Institution, which had been established for four years, but was on the verge of dissolution, from the inability of the inhabitants to continue to maintain it out of their own resources.

The request could not be complied with for the reasons abovementioned.

During the visitation inspection of the Council in January last, the deputation was present at the Opening of an English School inauguration of an English school at at Furreedpore. Furreedpore. In March, the school committee reported that there were seventy-five boys on the rolls, of whom sixty-three were Hindus, eleven Moohummudans, and one Christian; and that admissions were eagerly sought after, there being no restrictions on account of creed or caste. Each boy was required to pay a monthly schooling fee of one rupee. At that time the resources of the school amounted to 121 rupees monthly, partly derived from local subscriptions and in part from the schooling fees, leaving a monthly surplus of 24 rupees above the actual cost of conducting the Institution. From the donations collected, books to the amount of 200 rupees were purchased, and it was proposed to invest the balance of Company's rupees 1,284, in Government Securities. English, Bengali and Persian are taught in the school. A cheerful and commodious bungalow has been erected for its accommodation, and the Council have every reason to hope that it will succeed. Its Institution has chiefly been due to the active and zealous exertions of Mr. Latour, the magistrate.

In consequence of the unsatisfactory state of the discipline of the Calcutta Mudrissa, and the necessity

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of placing the Institution upon a different footing, the following communication

was addressed to the Government in March 1850:

"The death of Mouluvee Hafiz Uhmud Kubeer, the late Assistant Secretary and Khuteeb of the Calcutta Mudrissa, and the resignation of Col. Riley, late Secretary to the same institution, afford, in the opinion of the Council of Education, a favorable opportunity for remodelling the instructive establishment of that College, and for placing it upon the footing required by the present advanced state of education in Bengal.

2. The plan of placing the institution exclusively under native management was originally tried by its founder, and failed entirely.

An European Secretary was then appointed, under the control of a section of the late General Committee of Public Instruction.

3. The functions exercised by that officer were more those of a visitor than of the head of a College, as he took no part in the duty of instruction, only occasionally visited the College, and conducted its correspondence with the governing body.

This plan which, with the exception of the abolition of the Sub-Committee, still exists, although far superior to that which it superseded, is, in many important respects, very defective.

4. The Secretary is almost entirely dependent upon his native assistant for his knowledge of the internal economy and condition of the institution, and consequently knows just as much as it is considered expedient to make him acquainted with.

The absence of an European officer deprives the College of the energy and activity that would be imparted to it, were all working more immediately under his personal observation.

The check afforded by the occasional presence of the controlling officer is not sufficient to prevent various irregularities destructive of discipline, as well as the submission of fictitious muster rolls of students present in their classes. For example, during the incumbency of Col. Riley, who was a much stricter officer than his predecessor Lieut. Colonel Ouseley, one of the Arabic professors and the English librarian practised in the city of Calcutta as hukeems, and were scarcely ever present in the Mudrissa. The fact was accidentally discovered after it had probably existed for years. There can be no doubt, also, that the monthly returns of attendance and of the studies of the Arabic department are quite unworthy of trust.

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