24. On the second point, i. e. the want of inspection and examination of Masters after appointment, we would again beg to direct the earnest attention of Government to the matters mooted in para. 49, page 31, and paras. 57, 58, 59, 60 and 61, page 34 of our last Report, as the necessity for unexpected visitation, and searching inspection still exists.

25. We would here mention that we have found the issue of Circular No. 35 Appendix (A) relative to the Masters' reports highly useful.

Suggestions for Masters.

26. The Government will have probably found, as we have done, from the replies to Circular No. 35 alluded to in the preceding para. that these suggestions (Appendix 1 of last year's Report) are generally attended to, and acted upon.

27. Mr. Clerihew, a gentleman, introduced to us as well known to the Right Hon'ble the Earl of Auckland and his brother the Revd. Dr. Eden, and acquainted with the system of the Normal Branch of the Battersea Institution, possessed also of the highest testimonials, has lately arrived in the "Justina," with a wish to serve in the Education Department, as a master of drawing and design. In this capacity, both as a teacher in the normal school as mentioned by Mr. Shuttleworth Key, the Secretary to the Committee of Council on Education in England, and as Assistant to Mr. Barry, the architect of the new Houses of Parliament, he has received the highest praise.

28. We cannot in this place forbear from expressing the earnest hope that the special instruction which may hereafter become available through Mr Clerihew to the native youth of our colleges and schools, may enable them to compete succesfully with the European Architects and Masters of Design in this country, (who now are free from all such wholesome Native competition) and may enable them to earn for themselves reputation and affluence.

On encouraging the highest system of instruction in the Colleges and connecting the Zillah Schools therewith.

Apparatus.

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29. On this subject we have but to repeat on this occasion, the expressions made use of in paras. 9 and 10 of our last Report.

With reference to para. 11 page 7 of the last General Report, we have to state that the Council was advised by one of its members in July last, that at the date of the then latest advices. from England, Sir E. Ryan was actually engaged in the execution of the commission which he had undertaken, for the selection and purchase of philosophical apparatus for

the Colleges and Schools, but had found on application at the East India House, that the Hon'ble the Court of Directors had received no advices under which the necessary funds could be placed at his disposal, so as to enable him to complete the purchase. The Council under these circumstances, and with special reference to the importance of preventing further delay in the matter, immediately solicited the Government of India to move the Hon'ble Court to place at the disposal of Sir Edward Ryan, the originally sanctioned sum of 6,000 Rupees, and to direct that any sum expended in England on this account, might be placed by the Officers of Account of this Presidency to the debit of the Education Department under the head mentioned.

31. The necessary orders were promptly issued by the Local Government, and we are in daily expectation of advice of the shipment of the apparatus in question. Sir Edward Ryan's absence from England has interfered in some measure with the more speedy arrival of the articles.

Scholarships.

32. The Examination for these was conducted on the plan detailed in para. 74 of our last Report. The circular programme, Appendix B, which we caused to be sent with the examination papers to each Institution, and to be translated, and inserted in the Vernacular Gazettes, will shew that every means in our power were taken to ensure the conditions on which those grants are made, being fully disseminated.

33. The results of the Examinations will be found in Appendices C and D, and are on the whole gratifying, promising still further progressive improvements hereafter.

34. Appendix E contains the examination papers given for the Scholarship examinations.

35. We stated in para. 16 of our last Report, page 12, that "the scheme of Scholarships laid down in our Rules and "Regulations, has not had effect for a sufficient time to enable

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us to declare from our experience of its results that it has "been found perfect in all its parts, and suited in its details "to every Institution. We should be very averse, however, "to a sudden change of that scheme, for we would submit "that even if it should be found unsatisfactory in its practical operation in some places, time has not yet been allowed to judge whether its evils may not be only such primary obsta"cles as might be expected to impede beneficial reforms, "involving extensive changes, and whether further, those "evils are not capable by time or sound measures of being "palliated or overcome. We think at any rate that it would "be very injudicious to change and relax the rules deliberate

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"ly prescribed and approved in one year, before those rules "in as far as regards Scholarships have had the opportunity "of standing the test of the second or third. Whenever such a test shall have been applied, and its application shall have "satisfactorily shewn a predominance of evil in the plan, we "shall be foremost to reconsider the expediency of such modi"fications as the subject may demand, or the Government "and others interested in Native Education may be pleased to "suggest."

36. The following Circulars 34 and 37, and extract from Circular 40, will shew the changes which have been made in regard to Scholarships in accordance with the above principles.

(CIRCULAR.)
No. 34.

TO THE SECRETARY TO THE LOCAL

COMMITTEE.

Genl. Dept. SIR, The importance of preventing as far as Education. S possible unfair practises at Examinations for prizes

and honors, has induced the Hon'ble the President in Council to resolve that in all the Institutions directly under his control, the following Rule shall obtain on this point.

RULE.

Any attempt at, or practice of, unfair means, in competition for prizes or honors, shall subject the offending party to a fine of 100 Rupees in cases of Senior and 50 Rupees in cases of Junior Scholarships, and of 30 Rupees in cases of general promotion or examination-non-payment of the Fine within one month to subject to exclusion from the Institution till paid. In cases of examination for Scholarships, no offender to be capable of then or again competing for any Scholarship.

(CIRCULAR.)
No. 37.

TO THE SECRETARY TO THE LOCAL

COMMITTEE.

Genl. Dept. SIR, I am directed to transmit for your inforEducation.mation and guidance the annexed copy of a Letter from the Secretary to the Council of Education, No. 813, dated the 1st instant, and of the Orders of the Government of India thereon.

Secretary to the Government of India,
General Department.

SIR, I am directed by the Council of Education to acknowledge the receipt of your letter, dated 19th October, No. 1820, forwarding for the consideration and report of the Council various letters in original, shewing the difficulty experienced in inducing the holders of Junior Scholarships in Zillah Schools, to proceed to the Central Colleges to which their scholarships are attached, by the Scheme laid down in p. cc. to ccii. of the Appendix to the General Report for 1839-40.

2. The Council direct me in reply to observe, that the Rule prescribing that the Scholarships should be attached to central places of Education had its origin in the desire to establish the larger Seminaries as Colleges to which youths educated in inferior Schools should resort, in order to attain a higher proficiency by availing themselves of the superior facilities and better Teachers of these Institutions.

3. But it appears evident from the references made, that these central places of Instruction are not yet regarded in this light in the Districts, and some of them are not in the requisite state of forwardness to be entitled to be so considered. Under these circumstances, the Council see no objection to the Mofussil Schools, to which Scholarships at a Central College have been attached, being allowed to take them, subject of

course to the same tests of proficiency, with an option to successful competitors either to join the Central College, or to enjoy the allowance and prosecute their studies at the Mofussil School.

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4. There can be no objection to this course on the sco account, for the Scholarships have been granted from the separate extra grant made by Government in 1840, and have not been regarded as appropriations to the Funds of the Central Colleges, that the option thus proposed to be given should be considered a re-alienation.

5. But though the Council admit that in the present state of the Government Institutions there are grounds for this change of plan, the Council think the arrangement should be temporary, and subject to be discontinued whenever the state of the Central Colleges, and of feeling in respect to them, shall enable the original Rule to be carried out with advantage.

Genl. Dept.

Secretary to the Council of Education.

SIR, I am directed to acknowledge the receipt Education. S of your Letter, No. 813, dated the 1st instant, and in reply to state that the Hon'ble the President in Council concurring generally in the opinion of the Council, approves of the suggestion submitted in your Letter for temporarily authorizing Mofussil Schools to which Scholarships at a Central College have been attached, to take them, subject to the usual tests of proficiency, with an option to successful competitors either to join the Central College, or to draw the allowance and prosecute their studies at the Institutions to which they may belong.

2. The necessary communication will be made to all the Mofussil Schools under the Government of India.