have carried their pupils further than I have ever known to be the case in the vernacular. In Geometry, Plane and Spherical Trigonometry, and the elements of the Differential and Integral Calculus, the answering was very good; and several questions, not directly to be found in their books, were solved with considerable skill.”

104. Your Lordship is aware that the subject of uniting the Sanskrit College and English school has been under our consideration for a long time; and you are also aware that, having completed our arrangements, the new College is to open at the close of the present vacation of May. In our last report we quoted a brief résumé, by Major Candy, of the history and objects of the Sanskrit College. We mentioned also the various able suggestions which Major Candy had submitted for increasing its efficiency; and we stated the general principles on which we proposed to remodel the College. We expressed our opinion that an institution at Poona for the education of Natives in the higher branches of knowledge should be formed on the general model of the Elphinstone Institution; and we stated our belief that the undue encouragement, which is given by the existence of a Sanskrit College to the almost exclusive cultivation of a dead language and very ancient literature, would cease, while at the same time ample opportunity would exist for the acquirements of sufficient Sanskrit for all philological purposes.

105. The measures pursued in arranging a scheme for the new College are thus clearly and briefly stated by Major Candy in his Report:

"In obedience to the Board's instructions, I drew up a scheme, which the Board submitted to Principal Green and Professor Patton, of the Elphinstone Institution. These gentlemen concurred in the principles of the scheme, but suggested a few modifications in its details. The Board sent their minutes to me, that I might consider their suggestions, and directed me to recast my scheme, adopting such of the suggestions of Messrs. Green and Patton as seemed desirable. On receiving these directions I represented to the Board that as the College of Benares had been given as a muster, it would be well to ascertain exactly the nature and result of the changes that had been made in it before the scheme of the new College at Poona was finally settled. Acting on my suggestion, the Board applied to the Local

Committee of Public Instruction at Benares for the information required. This was supplied; and a copy of the letter from the Secretary to the Committee was furnished to me by the Board. Having now all the information that could be procured, I recast the scheme for amalgamating the Poona institutions, and submitted it to the Board, before whom it now lies."

It will thus be seen that previous to deciding on a general plan, we took care to obtain the opinions of several able men.

106. The scheme, thus recast, we finally approved of, with some slight modifications, and we submitted the whole subject for your Lordship's sanction. This was obtained, and we lost no time in giving publicity to the change, by publishing the rules of the new College in a late number of the Government Gazette. These rules we now beg to record.

RULES OF THE POONA COLLEGE.

1. The College shall be open to all classes, under the restrictions as to payment and examination hereinafter mentioned, and shall be under the control of a Principal, assisted by a council of Professors.

2. The College shall contain the following departments, viz :

and shall be divided into two divisions, viz. the upper or college division, and the lower or school division.

3. It shall be imperative on all the students of the College to study Marahti in the vernacular department, but it shall be optional with the students of the English department to study in the Sanskrit, and with those of the Sanskrit to study in the English department.

4. The course of instruction in the 1st, or vernacular department, shall be such as may give the students a critical knowledge of their mother tongue, and shall

comprise all the branches of learning which can be communicated through it. The 2nd, or English department, shall comprehend two classes of students, viz. those who may wish to study English without combining it with Sanskrit, and those who may wish to study it in combination with that language. The 3rd, or Sanskrit department, shall likewise contain two classes of students, viz. those to whom it will be the chief object, and those who will study it in combination with English. The 4th, or Normal department, shall be for the training of a class of students in the art of teaching, to fit them to be schoolmasters.

5. The Principal of the College shall be charged with the general supervision of all departments, and with the direction and superintendence of translations. If not charged with the direction of translations, he shall take one particular branch of instruction.

6. Candidates for admission into the College must have a competent knowledge of their vernacular language, be able to write correctly the current hand in which business is transacted, and must know the common rules of Arithmetic.

7. FEES. Students in the College division, during their first year, will be required to pay a monthly fee of one rupee. In subsequent years they will pay two rupees. Students in the school division, being the sons of the Native gentry, or of parents able to afford it, will pay a monthly fee of one rupee. All other students will pay half a rupee, excepting where poverty is combined with more than ordinary ability, in which case admission will be free.

8. For the sake of affording the means of education of a higher order to the numerous class of poor Brahmins in the Deccan and Concan, fifty stipends of three classes, viz. ten at 6 Rs., twenty at 4 Rs., and twenty at 3 Rs., shall be attached to the Poona College. These must be invariably given to boys of good abilities, (their abilities to be ascer

tained by examination,) whose parents cannot afford to pay for their education. These stipends may be held for ten years, but subject to periodical examinations. These foundation scholars will be required to study Sanskrit, the Vernacular, and English.

9. To promote the cultivation of the vernacular language, there shall be attached to the College four translation exhibitions, of the value of 40 Rs. monthly each. The holders of them will be required to employ a part of each day in teaching, under the direction of the principal, and to give the remainder of their time to the translation of useful works into Marahti, or to the composition of original works in it. The exhibitions may be held for five years, subject to periodical examinations.

10. To carry out the great object of training a body of superior schoolmasters, there shall be attached to the College twenty normal scholarships of two classes (ten at 5 Rs., and ten at 4 Rs.) These shall be held by young men under training as schoolmasters. They shall be open to all classes of Natives.

11. For the preservation and cultivation of the Sanskrit language, ten scholarships shall be attached to the Sanskrit department, to be held by poor Brahmin youths of good abilities, who shall study Sanskrit in combination with the vernacular. These scholarships shall be five at 5 Rs., and five at 3 Rs. a month. They may be held for eight years, subject to periodical examinations.

12. The present English department of the Poona College and the present Government English School shall form the basis of the English department of the new College.

13. The Sanskrit department of the present Poona College shall form the basis of the Sanskrit department of the new College, subject to such modification as the Board of Education shall direct from time to time.

14. All gratuities to students, on the completion of their studies, shall cease from the establishment of the new College.

107. The new College opens under the happiest auspices. The important office of Principal, we are most happy in saying, will be held by Major Candy, whose large experience and accurate views will be of the utmost importance to the healthy working of the institution. The professorship of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy will be held by the Rev. James McDougall, who for the last three years has ably conducted the English school at Poona, and who for some months previous to the arrival of Mr. Patton in 1848, officiated in a similar professorship at the Elphinstone Institution. For the professorship of English Literature we required a man of experience and judgment, combined with energy and zeal; and we accordingly, in anticipation of the immediate return of Principal Harkness from Europe, nominated Mr. Green. We had previously appointed this gentleman an Elphinstone Professor, this being the strongest acknowledgment in our power, both of his unwearied exertions in the cause of education since his arrival in 1843, and of his able conduct in the preformance of his duties as Acting Principal of the Elphinstone Institution during the last twenty months. Being thus an Elphinstone Professor, he is denominated acting Professor at the Poona College. The professorship in the vernacular will be held by Mahadeo Govind Shastri, an able and energetic man, who was educated in the Poona Sanskrit College, and who for the last few years has been employed in the Elphinstone Institution. The assistant master in the English department, in charge of the normal department, will be Sukaram Balcrishna, who for some years has been the assistant master in the English school at Dharwar, and who was formerly an Elphinstone scholar of high reputation in the Elphinstone Institution.

108.

We trust the new institution will be attended with