The Express.
London, England, 1866-12-11 00:00:00

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THE LATE BISHOP OF CALCUTTA AND TLIZ
EUROPEAN roPULATIoN.— But, if there was one point cha-
racteristic of his administration, and with which his name
will be especially associated in India, it was his effort to
provide for the welfare of a class unrecognised till lately
in the limits of the old company's dominion. Scarcely had
he landed when he was struck by the numbers and im-
portance of the European and Eurasian population of his
diocese. Railroads, canals, agricultural, and commercial
enterprise, were drawing, be found, every year numbers
of Englishmen to India ; and for the families of these
men, for that vast proportion who were unable to semi
their children to England, means of education, or even of
healthy, physical, or moral growth, were almost wholly
wanting. The sight chilled him to the heart. Ile saw
that, if there could be one thing fatal to the spread of
Christianity, it was the sight of a generation of unchris-
tian, uneared-for Englishmen, springing up in the midst
of a heathen population. He felt that, if there could be
one thing subveraive of our Indian empire, it was the
spectacle of a generation of natives highly educated, and
trained in missionary and government schools, side by side
with an increasing population of ignorant and brutalised
Europeans. As early as 1859 he seized on this question,
and followed it up with characteristic tenacity. The
sum raised in India as a thank-offering for the suppression
of the mutiny he devoted, with the full approval of Lord
Canning, to the establishment of a " Hill School," to be
organised as nearly as possible on the model of an English
public school. The work grew tinder his bands. Be urged
its importance alike on the authorities in India, and on his
friends at home, for be felt it to be a question which
involved alike the progress of Christianity and the mainte-
nance of our empire. The one mark of affection which he
desired and received yearly from the English school which
Ibe bad more than founded was a liberal contribution in
furtherance of the object which he had most at heart ; and
in the last period of his life be was using every means, in
conjunction with the Diocesan Board of Education, to se-
cure the permanent establishment of the three Rill Schools
already founded, by raising the half of 25,000 f. t" meet the
grant which government bad premised in the event of his
doing so. It is earnestly to be hid that his many friends
—and few have made and retained so many—will not &fish
what they now look on as his dying wish, and that kis
successor, whoever he May be. la strain every nerve to
carry on the work.Matnialaa's Magarise for Deoraiber.