The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1826-04-06 00:00:00

THE BRI'T'ISH PitESS.

NATIVE SCHOOLS in INDIA.—The immense im-
portance of establishing Schools for the diffusion, in the brat
place of European, and ultimately of Christian Knowledge, amongst
the Native Children in India, must be admitted by alt who have
eeriously reflected upon the mauls of propagating the Gospel in the
East.
Little progress can 'be expected in this great work, uhlesa the
mind has been prepared for the eeception of Christianity by home
previous instruction. This point was repeatedly ant earnestly
pressed upon the attention of the Society tor Promoting Christian
Knowledge by the late lamented Bishop Middleton The advan-
tages to he derived from hence appear to be no less highly esti-
mated by Bishop Hebert and the opinion of persons hest acquainted
with the Eaat, accords with the sentiments of these distinguissed
individuals.
To make provision for such instruction has long been an object
of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge ; and it has ter
&considerable time had Schools in India under the superintend.
ante and direction of its agents. With a view to provide the means
of extending the system, the Society has resolved to to a separate
Fund for the establishment of Nctive Schools in India, and has for
that purpose voted the sum of five thousand pounds, in addition
to an anonymous benefaction of one thousand pounds, and another
of two hundred pounds. ft is proposed to extend the benefits of
this measure to all parts of India ; and to empower the Bishop of
Calcutta, the Archdeacons of Calcutta. Madras, Bombay, and
Ceylon, and the Committees of the Society at those places, to ap-
proprice portions of the Fund to the Native Schools in their re.
spective districts. The system upon which the Schools are to be
&inducted will be left to the decision of the Ecclesiastical and Civil
Authorities in India, in conjunction with the Committees of the
Society. and the Managers of each local Institution, Grants of
money will be made for the erection and enlargement of school
houses : books in English, and in the various native langu gee, will
be provided ; and native schoolmasters will be educatedawith the
ssistance of the Society.
That the Native School Fund may be made in some measure
proportionate to the vast field on which it is to be expended, and
to the acknowledged importance of its most desirable and truly
Christian object, the Society earnestly entreats the aid of the pub-
lic In donations or annual subscriptions.

Subscriptions already received :
.C. a. X. s.
Society for Promoting Right Hon. Earl of Li-
Christian Knowledge 0000 0 verpool 100 0
Anonymous . 1000 0 The Earl of Shaftesbury 50 0
Anonymous . - 200 0 Hon, Philip Pusey 100 0
The Lord Archbishop of The Lord Kenyon 50 0
Canterbury : 100 011 The Lord Bexley 50 II
The Lord Archbishop of IA.C. L. and N. C. L. 3h 0
York . . 100 0 Rev. Daniel Wilson 10 0
The Lord Bishop of Lon- Mrs. Heber . 10 0
don 100 0 A. B. . - 1 1
-
The Lord Bishop of Dui.- Rev. W. Hancock, ann. 1 I
ham - 100 0 Joshua Watson, Esq. 60 0
The Lord Bishop of Win- Lord Gambier - 10 0
cheater - 50 0 Amount of an Article in
The Lord Bishop of 01. the Theol. Review fi 0
ford - 30 0 Rev. Dr. Syry . 10 0
The Lord Bishop cf Ex- Rev. W. 1 aux - 10 0
titer - 20 0 Right Hon. C. W. Wll.
The Lord Bishop of Pe- Hams IVynn . 50 0
terborough - 23 0 Rev. H. 11. Norris 20 0
The Lord Bishop of Bris. Rev. Dr. Wordsworth 10 10
tot . 10 0 Miss Hoare, (annual) 2 0
The Lord Bishop of ',itch- Miss Beardmore . 5 0
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tideland Co +entry 20 0 Rev. B. Woold - 1 I
Ditto (annual) . 2 2 Geo. Dip r, EN. M.P. 10 0
The Lord Bishop of Llan- Rev. A.. 1. Campbell 5 0
(laif . 30 0 Richard Heber, Esq. 2U 0
The Lord Bishop of Ches. Rev. Charles C. Chol-
ter . 30 0 mondeley - 5 5
Deddington Committee 10 10 I 011ev. C. Benson - 5

Subscriptions will be received at the Society's Office, 67, Lin.
coin's Inn-fields ; and at the Banking-housca of 3lessrs. Gosling,
Fleet-street ; Messrs. Drummond, Charing-cross ; and 3lessrs.
Bounquet and Co. 73, Lombard-street.