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the important enactments of the year 1814, and other mates:.: improvements in our judicial code.
• The College Council have stated to me their entire satisfac-
tion at the attention and conduct of all the Officers of the Col-
lege
since the period of the last meeting; a report which has
caused me much gratification, and demands the expression of
my cordial acknowledgments to those Gentlemen. They are
also justly due to the learned natives attached to the institution.
To the Members of the College Council themselves, who so
ably and impartially preside over the afairs of the establish-
ment, to the infinite advantage of its concerns, 'desire to ten-
der my warmest thanks. Can I offer to the students a stronger
incitement to study and generous emulation than the honour-.
able example of those Gentlemen who, one and all, in their
progress to the high and responsible offices which they fill, sig•
nalized their early career in India by the acquisition of proud
and distinguished honours in that Institution, over which they now exercise a parental care ?
It cannot be =dative to the present occasion to advert to the condition and prospect of other collegiate Institutions establish',,
ed under the protection and patronage of the Government at
this Country. The Madrussa, or College for Mahomedan Lore
founded by the illustrious Warren Hastings, has lately attract'
ed the particular attention of Government. Through the liberal
"and disinterested exertions of the Superintending Committee,
aided by their learned and zealous Secretary, Dr. Lumsden,
the most important reforms have been introduced into the dis-
cipline and studies of that Institution. These measures have
been crowned with the most signal success, even during the
short period in which they have been in 'operation, and theY,
promise the happiest results. The annual examinations 01
the Students which are now publicly held may be coniident•
ly referred to in proof, both of the actual improvement that
has taken place, and the spirit of zeal and emulation that has
been created.
Similar good effects have attended the reforms so judiciously'
introduced into the Hindoo College at Benares, which had gra,
dually fallen into neglect and decay, until the deteriorate:
condition of the Institution as well as the means of restoring
to vigour and efficiency, were brought to the notice of Govern,'
ment by a distinguished oriental scholar, whose public clutie-0
called him to that city. To Mr. Wilson also is the Goveri
ment indebted for the plan of a College about to be founded 34'
the Presidency, for Sanscrit and Hindoo learning under the
liberal encouragement held forth for the revival and improve,
ment of literature, and the encouragement of learned Natives,
by the Honourable Company and the British Parliament.--`
Other institutions, both Mahomedan and Hindoo, will gra,
-dually be reformed, or founded, in pursuance of the wise and
benevolent views to which -I have just alluded.
The attention of the Governor-General in Council is seclu,
lonely directed to the important subject of public instruction.
In furtherance of that object, public aid has been afforded
to those useful and laudable Institutions, the School poalc
Society, and the-Calcutta School Society ; as well as to the
Hindoo College founded in 1817, and superintended by some
of the principal Hindoo Gentlemen of this city. No wise
or just • Government can be indifferent to .the literary and
moral improvement of its subjects, and other and more ex-
tensive measures may -hereafter beframed for the education
of-the -various classes of -the inhabitants of the British pas'
sessions.—The subject is one of the highest `importance
bath-to
the- Government and the people. The diffusion of liberal education among the natives of India, may be rendered
a blessing or perverted into a egyse to the country; according to
the manner in which it is carre . into effect. •If by any Mi' probable combination of circumstances, a misguided zeal or
overheated enthusiasm should mingle in this important pursuit/
the most disastrous consequences may be predicted, both to the
people and their rulers; but directed to its proper and legiti•
mate ends, and conducted with the judgment, discretion, and
sobriety which I trust will never be lost sight of, and, above
all, with the full concurrence and cordial co-operation of the
Natives themselves, it cannot fail to produce-the mast extend
sive and decided benefits, both to the Government of the emit.p'
try, and to millions under its sway.

COLLEGE OF FORT WILLIAM, JUNE 20, 1823.
Trenty-third Annual Examination, holden in June, 1823'

Date, of Ad- cr Period of At'
Mission into %.3:: j tendance on
2.' 1
the College. I.'o-Lectures.
• P,
PERSIAN.
First Class. I 3lths.l Week'
,
1. Thomason a Mcdali
of Merit Nov 1822 33 5
2. Palmer - - Nov. 1821 18 15 1
3. Brown - Nov. 1821 8 12 1
Second Class.
4. Gough - - June 1821 17 10 0
5. Tierney - - Jan. 1823 34 • 6 0
8. Goldsbury - - Jan. 1823 22 5 e
7. Fraser - - Jan. 1823 23 4 3
8. Taylor - - May M 22 I :.)4 i o (-)
Third Class.
9. Cathcart - - fOct. 1822 28 8 3
10. Golding - - 'Aug. 1822 36 8 1
11. Clarke - - Aug. 1822 28 g • 1
I May 1822
12. Parks - re-admitted 11 4 3
13. Deedes - - Nov 1822
May 1823 3 0 2
14. Harding - - Aug. 1622 28 8 1
ARABIC.
1. Thomason - - Dec. 1822 21 3 0
lIINDOOsTANEE.
First Class.
1. Patton - - july 1822 20 10 0
2. Gough - - June 1822 14 10 0
3. Morris - - Aug. 1822 34 8 2
4. Thomason, a Medal 1
Second Class.
i. Brown - Nov. 1821 6 12 1
6. Goldshury - Jan. 1823 28 5 0
- Nov. 1821 25 15 .1.1
Third Class.
9. :Cathcart - - Oct. 1022 32 6 2
erit
y - -
10. Deedes - May 1823 1 0 2
11.781 TaylorPalmere jpaency: 111888222232 233596 10: 0:
12. Golding - - flug. 1822 37 8 a
13. Fraser - • - Jan. 1823 37 5 0
May 1822
14, Parks. . re-admitted, DI 5
(Nov. 1822
15. Harding - Aug. 1822 27 8
16. Thompson, Madras 1 Feb 1823 22 3 1
Establishment
BENGALEt.
1. Clarke - - Aug. 1822 28 3 0
.2. Fraser - Jan. 1823 23 5 0

By order of the Council of the College,
A. LOCKETT, Sec. C. C.

A report being prevalent that it is the inter'
tion to open the -Concert Room at the Opera,
House for the purpose of performing Frencli
Plays, we are requestad to state, for the info...
elation of the Pub.lic, that a license for the pur.•
pose having been refused by the-Loan CirAv-
isERLAIN, the parties present at such perfore
[I-lances, upon information being- lodged at any of
the Public Offices, are liable to be apprehended..