The Sun.
London, England, 1870-02-08 00:00:00

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King's College— Strand. Anatomy and curiosities. Daily

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Royal Polytechnic Institution-309, Regent-street. Scien •
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The progress of university education in India appears to
be highly encouraging. The Punjaub has now a university
of its own, and the Senate held its first meeting at Lahore
on the 11th of January. At the meeting, which was
regarded with much interest, many wealthy natives were
present, which is a significant sign of the times. It is
hoped that this university will foster the cultivation of
Oriental languages—now so much neglected, yet so neces-
sary for the intelligent administration of Indian affairs.
A similar movement in the North-West ProViaaejs has
fair prospects of success, and the natives have cone for.
ward valiantly, the Maharajah of Vizianagriun giving
£lO,OOO towards the erection of a university building at
Allahabad. A convocation of the University of Bombay
has been held for the conferring of degrees. A large and
brilliant company, composed of both Europeutui and
natives, assembled. Sir Augustus Spencer, com-
mander-in-chief, the members of the Bombay
Executive Council, and some of the judges at-
tended. The Rev. Dr. Wilson, the Vice-Chancellor,
delivered the address, expressing great regret at the
Unavoidable absence of Sir Seymour Fitzgerald, who was in
attendance on the Duke of Edinburgh. At the conclusion
of the speech Dr. Wilson gave an interesting outline of
the progress made in the higher education in Western
India during the forty-one years, that he had resided
the country. When he arrived in Bombay there were
only about eighty native boys learning rudimentary
English in the Government school. He remembered
welcoming the first Elphinstone Professor, Dr. Harkne3s,
whose first lecture was addressed to half a dozen
students. The grand display of the convocation was
the best comment on the rev. Vice-Chancellor's
reminiscences. The annual distribution of prizes at the
Grant Medical College, Bombay, brought to light some
gratifying statistics. In 1868 there were 93 students on
the college rolls; in 1869 there were 143; and in the pre-
sent year there are 168. The Hon. Mr. Tucker, as chair-
man, congratulated the professors on having surmounted
the preliminary difficulties.

ENTERPRISI*G PRINCESS.

Among the many native visitors of distinction to the
recent festivities at Calcutta, the one most likely to profit
by the occasion is the Begum of Bhopal. She was inue
interested in all she saw in the City of Palaces, and,
not content with admiring the marvels around, she forthwi
began considering how she could convert her own
capital into the semblance of Calcutta. She was
ambitious of lighting it with gas, and of building
a palace on the plan of Government House.
Colonel Thompson, her political Agent, advised hrr,
however, to begin with the simpler and more necessary
task of improving her communications and her drainage.
He told her to make a broad street through the town
from end to end, and by way of an inducement to under-
take - the useful but unexciting task, he Bug-
. gested that she should call it after her'
self, the Shah Jehan-street. The energetic little
lady contemplates the remodelling of her land revenue
system, and the Government Survey Office has promised
her a staff of surveyors to make a map of Bhopal. While
in Calcutta she spent a morning in the fort and arsenal,
and listened with great attention to the Brigade Major's
explanations. She was very anxious to entertain the Duke
and Viceregal party, and was ready to spend half a lac of
rupees on the entertainment, but the royal departure
sould nut be delayed.