The Sun.
London, England, 1856-12-09 00:00:00

LoNDoN, ESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 9, 1856.

MON T BL A NC
IS OPEN.

Classics.

THE EAST INDIA COLLEGE AT ILULEYBURY.

The customary examination, for the term ending in De-
cember inst., of the ktudents now being educated at Hailey-
bury and destined for the Indian Civil Service, was held at
the College there yesterday, in presence of Col. Sykes, the
Chairman of the Court of Directors of the East India Com-
pany ; Mr. It. D. Mangles, M.P., Deputy Chairman ; Sir
J. W. Hogg, M.P., Mr. Elliot Macnaghten, Lieut.-Col.
James Oliphant, Mr. W. J. Eastwick, and Sir Frederick
Currie, five of the Directors, the Rev. Henry Melvill, the
Principal of the College, the several professors and minis-
terial officers, and a number of visitors, including Mr. A.
Monteath, Mr. W. Burra, Mr. W. P. Burra, Mr. W. T.
Copeland, Capt. Nairne, Mr. B. D. Colvin, Rev. C. Pritch-
ard, Rev. W. Kerala, Mr. C. A. Saunders, Mr. T. Has-
kisFon, Rev. G. Collinson, Mr. W. S. Alexander, Mr. A.
Lang, Capt. Domett, Mr. G. G. Campbell, Mr. W. Ja-
comb, Mr. N. Massie, Mr. E. P. Grant, Mr. Hooper, Mr.
R. N. Cust, Mr. E. C. Bayley, Mr. B. Maltby, Mr. E.
Jackson,' Mr. C. J. Manson, Mr. F. Lloyd, Mr. A. F. Bel-
lasis, and Mr. D. Simson, the eight la.t-named gentlemen
being members of the Civil Service of India.
The College at Haileybury, at which for upwards of half
a century past gentlemen intended for the Indian Civil
Service have from time to time been specially trained and
educated, is doomed to abolition in consequence of the
Government having determined upon resorting to the prac-
tice of open competitive examinations in disposing of the
future appointments in the service, and after Christmas next
year the place will, in all probability, cease to exist in its
present form and character as a collegiate institution.

At the examination yesterday, which took place in the

library of the College, the modals, prizes, and other honour-
able distinctions were disposed of as follows to students

leaving the institution :
Monteath—Highly distinguished, with medals in Mathe-
inatics, Political Economy and History, Law, Sanscrit,
Persian, and prize for the best English Essay.

Barra—Highly distinguished, with medal in Hindus.
tani, prizes in Classics and Persian.

St. Clair—Highly distinguished, with prizes in lathe.
matics, Sanscrit, and Telugu.

Campbell—Highly distinguished, with medal in Telugu,
and prize in Hindustani.
A. T. Maclean—Highly distinguished, with medal in

Jacomb—Highly distingnished,with prize in Hindustani.
Carrie, C. M. Hogg, Carbonell, Millett, Mason, Pratt,
J. H. Grant, F. R. Hogg—All highly distinguished.
Peacock and Fairlie—Passed with great credit.
PRIZES AND OTHER HONOURABLE DISTINCTIONS OF
STUDENTS REMAINING IN COLLEGE.
THIRD TERM.

Colvin—Highly distinguished, with prizes in Classics,
Political Economy and History, and Law.

A. R. Hutchins--Highly distinguished, with prizes in
Sanscrit and Telugu.

Afaefarlan—Flighly distinguished, with prizes in Persian
and Hindustani.

Pritchard—Highly distinguished, with prize in Mathe-
matics.

Nairne, Garstin, Waddington, F. J. Alexander, Leman,
Lawrence, Spry, Arbuthnott, M`Quhae, Metcalfe, and
Sparks—All highly distinguished.
Kean—Passed with great credit.

in India, and must be put down ; and I warn you, gentle-
men, that in any day of your official life, to your astonish-
ment and indignation, you may have it attributed to you
by the press of England that you are particeps criminzs in
an act of torture inflicted secretly by one of your subordi-
nates. Here is one of the drawbacks of your official life;
but it suggests the necessity for the most unremitting vigi-
lance to prevent its occurrence. Another drawback in In-
dian official life is the danger to which functionaries are
exposed by the facilities afforded for obtaining loans from
native money-lenders, who are often only too ready to en-
tangle the incautious Europeans in their nets. Such loans
from subordinates in the district in which the European
official is exercising his authority are absolutely prohibited
and may entail the loss of the service to him. But, sup-
posing a pecuniary transaction concealed, the borrower
entangles himself in humiliating obligations to an inferior,
which ultimately result not only in damage to the inte-
rests. of the State, but to the sacrifice of his own honour.
Do not suppose that I am painting an imaginary picture—
a possible contingency. Facts, rare though they may be,
attest the reality. In the execution of your future duties,
let me recommend to you, as affording gratification and
contentment to the people committed to your charge,
readiness of personal access to you No doubt it may be
irksome, and often inconvenient, but it operates to
deter your native officers from fraudulent misrepresenta-
tions. It insures the attachment of the people to your per-
son, and the poor applicant, even though he may not attain
his object, by the fact of his having been face to face with
the arbitrating authority, is soothed, gratified, and possi-
bly satisfied. Having told his tale the chances are he does
not seek to repeat it. In all such intercourse amenity of
manner wins golden opinions. I have no fears myself for
the results of the stimulus which has long been and is now

more vigorously being applied to the intellectual develop.
ment of the native mind. Schools, colleges, and even uni-
versities are springing up in India not less for literary than
for scientific instruction, Scholarships and university de-
grees are held out as rewards of successful progress, and
we cannot conceal from ourselves that the successful can-
didates are annually increasing even in the higher branches
of knowledge. A new stimulus also has recently been ap-
plied to tho native mind by opening to the natives access
to the medical and civil services by competitive examina-
tion. Several have already taken their places with honour

in the former service, and at this moment some natives are
studying in England to enter the arena of mental conflict to
win their places in the latter. Our administration in India
has hitherto proved that " knowledge is power," and I re-
peat that I have no fear that our sturdy Anglo-Saxon men-
tal and physical vigour will be wanting to maintain our
wonted precedence; but it will be plain to you, gentle-
men, that these aro times in which you will necessarily de-
sire that the knowledge which you have obtained in this
valuable institution should continue to fructify to enable
you to maintain that precedence, and still to keep ahead of
the natives. It would be an injustice to you to imply by
any advice of mine that the religious instruction you have
necessarily received has not made a due and lasting im-
pression upon your minds. I feel assured, on the contrary,
that, amid the idolatry, superstitions, and fanaticism with
which you will be surrounded, your personal example of a
Christian gentleman's life will teach more by the respect it
will inspire than would irritating polemical controversies.
Gentlemen, to those of you about to proceed to your
duties in India my colleagues and myself offer to you
our hearty good wishes for health and distinction in the
noblest service which any Government of the earth can
open up to the aspirations of youthful ambition. (Loud

cheers.)
The company then proceeded to the dining hall of the
college, where they partook of lunch.
The Rev. HENRY MELVILL, the Principal, in respond.
ing to the toast of " The Principal and Professors of the
College," given from the Chair at the conclusion of the re-
past, said—He had been accustomed on occasions of that
kind to enlarge on the fitne's of the college for the great
purposes for which it was instituted, as proved by the ad-
mirable character of the service which it assisted to train.
But he could not continue that style of address, not because
he had been led to believe it involved any approach to un-
truth, but because he considered it as casting a slur on that
system for the introduction of which this college was about
to make way. It was hard indeed to be sentenced to ex-
tinction without at the same time seeming to decry what
was to rise in the place of that which was to be destroyed,
or to blame those who had condemned it to die. That,
however, would not become him, and it was far from his
wish, as it was from his intention, to do it. He gave the
Government full credit for having decreed the abolition of
Haileybury in the conscientious belief that they were
doing what would tend to the public advantage, and hear-
tily did he hope their expectations might be realised-
There was far too much at stake to allow of private feelings
being mixed up in such a matter. (Cheers.) One thing,
however, ho did deplore, and that was that Haileybury
was to perish before it would be possible practically to as-
certain whether the new system was better than the old.
(Hear, hear, hear.) It would take years to ascertain
that, and to test which of the two sets
,of men—those
who had been specially trained for the service at
Haileybury, or those who might be educated beyond its
walls—would be best adapted to discharge the duties of
aetive life in India, performed often in the lonli-
ness and dreariness of an outlying station. He thought it
possible that when the two systems had been tested, and
when the question should appear to be between a special
education and no education at all, there might be some
thing to regret that Haileybury should have been abo-
lished, and a wish that Haileybury should be revived.
(Cheers.) If he had been thus brief he had told them the
reason. The company would not judge of the depth of
the gratitude of the professors and himself for the compli-
ment that had been paid them by the length of his speech,
but would believe, as thoroughly as if he had talked to
them for an hour, that they cordially appreciated and
thankfully acknowledged the manifestation of the good-
will of the company towards them.
With this the ceremony terminated, and the Chairman
and directors and visitors returned to town at an early hour
in the afternoon.