The Sun.
London, England, 1821-09-27 00:00:00

EAST INDIA COLLEGES.

An Account was next laid before the Court, shoving the
number of Students admitted into the Companies' Colleges, at
Addiscombe and llaylcybury, with the annual expence of their
education, &c.

11117 ME wished to know what was the total expence, and
the number of writers and cadets sent out from the body of stu-
dents educated in those CollegeS. ,
It was then stated from the accounts, that froin Midsummer
1820 to Midsummer 1821, there had been 40 studentvadmitted,
and no petition for admission rejected ; and that 40 had been
appointed writers, the net annual expenditure 8,0021., viz. gross
expenditure 18,8871., receipts 10,8851., net expenditure 8,002.
Within the same period 379, cadets had been appointed, and 55
admitted to the Military Seminary, 2 Cadets rejected; gross
expenditure 13,6791., receipts 4,8711., net expenditure 8,8081.

CHINA SEAS.
On the ResolutiOn being read for remunerating the services
of Capt. Ross for his survey of the China Seas,
Mr. Hu ME expressed a wish to knovi whether Capt. Ross's
maps had been published, or whether the information he had
acquired in his survey was generally available for the public
benefit. _ . .

The CIT AIRMAN replied in the affirmative, and that the maps
were to be had at Black and Parry's.
DR. GILCHRIST'S SYSTEM OF EDUCATION.
The e.LIAIRMAN then submitted the following Resolution to
the Court of Proprietors :
" That the Court having in the year 1813 resolved to en-
courage Dr. John Borthwick Gilchrist in his Lectures in the
Hindostanee language, by granting to him for the term of three
years a salary of 2001. per annum, and the Court having on
the 29th ultimo come to a Resolution to continue that salary
for the further term of three years, and to grant to Dr. Gil-
christ .for that period an allowance of 1501.. per annum to
enable him to provide a suitable lecture-room, the same be now
allowed."

Before the question was put upon this Resolution—
At the request of Mr. HuatE the Resolution of the Court of
Directors of the 4th of .November, 1818, was read : it was ex-
pressive of the opinion of the Directors, that all medical assist-
ants going out to .India should previously attend to the study of
the Hindostanee language under Dr. Gilchrist, for at least two
months, and that before their embarkation they should produce
a certificate of such attendance from the Doctor. Three guineas
were named as the remuneration to be paid for attending the
course of lectures.

Mr. Hu m't then said, that he 'never rose in that Court with
so much ssatisfaction as at present, when he meant to call their
attention to the state of education in their possessions in India.
'There was no greater question connected with the policy of their
system of Government. in' India than that of education • and it
• was very remarkable, that while a similar subject occupied uni-
versal attention both in England and inCeed in Europe, so little
had been done to consider its imperative necessity in India,
where it affected a population of 80 or 90 millions of human
beings. It was a blot upon the system of their Indian Govern-
.Ment, that so little had been done in a long course of
year's for diffusing a knowledge of the colloquial language
of ,the natives,: under circumstances and in a • situation
where that knowledge was so important in its conic.:
quencea to the interest and happineSs of so many millions
•of -.people. What had' they done for education in India
since the year 11305 ? On the 27th February of that year, the
Court adopted a resolution declaratory of the:importance of the
education of their civil servants in the native Idnguageof /*tuba,
and 'for the pUrpose or more effectually giving it, the Colleg,_
system wag established for the Company's servants. Now; the
object of that College was unquestionably the diffusion of a su-
'perior Civil and oriental edUcation fOr their servants appointed to
office in India,- and a great expenge had been incurred ; but the
practical results fell very far short of what they would have been,
hada different plan been pursued. it could not be said that a
system of economy had interposed to prevent the realization of
their hopes ; for, according to the aggregate accounts of the
years 1818 and 1819, the expenditure incurred amounted to
.53,8331. a year : that expenditure was for the colleges both at
• home and in India. Such a sum as that was more than ade-
luate to provide education for .the.whole of their servants.—
Vet, notwithstanding the large amount he had just stated, the
education it Conferred did nut comprehend more than, in the
proportion of one to ;ix of the Company's servants. He
.had no doubt; that Dr. Gilchrist would do considerably, more for.
the expenditure of 3401.'a year than had been previously done