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Rh acquainted with Science, do not exist in numbers sufficient to supply all the wants of India ; we hold that the real difficulty is a much simpler one and easier to deal with ; it is subjective not objective. In point of fact it is not only in Natural Science Education that this difficulty presents itself. It is one which pervades many departments of Government at the present moment, and in none is it more prominently met with than in that of Education. We see some of the newly arrived Professors, qualified in every way for their work, throwing it up in disappointment, and returning whence they came, even to the hard struggle of English life, at the sacrifice of one or two years’ labour, rather than remain in a career where all is a dead level, unhopeful and unremunerative. The older men are gradually dropping off, and indeed retire as soon as they have earned the pitiful pension, which is all they have to look forward to in life. New men come out but rarely to supply their places, and the Principals of our chief Colleges hunt about with jackal-like eagerness, (we trust they will eliminate everything derogatory in the comparison,) to pick up any stray men to be found in the country, to fill the vacancies on their staff. Even these can only be retained for a brief period; after a longer or shorter stay they find something that pays them better, with less drudgery, and once more the old hunt has to be gone through. We cannot feel very much surprised at this. It may not perhaps have struck those responsible in the matter, that any man fitted to undertake a Professorship in an Indian College, must be at least capable of passing the not very difficult competitive examinations for the Indian Civil Service, and that having regard to the respective emoluments of the services, he will probably select the latter : but such will, we think, generally be the case. Life in India is not generally regarded by candidates for Indian service in the light of a pleasureable jaunt, but rather a journey of serious business, and they will probably prefer a first class express to a parliamentary third, when both tickets are presented to them freely for their choice. If older and more experienced men than the candidates for the competitive examinations are required,—College fellows for instance,—we fail to see what peculiar attraction should induce such men to give up their standing, associations, and parvum modicum at home, for a bare pecuniary equivalent of the latter in India, and the toil and weariness of an Educational life under a tropical sun ; to begin life again with advantages very inferior to those which they declined at an earlier period of their career. The Indian Government is at present in the Education department the chiffonier of English talent. We suppose it finds the system answer its purpose, but it must not be