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Rh preside in a court of appeal, settle a system of revenue, or pronounce on a sanitary system.

For our own part, we are not sure that we have not been rather premature in setting up the forms of a University system in India, before we have the means of working it, and were we less isolated from the interests and sympathies of civilized countries, our pretentiousness would probably afford food for consideravle ridicule to our neighbours. Being committed to the system, it remains but to exert ourselves to understand its needs and to carry it out honestly and thoroughly ; but to do this, we must place the executive as well as the administrative departments of the work in the hands of the best men procurable. It is to the higher officers of the Education department that is entrusted the moulding of the next generation of the leading classes of natives, and according as they are hack-labourers, or men fitted for intellectual leadership, will be the result. Hitherto we cannot think our experiment has been very successful. The most successful branch of Education has unquestionably been that which is at once the most practical in character, the most thorough in degree, and the most highly paid in its staff. Among the graduates of the Medical College, are the best specimens yet produced of the influence of European teaching on the native mind. Let the general Education be entrusted to men equally carefully selected for their work, offer them equal inducements and means, and we cannot doubt that the returns will amply justify the cost.