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Rh ing, are, at a proper time, to be removed for superior education at the College. From the extension of this system, it is supposed that the spirit of emulation among the native youth will be additionally excited, as it will enable many to look for removal to this School, who cannot expect advancement to the College, since the information necessary for the former is much less than for the latter. Parents will also keep their boys longer at the indigenous Schools than before, in the hope of benefiting by this increased tuition, and the profits, respectability, and usefulness of the native tutors will be augmented.

may be interesting shortly to advert to the mode in which the Examinations are conducted, and to the results that have been produced. The total number of boys educated in the indigenous Schools exceeds 2,800. To collect so many children from different and distant parts of the town, is not desirable, even were it practicable, but a small portion only of the more advanced boys, from all the divisions, amounting to about 150, are selected for examination. The first annual exhibition of this description took place in 1822, at which time also forty poor Bengallee