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Rh Visit of the Deputation of the Council.

The late lamented Hon'ble J. E. Drinkwater Bethune, the President of the Council Education, with the Officiating Secretary, Captain Fletcher Hayes, visited the College in March last, passing in review all its classes, when he distributed the Government scholarships and prizes, and those so liberally presented by the gentry of Dacca, Native and European. An account of the proceedings on the occasion will be found in the appendix. The native community, and the local authorities view the visits of the deputation of the Council of Education with peculiar satisfaction, regarding them as striking proofs of the desire of the Government to disseminate the advantages of a liberal and sound education:

College Department. Senior School. Junior School. Total.

First Class, 2 First Class, 23 First Class, 35

Second Class, 5

Second Class, 39 Second A., 32

Third Class, 12 B., 36

Fourth Class, 16 Third A., 34

B., 32

Fourth A., 32

B., 32

C., 30

D., 23

Total, 35 Total, 62 Total, 286 383

The Scholarship Examinations.

The four classes forming the College department were examined by the senior scholarship questions; the first class, senior school department, in the subjects of the junior scholarship standard for the year.

The members of the Local Committee superintended the examinations.

The tabular results of these examinations are contained in the appendix. The general statement regarding them will be found in the report of the Council of Education.