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28 Missionary Society also funded a sum of £3,000 in the same stock for the endowment of two scholarships in the college, with the right of perpetual nomination to them. The Incorporated Society has also received, by the will of the late Lord Powers-court, a sum of nearly £1,000 for the endowment of a theological scholarsripscholarship [sic]. The surplus of the subscription at Bombay for the erection of a monument to Bishop Heber, has been funded as an endowment for a theological scholarship from that presidency, of which the perpetual nomination resides in the Committee of the Incorporated Society in the archdeaconry of Bombay. The Incorporated Society with its own funds also supports four separate scholarships, the expenses of which are remitted to India. Lastly and principally, the late James Tillard, Esq. of Street End, Patham, in the county of Kent, bequeathed a sum of £30,000 for the support of Bishop’s college.

None of the subscriptions received in India are employed to defray the expences of the college: all are devoted to the missions and schools under the direction of the Calcutta Diocesan Committee of the Incorporated Society, the college supplying catechists and missionaries to the several missionary stations both in Bengal and at the Madras presidency. The college-council does not publish reports of its proceedings in India; but it reports periodically to the Incorporated Society in England, and part of the communications thus made appear in the annual reports of the Society. A full and detailed account of Bishop’s college does not appear to have been hitherto published by the Incorporated Society which possesses the materials for such a statement, probably because that Society does not solicit subscriptions for Bishop’s college separately, but for its India missions generally as distinguished from its operations in British America. The preceding details have been chiefly drawn from the college-statutes, the commemoration of benefactors, and the reports and proceedings of the Incorporated Society. The system of instruction appears to be in the main that of English collegiate education; with such modifications (especially, as I am informed, in the classical part) as may best suit the circumstances of those who are to teach Christianity in a country not Christian, and to whom, therefore, poets and orators, though not useless, are deemed a less important object of concern than those writings which exhibit the chief moral and intellectual features of Greek