plan for the spread of education in India,
which left no form of it untouched, from
university and college training to village
schools. Universities were planned upon
the model of the University of London;
with due allowance for the different conditions
and requirements of the students.
Professorships of science were established,
with special recognition of proficiency in
the vernacular languages, as well as in
Sanskrit, Arabic, and Persian. Schools for
the education of the natives throughout
India were encouraged by grants in aid,
without distinction of creed. At Calcutta,
besides an excellent Medical College, there
is the Hindoo College, founded by
Ramuhan Roy and Mr. David Hare: which,
on the establishment of the university, was
split into a Hindoo school and a college
known as Presidency College. There is
Doveton College, originating in a school
founded by Anglo-Indians for the education
of their children, to which a college
was added after the munificent bequest to
it, about twelve years ago, of twenty thousand
pounds from Major Doveton. There
is a Mahometan College founded by Warren
Hastings, for the study of oriental literature,
to which a general department was
added, upon the foundation of the university;
also a Sanskrit College founded by
Horace Hayman Wilson, which has been
extended in like manner. Besides these,
Calcutta has a Free Church College founded
by the liberal and able Scotch missionary,
Dr. Alexander Duff; a Cathedral Mission
College; and a General Assembly Institution,
to which a college department has
been lately added. At Bombay, where the
university began to grant degrees in the
year 'sixty-two, there is the Elphinstone
Institution, originating in a subscription
to do honour to Mr. Elphinstone, at the
close of his government, in 'twenty- six.
There is also a Grant College, founded in
memory of Sir Robert Grant, after his
death in 'thirty-seven. It is a well-
apppointed medical school, recognised by our
Royal College of Surgeons, and has near
it a hospital founded by the munificent gift
of Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy, whose benefactions
to Bombay during twenty years
amounted to two hundred thousand pounds.
Among other examples of the liberal aid
given by native gentlemen to the advance
of education, is the founding of a travelling
fellowship for Hindoos in the Bombay
University, by Mr. Premchund Roychund, who
has also endowed a Professorship of
Economic Science, and provided funds for
building the Civil Engineering College at
Poona.

It may be noted, that under the Indian
Council Act—a supplement to the legislation
of 'fifty-eight for the better government
of India, which became law in 'sixty-
one—natives of high mark have been
invited to take part in the deliberations of
the Viceroy's Council. The bench and the
bar of India have been open to natives
since the establishment of the High Court
at Calcutta and the introduction of the
circuit system; measures which had an
earnest and accomplished advocate in Mr.
Henry Sumner Maine. In this Court, for
the first time, natives might be admitted to
the bench, judge causes of Europeans, both
in civil and criminal cases, and be paid as
well as their English brother judges. Of
the Hindoos who came to London, several
have entered as students of the Inns of
Court without offering themselves for the
Civil Service; and to some of those who
offer for the Civil Service, eating terms
and law studies have supplied a second
chance of a career. For the Covenanted
Civil Service has been nominally open,
practically closed; and too many of the
lower class Eurasians, instead of supporting
the liberal policy adopted by their
country, desire nothing better than a happy
maintenance of the old, exclusive state of
things.

One of the first acts of the Civil Service
Commissioners in connexion with the open
examinations for the Civil Service of India,
when they passed under their control, was
to raise from three hundred and seventy-
five to five hundred, the number of marks
assigned for the Sanskrit or Arabic
languages and literature. The reason given
for the change was, that " without departing
from the principle of not requiring in
the first examination acquaintance with
special branches of knowledge, the
commissioners consider that such knowledge,
when it is admitted, should be adequately
rewarded." The two Civil Service
Commissioners of that year, 'fifty-eight—one of
whom, Sir John Shaw Lefevre, had been a
member of the original committee which
settled the plan of competition for the
Indian Civil Service—recognised at once
and generously, the probable effect of the
establishment of the Calcutta University.
"Although," they said in their report,
"this important institution is too recent to
have produced any results, yet, looking to
the curricula which have been established,
the curricula for its degrees, to the