low's, they are extremely well done. He reads with much readiness, and understands, generally, the official cutcherry papers which are given at our examinations, and his attainments in this, his second language, are highly satisfactory.

"Mr. Oakes has translated, from Tamil, a paper of equal difficulty with that executed by Mr. Walker, and his version has only three trivial blemishes; the omission of one word, and the imperfect rendering of two others: but these imperfections do not affect the estimate of his acquaintance with the structure and idiom of the language, which is formed on a review of all his exercises; and these shew him to have a very thorough knowledge of both, as well as a very extensive choice and vocabulary at his command, and justly entitle him to the praise of being an excellent scholar in this difficult language. His version into Tamil, of a paper, not so difficult as Mr. Walker's, is in a pure and flowing style, not acquired without much industry, judiciously applied to the cultivation of excellent talents. Mr. Oakes is particularly fluent in speaking, and quick in understanding whatever addressed to him; his pronunciation is excellent.

"Mr. Oakes's exercise from Hindoostanee may be said to be perfect, for of the only two words with the meaning of which he was unacquainted, one is seldom met with in books, and never used in conversation in this part of India. The same may be asserted of his exercise into Hindoostanee, for the only words which he did not know were technical terms, and, in other respects, his version is without a fault; the style is easy, and the language good. Mr. Oakes conversed with fluency, and translated, off-hand, a paper of considerable difficulty, with perfect correct

ness.

"Mr. Brown translated papers of somewhat less difficulty than those given to the two gentlemen before named; but the almost faultless execution of the version into Tamil, and the very correct translation of the paper from that language into English, exhibit so thorough a knowledge of its construction, and so great a facility and readiness in the practical application of that knowledge, as to place Mr. Brown among Tamil scholars of the highest order. Mr. Brown read and construed, with ease and accuracy, the cutcherry position given to the other gentlemen, and conversed with more than ordinary fluency and correctness of language and of pronunciation. That these high attainments have been acquired in less than three months, is a result to which there is nothing parallel on the records of the college; it can only have been produced by applying to talents of an extraordinary nature, industry the most indefatigable and well-directed.

"Of Mr. Brown's attainments in Persian, we made a very favourable report on his

admission into this college. He has cultivated the knowledge of it as his second language since that time, and on the present occasion he translated, with perfect correctness, a Persian paper of considerable difficulty.

"His version of an English exercise into Persian shews a very extensive knowledge of words, and a perfect familiarity with the idiom of the language.

"Mr. Brown converses in Persian with ease and fluency, and his pronunciation is particularly good; and we have no hesitation in saying that his acquirements in this second language are such as we should have deemed highly creditable to him had it been his first and principal language of study.

"Mr. Onslow has prosecuted his studies under the serious disadvantage of repeated and protracted impediments from bad health; he has, however, attained the first place in the Telugu class. His translation of a difficult paper into English is entirely correct, with the exception of a single gerund, which has been translated actively, in place of causally: his translation into Telugu is a very creditable performance. Mr. Onslow has attained to considerable facility in reading and construing cutcherry papers: he speaks the language with ease, and his pronunciation, as remarked at a former examination, is particularly good.

"Mr.Onslow's progress in Persian, since the last examination, has been great; he translated the same exercises as were performed by Mr. Brown.

"His translation of the Persian paper was executed very nearly as well as that of Mr. Brown; and his version of the English paper into Persian, though not free from error, was, on the whole, very well performed.

"He speaks the language fluently, and understands whatever is said to him.

"Mr. Cherry's absence, on leave, from the last examination having left us uninformed of his progress, a Tamil paper was assigned to him for translation, of less difficulty than our present appreciation of his attainments would have led us to give. His excellent performance of the translation, however, and his selection of a long and difficult task for the exercise of translating into Tamil, which he has performed in a style of great perspicuity and general correctness, though not entirely faultless, enable us to do justice to his merits, and to place him in the first class of Tamil scholars.

"He read, and very correctly rendered the cutcherry petition; and in conversation he is ready and fluent, forming his sentences idiomatically, and uttering them with excellent pronunciation.

"Mr. Cherry's acquirements in Hindoostanee are of the highest order. The exercises he performed were of nearly the

same

same difficulty as those given to Mr. Oakes, and, with the exception of a misapprehension of part of one passage of the Hindoostanee paper, and one trifling error in his version into English, they are perfectly executed. He read and translated, at sight, the paper given to Mr. Oakes to read. The fluency and elegance of his language in conversation, and the excellence of his pronunciation, attracted the particular notice of the learned native who attended the examination, and entitle Mr. Cherry to marked commendation.

"Mr. Walker selected for study the two most difficult of the vernacular languages, both unknown to him when he arrived in India, and in both he has attained to excellence. Mr. Oakes, by diligent application in the latter period of his studies, has most honourably retrieved the character of ability and talent, of which he gave an early earnest, but which he allowed, for a time, to be obscured. Mr. Brown's progress so far exceeds, in rapidity, any thing that was ever witnessed in this college, that it cannot be measured by any other standard, and will probably continue unrivalled-we may safely say unsurpassed. Mr. Onslow, in attaining the highest rank in the language selected as his first for study, has surmounted difficulties the most serious, for he has had to contend against severe illness, brought on, we believe, originally, by too severe application; and Mr. Cherry has attained an honourable eminence in two languages, both new to him, in the space of nine months from his entering the college.

"We accordingly recommend that Mr. Brown and Mr. Cherry may receive the highest rate of college allowances from the 15th ult., and that Messrs. Walker, Oakes, Brown, Onslow, and Cherry, may further receive the honorary reward of 3,500 rupees each, and be permitted to enter on the duties of the public service."

(True extracts).~

G. J. Casamajor, Act. Sec. to Gov. On Monday the 11th July, the hon. the Governor visited the college. He was received in the usual form, by the Board of Superintendence, and conducted to the hall, where he thus addressed the students who were assembled on the occasion.

"Gentlemen of the College;

"Every one knows how necessary is a knowledge of the country languages to the management of business, and how much better qualified for official duty a man possessing this knowledge is, than, one of equal talents without it. But a knowledge of the languages has other advantages besides the mere dispatch of business; for it leads to a better acquaintance with the natives, and to a more kindly feeling towards them, which cannot fail of proving beneficial to the country, And when we find that these languages are copious, regular,

polished, and abounding in scientific terms, we look back, in imagination, to a remoter age, when science was more cultivated; and we take a deeper interest in the natives, not only on account of what they are, but on account of what they have been : and when we see that they have declined from the high state of intellectual improvement to which they must have attained, when language was carried to its present degree of refinement, we cannot but lament the change, and anxiously wish to see them restored to their former high station.

"There can be no doubt but that, however high a nation may once have stood in civilization, it may be again raised to the same, and even to a greater height, for it is by good or bad government that the characters of nations are elevated or depressed; and if the people of India shall not be raised higher than they ever yet have been, the fault must lie in the measures of our Government. But however desirous Government may be of accom plishing such an object, it can make but little progress, unless it have the aid of able instruments in its public servants: it looks to the civil service, and to the college which prepares the junior servants for public affairs, as its chief auxiliaries in this great work; and it trusts that every student will, at all times, keep in view the important duties he is one day destined to discharge.

"The result of the late examination affords, I think, a fair ground for believ ing that the college will not disappoint the expectations of Government; for the late examination has equalled, if not surpassed every former one in the number and attainments of the young men whom it has sent forth to the public service. Of twelve students, five have merited the highest rewards which the college can bestow. Among these, Mr. Brown is, perhaps, the most remarkable instance ever known of rapid progress, for though he has not been quite three months in the college, he stands first in Persian, and third in Tamil; and Mr. Cherry, though not first in any one language, has entitled himself to the reward, because, in ordinary circumstances, he would have been first in Hindoostanee, and is second in that language only in consequence of the unusual proficiency of Mr. Oakes, who stands first. It is highly honourable to Mr. Oakes, that after having lost some time in the early part of his studies, he has now not only regained it, but done more.

"The manner in which Mr. Walker, who has the honour of standing at the head of the list, and Messrs. Oakes, Brown, Onslow, and Cherry, have passed througli their examination, reflects great credit, both on them and on the college, and is, I trust, a pledge of the advantages which the public is hereafter to derive from their services."