Smith, Ichiboe.-24. Mary Catherine, Taylor, Calcutta; Sarah Charlotte, Dunnet, London; Childe Harold, Willis, Bombay.

DEPARTURES.

APRIL 1. Manila, Lloyd, Hong-Kong: John Fleming, Rose, Calcutta.-17. Duke of Bronte, Barclay, Mauritius.-18. Pomona, Tonkins, Ichiboe; Indian, Mackie, Saldanha Bay; Fatel Rosack, Rundle, Trinidad; Margaret, Blake, Simon's Bay; Essex, Compton, Madras; Mary Ann, Dark, Madras; Alice Jane, Foule, St. Helena Bay.-20. Agile, Small, Hobart Town.-21. Mariposa, Parsons, New York; Chanticleer, Challis, Algoa Bay; John Walker, Kerr, Saldanha Bay.-24, Albion, Kerr, London.

8th

ditto

ditto

10th

ditto

Rocks.

11th

ditto

Secunderabad.

12th

ditto

Vizianagrum and Cut

13th

ditto

tack.

Aden.

Mount.

the favour of Divine Providence, to defy all the powers of Europe combined for her destruction under the control of a man whose great intellectual power and marvellous energy of action were invigorated and sharpened by the most intense hate. The nation which, from the time when her sons swept from the sea the Armada destined to invade its shores, and put to shame the boast of invincibility, has suffered no one to brave its flag with impunity-which has not only claimed the dominion of the ocean, but has maintained the claim by deeds unrivalled in the annals of maritime history-should be careful of abating one point either of its claims or of its means of enforcing them. Without wishing to adopt a querulous or captious tone, we cannot help ob

Secunderabad.

43rd

ditto

Bangalore.

44th

ditto

45th

ditto

46th

ditto

Trichinopoly.

47th ditto

48th ditto

Belgaum.

49th

ditto

Under orders from China to Palaveram. Bellary-on field service, Southern Mahratta Country. China.

50th

ditto

Bellary.

Madras.

Kamptee.

serving that, in our judgment, there has been considerable apathy manifested on this important subject. The application of steam to naval purposes has unexpectedly raised the question, whether Great Britain shall maintain her naval supremacy or not. For some years we seemed to think little of the matter. The Mediterranean became covered with French steamers, and we were little anxious to introduce our own. This was a great error, for if we disregarded the Ionian Isles, we surely could not be excused for forgetting that the Mediterranean had become the high road to India. There is undoubtedly some manifestation of improvement, and we trust it will go on. With its vast outlying dependencies, Great Britain can never be safe unless she keep pace with the progress of mechanical skill, and avail herself of all the resources which her enemies will employ against her if she do not anticipate them. Vulnerable as she is in every quarter of the world, there are those quite ready to strike in any undefended part, and indifference will be ruin. We do not hesitate to say, that if this country neglect to gather round her shores, and those of her colonies and dependencies, a steam-navy which shall surpass all rivals to the same extent as her war and mercantile marine have hitherto excelled all that could be brought into competition with them, her days of grandeur are numbered. She may linger, perhaps, long, a relic of what she was, venerable even in decay; but her power will have departed. There is time to avert this result, and there are some symptoms of reviving life which encourage us to hope that it will be averted. Our seamen have long been known as the best in the world, and we enjoy the same pre-eminence in regard to those whose province it is to guide the new agent of locomotion. Wherever steam is introduced, British engineers are sought for. Let us but be true to our own advantages, and we need not fear.

WE Englishmen were formerly accustomed to look upon China as a very strange place. We wondered till wonder was exhausted at the tails of the men and the crippled feet of the women at the eternal tea-drinking and the interminable alphabet which characterize the people and their language at the ear-crushing proclamations put forth by Chinese mandarins, and the utter ignorance of the laws of perspective manifested by Chinese artists. But the spell is broken. Sir HENRY POTTINGER has put an end to it, and the Chinese are scarcely greater strangers to us than the French or the Germans. Yet, now and then we meet with something in the news from China which gives us a gentle sensation of surprise; though not unfrequently, as in the case we are about to notice, we are indebted to our own countrymen for the agreeable shock given to the nervous system. We know something of the effects of a Chinese climate upon the European constitution-little as yet of its influence upon the European mind. This latter subject has not been studied, and any new and remarkable illustration that may occur any thing which, in the language of the German school of metaphysics, may be denominated " curious psychological fact," is worth preserving. We find such a one where we might least expect it-in General Orders issued by the Major-General commanding at Hong Kong. An officer had subjected himself to trial by courtmartial for sending an offensive message to the sheriff of the colony: the facts will be found in their proper place, in our last number, and it is not necessary to repeat them here, especially as they have no necessary connection with the singular

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psychological phenomena which followed. The case, after a revision of the finding of the court, having been disposed of, the Major-General in command proceeded, in Supplementary General Orders, to denounce an officer who was believed to have carried the offensive message, and whom the Major-General declared he would have brought to a court-martial but for one slight impediment "the want of legal evidence." Now, as the act condemned could not, we should apprehend, have been performed so privately as to escape all observation (it certainly could not in England), it is not easy to conjecture why legal evidence was not producible. The "extreme delicacy of the offended party" is referred to; but this is certainly no proper ground for abstaining from instituting legal proceedings where, in the judgment of those vested with authority, they appear to be called for. "What has the law to do with a returning officer's conscience?" asked a member of the House of Commons, when the conduct of the High Bailiff of Westminster, at the memorable contest of 1784, was under consideration in that assembly; and we may certainly ask, with as much reason, what has the law to do with any man's "delicacy" when the ends of justice are in view? If the officer referred to deserved to be brought to a court-martial," delicacy," even though it were "extreme,” should not have been allowed to prevent it. If he did not, he certainly ought to have been spared a public rebuke de livered without trial-without, as we presume, hearing the accused in his defence, and even without "legal evidence," as admitted in the rebuke itself,

A public reprimand to a military man is in itself a severe punishment. It is frequently the only punishment awarded by the sentence of a court-martial as the consequence of a conviction founded on "legal evidence." Here the punishment is inflicted-we do not say unjustly, for we are ignorant of the facts, but certainly irregularly. Legal evidence is not forthcoming, but, in the language of General Orders, "the Major-General" had "reason to know" that a certain officer had done a certain act. This unfortunate phrase calls to mind the once celebrated THOMAS HILL, who died, a year or two since, at an age not ascertainable, his register, according to THEODORE HOOK, having been lost in the great fire of London. That distinguished person, the original PAUL PRY, always "happened to know" something or other beyond the ken of all his acquaintance. He had no "legal evidence," but he had something which did quite as well as far as his own satisfaction was concerned; and as he never assumed to act by authority, there was no great harm in his indulging the sense of exquisite enjoyment which he evidently derived from the extent and minuteness of his information. But if HILL had been a Lord Chancellor or a Commander in Chief, it would not have been thought enough that he should 'happen to know," or "have reason to know," unless he were prepared to explain how it “happened," or what were the grounds of his "reason."

The extraordinary tone assumed in the instance which has been pointed out is maintained in another. "The Major General"-thus run the General Orders-"has been given to understand that the defence set up by "the officer under reproof" was 'his ignorance of the real circumstances of the case, and his duty to a brother officer who stood in need of a friend.'" Now, to us, as to the Major-General commanding at Hong-Kong, this appears a very bad defence; but we cannot help wishing that, in proceeding to

arraign it, he had been in a condition to express himself with less hesitation. "The Major-General has been given to understand," is not the proper preparation for the severe remarks which follow.

It would not be right to subject General Orders to rigid criticism, upon principles of literary taste; the business of soldiers is not writing; but there are certain canons of propriety which cannot be violated with impunity. Whatever other qualities they may lack, General Orders should not be deficient in dignity. Plain statement and calm reasoning are what we expect to find in them: declamation is altogether out of place, and petulant snappishness, if possible, still more so. The following extracts sin against propriety; the first by the employment of the rhetorical artifice of interrogation; the second by the pert and common-place tartness by which the enunciation of a very just principle is vulgarized :—

"And does Captain JEFFERY consider it a mark of friendship to abet a brother officer, without inquiry into the real circumstances of the case, in an act of hostile aggression against any one, but most of all against the civil authorities of the colony?"

One might imagine this to be a quotation from one of AARON HILL's tragedies, or HUGH KELLY'S sentimental comedies. The remaining extract might be supposed to have been noted down in short-hand by the witness of some squabble on board a Gravesend steamer :--

"If such be Captain JEFFERY's opinion, it is high time he were instructed in another lesson."

But something more noticeable follows. No one, we suppose, looks for poetry in General Orders; we should as soon expect to meet with it in a declaration in an action of assumpsit in the Court of Queen's Bench. But, pursuing our course through this extraordinary specimen of military literature, we are absolutely paralyzed by stumbling on the well-known line

"Like Angel visits, few and far between."

We have often encountered this line-who has not? but we never before came upon it in General Orders; and if our opinion had been asked, we should have said we never should. But this belief would have been erroneous. Let no man presume to limit the extent of the powers of nature, the obliquities of moral feeling, or the caprices of taste. We have seen men whirled along iron roads at the rate of sixty miles an hour; we have seen rich and powerful states borrowing money to a large amount, and then disowning their creditors as coolly as BRUMMELL would have cut a country cousin in St. James's-street; lastly, and not less wonderful, we have seen poetry in General Orders issued under the authority of an officer commanding in an island subject to the authority of Queen VICTORIA !

In quitting the subject, we are once more anxious to guard against being misunderstood. We object not to the sentiments put forth by the Major-General commanding in China; they are highly creditable to him. Our remarks apply only to the mode and circumstances of putting them forth.

We are enabled to give in our present publication a considerable portion of a verbatim report of the evidence on the trial of Colonel WALLACE, which will be read with interest. We abstain from any remarks till the report shall be complete.

PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY.

The directors of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Naviga tion Company on Saturday last entertained a large party at the Albion, Aldersgate-street. The party was composed chiefly of the directors of the East-India Company, the directors of the Peninsular and Oriental Company, and other gentlemen connected with India. The invitation was to meet Sir Henry Pottinger on the occasion of the opening the direct line of monthly steam communication with China by the ships of the Peninsular Company. Amongst the distinguished guests we noticed Sir H. Pottinger, Mr. E. Tennent, Sir R. Campbell, the Hon. J. Bloomfield, Sir W. Young, Sir C. Malcolm, Sir D. Le Marchant, Dwarkanauth Tagore, Mr. Trevelyan, Major General Sir J. Lushington, Hon. Mr. Baring, Lord Rossmore, Captain Shepherd, his Excellency the Spanish Minister, the Duke de Soto Mayor, Mr. Zulueta, the Secretary to the Spanish Legation; Admiral Vigodet, Mr. Zulueta, jun.; Mr. W. W. Bird, Mr. W. Wigram, Mr. Davison, Mr. J. Kane, Mr. Begbie, Mr. Lawrence, Mr. J. A. Smith, Sir J. Pirie, Mr. Leckie, Colonel H. Jones, Mr. C. W. Williams, Sir P. Nugent, Mr. D. Hill, Mr. T. Melvill, Mr. Alsager, Mr. M'Gregor, Sir W. Pym, Mr. Willcox, Mr. C. Wood, M. P.; Mr. Alexander, Mr. Dickenson, Mr. M. O'Connel, M. P.; Major-General Galloway, Mr. Ewart, M.P.; Captain Eastwick, General Sandwich, Sir J. Sutherland, Secretary to the Portuguese Legation, Mohun Lal, Captain Barber, Major-General Robertson, Mr. Starks, Mr. Larkins, Captain Thornton, Mr. R. Campbell, Colonel Turner, Hon. J. T. L. Melvill, Mr. P. M. Stewart, M. P.; Mr. Andrews, Mr. M. Tucker Smith, General Caulfield, Mr. Laing, Mr. Hodgkinson, Mr. Porter, Mr. Prinsep, Mr. G. Bayley, Sir Claude Wade, Mr. Rawlinson, Mr. Holland, Mr. Boyce, Mr. Hartley, Mr. R. Williams, Mr. Plowden, Mr. Tucker, Dr. Bowring, Sami Pasha, Mr. Zohrob, the Secretary to the Turkish Legation; his Excellency the Turkish Minister.

Sir John Campbell, K. C. B., occupied the chair.
On the removal of the cloth,

The CHAIRMAN gave, in appropriate terms, "Her Majesty the Queen," which was drunk with all the honours, and also the toast of "Prince Albert and the Royal family."

On the toast of the "Army and Navy" being given, MajorGeneral Sir J. LUSHINGTON returned thanks for the army, and Sir C. MALCOLM for the navy.

The CHAIRMAN then gave the health of their distinguished guest, Sir H. Pottinger, and entered into an eloquent detail of his services in India and China, commenting in warm terms on the benefits derived from his negotiations, and on the various tributes paid to his abilities in this country.

Sir H. POTTINGER, after the prolonged cheering which fol lowed this toast had subsided, returned thanks at some length, entering especially into an explanation of the motives which had guided him in the conduct of his negotiations in China, and drawing from the present rapidly improving state of the trade with that immense country the most favourable auspices as to the extension of which it is capable. The exports of silk from the port of Shanghai alone were, he said, now equal to the amount which, before the opening of the trade, had been received from the whole of China; and the other ports were also, though in a less degree, prosperous as seats of trade to an extent beyond his most sanguine hopes. He eulogized the perfect good faith of the Chinese government in the strict performance of every article in the treaty, which would, he said, give this country no excuse for omitting its share in the due execution of its provisions, and the ability with which the Chinese authorities at every port had adapted their conduct to the new order of things, and encouraged the population to reap the full benefit of the trade. The consequences of the opening of that speedy and direct communication with China which they were met to celebrate could not, he said, be anticipated, so immense was the importance of this near connexion with a nation from which we had until now been at such a distance. It had been objected that he had not been so forward as some in this country would have wished in pressing upon the Chinese the free toleration of Christianity; but he had experienced in India and elsewhere the danger of outstripping in our zeal the intelligence of the natives and the mischief that was frequently done by over-zealous missionaries. He thought that if no obstacles were thrown in its way by injudicious advocacy, the truths of Christianity would make a certain, if not a rapid progress in the Chinese empire. Sir Henry concluded an effective and feeling speech, by propos ing, Success to the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company."

Sir JOHN CAMPBELL returned thanks, and entered into a review of the objects and progress of the Company, of the success

which had hitherto attended their efforts, and the incalculable benefits to be derived by the prospect now opened of a direct communication with China. The Company now possessed twenty-five steam-ships of first-rate qualities, manned by able crews, and capable of a powerful armament. Upwards of 100,000 tons of shipping were now employed in providing coal and other necessaries for the Company's steamers, and not less than 4,000 men were engaged in the service. In conclusion the hon. baronet gave "The health of the Earl of Ripon."

Mr. E. TENNENT, M. P., returned thanks, and entered largely into the benefits to be derived from the enterprise of such a company, and the necessity for every ministry to render them all the assistance in their power.

On the toast of The East-India Company" being given, Mr. WIGRAM returned thanks.

Several other toasts were subsequently given, and the company did not separate till a late hour.

EAST-INDIA COLLEGE, HAILEYBURY.

CLOSE OF THE TERM.

On Friday the 27th of June, being the day appointed for closing the term, a deputation from the Court of Directors of the East-India Company visited the College, for the purpose of distributing the usual medals and prizes to those students who had been successful competitors in the various branches of classical and oriental literature. The deputation consisted of the following gentlemen:-Chairman, Sir Henry Willock, K. L. S.; Deputy-Chairman, Jas. W. Hogg, Esq., M. P.; Major Gen. Sir J. L. Lushington, G. C. B.; E. Macnaghten, Esq.; J. C. Whiteman, Esq.; H. St. George Tucker, Esq.; Henry Shank, Esq.; Major Oliphant; Major Gen. Galloway, C.B.; Lieut. Colonel Sykes; and John Shepherd, Esq.

The deputation, on their arrival, proceeded to the Principal's lodge, and from thence to the.council-room, where the report of the Principal was presented to them. The deputation and the professors then proceeded to the hall, where the students had already assembled. The chair was taken by Sir H. Willock, who was supported on either side by the members of the depu

tation.

Amongst those present were-John Abercrombie, Esq.; J. H. Astell, Esq.; William Wilberforce Bird, Esq.; Rev. W. W. Berry, John Bagshaw, Esq.; S. G. Bonham, Esq.; John Bax, Esq.; Lieut. gen. Lord Bloomfield, Geo. J. Bosanquet, Esq.; Capt. Berford, Hon. W. B. Baring, George Russell Clerk, Esq.; Major Chase, Brig. major Cuppage, Sir Howard Douglas, M.P.; Dwarkanath Tagore and his son and nephew, Lord De Ross, Charles Elliot, Esq.; Hon. John Elliot, Jas. Farish, Esq., sen.; Jas. Farish, Esq, jun.; Dr. Goodeve and four pupils (Joorjee Comar Chuckerbutty, Gopal Chunder Seal, Bholonath Bose, Dwarkanath Bose); S. H. Graeme, Esq.; Viscount Grimston, M. P.; R. C. Glyn, Esq.; T. F. Gibson, Esq.; Jno. Hodgson, Esq.; W. Hammond, Esq.; the Venerable Archdeacon Hale, Viscount Jocelyn, M.P.; Right Honourable Sir Alexander Johnston, Major Jones, V. C. Kem. ball, Esq.; Rev. C. W. Le Bas, Capt. Lochner, W. J. Lumsden, Esq.; the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, Hon. John Leslie Melville, Philip Melvill, Esq.; Holt Mackenzie, Esq.; H. Mackenzie, Esq.; Lieut. gen. Wm. Morison, M. P.; Ross D. Mangles, Esq., M.P.; Right Hon. Sir Henry Pottinger, Bart.; Charles H. C. Plowden, Esq.; Charles Plowden, Esq., jun.; Thos. C. Robertson, Esq.; Right Hon. Sir Edward Ryan, Sir John Rose, Lieut. col. Sim, H. F. Sandeman, Esq.; - Sandeman, Esq., jun.; Right Hon. Frederick Shaw, M. P.; C. E. Trevelyan, Esq.; Richard Temple, Esq.; the Baron Von Orlich, J. D. Devitre, Esq.; Lieut. col. Sir Claude Wade, Rev. H. Law, Charles Philips, Esq., &c.

The following civilians, at home on furlough, were also present:- Henry Brereton, John Bird, Henry Borradaile, J. D. Bourdillon, A. C. Bidwell, R. H. C. Campbell, Brooke Cunliffe, Wm. J. R. Carnac, G. H. Franco, H. B. E. Frere, Philip French, Geo. Gough, F. S. Head, G. P. Leycester, J. D. Lushington, R. B. Morgan, C. G. Mansel, W. S. Paterson, J. T. Rivaz, Charles Raikes, Alex. T. Shank, J. D. Sim and brother, A. M. Sutherland, Wm. Strachey, and E. Thomas, Esqrs.

The chairman having taken his seat,

Mr. HOOPER read the following statement of the prizes and distinctions obtained by the students:

Medals, Prizes, and other Honourable Distinctions of Students

L. Reid

leaving College, June 1845.

Highly Distinguished; with Medal in Classics, and Medal in Hindustani.

SECOND CLASS.
Bagshaw.

No Third Class.

Davies.

Mr. TEMPLE read his Prize Essay on "The Character of John, first Duke of Marlborough."

Mr. FOSTER then read a passage from Gibbon, translated by himself into Persian.

Mr. NESBITT next read a passage from Goldsmith's Essays, translated by himself into Teloogoo.

Mr. LESTOCK REID read a passage from Mill's India, trans. lated by himself into Hindoostanee.

Mr. HAMMOND read a passage from Shakspere's comedy "Measure for Measure," act iii, scene 1,-"Reason thus with life," translated by himself into Sancrit verse.

The prizes were then distributed to the successful competitors by the Chairman, who congratulated Mr. Temple on his having secured no less than seven prizes, remarking that it gave him great pleasure to know that his father was present to witness his

success.

After which the CHAIRMAN addressed the students as follows:

GENTLEMEN STUDENTS, -Our periodical visits are agreeable in proportion as your endeavours are exerted to work out the advantages which this college is capable of imparting. The past term has not been sullied by any act of insubordination; indeed it has been characterized by general gentlemanly deportment, and, had greater attention been paid to study, it would have been my pleasing duty to have expressed unqualified approbation. Considerable talent has been exhibited by many of you, giving promise of efficiency which cannot but be realized if backed by industry and by that desire of obtaining celebrity which I feel convinced must animate your aspiring minds. I could have wished, gentlemen, that you were all about to claim the smiles and approbation of your parents; but I grieve to say there are some who have not fulfilled the just expectations of their friends and patrons, and whose inattention to study has called forth those awards of disapprobation and penalty which are necessary for the maintenance of college discipline. I will not humiliate the young men I allude to by mentioning their names. I utter not the language of reproach, but seek by friendly admonition to induce them to a course of honour and preferment, and happy shall I be if I am able, when we next meet, to award them some of those honours which I have this day dispensed. Gentlemen, from the moment you enter this college your time should be devoted to study. An impression seems to prevail that the degree of attainment expected at the termination of the fourth term can be acquired within a smaller compass, and this belief leads to a laxity in industry. Nothing can be more erroneous. An hour lost at the commencement of operations is not to be regained; and if you vainly imagine that midnight labour, exercised at the close of a term, will supply that steady acquirement obtained by daily assiduity, grievously do you deceive yourselves. By this system of cramming, as it is designated, you may possibly conceal from examiners your superficial knowledge, and you may succeed in getting out of eollege; but what is the consequence in after life? That which has hurriedly been impressed on your brain will soon escape, and you will have secretly to acknowledge your own deficiency. Gentlemen, you are called to great exertion, for a desire of improve. ment amongst the native gentry of India is daily more strongly evinced; they see that knowledge elevates them and opens to them a road to preferment. In support of my statement, I call 'you to notice the presence of Indian gentlemen, who, tearing themselves from their families, and overcoming prejudices of caste and locality, have volunteered to visit this country, for the purpose of attaining a finished medical and surgical education, and who are prosecuting their studies with vigour and success and here I ought to mention, that two of the party have been enabled to prosecute their good intention by the liberality of that patriotic gentleman, Dwarkanath Tajore, who has favoured us with his company on this occasion. With such a spirit abroad, you must seek to maintain that superiority of intellectual attainment, that

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standard of high moral deportment which may command respect, and which, when combined with the dispensation of justice and mercy, will prove more influential than the terrors of the uplifted sword in securing stability to our rule. To you, gentlemen, who now quit us, I must say a few words on the importance of the duties you are about to undertake. Gentlemen, do not deceive yourselves; you are but imperfectly prepared for the deep responsibilities you will be called on to incur. To be efficient political, revenue, and judicial ministers, your minds must be well stored with history, law, political economy, and other elements of knowledge, and what you have here acquired must be considered as the groundwork for after superstructure. Great expectations are formed from you; you have to succeed great men-men who by their ability have raised the Civil Service to a high degree of reputation which it will be your business to maintain. Gentlemen, the prizes of the service you enter are great. I will enumerate a few of the many who have attained high place and honour. Lord Metcalfe, Sir George Barlow, the Honourable Mountstuart Elphinstone, are names familiar to you all; of those who have become members of her Majesty's Privy Council I will mention the Right Honourables Stephen Lushington, Henry Ellis, Holt Mackenzie. Two of the Civil servants present, Mr. Bayley and Mr. Bird, have been for a time Governors-General of India, and many others present have ob tained high repute and place. Seek to emulate such high examples. To be great and good servants you must study the character of the natives of India;-you must freely commune with them in their native tongue ;-you must deeply sympathize in their feelings and interests. Gentlemen, your conduct will be watched by the observant natives;-you must gain their respect by an exhibition of high moral conduct-you must shew them that is the fruit of the religion you profess. To govern others, it is essential that you should be strict in self-government. Order in your expenses is one of the first restraints to imposé upon yourselves, and if you fail in this point difficulties will arise which may not easily be overcome. Gentlemen, you who have been industrious at this college will ever retain a pleasing recollection of the days you have passed here, and you will, I am sure, ever feel grateful, as I do, for the affectionate attention which the principal and professors have bestowed in superintending your studies. Gentlemen, I wish you success and happiness.

On leaving the hall, the chairman, directors, and visitors, with the principal and the professors, adjourned to the library, where a sumptuous luncheon was served up by the college purveyor. Sir H. Willock presided. At the conclusion of the repast,

The CHAIRMAN rose and said-Before the company separated, he must express the great pleasure which he had derived from his visit to the college on the present occasion, and his sincere thanks to the principal and professors for the discipline they had maintained, and the general high character of the college under their management. He had much pleasure in drinking their good healths (cheers).

The Rev. H. MELVILL, B. D. (the Principal) said-For himself, and on the part of his colleagues, he desired to return sincere thanks for the sentiments that had just been expressed. It was exceedingly gratifying to meet with such an expression of approval, as there was nothing showy in the proceedings to strike the attention. They could not make palpable the advance of their students, as might be done in the military college; they could not throw them into a fortification and then carry it by storm (applause). They were, therefore, the more obliged for the approval which had been expressed. He might say, with perfect honesty, that it was the desire and endeavour of himself and colleagues to render the college increasingly efficient. They were alive to the fact, that the Civil Service of India required higher training of those intended for it than heretofore; that the natives were advancing rapidly in intelligence, and therefore that it was necessary that those in the British service should so advance as to maintain their intellectual superiority. While acknowledging the compliment which had been paid to himself and the professors, let him not fail to thank the Chairman for the advice which he had given this day to the students-advice which was additionally valuable, and must make a deeper impression, as it came from one who had himself occupied important positions in the Indian service; and he hoped that it would produce increased diligence on the part of the students. They asked no favour for the college, except that it might be allowed to fulfil its ends; and the East-India Company was a body which needed only to be well served in order that its favour might be secured (loud cheers).

The CHAIRMAN then proposed the health of the noblemen and gentlemen who had honoured the college by their presence that day, after which the company immediately separated.