Native Members of the Council.

3. In accordance with the orders of Government communicated in Mr. Secretary Bushby's letter of 20th October 1841, and contained in the Appendix to the Education Report of 1839-40 at page ccxxx., Baboos Prosunno Coomar Tagore and Russomoy Dutt have been re-elected Members of the Council of Education for the years 1848, 49 and 50.

4. The following programme of Public Examina- the public examinations of 1847 was published for general information.

tions of 1847.

"The examination for senior English scholarships, and of candidates for insertion in the lists directed to be furnished by the Council of Education, in accordance with the resolution of October 10th 1844, will be held in the Town Hall upon the dates and at the hours specified below.

Wednesday, ". 6th, Ver. or Latin Essay.

Mathematics.

Geography.

Ver. Translation.

Reading (Prose and
Poetry.)

"The examinations will commence daily at 10 A. M. precisely, and terminate at 5 P. M., at which hour all answers must be given in. Candidates are recommended to be in attendance a quarter of an hour earlier, in order that no time may be lost in taking their places.

"The subjects for the Essays will be set, and the papers of questions will be prepared, in strict accordance with the scholarship rules, by the gentlemen whose names are appended to each:

SANSCRIT SCHOLARSHIPS.

Senior and Junior in all sub- Rajah Radhakant Deb Behadoor.

jects,

Baboo Debendernath Tagore.
Pundit Bydyanath Wopadhya.

ARABIC SCHOLARSHIPS.

Calcutta Mudrissa, Senior and Junior,
Hooghly Mudrissa, Senior and Junior,

Lieut. Col. S. D. Riley.
Lieut. Col. S. D. Riley.

"In consequence of the great additional importance acquired by these examinations, and of the competition being no longer limited to the students of the Government Colleges, it has become necessary to afford the best possible guarantee to the public and to the Government, of the results being fully, fairly, and impartially reported. The papers will, therefore, be examined by the following gentlemen :

"The junior English scholarship answers will be examined, as heretofore, by the Principals and Professors of the Hindu and Hooghly Colleges Baboo Kissen Chunder Dutt will examine the Bengalee translations.

"The Sanscrit and Arabic scholarship answers will be examined by the gentlemen whose names are mentioned above in connection with each respectively.

"All reports of the results of the examinations will be furnished by the 1st day of December next.

"The examinations in the Town Hall will be superintended by the Council of Education. Mr. Samuells will give out the questions, and Mr. Beadon collect the replies daily, assisted by the Member of the Council on duty.

"The Secretary to the Council of Education will superintend the public examinations of the College of Mahomed Mohsin throughout."

"The following subjects were selected in 1846, as the standard in Literature and History, from which the examination papers of the present year will be prepared.

LITERATURE.

Prose.-Bacon's Advancement of Learning.

Poetry. So much of Milton and Pope as are contained in Richardson's Selections.

Moral and Mental Philosophy.-Smith's Moral Sentiments, Abercrombie's Moral and Intellectual Powers.

Political Economy.-Smith's Wealth of Nations, vol. 1st.

HISTORY.

Rome.-Arnold's 3rd volume.

Greece. The Peloponnesian War.
India.—Elphinstone's India.

"The scholarship and other rules promulgated in 1846, were republished, as no change had occurred either in the senior scholarship standard or the mode of conducting the examination. The questions in the various branches of study were privately printed under the personal superintendence of the Secretary to the Council, and every precaution successfully adopted to prevent their premature promulgation." 5. Subjoined are extracts from the reports of the various examiners, a detailed tabular statement of the results of the senior and junior scholarship examinations being appended to the

Results of the Examinations.

special report of each College.

On the examination papers of the Hindu College students in Moral Philosophy and PolitiMoral Philosophy and cal Economy, the Hon'ble Mr.

Political Economy.

Cameron remarks:

"The examinations in Moral Philosophy and Political Economy this year, have been separated from that in General Literature, and my report is confined to the two first mentioned subjects.

"Several very good answers in both have been given by the students of the Hindu College; five of them have attained the number of forty marks or more.

"Cally Prosunno Dutt and Prosunno Coomar Subardhicary have given the best answers in Political Economy, the other three best answers in Moral Philosophy.

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I award my gold medal for proficiency in Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments, to Chooney Lall Gooptu, who, I observe, is a student of the second class. I find so much difficulty in deciding between Rajkissore Ghose and Hurro Gobind Sen, that I shall give a silver medal to each.” Regarding the Bengali Essays of the Hindu College students, the Revd. K. M. Banerjea reports:

Bengali Essay.

"The subject of the Bengali Essays is the benefit to be derived from transmarine commerce': the exercises of the Hindu College students are generally very excellent, in point of matter, though not equally good in point of style. The importance of unrestricted commerce with the most distant quarters of the globe is very clearly set forth, the historical illustrations are, with one or two exceptions, very happy, most of the Essayists have endeavoured to enforce their observations by citing a well known Sanscrit proverb (vanigya vasati luksmi.)*

*Fortune dwells in Trade.

"The proverb is very appropriate, but few of the writers have given it with orthographical correctness. I am also sorry to observe that the Essays are with scarcely any exception full of orthographical blunders. Upon the whole the exercises are satisfactory; with a little revision they might be made capital Essays."

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Upon the performances of the two Colleges (Hindu and Hooghly) in Pure Mathematics, Mr.

Pure Mathematics. Newmarch observes:

"Though I cannot speak in high terms of the manner in which any one of the students has acquitted himself, yet there is nothing disheartening in the prospect disclosed by the papers which have been laid before me; very slovenly and very inaccurate are all the performances, but there is evidently no want of ability, if properly cultivated, and among those whom I have placed in the first and second divisions, are the materials of a good Mathematical class.

"Those in the first division have a very fair knowledge of Euclid, Algebra, Trigonometry, Plane and Spherical, Analytical Geometry of two dimensions, two of them have also answered a question in the Differential Calculus correctly.

"This division is ready to commence the last mentioned subject, in the course of which they will necessarily have to revert again and again to the subject of Analytical Geometry, which furnishes the most extensive field for the application of the Calculus.

"I do not think the distinction between the different individuals in this division entitles any of them to be ranked at the head, in fact the student who has gained the greatest number of marks is inferior both in talent and accuracy, to others below him, but he earned marks by the number of his partly successful attempts.

"The second division is fit to commence Analytical Geometry, with which some of them are already partly acquainted.

"I had some hesitation in not classing Prosunno Coomar Surbadhicary with the first division; as far as his reading seems to extend, viz., Algebra, Euclid and Trigonometry-Plane and Spherical-he has replied in better style than any of his competitors.

"The third and fourth divisions should be kept to Algebra and Plane Trigonometry.

"Those not classed at all are for the most part, but very imperfectly acquainted with even simple Arithmetic.

"Below are the divisions into which I have classed the candidates, the individuals in each division are not placed in order of relative merit.

"The subjects are comparatively new to the students of the Hooghly College, and none of them has obtained the number of forty marks, or gained my gold or silver medal: some of the answers, however, promise future proficiency, and I shall request my colleagues in the Council of Education to give the two medals next year to any two of the Hooghly students who may deserve them."

Upon the performances of the students of the same College in Literature Proper, Mr. Colvile Literature Proper. states that

"The number of marks attained is not in any case high, and I do not think that any papers deserve to be printed.

"The questions upon Milton and Pope are, generally speaking, much better answered than those upon Bacon. It is in the answers to the latter that the inferiority of the students of the Hooghly to those of the Hindu College is most marked.

"It is not easy to see why those students who have obtained only seven or five marks, were ever permitted to take part in the senior scholarship examination."

Upon the Bengali Essays, the Revd. K. Bengali Essay. M. Banerjea reports as follows:

"The remarks made on the Essays of the Hindu College are applicable to those of the Hooghly College. The latter are rather better in point of style, and more free from orthographical blunders than the former.

"The Sanscrit proverb aforesaid is also cited by many of the Hooghly students, but in the same incorrect way."

Marks.

The causes which, for the last three years, have prevented the adoption of the senior scholarship standStandard of ard of marks, as contained in the rules, still continuing to exist, the Council are again compelled to follow the course dictated by circumstances at the two last examinations.