very Missionaries who memorialized, to the excellence of his administration. Now here is a man raised up as it were amid the anarchy and confusion of his country, to save it from destruction. Annexation, looming in the not far distant future, would be banished into the shades of night, if such an administration as he has introduced into two districts, were given to the whole kingdom, by his advancement to the post of Minister. He is indeed a splendid example of what education may do for the Native.

I have stated these opinions boldly and without reserve; they are no hasty propositions thrown out ad captandum, or in terrorem. They are the result of patient, long, an⚫ xious meditation; I have stated them because I believe them conscientiously to be truths, and because, if they are truths, it is wholesome that both parties, the European and the Native, should have them laid before them for consideration, and, it is to be hoped, for acting on. If, on the other hand, my conclusions are unsound, if they contain any element of error which I may have overlooked, no false shame or false pride on my part shall prevent my acknowledging my mistake, so soon as I am convinced of it.

It only remains for me to recall to your grateful recollection the memory of our founder, PATCHEAPPAH. It has been the fashion among some to say, that this Catholic-hearted man never contemplated such an application of his wealth as has been the cause of calling us here to-day; that this school is not a correct application of the funds according to the intention of the Testator. But it should be remembered that this particular Charity is founded under the Decree of the Supreme Court; and though the direction to found this school may not have been expressed upon the face of the will, the Court could not have decreed the application of any portion of the Testator's funds to a Charity of this descrip

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tion, unless the general intention of the Testator to dedicate a considerable portion of his wealth to the objects of Native education had been apparent upon the will. Sure I am that the wisest, the noblest, the most beneficial use has been made of PATCHEAPPAH'S munificence; and I believe that, could he stand among us here this day, his heart would glow with joy, and his eyes tremble with tears of irrepressible emotion, at witnessing the benefits which his Charities have conferred upon thousands of his fellow countrymen. All honor, all respect, all gratitude be to the name, and to the memory of our founder PATCHEAPPAH.

ADDRESS on the Fifteenth Anniversary of Patcheappah's Institution: 1858.

There can be little need, my Lord, for me to add much to what we have heard in the various satisfactory reports just read. The numbers of the Scholars have been kept up to their average. The attendance of the pupils has been regular. The condition of the branch School in the interior shows how deep an interest the people take in education; for it is only our inability to find accommodation for more pupils that prevents their increase by a very considerable number. The standard of examination has been raised, and the novelty of a written examination has been introduced, which has succeeded as well as was to be expected. Eight scholars have been passed to the Collegiate Department of the University, and one of them has passed the Entrance Examination, and received the certificate of the Register. He is one of the few who have stood this test; and I need hardly explain that much additional care has been necessary in order to qualify these lads for their success. In thanking all the masters for their punctual discharge of their duties, in the name of the President and Trustees, I cannot omit to mention the signal services of our Principal MR. LOVERY. I have watched his career for twelve years; and I can sincerely say that, during the whole of that time, he has zealously, effectively, and affectionately performed his duties. Those who enter upon his walk of life must not, it is true, look to the same great emoluments as reward other professions; but they have a solace which others know not, and which MR. LOVERY in his report feelingly alludes to; the affectionate thanks of those pupils who have succeeded

in life, and who acknowledge the obligations they are under to their teacher. This, he truly says, is the highest reward that can be looked for. MR. LOVERY is himself a proficient of the High School. He is an honour to this Institution; he is an honour to the University. There is nothing more calling for remark in connection with the Institution; we have pursued our ordinary course through the year, and the results have been laid before you.

Your Lordship is aware that it is usual for the patron of this Institution, on each Anniversary, to review the events of the past year, so far as they bear upon the subject of Education: but the events of the past year have been so momentous, and the cause of order is so far from being restored, that I have deliberated long, whether it would not be most proper and prudent for me to abstain from my annual custom; and at one time I had nearly determined to pursue this course: but further consideration convinced me that I should be wanting to myself and the post I occupy, if I shrank from noticing events which must be present to the heart and head of every one among us, especially as this is perhaps the last time when I shall have an opportunity of communicating my opinions to the public in my present relation to this noble Institution. The total tranquillity too of this Presidency, its unbroken peace and order, would be to me a standing reproof, if I were to deviate one tittle on the present occasion from the course ordinarily pursued. Therefore I vindicate the propriety of alluding to the history of the past year, though with this qualification; only so far as it bears upon the question of general Education.

The events themselves have indeed been momentous. It is the thunderstorm which clears the atmosphere of pestilence; it is the earthquake and the volcanic eruption which cast up the fertile slopes, whereon flourish the corn, the

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olivě, and the vine. It is the torrent and the flood, which sweep away man and his habitation, that leave behind them the elements of future productiveness, when man again occupies the scene. These are the forces, by which, though they appear to the sufferers by them mere instruments of wrath and punishment, a Divine Providence works. These agencies he compels to co-operate towards the amelioration of the physical surface of the globe; and it is through political convulsions, "perplexing nations with the fear of change," that human society, as all history teaches us, has ever advanced from its more barbarous to its more civilized condition. We have been sorely tried, perchance punished; passed, as it were, through the fire; but perhaps some such rude shock as we have felt was necessary to arouse us to a truer perception of our relation to that people, whose government we have assumed; and to excite us to fresh zeal in the faithful discharge of our functions and our duties towards

them.

To the superficial observer, perhaps the first conclusion which appears from the recent rebellion, is the necessity of altering our principles of conduct for the worse towards the Native. Kindness, it has been said, is thrown away. Education is a mistake. Within the last year I have seen" Down with Education" in Roman capitals, at the head of a column of one of our local journals. And in England, people, drunk with fury at the first intelligence of the atrocities committed on their countrymen, clamoured for an indiscriminate vengeance: but already they are sobering down. Justice and retribution, not vengeance, will be exacted; no loyal man need fear that either his person or his prospects will be affected by the sins and crimes of his fellow countryman. Never was there an occasion on which the quality of mercy' was more happily describable in the words of our great poet,