Queen's College, Benares.

AFFILIATED, 1860.

The Benares Sanscrit College was founded by Government in 1791 for the cultivation of the language, literature, and (as inseparably connected with these) the religion of the Hindus. In 1830 an English Institution was established, distinct from the Sanscrit College at first, but incorporated with in it 1853.

MONTHLY AMOUNT OF SCHOLARSHIPS.

INSTRUCTIVE STAFF.

ENGLISH DEPARTMENT.

Ralph T. H. Griffith, M. A., Principal.

E. E. Rogers, M. A. Professor of Mathematics (on leave to Europe.)

Bireshwar Mittra, M. A. Officiating ditto.

D. Tresham, Lecturer in Chemistry (temporary).
Kali Nath Mozoomdar, ditto Physiology (temporary).

E. H. H. Goulding, Head Master.

E. R. Watts, Supernumerary Master.
A. S. Phillips, B. A. Assistant ditto.
C. S. Platts, Assistant to Principal.
Sixteen Native Masters.

SANSCRIT DEPARTMENT.

H. Kern, Ph. D., Anglo-Sanscrit Professor.

Pramada Doss Mittra, Assistant ditto.

Thirteen Pundits.

Two English Teachers.

This College is supported by Government, and is under the control of the Director of Public Instruction, North Western Provinces. It was opened as a school in 1836, and constituted a College in 1852.

The College building was erected in 1842, at a cost of Rs. 40,000 contributed partly by Government, and partly by private subscriptions, including one of Rupees 5000 from His Highness the Nawab of Rampore.

The average number of pupils attending the College in 1862 was 345.

The College is open to all classes, on payment of entrance and monthly tuition fee; the latter varies from eight annas to five Rupees according to the income of the parents or guardians of the boys. Seven senior and sixteen junior Scholarships, aggregating Rs. 214 per mensem, were gained by pupils in the Departmental and University Examinations of

1862.

Attached to the College is a boarding house, opened in 1860, for pupils from Tehsili and other district schools. It contains 44 lads, of whom 7 are Mussulmans, 14 Brahmans and the rest Hindoos of other castes.

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COLLEGE ESTABLISHMENT.

H. Templeton,-Principal. E. Constable, M. A.-Mathematical Professor.

J. Graves,-Head master. Sixteen junior Masters and teachers.

Saugor School.

(FOUNDED, 1836.)

AFFILIATED, 1860.

This Institution is supported by Government, and is under the control of the Director of Public Instruction, Central Provinces.

Instruction in languages is given in English, Urdu and Hindi. The first of which is compulsory on all students.

SCHOLARSHIPS.

Nine Government scholarships of the annual aggregate value of Rs. 360.

FEES.

The fees are regulated by the income of the parents; and range from 4 annas a month upwards for each student.

Ajmere Collegiate School.

AFFILIATED, 1861.

This Institution, after having been closed for many years, was re-established in the early part of 1851, under the management of the late Dr. Buch, who was subsequently appointed to the Principalship of the College at Bareilly. In 1861 it was converted into an Anglo-Vernacular School.

FEES.

Students are admitted on the payment of an Entrance fee equivalent to the tuition fee at which their parents' incomes may be rated.

SCHOLARSHIPS.

The only endowment is the "Thomason Scholarship" of Rs. 8 per month for the most proficient scholar in Mathematics. An annual donation of Rs. 500 from His Highness the Maharaja of Jeypore is distributed into 12 junior scholarships, which are conferred on those whose merits are not quite such as to entitle them to the higher Government stipends.

Connected with the school are an Observatory, which is used for giving instruction in practical Astronomy, and a Lithographic Press. A well supplied library, which owes many of its most valuable works to the munificent bequest of the late lamented Col. Dixon, Commissioner of Ajmere, is accessible alike to residents of the station and pupils of the school.

INSTRUCTIVE STAFF.

J. F. Goulding, Superintendent.

J. Statham, Head Master.

Pundit Amoluk Chund, teacher of Mathematics and 2nd English Master.

Vacant,

1st Persian Teacher.

Pundit Sheo Narain, 1st Hindi Teacher.
Ten assistant Teachers.

Queen's College, Colombo, Ceylon.

AFFILIATED, 1859.

This Institution was founded, under the name of the Colombo Academy in the year 1836, during the government of the Rt. Hon'ble Sir Robert Wilmot Horton, and is supported by the Government of Ceylon, who pay all the salaries and other necessary expenses; these are in part repaid by the fees received from the students, which vary from £1-15 annually, in the lowest classes, to £7-10 in the highest.

The only endowment is the " Turnour Prize," which was instituted in 1843, from a fund raised for the purpose of testifying respect for the memory of the late Hon'ble George Turnour, at which time the following resolution was passed by the subscribers.

"That the interest of the money raised (£190) be devoted to give one prize yearly in the Colombo Academy, to the most advanced and best conducted scholars; that the sum so awarded be called 'The Turnour Prize,' and be placed under such regulations as the Central School Commission establish."

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In the year 1861, a Resolution was passed by the Central School Commission of Ceylon, establishing seven Queen's Scholarships in connexion with Queen's College; three being junior Scholarships, of the value of £12 per annum, tenable for three years by students in the Upper School of the Academy, to be awarded to the best answerers at the annual competitive Examinations open to all Candidates; and four being senior Scholarships, of the value of £20 per annum, tenable for four years by students in Queen's College, Colombo, one to be awarded each year to that student who, at the University Entrance Examination, shall stand first