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he knows, of the much he never can know. The wisest man is ever the most modest. This is the distinctive difference between knowledge and wisdom: to quote a passage from COWPER,

'Knowledge is proud that he hath learnt so much;
Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.'

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I would here allude to MADAVA Row, an example and a pride to all Hindus. If I have reserved him as an example of modesty, it is not to detract from his other merits; for he is pre-eminent in all. At a very early age he has attained the highest honour to which a Native can look in the Court of a Native Prince. He is now Dewan of Travancore. has reached that distinguished post, not by any intrigue, not by personal interest, not by back-stair or Court influence; but by a noble preserverance in the path of duty, swerving neither to the right hand nor to the left. I remember, when some years since he was offered the situation of Tutor to the young Travancore Princes, he came to ask my advice as to his course. After pointing out to him that it was his bounden duty to accept the office, because if he excited in the breast of those young Princes a thirst for knowledge and a love of virtue, he might become the benefactor of millions of his fellow countrymen, I bade him question his own heart, whether he had strength to withstand the perils and temptations by which he was sure to be beset in a corrupt Native Court. He went; and nobly has he stood the ordeal; but in a letter which he wrote me a few days since acquainting me with his high success, I find no vain glory, no boastful spirit at what he has achieved, but rather a prayer for greater strength, honestly to discharge the increased duties which exalted station necessarily imposes upon him. And though I have not mixed in Native Society so much as I could have wished, still I have done so more perhaps than most Europeans, and I will add my humble testimony to the modesty, the politeness, the good manners

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NECESSITY FOR INCREASED APPLICATION.

which distinguish those who have most fully profited by the opportunities of instruction offered to them.

But though the prospects of education never were so bright as at the present moment :-so much so, that of all the benefits which we hope will be remembered in connection with your Lordship's reign, there is none probably with which your name will be more intimately connected than the great cause of Native Education ;-bright as the prospects are; certain it is that there never was a time when it was so incumbent on the Natives as at this present moment to gird up their loins, and press forward in the great race that is before them. The events of the past year show us that. First, the Court of Directors Educational dispatch shows us this because naturally in proportion as greater facilities and opportunities of learning are afforded to the great body of the people by the Government, more will be looked for and required at their hands.

Then the change in the Civil Service necessitates increased exertion on the part of the Natives. Great as has been the distance hitherto between the educated European and the educated Native, that interval cannot now but be widely increased; and, so to speak, the Natives will have much lost ground to make up, if they seek to compete with the covenanted service for employment in the higher offices of civil administration.

This can never be effected by political agitation, by petitions to Parliament, by rants in Newspapers, or empty Debating Societies. Such principles never shall be countinanced in any Institution in which I have a voice or influence: it can only be effected by a steady continuous application on the part of the Natives in self education. They must make themselves such by their qualifications as to be able to demand employment and in the interim they may take this great fact home with them, as a proof of the honesty of Government's

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intentions by them, and the certainty that they will be more and more largely employed, if only they will make themselves fit for office: I mean that within comparatively few years, almost the entire original jurisdiction of Civil justice has passed out of the hands of Europeans into those of the Natives.

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There is another event which will probably exercise much influence on this matter. I allude to the late investigation into the existence of Torture. It is not for me to forestall the Commissioner's Report, or to anticipate convictions which have forced themselves, or may now be forcing themselves upon their minds; but I may put a hypothetical case and if it should prove that the cry of the Natives has come up to save them, not from the European, but from their fellow Natives, with what face can they ask Government to employ them still more largely, and thus add fuel to the fire? They must learn the force and strength of honesty that feeling which would make a man rather lay his right hand on the block, than be participator in a mean or dirty action; they can learn this by moral far more than intellectual cultivation: they must come to regard 'place' not as the opportunity for self aggrandizement and emolument, the gratification of avarice, or cruel oppression; but as the opportunity for doing their duty faithfully in that station of life to which it may have pleased God to call them. They must learn to understand the meaning of charity; not in that narrow sense in which the ancient philosophers understood it; one sage confining the love of man's neighbour to the fellow dwellers in the same city; another, with more liberal views, extending it to all men of the same country; they must learn it theoretically and practically, in the Christian sense, in which it is confined to no clime, no colour, or cast, or creed; but is an ever shifting circle, like the horizon, which accompanies the traveller, let him wander where he will, embracing every living being in its girdle of love.

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Once more; there is another matter which makes it especially incumbent on the young to press onwards; for if they do not, they will invert the unfortunate position in which their fathers have found themselves. They have experienced the drawback of finding that they had no idea in common with their parents, or their fellows, who were not educated, and thus half the pleasures of social communion have been lost to them. If the young do not take care, they will stand in the same relation to their parents; only that the possession of knowledge will be inverted; and thus society and home lose half their charms and their endearments.

Such are some of the reflections which have suggested themselves to my mind, when thinking over those events of the past year which might be remarked on most appositely to the present occasion, with reference both to this Institution and other educational institutions of the Presidency. May they all co-operate for good: and may this noble Institution, whose twelfth anniversary we are now celebrating, the ceremonies of which your Lordship has honoured with your presence, not I trust without gratification, unexpected perhaps as it is novel-may this noble Institution—all honour be to the memory of PATCHEAPPAH, its founderprove not the last in that great race. This is my fervent wish, a wish which I am sure will find a ready echo in the bosom of every one who hears me.

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ADDRESS on the Thirteenth Anniversary of Patcheappah's Institution: 1856.

My Lord,

The events of our past Educational year have not been such as to afford me much scope for comment or observation. The pupils have made satisfactory progress in their studies, as testified by their examinations, written and oral : the Masters have, as heretofore, continued to exhibit the most exemplary care and attention in the discharge of their duties towards the students; and, under the able, conscientious management of the President and Trustees, not only the affairs of this individual institution, but of all Patcheappah's charities have pursued the even tenour of their way without let or hinderance, impediment or stay. But this is perhaps the highest praise, the most satisfactory report which can be made of institutions like this, that when they have been once established upon well considered and defined principles, and according to a settled plan, they present in ordinary times no startling novelty or change; because this is the best proof of the harmonious working of their system. I must not however pass over one measure which has marked the past year. The President and Trustees have introduced, or rather re-introduced, the exactment of a fee: and with the happiest results. Partly owing to the reduction of our funds, consequent upon the financial measures of the Supreme Government, partly on account of the increased applications for admittance to the School, which could not be complied with without an increase in the strength of our tutorial staff, it was determined to demand a fee from every student. Accordingly it was fixed at 8 Annas, and only about twenty boys left the establishment in consequence, whilst

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