Schools, &c. of Ceylon. (Extracted from the Reports of the Secretary to the School Commission, the King's Visitor, the Clergyman of the Dutch Church, the Assistant Military Secretary, the several Missionary Societies, the Government Agents, and the Vicar-General of the Roman Catholic Congregation. Signed, P. Anstruther, Colonial Secretary.)

Western Province, 521 Private Schools. Of these, 59 are under the superintendance of the Vicar-General of the Roman
Catholic Congregation.

Southern Province, 5 Ditto. Of these, 1 is under the above superintendance.
Of these, 4 are under the above superintendance.
Of these, 36 are under the above superintendance.

12 boys and 5 girls, attend the school of the 90th | grammar, Picture Defining and Reading Book, and regiment.

(4) The Christian Institution at Cotta, is intended to give a superior education to a limited number of youths selected from out-schools, to prepare them for the office of teachers, catechists and assistant-missionaries. Supported by the Church Missionary Society in England, and voluntary contributions in Ceylon.

Tamul Scriptures; the expense of food, clothing and instruction is 5437. This does not include the salaries of the principal and professors.

(u) Course of study: Reading, writing, common arithmetic and geography in Tamul, also sacred music and plain sewing; considerable attention is also paid to reading, writing, and speaking the English language. The whole expense for food, clothing and instruction is about 2907.

The books supplied by the Church Missionary Society are not included in the school expenses, as all (x) These are designed not merely to supply youth those used in the Cingalese districts are printed at for the seminary at Batticotta, but to raise the chathe Cotta press, and most of them are sent out from racter of the native schools, by introducing more England by the Church Missionary Society. The thoroughly the study of common arithmetic, geograteachers are paid according to the proficiency actu-phy, and the grammar of the Tamul language. These ally made by the scholars, which is ascertained by youths in time it is hoped, will be qualified for monthly examinations, so that their salaries vary schoolmasters in their several villages from month to month. In the girls' school both at Cotta and Badegamma, reading in the native language and needlework are taught, and the girls daily repeat catechisms or lessons from the Holy Scriptures. The mode of instruction in the seminary is not according to any general system, but such as appears best to the resident missionary. English reading, writing, grammar, arithmetic and geography are taught, and particular care is taken to make the youths acquainted with the Holy Scriptures, and to impress on their mind Christian principles. The seminarists are boarded and clothed, and a liberal education given them.

(r) In the schools in which the English language is taught, the children are also instructed in the rudiments of grammar, arithmetic and geography; and at most of the stations there are a few youths whom the missionaries personally instruct in the higher branches of learning, without any remuneration. The masters are paid by a graduated scale, according to the attendance and improvement of the children. Each school is examined almost daily by a visitor, and the salaries of this class of men, exclusive of what the masters receive, amounted in 1836, to 2071. 4s. The Wesleyan Mission receives no pecuniary assistance from government. Associations have been formed at all the stations, to raise contributions towards defraying the expenses of the school department, but the sum total raised for this purpose in 1836, amounted only to about 80%. The deficiency is made up by the Wesleyan Missionary Society in England.

(s) Many of the boys and girls of this school pursue their studies in Tamul in the morning and afternoon. The intellectual system as pursued in the Highland School of Scotland, has been adopted on this station. The boys are making rapid advancement in various branches of learning. The extension of the system in different parts of Northern India, promises to do much for the advancement of native youth.

(t) There are 140 students arranged in five classes 1st. Class; 20 students, Companion to the Bible, history, native astronomy, Tamul poetic, grammar, trigonometry, surveying, European astronomy, Watts' on the Mind. 2d. Class; 29 students; Companion to the Bible, English grammar, algebra, Negundoo, Tamul poetic, Grammar, Tamul scriptures. 3d Class: 28 students, Bible history, English grammar, abridgment of Tamul grammar, algebra, geography, Negundoo and English New Testament. 4th Class: 23 students; English New Testament, Child's Book on the Soul, abridgment of Tamul grammar, arithmetic, Negundoo, elements of English grammar. 5th. Class: 40 students; first lessons in arithmetic, Phrase Book, Negundoo, English instructor, abridgment of Tamul

In these the monitorial system is introduced as far as it can be applied, the first object is to teach the children to read and write their own language, and to become familiar with the printed character. Christian lessons, and portions of the Bible are studied daily in all the schools. All the children are required to attend at our churches with their teachers, at least once a week.

(y) The readers in each school are also assembled weekly at the stations to which the school belongs, for the purpose of reading the scriptures and tracts, and reciting catechisms and other Christian lessons. The masters are also formed into Bible classes, and meet as the children do weekly for instruction; they do not receive a stated salary, but are paid according to the progress of the scholars, which is ascertained by a monthly examination. The total mentioned as the expenses of the schools, includes not only the wages of the master, but the expenses of the school-room, the wages of the superintendants, and the small presents made to the children. The school-rooms are used to a considerable extent as places of preaching.

(z) This is as near to the annual expense of the different schools as can be calculated. Teachers are, some of them, paid according to the number of scholars, and the charges for books and other things vary according to circumstances. The expense of the schools is almost exclusively borne by the Missionary Society in England. Nothing has ever been received from government in aid of the schools.

The Government schools are in number about one hundred, of which the far greater part are in the Singalese or maritime districts. They were originally established by the Dutch; and, according to Colonel Colebrooke's report, the numbers educated have been as follows:-Protestants, 83,756; Roman Catholics, 38,155; total, 121,911. Mahomedans, 14,847; Boodhists, 78,602; total, 93,449. The expenditure amounts to about 3,6007. per annum; and it is to be hoped it will be extended to the Malabar and Kandyan districts. The schoolmasters receive a small stipend of 61. 68. per annum, and they derive further emolument from fees received for registering native marriages.

Abstract of Ceylon Missionary Schools. - Church Mission.-Schools 56, containing 1,554 boys, 254 girls, and 61 adults; total, 1,869. Employs 83 native teachers and assistants, and has printing and bookbinding establishments at Cotta and Nellore. The number of boys in the Cotta institution is 16, of whom 11 are Singalese, and 5 Tamulians.

Wesleyan Mission, established in 1814, and occupying seven stations, has 65 schools in Singalese, or southern, and 21 in Tamul, or northern, districts, thus:

conduct public worship on the Sabbath days. The Mission has a printing establishment and two presses at Colombo since its formation.

American Mission, has five stations and a high school or college, at Batticaloa, containing 10 students in Christian theology, and 110 students in English and the elements of sciences; and 22 in Tamul; all on the charity foundation; besides six day scholars. A female central school at Oodooville, with 52 girls on the foundation, and 76 native free schools, with 2,200 boys and 400 girls.

Baptist Mission, instituted in 1812, has two stations and 16 schools, containing about 800 children, instructed in English, Portuguese, Tamul, and Singalese, by 20 teachers; four are female schools. The annual expense of this mission (1607. per annum) is almost exclusively borne by the parent society in

England.

The return for 1832 shews, in the S. Ceylon district an aggregate of 69 schools, with 2,896 boys, 427 girls, and 104 male and female teachers; in addition to which, the Wesleyans employ 15 salaried catechists, who assist in the superintendence of the schools, and IX. Schedule of Daily Allowance to Prisoners, as fixed by the Governor in the year 1836.-[B. B.]

Roman Catholic Mission, established in 1687, occupies 12 stations, presided over by 12 pastors.

Crimes, except in some of the maritime provinces where the drinking of arrack leads to every species of vice, are in general rare, and the Singalese being in the aggregate a quiet, docile people, petty litigation

usurps the place of passion and its attendant results. Owing to the peculiar constitution of the village communities, each of which has its "Headman" and subordinate officers, and peons or constables, the