Churches, and for the propagation of Christianity among the Heathen."

Besides the Superintending Missionary, the College is provided with Two Syriac Professors (Malpans); a Hebrew Professor (Moses Sarphati, a liberally-minded Jew from Cochin); Two Native Teachers of Sanscrit ; and an English Teacher and Assistant.

When I was at Cotym, there were about Forty Students in the College, whom I examined and though the Institution was then in its infancy, the progress of several of the Boys was highly creditable to themselves and their Teachers.

I shall here give an Abstract of the last Report of the College

There were then Fifty Students; twelve of whom had passed through the initiatory ordinations. One of them was so far advanced in his knowledge of the English Language as to read some of our Poetry. He had made great progress in Latin also, and was then beginning Virgil: he had, likewise, commenced the study of Hebrew.

In the Latin Class were Thirteen Students. The whole were studying English and Syriac, and several of them Sanscrit.

In reference to their behaviour, abilities, and the hopes they encourage the Missionaries to entertain, those Gentlemen write

"The conduct of the Students is, remarkably good. They behave with the greatest respect; while they are entirely free from all servility. Their natural dispositions, their desire of learning, their ability and application, are not at all inferior to what is found among Youths in Europe. If present hopes do not prove fallacious, in less than ten years, with the assistance now sought, and the Blessing of God, there may be 50 or 100 Learned Priests, belonging to this venerable Church, nourishing their own flocks, and spreading the triumphs of the Gospel around them*."

The following Extract, from the same Report, will shew the reputation which the College has, in so short a time, attained among these interesting people." The whole of the Syrian Population look to the College as the eye of their body, and make it their boast; and the exertions of some of the present Students will, ere long, justify this feeling."

Not long after the organization of the College, the Missionaries projected the establishment of Three Seminaries, upon the plan of Free Grammar-Schools in England - one for the Central; a second for the Northern; and a third for the Southern Division of the

* See XXIIId Report of the Church Missionary Society, p.130.

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Diocese. The most promising Youths in these Schools are to be selected for the College, and translated thither as vacancies occur. The Central School was erecting at Cotym when I was there. It has now been completed some time; and contained Thirty-nine Scholars, at the date of the last Report.

The Third Missionary, Mr. Baker, superintends the Parochial School Department. Previous to the arrival of the Missionaries, the Syrians were almost without Schools for Children designed for secular occupations: but those Gentlemen soon resolved to supply this great desideratum; and the latest account states the number at Thirty-seven, containing 921 Scholars. There were yet about Fifteen Parishes unprovided with Schools; but several of them are, I have no doubt, by this time supplied.

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Such were the Seminaries, and such the progress of Education to, among the Syrians, when M. Dubois published the Letter, in which he asserts, they have no Houses of Education, no Teachers, no Professors; but only some Schools, kept by their ignorant Priests, for the purpose of teaching persons, destined to the Ecclesiastic Profession, to read this language"-the Syriac. (p. 23.)

But, though the Missionaries, for the better accomplishing of their common objectviz. the amelioration of the whole Syrian Community-have made this division of labour, yet, in the translating of Religious Tracts and other Elementary Works, in holding intercourse with the people, in visiting the Churches in the interior, and, in a word, in all the general affairs of the Mission, they act in concert with each other.

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It was one of Colonel Munro's original plans, to establish a Printing-press at Cotym. This is now accomplished; and the Board of Superintendence for the College of Fort St. George have kindly permitted a fount of Malayalim Types to be cast from their matrices, for the use of this Press*. It is needless to observe how much more efficient this will render the Mission.

It is not the least encouraging circumstance, that the Metropolitan is associated with the Missionaries, in Council and operation. He has apartments in the College;

It is worthy of remark, in proof of the respectability of the Syrian College, and of the approbation with which the Missionaries' proceedings are regarded, that the College of Fort St. George has presented to the College of Cotym a Copy of each of its Publications; with an intimation from the Board of Superintendance, of their intention to present to that Institution a Copy of every Publication which may hereafter issue from their Press. (See XXIIID Report of the Church Missionary Society, p. 242.)

where they meet him every week, upon the business of the Mission. He is acquainted with all that is passing; and nothing is done without his concurrence. A report to the contrary was circulated in India about three years ago. It was said that the Missionaries were interfering with the Syrians, in opposition to their own Metropolitan's wish. This having reached the ears of the late Bishop of Calcutta, that lamented Prelate, when returning from the last Visitation he held at Bombay, stopped at Cochin, and sent for the Syrian Bishop, in order to ascertain whether or no it were the fact: and, upon the Metropolitan's declaring that there was no truth in the report, and that the Missionaries were labouring with good effect and in perfect harmony with himself and his Clergy, his Lordship expressed his satisfaction, and shortly after took his leave.

Colonel Munro writes, in the Address already noticed: "In several conferences which I had with the Bishop and Syrian Clergy, during a visit which I made to Cotym in December last, they expressed, with warmth, their satisfaction and gratitude, at the course of measures adopted to enlighten and restore the Syrian Church." They, and the Bishop in particular, expressed the same