most advanced girls are taught sewing. They are instructed also in the elements of arithmetic and geography. The girls pay no fee in this or in any other of our schools. The teachers in this school number eight. The monthly expense of the school is about 120 rupees. IV. Mrs. Campbell's Day School for Girls.-This school was commenced in August 1855, and is kept in the compound of the Rev. A. B. Campbell. The girls on the roll are 35, and the average attendance is 30. The school is superintended by Mrs. Campbell, assisted by Mrs. Cooper. Under two teachers the girls are taught the elements of a good vernacular education in Tamil, as far as their tender years can receive it. This school costs about 20 rupees a month. V. The mission in April last established another school for caste girls in Acharyapenstreet, in Black Town. In November last the girls numbered 75, under three teachers. This school is superintended by Mr. Huffton and the missionaries. The girls are taught to read and write Tamil or Telugu, along with the elements of arithmetic and geography. The school costs per month about 35 rupees. The other five female schools at Chingleput, Conjeveram, Wallajabad, Nellore, and Goodoor are treated of under these several stations. OBJECTS for which Grants are asked. The parent institution in Black Town, and all the schools connected with it, are capable of much improvement and extension. A grant from Government would materially promote their efficiency. The following are some of the objects to which such a grant is immediately applicable, Il.. Madras. A grant has been already* applied for on behalf of this school, but no answer has been received. FEMALE SCHOOLS. I. The Normal School for Female Converts and Boarding Girls.-A grant of 1,000 rupees would be of great service to improve the premises lately purchased for this school. II. The Madras Day School for Girls.-A grant of 2,000 rupees would greatly increase the efficiency of this school, by supplying additional teachers, paying a matron and monitresses, procuring school furniture, books and stationery, improving the class-rooms, &c. III. The Triplicane Day School for Girls.-A grant of 1,200 rupees would greatly promote the efficiency of this school in similar respects. IV. Mrs. Campbell's Day School for Girls.-A grant of not less than 150 rupees per annum would greatly increase the efficiency of this school. V. The New Girls' School is in Acharyapen-street.-A grant of 500 rupees would extend this school and render it more effective, and enable the mission to hire a better house for it. The assistance asked for the five female schools at Chingleput, Conjeveram, Wallajabad, Nellore, and Goodoor, is embraced in the foregoing application for the schools for males in these several places. We thus respectfully submit to Government the circumstances of the institution and schools for males and females of the Madras Free Church Mission, and hope they will meet with the most favourable consideration. The sums set down in the foregoing application represent the wants of these various seminaries; but as the means at the disposal of Government are limited, we trust that a proportion of assistance may be allotted in some degree commensurate with our wants. APPLICATION for a Grant in Aid on behalf of the Wallajabad Branch School of the 1. THE average number of pupils on the roll, during the last six months of 1856, was 128. 2. A department of females has existed during the last three of these months, and the number of girls on the roll is now 25. 3. The N. B. This is a mistake. Some months ago a private note was addressed to me by Mr. Braidwood, inquiring what amount of aid would be given in the event of the school being placed under Government inspection. In my answer I gave him such information as I was able to afford regarding the terms on which a grant would be given. Mr. Braidwood has now made a separate application, a copy of which is appended to this document. A. J. Arbuthnot, Director of Public Instruction. II. Madras. 3. The highest number of pupils present in December was 151; of whom 38 were boys in the English department, 88 boys in the Tamil, and 25 girls of caste families. 4. The boys come not only from Wallajabad, but from villages at a distance of from four to seven miles. 5. The average cost of maintaining the school during these six months has been Rs. 45. 3. 4. This includes the expense of removing the cactus, as well as a partial supply of school furniture; but it does not include the stationery. The average outlay per mensem is 55 rupees at cost. 6. The average revenue from fees, these six months, is Rs. 8. 8. 8. per mensem. 1. The premises are estimated at 1,400 rupees, and are devoted to educational purposes. 2. It would tend greatly to promote the efficiency and permanency of the school were Government to grant 1,000 rupees to repair and enlarge the premises, and adapt them to the education both of males and females. 3. A grant of 10 rupees a month for pupil teachers would have the effect of retaining under improvement some of the best youths of the district, and at length of throwing them forth as teachers in the villages. 4. A grant of 30 rupees a month would meet part of the charge of the present staff of teachers, would enable the Mission to add another teacher, and help to raise the present scale of pay to some of the teachers, of whom there are altogether six. The school was commenced under an expectation that the Government would readily be induced to bear the half of the entire outlay from the first. Madras, 10 January 1857. I am, (signed) John Braidwood, Secretary to the Financial Board of the |