: ه/yه The object of the British Indian Association of Oudh has been fully achieved. The Talooqdars of this Province have learnt to appreciate the benign purpose of the British rule, their rights as British subjects, and the constitutional way of defending and maintaining them, when unjustly interfered with. After the example of this Association, others have been established in several of the principal cities and districts of the N. W. Provinces and the Punjab, which are concerning like benefits upon the people who are within the range of their usefulness. 謙 te * # 米 The Wards' Institution at Lucknow is educating the Talooqdar minors, and other native youths of status, whose parents avail themselves of its advantages, with the view to qualify them for the duties and requirements of their position, and the documents above referred to will show how well it is accomplishing its work. The Night School in Lucknow is imparting English education to the native uncovenanted servants of Government, who are making rapid progress, and upwards of one hundred students are taught there. EXTRACT from the Administration Report of Oudh, for 1862-63. The Association owes its origin mainly to the Secretary Baboo Dukhina Runjun Mookerjee who has received a grant of an estate in Oudh. He is a gentleman of great abilities and accomplishments, who has lived on terms of intimacy with many of the most distinguished men in India for the last thirty years. His influence has been most beneficially exerted to enlighten the minds of the Talooqdars, and to teach them to appreciate the good intentions of the Government. Baboo Dukhina Runjun Mookerjee, a Bengalee gentleman ..of good education and an Honorary Assistant Commissioner. who is elsewhere alluded to as Secretary to the Talooqdars'
