बांद्रांला डांवां ७ नांशिष्ठद्र ७ब्रडि। Voy education,-a blessing for which they must even be grateful, and every well wisher of the human race must be desirous that the efforts made to promote it, should be guided by the most enlightened principles, so that the stream of intelligence may flow in the most useful channels, When this seminary of learning was proposed, we understood that the Government in England had ordered a considerable sum of money to be annually devoted to the instruction of its Indian subjects. We were filled with sanguine hopes that this sum would be laid out in employing European gentlemen of talent and education to instruct the natives of India in Mathematics, Natural, Philosophy, Chemistry, Anatomy, and other useful sciences, which the natives of Europe have carried to a degree of perfection that has raised them above the inhabitants of other parts of the world. While we looked forward with pleasing hope to the dawn of knowledge, thus promised to the rising generation, our hearts were filled with mingled feelings of delight and gratitude, we already offered up thanks to Providence for inspiring the most generous and enlighteued nations of the West with the glorious ambition of planting in Asia the arts and sciences of Modern Europe. We find that the government are establishing a Sanskrit School under Hindoo Pundits to impart such knowledge as is already Current in India. This seminary similar in character to those which existed in Europe before the time of Lord Bacon, can only be expected to load the minds of youth with grammatical niceties and metaphysical distinctions of little or no practical use to the Possessors or to society. The pupils will there acquire what was known two thousand years ago with the addition of vain and empty subtleties since then produced by speculative men such as is (already commonly taught in all parts of India. The Sanskrit language so difficult that almost a lifetime is "ty for its acquisition is well known to have been for ages a
