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The course of instruction of the institution includes writin 

 reading, arithmetic, grammar, geography, history, EnghsJ 

 Tamil, and music. The capital of the institution is vested b 

 Government in the 4 per cent, stocks, paying 8 per cen 

 interest, which, with the large amount realized within tl: 

 establishment itself, is sufficient to defray all expenses withoi 

 any further assistance. The number of boys is about 241 

 The head teacher, who obligingly conducted us over the whol 

 establishment, which is very handsome, called a dozen boy 

 forward just as we were leaving, who played a few simp] 

 pieces on wind instruments, on which they performed a variet 

 of national airs with great precision. The music master was v 

 German. 



Among its casual attractions, Madras has occasionally 

 flower shows, and exhibitions of industry, and it is ex- 

 ceedingly gratifying to observe' how European science is 

 even here called in to elicit the treasures of nature, and 

 administer to the necessities of mankind. The catalogue 

 of the industrial exhibition of 1857 shows, inter alia, 17 

 sorts of spices, 20 varieties of resin, 64 plants suitable 

 for the distillation of oil, and 41 different drugs, and Dr. 

 Kirkpatrick, a physician in Mysore, has taken the trouble 

 to enumerate, by their botanical and Indian names, 240 

 native drugs, which had been sent to the Madras exhibition, 

 as also their market value, and at the same time has sub- 

 joined the modes in which the natives use them. 



Among the most remarkable private museums which 



