1866.] Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. 155 



" 4 The terms used is Bengali are easily transferrible to the Hindee, 

 Mahratta, and Telugu languages used by one hundred millions of people, 

 and they are equally applicable to Burmah and other countries where 

 the Pali has been in use. 



"5. Throughout India with the exception of a few names, the 

 technical terms used in the Bible and Prayer. Book have been derived 

 mainly from Sanskrit or Arabic. 



(Sd.) J. Long." 



The Rev. K. M. Banerjea said it had been his lot to occupy the 



via media in the discussions which were carried on with such 



vehemence nearly thirty years ago between the two schools, one of 



which is certainly represented by the last speaker (Baboo Rajendralal 



Mittra), and with the other of which the Hon'ble mover of the 



resolution has been identified, not however, as it would appear, with 



much correctness. Mr. Banerjea had himself written a good deal in 



connection with Sir Charles Trevelyan while the controversy was 



raging in olden days, and like all persons who stand in the middle 



of a combat, it had been his misfortune to receive shots from both 



sides. He differed as much from those who despised oriental learning, 



as from others who would use it as the only or the chief medium of 



native education. As far as the natives were concerned, the system 



inaugurated by the victorious party in 1835, under the auspices of 



Lord William Bentinck, has been fraught with inestimable advantages. 



" It is to that system," said Mr. Banerjea, " that you owe the large 



and increasing number of educated natives whose influence is now felt 



not only throughout the province of Bengal, but is fast spreading 



to the North West Provinces. It is owing to that system that you have 



now a native justice in the highest court of the presidency, and that 



you have a native bar which has been pronounced by competent 



judges to be scarcely inferior to the bar of Westminster. But for 



that system, you could not have had such efficient and trustworthy 



Sudder Ameens and Deputy Magistrates as are now the pride of the 



public service. And — but for the same system — you could not, this 



evening, have enjoyed the felicity of seeing the claims of Oriental 



literature itself enforced by a native gentleman with the eloquence 



and ability of my learned friend, the last speaker. And here I must 



remind the Society that the interests of Science and History are quite 



as much in its keeping as the interests of Oriental lore. The latter 



