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quisition. Bat, a uniform standard of qualification in them, 

 sufficient for the duties of the public service, was also to be 

 established, by requiring all, previously to entering upon 

 public duties, to be certified as qualified, by the same col- 

 lective body, guided by systematic rules. 



" The most gratifying success has hitherto attended this 

 branch of the institution. The liberal encouragement held 

 out by Government has stimulated many gentlemen to the 

 publication of English elementary works, on the Tamil, 

 Carnataca and Teloogoo, the three most prevalent lan- 

 guages, and even given rise to English translations and 

 grammatical illustrations, of some of the most difficult moral 

 compositions in the classical dialects of these tongues. An 

 extensive and intelligent body of native teachers has been 

 formed for these languages, as well as for Malayalem, Mah- 

 ratta, Sanscrit, Hindoos tanee, Persian and Arabic, who are 

 grammatically versed in English, and possess a critical 

 knowledge of their own tongues • and many of them, by 

 their talents and acquirements, have gradually been raised 

 by their former pupils to the highest civil offices filled by 

 natives — whilst a knowledge of the native languages has, by 

 these means, become now nearly universal amongst the 

 members of the Madras Civil Service. 



(< After good elementary books and competent teachers 

 were procurable in sufficient number to be sent into the interi- 

 or, it was no longer necessary to retain the junior Civil Servants 

 at the Presidency ; where, during the gradual formation of 

 both, it had been requisite at first to assemble them, in order 

 to be within the reach of the best of each previously attain- 

 able. The expediency of stationing them universally in the 

 interior, as soon as possible after their arrival in India, has 

 ever appeared to me unquestionable. It not only withdraws 

 them from the allurements to dissipation, inseparable from a 

 metropolis, but even deprives them of the means of indulg- 

 ing in expensive habits, which formerly terminated, too fre- 

 quently, in the sacrifice of their independence as public men. 

 Above all, it brings them, at a period of life when novelty 

 • gives additional excitement to curiosity, in contact with the 

 interesting people whom they are destined to rule ; and 



