384 Remarks on the Amount of [No. 38, 



The following table will show that there is much gratuitous teaching 

 in this City, so many as a?i eighth part of the Schools and affth 

 of the Scholars, being of this character. 



Charity Schools in Madras. 







O • 



Number of Scho- 











lars. 







Instruction. 



o o 



O 







Total. 



i 





a*a 



| M 



Boys. 



Girls. 







English, - 



11 



7G0 



157 





2 



English and Tamil, 



5 



277 



45 





3 



English, Tamil and Teloogoo, 



1 



250 



100 





4 



Tamil, - 



43 



1,263 362 







Tamil and Sanscrit, - 



1 



50 



o 





S 



Teloogoo, - 



3 



41 



20 





7 



Teloogoo and Tamil, - 



1 



45 



0 







Teloogoo and Sanscrit, - - , 



1 



42 



0 





p 



Sanscrit, - 



2 



21 



0 





1 



Persian, - 



1 



63 



0 





11 



Hindustanee, Persian and Arabic, 



19 



302 



0 







Total, . 



88; 



3,114 



684 



3,793 



It would appear from the 1st Table that there are in Madras 

 480,000 Children and it is necessary to enquire how many of these 

 are, from their age, sex, and social state, in a position to receive 

 education. In India generally, females are not educated ; also, 

 very few of the mixed castes ever receive even the slightest edu- 

 cation ; and two-thirds of the whole of the above infant population 

 must be under 5 years of age, — too young, therefore, to be at 

 school. In this view, the children fit to be educated must be 

 as follows : 



Total Children'in Madras, 480,000 



Deduct f as under 5 years of age, - 320,000 

 Of the remaining third deduct \ being females, 



less 2,132 girls found at School, 77,868 

 „ „ „ deduct males of mixed castes, 12,000 409,868 



Children of Madras of the sex, age, and social state, to whom, 



in India, Education is ever imparted, - 70,132 



There are, then about 70,000 children in Madras of those class- 

 es and at the ages to whom, in India, education is usually impart- 

 ed ; and, as the actual number receiving education is 19,188, it fol- 

 lows that, of the youth of the educating classes, 1 in every Z'6, be 



