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MILITARY ORPHAN SCHOOL. 
management of public institutions. We 
would gladly have refrained from the fore- 
going comments, but we trust they wilj 
tend to produce greater activity in all 
departments of one of the most valuable 
institutions at this Presidency. We look upon 
the letter which appeared in the Hurkaru 
on the subject of the examination and was 
so much reprobated as a satire, worthy of 
the days of Swift, when the Press was in 
bondage and men dare not speak through 
any other medium. We look upon that let- 
t er as a piece of wholesome advice to those 
ministers whose duty we conceive it was to 
be^present and take the most prominent and 
active part when the education of the poor 
was to be tested in the greatest public chari- 
table institution in the Capital of India. The 
foregoing observations are made in ignorance 
of the cause of the absence of our clerical 
friends; but this we maintain, that if sick- 
ness or other circumstances prevented their 
attendance a note to the Secretary to be read 
at the Meeting would have shewn to the 
parents of the children that it did not arise 
from a disregard of the prosperity and 
welfare of the poorest portion of the rising 
generation. - - 
MILITARY ORPHAN SCHOOL. 
It will be in the remembrance of our rea- 
ders that we stated in our Rejoinder, page 
8, paragraph 20, the great difficulty w'e ex- 
perienced in obtaining the published general 
statements to explain away paragraph 20 of 
the general management’s reply, wherein they 
say if the numbers of our figured statements 
were reversed “ it would he more correct than 
at present," and again they add “ and in no 
year does the statement exhibit the correct 
number they then refer to a table at the 
end of the pamphlet in the appendix. Now 
we applied on the 30th of May to the Secre- 
tary for the general statements, but received 
them only on the 10th of June or five days 
after the printing of our Rejoinder, and instead 
of all the years for which we required them 
we werefurnished with those only from 1825-6 
to 1834-5. But we have sufficient grounds 
to shew that the errors charged against us 
are entirely applicable to the general 
management. We therefore retort that 
no year does their “ statement exhibit 
the correct number." The following is a correct 
copy from the general statements, the gene- 
ral managements, and our own. 
Monthly average Number of wards and 
Boarders in the Upper Orphan School during 
the following years as noted by the General 
Management — as by general statments — as 
by Mr. Corbyn. 
Year. 
Gen. Maiigt. 
Statement. 
Gen. 
Stat. 
Mr Cor- 
byn’s. 
1832-33.. . 
1831-32.. . 
. I66i^ . 
1830-31.. . 
171 
1829-30.. . 
.178 .. 
1828-29 
. 178|.. 
1827-28.. . 
. 176|. . 
1826-27.. . 
173 
1825-26. . ., 
179 
Now we trust that the foregoing will 
induce the subscribers to send for statements 
which ought to be found in every Adjutant’s 
office, and permit us again to impress 
upon the mind of all that valuable opinion of 
Locke’s, “ we should not judge of things by 
men’s opinions, but of opinions by things 
for it is generally thought to be marvellously 
strange that an individual could be right and 
a body of men wrong; on this account the 
great portion of mankind judge men, not 
measures. 
When our Subscribers examine Para 19, 
Page 11, General Management’s Reply, we beg 
they will look at statements for 1831-32 and 
1 832-33, refer to the monthly average expense 
and receipts at the foot of the 1st paragraph, 
and they will perceive the accuracy of ouj, 
statement. Also in proof of our accuracy in 
explanation of 16 paragraph, look to state^ 
ments for 1833—34 and 1825-26, and with res- 
pect to paragraph 17, it is to be understood 
that the figures include deposits for boarders. 
We have alluded to these figures not that they 
have any thing to do with the main ques- 
tion, but because such errors have been laid 
to our charge. Indeed so trifling were they 
that if they even had occurred ; we would not 
have deemed it necessary to delay the printing 
of our Rejoinder until we could obtain the 
General Statements. 
TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
The following works will be reviewed in 
our next, MacCleland on the geology of 
Kamaon. Trans. Hort. and Agricult. Society. 
Several of our Subscribers have remit- 
ted 8 Rupees for 1836, for the Journal of 
science whereas the amount is only 6 Rupees 
13 Annas being for nine months at 8 per 
annum, the balance will be credited. 
