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temsii^ck’s geS’ehat, view Stc, 
Don eminently commercial. But wlien to this government, which 
Sunk on all sides, succeeded another administrative regime, indepen¬ 
dent of views more specially commercial, it felt the necessity of en¬ 
suring talents and good name in the agents destined for the service 
of the new power in India. 
The levy of regular imposts having been substituted for the system 
of contracts and contingents, and the European power being placed 
in direct contact with its Asiatic subjects, the necessity was experi¬ 
enced of studying the idioms in use in every locality and of knowing 
fundamentally the manners and customs of the inhabitants, and finally 
of penetrating into all the details of the ancient and modern history 
of their social institutions, which remained covered until then by a 
veil which very few of the servants of the Company had tried to raise. 
The rteed which the new authority felt to surround itself with in¬ 
structed and laborious men, gave birth to the idea of not granting 
places to any save those who had a recognized capacity, resulting 
from obligatory studies, made either before or after the nomination of 
the individual and before or after his departure for India. Finally 
they took the very judicious determination of creating a special school 
for those who were desirous of devoting Diems elves to the civil ser¬ 
vice in India; in 1842 a chair for the teaching of the Javanese lan¬ 
guage and its dialects, as also for the Malay language, was erected 
in the royal academy established, a few years ago, at Delft. Persons 
will not in future be able to obtain an employment of the first or 
seeond class without having gone through a course of studies and 
submitted to examination at this school. Government anticipates 
salutary results from this measure. 
(to be continued) JL, /f3 
