conferred with reference to the character and progress of the scholars during the year. According also to the proficiency of the pupils of each School, the tutors themselves are classified, and pecuniary rewards granted to them as an encouragement to exertion. Thus, through this judicious mode of proceeding, an interest is excited in the minds of teachers as well as pupils, calculated to conciliate the attachment and gratitude of all.
It is time to advert to the department placed under the third Sub-Committee, the purpose of which was to lead on native pupils to a knowledge of the English language and the higher branches of tuition.
It will be recollected that the Society did not confine itself to the single object of elementary tuition. It was the opinion of the Society that no plan for enlightening the mass of the people could succeed, without the adoption of systematic measures for providing a body of qualified teachers and translators from among themselves. These will be eminently useful by their instructions, conversation, and writings, in diffusing just
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