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their funds were inadequate to the permanent maintenance of their liberal plans. The calls of the indigenous department alone were sufficient to absorb all the income at their disposal, while the expences of their pupils at the Hindoo College remained to be provided for. Application was accordingly made to the Government for pecuniary assistance. The solicitation was complied with. The Government after again adverting to the prudent and considerate attention to the religious opinions of the great body of the people, which it is so essentially necessary to observe in order to prevent any misapprehension of the object of the undertaking to ameliorate the moral and intellectual conditions of the natives, granted an allowance of 500 rupees per mensem, expressing at the same time a reliance on the Society’s continued adherence to the cautious and restrictive principles on which it appeared hitherto to have proceeded. It should not be supposed that any distrust was conveyed in these observations, but it must be recollected that the originally declared objects of this Institution were not so unequivocal, as those announced by the School Book Society, and that the government could not, either consistently or wisely