Collector of this District, and one in the name of G. R. Sharpe, Esq., who was for some years Civil and Sessions Judge of Malabar. Of the three former, one of 16 Rs. a month is tenable for two years at the Presidency College, Madras, by a native of Malabar who stands highest in the First Arts Examination, from this School; the other two, one of 16 Rs. and the other of 9 Rs. per mensem, are awarded respectively to the first in the Matriculation Examination, and the first in a Special Examination conducted by the Head Master at the beginning of each year, of the pupils composing the Matriculation Class and are tenable for two years and one year respectively. Sharpe's Scholarship of 9 Rs. per mensem is awarded on the results of the University Matriculation Examination, and is tenable for two years.

From 1861 to 1878 inclusive, 68 pupils of this Institution. have passed the First Arts, and 294 the Matriculation Examination.

The Collegiate Department is taught by the Head Master, his first and second Assistants, and the Malayalam Pundit, The present staff consists of :

W. Morgan, Esq., Headmaster.

N. Vaidyanatha Aiyar, B.A., (Madras).

S. Narayanaswami Aiyar, B.A., (Madras).
C. Chattu Nair,

English Institution, Palamcottah.

This Institution was founded in 1836, by the Church Missionary Society for the purpose of training Schoolmasters. The Society had then also the only school for English teaching in the district. This School was from 1844 to 1870 under the able management of Mr. W. Cruickshanks. On a petition being presented by the

Natives of Tinnevelly to the Governor of Madras, Lord Napier, for the establishment of a High School, he gave the above Society the choice of establishing one. Gladly accepting the offer, they caused the English School to be amalgamated with the Institution, which since 1870, has been called the English Institution. A Matriculation Class was opened in 1871, under the then Principal, the Rev. T. Spratt. In 1872 the Home Committee seeing the urgent need of higher education for this district, sent out the Rev. Frederic Peake, M.A., LL.D., to found a College. Unavoidable circumstances compelled his return home three months after classes had been formed for the three Examinations in Arts of this University. present consists of one Principal, Rev. H. Trinity College, Dublin, two Graduates, three First Arts, and four Matriculated Masters, and two munshis. There are 140 students on the Books. The lower classes are recruited from a subsidiary school of 120 boys. Government gives a monthly grant of Rs. 326-5-8. The average of monthly Fees is Rs. 160. Scholarships amount to Rs. 46 per mensem. Of the students 60 are boarders, paying besides their School fees, 1 Rs. each for their board. There are no free scholars.

Cuddalore College.

The staff at
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This institution was the first Provincial School established in this Presidency and was opened on the 6th July 1853. In 1855 it was constituted a Zillah School. A College Department was opened in February 1879. It contains at present ten pupils.

The Masters employed in the College Department are :—
W. Sconce, Esq., B.A. (Oxford), on other duty.
N. Raghunatha Charriyar, B.A., Ag. Head Master.

Mr. L. Dique.

C. S. Swami Iyengar, B.A.

A fee of Rs. 3 is levied in the College Department.

High School, Coimbatore.

About the year 1856 "the Tahsildar's School," so called because a Tahsildar of Coimbatore was its founder, was handed over to a Committee of European and Native gentlemen, under the designation of the Coimbatore Anglo-Vernacular School.' But the early promise of the school was belied by subsequent inanition, the teachers were underpaid, and the confidence of the Hindu inhabitants of Coimbatore was not won.

The first new impulse in the right direction may be traced to the Collector, Mr. Thomas. Through his interest in the School the Hindu inhabitants were roused to action, and a large sum of money was raised with which it was proposed to build a School-hall to be called the ‘Thomas Memorial Hall.' Many years elapsed before this determination was carried into effect. In the meantime the School-house had to be enlarged, and in 1867 when a European Graduate of this University took charge, he found that the Institution contained about 250 boys, the highest class being the Fifth. The fees monthly amounted to about Rs. 200. Under the designation of the 'Coimbatore High School,' the Institution has developed into a Collegiate School with an efficient staff of Teachers. The School is now as large as it can possibly be under present circumstances, the number on the rolls averaging 600, 25 being in the College Department.

The School is a Grant-in-aid Institution, the Government monthly grant is Rs. 430 and the amount of fees on

an average is Rs. 600. At present the expenditure exceeds the income, and very soon the small reserve (about Rs. 2,000) which the School possesses will be exhausted, when something will have to be done to enable the Committee to uphold the position of the Institution. The School is open to all classes of the community. The majority (about 85 per cent.) are Brahmins, but there are on the rolls Hindus of all the other classes, Mahomedans, Native Christians, Eurasians and Europeans. Mahomedan boys are charged only half the monthly fee.

The teaching staff of the College department is as follows:

C. C. Flanagan, M.A. (Madras), Headmaster.

R. Kristniah, B.A. (Madras).

B. Bhujunga Rau.

A. Vaidyalinga Pillai.

High School, Ernakulam.

For many years prior to 1865, the Rajah of Cochin had maintained a small English School at Ernakulam. In that year it was placed under the care of a Cambridge M. A., the present Head Master, and soon rose in numbers and standard until in 1868 students were first sent up for the Matriculation Examination, and since then others have gone up every year.

A large and commodious building was erected by the Sirkar, and occupied in 1870.

The staff of Masters has been steadily improved and augmented, and in 1874 a Preparatory F. A. Class was opened, from which in 1876 students first passed the F. A. Examination.

Boys from all classes of the community, without any distinction as regards caste or creed, àre admissible, but the mass of the school consists of Brahmins, Christians, and Nairs, the latter being most numerous.

The total strength of the School is over 300 boys.

The Cochin Government bears the whole expenses of the School excepting a small proportion (about a seventh) which is produced by Fees.

The Fees at present levied are:-in the F. A. Class, Rs. 2; Matriculation Class, R. 1; Upper School, Annas 8; Lower School, Annas 4.

There are no Scholarships attached to the School at pre

sent.

The High School includes classes from the F. A. down to Preparatory Classes, and it is proposed to add Vernacular Classes shortly.

The College Class work is divided between the following Teachers—

Alfred Forbes Sealy, M.A., (Cambridge), Head Master and Director of Education in Cochin.

The Rev. Henry Kendall.

M. Subramanya Aiyar, B.A. (Madras.)

K. Koshi, B.A., (Madras.)

High School, Shimoga.

This Institution was established in 1854, as a Wesleyan Mission School receiving a Government Grant-in-aid. In 1858 it was converted into a Government School, and in 1875, formed into a High School for the Malnád or highlands of the Nagar Division, occupying the north-west of the Mysore Territory. The school contains 210 pupils, namely,