intentions of the Government, on the general question discussed in your address. 3. With respect to the specific requests and recommendations contained in the address, I am desired to state as follows: 4. The Government has no intention of soliciting from the Court of Directors any specific pecuniary aid, to be appropriated exclusively to the support of native literature, beyond the sums already devoted to that object, in conjunction with the encouragement of English literature. Its reluctance to take this step is not influenced by any doubt that larger sums might be beneficially appropriated to both these objects; but by that financial difficulty which necessarily limits within narrow bounds the aid to be so afforded. 5. The Government having resolved to discontinue, with some exceptions, the printing of the projected editions of Oriental works, a great portion of the limited Education Fund having hitherto been expended on similar publications to little purpose but to accumulate stores of waste paper, cannot furnish pecuniary aid to the Society, for the further printing of those works, but will gladly make over the parts already printed, either to the Asiatic Society, or to any Society or individuals, who may be disposed to complete the publication at their own expense. 6. The Government has the highest respect for the Asiatic Society, and the valuable and laudable pursuits in which it is engaged; but must nevertheless consider the Committee of Public Instruction as the appropriate organ for dispensing the patronage bestowed by the Government on Oriental studies, from which, as justly supposed by the Society, it is not the intention of the Government to withdraw its support. I have the honor to be, &c. (Signed) G. A. BUSH BY, Secretary to Government. Council Chamber, the 10th June, 1835. Copy of orders issued to the Committee of Public Instruction, 7th March, 1835. "The Governor General of India in Council has attentively considered the two letters from the Secretary to the Committee, dated the 21st and 22nd January last, and the papers referred to, in them. "His Lordship in Council is of opinion, that the great object of the British Government ought to be the promotion of European literature and science among the natives of India, and that all the funds appropriated for the purposes of education would be best employed on English education alone. "But it is not the intention of His Lordship in Council to abolish any college or school of native learning, while the native population shall appear to be inclined to avail themselves of the advantages which it affords; and His Lordship in Council directs, that all the existing professors and students at all the institutions under the superintendence of the Committee shall continue to receive their stipends. But His Lordship in Council decidedly objects to the practice which has hitherto prevailed of supporting the students during the period of their education. He conceives that the only effect of such a system can be to give artificial encouragement to branches of learning which, in the natural course of things, would be superceded by more useful studies, and he directs that no stipend shall be given to any student who may hereafter enter at any of these institu |