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and I think the Honourable Court would come to a different
decision if the plan for a native institution were submitted to
them alone, especially when it is designed for purposes of such
immediate practical utility/
Before I pass from the subject of education, I may add that
it received its first great impulse from the natives of the Pre-
sidency on Mr. Elphinstone's retirement, as will be mentioned
further on; and this, again, led to its being taken up by the
Home Government while Lord Ellenborough was at the head of
the Board of Control. Further local efforts were made from
time to time until the year 1854, when the cause of native
education received an important impulse from the Home Go-
vernment, leading to the establishment of three Indian univer-
sities in 1857, the year of the mutiny. Even in these dark
times the work of education went on, and the name of Elphin-
stone was again associated with the cause of its advancement
in. Bombay. Under the guidance of Lord Elphinstone, when
Governor, the senate was constituted and bye-laws framed.
Ten years later public opinion was again roused, and funds
were raised for the erection of new buildings suitable to the
new institution. I have before me the report of the proceed-
ings, in which the Earl of Mayo (Governor-General), Lord
Napier of Magdala, and Sir James Ferguson, at that time
Governor of South Australia, took a part. The Rev. J. IVilson,
Vice-Chancellor of the University, opened the proceedings with
an address, in which he pointed to the heraldic emblems of
the house of Elphinstone, recalling the services rendered by
two members of that family to the institution; and after
dwelling on their acts and those of other labourers in the
cause, he wound up with a list of the benefactors of the
institution, a noble tribute to the public spirit of the in-
habitants of the Presidency.
I resume my selections from the journal and correspond-
ence :—
10, 1824.—I yesterday finished, and to-day re-
viewed Butler J The scope of his argument seems to be that, as
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and I think the Honourable Court would come to a different
decision if the plan for a native institution were submitted to
them alone, especially when it is designed for purposes of such
immediate practical utility/
Before I pass from the subject of education, I may add that
it received its first great impulse from the natives of the Pre-
sidency on Mr. Elphinstone's retirement, as will be mentioned
further on; and this, again, led to its being taken up by the
Home Government while Lord Ellenborough was at the head of
the Board of Control. Further local efforts were made from
time to time until the year 1854, when the cause of native
education received an important impulse from the Home Go-
vernment, leading to the establishment of three Indian univer-
sities in 1857, the year of the mutiny. Even in these dark
times the work of education went on, and the name of Elphin-
stone was again associated with the cause of its advancement
in. Bombay. Under the guidance of Lord Elphinstone, when
Governor, the senate was constituted and bye-laws framed.
Ten years later public opinion was again roused, and funds
were raised for the erection of new buildings suitable to the
new institution. I have before me the report of the proceed-
ings, in which the Earl of Mayo (Governor-General), Lord
Napier of Magdala, and Sir James Ferguson, at that time
Governor of South Australia, took a part. The Rev. J. IVilson,
Vice-Chancellor of the University, opened the proceedings with
an address, in which he pointed to the heraldic emblems of
the house of Elphinstone, recalling the services rendered by
two members of that family to the institution; and after
dwelling on their acts and those of other labourers in the
cause, he wound up with a list of the benefactors of the
institution, a noble tribute to the public spirit of the in-
habitants of the Presidency.
I resume my selections from the journal and correspond-
ence :—
10, 1824.—I yesterday finished, and to-day re-
viewed Butler J The scope of his argument seems to be that, as
5 q/*