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The total Number of Chinese pupils (about four hundred and fifty) who are now in the Central School there are many Young boys; Whilst more than one third of the whole are older than the majority of the Students at Oxford and Cambridge; and about one third are between the ages of 21 and 26. Many are already Married.
6. Looking to the Mature age of the majority of the students of the Municipal Educational Institution in this Colony, and for other reasons, I think that the name of "school" would be inappropriate to the new building, and that it should be styled "The 'Queen's College'," "Victoria College," or the "Royal College," as in Mauritius, Ceylon, and many other colonies. It will be understood that I do not propose, at present, the Establishment of a College in the Oxford and Cambridge sense of the term; but merely that a similar designation should be given to the principal School here, as is generally given elsewhere. Moreover, it is not an Empty or useless Sentiment which Induces Colonists to desire to Connect their