object is to supply what may be called a sound English education.
One proof of the success of the system pursued is that the minor posts in the public service of this Colony are being gradually filled, by competitive examination, from the pupils of these Schools. Another proof is that a large and increasing number of the pupils are finding employment in the public service of the neighbouring Empire of China. Two of the Secretaries of Li-Kung-Chang, the great Viceroy, are men who were recently educated at Hongkong; and this "Bismarck of China" has lately invited twelve of the pupils of the Central School to fill various posts in the Imperial Service.
It has (I am told), been objected, though only in one quarter, that it is no part of the duty of the Government of an English Colony to educate candidates for the service of a foreign country. But I am confident that Your Lordship will concur with me in repudiating such narrow and ungenerous theories, opposed, moreover, to...