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tion to the previously existing native Schools in the villages. An article in the August number of the Chinese Repository of this year, discussing the subject of Schools at Hongkong,' mentions, apart from the Mor- rison Etucation Society's School, which by this time had 21 scholars under training, that there were a few native Schools at Hongkong, perhaps eight or ten in various parts of the Island, chiefly in Victoria.' In the same article the Editor called the atten- tion of the Government to these Schools and suggested the appointment, by Government, of an Education Committee. The death of Mr. J. R. Morrison (Oatober, 1843) was a great loss to the educational interests of Hongkong and especially to the Morrison Education Society whose Recording Secre- tary and Librarian Mr. Morrison had been, besides supporting four of the scholars by his own means. After his death, his well- stocked library was embodied in the Morrison Education Society's Library (now at the City Hall).
The funds of the Society, which were very low at this time, were at the end of the year opportunely increased by a grant made by H. M.'s Superintendent of Trade, Sir H. Pottinger, who promised (12 December, 1843) to give to the Morrison Education So- ciety annually the sum of $1,200, 'being the amount of one year's allowance formerly assigned to the Anglo-Chinese College at Malauca.'
About this time the London Missionary Society resolved to transfer its operations from Malacca, Singapore, und Penang to China and to establish its head-quarters at Hongkong. This measure brought to Hongkong a
man who was destined to exercise a most powerful influence on the future educational system of Hongkong. The Rov. J. Legge having succeeded the Rev. J. Evans as principal of the Anglo-Chinese College (1811) at Malacca, removed, at the close of the year 1813, the students of that College, together with their principal teacher, the Rev. Ho Tsun-sheen,
to Hongkong, where he formed them into a Seminary for the training of native minis- ters.
This Seminary, together with a Pre- paratory School started at this time in Hongkong, formed the nucleus of the esta- blishment thenceforth known as the London Missionary Society's Anglo-Chinese College of Hongkong (Ying-wa-shü-ün).
1844. The year 1844 was particularly fruit- ful in the way of educational efforts, put forth in Hongkong by Missionaries of all deno- minations. The Morrison Education Socie- ty's institution on Morrison Hill prospered under the energetic direction and able tuition of Mr. and Mrs. Brown and its funds were in a flourishing condition (25th Sept., 1844), there being a surplus of $3,000 in hand, The Rev. J P. Happer, M.D., strengthened the staff of the School, by giving his assistance to Mr. Brown for six months (November, 1844 to April, 1845). The London Mis- sion's Anglo-Chinese College had an at- tendance of 18 Chinese hoarders to be trained for the ministry, in 1811, all of whom were engaged during the forenoon of every day in Baglish studies and devoted the afternoons to their Chinese lessons. The Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Sehusk of the Rap- tist Board of Foreign Mission opened (23rd September, 1814) a newly built two-storied house in Gough Street (on the premises of the future Government Central School) as an Anglo-Chinese School with 20 boys and 6 girls. The Rev. W. Deane of the same Mission had also started, in the year 1844, a small Chinese School in the Western Dis- trict, and over 80 Chinese scholars, all taught and supported by the benevolence of the European community of Hongkong, were present at the opening of the Gough Street Schools. Another American Mission, the Board of Commissioners of Foreign Mis- sions, represented by Dr. Ball, also com- menced at this time a School in Hongkong with 6 Chiuose pupils. The Roman Catho- lie Mission is reported to have had a School at work in Hongkong in 1844 and also a few theological students, but no detaile are re-
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corded as to the actual date when this Mission commenced its educational opera- tions in Hongkong.
In addition to the foregoing institu- tions already at work in Hongkong during the year 1844, the newly ap- pointed Colonial Chaplain, the Rev. V. Stanton, made energetio afforts during this period to establish in Hongkong a tichool (-ubsequently known as St. Paul's College) for the training of a native clergy in con- nection with the Church of England. He
was one of the most energetic Missionaries and Educationists of Hongkong's early history. With an intimate knowledge of Chinese life and character, much of which he acquired during a six months' close confinement in a prison in Canton, having been kidnapped by Chinese soldiers whilst acting as tutor in the Turner family in Magas and as Chaplain to the English com- munity there, Mr. Stanton combined the indefatigable energy of a warm-hearted Missionary, and the methodical industry of a professional teacher, with the quiet dignity of a clergyman. Filled with the correct no- tion that the conversion of the Chinese must be the work of native preachers rather than
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of foreign missionaries, and having formed the design of a clerical training school which, whenever worthy of its name, should grow into a College, he raised, after his return to England, subscriptions to the amount of $3,070 to which he subsequently (1849) added from his own meana $4,800 snd a donation of the Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge to the amount of $1020, These sums he formed into Building Fund which, together with the contemplated buildings and other property of the proposed School, were vested in the Earl of Chichester, the Earl of Harrowby (then Viscount Sandon, M.P.), Lord Ashley, M.P., and Sir R. II. Inglis, Baronot, M.P. Baving scoured the appointment of Culonist Chaplain and (as it seems) addressed the Colonial Office on the subject of his educa- tional schemce, he returned to Hongkong
and made (6th June, 1844) a formal appli. cution to Sir H. Pottinger for the grant of a site for the erection of a College and Schools for the education of Chinese youthe in connection with the Established Church." In reply he was informed (9th July, 1844) by the Colonial Secretary, the Hon. F. W. A. Bruce, that Sir H. Pottinger had already, in October 1813, addressed a dispatch on the subject to Lord Stanley, for whose instruc- tions he must wait. But later on (2nd September, 1844) the Colonial Secretary, when writing to Mr. Stanton for detailed information as to the objects of the intended foundation and the locality which Mr. Stanton might wish to be assigned for the purpose, very appropriately pointed out to Mr. Stanton that the Governor wond consider very fuemtrably the claims of any institution which would embody a scheme to remedy the want of any means of education. for the children of the European residents here, the Government considering this want as a defect which operated as materially against the prosperity and best interests of the Colony.' It is indeed characteristio of the ansrifishness of European philanthropy that so far all the efforts of Protestant and Catholic educationists in Hongkong and the liberality of the local European community and of the Government were exclusively devoted to the education of Chinese children,
to the reglent of a number of European children left without the means of education. It redounds to the credit of Sir H. Pottinger that he drew attention to this radical defect
in the educational movement.
1845. Sir H, Pottinger's suggestion was not wasted upon a man like Mr. Stanton, He started, in 1845, by means of voluntary subscriptions supplemented, with the ex- press sanction of the Governor (27 September, 1845), by the appropriation of the marriage fers due to the Colonial Chaplain, a
Children's School."
This School, located in the central part of Victoria (Chungwán), was conducted by Mrs. Miller, as a Church of England School, under the supervision of
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