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exceed the supply and in scholastic Institations under a mixed contool there must arise apparent collisions of interests and objects, and carcins

8 gomune of

mutual dissatisfaction. The the Morrison Education School at Hengking may some respects as an instance in point.

case of be cited in

amig

The practical measure) Ibeg leave to sugged to

to your Innship is the establishment of an efficient educational Institution for the benefit of the Elimese at Hongking, in which a Campean Principal of (Borskan geal and ability might dispense the benefits of an education in the literature, the sacres, and the religion of the West . By such a measure not only wits an important Chiristian duty and responsibility be diethanged, but also important and obvious advantages of a secular kind would be secured. From the occipients of this bounty of a Christian Government the folimal Excentive might

the justice for a reinforcement of Native Interpreters ; who by the efficiency games from a lampean education, and by the principles of moral integrity instilled derring the progress of Christian instrunchin, might be placed in a position to repay official trust, and might also effect much toward leavening

with the

Society).

look with.

the debt of gratitude

in in some subordinate

influence of Christian loyalty the whole mass of Native

The

: manageneal of

such an Institution might be undertaken

by the ecclesiastical representatives of the Church of England in the Colong, under the vicitinal control of the Governot ->

3 . There is another practical measure to which beg lease

your Lordship's attention. An adequate provision for the spiritual wants of Bolich subjects sa flira military, civil,

next to direct.

and mercantile, carriers with it a most powerful claim. While barracks, forts, hospitale, magazines, official resideras, & private drillings have been erected at a munificat outlay of expenditure ; - whate places of Worship, raised by the Roman Catholics and by different Christian sects prom lusope and America, and even a Makomadan. mosque, built by the contributions of the poor Indian Repays & camp followers, have risen upd with wonderful rafudity; - at the peind of my leaving China, in May last, only a temporam building,

almost the meanest edifice in the Town, existed as a

place for Diomed worship accciding to the Ritual of the flouch

soon

of lagtand. This reglest will deattlify some be repaired. Bat one- Colonial Chaplain and one Military Chaplain

are An-

inadequate

povvision for the spiritual instruction of the British population.

The Wiliting Station of the t cher

Island with some hundreds

of

on the opposite side of the

- British doldiers, is entirely destitute

of the services of a Chaplain resident among them.

On

my

ainial at Clusaate hd was no common trial to find

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that during a period of 5 years since its first occupation by the British, a body of 600 European soldiers and their families had been without the advantage of a resident Chaplain ; and that it