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Chinese community in town and in the villages.
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1849. As St. Paul's Collage commenced to develop, Mr. Stanton's Church of Eng- land School under Mr. F. Drake, began to decay, and though it commenced the year with 12 boys and 9 girls, it had soon to be closed for want of public support. Morrison Education Society also had by this time lost its hold upon the sympathics of the foreign community, and in spring. 1849, a class of seven Chinese boys was transferred from the Morrison Education Society's School to St. Paul's College, there- by raising the roll of the latter institution to 34 Chinese boys under the tuition of Mr. J. Summers, These boys, divided into three classes, studied both the English and Chinese languages, besides receiving Chris- tian instruction. It had been Mr. Stanton's design, from the beginning, to make his School a Training College which should supply native ministers for the Church of Eugland for missionary work in China and which would therefore naturally come, sooner or later, under the entire control of the Bishop eventually to be appointed for Hongkong. His aim was never fulfilled as to any native minister going forth from this College, but the organization designed by him was completed when the Archbishop of Canterbury (15 October, 1849) approved the statutes of the Hongkong Missionary Institution knowo aa St. Paul's College' which defined the objects of this College to be, training a body of native clergy and Christian teachers for the propagation of the gospel in Chiua according to the prin ciples of the Church of England.'
The Anglo-Chinese College under Dr. Legge continued, in 1819, to flourish, but it also failed to produce a single native minis- ter, The number of students rose during this year from 24 to 43, and the Chinese Girls' School was attended by 7 girls.
As to the educational labours of the Ro. man Catholic Mission, the Seminary was continued and yielded later on almost annual
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supplies of native priests. The Portuguese Boys' School was taught by Mr. J. Pereira and attended by 20 scholars, learning English. The French Convent School, under Sister Gabrielle, gave English and French in struction to 13 non-Chinese girls and 6 boys. Mr. Chun A-yee's Roman Catholic School for Chinese was attended by 17 boys, and a new Roman Catholic School for Chi- nese, taught by Mr. Tsui Sin-cheung, and altended by 43 scholars, received from the Government a separate Grant- in-Aid of $120 a year whilst exempt fron the supervision of the Educa- tional Committee. There was thus, in principle, a double system of Government Gracts-in-Aid, viz. Grants for Schools under the supervision of a Protestant Cum- mittee and Grants for Schools under the Roman Catholic Vicar Apostolic.
The natural thing to be expected under these circumstances was that the Government Committee would sooner or later come under the direction of the Protestant Bishop. And so it happened in due time. Meanwhile the Protestant Committee, now consisting of Mr. C. B. Hillier, Rev. V. Stenton and Mr. A. L. Inglis, reported (3rd March, 1849) 95 boys in average attendance in the three Government Grant-in-Aid Schouls, viz., 40 in Victoria, 20 in Stanley, and 30 in Aber- deen. They expressed their belief that the assistance granted to these Schools was pro- perly appreciated by the Chinese inhabitants. The Committee took care to place gradually Christian teachers in charge of these Schools and definite Christian teacbing was HOW regularly given by the teachers, whilst Mr. Stanton, on his periodical visits, gave special religions instruction to the boys and dis- tributed tracts among the scholars and their parents,
1850. With the arrival of the newly ap- pointed Bishop of Victoria (29th March, 1850), St. Paul's College, though having lost the services of Mr. Summers, made new start, Bishop Smith and Mr. Stanton anting themselves as teachers.
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Han A-wan taught 18 boys, and received a Government Grant of $10 per mensem. Au- other Roman Catholic Chinese School, taught by Mr. Cheung Ki-chan, and numbering 21 boys now received likewise a Government Grant of $10 per mensem, Both of these Schools were exempt from the supervision of the Educational Committee.
tendance, however, fell from 34 students in April to 25 at the close of the year. In pluce of the former Church of England School under Mr. Drake, a Mise Mitchell made a short-lived attempt to start a School for Protestant European children and gave to 3 boys and 4 girls an English education in a house in Hollywood Road. The Anglo- Chinese College under Dr. Legre, assisted by the Rev. Ho Tean-shiu, mustered 50 boys at the beginning and 60 at the close of the year. The expenses amounted ta§ 605. The Chinese Girls-School of the Loudon Mission was converted into an Anglo-Chi- nese Saltool consisting of 13 Chinese girls, ali boarders, under the supervision of Mrs. Logge. A futile attempt was made (13th February, 1850) to revive the Morrison Edu- cation Society's School or at least to wipe off the Society's debt of $2,167, by means of the interest accruing from the Morrison Testi- monial Fund which, since 10th January, 1846 had been invested with Dent & Co., and the interest of which a meeting of subscribers, held in Canton (18th July, 1919), had resolved to devote to the interests of the Morrison Education Society. While the Protestant Schools thus hardly maintain- ed their position owing to the want of public support, the Roman Catholic Mission Schools appear to have flourished during the The Seminary, located in year 1850. Queen's Road, was under the tuition of the present Bishop Enimondi, assisted by Father Rizzolati and numbered 14 students pre- paring for the priesthood. The expenses amounted to $900. There were now three Portuguese Boys-Schools, two in Wellington Street, viz., une taught by Mr. R. Freire and numbering 6 boys, the expenses being 300, and the other, taught by Mr. J. A. Pereira and numbering 20 boys, costing $90, whilst a third Portuguese School, located in Stanley Street, had an average attendance of 8 boys, taught by Mr. J. J. Souza and Mr. S. Souza and costing $270. The Ro- man Catholio Grant-in-Aid School for Ohi- uone was located in Taipingshan, where Mr.
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In their annual report (8th March, 1890) the Educational Committee (Mr. C. B. Hillier and Rev. V. J. Stanton) reported 114 baye under instruction in 8 Schools (viz., 71 in Victoria, 17 at Stanley, and 26 at Aber- deen.) In this official report the Colonial Secretary was informed, among other things, that Mr. Stanton occasionally distributed Christian books for the voluntary reading of the boys.' The Committee also ventured the sage remark that the exhibition, ou the part of the Government, of a desire to promote education and the establishment of Schools were means calculated to conci- liate the native inhabitants and to render The Colonial Government popular. Secretary accepted this report without remark, but when a few days later he learned that a new Christian teacher had been appointed by the Committee, he curtly called the attention of the Committee to his letter of 7th November, 1847, 'cautioning any interference with the religious pre- judices of the natives, but did not rescind the appointment of the Christian teacher The Rev. E. J. R. Moncrieff, Chaplain to the Bishop of Victoria, was now appointed a member of the Committee, and this energetic Missionary, seeing that two Roman Catholic Schools received the same Government Schools, grant as the three whilat shsolutely free to propagate the Roman Catholic religion, now commended to tura the thres Government Schools into Church of England Schools and to work them as feeders of St. Paul's College. School had now to be opened and closed with prayer, portions of the Chinese translation of the Bible were used as regular Rohuol booke and periodically expounded and, in
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