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Onental Languages

31. Mr. Yerburgh,-To ask the First Lord of the Treasury, whether he can state the amount expended by the Government in the years 1895, 1896, and 1897 upon

the encouragement of the study of Oriental languages:

Whether he is aware that Russia maintains at the cost of the central government a constant succession of pupils intended for the civil, naval, and' military services, who receive regular instruction under competent masters in the living languages of the East; that the German Government has estab- lished a college of Oriental languages in Berlin; that Austria bas established an Oriental college at Vienna; and that France has in Paris an Ecole pour les langues orientales vivantes:

And, whether, in view of the fact that the British Empire includes some 300,000,000 of eastern subjects, the Government will consider the desirability of establishing in the metropolis a fully endowed and adequately equipped Oriental college. [Monday 28th March.]

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Mr. BALFOUR (Manchester, E.) said he was informed that there would be considerable difficulty without detailed examination in stating the amount expended by the Government in any one year for the study of Oriental languages. Much was being spent in tuition

at the Universities of Consular ofBeers who were about to proceed to Morocea and the Levant and the remainder on the tuition on the spot of student interpreters who had already proceeded to China, Japan, and Sirm, Ile believed that the facta were as stated in the second paragraph of the question, but he had no reason to believe that the present system did not satisfy the requirements of the public service.

Mr. VERBURGH.-1 bag to give notice that I will raise this question on the Estimates.

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