The details of the election in January last are exhibited in the following tables.

Award of Senior Scholarships, January 1863.

B. A. EXAMINATION.-Thirty-five candidates entered for the B. A. Examination: 2 Christians, 1 Mahomedan, 29 Hindus and 3 of other creeds. Twenty-five passed successfully, of whom 7 were placed in the 1st and 18 in the 2nd division.

M A. EXAMINATION.-The degree of M. A. was this year conferred for the first time. Seven candidates, Bachelors of Arts of the Presidency College, presented themselves for exa

mination, two taking up Mental and Moral Science, two History and three Mathematics.

All the candidates were Hindus. Six were declared successful and have been admitted Masters of Arts.

LAW EXAMINATION.-At the Law Examination 34 candidates presented themselves. Of these 9 obtained the Degree of Licentiate in Law, 2 being placed in the 1st and 7 in the 2nd division; and 9 obtained the Degree of Bachelor of Law, the whole being placed in the 2nd division.

MEDICAL EXAMINATIONS DEGREE OF L. M. S.-For the 1st or preliminary Examination for the Degree of L. M. and S. there were 35 candidates, of whom 4 passed in the 1st and 12 in the 2nd division. For the 2nd or final Examination, 19 candidates presented themselves and 14 passed, of whom 3 were placed in the 1st and 11 in the 2nd division.

DEGREE OF M. D.-For the Degree of M. D. two candidates appeared and both were declared successful.

EXAMINATIONS IN CIVIL ENGINEERING.-The new regulation of the University which requires candidates for the Degree of Licentiate in Civil Engineering to produce certificates of having passed the First Arts Examination has this year come into operation and the result has been that no eligible candidates have come forward for examination.

It is to be feared that some years will elapse before eligible candidates will again present themselves for the Professional Degree, as none of the students now in the College have qualified themselves by passing the prescribed test in Arts.

COLLEGES FOR GENERAL EDUCATION.-The number of undergraduate students attending the Government Colleges for General Education has increased within the year by 84, the number on the rolls on the 30th April last being 579 against 495 on 30th April, 1862.

The distribution of the students among the several Colleges is gievn below.

Number on Number on Number on Monthly the Rolls on the Rolls on the Rolls on the 30th

Colleges.

fee.

the 30th

the 30th

The following table gives the classification of the undergraduate students in the Government Colleges, as on the 31st December 1862, according to the social position of theirparents. Classification of Undergraduate Students.

Increase of instructive staff.

PRESIDENCY COLLEGE.-The staff of Professors in the Presidency College has been strengthened by the appointment of Mr. H. F. Blanford to the vacant chair which was formerly held by Dr.

Liebig.

The special duty assigned to Mr. Blanford is to give instruction in those branches of the Natural and Physical Sciences which are included among the subjects of examination for the Degrees in Arts, in addition to which he is required to deliver an annual course of lectures on Geology.

The 1st and 2nd year classes have now become so large as to be hardly manageable, and it will soon be necessary either to limit the number of admissions or to appoint additional Assistant Professors and divide the classes into sections, in order to make adequate provision for the instruction of the students.

GRADUATE SCHOLARSHIPS.—Seven Bachelors of Arts of the Presidency College have been elected to foundation scholarships tenable for one year on condition that they prosecute their studies for the M. A. Degree.

DACCA COLLEGE.-The growing success of the English schools in East Bengal having led to a large accession of students in the Dacca College, it became necessary to strengthen the College establishment in order to provide adequate instruction

for under-graduates desiring to complete the University Course and to proceed to the Degree of Bachelor of Arts.

Two Professors were consequently added to the instructive staff at the commencement of the academical year in January last, and an Assistant Professor was at the same time appointed for Sanscrit and Bengali.

A Law Lectureship was also established with the view of providing systematic legal instruction for persons intending to devote themselves to the practise of the Law in the Mofussil Courts.

NEW COLLEGE AT PATNA.-In the course of the year the English school at Patna was reorganized and placed on the footing of a Mofussil College, comprising a College department for under-graduates, and a Collegiate school. It was affiliated to the University in August 1862, and the College department was opened at the commencement of the academical year in January last, and placed in charge of a Professor. Five under-graduates have been admitted and constitute a first year class. The rapid growth of the Collegiate school is a satisfactory proof that the inhabitants of Patna are not backward to avail themselves of improved means of education. At the commencement of the year the number of students on the rolls was 135. At the expiration of 12 months it had reached 307.

A subscription list has been opened to provide funds for the erection of a suitable College building, and Rs. 21,000 was subscribed before the close of the year. It is expected that upwards of Rs. 50,000 will eventually be realized.

The principal contributors at present reported are—
Syud Walayut Ali Khan,

Rs. 5,000

4,000

Maharaja Rajendra Kishore Singh Bahadoor,
of Bettiah, and his brother,