On Friday, the 2d of December, a deputation of the Court of Directors proceeded to the College at Haileybury, for the purpose of receiving the report of the College Council, as to the result of the general examination of the students.

The deputation, upon their arrival at the College, proceeded to the Principal's Lodge, where they were received by him and the professors, and the Oriental visitor. Soon afterwards, they proceeded to the hall, accompanied by several distinguished visitors, where (the students being previously assembled) the following proceedings took place.

A list of the students who had gained medals, prizes, and other honourable distinctions, was read.

Mr. George Carnac Barnes read the prize essay.

The students read and translated in the several Oriental languages.

The medals and prizes were then presented by the Chairman (Sir James Rivett Carnac, Bart.) according to the following report, viz.

Medals, Prizes, and other honourable distinctions of Students leaving College, December 1836.

Dawson Mayne deserves to be honourably noticed for his essay.

Prizes and other honourable distinctions of Students remaining in College. Third Term.

William J. Turquand, prize in classics, prize in mathematics, prize in political economy, prize in law, and prize in Persian.

Francis L. Beaufort deserves honourable notice for his essay.

Second Term.

William Muir, prize in law, prize in Bengali, second essay prize, and highly distinguished in other departments.

George Carnac Barnes, essay prize, and passed with great credit in other depart

ments.

Cudbert Bensley Thornhill was highly distinguished.

Coutts T. Arbuthnot, and Edmund C. Heywood, passed with great credit.

First Term.

William Strachey, prize in classics, prize in mathematics, prize in law, prize in Sanscrit, prize in Persian, prize in Arabic, Theme prize, prize for Persian writing, and prize for Devanagari writing.

Edward Taylor Trevor, prize in Hindustani, and passed with great credit in other departments.

Gordon Sullivan Forbes was highly distinguished.

Rank of Students leaving College, as determined by the College Council, viz.

BENGAL.

First Class.

1. William Edwards.
2. Alexander Ross.
Second Class.

3. Edward M. Wylly.
4. George Edmonstone.
5. Henry Vansittart.
6. Richard C. Raikes,
7. William Wynyard.
(No Third Class.)
MADRAS.
First Class.

1. Arthur A. Roberts. 2. William C. Oswell. 3. Dawson Mayne.

conduct; in relation to which Sir James Carnac addressed Mr. Smith in the following words: "In presenting to you this testimonial of merit, the highest which is here awarded, I feel a degree of pleasure inferior only to that with which it must be received. The conduct which has procured you so honourable a distinction is, I am confident, but the prelude to a similar course in the active duties on which you are about to enter, and in the discharge of those duties, I anticipate that many honours await you as well deserved as that which I have now the happiness of being the medium of conveying."

Gent. Cadet W. F. Marriott, who received the 2d Mathematical, 2d Fortification, Military Drawing and Surveying, 2d Good Conduct, and 2d Hindustani.

To Gent. Cadet W. E. Wilkinson, whose drawing of Loch Kathrine showed his pre-eminence, was awarded the Civil Drawing prize.

To Gent. Cadet W. H. Stone was adjudged the 1st Class prize in French.

Of the second class the following gentlemen gained prizes: Alex. D. Turnbull for Good Conduct, Mathematics, Civil Drawing and French. A.G. Goodwyn, for Fortification, Military Drawing, Latin, Hindustani, and J. R. Becher, of the 3d Class for Good Conduct.

Of the Fortification plans, we observed some excellent ones by R. B. Smith, especially an attack of the modern system. By W. Marriott there were also some good plans, particularly an attack on a system of advanced lunettes.

Mr. W. Goodwyn executed in a superior manner the attack and defence of a village. The principal military drawings were a plan of Seguntum by Marriott (a prize), plan of Mequinenza, by Smith, ditto by Woodhouse.

In addition to the usual professional and academical studies, the following practical details of field instruction have been brought before the whole establishment of Cadets, assisted by a detachment of Sappers and Miners from Woolwich,

Sinking a shaft, driving a gallery and branch, preparing a chamber and exploding a small mine. Executing portions of single sap, flying sap, and parallels, tracing a field-work round the parade-ground and executing a portion of it. Tracing parallels of zig zag trenches of approach. The details of carpentry in making shafts and gallery frames, and sheeting, and various useful instruments for field-engineering, &c.

With a view to encourage the gentlemen cadets to increased exertion in the various branches of study, the Court of Directors have resolved to grant honorary certificates of diligence and good conduct to those who may hereafter be unsuccessful in obtaining engineer appointments, but who

may be considered to merit some testimony of approbation for their exertions in study and regularity of behaviour, whilst at the seminary. The possessors of these certificates will be granted the privilege of selecting the presidency to which they shall be posted, and their names will be communicated by the Court of Directors for the observation of the local governments of India, and also for publication in General Orders to the Army.

The Chairman's address was as follows: "Gentlemen:-In expressing the feelings called forth on the present occasionfeelings which I am confident are entertained by the nobleman on my left and the gentlemen present, my task is one of unmixed pleasure. When I last enjoyed the gratification of addressing you, I took occasion to advert to the prospect of a future meeting, and to the brevity of the period which would intervene. I endeavoured to impress upon your minds the importance of devoting that period to the sedulous improvement of the advantages here afforded you, and I expressed my entire conviction that when we again met- it would be under circumstances as creditable to yourselves and satisfactory to your friends, as those which distinguished the last examination. The indulgence of these expectations was, you may be sure, a source of great pleasure to us. I need not add, that their realization is the cause of much more. The result of this examination has afforded the deepest impression of the value of that system of instruction which you have the happiness to enjoy, and of the care and fidelity with which it is conducted. It is an honour and a privilege, to be admitted to study in an institution which reflects so much credit on all connected with it. I am persuaded that it is felt by you, and that, in your future progress, you will frequently look back to the period spent here, with feelings of mingled pride and affection. By the zeal and talents of those gallant and distinguished officers, the Public Examiner and the Lieutenant Governor, and of all acting under them, the full effects of an admirable system are extended to every one within its sphere.

"I congratulate you most heartily on the progress which you have made in those studies, which are essential to the performance of the duties which you are destined to undertake. In proportion to your efficiency in those studies will be your power of serving your country-of fulfilling the hopes and anticipations of your friends, and of establishing that character which, we trust, you are all ambitious to deserve. Let me, however, warn you against a possible error, the indulgence of which would be fatal. You are not to suppose that the period of application is to end with your residence here. Within

these walls, you but commence that course of study, which it will be your duty afterwards to complete by voluntary exertion. During a season of peace the soldier possesses leisure, and he cannot employ it more usefully or more honourably than in the extension of his general and professional knowledge. From these pursuits, you will derive a gratification which neither idleness nor frivolous amusement can afford. Knowledge, Gentlemen, is desirable for its own sake, but it is not left to be its own reward. To those, especially, who, like some of you, are about to take their place among that portion of their countrymen, whose lot is cast in India, a career is open of the highest utility and of the highest honour. The glory of the country in which you were born-the improvement of that in which you are to pass some considerable portion of life,-the enlargement of the boundaries of human knowledge-these are noble objects, and they are before you. The consciousness of having laboured to promote them, will, of itself, be a rich return for your exertions, even if you should attain no other; but it is one of the proudest characteristics of the service upon which you are entering, that distinguished merit has always commanded success ;-success, however, is the reward of assiduity, and those in whom this is wanting, must not repine at finding themselves distanced in the race of honorable distinction by others, who though possessing no higher talents and no better opportunities, have cultivated the one and improved the other with superior industry. It is, be assured, upon the possession of this quality that success mainly depends.

"I have thus expressed a hope that your removal to the duties of actual service will not diminish your application to liberal studies. I would now, for a moment, call your attention to the situation in which you will be placed, with the view of impressing upon you the necessity of upholding, by your practice, that moral standard which has here been not only enforced by precept, but illustrated by example.

From the position which England occupies with respect to India, the conduct of her sons becomes a matter of incalculable importance. A handful of Englishmen, scattered over the expanse of a great empire, placed in stations of great trust and responsibility, clothed with the externals as well as the substance of authority among myriads of natives, must necessarily attract an unusual degree of attention, and

although from various causes, the results of native observation may not reach you, you must not thence infer that its eye is withdrawn from your path. The people among whom you are to sojourn, are by no means deficient either in acuteness or judgment-they observe and they reflect. Bear this in mind, that you will be called upon to be the guardians, not only of your own honour but of your country's-of that country, you will in some sort be the representatives, and the opinion which the people of India find reason to form of you, will be extended to the nation to which you belong.

"I do not offer this admonition in fear or in doubt. I look forward to the confident belief that your respective careers will be marked by an undeviating regard to the dictates of duty and honour, and I am justified in this, by a knowledge of the circumstance under which your studies have been pursued. But as this is the last time that it will devolve upon me to address you on your duties and prospects, I am anxious to record my attachment to the service on which you are entering, by adverting to its claims upon you, to sustain the estimation in which it is so justly held. The profession which you have adopted binds you to a punctilious discharge of every duty and to the cultivation of every noble feeling. The soldier should bear a law within his breast, restraining him from all that is unworthy and illiberal, and directing him to all that is generous and good. In him should pre-eminently flourish, that nice and delicate sense of honour, which, in the words of Burke, 'feels a stain like a wound.'

"The remarks which I have felt it my duty to make, may appear peculiarly addressed to those who have completed their studies here, but I would urge them with no less anxiety upon their juniors, who have yet some time to prepare themselves for the scene of their future duties. To thom I would say, the period of your undertaking these duties is not very far distant, and if when it arrives, the parting advice which I have now given should remain fixed in your hearts, it will, I think, contribute something to your happiness, and the consciousness of having thus contributed will, I assure you, add very greatly to mine.

"Gentlemen Cadets: I have now only to bid you farewell! and may all the wishes which the warmest and most attached of your friends can form for your welfare, be fully and completely realized ""