To the Editor of the Nonru-Caxa Datty New:
Sm,—I trust you will think it right to afford' me space for a few additional particulars in reference to facts come to my knowledge since the date of my recent communication on the above subject. I do not intend to refer to sentiments of prejudice against Jesuits." They are, it is to be hoped, exploded relics of the past or, at least, only to be indulged in by people who discover in Lord Salicbury's butler a Jesuit in disguise, and in the "Guy Faux" of a Croydon the "genuine article." But when praise has been bestowed by high authority in. the Far Enst, you will not, I feel satisfied, think that it should be ignored, in a case of public interest such as the present.
Lord Roberts, late Commander of the rces in India, at the Christmas distribu-of prizes at the St. Xavier's College, Calcutta, spoke in high commendation of the teaching, and of the teachers. The life of St. Xavier," he said, after expatiating on the good results of the instruction imparted in India to his own knowledge "The life of St. Xavier affords an example of self-denial, devotion to duty, and regard for the welfare of his fellow-creatures, which we should all do well to try and follow.... I would express my high appreciation of the manner in which this institution is administered by the Very Reverend the Rector, and the Reverend Fathers who constitute the College staff. Tu their devotion to their beneficent work they worthily follow the example of "the Saint from whom this College takes its name, and the founder of the Society to which they belong."
On the bth of December Lord Harris, Governor of Bombay, as reported in The Englishman, congratulated the Fathers of the local St. Xavier's College on the excel~ lent results of their work; and expressed his hope that "the success they have met with in the past will encourage them to pursue their charitable and benevolent Inbours in the cause of the education of the people of this country." (Bombay Gazette Budget, 7th January, 1893.)
A writer in the Temperance Union of the 9th instant, observes,—"'Tt is not often'we see three schoolmates and particularly Shanghai boys, employed on board the same steamer and he instances the fact, that the chief and second pile engineer on board the 'China Navigation Company'a" steamer Ngankin, were a few years ago pupils in the' same class in St. Xavier's School in Hongkew; that the Indo-China Steam Navigation Company have in their employ two French school boys as 2nd Engineers in the Taisang and Kroongsang; that two other pupils of the school fill the situations of 3rd Engineers in the C.M S.N. Co.'s steamers Kiangtingand Kiarii respectively, and that one other in Qud Envineer on board the Hangcho 8 pupils of the school distributed amongst the three companies;—a fair example aurel ly of the practical teaching of that School and to be taken in connection with the number of places filled by its pupils i Banke and Mercantile Offices in Shanghai T know that it has been objected to grant ing any aid to the Fathers that they are possessed of fabulous wealth; and it i on this point that I trust you will kindly allow mea word;—not that the circumstance of their being wealthy, if it were really the act, should afford any reason why a com: munity capable of providing for its own wants should draw over-heavily on Jenuit charity, whose resources are so largely Nevoted to the necessitous and helpless, for whom they are chiefly intended, As to the wealth of the Fathers, I understand that the Mission of Kiangnan, to which Shanghai owes the schools in 1, is in receipt of an income approaching under favourable circumstances, fifty thousand dollars.a year, "A gentleman in the enjoyment: of this sum per annum might have his town and country ho costly entertainments, keep ay: carriages, and horses,—roxfoos in livery and so forth, and, at aces of a hundred dollars or two every year for "Famine Relief," and occasional sporadic dountions for the benefit of the necessitous, would be deemed a beneficent and philanthropic long, that is to say, as he cons, submit to the inconveniences aries of Kiangnan are not one gentleman, They are 180 gentlemen seat tered aver the two provinces of Anhui, and Kiangeu; and the sum that falls to the Jot of each of them does not equal the
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