The Journal of the National Indian Association in Aid of Social Progress in India February 1881

The knowledge of English possessed by the teachers of the primary and middle classes is often so imperfect that the pupils learn to speak and write bad English and much of the time of the masters in the upper classes is spent in endeavouring to correct the mischievious effects of this early training. [...] Perhaps the best guide we can give on this point is to refer him to the names of the Indians who have recently passed the Bar Examination whose names together with the Inns to which they belong are regularly published in this Journal under the heading of Personal Intelligence." The Inn being selected the Student must repair to the office of the Treasurer or Steward of the Inn to ascertain t [...] The enormbus increase of population in the great cities of manufacture and comerce and the growing evil of pauperism called for some reform and the new Poor-law was the outcome of the thought of the best political economists of the day. [...] The Act seems to have been ineffectual for we are told that neither the gentle askiugs of the collectors the exhortations of the minister nor the charitable ways and means of the bishop appear to have had the desired effect on the parishioners. [...] One is the various Societies now existing for the improving the dwellings of the working classes ; and the other is the Society for promoting the establishment of baths and washhouses for the labouring classes.