| Description | 23 Feb: Corrie promises full information as to the use of Phipps' gift of 37,000 rupees and full consultation with wise counsellors; the bishop is good man of business and sound in the faith; Corrie and Mrs. Corrie are now living with him, since his chaplain went home ill, and Mrs. Ellerton will join them; Corrie believes Indian government should support the religious instruction of its subjects; if missionaries do this, their evangelisation work will be curtailed; the East India Company has the revenue to give this support; "this country is in no respect situated as the other colonies of Britain. It supplies a large revenue capable of enriching our native land and why in this most important particular should it remain a drain upon it? It is not a question of raising revenue in this country either, so much as the applying of it, for revenue is raised and the power of raising further supplies is possessed, and these are in part applied to the administration of English law and in supporting various institutions foreign to the original constitution of Hindoo society"; the bishop and Corrie found the Burdwan schools doing as well as before, and Alexander, a native of Suffolk, a good schoolmaster at Culna; a new native magazine, the 'Parthenon" has be established on liberal principles; it is short sighted not to win the goodwill of the native intelligentsia by giving them sound education; they can do harm by spreading false rumours and by unfair criticism |