The school served them likewise to hold prayer-meetings in, and, on rare occasions, a clergyman visited them.
The Bishop's entrance into the sacred city of Benares he describes to his wife thus: "I will endeavour to give you an account of the concert, vocal and instrumental, which saluted us as we entered the town:-- "_First beggar_ .-- Agha Sahib! Judge Sahib, Burra Sahib, give me some pice; I am a fakir; I am a priest; I am dying of hunger! "_Bearers trotting under the tonjon_ .-- Ugh! ugh!--Ugh! ugh! "_Musicians_ .-- Tingle, tangle; tingle, tangle; bray, bray, bray.
"_Chuprassee_, _clearing the way with his sheathed sabre_ .-- Silence! Room for the Lord Judge, the Lord Priest.

Get out of the way! Quick! (_Then gently patting and stroking the broad back of a Brahmin bull_.) Oh, good man, move.
"_Bull_, _scarcely moving_ .-- Bu-u-uh.
"_Second beggar_, _counting his beads_, _rolling his eyes_, _and moving his body backwards and forwards_ .-- Ram, ram; ram, ram!" Benares, said to be founded on the point of Siva's trident, as the most sacred city of all Hindostan, swarmed with beggars, fakirs, sacred animals, and idols of every description; but close beside it was a church for consecration and thirty candidates for confirmation, of whom fourteen were natives.

The next day the Bishop was taken to see a school founded by a rich Bengalee baboo, whom Mr.Corrie had almost persuaded to be a Christian, but who had settled down into a sort of general admiration for the beauty of the Gospel, and a wish to improve his countrymen.

He had made over the house where the school was kept to the Church Missionary Society, and the staff consisted of an English schoolmaster, a Persian moonshee, and two Hindostanee writing masters, the whole presided over by an English catechist, a candidate for Holy Orders.

There were several class rooms, and a large, lofty hall, supported by pillars, where the Bishop examined the 140, who read Persian and English, answered questions in Hindostanee and English, and showed great proficiency in writing, arithmetic, and geography.