HERTFORD. See HARTFORD.—In the account given of this county under the latter name, it was omitted to mention that the East India Company had established a college in it, where persons are to be properly qualified for filling places of trust and importance in the government of India. It is composed of a school, into which boys may be admitted at an early age, and a college for students, 15 years old, in which they are to continue till they have completed their 18th year, or till the directors send them to their particular destinations. In the school, the chief intention is to qualify them for public business, and the first departments of commercial life. The students of the college are to hear public lectures, similar to those which are delivered in the universities. The means of instructing them in the elements of oriental literature will also be attended to, for which purpose they will be taught the rudiments of the Asiatic, Arabic, and Persian languages, and the history, customs, and manners of the eastern nations, as well as the political and commercial relations subsisting between Great Britain and India.

The college is to be under the authority of a principal and seven professors, besides a French master, a drawing-master, a fencing-master, and other suitable instructors.

The principal is required to preach in the college chapel, in rotation with such of the professors as are in holy orders, and to bear his part in performing the other functions of religious worship.

The lectures of the professors are to be arranged under the following heads; viz. oriental literature; mathematics and natural philosophy; classical and general literature; law, history, and political economy.

It is proposed to divide the college year into two terms of 20 weeks each, and the last week of each term is to be dedicated to the examination of the students. A list of their names who are found to have made the greatest proficiency, will be transmitted to the court of directors, who will reward merit in such a manner as may be agreed upon by the college committee. The utmost attention will be paid to their moral and religious instruction, comprehending an account of the evidences, doctrines, and duties of divine revelation.

The college and school were opened on the 3d of February 1866, for the reception of students and pupils. The master of the school is to receive 70 guineas annually, without any additional charge, and students are to pay 50 guineas to the company at the commencement of each term, for which they will receive every accommodation except a few articles of private convenience. Every kind of extravagant expense is to be discouraged.