approached, and to deprive them of their women whenever the opportunity offered. I cannot divest myself of the consideration that all aggression originated with the white inhabitants, and that therefore much ought to be endured in return, before the blacks are treated as an open and accredited enemy by the government." Again, in another despatch :*" It is a subject most painful under every consideration; we are undoubtedly the first aggressors, and the desperate characters amongst the prisoner-population, who have from time to time absconded into the woods, have no doubt committed the greatest outrages upon the natives; and these ignorant beings, incapable of discrimination, are now filled with enmity and revenge against the whole body of white inhabitants." : These are but a few of the testimonies we could adduce to the same effect: surely Mr. Parker cannot be ignorant of them. His own account of the recent conciliation of the natives by Mr. Robinson, affords, moreover, an unanswerable reply to his ungenerous estimate of the natural character of these poor creatures. We should be sorry to think that Mr. Parker has sacrificed historical fidelity to a desire to propitiate the colonists. Christian Prospects in India.-A Sermon preached in the South Parish Church of Aberdeen, on Sunday, 18th August 1833. By JAMES BRYCE, D. D., Senior Minister of St, Andrew's Church, Calcutta, and Chaplain in the service of the Hon. East-India Company. In aid of the General Assembly's Mission in India. Edinburgh, 1833. Blackwood. Aberdeen, Brown. DR. BRYCE, having shewn, in a pure though unambitious and subdued style of eloquence, the intrinsic worthlessness of mere worldly objects, and the inestimable value of those which concern the soul;-having pointed out the fatal consequences of the course pursuing by some of "the master-spirits of the age," who are "labouring to substitute the machinery of Knowledge for that of Faith ;"—transports the attention of his hearers to British India, and to the actual condition and spiritual wants of its interesting people. "If," he observes," in the field that has been more recently cultivated by the Protestant missionary, the sight is cheered by something like the whiteness of incipient harvest, it must be confessed that the hopes that once beamed upon the Christian world from this quarter have not been realized. The preaching of the gospel by the way-side, and the translations of the Scriptures into the various languages of the East, are upon record to tell of the zeal and the unwearied diligence of the missionary of modern times; but, alas! even this zeal and unwearied diligence have not been able to conquer the difficulties and the discouragements they have had to encounter. And it cannot be denied, that many of the good and pious of the Christian world, grieved and disappointed at the result of all these labours, are, at this moment, looking to them with a daily diminishing hope that they are the means destined to bring the heathen nations of India to the knowledge and the light of Christianity." Dr. Bryce speaks thus not to depress but to stimulate and properly direct the energies of his hearers. "Experience," he continues, "has taught us to avoid the errors into which others have fallen; and it has opened to us the most rational hopes of success in channels to which but slender attention has hitherto been directed. The education of youth, in moral and physical science, has been in active operation for nearly twenty years; and experiment has confirmed what reasoning suggested, that this education would prepare the way for instruction in the higher and more sublime science, that teaches the value of the human soul and its eternal interests." He adverts in his text to facts which he has witnessed, showing the "commencement of a work, from which even already the happiest effects are flowing;" and in a note he mentions more particularly the beneficial fruits produced by the lectures of the Assembly's missionary at Calcutta, the Rev. A. Duff, in the minds of some of the rising generation of Hindu youth in that city, who avow the wildest atheistical principles. We subjoin the following passage, though long, because it touches upon a subject which is worthy of deep attention, and will probably draw an accession of public patronage to the institution : "But I am afraid, that, on the point of native education in India, there prevail not * To Mr. Secretary Huskisson, dated 17th April 1828. a few mistakes among people in this country, which it is of importance to rectify. This education is generally spoken of as paving the way for the knowledge and the reception of Christian truth; and hence a notion appears to be taken up, that from these seminaries every thing like direct instruction in this truth is sedulously excluded. It is imagined, that a sort of compromise is made between the Christian teacher and the parents of the pagan pupil intrusted to his tuition, that instruction in the ordinary arts and sciences shall be received by the one, provided that the instilling of religious doctrines is not attempted by the other. Such is not, at least, the principle on which the Assembly's Institution rests. It is avowedly a school of Christian as well as general instruc tion; and when it became the duty of the individual who now addresses you, some time ago, to assist at the first public examination of the Institution, the most gratifying proofs were afforded, in the presence of a large assemblage of native hearers of rank and respectability, that many of the pupils had advanced no inconsiderable way in the rudiments of Christian Knowledge, properly so called. It is, no doubt, true, that there are other seminaries of native education, from which, on the policy of not alarming the natives, every thing like direct instruction in religious truth is avowedly excluded. But it is a fact not so generally known, but to which I would beg your par ticular attention, that after nearly twenty years' experience of this system, native pupils are now kept back from institutions conducted on this exclusive plan, and that for no other reason than because no instruction whatever in a religious belief is afforded by them. The knowledge which has been conveyed to the native mind, through the instrumentality of these institutions, has, as might have been anticipated, satisfied the acute and ingenuous youth of the utter folly and absurdity of the popular superstition of their fathers; but, unfortunately, it has left them, in too many instances, open to the arguments of an atheistical philosophy. Many of the parents have become alarmed, and are at this moment engaged in attempting among themselves the establishment of institutions, in which instruction in European arts and sciences may be afforded, while religious instruction is not overlooked. Bigoted as the Hindoos are to the faith of their forefathers, it is nevertheless true, that many of them would consign the education of their children to the General Assembly's Institution in preference to other seminaries, that feel, I doubt not, an equal interest in their progress in mere human learning, just because in this institution religious instruction, even in a faith opposed to their own, is afforded." Lives of the British Admirals, with an Introductory View of the Naval History of England. By ROBERT SOUTHEY, LL.D. Vol. II. Being Vol. XLVIII. of Dr. Lard. ner's Cabinet Cyclopædia. London, 1833. Longman and Co. Taylor, THE second volume of Dr. Southey's delightful work completes the "Introductory View of the Naval History of England,” which is brought down to the end of Queen Mary's reign. After this period, our naval operations took a wider range; the individual agents as well as their actions become more important; and the history, from this period, is appropriately continued in a series of the lives of our great naval commanders, beginning with that of Charles, second Lord Howard of Effingham, and first Earl of Nottingham, the commander of the British fleet in the action with the Spanish Armada. His biography fills the remainder of the volume; it is full of in. terest, particularly that portion devoted to the Armada. Dr. Southey has appended an extract from a Latin poem by an Italian Jesuit, on the Armada, wherein he attributes its failure to the elements alone, making no mention of the English fleet; but he vents his malice against Elizabeth in the following description of that princess: Monstrum horrendum, cadem vir, fæmina, nobile scortum, Et virgo et conjux; divina, humana sacerdos, Et regina, suis vertique regique volebat Sub manibus: Stygiis meritò damnata Chymæra ! The Gardener's Dictionary. By PHILIP MILLER, F.R.S. In Four Vols. Ninth Edition. London, 1833. Henderson. THIS is a new and improved edition of this useful work, publishing in numbers. We observe that another improved edition is announced by Messrs. Orr and Smith. LITERARY INTELLIGENCE. MRS. DAVIDS (the mother of the late Arthur Lumley Davids, author of the Turk ish Grammar), is selecting from an immense mass of MSS., left behind him, many for the press. A work will appear in the course of the month, entitled "The Baboo, or Life in India," conveying an accurate insight into the manners and modes of life among the higher and middle ranks of society in the East. Lieutenant Jervis has just completed a Narrative of his recent Journey to the Falls of the Cavery, combined with an Historical and Descriptive Account of the Neilgherry Hills. Capt. N. Willard, in the service of the Nawab of Banda, is about to publish, at Calcutta, a Treatise on the Music of Hindoostan, comprising a detail of the Ancient Theory and Modern Practice, pointing out the similarity of the music of Egypt and Greece to that of India; the varieties of song and the character of each, with a brief account of the principal musicians. The Annual Biography and Obituary for 1834 will contain memoirs of Sir John Malcolm, Ram Mohun Roy, Sir Geo. Dallas, Mrs. Hannah Moore, &c. It is due to the Sultan of Turkey, as well as to the late Mr. Davids, to state that his highness has recently sent to his widowed mother (through Mr. Mandeville, our minister of legation at Constantinople), in return for a copy of the Grammar, a splendid diamond ring, with a letter from the Reis Effendi, requesting that Mrs. Davids would accept the ring as a slight proof how highly he appreciated the remarkable talents of her very promising son. Letter to the Right Hon. Charles Grant, President of the Board of Control, on the Present State of British Intercourse with China. By C. Marjoribanks, Esq., M.P., late President of the Select Committee in China. 8vo. 2s. Sketches of Turkey in 1831 and 1832. By an American. 8vo. 16s. The Khan's Tale, a Tale of the Caravanseri. By J. B. Fraser, Esq., 12mo. 6s. (Written for the "Library of Romance.") Aurungzebe; or a Tale of Alraschid. 3 Vols. post 8vo. £1. 78. Memoirs of the Rev. Joseph D. Janicke, a fellow Jabourer of Schwartz, at Tanjore; interspersed with many Original Letters and Notices of Schwartz. 12mo. 3s. 6d. New South Wales Calendar, and General Post Office Directory, with large Plan of Sydney, for 1833. 8vo. 10s. Notes on the Present State and Prospects of New South Wales; with an Historical, Statistical, and Topographical Account of Manilla and Singapore. By Alick Osborne, Surgeon R.N. Royal 18mo, 33. Imported from India. The Taleef Shereef, or Indian Materia Medica; translated from the Original, by George Playfair, Esq., superintending surgeon, Bengal service. 8vo. 6s. (Calcutta 1833.) Transactions of the Medical and Physical Society of Calcutta. Vol. VI. 8vo. 15s. (Calcutta, 1833.) A Dictionary of the Maratha Language, compiled by Jugunnauth Shastree, Kramuvunt, Bal Shastree Ghugwe, Gungadhur Shastree Phurke, and others, Pundits in the service of the Bombay Native Education Society. 4to. £4, 4s. (Litho- The Seir-ool-Mutakhereen, in Persian. Vol I. GERMANY. ASIATIC INTELLIGENCE. Calcutta. LAW. SUPREME COURT, February 18. The first sessions of oyer and terminer for 1833 were opened this day, when Sir E. Ryan charged the grand jury. In the course of his speech, he adverted to the new system of police, which commenced in March 1831, and which he considered to have been brought into a more efficient state than it ever was before, chiefly owing to the separation of the judicial and executive duties. Crime was not only more readily detected but more effectually prevented. He likewise noticed the great activity of the native officers of the police. The learned judge stated the following as the results of returns furnished to Government, as to the effects of the old and new systems of police: Number of offences.... Persons apprehended 1830. 1831. 1832. 2,330 1,304 1,329 3,556 1,956 2,023 675 718 62,981 6,793 convicted...... 625 Property stolen.. Rs. 1,36,383 1,23,714 The learned judge then called the attention of the jury to the Act (lately arrived) regulating the future appointment of justices of the peace and jurors in India, and which provided that any person resident in any part of the country, not the subject of a foreign state, was eligible to be appointed to act as a magistrate in Calcutta, Madras, or Bombay. Prior to the passing of this act, he observed, no person could act as a magistrate in these presidencies unless he were a British subject, or in the Hon. East-India Company's service; but now it was left open to Government, if it thought proper, to appoint any person not a subject of any foreign state, and this act had done away with an invidious distinction, which had never met with his approbation. The mode of appointment was the same as that provided for under the 33d Geo. III. excepting that Government were left at liberty to prescribe such form of oath as it deemed most appropriate and binding on the natives. This was an act of great importance in all its bearings, as it was the first time that judicial power had been given to natives over British subjects. He rejoiced exceedingly that the British Go. vernment had done away with all distinctions between its European and native subjects, and was satisfied, from the ex * The number known to the police. + Owing in a great measure to the recovering of a considerable property stolen from Loll Tagore. Asial Jour.N.S.VOL. 12. No.45. perience he had already had, and from his communications with natives, that there were persons fully competent to act as magistrates. Some might suppose that a great knowledge of the law was required to render a person eligible to fill the office of a magistrate; but he thought otherwise. He had attended very much to the proceedings of the quarter sessions at home, and had observed that the best magistrates were those who had been chiefly guided by common sense, and who had not mixed up their duties with the technicalities and difficulties of the law. He saw no reason, with the intelligence of some of the natives who had a considerable knowledge of the English language, why they should not be competent to perform those duties. Should natives be appointed, they would have the benefit of the assistance of the present able magistrates of the police, and from the advantage of an accurate knowledge of the languages, customs, and manners of their fellow natives, they would be able with more certainty to come to just conclusions in the cases brought to their notice. He fully concurred in the necessity of advancing natives to offices of responsibility. The next part of the act related to serving on juries. Prior to May 1826, none were eligible to serve as jurymen but British subjects; but the act then passed extended the privilege to all not subjects of foreign states; the grand jury was however only to be composed of Christians, and the same rule was applicable to petit juries when Christians had to be tried. When he first addressed a grand jury in that court, he expressed his great regret that natives were not eligible to sit on grand juries, feeling, from a strong sense of their capacity, that it was treating them at least with neglect. Fortunately, they had not now to lament the existence of such a restriction, for by the late act, he was happy to say, it was removed, and they were now eligible to serve on grand juries, as well as on petit juries where Christians had to be tried. He rejoiced that these distinctions had been removed; and, though it might be argued that it would be dealing hardly with Christians to try them before native jurors, it might be said with equal justice, in reply, that it was equally hard for natives to be tried by Christian jurors. The Legislature had expressed itself in a similar manner; and, as it was now the law of the land, he trusted that the Government would give directions to the Clerk of the Crown to carry the intentions of the Legislature into effect. He had always thought that in civil actions the parties should have the option of calling for a jury; but that was not yet the law of the land. (A) Mr. N. Alexander deposed that, prior to his departure for China, Alexander and Co. were indebted to the 12th (gu. 6th or 12th Supplementary) Laudable in a considerable amount, and that he, on behalf of the firm, entered into an arrangement with the directors to give security for the debt. This arrangement included the assignment of a certain number of shares as a security for the amount then due to the Society, also certain promissory notes, to enable the directors to pay the premiums in case of necessity. It was stated, in a conference with Mr. Cullen, who was acting as trustee for the other directors, that they were to be answerable for the payment of the premiums. After this, the deponent became ill and proceeded to China, leaving an arrangement he was then engaged in regarding the other Laudable to be perfected by his partner. 1 Mr. J. C. Sutherland deposed, that he completed the arrangement commenced by the above witness, and assigned over to the directors certain shares in the other Society, and the balance of the promissory notes mentioned by Mr. Alexander, the amount of which was greater than the sum due to the Twelfth Laudable. The impression on deponent's mind was, that he was perfecting the agreement commenced by his partner, and that if Alexander and Co. could not continue to pay the premiums, they would of course be kept up by the directors. The shares alone would have been very little security, though some of them, being on old lives, were valuable ; therefore he gave the promissory note as an additional security. Counsel made no motion in this matter. Mr. Clarke, on behalf of Messrs. Hurry and Burkinyoung, presented a statement, as ordered by the court on the 16th ult., containing the amount of sums expected to be realized during the next three years, and the probable amount of the expenses of the establishment during the same period. The statement set forth that, exclusive of assignees' remunerations, partners' salaries, &c., the expenses of the establishment, for the present year, would be Sa. Rs. 66,000, to which was to be added the partners' salaries, if employed, for the first year, Mr. N. Alexander, at Sa. Rs. 800, and Mr. Young and Mr. Ballard, Sa. Rs. 400 each, per mensem, making the total amount of the expenses for the first year Sa. Rs. 85,200. The second year the expenses would be reduced to Sa. Rs. 48,000, and, continuing Mr. N. Alexander's salary, would amount to Sa. Rs. 57,600. In the third year a further reduction would take place, the expenses being estimated at Sa. Rs. 36,000, which, with the partner's salary, would amount to Sa. Rs. 45,600, making a total of expenses, for the three first years, of Sa. Rs. 188,400; that, considering the state of commerce in this country and the difficulty of disposing of property, they did not expect to realize above 80 lakhs of rupees, from which were to be deducted 40 lakhs, required to pay certain mortgages; thus, leaving 40 lakhs for a dividend, on which the commission of five per cent. would be two lakhs, and deducting the expenses of the establishment, as before stated, at Sa. Rs. 188,400, there would remain as a remuneration for the assignees' three years' labour Sa. Rs. 11,600; that, from causes before stated, it was probable that the amount realized would only be 60 lakhs, in which case the commission would amount to one lakh of rupees only, and would not cover the expenses of the establishment, leaving quite out of consideration all remuneration to the assignees, Sir Edward Ryan said, that the statement did not contain all the information the court required; when this matter was brought before him on the 16th ult. he had desired the assignees to furnish him with a statement, such as had been read, but, including the amount of salaries the assignees would be willing to take; until the court was furnished with that information, it was impossible for him to form a just conclusion. The assignees would leave their remuneration entirely to the court. Mr. Henry Smith hoped the court would give him an opportunity to show that the assignees' estimate was excessively high. Sir Edward Ryan said, if the assignees furnished him with the required information, he would come to some determination on the 23d inst.; in the meanwhile, he wished the creditors to make further inquiries, and evince a proper interest regarding the future management of the estate. A petition was presented by Mr. Dove, complaining of the conduct of the assignees in not accepting an offer of five lakhs of rupees, which he considered the full value, for a large indigo concern in Tirhoot (Moran and Hill's), in preference to incurring risk in supporting the factories at the expense of the general estate. An objection being taken, that Mr. Dove had not sworn that he was a creditor, and this point not being admitted by the assignees, he was directed to amend his affidavit. The assignees stated their willingness to explain to him out of court the circumstances of the case; but Mr. Dove declared his in |