CONTENTS. 3910. 1. Correspondence relative to Sindh, 1838-1843. Presented to both Houses of Parliament by Command of Her Majesty. London, 1843 Correspondence relative to Sindh [supplementary to the Papers presented Personal Observations on Sindh; the Manners and Customs of its Inhabit- ants, &c.; with a Sketch of its History, a Narrative of Recent Events, &c. By T. Postans, M. R.A.S., Bt. Captain, Bombay Army, and late Assistant to the Political Agent in Sindh and Beloochistan. London, 1. History of Astronomy. With an Appendix containing a View of the principal Elements of the Indian Astronomy as contained in the Surya Siddhanta (Library of Useful Knowledge.) London: Baldwin and The Use of the Siddhantas in the work of Native Education. By Lancelot Wilkinson, Esq., Bombay C. S., Ass. Res. at Bhopal (Calcutta LORD WILLIAM BENTINCK'S ADMINISTRATION. Thornton's History of India, Vol. V. London: W. H. Allen & Co., 1844 .. I. Observations on the Seikhs and their College at Patna. By Charles Wilkins, dated Benares, 1st March 1781, and published in vol. I., Asiatic Society's Transactions 2. History of the Origin and Progress of the Seikhs. By Major James Browne, Bengal Army, dated 1781, and published with other India 6. Burnes' Travels in Bokhara, 3 vols. John Murray, London, 1834 7. Personal Narrative of a Visit to Ghuzni, Cabul and Affghanistan, &c. By Travels in the Himalayan Provinces of Hindustan and the Punjab, in Ladakh and Kashmir; in Peshawur, Cabul, Kundaz and Bokhara, Prepared from Original Journals and Correspondence, by Horace II. ib. ii RECENT HISTORY OF THE PUNJAB.-(Continued.) 10. Personal Narrative of a Journey to the Source of the River Oxus. By 13. Adventures of Bellasis. By Major Lawrence. Colburn, London, 1844 THE ADMINISTRATION OF LORD ELLENBOROUGH. 1. Papers relating to Military Operations in Affghanistan, London, 1843 2. Papers respecting Gwalior. London, 1844 3. Further Papers respecting Gwalior, 1844 4 The Calcutta (Government) Gazette, 1842-43-44 .... MILITARY DEFENCE OF OUR EMPIRE IN THE EAST. 1. The Science of National Defence, with reference to India, accompanied THE SEIKHS AND THEIR COUNTRY. 1. Journal of a March from Delhi to Peshawar, and from thence to Cabul with the Mission of Colonel Wade, including Travels in the Punjab, a Visit to the City of Lahore, and a Narrative of Operations in the Khybur Pass in 1839. By Lieut. W. Barr: post 8vo. cloth, with six Illustrations. London, 1844 ... 2. Map of the Western Provinces of Hindustan; the Punjab, Rajpootanah, Scinde, Cabul, &c., cloth, in a case. W. H. Allen and Co., London, 1844 ... SIR W. H. MACNAGHTEN. PAGE. 1. General Register of the Hon'ble East India Company's Civil Servants on 2. Papers relating to Affghanistan. London, 1838.. KASHMIR AND THE COUNTRIES AROUND THE INDUS. THE ALGEBRA OF THE HINDUS. 1. Lilawati, or a Treatise on Arithmetic and Geometry, by Bhascara Acharja. Translated from the original Sanscrit, by John Taylor, M. D. of the Hon'ble East India Company's Bombay Medical Establishment. Bom bay, 1816 2. Algebra, with Arithmetic and Mensuration, from the Sanscrit of Brahmegupta and Bhascara. Translated by Henry Thomas Colebrooke, Esq., F. R. S. &c. London, 1817 3. History of Algebra in all Nations, by Charles Hutton, L. L. D. (Mathematical and Philosophical Tracts, Vol. II.) London, 1812 4. Lectures on the Principles of Demonstrative Mathematics, by the Rev. Philip Kelland, A. M., F. R. S. S. L., and E., Professor of Mathematics in the University of Edinburgh, late Fellow and Tutor of Queen's College, Cambridge. Edinburgh, 1843 153 ib. ib. ib. 212 il. ib. ib. 267 ib. ib. 308 ib. 364 ib. ib. 421 488 ib. ib. ib. iii SIR PHILIP FRANCIS. Correspondence of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, between the years I. 2. BENGAL AS IT IS. Statement submitted by the Court of Nizamut Adawlut, relative to the Statement submitted by the Court of Sudder Dewanny Adawlut, relative PAGE. MISSIONARY LABOURS OF CHAPLAINS IN NORTHERN INDIA. THE KINGDOM OF OUDE. Asiatic Annual Register. Oude State Papers 513 561 ib. Minutes of Evidence. Volume VI. Political Affairs of the East India 3. Hamilton's Rohilla Affghans. A. D. 1787. London 4. Butter's Topography and Statistics of Southern Oude. Calcutta, 1839 5. Imad-ool-Saadut. By Golam Ally Ruzwee (Persian Manuscript) NOTES ON THE LEFT OR CALCUTTA BANK OF THE HOOGHLY. Topographical Survey of the River Hooghly from Bandel to Garden Reach, exhibiting the Principal Buildings, Ghats and Temples on both banks, executed in the year 1841; by Charles Joseph... RAMMOHUN ROY. 1. Biographical Memoir of the late Rajah Rammohun Roy, with a Series of 2. 3. Apology for the Pursuit of Final Beatitude, independently of Brahmanical Observances (in Sanskrit). By Rammohun Roy. Calcutta, 1280 (Hindu Era) NOTES ON THE RIGHT BANK OF THE HOOGHLY. Topographical Survey of the River Hooghly from Bandel to Garden Reach, exhibiting the Principal Buildings, Ghats, and Temples on both banks, executed in the year 1841; by Charles Joseph... ... 710 ib. 749 SELECTIONS FROM THE CALCUTTA REVIEW. ART. I.-LORD TEIGNMOUTH. BY SIR JOHN KAYE, K.C.S.I. Memoir of the Life and Correspondence of John, Lord Teignmouth; by his son, Lord Teignmouth, 2 vols. London, 1843. HIS is not a very amusing book-neither has it any claim THIS to be regarded as a literary performance of distinguished merit. But it is the biography of a truly good man, and is thickly interspersed with letters from the pen of a gentleman, a scholar, and a christian. The author, indeed, in the volumes before us, does not play a conspicuous part. The duty, which has devolved upon him, he has performed with much modesty and good taste; neither seeking to shine in his own person, nor to exaggerate the virtues of his father. In this very forbearance lie the principal imperfections of the work. The biographer has left his father's letters to tell the history of his father's life, and relying too much on the sufficiency of these self-expository documents, he has suffered the narrative, at certain points, to be more indistinct than is convenient to the general reader. The student of Indian history may be satisfied with what he finds; for from his own stores of knowledge he can supply all deficiencies; but we cannot flatter ourselves, that the important events which occurred in this country, during the last thirty years of the by-gone century, are sufficiently familiar to the ordinary reader, to render nugatory the work of filling up the picture, when the portrait of an Indian worthy has been sketched. It is not safe to rely upon the general knowledge of Indian affairs. Even on the spot, but too many are ignorant of events which came to pass antecedent to their own times; and in England, whilst it is held inexcusable in an educated man not to be familiar with the histories of Greece, of Rome, of Modern Europe, of British and Spanish America, and of remote Islands, with which England has had little concern, there are few, who do not consider themselves privileged to possess their minds in gross and entire ignorance of the history of the British conquests in the East.* The proceedings of the French in St. Domingo are more familiar to the majority, than the proceedings of the English in the Dooab or the Carnatic. Had the present Lord Teignmouth entertained no higher opinion than ourselves of the wealth of his countrymen, in this item of Indian history, his work would have been a more complete history of the political life of his justly revered father. As a personal memoir, it is all that the reader can desire. John Shore was born in London on 8th of October 1751. His father who belonged to a family of some consideration in Derbyshire, which had distinguished itself by its steady loyalty in the times of the Charleses, was a supercargo in the Company's service, who killed himself by eating turtle, cooked in a copper vessel, off the Island of Ascension. Mr. Shore appears to have been a worthy and amiable man; much beloved by his wife, who never wholly recovered the serenity of her mind after this melancholy loss. He left two sons; John, the subject of the present article, who was seven years old at the time of his father's death; and Thomas, afterwards a worthy minister of the Gospel, who was some years younger than his brother. • There is a remark somewhat similar to this, though of a less general character, in one of Mr. Macaulay's Essays; and, most probably, in other works. It is neither new nor striking, but it cannot be too often repeated, |