THE

CALCUTTA REVIEW.

VOL. XI.

JANUARY-JUNE, 1849.

"No man, who hath tasted learning, but will confess the many ways of profiting by

those, who, not contented with stale receipts, are able to manage and set forth new positions

to the world: and were they but as the dust and cinders of our feet, so long, as in that

notion, they may yet serve to polish and brighten the armoury of truth; even for that
respect they were not utterly to be cast away."-MILTON.

STANFORD LIBRARY

CALCUTTA :

PRINTED FOR THE PROPRIETOR, BY SANDERS, CONES AND CO.,
No. 7, MISSION ROW, AND SOLD BY ALL THE BOOKSELLERS.

1849.

272350

CONTENTS

OF

No. XXII.-VOL. XI.

ART. I.-MARTIN ON THE RE-OCCUPATION OF

NEGRAIS.

1. A Brief Topographical and Historical Notice of Cal-

cutta with a Sketch of the Rise and Progress of

Sanitary Improvement in the East Indies. By J. R.

Martin, F.R.S. London: 1847. (Printed for pri-

vate circulation).

2. Statistical Report of the Sickness and Mortality among

the Troops serving in the Madras Presidency. Pre-

pared from Official Documents. Printed by Order

of the Madras Government. By T. Graham Balfour,

M.D., Grenadier Guards, 1847.

3. Memoir (Part the First) on the Political, Naval, Mili-

tary, and Commercial Advantages of the Re-occupa-

tion of Negrais Island; including (Part the Second)

its Advantages as a Place of Resort to the European

Sick of Calcutta and Madras. By J. R. Martin.

(Privately printed), 1843.

ART. II.-NEW SOUTH WALES, AND THE

CRISIS OF 1844.

1. Mitchell's Australian Expeditions. 2 vols. 1839.

2. Narrative of a visit to the Australian Colonies, by J.

Backhouse. 1843. .

3. Narrative of an Expedition into Central Australia in

1844-5-6, by Captain Sturt. London. 1849

257

ib.

ib.

282

ib.

ib.

4. Twelve years in the British Colonies from 1835 to 1847,

by J. Byrne. London. 1848.

ib.

5. Australia, its history and present condition, by the Rev.

W. Pridden. London. 1848..

ib.

6. Enterprise in Tropical Australia, by G. Earl. 1846

282

7. Burton on Religion and Education in New South Wales. ib.

ART. III-REVELATIONS CONCERNING THE

POLICE AND COURTS.

The Revelations of an Orderly, by Paunchkouri Khan.

Being an attempt to expose the abuses of adminis-

tration, by the relation of every day occurrences in

the Mofussil Courts. Benares: Printed at the Re-

corder Press: 1848.

ART. IV.-PHYSICAL ERRORS OF HINDUISM.

1. The Vishnu Purána, translated from the original Sans-

krit, by H. H. Wilson, M. A. F. R S., 1 vol. 4to.

London, 1840.

2. The Mahabharata, 4 vols. 4to. Calcutta, 1836-39..

3. The Ramayana, 5 vols. 8vo. Serampore, 1802.

4. Goladhyaya, edited by L. Wilkinson, Esq.

1842.

5. Grahalaghava, edited by L. Wilkinson, Esq. Calcutta,

1843.

6. Ganitadhyaya, edited by L. Wilkinson, Esq.

1842.

318

. 397

ib.

ib.

Calcutta,

ib.

ib.

Calcutta,

ib.

ib.

ib.

7. Asiatic Researches, 4to. London and Calcutta, 1799, &c.

8. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. Calcutta,

1832, &c.

ART. V.-BAGGAGE OF THE INDIAN ARMY.

A letter to the Right Hon'ble Sir J. Hobhouse, Presi-

dent of the Board of Controul, on the Baggage of the

Indian Army; by Sir Charles James Napier, G. C.

B., Lieutenant General, and Colonel of the 22nd Re-

giment of Foot. London, 1849.

ART. VI. THE BENGALI LANGUAGE AND

LITERATURE.

1. Introduction to the Bengali Language, by the late Rev.

W. Yates, D. D. Edited by J. Wenger.

. 493

ART. VII.-CUNNINGHAM'S HISTORY OF THE

SIKHS.

A History of the Sikhs, from the origin of the nation to the

battles of the Sutlej; by Joseph Davey Cunningham,

Lieutenant of Engineers, and Captain in the Army

of India. London, 1849.

MISCELLANEOUS CRITICAL NOTICES.

1. Bengal Hurkaru, May 8th.-Speech of the Hon'ble J.

L. Drinkwater Bethune, Esq., on the opening of his

Native School

2. Railways for Bombay, with illustrative Maps. Bombay,

American Mission Press, 1849, pp. 49

3. Tables for paying or receiving Wages, House Rent, &c.,

&c., from eight annas to 1,000 rupees per month: to

which is added Tables for reducing Bazar weights.

into Factory and English weights, from one chittack.

to 1,000 maunds, and Interest and Commission Ta-

bles. Sanders, Cones and Co., Calcutta, 1848.

523

xxi

XXX

. xli