VI PREFACE. 



The printing expence for 3 years 



has been, 10796 14 2 



for 1835, say 3500 



H296 14 2 



The expence of Plates for 4 yrs. ... 1503 211 



of lithographs, 2149 1 



3652 3 11 



Expence of circulation, keeping accounts, 

 freight, postage, and other contingencies, 3436 1 



Making the total expenditure, Rupees, 21385 2 2 



And leaving upon the whole transaction a balance against the 

 Editor of Rupees 516 11 4 exclusive of the portion of 

 outstandings, which (with regret be it said) must be written 

 off as irrecoverable. 



Although the price of the work is already lower in propor- 

 tion than that of any similar journal in England, France, or 

 India, the Editor has felt it incumbent upon him to volun- 

 teer a further small reduction, for the sake of simplifying 

 accounts and uniting with the Asiatic Society in the adoption 

 of the new currency. Subscribers all over India will henceforth 

 have to pay one Rupee per number, without any regard to the 

 fractional excess of the late Calcutta sicca. 



The loss to the Editor by this resolution would have been six 

 and a quarter per cent., had it not been most considerately met 

 by a corresponding reduction, from the old to the new rupee, in 

 the charges for printing by the Proprietors of the Baptist Mission 

 Press, to whom he thus begs to offer his public and sincere 

 acknowledgments. 



The calculated amount of postage paid by up-country Sub- 

 scribers to the Government has been, in the past year, Sicca 

 Rupees 1200, without including the profits from an extensive 

 correspondence due entirely to the existence of the Journal. 

 The labours of the Post Office Committee are not yet completed ; 

 it would therefore be premature to hold out any promise of 

 more favorable rates to such subscribers as have been induced 

 to withdraw on account of the dak charge exceeding the price 

 (and it may be presumed in their eyes, the value) of the work 



