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live of India might be brought into active exertion, and do honour 

 to themselves, while they proved beneficial to their country ; and in 

 alluding to the legislative measures at present contemplated with 

 regard to the future administration of our Indian empire, the coun- 

 cil trusted that they would be such as would not only tend to pro- 

 mote the prosperity of that important part of the British dominions, 

 but be fully entitled to the approbation of posterity. Mr.Macklen, 

 one of the members appointed to audit the Society's accounts for 

 the year 1832, read the report, which stated that the total receipts 

 for that year amounted to 11481. 10s. 4d., and the disbursements 

 to 9871. 2s. ; balance in favouu of the Society at the end of 1832, 

 1601. lis. 2d. ; ditto at the date of the report, 2301. 14s. ; the es- 

 timated receipts for 1833 are 14581. 9s. lOd., disbursements 11651. 

 OS. ; expected balance in favour of the Society, 2931.4s. lOd. The 

 assets of the Society are calculated at 35371. 10s. lid. Sir Alex- 

 ander John&ton then delivered the report of the proceedings of the 

 committee of correspondence since the last anniversary, but we can- 

 not do more than indicate the leading points of this interesting ex- 

 pose ; they were, the nature and extent of the systems of education 

 as established among the natives of India ; statistics, slavery, the 

 modes of representative government formerly obtjining in Southern 

 India, particularly the western coast, and the history of those pla- 

 ces in the Southern Peninsula, and the island of Ceylon, which were 

 in ancient times the emporia of the trade carried on between Eu- 

 rope, Arabia, &c. and Eastern Asia. Sir Alexander was requested 

 to reduce his remarks to writing, that they might be printed in the 

 Appendix to the Transactions, and thanks were unanimously voted 

 to him for his able report. The president next addressed the meet- 

 ing, recapitulating the principal subjects noticed in the various re- 

 ports which had been read, and directing attention to the favourable 

 prospects of the Society, as regarded its future progress. After this 

 address, the thanks of the Society were unanimously voted seriatim 

 to the council and officers of the Society, for their services during 

 the past year; the resolution relative to the secretary, Mr. Graves 

 Haughton, being couched in strong terms of regret at the loss of his 

 valuable services in that department ; Mr. H. having resigned the 

 office from ill health. After the ballot, the scrutineers declared the 

 following gentlemen to be elected members of the council, viz., 

 Earl Caledon, Right Hon. H, Mackenzie, Hon. R. H. Clive, Hon. 

 M. Elphinstone, Col. Blackburne, Capt. Harkness, Mr. Hodgson, 

 and Mr. Tucker, in the places of Earl Amherst, Lord Bexley, Sir 

 William Ouseiey, Mr. Baber, Col. Baillie, Mr, Butterworth Bay ley. 



