A LEARNED ESSAY ON SANSCRIT ALLITERATION. 
211 
Art, V. — Tirst part of the twentieth volume 
of Asiatic Researches or Transactions of 
the Society instituted in Bengal for en- 
quiring into the History f the Antiquities, 
the Arts and Sciences, and Literature of 
Asia. Quarto : pp. 243, 1836. Calcutta, 
Printed at the Bengal Military Orphan 
Press, G. H. Huttman. 
The above work has just been published : 
it opens with a translation of various in- 
criptions found among the ruins of Vijaya- 
nagar, communicated by E. C. Ravenshaw, 
Esq. Bengal Civil Service, with preliminary 
observations, by H. H. Wilson, Esq. late 
Secretary Asiatic Society. The second 
article is an analysis of the Dulva, a por- 
tion of the Tibetan work, entitled the Kah- 
Gyan, by A. Csoma de Koros. Mr. Hodgson, 
the British resident of Nipal, has furnished 
an article on the administration of justice in 
Nipal, with some account of the several 
courts, extent of their jurisdiction, and mode 
of procedure. 
A very curious but learned essay on 
Sanscrit Alliteration is given by that emi- 
nent Sanscrit scholar, the Rev. W. Yates. 
Lieut. Colonel Burney has communicated 
additional proof of his zeal in oriental 
literature by his article on the Translation 
of an inscription in the Burmese language 
GENERAL 
PROCEEDINGS OF THE BRITISH 
ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCE- 
MENT OF SCIENCE. 
This fine Natural Institution continues to 
prosper far beyond anticipation. The Fifth 
Annual Meeting, which commenced at Dublin 
onthe 10th and terminated on the 15th of 
August, as much surpassed the Edinburgh 
meeting, both in the interest of the pro- 
ceedings and in the numbers of individuals 
who flocked to take a share in the daily 
business, as the latter meeting exceeded that 
which preceded it. It is pleasing to be able 
to prove this assertion, by a statement of 
facts : The receipts in Edinburgh were £l, 
626, while those in Dublin were £l,'750- 
The number of subscribers in Edinburgh was 
little above a thousand : in Dublin, it amount- 
ed to 1,228; and, it is quite certain that it 
would have been much greater, if it had not 
been that the arrangements of the Local 
discovered at Buddha Gaya, in 1833. One 
of the most valuable papers in this num- 
ber of the Transactions is on the Results of 
an enquiry respecting the law of mor- 
tality for British India, deduced from the 
reports and appendices of the committee 
appointed by the Bengal Government in 1834, 
to consider the expediency of a Government 
Life Assurance Institution, by Captain H, B. 
Henderson, Assistant Military Auditor Ge- 
neral and Secretary to the Committee. We 
shall consider this article fully in our next, 
and also give our readers an insight into the 
other communications to which we have 
alluded, as we find space. 
Art. — VI. Cursory notes on the Isle of 
France, hy E. Stirling, Esq. member, 
Asiatic Society, Calcutta. Vol. pp. 50. 
Messrs. Thacker & Co. 
Many of our Indian invalids proceed to 
this isle. Intelligence concerning a geogra- 
phical and statistical description, its manu- 
factures, public works, public buildings, 
civil and military laws, tribunals, police, 
j.eligion, churches, its commerce, &c. all 
of which subjects this work treats, can- 
not fail to be interesting to our readers. 
We shall notice particulars fully hereafter. 
SCIENCE. 
Committee were either not generally known, 
or not attended to in time by many residents, 
whose applications could not be received 
after the commencement of business, in con- 
sequence of the great influx of strangers.* 
is easy to complain and findfault,but while 
we approve highly of the general arrange- 
ments of the Dublin local committee, we 
cannot refrain from submitting for the consider- 
ation of the Bristol committee, the importance 
of adopting a method of giving out Tickets and 
receiving subscriptions, which shall dispense 
with the crowding, and lighting we might 
almost term it, which is unavoidable by the 
mode at present pursued, and which seems to 
paralyze those engaged in the troublesome 
task. It would be proper also that persons 
should be employed in these preliminary ar- 
rangements, who are acquainted with the 
names of those engaged in prosecuting science. 
It is ridiculous to hear such a question as, 
“ Have you written any papers ?” addressed to 
men holding the highest place in science. 
