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MISCELLANEOUS NOTICES, &C. 
republished. We do not despair of its circulation being 
gradually much extended in Europe and America, but the 
difficulties which have attended all our agencies beyond the 
Straits Settlements, and particularly our English one, have 
hitherto caused more trouble, vexation aud loss of time and 
money than the subscriptions received from them (with the 
exception of the Batavian) have compensated. These dif¬ 
ficulties, the insolvencies of former London and Batavian 
agents, and the frequent postponement of payment for 
months after the year has commenced, have satisfied us 
during the past year that our main dependence must be 
upon our Straits subscribers, and particularly on those at 
Singapore by whose most liberal support and that of Go¬ 
vernment alone we were enabled to bring out the first 6 num¬ 
bers of the year without loss. We think it best to state this at 
once and leave it in their hands whether the Journal is to be 
continued on its present footing or not. After mentioning 
this, we do not think it would be fair to them, nor con¬ 
sistent with our own position and object in relation to the 
Journal, to make any appeal to them such as we were com¬ 
pelled to do at the close of the first year, or to circulate a 
subscription list. We think we are justified in considering 
the Journal as now fairly established, and, as is customary 
with other periodicals of the kind, our agents will continue 
to send it to our subscribers until they desire it to be dis¬ 
continued. Several of our subscribers have repeated the 
recommendation which they made to us at the end of last 
year to raise the subscription in future to 6 dollars, and as 
we find our pecuniary loss on the last 12 numbers will 
somewhat exceed that upon the previous 12, even if all out¬ 
standing subscriptions be paid, we are compelled to adopt 
this recommendation as the only means of saving ourselves 
from an annual loss of about 400 dollars. 
The paper and typography have not been so good as we 
could have wished ; but new types and better paper are now 
on their way from England, and in a month or two we hope 
to be able to present the essays of our kind contributors in 
a shape that will do them no discredit. 
