*** TKe conclusion of Colonel Low ’s Treatise on the Laws of Siam 
will be given in a supplemental number, which will bring the mat¬ 
ter comprised in the first 6 Nos. and the 2 supplements, to about dou- 
■>, . i - • - 
ble the average quantity promised in the Prospectus. The object of 
this is to form a volume, so as to admit of the future ones being an¬ 
nual. A title page, contents and index for Vol. f. will therefore be' 
Sfiven with the conclusion of Colonel Low’s Treatise, early in 1848. 
The Editor regrets that the effect of bringing the volume to a close 
at the end of six instead of twelve months, will be to ’ render it less' 
illustrative of the range of subjects which the Journal embraces than’ 
Ire could have wished. The publication, during the first half year of 
.1848, of a very full enquiry into the habitual use of opium in Singa- 
pore, and its effects on industry, health, crime &c., by Dr. Little, 
which has been already received ; a-report by Dr. Horsfield of his 
nine months examination of Banka and its Tin mines ; a paper on 
agriculture in the Straits Settlements, and another on the commerce 
of Manila, which are promised by gentlemen thoroughly conversant 
with these subjects ; ahd translations Of some recent contributions to 
the zoology Of Java, with which he has been favoured by Dr. Blee- 
ker of Bafavia : will supply, some of the deficiencies of the first vo- ‘ 
Mine, 
