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Monthly Register

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BRITISH & FOREIGN INDIA, CHINA, & AUSTRALASIA.

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THE circulation which this Paper has attained, in the short space of eight months, and which is rapidly increasing, and the testimonies received from various sources, convince the Proprietors that the Publication has met the views and wishes of the Public.

As this Work is designed to be a permanent record of facts, the matter is arranged with regard not merely to the present convenience of readers, but to the facility of future reference, for which the Analytical Index will serve as a key. The "SUMMARY AND REVIEW OF EASTERN NEWS," embracing the most important features of each month's intelligence, is a plain and perspicuous narrative, with such elucidations and remarks as may serve to render the subjects intelligible to persons not familiar with Eastern politics. It is no part of the plan of this Work to make critical reflections upon public measures. Generally speaking, such reflections can be of little value unless they are the result of some deliberation, and the reader who desires a political disquisition upon Indian topics may find them discussed to more advantage in the "Historical and Critical Review" prefixed to each month's ASIATIC JOURNAL, a work from which the INDIAN MAIL, though dissevered, is not dissociated.

The official matter, casualties, &c., are systematically distributed under the different localities, in a separate department, denominated "The REGISTER," comprehending the General Orders issued by the local governments; Courts Martial; Civil, Ecclesiastical, Military, and Marine Appointments, Promotions, Furloughs, &c. ; Shipping, Passengers, and Freights; Births, Marriages, and Deaths; Reports of the Markets in India, Securities, Exchanges, &c. All these species of intelligence, so important to persons connected with India, are full and accurate, and, as the Proprietors receive from their correspondents abroad information to the latest moment, the INDIAN MAIL will be found to contain much under these heads not included in the journals received by the Overland Mail.

Other valuable information-e. g. the Distribution of the Army in India, and the Arrivals, Appointments, Retirements, Extensions of Leave, &c., in the different Services, recorded and made by the Home Authorities, is obtained exclusively for the INDIAN MAIL.

Although each paper is the product of a very careful examination and laborious abstraction of the large files of journals brought by each Mail from every part of India, Ceylon, the Straits, China, Australasia, and the Cape of Good Hope, and although this vast amount of matter is arranged and distributed under proper heads, these operations and the printing are performed in the space of a few hours. This rapidity has occasioned (very pardonably), in the early numbers, a few trivial errors, which will be rarer as the system becomes more perfect.

It is hoped that, by not sparing expense or labour, the INDIAN MAIL may deserve to be not only read as a newspaper, but preserved as a book.

London, 12th December, 1843.

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