neous news from
Persia, Cabul, Bombay, Aoude, and Calcutta, and other provinces. Under
the last head is a statement of the present population of the capital of
British India, as follows:

Europeans, 6,433
Georgians, 4,615
Armenians, 892
Chinese, 847
Other Asiatics, 15,342
Hindoos, 274,335
Mussulmans, 110,918

Total 413,182

The second number opens with an article of above five columns, on the
inconvenience of not knowing what is taking place, or of knowing it
imperfectly, followed by a second article of two columns on astronomy,
and the discovery of planets, by way of introduction to an account of
the discovery of _Parthenope_, which took place at Naples the 10th of
May last.

This is followed by news and advertisements of new books, published from
the printing office of the paper. In the third number there is in the
news department an article on the _marvellous news from Europe_, in
which the editors speak of the scientific progress of the Europeans, and
the astonishing discoveries which daily occur among them. In this
connection they mention a singular experiment tried by a geologist of
Stockholm. This savant having found a frog living after having been six
or seven years in the ground, without air or food, concluded that men
might live in that way for hundreds of years. Accordingly he solicited
and obtained from the government, permission to try it for twenty-five
years on a woman aged twenty. This piece of information is given with
satisfaction, and the editors refer to the fact that some years since a
faquir appeared at the court of Runjeet Singh, asking to be buried for
several days, which was done. When the time arrived he was disinterred,
as much alive as ever. The editors add, that although many Englishmen
saw this, they had not believed it, but that this intelligence from
Stockholm ought to convince them. The same number contains some remarks
on the Ambassador of Nepaul, who was then in Europe. The following is
our translation of this article:

"Jung Bahadur, has thought best to visit Paris, the capital of
France, before returning to India. The first Indian who visited
Paris was Ram Mohan Roy, who was succeeded by Dwarkanath Thakur
and others. But these were not true Hindoos, of the good
school, for they were of the sect of Ram Mohan [who established
a