d complicated to be represented by ordinary types.
Accordingly lithographic printing establishments have been set up in the
principal cities of India, where original works, translations of the
ancient tongues of Asia or the modern ones of Europe, as well as
newspapers are published. Calcutta, Serampore, Lakhnau, Madras, Bombay,
Pounah, were the first cities to have these printing offices, but since
then a great number have been established in the north-west provinces,
where the Hindostanee is the sole language employed. A year since that
part of the country contained twenty-eight offices, which in 1849
produced a hundred and forty-one different works, while the number of
journals was twenty-six, which, with those printed in other provinces,
makes about fifty in the native dialect, in all Hindostan. Within the
last year, new establishments and new periodicals have been commenced.
At Benares, the ancient seat of Hindoo learning, where the Brahmins used
to resort to study their language and read the vedas and shasters, a new
journal is called the _Sairin-i Hind_ (The Flying Sheets of India),
making the sixth in that city. It is edited by two Hindoo literati,
Bhairav Pracad and Harban Lal, who had before attempted a purely
scientific publication under the title of _Mirat Ulalum_ (Mirror of the
Sciences), which has been stopped. The new paper, of which only three
numbers have come to our notice, is published twice a month, each number
having eight pages of small octavo size. The pages are in double
columns. The subscription is eight _anas_, or twenty-five cents a month,
or six _roupies_, or three dollars a year. The paper is divided into two
parts, the first literary and scientific, the second devoted to
political and miscellaneous intelligence. The first number commences
with a rhapsody in verse upon eloquence, by the celebrated national poet
Hacan, of which the following is the _International's_ translation:

"Give me to taste, O Song, the sweet beverage of eloquence,
that precious art which opens the gate of diction. I dream
night and day of the benefits of that noble talent. What other
can be compared with it? The sage who knows how to appreciate
it, puts forth all his efforts for its acquisition. It is
eloquence which gives celebrity to persons of merit. The brave
ought to esteem eloquence, for it immortalizes the names of
heroes. It is through the science of speaking well that the