The weekly Bengali newspaper published by the Reverend Joshua Marshman at Serampore is charged only one fourth of the postage levied on English newspapers.
The Bengal Government subscribe for 100 copies of the Hindu treatises on the law of adoption, entitled 'Dattaka-mimamsa' and 'Dattaka-candrika', translated by James Charles Colebrooke Sutherland.
The Dutch brig 'Prince of Orange' conveying J.A. Van Braam, the Commissioner for the restitution of the Dutch settlements on the Coromandel Coast, is exempted from paying anchorage charges and lighthouse fees at Madras.
Payments on account of various literary works - purchase by the Bengal Government of 100 copies of Captain Thomas Roebuck's 'Annals of Fort William College', also of certain Pension and Arabic class books from Dr Matthew Lumsden.
Papers regarding a fire which occurred on the premises of Mr Laprimaudaye at Calcutta and destroyed a great deal of public and private property - establishment of a regular Fire Brigade at Calcutta.