THE EAST INDIA COMPANY.

The East India Company was established 1600, their stock then consisting of L72,000, when they fitted out four ships, and meeting with success, they have continued ever since; in 1683, India Stock sold from 360 to 500 per cent.  A new company was established in 1698; re-established, and the two united, 1700, agreed to give government L400,000. per annum, for four years, on condition they might continue unmolested, 1769.  In 1773, in great confusion, and applied to parliament for assistance; judges sent from England by government, faithfully to administer the laws there to the company’s servants, 1774, April 2nd.

T. GILL.

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A country paper says, “The Corporation are about to build two free schools, one of which is finished.”

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ANNUAL OF SCIENCE.

Early in March will be published, price 5s.

ARCANA of SCIENCE, and ANNUAL REGISTER of the USEFUL ARTS for 1831.

Comprising POPULAR INVENTIONS, IMPROVEMENTS, and DISCOVERIES Abridged from the Transactions of Public Societies and Scientific Journals of the past year.  With several Engravings.

“One of the best and cheapest books of the day.”—­Mag.  Nat.  Hist.

“An annual register of new inventions and improvements, in a popular form like this, cannot fail to be useful.”—­Lit.  Gaz.

Printing for JOHN LIMBIRD, 143, Strand;—­of whom may be had the Volumes for the three preceding years.

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Printed and Published by J. LIMBIRD, 143, Strand, (near Somerset House,) London; sold by ERNEST FLEISCHER, 626, New Market, Leipsic; G.G.  BENNIS, 55, Rue Neuve, St. Augustin, Paris; and by all Newsmen and Booksellers.