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Judicial department.
	Salaries,	6,590	9	0
	Ordinary contingencies,	742	13	9
	Special disbursements,	234	16	0	7,567	18	9
Police departments.
	Salaries,	4,351	4	8
	Ordinary contingencies,	5,311	11	10
	Special disbursements,	322	12	1	9,985	8	7
Medical department.
	Salaries,	600	00	0
	Ordinary contingencies,	67	17	3
	Special disbursements,	154	10	5	822	7	8
					39,494	12	9
Public works and buildings,					26,800	19	3
Compensations for removing houses and clearing ground,					136	4	7
Miscellaneous,					295	2	10
Total expenditure for 1845, pounds sterling					66,726	19	5

Frederick W. A. Bruce, Colonial secretary

Victoria, Hongkong, January 9th, 1846

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Art. IV. Chinese proverbs, selected from a collection in the English version of P. Prémare's Notitia Linguæ Sinicæ.

The desirableness of having the Notitia Linguæ Sinicae of P. Prémare translated into English having often been suggested, we are happy in being able at length to announce its completion, and also to state, in reply to inquiries for the book, that it is now half through the press in the office of the Chinese Repository. Prémare's work, we believe, is generally admitted to be the best extant for aiding the student in the acquisition of the Chinese language. We have before us the sheets that have been printed; and as a specimen of the work, and of the thoughts of the Chinese and their mode of expressing them, we select a few of the apothems and proverbs from the closing section of Part First, which treats of "the spoken language and familiar style."

CHINESE PROVERBS.

The apothems and proverbs in the Chinese language add not a little to its dignity and strength of expression. There are doubtless, in all, many more than are comprised in this collection. In the examples presented it will be desirable to attend as wel1 to the mode of expression as to the sense." So says P. Prémare.

1. Yih máng yin chung máng, siáng tsiáng juh ho káng,一盲引眾盲相將入火炕, if the blind lead the blind they will both go into the pit.