12 NOVEMBER 1853, Page 8

A series of lectures on Indian affairs, proposed by Dr.

Buist of Bombay, challenges more than ordinary notice. Dr. Buist is well known to those who are acquainted with India ; but to such of our readers as are not so informed, we may say that he has been for fourteen or fifteen years editor of the Bombay Times, and for nearly as long secretary to the Bombay Geographical Society ; he has been charged by the Government with as- tronomical, magnetic, and meteorological observations ; he is the founder and superintendent of Schools of Industry in Western India. He came over to England for the purpose of being examined before the Select Committee on Indian affairs in the last session Of Parliament,,.but accidents delayed and obstructed him : under the circumstances, ho pro- poses to substitute public lectures for his examination before the. Com- mittee. Dr. Buist has been latterly in Scotland, and a specimen lecture which he delivered there presents that masterly survey of the whole sub- ject which might have been expected from the author. But his lectures will be expanded and varied according to audiences and opportunities. Intending to depart for India at the beginning of February, he must make the best use of his time ; and he therefore proposes to take some of the principal towns in groups : thus—Liverpool on the 28th instant, Bir- mingham on the 29th, Manchester on the 30th, Leeds on the 1st Decem- ber, Sheffield on the 2d, Hull on the 3d ; with a aecond, third, and fourth lecture at each place respectively, all between the fitli and the 24th Des cember. We are not prepared to countersign every opinion advanced by Dr. Buist, but we can heartily affirm that no one man is likely to present, in a distinct and compressed form, a more valuable amount of well-selected and sound information.