I wish in this, the eighth and last of the Presidential Addresses which I have been privileged to deliver, to carry you to the East, and to offer for your consideration some thoughts which have been brought back to my mind by a book I have been reading lately. This is an English translation by Mr. Beauchamp, a gentleman resident in Madras, made from the complete and corrected work of the Abbé Dubois upon Hindu manners, customs and ceremonies, which has been hitherto inedited. The Madras Government has very properly given its sanction and assistance to Mr. Beauchamp's useful labours. The Abbe Dubois was a very remarkable man who in 1793, soon after becoming a priest, left France, in which anarchy was reigning supreme, and embarking for India buried himself for thirty years, in the Southern part of that country, devoting himself to the conversion of the natives.