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An amendment to the State Constitution 

 which was submitted to the people at the State 

 election on the 2d day of November, was to the 

 following effect: 



In each county there shall be elected the following 

 officers at the general election to be held on the Tues- 

 day after the nrst Monday in November, A. D. 1882 : 

 A County Judge, County Clerk, Sheriff, and Treas- 

 urer; and at the election to be held on the Tuesday 

 after the first Monday in November, A. u. 1884, a Cor- 

 oner and Cierk of the Circuit Court (who may be ex- 

 ojficio Recorder of Deeds, except in counties having 

 sixty thousand and more inhabitants, in which coun- 

 ties'a Recorder of Deeds shall be elected at the general 

 election 1834). Each of said officers shall enter upon 

 the duties of his office, respectively, on the 1st Mon- 

 day of December after his election, and they shall hold 

 their respective offices for the term of four years, and 

 until their successors are elected and qualified : Pro- 

 vide!, That no person having once been elected to the 

 office of Sheriff or Treasurer shall be eligible to re- 

 election to said office for four years after the expiration 

 of the term for which he shall have been elected. 



The amendment was ratified by the popular 

 vote. Its principal object is to do away with 

 frequent elections, and lessen their cost. It 

 makes the term of office of the Sheriff and 

 Treasurer uniform with the other county of- 

 fices. 



The November election gave the Republicans 

 32 Senators in the new Legislature, the Dem- 

 ocrats 18, and the Socialists 1, making the Re- 

 publican majority in the Senate 13 ; and in the 

 House it gave the Republicans 83 members and 

 the Democrats 70 a Republican majority of 

 13 in the House, and on joint ballot a Republi- 

 can majority in the Legislature of 26. The Re- 

 publican candidates for the State offices were 

 elected. 



INDIA,* a British viceroyalty in Asia. Vice- 

 roy and Governor-General of Bengal, Marquis 

 of Ripon, appointed in 1880. Oommander-in- 

 Chief of the Army, Sir Frederick P. Haines. 

 The Executive and Legislative Council is com- 

 posed as follows : Tlie Viceroy, the Command- 

 er-in-Chief, Sir John Strachey (appointed in 



1876), Whitley Stokes (1877), A. Rivers Thomp- 

 son (1878), J. Gibbs (1880), Lieutenant-General 

 Sir D. W. Stewart (1880), and C. II. Aitchison 

 (1880). The lieutenant-governors of the prov- 

 inces are honorary members of the Council, 

 when it meets in their respective provinces. 

 Government Secretaries : For the Interior, C. 

 E. Bernard; for the Finances, R. B. Chap- 

 man ; for Foreign Affairs, A. C. Lyall ; for 

 Military Affairs, Colonel A. B. Johnson ; for 

 Public Works, Colonel A. Fraser ; for Legisla- 

 tive Affairs, D. Fitzpatrick. The governors 

 of the different provinces are as follows : Ben- 

 gal, Lieutenant-Governor, Sir A. Eden (1877); 

 Northwestern Provinces, Lieutenant-Governor, 

 Sir G. E. W. Couper, Bart. ; Punjaub, Lieuten- 

 ant-Governor, R. E. Egerton ; Central Prov- 

 inces, Chief Commissioner, J. H. Morris; British 

 Burmah, Chief Commissioner, C. U. Aitchison; 

 Madras, Governor- General, William Patrick 

 Adair ; Bombay. Governor-General, Sir James 

 Fergusson (1880). 



The area and population of British India, 

 according to the census of 1872, were as fol- 

 lows: 



The receipts and expenditures for the years 

 1876-'79 were as follows : 



The progress of the Parliamentary elections 

 in Great Britain was watched with great in- 

 terest by both English residents and natives. 

 The "Times of India " remarked that the in- 

 terest taken in Bombay was nearly as keen as 

 in England itself, and that for the first time, 

 perhaps, the contest was followed almost as 

 closely by the natives as by the Europeans. 

 The Indian public, in fact, were more excited 

 by the news of the results of the first two days' 



* For a full account of the area and population of the dif- 

 ferent provini-es, the distribution of the population according 

 to religion and sex, and the population of cities, see " Annual 

 Cyclopaedia 1 ' for 1S76. For late statist! :s on the emigration 

 of coolies, on the public debt, on imports and exports, on 

 movements of shipping, on railroads, posts, and telegraphs, 

 see " Annual Cyclopaedia " for 1S79. 



polling than they were over the declaration of 

 war against Afghanistan, or even over the com- 

 mencement of hostilities between Russia and 

 Turkey. The leading vernacular paper of the 

 country, describing the feeling in the Eastern 

 Presidency, said: 



Even mudies' shops, where the village people gener- 

 ally collect for gossip, are being converted into politi- 

 cal clubs for the nonce. Any village schoolboy who 

 has read something about the British Constitution, 

 and who can read ibe newspaper, is pressed into the 

 service and invited to dwell on the mechanism of par- 

 liamentary government. Amoug^ English - educated 

 natives the excitement seems to be as great and real 

 as if they were themselves concerned in the elections. 

 Like the British constituencies, they seem to be di- 

 vided into Conservatives and Liberals. There are 



