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1874. The (lining-hall for the Deaf and Dumb 

 Institution is completed, and the foundations 

 for the chapel and school-building are laid. 

 Pursuant to an act approved May 7th, and in 

 force July 1st, the Board of Trustees of the 

 Illinois Industrial University has been re- 

 organized. The new building has been com- 

 pleted and occupied, and the institution is in a 

 prosperous condition. 



The present State government, which is en- 

 tirely Republican, is as follows: Governor, 

 John T. Beveridge ; Secretary of State, George 

 H. Harlow ; Auditor, Charles E. Lippencott ; 

 Treasurer, Edward Rutz ; Attorney-General, 

 James K. Edsall. The political complexion of 

 the Legislature is as follows : 



The following is the bonded State debt, Jan- 

 uary, 1874 : 



Interest bonds inscribed stock, 1877 $926,450 39 



Refunded stock 1876 3500000 



Belauded stock 1877 845,00000 



Normal university bonds 1879 83,00000 



Thornton loan bonds 1879 5500000 



11,000 war bonds 1879 81,00000 



500 war bonds 1879 55,00000 



100 war bonds 1879 36 300 00 



Revenue deficiency bonds 1879 250,00000 



I,706,750 39 



Besides the above, there are a few thousand 

 dollars of bonds outstanding, which have been 

 called in by the Governor's proclamation to 

 be paid off, but not yet surrendered. 



INDIA, BRITISH, a vast empire in Asia, 

 equaling in extent the Continent of Europe, 

 without Russia. The area and population 

 of the administrative divisions, or distinct 

 presidencies and provinces, under British rule, 

 were, according to the latest official state- 

 ments, as follows: 



The native states of British India, though 

 not constituting a part of the British domin- 

 ion, are more or less under the control of the 

 Anglo-Indian Government. Their area and 

 population are as follows: 



Education continues to make rapid progress 

 in India. The number of Government and aid- 

 ed colleges and schools was 43,192, and the 

 number of pupils attending them 977,014. The 

 gross expenditures from imperial and other 

 sources amounted to more than 1,000,000 

 sterling. 



The British-born population in India, ex- 

 clusive of the army, amounted, according to 

 a census taken June 15, 1871, to 64,061 per- 

 ons. Of these, there were 38,946 of the male, 

 and 25,115 of the female sex. The largest 

 number, at the date of the census, was in the 



province of Lower Bengal, namely, 16,402 ; the 

 next largest in the province of Bombay ( 10, 921), 

 and the Northwest Provinces (6,910). In the 

 three capital cities of India, the number 01 

 British subjects was, in 1871, as follows: Cal- 

 cutta, 8,320; Bombay, 4,796; Madras, 1,308. 

 The occupations of the British-born subjects 

 were as follows : 1. Professional class, includ- 

 ing civil service, 14,822. 2. Domestic class, 

 12,708. 8. Commercial class. 7,993. 4. Agri- 

 cultural class, 614. 5. Industrial class, 2,595. 

 6. Indefinite and non-productive class, includ- 

 ing women and children, 25,329. 



The total revenue of India, during the finan- 

 cial year ending March 31, 1872, reached the 

 sum of 50,110,215, and the expenditures 

 amounted to 46,986,038. The three most 

 important sources of the public revenue are 

 land (in 1872, 20,520,337) ; salt (5,996,595) ; 

 and opium (9,253,859). The heaviest items 

 among the expenditures are the army (15,- 

 000,000) ; interest on funded and unfunded 

 debt (5,400,000) ; allotment for provincial ser- 

 vices (4,800,000). The interest paid on the 

 Indian debt during the year ending March 81, 

 1872, amounted to 4,853,000, and the total 

 debt for loans contracted up to that date was 

 105,491,000 (66,500,000 in India, 38,991,- 

 000 in England). 



