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to be called the Indian Sunday -School Jour- 

 nal. The first number of tbis periodical was 

 issued a few weeks after the adjournment of 

 the convention. A resolution protesting against 

 the custom of child-marriage was adopted, and 

 it was decided that the subject be brought 

 more prominently before the Indian public. 

 A second meeting of the convention was ap- 

 pointed to be held in 1878, the exact date and 

 place to be hereafter arranged. Statistics of 

 the existing Sunday-schools in India were pre- 

 sented, of which the following is a summary : 



The total number of scholars, fifteen years 

 old and over, was 10,907; number of scholars 

 under fifteen, except the infant-classes, 12,025 ; 

 number of scholars in the infant-classes, 4,187 ; 

 average attendance of teachers and scholars, 

 22,064 ; number of officers and teachers who 

 are church-members, 1,554; number of schol- 

 ars who are church-members, 7,819; number 

 of conversions, 542 ; number of library-books, 

 8,950 ; number of English periodicals taken, 

 3,053 ; total expenses of the schools during 

 the year, 6,804 rupees. 



NORTHBROOK, THOMAS GEOEGE BARING, 



Earl of, was born in 1826. He received his 

 education at Christchurch, Oxford. He was 

 successively private secretary to the late Lord 

 Taunton at the Board of Trade, to Sir George 

 Grey at the Home Office, to the present Lord 

 Halifax at the Indian Board, and at the Ad- 

 miralty until 1857, when he was returned to 

 the House of Commons for the united bor- 

 oughs of Penrhyn and Falmouth, and this con- 

 stituency he continued to represent in the Lib- 

 eral interest until his succession to the peerage 

 on the death of his father in the autumn of 

 1866. He was a Lord of the Admiralty from 

 May, 1857, to the return of the Conservatives 

 to power in 1858 ; Under-Secretary of State 

 for India from June, 1859, to January, 1861 ; 

 and Under-Secretary of State for War from 

 the latter date until the Liberals went out of 

 office in June, 1866. Upon the formation of 

 Mr. Gladstone's administration in December, 

 1868, Lord Northbrook resumed office as Un- 

 der-Secretary of State for "War; and when 

 Lord Mayo was assassinated in February, 1872, 

 he was appointed Governor-General of India. 

 Upon his resignation from this office in 1876, 

 he was created an earl. 

 LYTTON, EDWARD KOBEBT BUXWEB-LYTTON, 



second baron, the new Viceroy of India, was 

 born November 8, 1831. His father was the 

 eminent novelist and statesman, who held 

 office as Secretary for the Colonies in the sec- 

 ond administration of the late Lord Derby, and 

 was created a peer in 1866. The present 

 baron was educated first at Harrow, and after- 

 ward at Bonn, in Germany, where he de- 

 voted himself especially to the study of mod- 

 ern languages. He entered the diplomatic 

 service of the crown when nearly eighteen 

 years of age, and on the 12th of October, 1849, 

 was appointed attache at Washington, where 

 his uncle, Sir Henry Bulwer, afterward Lord 

 Dalling and Bulwer, was the British minister, 

 and to whom he acted for the time as private 

 secretary. In February, 1862, he was trans- 

 ferred as attache to Florence, and in August, 

 1854, was removed to the embassy at Paris. 

 After the peace of 1856 he was promoted to 

 be paid attache at the Hague. On the 1st of 

 April, 1858, he received the appointment of 

 first paid attache at St. Petersburg, and two 

 months later was filling a similar post at Con- 

 stantinople. While paid attache at Vienna, 

 he acted ns consul-general at Belgrade, and 

 was also employed upon a special mission to 

 prevent the renewal of hostilities between the 

 Turks and the Servians after the capital of the 

 latter had been bombarded. As a recognition 

 of his services in this capacity, he was, in Oc- 

 tober, 1862, gazetted second secretary in her 

 Majesty's diplomatic service, and was soon 

 after promoted to be secretary of legation at 

 Constantinople ; afterward occupying a like po- 

 sition at Athens, and then at Lisbon. Having 

 assisted in the negotiation of a commercial 

 treaty between Great Britain and Austria, he 

 was transferred to Madrid, and six months 

 later was promoted to the secretaryship of 

 embassy at Vienna. More recently he has 

 been secretary of embassy at Paris, and Brit- 

 ish minister at Lisbon. In May, 1875, he was 

 offered the generalship of Madras, then vacant 

 by the death of Lord Hobart, but declined that 

 post; and in January, 1876, was appointed 

 Viceroy of India. He wrote " The Wanderer," 

 " Lucille," " Julian Fane a Memoir," a col- 

 lection of the national songs of Servia, "The 

 Eingof Amasis," the poetical works of " Owen 

 Meredith," " Chronicles and Characters," " Or- 

 val ; or, The Fool of Time," "Fables of Song," 

 and published the speeches of his father, the 

 first Lord Lytton, with a prefatory memoir. 



INDIANA. The assessed value of taxable 

 lands and improvements in Indiana is $621,- 

 416,973; railroads, $338,436,919; telegraph 

 companies, $173,241 ; other corporations. $4,- 

 045,503 ; personal property, $233,667.147 ; 

 total taxable property, $1,197,769,783. There 

 are 282,391 persons in the State subject to a 

 poll-tax of 50 cents. At the beginning of the 

 last fiscal period of two years, November 1, 



1874, there was a surplus in the Treasury of 

 $244,203.78; the receipts from revenue, in 



1875, were $1,393,029.78; in 1876, $1,277,- 



