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INDIA. 



The vote for members of the House in this 

 district was as follows: Green, Dem., 6,522; 

 Campbell, Dem., 5,075; Taylor, Rep., 5,936; 

 Moss, Nat., 5,830. One of each party was 

 elected. 



With regard to the whole State, the follow- 

 ing statement shows the number of votes of 

 each party, the number of members to which 

 each was entitled, and the number which each 

 obtained : 



"Where there are but two parties, and each 

 district elects three members, the cumulative 

 system enables a minority to be represented 

 where the minority has more than one third as 

 many votes as the majority party, but not 

 otherwise. 



The election for members of the judiciary 

 was held on June 2d. The Supreme Court was 

 unchanged, all the old incumbents being re- 

 elected. Of the forty-four Circuit Judges 

 chosen in the thirteen circuits of the State and 

 Cook County, twenty-nine were reflected, and 

 fifteen were new men. Politically, the Su- 

 preme Judges stand 5 Democrats to 2 Repub- 

 licans, and the Circuit Judges, 26 Republicans 

 to 18 Democrats ; but party lines were not 

 drawn in the election of the former, and in 

 only a few circuits in the choice of the latter. 



INDIA,* a British viceroyalty in Asia. Vice- 

 roy and Governor-General of Bengal, Lord 

 Lytton, appointed in 1876 ; Commander-in- 

 Chief of the Army, Sir Frederick P. Haines. 

 The Executive and Legislative Council is com- 

 posed as follows: The Viceroy, the Com- 

 rnander-in-Chief, Major-General Sir E. John- 

 eon, Sir John Strachey, Whitley Stokes, A. 

 Rivers Thompson, Sir Andrew Clarke, and Sir 

 Alexander J. Arbuthnot. The lieutenant-gov- 

 ernors of the provinces are honorary members 

 of the Council when it meets in their respec- 



tive provinces. Government Secretaries : For 

 the Interior, Sir S. C. Bay ley ; for the Finances, 

 R. B. Chapman ; for Agriculture and Com- 

 merce, A. O. Hume ; for Foreign Affairs, A. C. 

 Lyall ; for Military Affairs, Colonel A. John- 

 son ; for Public Works, Colonel A. Fraeer ; for 

 Legislative Affairs, D. Fitzpatrick. The gov- 

 ernors of the different provinces are as follows : 

 Bengal, Lieutenant-Governor, Sir A. Eden ; 

 Northwest Provinces, Lieutenant-Governor, 

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

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

 inces, Chief Commissioner, J. H. Morris; Brit- 

 ish Burmah, Chief Commissioner, C. Atchison; 

 Madras, Governor- General, Duke of Bucking- 

 ham and Chandos; Bombay, Governor-Gen- 

 eral, Sir R. Temple, Bart. 



The area and population of British India, 

 according to the census of 1872, were as fol- 

 lows: 



The emigration of coolies has been as fol- 

 lows: 



The receipts and expenditures for the years 

 1875-'78 were as follows: 



The new coinage for the year ending March 

 31, 1878, was as follows: Gold, 15,636 ; silver, 

 16,180,326; copper, 148,591; total, 16,- 

 344,593, against 6,394,553 in 1877. 



The public debt of India on March 31, 1878, 

 was as follows : 



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

 ferent provinces, the distribution of the population according 

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

 Cyclopaedia "for 1876. 



I. Consolidated Debt. 



1. Payable in India : 



Bearing interest ....... 74,906,450 ) 



Not bearing interest ... 48.0TO J 



2. Payable In England : 



Bearing interest ....... 59,656,1 1 6 | 



Not bearing interest . . . 20,917 f 



.,> fi77 no, 

 w ' ' ' lU8S 



Total consolidated debt .......... 134.681,553 



II. Not consolidated debt ...................... 12,058,21T 



Total, March 81, 1878 .......... 146.684,770 



" " " 1877 .......... 138,986,029 



