The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-04-06 00:00:00

THE NEW INDIA BILL.

The new Government Bill has been printed. The
preamble reoitee the expediency of the territories
known as "India" being governed by and in the name
of the Queen, and the first clause summarily treaders
the empire of India from the Company to Her Majesty,
in whose name it will henceforth be governed. A Prin.
olpal Secretary of State will exercise the powers and
duties now vested in the Company or the Board of Con.
trol, and henceforth any four of the Prineipal &ere•
tad., of State pro tem., and any four of the Under.
Secretaries of State, may sit and vote in the Howe of
Commons, but notinoro than four of each simultaneously.
The salaries of the fifth Secretary of State and an Under.
Secretary of State, if appointed, will be paid out of the
revenue of India, A " Council of India" is to be 'stab.
lished, to consist of 13 members, and to be styled.. atom
said. 13 members of Ohl" Council of India (whou
names are left in blank) will be members of the Council
from the oommeneement of the Act they are to 464
stated "Pinch members," "Second members," Third
members," and so on. Every vacancy in the °Aloes of
the Ant nine members will be filled up by the Queen
from persons specially qualified se having spent ten
years In the civil service of India, or Ave years at leapt
In the Queen's Indian army, or ten years in the Bombay,
Bengal, and Moths, armies. Every vaoaney in the
offices of the 10th, 11th, 19th, and 13th members of
Council will be elected from among persons who have
served ten years in Ind* or resided there for 18 years,
by the following constituencies—els, proprietors of
El,OOO India Stock and upwards, proprietors of capital
In railway and public works completes in India of
al,ooo and upwartla, and by perlollll who have been ten
plan at leed in India II ofileers in the Indian army and navy
(both Queen's and Company's service.), or es civil seo.
rants of the Company or Queen. The last RYA mein.
bete of the Council are to be chosen by the Perliemem,
tarp electors of London, Haneheiter, lAverpool, Glee.
gow, and Belfast. The quelifleation of these members
to, engagement in trade with India for five years, or in
the manufacture of goods for export to India or reel.
donee In India for ten years. It will be infoned that
the first nine members of Council will be at once
directly appointed by the Queen, eating under her ofil•
Wel advisers. The members of Council will vacate
their seats periodically, KO that the whole Council will
be elected out in six years from the date of their first sp.
pollitment. A ballot will decide the names of the out•
going members, Any member of the Council may be
removed, like a superior judge, on address of both
ROSINS of Parliament to the Queen, and suspended by
In. Council itself, the Queen assenting. Such sullen.
*lon will be final and fatal unless Parliament addresses
the Queen for its revered. Members of the Council
may not sit in the House of Commons' but they will
receive salaries of ElOOO. The duties of the Council
are defined in a series of clauses. The Secretary of
State will be its President ; he will divide the body into
committees, 'and regulate the disposal of It. business,
The Vioe•President (a member of the Council named by
the President) and two other members (aleo named by
him) will form a "secret committee." All appointments
are to be made by, or subject to, the approval of the
Queen ; and all appointments now made will still be
niade out in India, subject to arrangements to be made
by the Secretary of State. The real and personal
property of the Company is vested in Her Majesty.
The dividend, of the Company and existing and future
debts, /to., are charged on the revenue' of India, The
Queen is empowered to send three commissions s to
India to examine the finances and accounts of the vi-
ral Governments of that empire, and espeoially into the
collection of the revenues, The existing conditions of ser-
vice in the forms of India are to remain, but arrange-
ments may be hereafter made respecting future candi-
dates for the two services. Servante of the Company
will be deemed Her Majesty's servants. The old Board
of Control is abolished. Certain rights of the Company
(expense in respect of stook and dividend, and the
dividend and security fund) are saved by alums 68 and
62. The Bill awaite its second reading.