The Press.
London, England, 1855-07-21 00:00:00

INDIAN GOVERNMENT.

The Earl of ALBEMARLE, on Monday, in present•
ing a petition from the inhabitants of Madras pray-
ing for a complete transfer of the Indian Govern-
ment to the Crown, complained with some bitterness
of the oppressive nature of the administration of the
East India Company—of the manner in which taxes
were wrung, often by torture, from a miserable popu-
lation—of the neglect which suffered public works to
fall to decay, till famine was periodical—and of the
total indifference of the Company to the misery of
the inhabitants.
Earl GRANVILLE said that the Government had
inquired into some abuses, particularly the allega-
tion of the collection of revenue by torture. The
present WWI an unfortunate time for making com•
plaints respecting public works in India, where 3,000
miles of electric telegraph, and 120 miles out of
1,200 of railway, had been completed, the charges
for the use of which were exceedingly moderate.

The second reading of the Scotch Education Bill
was lost on Thursday in the Lords, by 86 to 1.
The Ministers bad offered to withdraw it, which being
opposed, they refused to vote.
Mr. Spooner's motion on Maynooth was disposed
of on Tuesday, when the further discussion was
postponed to that day threo months, by a majority
of three.

STATISTICAL SOCIETY.—At the last meeting of the
council of the Statistical Society Mr. Scargill was
appointed to the office of assistant-secretary, vacant
by the resignation of Mr. Cheshire. Mr. Scargili's
position in the list of wranglers for 1840 sufficiently
speaks for his qualifications for the appointment.
In reference to the retirement of Mr. Cheshire, the
council passed the following resolution :

That. the council of the Statistical Society accept with ex•
treme reluctance the resignation of their assistant-secretary,
Mr. Cheshire, and take the opportunity of expressing to him
their high sense of the great advantages which have accrued to
the society from the zeal and ability with which he has discharged
all the duties of his Ake.

THE LAST REPORT OF THE REGISTRAR GENERAL,
like that of the previous week, indicates a favorable
state of the public health. The deaths of 941 persons,
namely, 515 males and 420 females, were registered
in London in the week that ended on Saturday. In
the corresponding weeks of the ten years 1845.54 the
average number of deaths was 054, or, if raised in
proportion to increase of population, 1,049. The re-
sult of the comparison is a difference of about 100 in
favour of last week, arising from improved health,
and also to some extent from the high mortality of
the winter and spring months, which thinned the old
and infirm part of the population. The mean tem-
perature cf the last three weeks has been eleven
degrees higher than it was in the greater part of
May and June.
Ma. JOHN B. GREENE, son of an American banker,
has succeeded, notwithstanding the difficulties atten-
dant on clearing away the palace of Medinet Habora,
in discovering the celebrated Egyptian calendar of
which Champollion could only copy the first lines.
A cast of this monument was taken on the spot by
mL ans of a particular kind of composition. Different
colossal figures, the upper part of which were only
visible, have been now cleared away, and brought to
light; one of them in excellent preservation shows
the features of Rameses 111., and is about sixty feet
high. The excavations of Mr. Greene, which have
just completely made known one of the most import-
ant edifices of Pharaonic Egypt, will, by the numerods
inscriptions which they furnish, throw fresh light on
different points of Egyptian philology.
SOME OF THE GUARANTEE SOCIETIES have declined
to become sureties any longer to the Post•ofice de-
partment for provincial postmasters, on account of
the losses to which they have been subjected by the
defalcations of those fonetionerisek