The Sun.
London, England, 1858-09-08 00:00:00

THE COUNCIL OF IXDI.I.

Yesterday the members of the Indian Council
sat in committee at the India-house, Leadenhall_
street. One of the first acts devolving on Lord
Stanley, as the Secretary of State and President of
the Council, was to divide the Council into commit-
tees for the more convenient.transaction of business,
assigning to each a specific department of affairs in
relation to the government of India, and that he did.
at the meeting ,ef the Colwell on Friday last. We
are now enabled to state how the several commit-
tees have been constituted, and the different depart-
ments under which they will range themselves.
Those departments are three in number, viz., first,
Finance, Home, and Public Works ; second, Politi-
cal and Military ; third, Revenue, Judicial, and
Legislative. The members appointed to serve on
the Committee of Finance, Home, and Public Works
are Mr. C. Mills, Mr. E. Macnaghten, Mr. J. Shep-
herd, Sir P. Cautlev, and Mr. Arbuthnot—the first
three being elected members of the Council, and

Le last two nominees of the Crown. To the Po.

litical and Military Committee have been asssigned
Sir John Lawrence, Major-General Sir Robert
Vivian, Sir Henry Rawlmson, Mr. Willoughby,
and Captain Eastwick. The first four •belong
to the category of nominated members of the
Council, and the last, Capt. Eastwick, to that of
elected members. The 'members constituting the
Revenue, Judicial, and Legislative Committee are
Sir J. W. Hon, Mr. Mangles, Sir F. Currie, Mr.
Prinsep, and Sir H. C. Montgomery, the first four
being elected and the last a nominated menibei.
The Council is composed of 15 members, besides the
President, so that they have been equally spread
over the committees. In some cases it will be ob-
served that the nominated members preponderate
in the committees, and in others the fact is the re-
verse ; but there is really nothing in that, for a
glance at the names of the gentlemen appointed to
serve on each will be sufficient to convince any one
conversant with the history and character of each
individual member that they have all been selected
by the Secretary of State with a rigid regard to
their special experience and aptitude for the busi-
ness in the departments to which they have been
assigned. It may be stated that the Secretary of
State is expressly empowered to rearrange the com-
mittees from time to time, and generally to direct
the manner in which the business shall be trans-
acted.

The whole of the business of the home govern-
ment appears now to be transacted at the house in
Leadenhall-street, and little or none at the Board of
Control. The official apartments heretofore occu-
pied by the Chairman of the Court of Directors have
been assigned to the use of Lord Stanley, the Secre-
tary of State, and he attends at the India-house for
the transaction of business from day to day. There,
too, Sir G. Clerk and Mr. Baillie, M.P., now the
Under-Secretaries, and until lately joint-secretaries
of the Board of Control, have removed their quar-
ters ; so that the new Council, with its necessary
adjuncts, may now be said to have got fairly into
working order.
The scheme of consolidation of the establishments
in Lcadenhall-street and at the Board of Control,
propounded by Sir J. Melvill and Mr. Leach, is
still under consideration, and little or nothing is
known out of doors in respect to it. In
the meantime, until it shall have been settled and
made public, some natural anxiety is felt by the
employes in the different departments, whose inte-
rests it will materially affect.
The old Court of Proprietors held a meeting on
Monday, but it had no public interest. We under-
stand they elected Mr. Crawford, of the treasury'
department of the establishment in Leadenhall-
street, to be their secretary, but whether this is a
provisional or permanent appointment is not at
present known.

THE PUBLIC HEALTH.

(From the Registrar-General's .Returil, Sept. 6.)
The total number of deaths in London in the
week that ended on Saturday (Sept. 4), was 1,039.
In the ten years, 1848-57, the average number of
deaths in the weeks corresponding with last week
was 1,344 ; but as the deaths of last week occurred
in an increased population, the average, to admit
of comparison, must be raised proportionally to
that increase, in which case it will become 1,478.
Hence it appears that last week was so favourable
to the health of the inhabitants of London that 439
persons survived who would have died if the ave-
rage rate of mortality had prevailed. The number
of children born last week exceeded that of persons
of all ages who died by 492. Diarrheea proved fatal
last week in 120 cases ; in the week preceding the
number was 146. Scarlatina carried off 110 per-
sons, being more than double the weekly average
of the season ; whooping-cough, 42 ; measles, 20 ;
smallpox, 5 ; and cholera was fatal to 8 persons.
Diseases of the respiratory organs were the cause
of 80 deaths; of these 33 were attributed to Flea_
monia; and 37 to bronchitis. The deaths referred
to phthisis (or consumption)l,evrheiclhn. is plAaebeody, ina theged
tubercular class of disuses, w
9, and a man, aged 61, died of tetanus, the former
of these cases was the result of an accidental wound
of the knee. A labourer, aged 41, died in St.
Giles's Workhouse from sunstroke, and the wife of
a weaver " from exhaustion from want of food ."
she was 63 years of age. Four nonagenarians died
last week ; the oldest was a widow, who had at-
tained the age of 98 years.
Last week the birth of 806 boys and 725 girls, in
all 1,531 children, were registered in London. In
the 10 corresponding, weeks of the years 1848-57
the average number, corrected for increase of popu-
lation, was 1,669.
At the Royal Qbscrvatory, Greenwich, the mean
height of the barometer in the week was 29.627 in.
The highest barometrical reading occurred on Thurs-
day at 9 a.m., when it was 29'75 in. The mean
temperature of the week was 59.4 deg., which is
0.5 deg. above the average of the same week in 43
years (as determined by Mr. Glaisher.) On Fri-
day the excess of mean temperature above the ave-
rage was 6.7 deg., the temperature having been
below the average on four of the preceding days
of the week. The highest temperature in the week
was 74.0 deg. on Friday ; the lowest was 43.3 deg.
on Sunday. The mean daily range was 19.5 deg.
On Saturday the range was only 7.1 deg. The
mean dew-point temperature was 51'0 dog., and the
difference between this and the mean air tempera-
ture was 8.4 deg. The mean temperature of the
water of the Thames during the last four days of
the week was 61.3 deg.

EASTERN MAILS.—The Indus, with the heavy
portion of the last China and Calcutta mail, left Malta on
the 28th ult. ; and the Ripon, with the heavy portion of tho
Bombay mail ; and the Teviot, with the heavy portion of
the Australian mail, left Malta on the 30th ult. The Indus,
therefore, may be expected to arrive at Southampton to-
day ; the Teviot to-morrow, because she does not call at
Gibraltar; and the. Ripon on Thursday. The Victoria,
with the outward Australian mail of the 12th of May last,
had not arrived at Melbourne on the 16th of July. She
was, therefore, at least 11 days behind her time. The
Madras, with the outward Bombay (via Marseilles) mail of
the 2d ult., had arrived out in due course at Aden. The
steam packet with the outward Calcutta and China mail of
the 4th August, and which \vas due at Aden oneA b h
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July,
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Australiantith th
reached Point de Galle two days after her time. The Norna
eoutswt steamer
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started with the China portion of the Bentinck's mail on
the 7th of July.
The manner of affixing the proclamation made
by the Count de Paris on the occasion of his coming of age
1,.•,s excited tho' ,:-,rcatcst admiration. These affickes were
I tinted on one side with the announcement of the sale of
the chateau and estate of the Marquis de —, in Perigord.
The ajtche was then pasted only in the thinband of margin
down the side, leaving the paper and displaying the under-
ueath upon which was printed the manifesth of the Count
de Paris, and the lone; extract from his father's will, which
ha§ created eo PAdA.mterot,--Vpull I9Nrnal,