The Sun.
London, England, 1858-02-24 00:00:00

MAJESTY,

I. The government of the territories now in the
possession or under the government of the East
India Company, and all powers in relation to go-
vernment vested in or exercised by the said com-
pany, and all territories in the possession or under
the government of the said company, and all rights
vested in or which if this act had not been passed
might have been exercised by the said company in
relation to any territories, shall become vested in
and be exercised on behalf of her Majesty; and for
the purposes of this act India shall mean the tern-
toi ies vested in her Majesty as aforesaid, and all
territories which may become vested in her Majesty
by virtue of any such rights as aforesaid.
11. India shall be governed by and in the name
of her Majesty, and all rights in relation to any ter-
ritories which might have been exercised by the
said company if this act had not been passed shall
and may be exercised on behalf of her Majesty as
rights incidental to the government of India ; and
all the territorial and other revenues of or arising
in India, and all tributes and other payments in
respect of any territories which would have been
receivable by or in the name of the said company
if this act had not bean passed, shall be received
for and in the name of her Majesty, and shall be
applied and disposed of for the purpoes of the go-
vernment of India, subject to the provisions of this

111. Real and personal property of the company
o vest in her Majesty for the purposes of the
government of India.
IV. The appointment of Governor-General of
India, fourth ordinary member of the Council of
Nadia, and governors of presidencies in India, now
made by the Court of Directors with the approba-
tion of her Majesty, and the appointment of Advo-
cate-General for the several presidencies now made
with the approbation of the Board of Commissioners
for the affairs of India, shall be made by her Ma-
jesty by warrant under her royal sign manual ; the
appointments of the ordinary members of the
Council of India, except tie fourth ordinary mem-
ber, shall be made by the Governor-General of
India, subject to the approbation of her Majesty,
and the appointments of the members of council of
the several presidencies shall be made by the gover-
nors of such respective presidencies, subject to the
like approbation ; and all such appointments shall
be subject to the qualifications now by law affect-
ing such offices respectively : provided always, that
it shall not be lawful for the Governor-General of
India, or the governor of any presidency, to ap-
point a person provisionally to supply any vacancy
which may subsequently happen in the office of
member of council, unless the pleasure of her
Majesty be previously signified for that purpose ;
but any person appointed by such Governor-Gene-
ral or governor respectively, subject to her Ma-
jesty's approbation, to fill au actual vacancy in such
office, shall be entitled to sit and act as a member of
the respective council, and shall have the ernolu-
rnente and advantages of such appointment in the
meantime until her Majesty's pleasure may be sig-
nified in relation to such appointment.
PRESIDENT AND COUNCIL FOR AFFAIRS OF INDIA.
V. For the purposes of the government of India
under this act, a council shall be established, to
consist of a president and eight other members, and
to he styled, "The President and Council for the
Affairs of it,diu ;" and it shall be lawful for her Ma-
jesty, from time to time, by warrant under her
royal sign manual, to appoint a person to be, during
her Majesty's pleasure, president of the council for
the affairs of India, and by like warrants to appoint
eight other perms to be ordiaary members of such

council, and of the persons to be first appointed
such ordinary members two shall be appointed for
four' years, two for six years, two for eight years,
and !two for ten years (such respective terms to be
computed from the commencement of this act) ; and
every person appointed an ordinary member of
council shall be a person who Iras been a director of
the said company, or who has been for ten years at
least in India, in the service either of the crown or
of the said company, or who has been for 15 years
at least resident in India.
VI Every ordinary member of council appointed
to fill a vacancy occasioned by the expiration of the
term of office of an ordinary member shell be ap-
pointed for the term of eight years, to be Computed
from such expirations ; and every such ordinary
menibor appointed to supply the place of an ordi-
nary member whose office has become void other-
wife' than by the expiration of his term of office
shall be appointed for the remainder of the term
of office of such last-mentioned ordinary member;
and i every person ceasing, or who, but for re-
appointment, would cease, to be an ordinary mem-
ber of council .by the expiration of his term of office,
shall be capable of being foirthwith re-appointed.
VII. It shall be lawful for her Majesty to re-
move any ordinary member of council from his
office, upon an address of both Houses of Parlia-
ment.
VIII. The president for the time being shall be
capable of being elected and of sitting and voting
as a member of the House of Commons ; and in
case' the person who- inamerliatekf before the com-
mencement ofe: this act is' the president- of the
commissioners for the affairs of India be appointed
the first president of the council established under
this act, and be at the time of such appointment a
member of the House of Commons, he shall not by
reason of such appointment vacate his seat in Par-
liament.
IX. There shall be paid to the president the like
yearly salary as that for the time being paid to one
of her Majesty's principal 3ecretaries of State, and
to each ordinary member of council the yearly
salary of 1,0001.
X. Four members of council may form a board.
XI. In case at any board at which the president
is present there is a difference of c.pinion on any
question, the determination of the president shall
be final ; and all acts done at any board in the ab•
sence of the president shall require the sanction or
approval in writing of the president, or of one of
her Majesty's principal Secretaries of State ; and
in case of difference of opinion on any question de-
cided at any board, the president may require that
his opinions, and the reasons for the same, be en-
tered iu the minutes of the proceedings ; and any
ordinary member of council who may have been
present at the board may require that his opinion,
and any reasons for the same that he may have
stated at the board, be entered in like manner.
XII. Provided always, that no grant whatever
by way of increase of the actual charge for the time
being upon the revenues of India, no appointment
by the president and council to any office or em-
ployment on-the establishment of the president and
council, and no appointment or admission to ser-
vice to be made by the president and council, under
the powers transferred to them by this act, shall be
made without the concurrence of the president and
four at least pf the ordinary members of council,
but this enactment shall not extend to persons be-
coming entitled thereto, as mentioned in sec. 41 of
the said act of the 16th and 17th years of her Ma-
jesty, but such appointments may be made at any
board-
XIII. During any vacancy of office, bc., of pre-
sident his- powers to be exercised by Secretary of
State.
XIV. Arrangement of the business of the council.
XV. Establishment of president and council to
be fixed by order of her Majesty in Council.
XVI. One secretary may sit in the House of
Commons.
XVII. Appointment of officers and their salaries,
tt; c.

POWERS OF PRESIDENT AND COUNCIL.
XVIII. President and council to exercise powers
now exercised by the Company or Board of Control.
XIX. A specified uutriber or proportion of the
cadetships to be given to sons of civil and military
servants.

XI. All appointments to offices, commands, and
employments in India, which by law or under any
regulations, usage, or custom are now made by any
authority in India, shall continue to be made in
India by the like authority.
XX[. _Existing provisions to be applicable to
president and'council, &c.

XXII. Orders and despatches which may now
be sent through secret cotmnittea may be sent by
or to tke president alone.
XXIII. When any order is sent to India, direct-
ing the actual commencement of hostilities by her
Majesty's force in India, the fact of such order
having been sent shall be communicated to both
houses of parliament within one month after the
sending of such order, if parliament be sitting, and
if parliament be not sitting then within one month
of er the next meeting of parliament.
XXIV. All orders and communications of the
shall be signed by
president and council which shall be sent to ludia
Ma-
jesty's principal Secretaries of State.
XXV. Powers of sale and purchase and contract-
ingthe president or ono of her
given to president "and council.
XXVI. Warrants,,
relating to India to be countersigned by the presi-
dent. &c., under royal sign manual

APPLICATION' OF REVENUES.
XXVII. Dividends of
ing and future debts
and liabilities and expenses,
charged on revenues of India.
XXVIII. Revenues remitted to Great Britain,
and monies arising i
al Great Britain, to be paid to
president in council.
XXIX. Cash balance of the company at the
Bank transferred. the company, and exist-
XXX. Stock account to bo opened at the Bank.
XXXI. Stock standing
pany transferred.
XXXII. Power to grant letter of attorney for
sale, &c., of stock and receipt of dividends, given
to president and council.
XXXII'. Exchequer bills acid like securities
transferred to president and council.
in the name of the com-
AcoouNTs.
XXXIV. Audit of accounts in Great Britain.
XXXV. President and council to
tions for audit of accounts in I ndia.
ParXXXVI.. Accounts to bs annually laid before
ial:non t make regula-

military XXXVII. The mil.'
EXISTING ESTABLISIINIE
entithdimti limits
only,
riinvitlielegesse,ralid
East India Company and naval forces of the
&ND REGULATIONS.
Indian military and s ait, be deemed to be the
and shall be mad( r the naval forces of her Majesty,
her Maj( sty as ihey would shave
oi advantagesth
the said company, and
shave been under to serve
s:P and all persons obligations to serve
be liable to serve
within the sauna to ritorial lflll
terms only, and be
is hereafter the
ata hi;d3, same
seipmnieif
enertinue and be
com-
pany; theyiaonnys ,
h;
asdu ch allowances,fo continuedrc
e
laws of the
enlist-
ing in or entering the same shall
sGuobyjercntotro.Gal,lillAticit
ofs lonfdiPaainrlica,w,,uncli
Y'fillullai,iiot
of war, and all oth,r laws, regulation% and provi
pailand articles
sions relating to the East Inu a Com
and naval forces respectively, as tutrsy,
if he
Indian military and naval forces respectivelyr Majesty's
throughout such acts, laws, articles,reg
had
and provisions been mentioned or referred to, in-
stew' of such forces of the said company, and the
pay and expenses of and incident to
Indian military and naval forces a, c her Majesty's
n 11 be defrayed
out of the revenues of India.
XXX VIII. Forces paid out of revenues of India
not to be employed out of Asia.
XXXIX. Form of atte4ation dze A,
enlistmetits, to be as directed by ;ler if. future
XL. Servants of the company to be citjesty.
eemed ser-
vants of her Maje.sty, _ . ..

tgsoovfernment of India, oofurtof
ooffeothuertes
XLI. All orders and regulationspowers
Director.i or Board of Control to remain in force.
directorsand of the s
pro-
prietorsi
n Xr, Litli
o.annAdtlole functionst,iuiersaid company
and all ap-
pointments of such of the directors of the said com-
pany as have been appointed by her Majesty, shall
cease, aud the yearly sums payable to the chairman
deputy-chairman, and other directors of the said
company, shall cease to be payable, and after the
passing of this act all powers vested in her Majesty
of appointing directors of the said company shall
cease and determine.
XLIII. Board of Control abolished.
XLIV. Existing officers on home establishment
of the East India Company and of Commissioners
for the Affairs of India transferred to the President
and Council.

XLV. Records of the company to be delivered
,o the President and Council.

ACTIONS AND CONTRACTS.

XLVI. ThTic;i&,it and Council shall and
may sue and be sued by the name of the President
and Council for the Affairs of India,
as if they were
a body corporate.
XLVII. President and Council to come in the
place of the company with regard to 'widths Mli.

XLVIII. Contracts' &c., of the company to be
enforced by and against President and Council.
XLIX. No member of the said council shall be
personally liable in respect of such contract, cove-
nant, or engagement of the said company aforesaid
or in respect of any contract entered into under
the authority of this act, or other liability of the
said President and Council in their official capacity;
but all such liabilities, and all costs and damages of
the said President and Council in respect thereof,
shall be satisfied and paid out of revenues of India.
SAVING OF CERTAIN RIGHTS OP THE COMPANY.
L. It shall be lawful for the president and coun-
cil to pay to the said company out of the revenues
of India such annual sum as her Majesty, by war-
rant under her royal sign manual countersigned by
the Chancellor of the Exchequer, may direct, for
defraying the expenses of and incident to the pay-
ment t ) the proprietors of the capital stock of the
company of their respective shares of the dividend
on such stock, and of keeping the books of the said
company for transfers, and otherwise in relation to
such stock.
LI. Nothing herein contained shall affect the
right of the said company to demand the redemp-
tion of the dividend on their capital stock secured
by the said act of the3d and 4th King William IV.,
and all the provisions of the said act concerning
the security fund thereby created shall remain in
force, save that when the approbation of the Com-
missioners for the Affairs of India is required in
relation to the disposal of the said security fund,
the approbation of the president and council for
the affaira,of izegta.eiliall-faerreqstired. • •
COMMENCEMENT OF THE ACT.
LII. Save as herein otherwise provided, this act
shall commence and take effect on the expiration of
30 days after the passing thereof.

THE LEVIATHAN.

It is a long time since the public have heard any-
thing of their old friend the Leviathan, which
lately occupied So large a share of their attention,
and the bulletins about which chronicled almost
hourly how many or how few inches she had pro-
gressed towards her final destination—the water.
The fact is, however, that very little has been done
in the way of actual progress since the vessel was
floated off her cradles, and she still remains moored
stem and stern in the centre of the river, a little
below the old building yard, from which for so
many months she kept out the light and air, and in
which for so many weeks grave fears were enter-
tained that she would remain, a permanent adorn-
ment of the river's bank. But though, as we have
said, nothing worth speaking of in the way of work
has been done about the Leviathan herself, a very
great deal has been perfected, and we believe the
arrangements are being made for her final comple-
tion and fitting for sea. With regard to this point
a great deal of misapprehension appears to exist
with the public as to the total outlay necessary to
fit her out and the time it will require to
get her ready in all respects for sea-going
service. As far as the first-named subject is concerned
we believe wo shall be found correct in stating that
the total cost of complwing her fittings, putting on
board stores, &c., and making.her in all respects
ready for saa will not exceed 120,0001., and that the
time required to do this will certainly not extend
beyond the month of July. Four months is esti-
mated as being the utmost time necessary to fit her,
but circumstances have arisen, such as the company
being obliged to give up possession of the yard at
Millwall, which may occasion hindrances that will
probably delay her completion till the time we hew,
stated. In order, however, to insure the work being
done in the shortest space of time, and at the lowest
rate consistent with good workmanship, it has been
decided to subdivide what remains to be done'about
the vessel among several contractors. Thus the
building of the cabins and saloons will be given to
one person, while another contracts for the decks,
bulwarks, &c., a third for the rigging, a foerth for
the boats, a fifth for the internal fittings, and soon.
By this arrangement of course every part will pro-
gress simultaneously, and each be effected at the
lowest cost and in the best style. No less than 10
anchors are now required to hold the monster vessel
at her present moorings—five at the stem and five
at the stern, and each with lengths of cable varying
from 40 to 160 fathoms. When first anchered in the
river eight sufficed to hold her, but during hall a
gale which blew shortly after her launch she dragged
at the stern in such a manner as to swing more into
the tideway, and require two of Trotwan's patent
anchors in addition to the others, since which she
has been brought up effectually, and now appa-
rently nothing short of a hurricane would be suffi-
cient to move her. As the fittings of the ship pro-
gress a pair of powerful shears will be fitted on deck
for the purpose of hoisting in the ironwork of the
masts, the intermediate shaft, heavy boats, stand-
ing rigging, and other portions of her equipment
which are too ponderous to raise by ordinary
means. The masts are at present being made at
Millwall in pieces, and a good deal of the main -
masts has already been completed, though of course
they will not be put together until they are actually
on board. Thera are to be six masts in all, three
square-rigged, and three rigged with fore and aft
sails. Ail these masts will be composed of plates
of wrought iron one inch in thickness, and rivetted
together in the same manner as the sides of the
ship, or a steam-boiler of the strongest description.
They will vary in height from 130 to 170 feet from
the keel to the truck, each will be 3 feet 4 inches
diameter at the dock, and each will weigh from 30
to 40 tons, exclusive of yards or rigging. Each
mast rests in a square column of plate iron which
reaches direct from the keel to the upper deck, and
is rivetted and built into all of the successive decks
through which it passes. In case of it ever becom-
ing necessary to cut away the masts, at the base
of them all, at about 3 feet above the deck,
will be fixed a peculiar apparatus, which, working
by means of a powerful screw, it is made to com-
press two sidesof the mast together in such a man-
ner as to completely crush them in, and let the mast
fall over the side immediately. A', however, all
the masts will be stayed by the usual standing
rigging, which in the case of the Leviathan will
be all of wire rope and of the most massive kind,
other precautions have to be taken in order to get
rid of the masts when necessary. To effect this,
then, all the shrouds and stays are fastened at the
ends through iron rings in such a manner that, as
far as any exertion of strength or skill is concerned
a single man would be sufficient to cast loose all
the fastenings of each mast in five minutes, though
until the rings are opened the sides might be t srn
from the ship before they would yield an inch. All
the main and topmast yards of the square rigged
meets will be also of iron plates. The main yard
will be 130 feet long, or about 40 feet longer than
the mainyard of our largest line-of-battle ships,
about four times the strength ofany mainyard yet
constructed, and several tons lighter than if it was
made of wood, as is usually the case.
We have said that the company are about to re-
move their plant and materials to another yard on the
Surrey side of the river, and such is the fact, and
all the works at Millwall are in the chaotic state

which usually portends a change of location even in
small establishments, and wnich, of course, dis-
plays itself in tenfold intensity in a yard where the
largest ship. of which the world has ever seen or
heard has just b=en turned off to its moorings.
But, great as is the change which these prepara-
tions make and imply, it is really nothing to what
the absence of the Leviathan herself from the yard
has already occasioned. In fact, it seems, at the
first glance, as if one side of the yard had been
taken away, or swept into the river by some extra-
ordinary flood tide. The debris, too, of the launch-
ing apparatus, the piles of gigantic timbers, masses
of rails, hydraulic rains, screw-jacks, iron drums,
chain cables, groups of piles, windlasses, drc., all
huddled together in inextricable confusion. give to
the whole place the aspect of some gigantic work-
shop which has suddenly been levelled with the
earth and ruined by some tremendous catastrophe.
We believe uo attempt will be made to draw out
any of the many hundred piles driven into the
earth for one purpose or another during the course
of the launch. More with a view of satisfying

scruples on this subject than any other object some
one or two have been " extracted," but the efforts
required to draw them involved such heavy labour
that the wages of the workmen employed amounted
to more than double the value of the piles them-
selves. They will therefore be suffered to remain
where they are, only sawing off the uppermost
parts level with the eat th. In one portion of the
yard the men are employed night and day in turn-
ing the monstrous intermedia, e shaft for the paddle
engines. This shift is probably, for its size, the
finest specimen of forged iron that has ever bean
produced at any works. It was made at Glasgow,
and in the rough weighed some 34 tons. This is
the third that has been forged for the palddle
engines of the Leviathan. In both the former
ones, 'when the manufacture wasalmost completed,
such flaws were discovered in their substance as made
them worthless, and from the immense size of the
shaft, and the necessity for being of the most perfect
strength and solidity throughout, considerable
anxiety was at one time entertained as to the pos-
sibility of getting one made at all in tine for the