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India,.—The office of the Secretary of State for India in Council is in St. James’s-park, S.W. The departments are the Council, the Correspondence Department, that for Military Funds, for Registry of Despatches, for Stores, and the Accounts Branch of the Financial Department. There is also a Medical Board and an Audit Office. NEAREST Railway Station, Westminster-bridge; Omnibus Routes, Whitehall and Strand; Cab Rank, Palace-yard.
Charles Dickens (Jr.), Dickens's Dictionary of London, 1879