THE VICE-ROYALTY OF INDIA.

Globe, Volume V, Issue 538, 9 March 1876, Page 3

THE VICE-ROYALTY OF INDIA.

The London correspondent of the Argus writes : The announcement that Lord Northbrook will retire from the Vice-royalty of India during the coming spring took the public by surprise, but it appears that at the end of last summer he intimated that he did not feel able to sustain the heavy labors of his office during another summer. In recognition of his services an earldom has been conferred upon him. In the meantime the progress of the Prince of Wales through India is followed with considerable interest. The scenes in the arena at Baroda have stirred a murmur of dissatisfaction, but on the whole the country has been gratified both by the manner of his bearing and his disposition. Lord Lytton, who is now ambassador at Lisbon, has been appointed to succeed Lord Northbrook. He is now in the full strength of bis years, and is not much more than 40. Although utterly unknown in English political life, he is experienced in the circles of diplomacy, having served in various capacities at many of the European courts. The selection is bold, but public opinion rather approves than distrusts Mr Disraeli’s confidence. As your readers will remember, Lord Lytton is the only child of Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, who is still more widely known by his literary fame than by the peerage which it obtained for him. The son had no small portion of the father’s brilliant powers, and early obtained a place of his own in literature under the title of Owen Meredith.