THE ASSASSINATION OF LORD MAYO.

Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1145, 30 March 1872, Page 4

THE ASSASSINATION OF LORD MAYO.

Great excitement was occasioned throughout Ceylon' and India by the assassination of the Earl of Mayo, the Viceroy ,of India. Lord JMayo, accompanied by Lady Mayo, the Marquis and Marchioness of Drogheda, Lord and Lady Donoughmore, and other guests and a suite of thirty persons, left Calcutta on a tour to Burmah ..and Orissa, on January 24, in H. M.S. Glasgow, the admiral's flagship, and the steamer Dacca. They arrived at Rangoon on the 28th, and great rejoicings and ceremonials took place over the first visit of the Viceroy. They then visited Moulmein, and- left there on the 6th. They arrived' at '■ the Andaman Islands en the Bth February. During the afternoon the Viceroy inspected the convict settlement at Fort Blair, returning at five o'clock, and then went to visit Hope Town, where he remained till dark. At seven o'clock he was embarking in a steam launch for the Glasgow, when an assassin broke through the guards and stabbed the Viceroy twice in his back, his weapon passing through the left lung and liver. Lord Mayo fell or jumped" off the pier into the water." Being taken into the launch, he said, "I am not much hurt," then "Lift up my head," and expired before reaching the ship. Lady Mayo was awaiting her husband's return on board the Glasgow, but received the corpse instead. The murderer was a ticket-of-leave man, a Mahommedan from the borders of Affghanistan, called Shere Ali. The only reason he gives for the deed is that "God ordered him to .kill the enemy of his country <" .On being sentenced io death he appeared to be quite triumphant. The murderer had hidden himself in the unfinished part of the pier. Lines of convicts were stationed outside the . guards, and held torches, which were overturned in the confusion. The assassin had been transported for murder previously. It is supposed that the deed is one of political and religious fanaticism. The body of the Viceroy was conveyed to Calcutta by the Glasgow, and thence to Europe, by Lady Mayo's desire. Intense sympathy ' was felt throughout India. Admiral pockburn, Naval Comm ander-iu-Chief . of India, was too ill to accompany the yiceroy in the Glasgow, and died at Government House, in Calcutta, on 10th February.