THE LATE EARL MAYO.

Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1156, 12 April 1872, Page 3

THE LATE EARL MAYO.

A Bombay correspondent sends some interesting particulars connected with the murder of the Viceroy. He mentions that the Andaman Islands having no telegraphic communication with the continent, a steamer was at once despatched to bear the news to Rangoon. Thence it was immediately sent to Calcutta, and then on to Bombay and London. To news of such importance all precedence was given, and the message, which was sent from Calcutta at half-past 7 p.m., Febmary 12, ran across the intervening 90 degrees of longitude, and beat the sun by some hours, reaching London in time to produce an excited feeling on the Stock Exchange. The news was thus known in London at an earlier hoar by local time than it was in Bombay, and owing to the improved means of circulating intelligence in the metropolis, was widely diffused there when at Bombay the knowledge of it was limited to a few official persons. The same evening it was alluded to in Parliament The telegraphic report says :— " Mr Gladstone, in the House of Commons this evening, expressed with emphasis his great grief at the untimely end cf the Governor- General of India. He said that Lord Mayo's career had been worthy of that of his predecessors. Mr Disraeli said that the country had lost an inestimable servant. The Duke of Argyle, in eulogising the late viceroy, sympathised with his family in the great loss they had sustained." Our correspondent says that a great shock was felt in Bombay next morning at seeing the news in the papers, which made their appearance in mourning. In reference to the probabilities of the act having a political origin, it is mentioned that the murder has this resemblance to that of Chief Justice Norman, that in each case the murderer was a Mohammedan fanatic, and that both came from the neighborhood of Peshawur, which aeema to be a centre of disaffection.