THE LATE LORD MAYO.

Westport Times, Volume VI, Issue 962, 16 April 1872, Page 3

THE LATE LORD MAYO.

I Mayo (Earl of), the Eight Hon . Eichard Southwell Burke, better known as Lord Naas, eldest son of the ■fifth Earl of Mayo, born in Dublin I February 21, 1522, was educated at I Trinity College. He was Chief Secrer\ tary for Ireland in Lord Derby's first I administration in 1852, and on that | ; occasion was made a Privy Councillor ; I held the same office in Lord Derby's to second administration in 1858-9 ; and K;_- again with a seat in the Cabinet in 11866. He was returned to the House I of Commons as one of the members, in I the Conservative interest, for the I county of Kildare in August 1847: was I member for Coloraine from March, ■ 1852, till March, 1857, when he was I returned one of the members for I Cockermouth. He is the author of 'St Petersburg and Moscow,' and suc--1 ceeded his father as sixth Earl of Mayo % in the peerage of Ireland in August, 1867. Lord Mayo was appointed to I tbe Viceroyship of India by the Derby ■ Government in 1868, immediately be- ■ fore the accession of the Gladstone I Ministry, who confirmed the appointment. His lordship was only about completing his fiftieth year. As interesting in connection with toe melancholy occurrence, a description of the group of islands on tbe chief of which the assassination took place may be of interest. The Andaman Islands form a group of thickly-wooded islands towards the east side of the Bay of Bengal, between 10 and 14 deg. north latitude, aud about 93 deg. east longitude. The population is both barbarous and scanty, and bears no resemblance whatever either in physical features

i or language to the neighboring Asiatic races. In 1793 the Great Andaman received a British colony, which was withdrawn however in 179 G. Since 1857 the Andamans have been selected as a penal settlement for Sepoy mutineers, though the design has "not, at least on any large scale, been carried into effect. It is only physically in short that the Andamans deserve special mention, not so much from their presenting in themselves any remarkable features, as from their being a long portion of the arch, mostly volcanic, of the Indian Archipelago, which, with Timor at its bend, comprises the Moluccas, Celebes, the Philippines, and Formosa on one side ; and on the other side the Sunda Isles, Java, Sumatra, the Nicobars, and the Andamans; the outline to be filled up in imagination, in order to produce a peninsula harmonising more or less with the other southern projections of the world, Hindostan, Africa, and South America.