Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-02-18
The RssAssIKArIONs IN INDIA.

The excitement created in England
by the assassination OF the late chief
Justice in India will be intensified by
the murder of the encouragement.
For some time an uneasy feeling has
been prevalent throughout Hfnd0stan,
caused by the alleged preference OF
Hfndoos over Mussuimans manifested
by the British authorities, and this
restiessness has found an expression
in spasmodic crime throughout the
whole peninsula, and eliminated in
| the murder of the highest functionary
in the land. a knowledge OF the
English language has within the last
few years been made essential for an
aDpointment to any post in the gov
eminent. This the HindoOS easily
ACQUIRED, but the Mussulmans com
planned that the operation Of the sys-
tenn placed them upon a far rom
equal footing. Their books, they
said, were written in the Arabic
/ Persian and Pehlevi languages;
that their religion enjoineed the
study of their dogmas and pre-
cepts in the original, and that
consequently, while the HindoOs had
abunant leisure for the study Of the
language OF the dominant race, their
own time was scarcely sufficient for
| the investigation o cardinal doctrines.
| They argued that, while they mum
bered fully one-eighth Of the whole
| population, and possessed more than
| their Just numerical proportion of
| talent, wealth and strength, the
government in London, and its rep
resentatives in India, invariably
! preferred their riVas-the HindOos.
| This h~alf-real, half imagined wrong
was heightened by the warrior spirit
engendered by the history Of Mahom-
mechanism and the teaching Of the
| Koran. The sword ofthe Lord and Of
| Gideon is not mora indicative of the
militant character of ancient Jewry,
and the soldiery who, under CrOm-
well, made it their battle-cry, than the
| spirit Of almost every chapter OF Ell
Koran and the spirit inculcated by the
prophet of Mecca and his descendants.
In Arabia, in Turkey, in Spain, and
on. the Mediterranean coast Of Africa,
the same Warlike sentiment has in
every age animated Islam, and in a.
country they had once ruled with all
the pride Of cOnquerors to stoop OF ne
cessity to the third position was more
than the naughty Mahommedan could
calmly submit to. The superiority of
the English they could recognize and
endure; the elevation of the feeble
HindOO to positions of dignity and
honor above their heads e~xasperated
them to frenzy, and led to the perpe-
tration of q crime with which all Eng
land is ringing, and the formation Of
a sect of fanatics, bigoted, de5-
perate and seditious. The gov
ernOF-generalship Of India is the
/ highest prize in the civil service of
Great Britain, and since the battle of
Plassy, in 1853, it has been awarded
to the most ilIustrious of Englishmen.
Give, Hastings, Lord Wellesley, Ell
lenbOrOugh, DalhOusie and Canning,
Elgin and Lawrence, and agalaxy OF
other names, only less celebrated,
have preceded the unfortunate Lord
MAYO, who is now no more, We in
America are accustomed to the con-
templation of vast areas and enoT-
nous population, but few of US TealiZs
the briliancy of the position of the
governor general Of India. The pOpu-
latiOn OF Russia is less than 70, COZ, OG0,
but Lord Mayo ruled with almost abb
solute authority more than double
that number. Over an area of $685.
1856 square miles, his authority was
Supreme owe more than las, 600 600
of souls, As, 000, 900 more, spread over
an additional 800 600 square miles, en-
loved but a nominal independence.
They, too, were virtually, if not nOmi-
naHy, subjects of the great VieerOy.
Nor was the m~agnificence Of the
Oriental SatrapSy confined to mere
acres and mUltitudes. The tradition
al wealth of Benares and the Sacred
Cities was more than represented
by the commerce of Calcutta,
Madras and Bombay, which
poured through English and
Parsee banks, enriching the soil
from which the tribute was taken.
The revenue of India, over which
Lord Mayo exercised Hmitless author.
ity, was in 1869 nearly $3.50, 600, 900,
and the expenditure, even including
the railway loans and the subsidies
for internal irrigation, were rather
under than over that enormous sum.
president of the United States, no
official OF any empire, has eve welded
half the power of which q barbarOus
death by the hand of an obscure Zealot
has just deprived Lord Mayo. The
Right Hon. Richard Southwell, Earl
of Mayo, was born in 1922; the eldest
son Of the 6fth Earl OF Mayo, in the
peersge of Ireland; he was educated
at Trinity college, Dublin, and after
serving three terms as chief secretary
for Ireland, he was appointed to the
governor-generalship of India by the
Disraeli government in September, !
1868. His salary was, including allow /
anoes, about &50.000 sterling a year,
and his death will create a vacancy |
which Mr.. Gladstone and his adhe-
rents can scarcely supplement. In the
Liberal ranks there Is no statesman
whose talents, public services and per-
sonal character point cut as a fit and
proper substitution for the great Irish
man WhOmthe dagger of an assassin
has now removed from the sphere of
and Oriental politics. Cir
HtQHirer.
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