The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-02-13

time comes, give him his sure reward.
Assassination Of the Governor General of
India.
His Excellency Earl Mayo, Governor Gene
raj OF British India, was assassinated on the
9th inst He was stabbed by Mohammedan
convict, and expired within brief period
after receiving the wound The scene of the
terrible event is located by our cable tele-
gram news from India, through London, at
Port Blair, in the Andaman Islands. We
were already aware that the Governor General
intended to make tour of inspection of the
neighborhood in that direction, where some of
the most hardened and desperate felons in the
Anglo-Asiatic territory suffer under sentences
the Duke of Argyll communicated the news of
the Earls decease to the House of Lords, and
the intelligence was reiterated by Mr. Glad
stone in the House of Commons yesterday
evening. Parliamentary tributes to the char
acter and public services Of the murdered no
bleman were offered and recorded in both
branches ofthe Legislature. They were amply
earned, and we'll merited officially. The
British Grown has not been, perhaps, ever
served by more Jealous, animated and eff
cient ruler in India, at least when we take into
consideration her present policy in that part
of the world, and the new ideas which are
now floating over the empires of the far
East, as, contrasted with her disciplinary
code, it was executed under Warren Hastings.
Lord Mayo met many of the native chiefs
in magnificent Durbar, or council, some short
time since, and with his own hand, by order
of Queen Victoria, decorated a few of them
with the brilliant insignia of the newly
instituted Order of the Star of India. 1t was
scarcely sufficient, however. The Asiatics
feel that they are men. Education, with the
enlightenment of the electric spark, is warm
ing their mind and prompting their hearts to
inquire
How long shall millions still kneel down
Ana ask OF thousands what's their Own2
Lord Mayo was compelled to enforce many
severe sentences against native disaffection
just lately. Men were again blown from the
mouths of cannon for the crime of mutiny
The Looshais are in arms in their mountain
Businesses, and the entire territory of North
western India remains agitatsd by the
knowledge of the fact Religious fanaticism
is neutralizing British Christian missionary
effort at different points. It is alleged. indeed,
that the native traditionary reports of the
efforts of Francis Xavier's system of propa-
gandism in former years find more favor
among the tribes of India to-day than
the best directed work of the Bible
Society of London. Be these things as
they may, it is easy to see that the
deed of assassination of great officer of
British state in India by Mohammedan con-
vict, just at present, is not an occurrence cal
culated to evoke special wonder, however it
may be depIored. Lord Mayo was not be-
loved by his tenantry in Ireland. 1t has been
charged against him that he was cruel and
exacting landlord. A HERALD special writer
visited his estates some short time since and
found the tenantry in miserable condition in
many of the districts. He may not have been
O humane ruler in the foreign possession in
which he has just died. His actual public
antecedents at home or his nferental mode
of government abroad, however, present no
justification for the act of his murder. This
must be sought for in the spirit Of Mohamme-
danism and the revengeful motive which inn
pels convict criminal heart Change was
moved sensibly by the first news of the assault,
and Indian securities deprecated universally.
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Tho Progress of Corruption Mt Albany-Is
the Present Legislature for Sale 10 the
Erie Ringe
It is not encouraging to those of our citizens
who voted last fall without regard to party in
the cause of reform to know that the State
Legislature, now in session at Albany, prom