Liverpool Weekly Courier. — 1893-09-16 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

MUT. .AMBROAK. Commonwealth. The family residencie, Steeple Hill Castle, near Ventoor, baying Mien built originally in the reign of William 111. on the Bite of a rustiu thatched villa, which dated back to the days of the Wars of the Roses. The present mansion is an excellent imitation of the old baronial ambles of the Plantagenet spool). NJ murder, if it be • murder, of modern times has ' caused so much diversity of opinion, one man, in bie anxiety to prove that the wounds were selfinflicted, having already allot himself with fatal results.  Mr. Gladstone's selection of Sir Henry Norman to fill the highest post in the gift of her Majesty, the Vicerayehip of her Lilian Empire, ham completely upset the predictions of the cognoscenti who made certai• that Lord Heniuhel or Lord Roberts would have been called upon to succeed the Marquis of Lansdowne at Calcutta. There are !many oavillers ad the choice of Sir Henry Norman for this important position, as there never has been a time since the Mutiny of 1857 when it was more necessary to nominate a strong man to rule our Indian possessions. The Peninsular is seething with discontent, thanks to the mistaken . .  policy Oi allowing the native press a free hand. For the pima INVEIII years the newripapers publishel in the vernacular have revelled in abuse of English rule. Fierce objurgations of the most fanatical type have been freely levelled at Queen, Viceroy, and officiate of all grades, and IHindustan for the Hindu has been elevated into something like a war cry. The result of this daring the present month has been bloodshed and violence such as has not been known during the present generation, and Lord Hatris, the Governor of 13ornbty, foreshadows a still worse state of things unless immediate measures are taken to repress the agitators by prohibiting the publication of all revolutionary literature. Sir Henry. Norman's reputation as a Governor can only be Judged from his record in Jamaica and Queeeslind, neither of which two colonial can be said to require adminietrative functions of the first order. His knowledge of India has been that of the ordi..  nary military tnanoas he served. or & .considerable  time as acting A d)usanaGenoral in She Ptiojaub campaign, and has an intimate knowledge of ohs  Peehawur frontier. He certainly has been president of the India Conneil, and this is probably one reason for his selection. In point of fact, however, Sir Henry, at sixty-seven years of age, is by those oritioe who should know regarded u much too old for the post he haa been suddenly called upon to till. It is stated upon apparently sound authority that the real reason why Lord Roberta does not go to Government-house, which would seem tube his natural birthright, is that he holds strong views with 'upset to the forward movement of Russia on Afghan territory. As things stand, we should in any case be involved by our treaties with the A.0105r in any aggressive movement on the part of the Pausoovits,and much an event seems in preterit to be by no mune remote, • soldier Viceroy would certainly appear to hare been a better representative than Sir Henry in the interesta of the empire. By the way, is is confi. dently expected that the Now Year's list of honours will contain the name of the outgoing Vioeroy,who will °bum a step in the 'rump, and than increase by one the number of our ducal coronets. Lady Aberdeen has sailed for Canada to join her husband in maintaining that mild sway which all pro-regal examples go to show is the best method possible in ruling a free people. Ths Canadians are an easily governed branch of the Anglo-Saxon race. They are tardy and industrious, and no long as they thrive and make money GonerDols -General may come and go without disturbtog the equanimity of the dominion. It is, however, otherwise with the ladies! of Canada, who, without ' one of their own sex to receive them as Court, flounder hopelemely, if not exactly in a sea of despair,