11 MAY 1878, Page 3

A telegram has arrived reporting the murder of Mr. Cooper,

the British resident at Shame, on the Chinese frontier of Burmah. As he was murdered along with two Sepoys by the Sepoy guard, the affair might be very serious, but that it is stated in the telegram that the murder was non-political. The motive suspected is not mentioned, but if Mr. Cooper is the Civilian who was once the subject of a debate in the House of Commons for an act of terrible, though it may have been of necessary severity, the murder was probably dictated by the vengeance of some kinsmen of the mutineers whom he slew.