23 MARCH 1872, Page 2

The India Office has settled £1,000 a year on Lady

Mayo, and given £20,000 to the younger children of the deceased Viceroy. The grant is rather larger than the usual one, which is £2,000 a year to the widow of a deceased Viceroy, and would have looked more liberal in the usual form, but we see little ground for the clamour about parsimony. The Indian Government is bound to be economical on behalf of its unrepresented subjects, and the Viceroy's family cannot have lost more than £40,000 by his death. The grant to the widow of Mr. Justice Norman is far more parsi- monious, being only £500 a year, without any additional gift of money, though, as Mr. Norman's appointment was for life, his family lose by his murder nearly as much as Lord Mayo's.