A distressing event has occurred at Calcutta. On 'Wednesday last,
Mr. Norman, the Assistant Chief Justice of the Supreme Court (and acting 'Chief Justice, in the absence of his superior, Sir R, Couch, on leave), was stabbed in two places by an up-country native when entering the Court, and has since died. The Calcutta telegram asserts that the attack is not believed there to be in any degree due to political causes, or connected with the Wahabee movement. It is conjeCtured,—but this seems to be mere conjecture,—that the murderer had had some private suit decided against him. When apprehended, he either was mad or feigned madness,—more probably the latter, as he replied to a question, " Earth is sunk below the water, and the men have gone up to the sky ; the dog is eating the wall,"—which sounds exactly like a child acting madness. It is certainly an odd coincidence if this murder of the principal judge in Calcutta by an up-country native has really taken place without any connection with the authors of exactly similar crimes recently committed in.the Punjab.
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