NEWS OF THE WEEK.
WE greatly regret to record a terrible outrage at Delhi on Monday, when Lord Hardinge rode into the city to proclaim it the new capital of India. Lord Hardinge and Lady Hardinge, in a howdah on an elephant, were passing through the famous street of Chandni Chauk when a bomb was thrown from one of the houses. The bomb hit the steel shaft of the umbrella which was being held by a jemadar over the Viceroy, and the jemadar was instantly killed. Lady Hardinge was untouched, but the Viceroy was very seriously wounded in the right shoulder and slightly in the neck and thighs. A boy in the crowd was also killed and twelve other persons were injured. The bomb was filled with nails and, it is said, with gramophone needles, and was of a type that has been used in other Indian outrages. Lord Hardinge most pluckily ordered the procession to go on, but in a few moments he fainted. He is, we rejoice to learn, now making good progress towards recovery.
