was nearly three-quarters of a mile long, and
contained every Englishman of any importance in Calcutta and a
considerable number of natives. The whole road was lined with troops on
both sides: but they stood at intervals of several yards, and there was
an immense crowd close behind and, in some places in between them.... If
there had been any other fanatics in the crowd, there was nothing to
prevent them from making a rush and giving a stab.... If there had been
any attempt of the kind, I cannot say what might not have happened.
People were in such an excited and half-electric state that there might
have been a general riot, which would soon have become very like a
massacre. One man told me that on his way home, he felt possessed by
such fury against anyone who might be connected with the murder, that he
walked with a kind of charge through a group of people, who looked as if
they enjoyed "the show," and gave a shove to a big Mohammedan who looked
insolent, at which, he said, "the man went down like a bag of feathers."
I saw some suspicious-looking fellows grinning and sneering and showing
their teeth myself, and I felt as if I could have killed them. No one
who has not felt it can imagine how we all feel out here in regard to
such matters. When Lord Mayo was stabbed, I think every man in the
country felt as if he had been more or less stabbed himself.

'The procession went on with the most overwhelming solemnity (nothing
short of these words can describe it), till we got to Government House.
There was a dead silence nearly all the way; the natives standing or
squatting in their apathetic way, and the Europeans as grim as death.
All that was to be heard was the rattle of the gun-carriage, and the
tramping of the horses, and the minute-guns from the fort and ships. The
housetops, the windows, the fort were all crowded with people, but all
as still as death. I think the ships looked as sad as anything. There
were two miles of noble ships in the Hooghly. Their flags were all
flying half-mast high, and they had all "tossed their yards."' (He
draws a rough diagram to explain the phrase). 'The yards are all in
disorder, and the effect is forlorn and dishevelled to a degree you
would not imagine. When we got to Government House, the coffin had to be
lifted off the gun-carriage and pulled up a long flight of wide stone
steps.... The sailors and a few artillerymen did it all in perfect
silence, and with an amount of strength that