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London, England, 1863-11-28 00:00:00

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Lord Elgin dead! The news comes with fi
ful speed in the wake of lessee fresh in memory •
'Three Governors-General in succession—first Lord.
DalEl..ousie, then Lord Canning, last, Lord Elgins
fall sac, eifices to our Indian empire. In the same
of Haveloes., and many more. Still in this connec-
tionbelonged to the sen, e College, Christ Chnrch,
n we think of Lord Clyde, of Mr. Wilson,
we are pa. infully reminded of another illustrious
victim to the tesels of office, Sir George .Lewis, who
dßisietises which ar e last three Governors- General of India ; and Sir
Bayne of his complaint is not certeinly
George Lewis reminds us of his predecessor" in the
War-office, Lord Herbert. We have not th e Psi"
tive news of Lord Elgin's - .
attt; but a tehattlam
received yesterday at the • - India athece annum:Ws
what may be regarded as fatal, that on the 14th 01
this month his life was d •
hills at that
ktiowri.asAtht.e.
despaired of. What was the''
thougis the suddenness of the dragster-would
poosfititobnbstehatraLpoidrd a Was stru,lk down
inci-
dental to the Indian climate, there is ground to
believe that this was not the case, but that. we
must attribute his loss more directly to his public
cares. He is known to have been suffering from
tbhye so ub le)
period of the year when Miens generally seek fore
relaxation ; he had just been o,ter a pass 13,000fte
high ; and he had complained of the effect of the
mountain air on his breathing. It WAS soon after
this exploit that his ailment manifested itself; and
heart complaint ; he had gone to the
the inference is that it is in these circumstances we
are to look for an explanation of the unexpected
calamity which we now record.
Bose
Lord Elgin traced his descent the to
at Earl whWho
name he bore, and he was sou of th ruce
The saln
brought the Elgin marbles to England.
of Scottish parents, he was born in London on due
20th of July, 1811. He was educated at Eton, an a.
from Eton he went to Christ Cieurch, where, as lately*
we have too often had to repeat, he was one of the
distinguished band of scholars and statesmen, in-
cluding Sir George Lewis, Lord Dalhousie, Lord
Canning, and Mr. Gladstone, who were reared in..
that celebrated seat of learning. :He was of the
first-class in classics in 1832, and suNsequently he
became a Fellow
of Merton College, being then
known in his father's lifetime as Lord Brace. We
hear little of him -
tilllB4l. In that year he married;
he entered Parliament as member for Southampton,
and as a Supporter oi f Sr Robert Peel ; and he suc-
ceeded to the earldom, which, being a Scotch peer-
age, did not interfwith his seat in the Low er
House. The goner: election of 1841, which sent
Lord Bruce to Parliament, raised Sir Robert Peel
Stanley us
to power, with Lord Secretary for tile
Colonies. Sir Robert Peel.
and Lord Stanley were
both scholars and statesmen, trained oin Christ•
Church, were both prepossessed in favour of the
new-comer, and in 1842 offered him the Governor-
Generalship
of Jamaica. In noting this fact,
wa
are reminded of a scene which many years after-.
wards took place in the House of Lords. It was.
the first night of the Session of 1859, and the first
appearance of Lord Elgin in the Upper Rouse after
his return from his succesful mission to China. In
the debate which then occurred, Lord Derby and
Lord Grey contended with generous rivalry for the
honour of having first introduced Lord Elgin to
official life. "My Lords," said Lord Derby,--
I cannot pass over the subject of the treaties that have
been concluded with China and Japan without expressing
what has also been so well expressed by my noble friend
behind me, approval of the course which has been pursued
by her Majesty's plenipotentiary. It is a peculiar satis-<
faction to me to have seen Lord Elgin, who was appointed
to my predecessors in office, discharge his functions with
so much zeal, skill, and ability, because it so happens that
I was the first person who had the satisfaction to introdu co
Lord Elgin into public life.
Earl Grey—l beg your pardon, my lord—l made the ap-
pointment.
Earl of Derby—l beg my noble friend's pardon. I rec01,..4
lect giving him his instructions before he went out.
Earl Grey said that it was not so. On his coming into
office he thought the state of Canada was such as to require.
a person of civil experience to administer its affairs, and ac-,
cordingly Sir George Cathcart was recalled and Lord Elgin
appointed Governor.
Earl of Derby—Whether I am in error or not does not in
the slightest degree alter my feelings of satisfaction at the
manner in which he has discharged his duties or my per-
sonal friendship for him.
It must have been not a little gratifying to Lord
Elgin to be the object of this pleasant rivalry_ Lord
Grey was quite right in cla;ming the honour of
having sent him to Canada ; but Lord Dsrby had..
sent him previously to Jamaica, and therefore was•
the first to introduce him to public life. In Ja..
maica Lord Elgin had no easy task, but he acquitted.
himself so well that when in 1846 the Whigs had
to seek out the ablest man they could find to be
Governer-General of Canada, theypitched upon Lord
Elgin, notwithstanding his Tory connections. The
truth is, that the Tory party was now for a season.
broken up, and that the Wbigs might without fear
turn to some of the Conservatives for assistance.
Lord Elgin fulfilled its duties with consummate
tact. He carried out in Canada the conciliatory
policy of his father-in-law, Lord Durham, and by
preserving a neutrality between parties, by deve-
loping the resources of the country, a-
Krieultural
and commercial, and by seeking in every possible
way to study the wishes of the colonists, he, in
reign that extended over eight years, did a
more than
any man to quell discontent and to knit
the Cana-
dian provinces closely to the mother country. He
was so successful that in 1849
he Was honoured.
with a British peerage.
The next office Which ho Was called upon to fill
was that of Ambassador to
China. It was on his
way thither that he heard of the Indian mutinies;
at once on very slender information he divined the
importance of the crisis
divert to Calcutta crisis, and took upon himself to
the troops which had been
ordered to China i
This is one of those 11 support of his mission there.
4
of
0_
se acts of rapid decision, of official
courage, and
unselfish thought, which historians
will ever delight
to remember. He passed on to
China, and
though, by this act of unselfishness, his
Was d
progress all
elayed, yet in the end, as we
know, he succeeded in his aims ; he saw Canton
taken, and he negotiated the important treaty
of
Tientsin with the Celestials, which forms the basis
Of our present relations with them. it was a great
triumph, and though there had been much bitter
contention as to the policy of Lord Palmerston in
prosecuting the Chinese fear, yet its successful issue
scene
seemed to gratify all parties alike; and that
which we have described as taking place in the
House of Lords in February, 1859, will show that
the opponents of Lord Palmerston not less than his
supporters were anxious to do honour to the British,
Plenipotentiary. Not to repose, however, did Lord
In the summer of 1859
Elgin return to this country.
on office once
Lord Palmerston entered up more, and
member of his Cabinet, 'witll.
Lord Elgin became a G
the duties of Postinaster- eneral. What followed
it needless
to recount. The brother of Lord
is almost
Elgin, Mr. Bruce, had been appointed our Envoy in
China, and in accordance with the treaty he ought
to have been received in Pekin. Access to the capi-
tal, however, was refused to him, save on conditions
which were considered derogatory to the British
representative, and when we insisted on the rights
secured to us by treaty, there ensued the disaster
the Peiho. Forthwith, in 1860, Lord Elgin of
despatched once more to sustain the Eng was
lish autho-
rity, and he thoroughly fulfilled his
entering Pekin in state, and compelling
mission by
the sub-
mission of the Celestial chiefs.
gained this triumph than h"' Scarcely had hee
was appointed to sec-
teed Lord Canning as G
When he accepted the
Governor-General of India.
how the two
previous
Governors,
his friends remembered
his college friends,
had iufferod from the
severity of their labours in an
oppressive climate. It was felt at the same time
that so rnw‘h
misfortune must have its interval of
hrightneso
, and it was hoped that Lord Elgin might
escape. If, as we fear, he has fallen, he has fallen
in harness; but he has bad the satisfaction of seeing
India grow into prosperity under his rule, and hold
out expectations which for years past we have not
dared to entertain. All through his life he was suc-
cessful in his undertakings, and he was successful at
the last. He owed that success not so much to great
genius as to good sense, to social tact, and to a love
of hard steady work.

PRICE..... ~..4d.
STAMPED ....M.

Blanch, A Reid, and W. Vandrey, assistant-engi-
neers, to the Conqueror ; Charles Hetherington, of
the Marlborough ; J. R. Cooper, of the Cumber-
land ; Thomas Wilson, of the Fisgard ; William
Young, of the Rattler; David Landlands, of the
Caradoc ; John Roberts (b), of the Euryalus ; David
Miller, of the Majestic ; Thomas Edgar, of the
Pncebe ; John King (a), of the Hyara ; Alfred
Smith, of the Psyche; and Edmund Hawke, of the
Charybdis, promoted to engineers; William Sides,
of the Curlew, promoted to acting-engineer.

reservew ich by at th
eAlre :op' THE ARMY.
officials The a annual ut
the
le officialwar-
e ffii inspection thi oo nwoefnmt idl ietwa ryi:tsot olrier so
oi ni .
at 10
resieshtrwaians and were b y
met
by Capt. Gordon, C.B ~ the local superintendent.
They proceededfirst
to the grand depot in the New-
road, which con tai ns a large number of field train
guns, shot, shell, & c., in readiness for immediate
issue, together with all the appendages necessary
to take the field under any sudden emergency. The
Board having thoroughly inspected the grand depot,
drove down to the newly-erected reserve stores in
the Plumstead Marsh. They went over that por-
tion of the establishment. From the Marsh the
Board continued 'their inspection through the gun
stores at the eastern extremity of the Arsenal, and
then concluded their visit by examining the spa-
cious harness and saddlery department, under the
At superintendence of Capt. Fenn.
the conclusion
Earl de Grey expressed himself well -
satisfied with
the amount of the stores in readiness for the forth-
coming year, and also with the orderly and
correct
statement with which he bad been supplied, and
which he said his inspection had fully borne out.
The whole of the Royal Marine division at Wool-
wich was yesterday paraded in rear of the barracks
with closed gates, and witnessed the infliction of cor-
poral punishment on Private J. Mitchell, convicted
by garrison court martial of being absent and mak-
ing away with his necessaries. The prisoner under-
want the full punishment—namely, 50 lashes.
and was removed to the infirmary. On his release
he will be transferred to the prison at Fort Clarence
under sentence of 182 days' confinement. He will
afterwards return to his duties. The authorities
are now using the most stringent measures to put
down these offences, which have been considerably
on the increase.