NEWS OF THE WEEK.
THE sudden death of Lord Iddesleigh on Wednesday, in his sixty-ninth year, while waiting to see Lord Salisbury in Downing Street, has been the shock of the week. He had resigned the Foreign Office and declined to accept any other in its place, but declared his cordial sympathy with Lord Salisbury's Government; and he was at the moment of his seizure waiting upon Lord Salisbury by appointment, partly, we believe, to consult with him as to the language he should use at the meeting to be held concerning the Imperial Institute an hour or two later, which Lord Iddesleigh had promised to attend. When Lord Salisbury sent to say he was ready to receive him, Lord Iddesleigh was fainting away, and a few minutes later he breathed his last in the waiting-room, in Lord Salisbury's presence. The physician who arrived found him already pulseless, and the attempt to revive him by a cordial completely failed. The attack was due to valvular disease of the heart of some years' standing ; though Dr. Mortimer Granville, Lord Iddesleigh's physician, had declared that his heart was in a much better condition than it had been a year ago. There is something very sad about death when it comes, as it came in this case, just when, in the opinion of many, Lord Iddesleigh had been treated with something less than justice by his friends in power, and when it suddenly cuts off the hope that the old relations of mutual trust and confidence can ever be restored.
