3 NOVEMBER 1923, Page 2

With profound regret we record the death of Mr. Bonar

Law which occurred very early on Tuesday morning. When Mr. Bonar Law was asked to become Prime Minister a year ago his doctors told him that he might be able to bear the burden for about six months. The doctors were right ; he held office for nearly seven months, but it is probably no exaggeration to say that he sacrificed his life to his splendid and unfailing sense of public duty. The main facts of his political career have been placed so fully before the public that it is unnecessary for us to summarize them here, but we publish an appreciation of Mr. Bonar Law's character in one•of our leading articles. Mr. Bonar Law's ashes are to be placed in Westminster Abbey. No Prime Minister has been buried there since Gladstone.