NEWS OF THE WEEK.
T oRD PALMERSTON died on Wednesday morning, at a II quarter before eleven, at Brockett Hall, in Hertfordshire, a seat of Lady Palmerston's, two days before completing his eighty- first year. He had been an invalid ever since the dissolution, but the fatal seizure did not occur till last Thursday week, when he took a chill while driving out. He rallied, howevir, for a time, and it was not till Saturday, when there was some relapse, that a telegraphic re- port was sent to the Queen. On Monday and Tuesday there was a marked improvement, but on Tuesday night there was a second relapse, from which he never rallied. He was conscious to the last, except, as it is said, at short intervals during the night, when his mind wandered to the Belgian treaty and old diplomatic duties. A fortnight ago he sent directions to the head game- keeper at Romsey that the annual presents of game usually made to his tenantry and neighbours at Christmas should be given at once, and the injunction was added that " they were not to forget the clergy." He is the last of the school of Ministers whose imaginations were trained by the story of Chatham's and Pitt's coups in foreign policy, though he never deserved the reputation for rashness which these ideas gained him. Higher-minded statesmen we have ; bolder, more sagacious, and more honourable in feeling we probably shall not have again. Lord Palmerston's funeral is, by his own wish, to be private. He will be buried at Romsey on Tuesday.
