NEWS OF THE WEEK.
MHE fears of Lord Elgin's friends have, we regret to say, been realized, a telegram, from Bombay announcing his death at Dhurmsala, the Punjaub Hill Station, on 20th November. Sir John Lawrence will reach Calcutta about the 10th January, and India will, therefore, have been entrusted to Sir W. Denison for some seven weeks, by no means a consolatory prospect. There is now not one English statesman in command in India, Bombay being governed by Sir Bartle Frere, Bengal by Mr. Beadon, Bin- dostan by Mr. Drummond, the Punjaub by Sir Robert Mont- gomery, all Indian civilians, and Madras by Sir W.-Denison, a Colonial Governor. They are all very competent men, and Sir R. Montgomery is a good deal more ; but this monopoly of Indian power by men of one school and one class of mind is not expedient.,
