We greatly regret to record the death of Lord Londonderry,
who died on Monday morning in his sixty-third year. A man of wealth, he gave his labour ungrudgingly to the nubile. He was already in the House of Lords when the crisis caused by Gladstone's first Home Rule 13111 arrived. Under the succeeding Government formed by Lord Salisbury he was chosen at the early age of thirty-four to be Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland. Mr. Balfour became Chief Secretary, and together these two were responsible for the period of so-called "coercion "—really the foundation of the prosperity in Ireland which has been increasing ever since. They con- ducted themselves with singular resolution and courage. Although Lord Londonderry held other high public offices, it is as a great Irish Unionist that be will be remembered. He had no political genius and he was not a gifted speaker. But he was a man of unassailable sincerity, who never failed a friend and could be trusted to be staunch in every emergency.
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