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London was saddened on Saturday by a telegram, dated 16th

November, announcing the imminent death of Lord Elgin, the Viceroy of India. His Lordship left England subject to a disease of the heart, and over-exertion in climbing a mountain 13,000 feet high brought on an attack so severe that the provisional Governor-General, Sir W. Denison, was summoned from Madras, and Lord Elgin forwarded home his resignation. No news of his death has been received, but on 17th November it was "daily expected." Lord Elgin has not yet been a very striking Viceroy, but his career in Canada and China showed him to be a man of much decision and a judgment above the average of Colonial governors.

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