SUICIDE OF LORD LYTTELTON.

Amongst the telegrams received by the cable is one announcing the suicide of Lord Lyttelton. The deceased was fifty-nine years of age at the time of his death. The following particulars respecting him from "Men of the Time " will prove of interest : — Lyttelton (Baron), the Right Hon. George William Lyttelton, born in London, March 31, 1817, was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated in the highest classical honors in 1838. Having succeeded his father as fourth baron, April 30, 1837, he was Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies from January to July, 1846. He is Lord Lieutenant of Worcestershire and High Steward of Bewdley, failed in a contest for the office of High Steward of Cambridge Univer- ' •sity in 1840, and acted in 1861-3 as a member of the Royal Commission appointed to inquire into the management of our public schools; and since then as Royal Commissioner on Clerical Subscription, and on Middle Schools. He is now Chief Commissioner of the Endowed Schools. Lord. Lyttelton has taken an active interest in colonial questions, and in advocating the revival of the active powers of Convocation, and the extension of the episcopate.