London, Feb. 21, At the inquest to-day en Lord Westbury, who jumped from seventh floor flat in London and was, killed, a verdict of suicide while of unsound mind was returned, Evidence was "given that Lord Westbury, who had suffered from ilk health, had grieved very mach over tthe loss of his son and heir, the Hon. Richard Bethell, who was recently found dead in bed. The Hon. Richard Bethell, who was only 46 years of age at the time of his Geath, was secretary to Mr. Howard Carter, who carried out the work of excavating the tomb of Tutankhaman in the Valley of Kings, in Egypt.
iis tragic and early death revived the superstition of the curse on 4 victim to his devotion to duty, first At the Hague and then in London. Latterly he has had one leg in London and the other in Paris where he temporarily returned to take the internal political situation in hand.
M, Tardieu formed his Cabinet Jest October when M- Briand resign-
The action of the Chamber of Deputies in overthrowing the Goernment in the middle of the London Naval Conference is unfavourably contrasted in the press with the self-discipline of the British House of Commons, but though the Left Wing papers' demand a new government, the consensus of opine ion among the Left Wing parties is that the return of M. Tard is necessary to "scotch the British manoeuvres to force France's hands at the Conference,"
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