The House of Lords met on Monday, only apparently for
the installation of the new Lord Chancellor, Sir Farrer Herschell, who took his seat on the Woolsack as Lord Herschell. After donning his Peer's robes and making the usual obeisances to the Throne, he subscribed the roll of the House, took his seat for a few moments on the Opposition bench, and was conducted to the Woolsack, where he received the congratulations of Lord Granville and the few Peers present. We fully expect that Lord Herschell will add distinction even to the great office which he now holds. He is, we believe, the first member of the University of London who has reached the Woolsack ; but not the first whose great legal attainments have fully entitled him to such a post, fur the late Master of the Rolls, Sir George Jesse], though politically he never approached Lord Herschell in capacity, was perhaps even his superior in judicial grasp and efficiency.
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