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An Irish journal states that Mr. Serjeant Dowse, hitherto Solicitor-General

for Ireland, has been appointed Attorney-General —which, if it be authentic, must be due of course to the resig- nation of the late Attorney-General, Mr. Serjeant Barry, who has never been able to get returned to the House of Commons. 'Mr. Serjeant Dowse thoroughly deserves his promotion. There is not a more steady or cleverer politician on the list of Government offi- cials. Hardly ever absent from a division, astute as a law officer, in the highest degree humorous and commonsensical as a general speaker, he is one of the thoroughly cheerful occupants of the Treasury Bench, and gives to its otherwise perhaps too lugubrious earnestness a ray of sunshine,—nay, an air of stout enjoyment.

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