18 MARCH 1871, Page 3

Two Peerages are announced. Sir William Mansfield is to be

raised to the Upper House,—a distinction which he has amply deserved. He will be a great help to the Government in the debates on Army Reorganization. Sir Henry Bulwer, G.C.B., is also to be raised to the Peerage. He has seen much of a multi- tude of Courts and Governments, been at Berlin, at Vienna, at the Hague, at Paris, at Brussels, at Madrid, at Washington, at Florence, and was Her Majesty's Ambassador at Constantinople for seven years. The various" cities of men, and councils, aud governments" are more familiar to him than to almost any other living Englishman, yet with his weak voice he is lost in the House of Commons. In the almost family party which discusses foreign politics in the Lords, he will have no little weight.