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The Queen has announced her intention to raise Mrs. W.

H. Smith to the Peerage, as a posthumous tribute of respect to the late First Lord of the Treasury. The electors of the Strand will doubtless show on Tuesday next that they echo the Queen's feel- ing, by returning Mr. Frederick Smith as their Member by a very large majority over Dr. Gutteridge, who is making a vain fight for Home-rule. We should like to see the majority at least as large as it was in 1886,—not because we have as yet

any experience of Mr, Frederick Smith's political quality, but because it would afford far the most practical testimony of which the case admits to the honour in which the perfect modesty no less than the unsurpassed good sense of the late Mr. W. H. Smith is held by his fellow-countrymen.

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