During the week there have been two important Colonial appointments,
and rumours as to two peerages which will interest the public. Mr. Chamberlain, as Colonial Secre- tary, has selected Sir Herbert Murray, late Chairman of the Board of Customs, to be Governor of Newfoundland, and Co'onel Gerard Smith, formerly M.P. for one of the Divisions of Buckinghamshire, to be Governor of Western Australia. The Newfoundland appointment is clearly a very good one, as Sir H. Murray, when he went to the island to distribute the grant of £5,000 made by the Home Government to relieve the distress, secured a very large amount of popularity. The two new Peers are to be Baron Henry De Worms, who will make the third Jew lord, and Sir Algernon Borthwick, who• will be the first newspaper man to obtain a seat in the Upper House. The Daily Chronicle states that Sir Algernon Borth- wick can claim to be in the true sense a working journalist, since before he succeeded his father in the proprietorship of the Morning Post, not only was he for a short time the Paris correspondent of that paper, but after he returned to London in 1853, a frequent contributor to the Owl. Sir Algernon is a man of very old family, having been a claimant of the oldest Scotch barony.
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