Some few titular honours are bestowed by the parting Ministry.
Lord Francis Egerton is made a Peer, by the title of Earl of Ellesmere, with the Viscounty of Brackley as a title of courtesy for his eldest son. This tribute is due to Lord Francis's station and to his personal merits, and is approved by all parties. The other titles are Baronetcies, bestowed for long public services with a variety of distribution almost setting at nought the usual party distinctions. Mr. John Gladstone has the merit of being father to a Minister, and the Anti-Peel pamphlets which have been the amusement of his old age are overlooked ; Mr. Frank- land Lewis has earned his title from any Ministry whatsoever ; Mr. Pakington, Mr. Hogg, and Mr. Feilden, could scarcely have received theirs from Whigs, but Whigs will not grudge them ; in the case of Colonel Verner a slight tribute is paid to the much disappointed Irish Tories—the Colonel, moreover, having refused to oppose the Minister about the Coercion Bill in favour of a factious manoeuvre ; and in Sir Moses Monte-B.0re a new tribute is paid to civil equality of different creeds.
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