Mr. Gladstone has also made four new Baronets,—Mr. Mappin, M.P.
for the Hallamshire Division of the West Riding ; Mr. Palmer, M.P. for the Jarrow Division of Durham ; Mr. Jones- Parry, who has represented Carnarvonshire, and more recently the Carnarvon Boroughs, in the House of Commons, but who lost his seat in the General Election ; and Mr. James Kitson, the head of the Liberal Association in Leeds, where he has rendered very great services to the Liberal Party, and where he only just failed in securing the seat for the Central Division at the last Election. He is, of course, a strong Gladstonian and Home-ruler; but why the Times should have made so very bitter an attack on the selection of Mr. Kitson as one of the new Baronets we cannot understand. He has served the Liberal cause in Leeds well and ably, and has a great influence there. If Governments are ever to reward their influential supporters, —as Governments always do,—Mr. Kitson has at least as good. a right to his baronetcy as Sir Michael Bass has to his peerage. Amongst the ordinary Knighthoods conferred, we notice with pleasure that conferred on Mr. Philip Magnus, the head of the City Guilds' Technical Institution at South Kensington, and one of the most distinguished graduates lately engaged in planning a reformed Constitution for the University of London.
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