The Birthday honours which were announced on Friday morning are
in no way sensational. There are no new Peers, and only three Privy Councillors. Among these we notice with satisfaction the name of Mr. Samuel Smith, for so long one of the most respected of Liberal Members of Parliament. The four new Baronets do not call for special comment ; but among the new Knights we may mention Mr. Henry Norman, well known as an author, journalist, and politician, and until recently editor of the World's Work ; Professor Ramsay, the distinguished authority on exploration in Asia Minor and Syria ; and Mr. John Tweedie, the President of the Royal College of Surgeons. In the official honours, Mr. Chalmers, of the Home Office, becomes K.C.B., and Major Ponsonby, well known as Equerry and Assistant Private Secretary to the King, is gazetted C.B. One of the recipients of the Service honours is Admiral Wilson, probably the most capable Com- mander-in-Chief of a fleet at sea alive to-day, who obtains the Grand Cross of the Bath. The honour is well deserved. In the case of war it is to Sir Arthur Wilson that all eyes in the Service would be turned.
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