The Birthday Honours were announced on Friday, Among the four
new peers we note with satisfaction the inclusion of Sir Frederick Channing, a man whose moderation and public spirit well deserved recognition. Field-Marshal Sir William Nicholson, the well-known soldier, also receives a peerage. Privy Councillorships are bestowed on Mr. Masterman, Sir Albert Spicer, Lord Richard Cavendish, Sir Henry Primrose, Sir David Brynmor Jones, and Sir James Dalziel, the pro- prietor of Reynolds's Newspaper. There are nine new baronets and twenty-five new knights, including, we are glad to see, Mr. W. S. Haldane, the brother of the new Lord Chancellor, a well-known Writer to the Signet. Mr. Haldane has done excellent work in Scotland as a Prison Commissioner and a Commissioner under the Development Fund. His honour is well deserved, and will, we are sure, be popular in Scot- land on both sides. Mr. George Paish, editor of the Statist, also receives a knighthood. Other honours which will give, we believe, very great satisfaction are those accorded to Mr. Kenyon, the Chief Librarian of the British Museum, and to Mr. Charles Read, the Keeper of the British and Medieval Antiquities.
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