Mr. Gladstone has made nine Baronets. They are Alderman Salomons,
the well-known Member for Greenwich ; Hardman Earle, great merchant of Liverpool ; Titus Salt, the chief of alpaca manufacturers ; T. Bazley, the old President of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce ; W. Fairbairn, the en- gineer ; Joseph Whitworth, the gun-founder ; W. Jackson, formerly merchant of Liverpool ; D. J. O'Connell, last brother of the Liberator ; and Major-General F. Seymour. The first seven, it will be perceived, have been selected on purpose from among the great industrials of the North, the traders and cap- tains of labour, who of late years have been somewhat over- looked. The true principle in the distribution of such labels is to link all who rise to real power into the State system, and on that principle these nominations are all sound. Every one selected is a personage in his own way, and four at least have done the public great service.
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