last twe gentlemen will be of some use in the
House of Peers. Mr. Stirling—as we fancy he ought to be called—is a scholar, and litterateur of merit, of great possessions, and a fancy for titles, having assumed a baronetcy which, if his, is his through the female line, an unusual though possibly quite legal assumption. Sir John Walsh was once a colleague of Sir Cornewall Lewis, is a thinker, and a Conservative of the better educated and more sensible school. The other two gentlemen belong strictly to the class Mr. Disraeli has so often held to up to scorn, " men acred up to their lips, consolled up to their -chins," but as politicians antediluvian. However, as the Peers usually only meet for some ten minutes a day, and then hold their tongues in a dignified manner, they cannot do much harm.
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