The Government has declared its intention to raise to the
Peerage of the United Kingdom the Right Hon. William Monad, M.P. for Limerick ; Sir James W. Moncreiff, Lord Justice Clerk of Scotland ; Vice - Admiral the Hon. E. G. Granville Howard ; and the Right Hon. Sir J. D. Coleridge, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas. Mr. Monsell, who takes the title of Baron Emly of Tervoe, will be a great loss to the Irish Catholics in the Commons, who have long regarded him as their best channel of communication with the Government, and to whose thoughtful, wise, and moderate counsels, the Irish hierarchy have always listened more patiently and more respectfully than to those of any other member of the English House of Commons. We heartily rejoice that the Government have taken this opportunity of showing that their acceptance of Mr. Monsen' s resignation as Postmaster-General was not,—and this we were able to state a fortnight ago,—to be in- terpreted in the manner indicated by the Times, as a breach with the Roman Catholics. Sir James Moncreiff, who takes the title of Lord
Moncreiff of Tulliebole, is a very able man, as well as-a clear-headed lawyer, and will add .a good deal to the political and legal strength of the House of Lords. Vice-Admiral the Iten. R. G. Granville Howard, who is to be Lord. Lanerton of Limerton, is intro- duced into the Upper House to give the Itouse of Carlisle a real representative there, and no doubt also he will add to the resource of the House for Naval debates. Sir J. D. Coleridge, who will become Baron Coleridge of Ottery St. Mary, was not returned to the House of Commons till the general election of 1865, and became Solicitor-General in 1868,. so that his political rise has been very rapid. As a politician he- has been the embodiment of "sweetness and light," qualities which will probably make his silver tongue very persuasive in the House' of Peers. The infusion of new life is good, so far as it goes, but it is homceopathic in quantity, and we want in the House of Peers more new men who have come to it direct, and not been filtered through any official career.
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