The Birthday Honours which were published on Friday include four
new Peers. The first of these is Sir James Kitson, well known as a great captain of industry in the North. Next follows Sir James Blyth, who, besides exeenent work for the promotion of British agriculture, has lately done a very great public service in regard to the investigation of tuberculosis. He placed two of his farina at the disposal of the Royal Commission for purposes of experiment and inquiry, and in this way enormously facilitated their labours. His well-earned honour will give pleasure and satisfaction to all those who are engaged in the combat with the most deadly of diseases. Sir Samuel Montagu, the Jewish hanker, and Mr. Alexander Pecicover, at one time the quaker Lord' Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire, also become Peers. The Privy Councillors, of whom there are foer, include Sir W. Brampton Gordon and Dr. Spence Watson. There are eleven new Baronets, the best known of whom are Sir William'. Holland, Mr. John Dewar, and Sir Charles Seotter. The Knights, of whom there are thirty-three, include M. Greiner, the advocate of peace; Mr. William Gilbert, the humourist and man of letters, who began to make the world laugh in the " sixties"; and Mr. On:hard:mu, the painter. Among the recipients of military honours are General Wolseley and General Lyttelton, both of whom get the Grand Croae of the Bath. Professor Ray ',mikes*, Mr. Moran% and Me. B,ichinond Ritchie become K.C.B.'s ; and Mr. Sydney Olivier and M. Gerard Lowther, our Minister in Morocce, have the K.Q.M.G, An interesting addition te this year's immure is the list of GB.'s given to old Anglo.Indians on ti4e oceiteign. of the fiftieth anniversary of the Mutiny.
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