It cannot, on the whole, be called on interesting list, this list of Jubilee honours; but it has this negative virtue, that the only complaints which it has aroused have reference to sins of omission. Not a single person has been rewarded who is'genorally felt to be undeserving of the honour. And we were getting very norrous on this score. It wns well-known that all: sorts of people had been scheming for titles—among them some mushroom millionaires who had been distributing to charity with a good deal of ostentation some of the money which they had extracted from the pockets of the public; and people generally are very glad that these folk have been disappointed in their hopes.
25th June.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.