The New Year has opened with the usual list of honours conferred by the Queen; but after the shower of titles and orders which fell some six months ago at the time of the Diamond Jubilee it was hardly to be expected that the list should prove very interesting. Sir W. Hozier, MP., and Sir Horace Farquhar, M.P., have been raised to the peerage, and two more parliamentary vacancies have thus been created. There are five recipients of baronetcies, including Sir Saul Samuel; and among the new knights one best-known name is that of MR. THOMAS JOHNSTONE LITTEN, the great proprietor of innumerable bacon and lard and teashops, scattered all over the country. Dir. Lipton is not a man of very distinguished presence. He is not perhaps quite so typical a wealthy butterman as Mr. Perkyn Middlewick of Our Boys; but he belongs to that class. But no one will deeply grudge him the honour which gives him precedence over most of those who have distinguished themselves in literature and science and the professions, since Mr. Lipton has
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.