Until a week or two ago it was not expected that there would be any birthday honours owing to the official celebration of the King's birthday having taken place in the summer; and what with the Coronation and the conclusion of the war a prodigious list of titles and decorations have already been granted this year. However, another long list. has been issued. composed for the most part of civil servants, the majority of whose names are quite unknown to the general public. 'There is indeed a widespread feeling that the thing has been a little overdone, and this feeling has been voiced in the House of Commons by Mr. Gibson Bowles, who, having long abandoned all hopes of the' political promotion to which his talents would certainly entitle him, is quite indifferent as to whom he may offend by his outspokenness. There are no new peerages, but there are ight Iaronetcies, including Col. Makins, Mr. A. H. Brown, M.P., and Mr. Provost, the Governor of the Bank of England. Tit: man on whom honours have been most lavishly showered is Sir Joseph Dimsdale, the rati or. He got a baronetcy ion; and now he has in addition " Privy Councillorship—the first ever conferred "personally upon a Lord Mayor (though every Lord Mayor of London is a Privy Councillor during hi year of office), and the Knight Commander Ship of the Victorian Orde:
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