It cannot be true that Ministers have any idea of
making Chief Justice Denman a Peer. If Lord Grey's Government be absurd enough to offer it, we may be forced to remind them of the credit which they laid claim to, when Sir Thomas Deumun was first raised to the Bench, for the resolution, which they carefully announced, against any routine promotions of judicird fuuctionaries to the Peerage. A more upright, bOttOttrable Mao than Sir Thomas Denman does not exist ; but God knows there are plenty of Law Lords. Even the dignity of the pro- fession requires that Law Peerages should not be " as cheap as stink- ing mackerel, or like hobnails, bought by the hundred."— Times, Sa- turday Moriting. The Lord Chief Justice, Sir Thomas Denman, is about to be created a Peer. The Gazetting of the new creation will probably take place on Tuesday. An additional liberal Law Lord in the llouse of Peers will not be without its advantages. —Globe, Saturday Evening.
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