pointees. In addition, he has appointed scores of Recorders, and raised nearly a hundred juniors to the rank of Queen's Counsel. Among the New Year's " honors " is the conferring of a peerage upon Mr. Justice

Hawkins. By what title he will enter the House of Lords has not yet been announced; but what concerns the Bar most is that he will still be able to continue his judicial career as a law lord in the House of Lords and in the Privy Council if he so desires. Stuff Gown.