Medical Man and Court Honours

doctor, or eminent, if he were one." "When the Times takes to writing nou3ense of this kind, its staff must indeed be deficient in matter to fill up their columns with; for it stands to reason that if the objection above raised be valid in the case of doctors, it, is equally so in the instance of lawyers, military men, and, in fact, in an hereditary monarchy ; in elevating a diplomatist or lawyer to the upper house, it has hardly been thought necessary that the father should engage to have a son equally able as himself; the state naturally rewards the man who is deserving