...purely a matter of grace, and each application is judged upon its merits. To persons in certain ranks of society arms will be granted at once without question,...haphazard creation of peers, baronets and knights. We might indeed if we were given to understand that the haphazard creation of peers, baronets and knights...

...gear, to private soldiers on the Aldershot line.' ' To persons in certain classes of society tickets will be granted at once without question, to others...certainty they will be denied. It is no use complaining.' The main contention of Mr. Phillimore's tract is easily put aside. He himself, knowing the impossibility...