LIVERPOOL, March 2, 1895.
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ENGLISH LlTERAruRE.-The King has conferred Baronetcy on John Barrow, one of the Admiralty Secretaries, writer in the Quarterly Review, (chiefy on the North West passage) and one of our sa- rans. His Majesty Is said to have offered Dr. Southey, the poet laureate, to confer on him the Gueiphlc Order tHanoyerlan.) winch the poet declined. Some years ago, he was elected member for the borough ol Downton, but declined the seat of Par lament. The difference between the rank offered to Southey and that conferred on Barrow in this; the first is merely eqniva- lent to knighthocd and dies win it's posses sor; the other. being hereditary, deseends to the male heirs of the possessor. Sou they was right to reject any adventtious rank he has higher distinction as the first man of letters in England, than he could have at the flag end of nobility.