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Lord Chancellor of England, in succession to Lord Hatherley, in Oct., 1872, on which occasion he was raised to the peerage by the title of Baron Selborne, of Selborne, in the county of Hants. He went out of office on the defeat of the Liberal party in Feb., 1874. He was reappointed Lord Chancellor of England on the return of the Liberals to office under Mr. Gladstone in May, 1880. In Dec., 1882, he was created Viscount Wolmer, of Blackmoor, Hampshire, and Earl of Selborne, in the same county. At one period his name was much associated with the project for establishing what has been termed a "Legal University;" and it may be remembered that on this subject Sir R. Palmer twice moved, though he ultimately failed to carry, a resolution in the House of Commons. He edited the "Book of Praise, from the Best English Hymn-Writers," published in 1862, and in the following year received the honorary degree of D.C.L. from the University of Oxford. He was elected Lord Rector of the University of St. Andrews in Nov., 1877. In 1878 his lordship published "Notes on some Passages in the Liturgical History of the Reformed English Church."

SELWYN, The Right Rev. John Richardson, Bishop of Melanesia, son of the late Dr. George Augustus Selwyn, Bishop of Lichfield, born in 1845, was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge (B.A. 1866, M.A. 1870). He was curate of St. Alrewas, Staffordshire, 1869-70; of St. George, Wolverhampton, 1870-71; and vicar of the last-named parish, 1871-72. He entered on the Melanesian mission in 1872, and in Feb., 1877, became successor to Bishop Patteson, the first Bishop of Melanesia, who was consecrated in 1861, and murdered in 1871.

SENIOR, William, journalist and author ("Redspinner"), was born in 1838. At an early age he became connected with the press, and was a popular lecturer at Literary and Mechanics' Institutions in the south of England. In 1873 he published "Notable Shipwrecks," which haa passed through several editions. This was followed in 1875 by "Waterside Sketches;" in 1877 by "By Stream and Sea;" in 1878 by "Anderton's Angling," a novelette; in 1880 by "Travel and Trout in the Antipodes;" and in 1883 by "Angling in Great Britain," being one of the handbooks issued in connexion with the Great International Fisheries Exhibition. Mr. Senior is a regular contributor to periodical literature. In 1875 he accepted a Government appointment as editor of the Queensland "Hansard," and proceeded to that colony to start an official daily report of the Parliamentary debates. This publication, the first of the kind ever issued in the Colonies, having been most successfully established, he returned, after five years' residence in Queensland, to England, and rejoined the special correspondent staff of the Daily News.

SERRANO Y DOMINGUEZ, Francisco, Duke de la Torre, Marshal of Spain, born at San Fernando, near Cadiz, in 1810, acquired his military experience in the War of Independence. Devoted to the interests of Queen Christine, he assisted in bringing about the fall of Espartero in 1843. After the restoration of the Queen-mother, Serrano coalesced with Narvaez in the attempts of the latter to overthrow Olozaga. Shortly after the marriage of Queen Isabella, in 1840, he acquired an influence over the royal mind which occasioned differences between the King-consort and herself, and caused some scandal. The Ministry of the Duke de Sotomayor, which attempted to destroy his influence, was overthrown by him, while that of M. de Salamanca, which he supported, yielded in its turn to the storm of public indig-