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1843); John Cowan, Lord Cowan (b. 1798, ap. 1851); £3,000 each. Rt. Hon. John Inglis, Lord Advocate, £2,500 and fees. Charles Neaves, Solicitor-General, £1,000.

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Court of Justiciary. — Lord Justice General, David Boyle; Lord Justice Clerk, Rt. Hon. John Hope; Commissioners, Lords Colonsay, Cockburn, Cowan, Ivory, and Wood.

There is no division of common law, equity, civil law, or admiralty ; but the whole business, civil and criminal, original and appellate, is discharged by the Court of Session. For the transaction of civil business it is divided into two divisions, each discharging precisely the same functions. One consists of the Lord Justice General and three Puisne Judges; the other of the Lord Justice Clerk and three Puisne Judges. The other five Judges sit separately, as Permanent Lords Ordinary. They pronounce judgment in the first instance; and this judgment may be carried for review before either of the inner divisions. The criminal business is discharged by the Lord Justice General, the Lord Justice Clerk, and four other Judges, who are appointed Judges of Justiciary under a separate commission.

Ireland.

Court of Chancery. — Rt. Hon. Francis Blackburne (b. 1782, ap. 1852), Lord Chancellor, £8,000; Rt. Hon. T. B. C. Smith (ap. 1846), Master of the Rolls, £4,300.

Court of Queen's Bench.·

Lord Chief Justice, £5,074; Hon. Philip C. Crampton, £3,725; Rt. Hon. Louis Perrin (ap. 1836), Rt. Hop. Richard Moore (ap. 1847), Judges, £3,688 each.

Court of Common Pleas. Rt. Hon. James Henry Monahan (ap. 1850), Lord Chief Justice, £4,615; Hon. Robert Torrens, Rt. Hon. Nicholas Ball (b. 1791, ap. 1839), and Hon. J. D. Jackson (b. 1783, ap. 1842), Judges, £3,688 each. Attorney-General, Rt. Hon. Joseph Napier, Esq.; SolicitorGeneral, James Whiteside, Esq., £ 4,612.

Court of Exchequer. — Rt. Hon. David R. Pigott (ap. 1846), Lord Chief Baron; Hon. Richard Pennefather, Rt. Hon. John Richards (b. 1790, ap. 1837), Rt. Hon. Thomas Lefroy (b. 1776, ap. 1841), Barons, £ 3,688 each.

PARLIAMENT.

The Parliament of Great Britain consists of a House of Lords and a House of Commons. The present is the 15th Imperial or 5th Reformed Parliament.

HOUSE OF LORDS.

The House of Lords consists of Lords Temporal, who are Peers of the Realm, and whose honors, immunities, and privileges are hereditary, and Lords Spiritual, consisting of Archbishops and Bishops. All the members of the five orders of nobility of England, viz. dukes, marquises, earls, viscounts, and barons, who are 21 years old, and labor under no disqualification, have a right to sit in the House of Lords; and in addition to these, 16 representative peers from Scotland, 28 representative peers from Ireland, 2 English archbishops, 24 bishops, 1 representative Irish archbishop, and 3 representative Irish bishops.

A List of the House of Peers, with the Title, Family Name, Date of Creation, and Birth of the present Peer.

The Titles here given are those by which the noblemen sit in the House of Peers. Those marked thus (*) are Scotch Representative Peers; thus (†), Irish Representative Peers. The Scotch representative peers are chosen for each Parliament.

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Oxford and
Mortimer
Pembroke and

Montgomery

Pomfret

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1721 1811 Combermere
1800 1807 †De Vesci
1792 1806 +Doneraile
1806 1778 Exmouth
1785 1797 Gordon

1813 1782 Gough
1815 1810 Hardinge
1458 1789 †Hawarden
1781 1792 Hereford

Ernest A. Edgcumbe 1789 1797 Hill

W. G. Fitz.-Clarence 1831 1824 Hutchinson
Horatio Nelson

1805 1823

Arthur Geo. Onslow 1801 1777 Leinster
Horatio Walpole 1806 1783 +Lorton

T.J. H. Fitz.-Maurice 1696 1803 Maynard

Alfred Harley

Melville

1838 1795

Wm. C. Beresford
Henry St. John

1823 1770

1712 1820

1828 1812

Charles J. Canning

C.J. Manners-Sutton 1835 1812
W.T. La Poer Trench

[E.of Clancarty, Ire.] 1803 1803
S. Stapleton-Cotton 1826 1780
John Vesey

Hayes St. Leger
Edward Pellew
George H. Gordon
[E. of Aberdeen, Sc.]
Hugh Gough
Henry Hardinge
Cornwallis Maude

R. J. Hutchinson

1776 1771

1785 1786

1816 1811

1682 1784

1849 1779

1846 1785

1791 1780

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John B. R. O'Neill
John Ponsonby
Wm. L. Addington
Stratford Canning
Edw. Jervis Jervis
John R. Townshend
George Byng
Barons.-209.

1711 1809 +O'Neill
Ponsonby
1551 1791 Sidmouth
1721 1824 Stratford
1743 1767 St. Vincent
1706 1783 Sydney
1804 1818 Torrington
1765 1779
1833 1782

1801 1808 Abinger
1806 1800 Acheson

Robert H. Herbert
G. W. R. Fermor
John C. Wallop
John Poulett
Edward J. Herbert
W.Pleydell-Bouverie
Fred. J. Robinson
Charles Marsham
William Parsons
J.A.St.-Clair-Erskine 1801 1802
John W. Montagu
J. Lumley-Savile
F. W. Ogilvie-Grant
Dunbar J. Douglas
A. Ashley-Cooper
John Talbot
J. S. Somers-Cocks
Frederic Spencer

George H. Grey
Philip H. Stanhope
Edward G. Eliot
John E. C. Rous
John Byng
Geo. A. F. J. Murray
[Duke of Athol, Sc.]
T. G. Lyon-Bowes
Chas. John Howard
Henry J. C. Talbot
Charles A. Bennet
Charles Wm. Vane

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Brougham and
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1746 1779 Broughton

John C. Hobhouse

1851 1786

William Howard

1793 1788 Byron

George A. Byron

Henry R. Greville
John Fane

1624 1784 Bruce

G.W.F. Brud.-Bruce 1746 1804

1643 1789

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To obviate the difficulty of finding the names of those Scotch and Irish Peers who sit in Parliament under English Titles, but who are commonly addressed by their higher Scotch or Irish Titles, the following list is subjoined.

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