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. 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. Oxford and Montgomery Pomfret 1721 1811 Combermere 1813 1782 Gough Ernest A. Edgcumbe 1789 1797 Hill W. G. Fitz.-Clarence 1831 1824 Hutchinson 1805 1823 Arthur Geo. Onslow 1801 1777 Leinster T.J. H. Fitz.-Maurice 1696 1803 Maynard Alfred Harley Melville 1838 1795 Wm. C. Beresford 1823 1770 1712 1820 1828 1812 Charles J. Canning C.J. Manners-Sutton 1835 1812 [E.of Clancarty, Ire.] 1803 1803 Hayes St. Leger R. J. Hutchinson 1776 1771 1785 1786 1816 1811 1682 1784 1849 1779 1846 1785 1791 1780 John B. R. O'Neill 1711 1809 +O'Neill 1801 1808 Abinger Robert H. Herbert George H. Grey Brougham and 1746 1779 Broughton John C. Hobhouse 1851 1786 William Howard 1793 1788 Byron George A. Byron Henry R. Greville 1624 1784 Bruce G.W.F. Brud.-Bruce 1746 1804 1643 1789 |