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. ง Court of Queen's Bench. Lord Chief Justice, £5,074; Hon. Philip C. Crampton, £3,725; Rt. Hon. Louis Perrin (ap. 1836), Rt. Hon. 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. Moore Title. Mostyn Northwick Ormonde Overstone Oxenfoord Paget Penshurst Petre Plunket Poltimore *Polwarth Ponsonby Portman Ravensworth Rayleigh John Rushout John F Skeffington Henry Paget 1797 1770 Sondes Southampton 1660 1812 Stafford H. V. S. Jerningham 1640 1802 1825 1808 Stanley of Alder- 1850 1796 Percy C. S. Smythe Stourton [E. of Ranfurly, I.] 1831 1786 Tenterden 1797 1828 Tyrone 1782 1820 Vaux of Harrow- [E. Roseberry, Sc.] 1703 1783 Vernon Vivian [E. of Glasgow, Sc.] 1703 1792 Walsingham Wemyss [E. of Courtown, I.] 1762 1792 Fred. T. W. Fiennes Chas. W. Molyneux 1802 1792 Wharncliffe 1447 1799 Wigan 1839 1776 Willoughby de [E. of Sefton, Ire.] 1771 1796 Willoughby de 1784 1779 Edw. M. Pakenham Peers who are Minors, 1492 1773 1313 1782 1797 1826 1838 1798 1829 1798 1861 1859 | St. Albans, D., 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. |