The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1879-09-06 00:00:00

THE ROLL OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS.

The roll of the House of Peers, as it now stands,
comprises exactly 507 names, commencing with his
Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, who holds a seat
in the Upper House as Duke of Cornwall, and ending
with the junior baron, Charles Bowyer, Lord Norton.
It includes four Royal dukes, two archbishops, 22
dukes, 19 marquises, 134 earls, 32 viscounts, 24
bishops, and 262 barons—total, 499 individuals,
This number, as is explained in a foot-note at the
end of the roll, is in excess of the actual total of lords
spiritual and temporal. This discrepancy is caused
by the following noble lords being twice named
in the roll :—(1.) Eml of Cairns as Lord Chan-
cellor and also in his own place among the earls;
(2) the Duke of Richmond aLci—GOrdon as Lord
President of the Conncil, and also in his own place
among the dukes; (3) The Duke of Northumberland
as Privy Seal and likewise in his own place among the
dukes; (4) the Earl of Mount Edgcumbe as Lord
Chamberlain of the Household, and also in his own
place as an earl; (5) Earl Beauchtmp as Lord Steward
of the Household and also in his ..)wn place as an earl ;
(6) the Earl of Erne as Earl of Erne, among the Irsh
representative Peers, and also as Lord Fermanagh; (7)
the Earl of Loudoun, who figuits twice—first as Lord
Botrev.ux, and again as Lord Hastings. Since the
publication of the last roll in December last the Earl
Dandonald has replaced the late E al of Lauder-
dale as one of the representative Peers for Scotland,
and the late Duke of Newcastle. Lord Lawrence Earl
of Fife Duke of Roxburghe, and Viscount SI, Vin-
cent have been replaced by their respective eldest
BOW.

During the present year the names of Lord Bloom-
field and one of the legal Peers for Life "—Lord
Gordon—have disappeared from the roll.
The premier duke is the Duke of Norfolk, the
junior the Duke of Westmiester ; the premier marquis
is the Marquis of Winchester, the junior the Marquis
of Abere;avenny ; the premier earl is the Earl of
Shrewsbury', the junior tie Earl of Redendale ; the
premier bishop is Or. Jackson, Bishop of London, the
junior (holding a seat in tie House of Peers) is Dr.
Basil Jones, Biahop of St. David's; the premier
baron is Lord De ROR, an the junior baron, as stated
above, is Lord Norton.
The Earldom of Berke)ey is still represented in the
roll by a blank; and the Barony of Stuart de Decies
has disappeared from theroll, the sou of the late lord
having not proved his claim as yet to their lordships`
satisfaction.
Some twenty or thirty noble lords appear in the roll
by another and inferior title to that by which they are
generally known in society. For instanoe, the Marquis
of Londonderry appee,rs as Earl Vane, the Duke of
Argyle as Lord Sundr,.clge and Hamilton, the Earl of
Aberdeen as Viscoun t Gordon. the Duke of Bueeleneh
as Earl of D nicast tr, the Duke of Athol° as Earl
Strange, the Duke of Itoxburghe as Earl lanes, the
Duke of Montrose as Earl Graham, the Marquis of
Waterford as Lord ryrone, the Earl of Cork as Lord
Boyle, the Earl of aartiley as Lord Clifton, the Earl of
Galloway as Lord Stewart of Genies, and the Marquis
of Donegal as Lord i Fisherwiek.—Monday's Times.

Too Mum' F o IhM, —Profem,or Edison has dose a
great deAl for hitt generation by the applic..tion of
electricity to •ateclanical power; but there is one sort
of machine Which refuses to be driven by electricity.
This is the bAthing4Datialue, Bun Edison is no good
hint*--Juirt