The Sun.
London, England, 1864-01-01 00:00:00

WHO'S WHO IN 1864.

The sixteenth annual issue of this handiest of
little guide books comes to us in the very nick of
time, on the evening of the 31st of December,
thereby enabling us duly to announce its publica-
tion on this Ist of January. The information com-
pacted together within it, is, as:usual, wonderfully
comprehensive in its range, and it is yet more won-
derfully accurate in its details. The work of revision
appears to have been carried down to the very latest
date, in any way practicable before the actual
date of the book's publication. Hence, at page 99,
among the list of the Judges in England, we find
duly certified the recent appointment of Mr. Ser-
geant Shee (now Mr. Justice Shee, soon probably
to be Sir WILLIAM SHEE), xtat 59, to the
Court of Queen's Bench. Altogether, by means
of this admirable little table-book of refer-
ence, we learn, among other things, that
the House of Peers at present consists of 1 Prince,
2 Royal Dukes, 3 Archbishops, 24 Dukes, 30 Mar-
quises, 159 Earls, 30 Viscounts, 27 Bishops, end 159
Barons. But as the Bishop of Bath and Wells sits
also as Baron Auckland, the total number of Peers
mst be set down at 434. There are besides this 2u
Peers who are minors, and 14 Peeresses in their own
right. There are 113 Peers, moreover, of Scotland
and Ireland (of whom 6 are minors), who are not
Peers of Parliament. There are 213 members of the
the Privy Council, the Archbishops,Bishops, Colonial
Bishops,Bishops of the Scotch Episcopal Church, and
retired Bishop numbering 94. There are 855 Barce
nets, 468 Civil and Military Knights, 106 Noble-
men and Baronets who are Knights of the various
Orders ; 730 Companions of the Order of the Bath ;
5 Field Marshals, 498 Generals in the Army, 398
Generals in the Indian Army, 330 Admirals in the
Navy, and 156 Queen's Counsel and Sergeant-at-
law. In addition to which notable statistics it may
be interesting also to particularise the following
pecularities mentioned in "Who's Who" in refer-
ence to The Ages of the Nobility :—The oldest
Duke is the Duke of Cleveland, aged 75; the
youngest, the Duke of Norfolk, aged 16. The
oldest Marquis, the Marquis of Westmeare, aged
78 ; the youngest, the Marquis of Ely, aged 14.
The oldest Earl (since the death of. the Earl
of Carlemont, on 26th December, aged 88), is
the Earl of Stair, aged 87 ; the youngest, the Earl
of Charleville, aged 11. The oldest Viscount, Vis-
count Combermere, aged 90 ; the youngest, Vis
count Downe, aged 19. The oldest Baron is Lord
Brougham, aged 85 ; the youngest, Lord Rosstnore,
aged 12. The oldest member of the Privy Council
is Viscount Combermere, aged 90; the youngest,
the Prince of Wales, aged 22. The oldest member
of the House of Commons is General Hon. Sir
Hugh Arbuthnott, member for Kincardineshire,
aged 84; the youngest is the Hon. Charles R. D.
H. Tracy, member for Montgomery, aged 23. The
oldest Judge in England is the Right Hon. Stephen
Lushington, aged 81 ; the youngest Sir James
P. Wilde, aged 47: The oldest Jndge in Ireland
is Chief Justice Lefroy, aged 87 ; the youngest
Justice, Keogh, aged 46. The oldest Scotch Lord
of Session is the Lord Justice General, aged 70 ;
the youngest, the Lord Justice Clerk, aged 53.
The oldest Archbishop is the Archbishop of Canter-
bury, aged 69; the youngest, the Archbishop of
York, aged 44. The oldest Bishop is the Bishop et
Exeter, aged 86; the youngest the Bishop of Glou-
cester and Bristol, aged 44. The oldest Colonial
Bishop is the Bishop of Toronto, aged 84; the
youngest, the Bishop of Nassau, aged 37. The
oldest Baronet is Sir 'William W. Dalling, aged
89 ; the youngest, Sir George R. Sitwell, aged 3.
The oldest Civil or Military Knight is General Sir
Arthur B. Clifton, aged 91; the youngest, Sir Chas.
T. Bright, aged 31.

"_Le Correspondant." 25 Decembre, 1863.

Charles Douniol,

A conclusion, to our regret, is:brought at last, in
this current number of .Le Correspondant, to the
wonderfully eloquent and comprehensive letter in
which, addressing himself to one of his diocesans,
the noble genius of the Bishop of Orleans, Felix
Dupanloup, discourses upon" The Studies of a Man
of the World." The third instalment of this great
epistle, with the close of which the whole argument
as we have said, is brought to an end, is in many
respects superior, both in depth of thought and in
eloquence of language, to its two predecessors.
Having had the Letter.brought under our considera-
tion in this serial form, merely piecemeal, we shall
hardly rest satisfied in its regard until we have seen
the three portions of it collected together, and
published separately, as if must , inevitably be
published as an independent livraison. It
is among the very happiest of the effusions
of the illustrious Dupanloup. One of the
most searching reviews in the whole of this parti-
cularly varied number of Le Correspondant, is also
one of the most readable contributions to it, namely,
M. A. de Portmartin's paper, entitled" Le Theatre,
1863,'' a paper in parts, as one may say, swarming
with diablerie. De Barante, of the French Aca-
demy, has a most impressive argument—as learned
as it is well-timed—simply but strikingly headed
in ;this age of Itenans and Colensas "De la
Rivelation." We are hardly satisfied with
the prevailing tone of the general article at the close
of the number in reference to the Events of the
Month. It is, in parts so hopeless almost, at times,
so cynical. However, in this it is exceeded amongst
ourselves here in one or two quarters—snch, for
example, just now, in the instance of Blackwood,
where stalwart old Ebony seems more then half-
inclined to tuna alarmist.