The Return of the numbers and services of Temporal Peers
moved for by Lord Onslow was issued as a Parlia- mentary Paper on Saturday last. From this it appears that sixteen have held high judicial office ; forty-three have held the office of Cabinet Minister, head of any other Government Department, or Speakership of the House of Commons ; twenty have been Lords-Lieutenant, 'Viceroys, and Governors- General; twenty-four have been High Commissioners of South Africa, Governors of Madras or Bombay, or Lieutenant- Governors of an Indian province, or Governors of a Dominion or Colony ; fifty-one have held Parliamentary Under-Secretary- ships, Secretaryships, Permanent Under-Secretaryships, Lord- ships of the Treasury, or Civil Lortiships of the Admiralty ; two have been Ambassadors or Ministers ; one hundred and twelve are Privy Councillors ; one hundred and forty-eight have eat in the House of Commons ; and seven have reached the rank of Vice-Admirals or Lieutenant-Generals. The gross total amounts to four hundred and twenty-three, but inas- much as many Peers figure in two or more of the specified categories, the true total is two hundred and twenty-three.
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