STATISTICS OF REPRESENTATION.
Suooesnoss for certain changes in the classification-list's of the Statistics of Representation, published in a Supplement to the Spectator of the 7th instant, have reached us. If our friendly correspondents would take the trouble to peruse the explanatory notes which precede several of the tables, they would see that most of their suggestions are incompatible with the plan adopted. For example, "The Peerage, its relations," is restricted to the sons and brothers of living Peers, and those who are ranged under the Military head are such officers as have not retired from the service. It would have broken up the Law list to an inconvenient extent to have classed under separate heads those barristers or advocates who have retired from practice, those who have not yet practised, and those who are plying their profession. The knowledge, general, classical; and legal, understood to be possessed by all who reach the status of barrister or advocate, points to a distinct classification, unlets where in- dividual peculiarities, such as literary achievement, warrant a transfer to the department of Letters and Science.
At a convenient time, certain suggestions on the subject of the Com- mercial list as regards a few of the Irish Members may be taken into consideration. Although every alteration proposed were made, the general results brought out by our classification as it stands would remain unaffected. The following corrections may be mentioned. Mr. Chichester Forteseue should have had place amongst the relations of the Peerage, as the brother of Lord Clermont ; and Mr. O'Connor Ilenchy should have ranged as a Country gentleman, not as a barrister. The vacancy for Clonmel arose from the death of Mr. Cecil Lawless.
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