Burke's Peerage, Baronetaye, and Knightage. (Forty - third annual Edition.) Edited andnompiled
by Sir Bernard Burke, C.B., LL,D., Ulster King-of-Arms. (Harrison.)—A glance at the table of contents of this elaborate compilation shows that the author earnestly endeavours to introduce into it year by year every reliable fact procurable, in con- nection with the origin and history of the ancient and distinguished houses and families of which it treats. There have been created during the past your seventeen new peerages, three of which are promotions, and one a law peerage. By one of these creations (the barony of Shute, conferred on Viscount Barrington, an Irish Poor), the Peers of Ireland are reduced to one hundred in number, thus bringing into opera- tion an important clause with reference to this matter in the Act of Union. The now Baronetcies are eleven in number. Among Peerage incidents, two titles (Rivers and Stratford de Radcliffe) havo become extinct ; Lady Burdett-Coutts and Mrs. Money-Coutts have become co-heirs of the baronies of Scales, Latitner, and Badlesmore ; and the death of the Dowager-Countess Cowper reduces the roll of the Peerage by one. Death has removed sixteen Peers, one Peeress, and twenty-one baronets.
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