CHANGES IN THE LEGISLATURE DURING 'IHE YEAR.
T"year just closed has witnessed a great number of changes in the personnel of-Parliament. Taking first the House of Lords, we find that twenty-four Peers have died. They are the Marquises Camden, 67; Waterford, 52; and Lansdowne, 50. Earls Gainsborough, 84; Kinnoul, 81; Bathurst, 76; Lanes- borough, 71; Rosslyn, 64; Chesterfield, 61; Craven, 57; Limerick, -53; Donoughmore, 43; Beauchamp, 37; and Harrington, 21. Viscount Clifden, 41. Barons Glenelg, 83; Monteagle, 76; -Clinton, 74; Plunket (Bishop of Tuam), 74; Northbrook, 70; Bayning, 69; Vernon, 62; Ponsonby, 59; and Rivers, 56. The Peerages of Bayning, Glenelg, and Ponsonby have become extinct, while the successors to the titles of Monteagle, Clifden, Donough- more, and Rivers are minors. On the other hand, the Duke of Hamilton and the Earl of Eldon have attained their majority, and Viscount Templetown has been elected a Representative Peer of Ireland, in succession to the lateEarl of Lanesborough. Fifteen Peers have been created, viz., his Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh, Viscount Halifax; Barons Barrogill, Brancepath, Clermont, Hartis- mere, Hylton, Kenry, Lytton, Meredyth, Mona, Northbrook, Pen- rhyn, Romilly, and Strathnairn. Lord Dartreyand Lord Wodehouse have received Earldoms, and now sit as the Earl of Dartrey and the Earl of Kimberley respectively. The year's changes in their Lordships' House may be thus briefly summarized :—Seventeen new Peers by succession, fifteen by creation, two by majority, and one by election.
The mortality in the Commons has been exactly one-fourth of that in the Lords. Six Members have died—a number rather below the average. The M.P.'s who have been removed by death were four Liberals and two Conservatives, viz., the Hon. J. C. Dundas, 57; Right Hon. H. A. Herbert, 50; Mr. F. D. Gold- amid, 53; Mr. J. B. Dillon, 52; Sir W. M. Farquhar, 57; and Mr. Lod-Phillips, 55. The session witnessed the unseating of seventeen hon. gentlemen, twelve of whom were Liberals and five Conservatives. The Liberals were Sir J. Acton, Mr. Robert Campbell, Sir R. Clifton, Mr. E. M. Fenwick, Sir H. Hoare, Mr. G. W. Leveson-Gower, Mr. Labonchere, Mr. Morley, .Mr. Parry, Mr. Pender, Mr. Schneider, and Mr. A. W. Young. Conservatives : Mr. Fleming, Mr. Ferrand, Mr. Forsyth, Mr. Mills, and Mr. West- ropp. Eleven members have become Peers, five by creation and -six by succession. Three are Liberals—the Hon. T. G. Baring, the Earl of Brecknock, and Sir Charles Wood. Eight are Conserva- tives—Lord Henniker, Sir W. Jolliffe, Hon. F. Lygon, Sir E. B. Lytton, Colonel Douglas-Pennant, Lord Stanhope, the Hon. C. Trefusis, and the Earl of Tyrone. Three Conservatives have resigned their seats—Major Cast, Mr. W. Leslie, and Major-General Lindsay. Four Conservatives have left their former constituencies and have gone to others, viz., Mr. Dowdeswell, Mr. Gathorne Hardy, Sir E. Benison, and Sir S. Northcote. Seven Conservatives have
been appointed to seats on the judicial Bench—Sir F. Kelly, Sir W. Bovill, Sir H. Cairns, Mr. Walsh, Mr. Whiteside, Mr. George, and Mr. Miller. There are now in the House of Commons forty members who had no seats in that assembly at the beginning of last year. Of these twenty-one are Conservatives: Mr. Ark- wright, Hon. G. W. Barrington, Mr. Bowen, Mr. Brett, Mr.
Capper, Mr. A. W. Cast, Mr. Dimsdale, Captain Douglas-Pen. nant, Mr. Eckersley, Mr. Gored, Mr. Garth, Mr. Hoard Gwyn, Sir J. Hay, Hon. J. M. Henniker Major, Mr. Hildyard, Mr. Lanyon, Hon. Egremont Lascelles, Sir E. Lechmere, Mr. J. Abel Smith, Mr. Kavanagh, and Mr. Whitmore. Nineteen are Liberals: Viscount Amberley, Mr. Candlish, Mr. M. Chambers, Hon. G. Denman, Mr. De La Poer, Mr. Edwards, Lord Eliot, Mr. Eykyn, Mr. Fordyce, Mr. Julian Goldsmid, Lord John Hay, Captain Herbert, Mr. Nicholson, Mr. B. Osborne, Mr. Jervoirse Smith, Mr. Staniland, Mr. Vanderbyl, Captain White, and Mr. Wyvill.
Of the forty constituencies which have changed their re- presentatives, thirty are in England, six in Ireland, three in Wales, and one in Scotland. Eighteen have returned Conser- vatives in succession to Conservatives ; twelve have returned Liberals in succession to Liberals ; the former party has lost six seats, and the latter four. The Liberals gained two seats at Devonport, one in Aberdeenshire, one at Bridgewater, one at Petersfield, and one in Waterford. The Conservatives won seats at Brecon, Bridgnorth, Helston, and Sandwich, so that the year's contests result in a net gain of two seats to the Liberal party. In addition to the changes above enumerated, there have been thirty-seven re-elections ; nine on account of the formation of Lord Russell's Government, and twenty-eight through the accept- ance of office by the Earl of Derby. There are now seven vacant seats : Armagh, Mr. S. B. Miller having been appointed a judge in the Irish Court of Bankruptcy ; Dublin University, Mr. Walsh having been appointed Master of the Rolls in Ireland ; Galway, Mr. Morris having accepted the office of At- torney-General for Ireland; and Lancaster (two), Totnes and Reigate, Messrs. Fenwick, Schneider, render, and Leveson- Gower having respectively been unseated. The average age of the Peers who have died is 61; of the Members of the House of Common, 55.
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