The House of Lords is composed of all the five orders of nobility of England, viz: dukes, marquises, earls, viscounts, and barons, who have attained the age of 21 years, and labor under no disqualification; of 16 representative peers from Scotland; 28 representative peers from Ireland; 2 English archbishops and 24 bishops, and 4 representative Irish bishops. The number of each, in 1843, was as follows: Elected July, 1841.- Rt. Hon. Charles S. Lefevre, Speaker. 464 The House of Commons consists of knights, citizens, and burgesses, respectively chosen by counties, cities, and boroughs, apportioned as follows: The Union of Ireland was carried into effect January, 1st, 1801: and the Parliament which sat the same month, and which included the members from Ireland, is styled the 1st Imperial Parliament; and the Parliament which assembled January 29, 1833, is styled the 11th Imperial, or 1st Reformed Parliament. The following table exhibits the succession of Parliaments since the union with Ireland: JUDICIARY. High Court of Chancery.-Lord Lyndhurst, Lord High Chancellor; salary, £14,000:- Lord Langdale, Master of the Rolls, £7,000:- Sir Launcelot Shadwell, Vice-Chancellor, £6,000. Court of the Queen's Bench. - Lord Denman, Lord Chief Justice; £10,000:- - Sir J. Patteson, Sir J. Williams, Sir J. T. Coleridge, and Sir Wm. Wightman, Judges, £5,500 each. Court of Common Pleas. Sir N. C. Tindal, Lord Chief Justice, £8,000: Sir Th. Coltman, T. Erskine, Sir W. H. Maule, and Sir C. Cresswell, Judges, £5,500 each. Court of Exchequer. - Lord Abinger, Lord Chief Baron, £7,000:- Sir John Gurney, Sir James Parke, Sir E. H. Alderson, Sir R. M. Rolfe, Barons, £5,500 each. Scotland. Court of Sessions. - -1st Division. David Boyle, Lord President, £4,300: J. H. Mackenzie, Lord Mackenzie; J. Fullerton, Lord Fullerton, Judges, £2,000 each. 2d Division.-John Hope, Lord Justice Clerk, £4,000. — Alexander Maconochie, Lord Meadowbank; J. H. Forbes, Lord Medwyn; Sir J. W. Moncrieff, Lord Moncrieff, Judges, £2,000 each. - Those of the Judges who are also Judges of the Criminal Court, have an additional £600 a year. Outer House; Permanent Lords Ordinary, attached equally to both Divisions of the Court. Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey; H. Cockburn, Lord Cockburn; J. Cunninghame, Lord Cunninghame; Sir J. A. Murray, Lord Murray; James Ivory, Lord Ivory. Ireland. Court of Chancery. - Sir Edward B. Sugden, Lord Chancellor, £8,000: Francis Blackburne, Master of the Rolls, £4,500. Court of the Queen's Bench. - Hon. E. Pennefather, Lord Chief Justice, £5,076. Charles Burton, Philip C. Crampton, Louis Perrin, Judges, £3,692 each. Court of Common Pleas. - Hon. John Doherty, Lord Chief Justice, £4,615. Robert Torrens, Nicholas Ball, and J. D. Jackson, Judges, £3,692 each. ARCHBISHOPS AND BISHOPS OF IRELAND. *The bishoprics thus marked are to be abolished when they become vacant. Bishops. 1824 Charles J. Blomfield, D. D. 1842 Ashurst Turner Gilbert, D.D. 1840 Connop Thirlwall, D. D. 1825 John Bird Sumner, D. D. 1536 Charles Th. Longley, D. D. 1841 T. V. Short, D. D. York, London, 346 £129,946 891 223,220 Rochester, Llandaff, Oxford, Glouces. & Bristol, Exeter, Ely, BRITISH AND AMERICAN TRADE. Returns to two orders of the House of Commons have been lately laid before the House, exhibiting the annual amount of exports and imports, and of the shipping employed between the ports of the United States and Great Britain, for the last ten years. The amount in value of exports from Great Britain to the United States was extremely variable, having risen in 1836 to £12,425,605, and fallen in the next year to £4,695,225. The amount, or rather the value, was smallest in 1842, viz. £3,528,807, having been, in 1832, more than double, viz. £7,579,699. The greatest falling off was in cotton and woollen manufactures, the amount of the former having been in 1832, £1,733,047, and in 1842, only £487,276; and of the latter, in 1832, £2,289,883, and in 1842, £892,335. In one other article, however, the proportion of diminution was still greater than that of woollen goods, viz. the silk manufacture. The value of silk goods exported to the United States in 1832, was £251,278, and in 1842, only £81,243. In the imports in the mean time, as well as in the tonnage of both nations, there was an increase. The amount of cotton imported in 1833, was 237,506,758 lbs., and in 1842, 414,030,779 lbs. Tobacco in 1833, 20,748,317 lbs.; in 1842, 38,618,012 lbs. CENSUS OF IRELAND. The returns of the population of Ireland, taken under the census of 1841, present the following result: Males. Females. FOREIGN OBITUARY. 1842. April 5. At Brighton, England, Patrick Kelly, L. L. D., aged 86. He was well known in the literary and scientific world, by his clear and able treatises on several branches of science. His great work, the " Universal Cambist," in which he had the assistance of government through their foreign consulates, is justly considered a standard authority on the points of which it treats, and will be a lasting monument of his talent and industry. He published, also, " A Practical Introduction to Spherics and Nautical Astronomy," a volume of "Astronomical Computations," a treatise on "Metrology, or an Exposition of Weights and Measures," and several other scientific works. June 11. In London, England, Rev. Alexander Crombie, L. L. D., F. R. S., aged 80. Dr. Crombie was born at Aberdeen, in 1760, and educated at the Marischal College in that city, where he took the degree of A. M., about 1777, and was created L. L. D. in 1798. He resided for some years at Highgate, where he occasionally officiated as pastor of a Presbyterian society, and kept a private school, as he did afterwards at Greenwich, for seventeen years, with great success. He subsequently obtained a large fortune by the unexpected bequest of a distant relative. He published a number of works, among the more distinguished of which were the following: "A Defence of Philosophical Necessity." 1793. 8vo. "The Etymology and Syntax of the English Language Explained." 1802. Svo. 4th edit. 1836. "Gymnasium, sive Symbola Critica." 1812. 2 vols. 8vo. 5th edit. 1834. "Natural Theology; or Essays on the Existence of Deity, and of Providence, on the Immateriality of the Soul, and a Future State." 1829. 2 vols. 8vo. "He possessed, in the highest degree, a keen and penetrating intellect. As a scholar and a critic, a metaphysician and a theologian, his name has long stood high among the first writers of the land." June 21. In London, England, Mr. Frederick H. Yates, aged 45, the manager of the Adelphi Theatre. He first distinguished himself as an imitator of various characters, after the manner of the elder Matthews, with whom he was for a time associated in giving professional entertain |