PEERAGE STATISTICS FOR 1851. [From the "Edinburgh Advertiser," January 6.]

New Zealander, Volume 8, Issue 641, 5 June 1852, Page 4

PEERAGE STATISTICS FOR 1851. [From the "Edinburgh Advertiser," January 6.]

The Dumfries Herald, supplies us with the following statistics regarding the changes in the Peernge during the past year— a department be Las made peculiarly his own 1

"In tho course of the year which has just closed, there have been not fewer then twenty-four deaths in the Biitish Peerage, namely the Duke of Newcastle, aged 66, succeeded by bis son, the Earl of Lincoln, who was sitting Member for the Falkirk District of Burghs, born 1811 ; the Marquis of Northampton, aged 61, succeeded by his son, Earl Com p ton, born 1816; the Marquis of Hastings (Earl of Loudoun in the Peerage of Scotland, find Earl of Moira in the Peerage of Ireland), aged 19, succeeded by bis brother, Lord Henry Rawdon Hastings, born 1842 ; Lord Bexley, aged 85, title extinct; Lord Berners, aged 89, succeeded by his son, the Hon. Ily. Wm. Wilson, born 1797 } the Earl of Harrington, aged 71, succeeded by his brother, Colonel the Honourable Leicester Stanhope, C.8., born 1794 ; Lord de L'lsle and Dudley, aged 51, succeeded by his son, the Hon. Philip Sydney, born 1828 ; the Earl of Albemarle (who had been declared in lunacy), aged 67, succeeded by his brother, Lieut.-Col. the Hon. Geo. Thomas Keppell, lately one of the Members for Lymington, born 1799; Lord Chaworth (Earl of Meath in the Peerage of Irel.ind), aged 79 succeeded by his son, Lord Brabason, born 1 803 ; Lord Dacre, succeeded by his brother, Lieut-General (now General) The Hon. Hy. OtwayTrevor,C.B.,born 1777; Lord Langdale, late Master of the Rolls, aged 68, title extinct ; the Earl of Cottenhnm late Lord Chancellor, aged 70, succeeded by his son, Viscount Crowhurst, born 1824; Lord Montford, aged 78, title extinct; the Earl of Shaftesbury, aged 83, succeeded by his son, Lord Ashley, who was one of the sitting Members for Batb, born 1801 ; Viscount Melville, aged 80, succeeded by his son, Colonel the Hon. Sir Henry Dundas, X.C.8., born 1801 j the Earl of Derby, aged 76, succeeded by his son, the Right Hon. Lord Stanley, who was a Peer in his own right as Lord Stanley of Bickerstnffe, born 1799 ; Lord Fitzgibbon CEarl of Clare in the Peerage of Ireland), aged 59, succeeded by his brother, the Hon, Colonel Fitzgibbon, bom 1793; Viscount Hutcbinson (Earl of Donoughmoie in the Peerage of Ireland), aged 64, succeeded by his son, Viscount Suerdale, born 1823 ; Lord Calthorpe, aged 64, succeeded by his brother, the Hon. Frederick (Calthorpe, born 1790 ; Lord Stafford, Roman Catholic), aged 80, succeeded by his son, the Hon Henry Valentine Jerningham, born 1820 ; the Earl of Liverpool, aged 66, title extinct ; his Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland (King of Hanover, and Earl of Armagh in the Peerage of Ireland), aged 80, succeeded by his son, Prince George, born 1819 ; and the Earl of Suffolk and Berkshire, aged 75, succeeded by his son, Viscount Andover, born 1804. " From the preceding enumeration it may be seen that, in the comse of the year, four titles (Bexley, Langdale, Montfort, and Liverpool) have become extinct; we might almost say five, as the succession of Lord Stanley of Bickerstaffe to the Earldom of Derby, though not a positive distinction, is a numerical diminution; and the only addition to the Peerage in the course of the year has been the creation of Sir John Cam Hobhouse, Bart., (born 1716,>by the title Baron Broughton de Gyfford In the Scotch Peerage, besides the death of the Earl of Loudoun, already referred to, there has been the death of Viscount Strathallan, one of the Representative Peers of Scotland, aged 84, succeeded in his title by his son, the Hon, Henry William Drummond, born 1810, and in the Representative Peerage by Lord Colville of Culross. In the Irish Peerage, besides the Earl of Clare, the Earl ofDonoughmore, and the Earl of Armagh, all already refered to, we have noticed statements in the public journals of the death of the Earl of Bantry, aged 84, succeeded by his son, Viscount Berehaven,born 1800 ; the death of the Earl of Charleville, one of the Representative Peers of Ireland, aged 50, succeeded in his titles by his son, Lord Tullamore, born 1822, and in the RepresentatiTe Peerage by Lord Dunsandle; and the death of General Lord de Blaquiere, aged 73, succeeded by his son, the Hon. John de Blaquiere, born 1812. In the English Episcopal Bench there has been no change, Dr Ollirant of Llandoff, consecrated in 1849, being still tho most recently appointed prelate, and consequently still without a seat in the House of Peers. Neither has there been any change in the Episcopal Bench of Ireland."