The Peers' Roll.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 199, 16 April 1887, Page 6

The Peers' Roll.

In accordance with custom at the beginning of a new Session, the RoU of the Lords. Spiritual and Temporal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland has been iaßued. There are in all 547, Edward, Lord Macnaghton, better known in the House of Commons as Mr Macnaghtop, coming home last on the list. The first ie, of courae, the Prince of Wales. The fourth is the infant whose name ia written on the Roll as •• His Royal Highness Leopold Charles Edward George Albert, Duke of Albany." The Archbishop of Canterbury takes precedence immediately after the Royal Peers. Next comes the Lord Chancellor, sandwiched between his Grace of Canterbury and his Grace of York. After these we have the Lord President of thB Council, the Lord Privy Seal, and the Earl Marshall of England. So inconsiderable a person es the Prime Minister, is No. 36 on the list, holding a curious position between the Marquis Townshend and the Marquis of Bath. (Marquis is, by the way, spelt on the RoU " marqness,.") Earl ©ranville stands as low down as No. 164. Within, the last ten or twelve years there nave been many additions to the peerage,, peers like Lord Acton, Lord Wolverton, ,Lor* lSmily, anil Lord Abordare, standing far f roni the close; of the, list. Even Lord, Rowton is beginning to have an atmosphere of hoary antiquity round his coronet, fifty./ newer peers following him on the Roll.