the Lord Justice Clerk and three Puisne Judges. The other five Judges sit separately, as Permanent Lords Ordinary. They pronounce judgment in the first instance; and this judgment may be carried for review before either of the inner divisions. The criminal business is discharged by the Lord Justice General, the Lord Justice Clerk, and four other Judges, who are appointed Judges of Justiciary under a separate commission. Ireland. Court of Chancery. - Rt. Hon. Maziere Brady (ap. 1853), Lord Chancellor, £8,000; Rt. Hon. T. B. C. Smith (ap. 1846), Master of the Rolls, £4,300. Court of Queen's Bench. - Rt. Hon. Thos. Lefroy, Lord Chief Justice, £5,074; Hon. Philip C. Crampton, £3,725; Rt. Hon. Louis Perrin (ap. 1836), Rt. Hon. Richard Moore (ap. 1847), Judges, £3,688 each. Court of Common Pleas. — Rt. Hon. James Henry Monahan (ap. 1850), Lord Chief Justice, £4,615; Hon. Robert Torrens, Rt. Hon. Nicholas Ball (b. 1791, ap. 1839), and Hon. J. D. Jackson (b. 1783, ap. 1842), Judges, £3,688 each. Attorney-General, Rt. Hon. Abraham Brewster; Solicitor General, William Keogh, Esq., £ 4,612. Court of Exchequer.— Rt. Hon. David R. Pigott (ap. 1846), Lord Chief Baron; Hon. Richard Pennefather, Rt. Hon. John Richards (b: 1790, ap. 1837), Rt. Hon. Richard W. Greene (ap. 1852), Barons, £3,688 each. PARLIAMENT. The Parliament of Great Britain consists of a House of Lords and a House of Commons. The present is the 15th Imperial or 5th Reformed Parliament. House of Lords. The House of Lords consists of Lords Temporal, who are Peers of the Realm, and whose honors, immunities, and privileges are hereditary, and Lords Spiritual, consisting of Archbishops and Bishops. All the members of the five orders of nobility of England, viz. dukes, marquises, earls, viscounts, and barons, who are 21 years old, and labor under no disqualification, have a right to sit in the House of Lords; and in addition to these, 16 representative peers from Scotland, 28 representative peers from Ireland, 2 ̊English archbishops, 24 bishops, 1 representative Irish archbishop, and 3 representative Irish bishops. House of Commons, - Elected July, 1852.-The House of Commons consists of the representatives of the counties, cities, boroughs, and of the three universities of the Established Church in the United Kingdom. The representatives of counties are chosen by the proprietors and occupiers of land; those of the cities and boroughs by the mercantile and trading part of the community; and those of the universities by the doctors and masters of arts. Since the union with Ireland (January 1, 1801) the number of members had been 658, this number being retained on the passing of the Reform Acts. They are elected by the following constituencies: But the English members have been reduced to 654 since the year 1844. 1780 1828 1848 John B. Sumner, D.D., Primate, Canterbury, 1788 1837 1847 Thomas Musgrave, D.D. Bishops. £15,000 York, 10,000 1786 1824 1828 Chas. James Blomfield, D.D. 1770 1831 1836 Edward Maltby, D.D. 1790 1826 1827 Chas. Richard Sumner, D.D. 1784 1814 1827 George Murray, D.D. Rochester, 5,000 Auckland,)† D.D. 1799 1847 1854 Robert John Eden, (Baron Bath & Wells, 5,000 Henry Phillpotts, D.D. Chas. Thomas Longley, D.D. Connop Thirlwall, D.D. 1783 1840 1841 Henry Pepys, D.D. Exeter, 2,700 1842 1841 Ashurst Turner Gilbert, D.D. Chichester, 4,200 1843 John Lonsdale, D.D. Lichfield, 4,500 Ely, 5,500 Oxford, 5,000 1794 1848 1790 1841 1846 Thomas Vowler Short, D.D. John Graham, D.D. 1848 Renn Dickson Hampden,D.D 1848 James Prince Lee, D.D. Manchester, 4,600 Norwich, 4,465 Not Peers. Hon. Horace Powys, D.D. Sodor and Man, 2,000 1798 1849 The Bishops of London, Durham, and Winchester rank next to the Archbishops; according to priority of consecration. *By net income is meant that of the bishopric. Some bishops hold other places of profit in the Church. †The Bishop of Bath and Wells sits in the House of Lords as Baron Auckland. Llandaff, 4,200 the rest The Bishop of Meath takes precedence of all other Irish bishops, and is a Privy Counci lor in right of his see. The rest take precedence according to priority of consecration. Dec. 23. In East Boston, Mass., James Bowdoin Allen, Esq., aged 29. Mr. Allen was a highly esteemed member of the Suffolk bar. He graduated at Dartmouth College in 1845. At the time of his death he was postmaster at East Boston. He was Nov. 15. — In Manchester, N. H., Hon. Charles G. Atherton, aged 53. He was the son of Hon. Charles H. Atherton, of Amherst, N. H., and was born in Hillsboro' County, July 4, 1804. He graduated at Cambridge in 1822. He was a lawyer by profession, but engaged in politics while yet a young man. for many years a member of the State Legislature, and for three years the Speaker of the House. He was elected to Congress in 1837, and continued in the House of Representatives, by successive re-elections, until 1843, when he was chosen Senator, and served out his term. He was not then re-elected; but in November, 1852, was chosen to fill the seat left vacant by the expiration of the Hon. John P. Hale's term of service in March, 1853. Oct. 19.In Portsmouth, N. H., Hon. Ichabod Bartlett, aged 67. He was born in Salisbury, N. H., and graduated at Dartmouth College in 1808. He studied law, and commenced the practice of his profession in Durham, but soon removed to Portsmouth. His learning and ability as a lawyer, and his eloquence as an advocate, gave him, at an early age, great success; and he was found in causes as an opponent to Mr. Webster and Mr. Mason. He served, with distinction, three terms - from 1823 to 1829-as a member of the House of Representatives at Washington, and had frequently been a member of the State Legislature. He was a member of the late State Convention, to revise the Constitution of New Hampshire. Oct. 11. In Boston, Barnabas Bates, aged 66. He was a native of England, but was brought to this country by his parents when a child. He was for some * I. e. the date of the incumbent's entry on the present diocese, whether by consecration or translation. †The bishops thus marked sit in Parliament as representative bishops. time a Baptist preacher in Rhode Island, but became afterwards a Unitarian. He was for a short time the collector of the port of Bristol, R. I., to which office he was appointed by President John Q. Adams. In 1825 he went to New York, and there established a weekly paper, called the "Christian Inquirer," which was discontinued in a few years. Under General Jackson he was appointed to a position in the New York Post-office, and from that time his attention was called to the subject of cheap postage, in which cause he labored zealously and successfully until his death. Sept. 16. In Wayne Co., N. Y., Hon. Victory Birdseye, aged 71. He frequently served his State in the Assembly, and was a member of Congress from 1815 to 1817, and from 1841 to 1843. Oct. 13.-In Rhode Island, Hon. Tristam Burgess, aged 83. He studied law with Judge Barnes in 1799, and in 1815 was elected Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Rhode Island. From 1825 to 1835 he was a member of the House of Representatives of the United States. From the time of his entrance to Congress, his great excellence as a debater, the characteristics of which were fervid eloquence and withering sarcasm, combined with clear reasoning power, soon placed him in the front rank of the public men of the day. His contests with John Randolph of Roanoke live in history. At the bar, Mr. Burgess was an able advocate and a successful lawyer. He was also a diligent student of the Bible, and learned in all theological controversy, in which he especially delighted. Nov.In Wisconsin, Timothy Burns, aged 33. He was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1820, went to Wisconsin in 1837, and settled in Iowa County. He held several offices of public trust, and in 1851 was elected Lieutenant-Governor, which office he held at the time of his death. Sept. In Raleigh, N. C., Perrin Busbee, Esq., aged 37; an eminent lawyer, and at the time of his death Reporter of the Decisions of the Supreme Court, and President of the Council of State. Dec. 24.-In Washington, D. C., Hon. Brookins Campbell, aged 46. Mr. Campbell was born in Washington County, Tenn., in 1808; was many years a member of the State Legislature, and in 1845 was unanimously elected Speaker. He was an officer in the Quartermaster's Department in the war with Mexico, and at the time of his decease was a member of Congress from the First Congressional District of Tennessee. Oct. 8. In Tampa Bay, Florida, Brevet Brig.-Gen. Thomas Childs, one of the bravest and most distinguished officers in the United States army. Sept. 1. In New York, Louis Chitti, an Italian exile. He was formerly Secretary of Finance to Murat; afterwards Professor of Political Economy at Brussels, and then a Commissioner to the United States from the Belgian government. During the troubles of 1821, at Naples, he was expelled from Italy on account of his patriotism, and has resided in this country since, making many friends by his kind and upright deportment. Nov. 19. In Craftsbury, Vermont, Hon. Samuel C. Crafts, aged 84. His father effected the settlement of Craftsbury, and upon the organization of the town, in 1792, Mr. Samuel C. Crafts was chosen Town Clerk, and held the office for thirty-seven successive years. He was the youngest delegate to the Convention for revising the State Constitution in 1793. In 1796, 1800, 1801, 1803, and 1805, he was elected a member of the House of Representatives of the State. From 1796 to 1815 he was Register of Probate for Orleans District. In 1798 and 1799 he was Clerk of the House of Representatives. From 1809 to 1812, and from 1825 to 1827, he was a member of the Executive Council. In 1800 he was appointed a Judge of Orleans County Court, and remained such till 1816; for the last six years being Chief Judge. From 1825 to 1828 he was again Chief Judge, and from 1836 to 1838 Clerk of the Court. In 1816 he was elected Representative to Congress, and served for that and the three succeeding terms; i. e. from 1817 to 1825 inclusive. In 1828 he was elected Governor of Vermont, and was re-elected in 1829 and 1830. In 1829 he was President of the Constitutional Convention. In 1842 he was appointed by Governor Paine, and afterwards elected by the Legislature, a Senator in Congress, for the unexpired term of one year. He thus filled every office in the gift of Vermont. Dec. 21. In Albemarle County, Va., Professor Edward H. Courtenay, LL.D., who for a long term of years, and up to the time of his death, very ably filled the chair of Mathematics in the University of Virginia. - Oct. 13. In Boston, Thomas Kemper Davis, Esq. He was a son of Isaac P. Davis, and graduated at Cambridge in 1827. He studied law, and at one time stood high in his profession. But having an ample fortune, he devoted himself to, and became learned in, English and classical literature. Nov. 15. -In New York, William Henry De Wolf, aged 51. He was the son of James De Wolf, of Rhode Island, and was born in Bristol, R. I., May 15, 1802. He was in early life a midshipman, and served on board the Java under Commodore Oliver H. Perry. At the time of his death he was United States Consul at Dundee, to which office he was appointed by President Pierce. Oct. 5. In Morris County, New Jersey, Hon. Mahlon Dickerson, aged 83. Mr. Dickerson was a native of New Jersey, but in early life resided in Pennsylvania, where he was Recorder of the City of Philadelphia, and subsequently Quartermaster-General of the State. He was Judge of the Supreme Court of New Jersey, and was elected Governor of that State in 1815, and held the office until 1817, when he was chosen United States Senator, and continued in that office for sixteen years. In 1834 he became Secretary of the Navy, in the Cabinet of President Jackson, and held that department until 1838, some two years after the accession of President Van Buren. For two years he was President of the American Institute. Oct. 21.-In Opelousas, La., Dr. William J. Digges, aged 34; a physician of considerable note and public estimation. Nov. 10. In Jacksonville, Fla., Major Alexander Dunlap, aged 67. He was born in Kentucky, volunteered as a private in the war of 1812, and was taken prisoner at Dudley's defeat. He was in the battle of the Thames, and for his gallantry was made a captain in the army. He fought through the Creek war, and was a witness of the execution of Arbuthnot and Ambrister. He was appointed a major in the Mexican war by President Polk, assisted in the taking of Vera Cruz, and was with General Scott in several of the engagements in the valley of Mexico. Nov. 16. In Concord, Mass., Ruth Emerson, mother of Ralph Waldo Emerson, aged 83. Dec. -In Pernambuco, Hon. J. Wright Gordon, formerly Lieutenant-Governor of Michigan. Mr. Wright was killed by an accidental fall from a balcony. Oct. 6. In Cambridge, Mass., Hon. Simon Greenleaf, LL.D., aged 70. He was born in Newburyport, Mass., December 5, 1783. His father was a captain in the revolutionary army, and on his mother's side he was connected with the family of the late Chief Justice Parsons. While he was yet quite young, his father removed to Maine, and when he was eighteen years old he entered as a lawstudent the office of Ezekiel Whitman, Esq., of New Gloucester, since Chief Justice of Maine, where he remained three years. In 1806 he married and began the practice of the law in Standish, Maine, whence, after a residence of six months, he removed to Gray, where he remained twelve years. In 1818 he removed to Portland. In 1820, upon Maine's becoming a State, and the establishment of the Supreme Court, he was appointed Reporter of its decisions. He held that office until 1832, when he was superseded by a political opponent. His Reports, and especially the later volumes, are considered by the profession models of judicial reports. He was at this time one of the foremost of the Maine bar, and had an extensive practice. He remained in Portland one year afterwards, and in 1833, upon the death of Professor Ashmun, he was appointed Royall Professor of Law in the Dane Law School, which office he held until 1846, when he was transferred to the Dane Professorship, then vacant by the death of Judge Story. He held this Professorship but two years, when, in 1848, his failing strength becoming wholly unequal to its accumulated and poorly requited labors, he resigned the place. His release from care and toil was followed by an immediate amendment of his health; and he was enabled to devote himself to the preparation of his law books. The Law School at Cambridge is indebted for its success to no one of its many able professors more than to Mr. Greenleaf. Before Judge Story and Mr. Greenleaf united their labors, it had been made a respectable school by the efforts of Stearns and Ashmun. The extended and well-deserved reputation of Judge Story, as a jurist and a profound lawyer, attracted large numbers of young men to the school, and by his glow and fervor he awakened in them aspirations for the higher attainments of the profession; but it was the gentle and affectionate, yet decided and controlling, manner of Mr. Greenleaf, who had always the direction of the internal affairs of the school, and for many months in each year |