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Burke's Peerage and Baronetage. (Elarrison.)—From the preface to the forty-sixth

edition of this useful compilation we learn that between December, 1882, and December, 1883, the deaths menthe Peers were above the average, twenty-three having died during that period. Daring the same space of time thirty-four Baronets have died, four extinctions have occurred in the Peerage, and six in the

Baronetage ; otre promotion has been made in the Peers, six Baronets have been created, and a new decoration (the Red Cross) has been instituted. In addition to the "memoirs," the book indicates the individuals who are entitled to wear orders and decorations, and gives lists of the orders of precedence in rank, the Military, Naval, Diplomatic, and Indian services.