The average rate of discount of the Bank of England for the same years was as follows:
| Per cent. | |
| Year ending Dec. 31, 1874 | 3.69 |
| Year ending Dec. 31, 1875 | 3.23 |
| Year ending Dec. 31, 1876 | 2.61 |
| Year ending Dec. 31, 1877 | 2.91 |
| Year ending Dec. 31, 1878 | 3.78 |
| Year ending Dec, 31, 1879 | 2.50 |
| Year ending Dec. 31, 1880 | 2.76 |
| Year ending Dec. 31, 1881 | 3.49 |
| Fiscal year ending June 31, 1882 | 4.01 |
MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT.
Council Bluffs, Iowa.
Are there any lady members of either House of Parliament? How many members are there in each House, and what are their titles?
J. A.
Answer.—There are seven peeresses in their own right entitled to seats in the English House of Peers. These are the Baroness Emma Harriet Tyrwhitt; the Baroness Augusta Mary Elizabeth Cavendish-Bentwick; the Baroness Angela Georgiana Burdett-Coutts; the Countess Anne S. Leveson-Gower (Duchess of Sutherland); the Baroness Mary Elizabeth Boscawan; the Baroness Susan North; the Baroness C. E. H. D. Willoughby. Besides the ladies the House of Peers contains in all 509 members, viz.: Six princes of the blood; 3 archbishops; 20 dukes; 18 marquises; 114 earls; 26 viscounts; 24 bishops; 225 barons; 16 Scottish representative peers, elected for each Parliament; 28 Irish representative peers, elected for life. There are also 10 minor peers, who will be entitled to seats when they attain their majority. The House of Commons is composed of 639 members, of which 489 are representatives of counties, universities and towns in England and Wales; 60 are Scottish and 103 Irish representatives. The title of honorable is given to members of the House. Some of them have titles in their own right, as Lord Elcho, Earl Bective, Viscount Galway, Right Honorable Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, and so on.
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