MEMORANDA.

IN Easter term, 1850, the Right Honourable Lord Cottenham resigned the Great Seal, which was thereupon put into commission-the Commissioners being, the Right Honourable Lord Langdale, Master of the Rolls, the Right Honourable Sir Lancelot Shadwell, ViceChancellor of England, and the Honourable Sir Robert Monsey Rolfe, one of the Barons of the Court of Exchequer.

In Trinity vacation, 1850, the Right Honourable Sir Thomas Wilde, Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, was appointed Lord High Chancellor, and was created a peer under the title of Baron Truro.

At the same time Sir John Jervis, Her Majesty's Attorney-General, was appointed Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas.

Sir John Romilly, Her Majesty's Solicitor-General, was appointed Attorney-General, and Alexander James Edward Cockburn, Esq., one of Her Majesty's Counsel, was appointed Solicitor-General.

The Right Honourable Sir Lancelot Shadwell, ViceChancellor of England, died in July 1850.

In Trinity vacation, 1850, the Vice-Chancellor Sir James Wigram resigned his office.

In Michaelmas term, 1850, the Honourable Sir Robert Monsey Rolfe, Knight, one of the Barons of the Court of Exchequer, was appointed a Vice-Chancellor, and was shortly afterwards created a Peer under the title of Baron Cranworth.

In November 1850, Joseph Humphry, Esq., one of Her Majesty's Counsel, was appointed one of the Masters in Ordinary, in the place of John Edmund Dowdeswell, Esq., resigned.

In Hilary vacation, 1851, Sir John Romilly, Knight, Her Majesty's Attorney-General, was appointed Master of the Rolls, in the place of Lord Langdale, resigned.

At the same time, George James Turner, Esq., one of Her Majesty's Counsel, was appointed a Vice-Chancellor in the place of Sir James Wigram.

Sir Alexander James Edward Cockburn, Her Majesty's Solicitor-General, was appointed Her Majesty's Attorney-General, and William Page Wood, Esq., one of Her Majesty's Counsel, was appointed SolicitorGeneral.