ON the 23d April 1835, Lord Lyndhurst resigned the Great Seal, which was thereupon put into commission, and on the following day delivered to the Right Hon. Sir Charles Christopher Pepys, Knt., Master of the Rolls, the Right Hon. Sir Lancelot Shadwell, Knt., Vice-Chancellor, and the Right Hon. Sir John Bernard Bosanquet, Knt., one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas, as Lords Commissioners.

In the course of Easter Term 1835, Sir Frederick Pollock, Knt., resigned the office of Attoney-General, and was succeeded by Sir John Campbell, Knight; and Sir William Webb Follett, Knight, resigned the office of Solicitor-General, and was succeeded by Robert Mounsey Rolfe, Esq., who afterwards received the honour of knighthood.

In Hilary Term 1836, the Lords Commissioners resigned the custody of the Great Seal, which was thereupon delivered to the Right Hon. Sir Charles Christopher Pepys, who was appointed Lord High Chancellor of England, and raised to the peerage by the title of Baron Cottenham, of Cottenham, in the county of Cambridge.

Henry Bickersteth, Esq., one of his Majesty's counsel, was appointed Master of the Rolls, in the place of Sir Charles Christopher Pepys, and was also raised to the peerage, by the title of Baron Langdale, of Langdale, in the county of Westmoreland.

Their Lordships took their seats in their respective Courts on Tuesday, the 19th January 1836.

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