MEMORANDA.

1835. On the first day of Hilary Term, the following Gentlemen, having been appointed His Majesty's Counsel, were called within the bar: William Burge, Daniel Wakefield, Henry Joh. Shepherd, Christopher Temple, Walter Skirrow, John Miller, C. H. Barber, George Spence, Thomas Joshua Platt, Fitzroy Kelly, Richard Torin Kindersley, Edward Jacob, and James Wigram, Esquires.

On the same day, the Honourable Sir William Elias Taunton, Knt., one of the Judges of this Court, died. He was succeeded by John Taylor Coleridge, Esquire, Serjeant at Law, who was afterwards knighted.

On the 23d of April, Lord Lyndhurst resigned the Great Seal, which was put in commission. The Commissioners were, the Right Honourable Sir Charles Christopher Pepys, Master of the Rolls; the Right Honourable Sir Lancelot Shadwell, Vice Chancellor of England; and the Right Honourable Sir J. B. Bosanquet, Knt., one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas.

During Easter Term, the Right Honourable Sir E. B. Sugden, Knt., resigned the office of Lord Chancellor of Ireland. He was succeeded by the Right Honourable Lord Plunkett. In the same Term, Sir F. Pollock, Knt., resigned the office of Attorney-General, and he was succeeded by Sir John Campbell, Knt. Sir Wm. W. Follett, Knt. at the same time resigned the office of Solicitor-General, and was succeeded by R. M. Rolfe, Esq. one of His Majesty's Counsel, who was afterwards knighted.

In the same Term Basil Montagu, Esq., Robert Alexander, Esq., and Thomas Starkie, Esq., of Lincoln's Inn, having been appointed His Majesty's Counsel, were called within the bar.

1836. In the early part of Hilary Term, the Lords Commissioners resigned the Great Seal, and the Right Honourable Sir C. C. Pepys, Knt., Master of the Rolls, was appointed to the office of Lord High Chancellor, and was created a Peer, by the title of Baron Cottenham, of Cottenham, in the county of Cambridge.

Henry Bickersteth, Esq., one of His Majesty's Counsel, was also appointed Master of the Rolls, and was created a Peer, by the title of Baron Langdale, of Langdale, in the county of Westmoreland.