The Gazette of last night contains two formal announcements of
great but distinct interest. The first gives the names of the new Commission- ers on the Sale and Transfer of Land.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint the Right Honourable Spencer Ho- ratio Walpole ; the Right Honourable Joseph Napier ; Sir Alexander James Edmund Cockburn, Knight, her Majesty's Attorney General; Sir Richard Bethel], Knight, her Majesty's Solicitor-General ; Thomas Emerson Head- lam, Esq., one of her Majesty's counsel ; Vincent Scully, Esq., one of her Majesty's counsel ; Robert Lowe, Esq., Barrister-at-law ; 11 illiam David Lewis, Esq., Barrister-at-law ; Henry Drummond, Esq.; John Evelyn Deni- son, Esq. ; Robert Wilson, Esq. ; and William Strickland Cookson, Esq.—to be her Majesty's Commissioners for considering the subject of the Registra- tion of Title with reference to the Sale and Transfer of Land.
The second gives notice, "that if intelligence be not received before the 31st of March next, of the officers and crews of her Majesty's ships Erebus and Terror being alive, the names of the officers will be removed from the Navy List, and they and the crews of those ships will be con- sidered as having died in her Majesty's service." Their pay will cease on the day named ; and persons qualified to claim pay and wages are in- structed to apply to the Accountant-General of the Navy.
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