5 APRIL 1851, Page 12

Last night's Gazette notified the appointment of George James Turner,

Esq., one of her Majesty's counsel, to be "a Vice-Chancellor in the place of Sir James Wigram," resigned.

Mr. Bethell, Q,.C., of the Chancery bar, and Mr. Busfield Ferrand, are named as candidates to fill the vacant seat for Aylesbury.

The expected death of the Marchioness of Lansdowne took place the day before yesterday, at Bowood Park. Lisa rpool has lost a valuable judicial officer by the death of Mr. Rushton, the Stipendiary Magistrate : he died yesterday morning, in his fifty-seventh year.

Wills and Smith have been tried at Taunton for the "Nempnett mur- der," in which John Wilkins and his wife, aged shopkeepers, were attacked with a spade, and the former was killed. Both prisoners were convicted, anct sentenced to death.