The Gazette of last night contains several interesting notices ;
espe- rially the first- The Gazette of last night contains several interesting notices ; espe- rially the first-
" The Queen has been pleased to appoint Sir William Page Wood, Knight, Vice-Chancellor, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, Knight, one of the Justices of the Court of Queen's Bench, the Right Hon. Joseph Napier, Sir Alexander James Edmund Cockburn, Knight, her Majesty's Attorney-General, Sir Richard Bethell, Knight, her Majesty's Solicitor-General, Sir Thomas Er- skine Perry, Knight, John George Shaw Lefevre, Esq., Henry Singer Keat- ing, Esq., one of her Majesty's Counsel, Thomas Greenwood, Esq., James Btewart, Esq., and Germain Lavie, Esq., to be her Majesty's Commissioners for inquiring into the arrangements in the Inns of Court and Inns of Chan- cery, for promoting the study of the law and jurisprudence, and securing a sound education to the students."
It is announced that the Queen has conferred the honour of knight- hood upon Mr. Justice Crowder.
A notice from the Home Office warns English workmen proceeding to France in search of employment, many of whom have fallen into great distress, that unless they enter into some contract beforehand with some person in France, or provide themselves with funds to preserve them from want, they will be exposed to great inconvenience.
Mr. Tufnell has accepted the Stewardship of the manor of Northstead ; thus creating a vacancy at Devonport. Sir Erskine Perry is in the field is a Liberal candidate, with good prospects of success. Mr. Brisco, Member for Hastings, has accepted the Stewardship of the Chiltern Hun- dreds. New writs in both cases were ordered last night.
We understand that Mr. James Wilson will shortly retire from his important post at the Treasury, and be appointed to a new office, Com- aiissioner of Customs at Liverpool—Civil Service Gazette.
Sir George Grey and the Bishop of New Zealand have just arrived in the Commodore, from New Zealand. The Warburtonian Lectureship at Lincoln's Inn has been conferred upon the Reverend William Goode, M.A., Rector of All Hallows, Thames Street.
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