15 APRIL 1871, Page 2

The new Vice-Chancellor who is to fill the place vacated

by the- resignation of Sir John Staart is to be Mr. Wickens, probably the ablest lawyer who could by any possibility have received that. appointment. He is still a stuff gownsman, never having chosen to take silk, and bolds the appointment of Vice-Chancellor of the- County Palatine of Lancaster, which he will in his turn vacate on- receiving this higher office. A better Chancery lawyer has, by- almost universal consent, never been placed upon the Bench.