The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1861-01-07 00:00:00

WILLS AND BEQUESTS.

The will, with five codicils, of General the Poe.,
Edward Pyndar Lygon, C. 8., of Spring-hill, rim<
Broadway, Worcestershire, and of Upper Brook-street;
Grosvenor-square, were proved in her Majesty's Court
of Probate on the 26th of last month. The executors
nominated are General the Right Hon. Henry Earl
Beauchamp, the brother ; the Right Hon. Lady Jemima
Catherine Louisa Lygon, the sister ; and the Hon.
Frederick Lygon. the nephew of the testator. The
personalty was sworn under £60,000. The will and first
codicil were executed in 1846, and the other codicils be-
tween 1851 and 1859. The bequests are confined to his
family. He has devised his estates, both real and per-
sonal, to his brother, Earl Beauchamp, and his sister,
Lady Jemima Lygon, bequeathing to his sister a life in-
terest therein, and, on her decease, the whole is to
devolve on the Earl and his issue. General Lygon was
a bachelor, and died on the 25th of November histr
aged 74.
The will of Thomas Thornton, Esq., of Branswiclto
square, Brighton, has been proved in London, and the
personalty sworn under £200,000. Probate Was granted
en the 21st of last month to the executors, Lieutenant-
Colonel George Thornton, E.1.C., the brother; Henry
S. Welch and A. B. Welch, Esqrs., the nephews; and
Henry J. Thornton, Esq., the cot*in nf f.he testator.
The bequests are various. The principal legatees arc
his two sisters, his brother,•two nephews, and a niece.
For his sister, who has resided with him, he has made a
handsome provision, and has left her the residence in
Brighton, with the furniture, carriages, and other effects,
and has appointed his two sisters and his brother, the
colonel, residuary legatees for their respective lives, and
on their decease bequeathes the residue to his two
nephews and niece, iitrs. Clark (the children of his
sister Adelaide, Mrs. Welch); and to each of them he
has left an immediate legacy of £lO,OOO ; and bequeaths
to his two nephews his collections of shells, birds, and
other curiosities, together with his books. To each of
the ten charitable institutions herein-under-mentioned
he has left a legacy of £4O0—namely, King's College
Hospital, Deaf and Dumb Asylum. School for Indigent
Blind, Asylum for Idiots, Reigate Philanthropic Society,
Governess's Benevolent Institution, London Orphan
Asylum, Merchant Seamen's Orphan School, Sussex
County Hospital, and the Brighton Infirinary.—lllus-
/rated Hetet.

AMERICA.—The Cunard screw-steamer Beds.; Captain
Cook, from New York on the 21st ult., arrived in the,
Mersey yesterday.—The Springfield, Mr. Lincoln's organi
in speakitie,,, of secession, says that the laws of the
United States must be executed. The President has no
discretionary power on the subject. His duty is pro-
nounced in the Constitution, and Mr. Lincoln will per-
form that duty. Disunion with armed force is treason,
and must and will be put down at all hazards.
PROROGATION OF CONVOCATION.-- On Friday the
Convocation of the Prelates and Clergy of the Province
of Canterbury was prorogued in the Jerusalem Chamber,
Westminster, by Dr. Travers Twiss the Vicar General
of the province, under a commission from his Grace the
Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, pursuant to the Royal
writ, until Wednesday, the•Gth of February. Mr. F. H.
Dyke, her Majesty's proctor, having read the schedule
of prorogation, the proceedings were brought to a close.
DEFENCE OF SCARBAlOUoll.—Detachments of the
royal artillery from Carlisle and Tyncmouth have been
engaged during the week at the castle in dismounting
the long-silent and useless guns, clearing away the old
metal, and making other preparations for the construct.
ing of new batteries for the defence of the town which
government are about to erect. The old guns were
conveyed on sledges over the ice and snow to the pier,
where they were shipped in a vessel specially sent for
them.

R 1 13BONIF,M IY WESTMEATM-0 II the night of Sun-
day, the 30th of December, between seven and eight
o'clock, a party of - broke it • the dwellii
of a 'man. name('
abou'
cruelly beat their
child ten years of
of Magrath that
was lying on his
ruffians commence
aloud, and said
brother of Magrat
this one of the ass
tunately without
had not silenced h,
several wounds of
their vengeance 0)
decamped. One
the scene of the er
morning, and, aid;
who took CI(
in arresting four
brought before MI
being the persons
believed, does a,
and hence the ca.
Mut, AN CH OM:
a melancholr'er
place called le
woman, named
aged about ten y,
for Chambery,
and, mixing RE
of snow at tome
mentioned. The
gave some sign:
shortly after, with,
seems, caught in
parried by mese


of armed men broke into the dwelling --,--
ed Magrath, living on the lands of
tt three miles from Mullingar, and most
r helpless victim and also his niece, a
f age. It appears from the statement "I
it when they entered the house he
s bed, opposite the fire, and when the
!ed beating him the little girl screamed
f she would run for her uncle, a
ith's, who lived near. Upon bearing
ssailants fired a pistol at the child, for-
effect.
They then, on finding they
ier, struck her on the head, and inflioW
)n her person. Having fully wreaked
on both Magrath and the child, they
of the Mullingar constabulary was at
outrage at an early hour the following
led by the advice of J. L. Cronin, Esq.,
ie wounded man's depositions, succeeded
suspicious persons, but, on their being .
Lagrath, he failed to identity the men as
s who maltreated him. Magrath, it is .
lot belong to the Ribbon conspirators,
ruse of the outrage. Is „cord
'EvErheChamberyjoarna _
__, a
Trstorm, ~ .
,--
Arent —the death
Lesert, near
Dumont, and a
her
a" village t?nf ation ;
b to c.r
years. The twaoc_
ed , ;
destination
midst
but never rere both foundr in
the place
)ught for, iven3 th°Alartittr
each other, the mother
e distance frc:ii,, dead, but
e) were,
,e girl 17.5sqbe,word., however, expired very
thaitnsato,:vit:orf, a married
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is of lilt, ing a
$ foowit°
in, add. of great violence, nom.
thout spesti-