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WILLS AND BEQUESTS.

The will of the Right Hon. Leicester Fitzgerald
Charles Stanhope, Earl of Harrington, C. 8., of Elvastou
Castle. Derby ; Gawsworth, Chester;and Kensington Palace
Gardens, was proved in London on the 24th ult. The per
sonalty was sworn under 230,0001. The executors and true-
trees are the testator's nephew, the Marquis of Kildare ;
bar Mairste's Attorney-General, Sir William Atherton ;
William Lloyd Barkbeck, Esq., Inner Temple ; and James
Boyd, Eq., Furnivars-inn. The will is of considerable
length, bowing data November, 1861, and is entirely of a
family nature. The earl has bequeathed to his relict, the
countess, a life interest in the estate* over which
his lordship had a power of disposition, which be has charged
with annuities to his two daughters. To the countess is
also bequeathed an immediate Ivacy of 3,0001., together
with a disposition over 10,0001., and to each of his daughters
be has given a like disposition over sums of 10,0001. each.
The remainder of the singes, real and personal, are left to
his lordship's only son and sucossent, the present Earl of
Harrington (now in his seventeenth year), who is appointed
the residuary legatee. The late earl, who attained the age
of 78, was a colonel in the army, and a Knight Commander
of the Order of the Redeemer, of Greece.
The will of James Walker, Eq., ca, President of the
Institute of Civil Engineers, who died at his residence,
Great George-street, Westminster, on the Bth of last Octo-
ber, aged 81, was proved in the London court on the 15th
ult., the executors nominated being his sore-in-law, Alex.
seder Boyle and William Smythe, Biqa., together with
the Rev. J. Roo* ILA., and G. K. Rickards, counsel to
the Speaker of the House of Commons. The personalty
was sworn under 300,0001. The will was executed in
March, 1860, and there at. appended six
which, by revocatiosa, involve much complexity.
Mine instruments are of very ample dimemiows,
extending over upwards of 300 folios. The bequests are
also exceedingly numerous. There is a singular item in
the will with referent. to wine, in which the testator
mentions one stock alone as consisting of 5,500 dozen and
upwards, a number almost unprecedented in the cellars of
a private gentleman. A large portion of these wines is
bequeathed, conditionally, amongst his sons-in-law and
some personal friends. Hie estates, subject to the payment
of annuities and legacies, he directs to be divided into ten
parts, and shared in certain specified proportions, chiefly
amongst his daughters and their husbands and children.
Legacies are left to servants, and to the London and West-
minster Hospitals 6001. each, and 501. to the Westminster
Dispeassry.—The Illustrated London Rms.

JURIDICAL SOCILTY.—The next meeting of the
society will be held on Monday, the Bth December, at 8
o'clock p.m. precisely, when Mr. F. Worsley will read •
paper entitled—" The Questioning upon Oath of Accuses.
Perseus, on their own Proposal, during Trial." R. P. Col-
liar, Esq., Q-C., /LP., will preside. The council will meet
at half-pest 7.
HOOD'S LE/TERS TO CHILDREN.—HIS daughter
has published half-a-dozen of these charming letters, ad-
dressed to Dr. Elliot's boys and girls—instinct with fun,
tenderness, good nature, and • lovely purity and upright-
ness. " I promised you a letter," he writes to May, "and
here it is. I was sure to remember it ; for you are as hard
to forget as you are soft to roll down a hill with. What
fun it was! only so prickly, I thought I had a porcupine io
one pocket, and a hedgehog in the other. The next time
before we kits the earth we will have its face well shaved."
" Douala" and "Jeanie" are at the sea-side, and as he
discourses to them of its wonders in a style that smacks of
the sea-breeze, for he loved the sea. "Of course you have
bathed," be says to Dutinie, "but have you learned to swim
yet? It is rather easy in salt water, and diving is still
easier, even, than at the sink. I only swim in fancy, and
strike out new ideas ! Some people say that every ninth
wave is bigger than the rest. I have often counted, but
never found it oome true, except with tailors, of whom
every ninth is a man. Then there's fishing at the seaside.
I used to catch flat-fish with a very long string line. It was
like swimming a kite! The beet plan, if you want fiat-fish
where there are none, is to bring codlins and hammer them
into dabs. Once I caught • plaice, and seeing it all over
red spots, thought I had caught the measles." "If you do
catch a big crab with strong claws," he tells Jeanie, "and
like experiments, you can shut him up in a cupboard with
a loaf of sugar, and you can see whether be will break it
with his nippers. I have heard that you bathe in the ma,
which is very re/maiden, but it requires care ; for if you
stay under water too long, you may come up • mermaid,
who is only half a lady, with • fish's tail, which she can
boil if abe likes. You had better try this with your doll—
whether it tarns her into half • ' doll-fin.' I hope you like the
sea ; I always did when I was • child, which was about two
years ago. When the sea is too rough, if you pour the sweet
oil out of the crest all over it, and wait for • calm, it will
be quite smooth—much smoother than • dressed salad.
Some time ago exactly, there used to be, about the part of
the coast where you are, large white birds with black-
tipped wings, that went flying and screaming over the sea,
and now and then plunged into the water after a fish!
Perhaps they catch their sprats now with nets or hooks and
lines. Do you ever see such binls ? We used to call them
' gulls,' but they did'nt mind it! Did you ever taste the
sea-water? The fishes are so food of it they keep drinking
it all the day long. Dip your little finger in, and then suck
it to see how it tastes. The water of the sea is so saline I
wonder nobody catches salt fish in it. By the bye, did you
ever dive your bead under water, with your legs up in the
air like a duck, and try whether you could cry " quack ?"
Some animals can ! I would try, but there is no sea here,
and so I am forced to dip into books. Did you ever
try, like • little crab, to ran two ways at oats? See if
you can do it, for it is good fun ; never mind tumbling
over yourself a little at first." " Well, how happy you
must be ! Childhood is such • joyous men, time ; and I
often wish I was two or three children ! but I suppose I
can't be, else I would be Jeanie, and May, and Douala
Elliot." And so he runs on in a vein of happy playful.
ness, not without a sigh for the childhood which has
passed away, "about two years ago." This is " child's-
play," no doubt ; but it is the " child's-play " of a great
natural wit.—Prawn's Nagorine for December. _

HEAD WAITELI AND THEIR HICHDA.—I have
mentioned our little incomes. Look at the most unreason-
able point of all, and the point on which the greatest
injustice is dooe us! Whether it is owing to our always
carrying so much change in our nght-hand trousers-pocket,
and so many halfpence in our coat-tails, or whether it is
human nature (which I were loth to believe), what is meant
by the everlasting fable that Head Waiters is rich? How
did that fable get into circulation ? Who tint put it about,
and what are the facts to establish the unblushing state-
ment? Come forth, thou slanderer, and refer the public to
the Waiter's will in Doctor's-commons supporting thy ma.
lignant hiss! Yet this is so commonly dwelt upon—especially
by the screws who give waiters the least—that denial
Is vain, and we are obliged, for our credit's sake, to
carry our heads as if we were going into a business, when
of the two we are much more likely to go into
• union. There was formerly • screw as frequented the
Slarnjam ere yet the present writer had quitted that
establishment on a question of tea-ing his sasietent staff
out of his own pocket, which screw carried the taunt to
its bitterest heighth. Never soaring above three-
pence, and as often as not grovelling on the earth •
penny lower, he yet represented the present writer
as • large holder of Console, a lender of money on mort-
gage, a Capitalist. He has been overheard to dilate
to other customers on the allegation that the present
writer put out thousands of pounds at interest, in Dis-
tilleries and Breweries. " Well, Christopher," he would
say (having grovelled his lowest on the earth ball a
moment before), " looking out for a House to open, eh?
Can't find a business to be disposed of on • scale as is
up to your resources, humph?" To such a dizzy precipice
of falsehood has this misrepresentation taken wing, that the
well-known and highly -respected Old Charles, long eminent
at the West Country Hotel, and by some considered the
Father of the Withering, found himself under the oblige- '
tion to fall into it through so many years that his own wife
(for he bad an unbeknown old lady in that capacity towards
himself) believed it! And what was the consequence?
When he was bores to his grave on the shoulders of six
picked Waiters, with six more for change, six more acting
as pall-bearers, all keeping step in a pouring shower with-
out a dry eye visible, and a concourse only inferior to
Royalty, his pantry and lodgings was equally ransacked
high and low for property and none was found! How could
it be found, when, beyond his laid monthly collection of
walking-sticks, umbrellas, and pocket-handkerchiefs
(which happened to have been not yet disposed of, though
he had ever been through life punctual in clearing off
his collections by the month), there was no property exist-
iny ? Such, however, is the force of this universal libel
that the widow of Old Charles, at the present hour an in-
mate of the almahouseti of the Cork-Cutters' Company, in
Blue Anchor-road (identified sitting at the door of one of
'em, in • clean cap and a Windsor arm-chair, only last
Monday), expects John's hoarded wealth to be found hourly.
Nay, are yet he had succumbed to the grisly dart, and
when his portrait,wzs painted in oils, life-size, by subscrip-
tion of the frequenters of the West Country, to hang over
the coffee-room chimney-piece, there were not wanting those
who contended that what is termed the accessories of such
portrait ought to be the Bank of England out of window,
and a strong-box on the table. And but for better regu-
lated minds cootendiog for a bottle and screw and the at-
titude of drawing—and carrying their point—it would have
been so handed down to posterity.—Someledy's Luggage,
edited by Charles Dickens.
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THE DISTRESS IN LANOLERIRK

TME MANSION•HOUSE COMMITTEE.

The committee held their weekly meeting yes-
today. Mn Alderman CUNT? presided ; sod Messrs.
Lycett, Cotton, Morley, Armitage, Barber, Stovros 1)11.
beroglu% and Gibbs, were also present. Mr. Pickering,
the meaner, reported that the total amount which had been ,
received up to 'Thursday evening was 251,8371. 2s. 2d., of
which 32,3741. ss. ld. had been received during the week, '
28,4931. lls. sd. of which was derived from home oontribn-
tioes, end 3,8801. 13e. Bd. from ixdonial sources. The
total amount already remitted to Lancashire for
distrihetion, exclusive of yesterday's grant, was
159,273/. 19s. 6d. Yesterday the committee, after
considering the several applications, decided upon
remitting the following amounts :-District Provincial
Society, Memel:tester, 3,0001 • Cadanabead, near Waning.
too, 601. • Hawkeshead-lane, 50/. ; Oppenshaw, 1501. ;
Eccles, 5001. ; Park-lane, Whitalleld, tom, 250/. ,• Bright-
ens% 100/. ; Staleybridge, 3,000/. • Asliton.uader-Lyne
2,00C11. •, Matron, 2501. • Nswchnrch, 106/. ; Kelbrooke,
50/. • Freckletoa, 50/. • Holton, 2501. • Hunt. 3001. • Ent-
wistle, 5001. ; 501. • Witile.le•Woods, 150/ •. ,
St. Matthew, Chaddertoe„ 2504 ; Rilechester, 100/. ; Shut-
deworth, 154 ; Lees, 5001.; Beswick Sewing Clam, 1001. ;
Buroley,lool. ; Medfield Sew Class, 601.;Tottingtoa, 2501.;
Failsworth, 2501. ; Salford, 2,0001.-making a total remittance
of 14,5501. There were a number of applications which did
noisome to hand until Friday massing, sad, the committee
having a great deal of bosinem to get through, the tornado.
Wks of them was adjourned until next Fnday, the com-
mittee at the same time expressing a hope that local commit-
tees would send their applications, so that they might be re-
solved before Friday morning. Thelarge meeting which was
held at Manchester on Tuesday last, and at which snob $ large
amount was collected, was brought before the notice of the
committee, and formed, as may be supposed, an important
topic of conversation, and the question which arose was
whether it would affect the London committee, and if so is
what degree. All the menbers took part in the con.
venation, and it was resolved that, as it was such an
important subject, it would require some conaidera-
Jima, sod it was thought best to adjourn the question.
It was, however, the unanimous feeling of the coin.
mittee, that, whatever might take pl whether they
should send the contributions straight toace, Manchester, or
continue their protest mode of distribution through local
committees, they should not break up, but continue to act
as long as the fund exists; as if the committee were to break
up, it might possibly lead to the idea that no more
relief was necessary, and the contributions might
thus fall off. Another matter which occupied the at-
tention of the committee was, whether special grants
should be made to the various districts in the
Christmas week. The committee undertook to write
letters to all the relief committees, to say that they desired
' to make special grants for Christmas, and ask for statistical
information in order that they might be able to apportion
the grants according to the necessities. The total sum
which came to hand during the day was about 4,2001.
From the town of Worthing and pariah of Broadwater,
1,0521. (1001. for the pawn fund) ; balance of Pontefract
subscription, 129/. 17a. 4d.; C. 34.,1001.; Pavilion Music-hall,
proceeds of a benefit, per Messrs. Loibl and Sooaharomer,
1051. ; collected at Newton Abbott, 1351.125. 'ld.% Hemp.
stead Relief Committee (first instalment), 1,0001..; George
Harker and Co., 1061. • Thomas Horton, Fol., 300/. ;
directors of the East and West India Docks (second
monthly instalment), 1001. A few boys of the North Loodon
Collegiate School, accompanied by the bead master, the
Rev. W. Williams, waited upon the committee, and handed
in the sum of 166/. 13s. 10d., as their contribution towards
the Lancashire Relief Fund. The presiding alderman, in
addressing the boys, thanked them on behalf of the com-
mittee for their liberality, and hoped that other schools
would follow such a node example.

lavasPoor..—The licensed victuallers of Liver-
pool, at a meeting on Thursday, agreed to devote the
amounts given in Christmas boxes to the aid of the funds
for the relief of the distress in Lancashire.

SALFORD. —The Salford Executive Relief Com-
mittee held their weekly meeting at the Town-hall ves-
talky. The financial report showed that since the last
meeting 1,2084 3e. had been received in subscriptions ;
a grant of 2401. had been received from the Provident
Society, and one of 1,0001. from the Mansion-house Com-
mittee, for clothing. The total amount received or

promised sines the commencement of the committee's
operations was 11,539!. 3s. During the lame time
2,2171. 16.. Ild. had bees expended in relief ; for the
sawingschoola, 5741. 2..9}d. • for the boys' school, I/. Is. ;
general working expeaus, 2091. lls. 60., making a total
expenditure of 3,0297. 12a. 3d. The report was adopted.
The hon. secretaries reported that circulars had bees
distributed through the borough, and answers had loss
received promising subscriptions to the amount of 1,5811.
7s. 11d. The sewing school committee recommended that
the payment of girls over 16 years of age should be raised
from Bd. to 10d. per day, and the payment of teachers from
103. to Is. per day. The recommeudation was adopted. A
nub-committee was appointed, consisting of the various din.
tributiou committees, for the purpose of securing unifor-
mity of actioa. The relief returns showed that there had
been 522 new applications during the week, representing
1,657 persona. Relief had been granted in 3,267 case., re-
presenting 11,036 persons, at a cost of 532/. 18e. 6d. There
were 743 persons working in the sewing schools, to whom
109/. 18s. M. had been paid in wages.
OLDILLII.—The relief committee have this week
granted assistant" to 2,910 cases, or 9,999 arsons, at a coat
of 7131. ilk. &I. These figures resistant a decrease of 445
cute, 1,618 persons, and 30/. 16s. 3d. in the amount of relief
given. This falling off is attributable to the fact that the
relief committee, in consequence of en arrangement with
the guardians, have been sending a number of cases wholly
to the union, instead of granting part relief to those pervious
who had been receiving aid from palish funds. The
returns laid before the board of guardians show that
15,116 peruses were relieved during the week, at a out
of 1,0871., against 15,560 relieved at a eat of 1,1401. is
the week previous. A deputation from the relief
committee attended the meeting of the guardians, to
draw attention to an agreement which had been oome
Ito between the guardiana cm the one band and the relief
committee on the other. Mr. Wright stated that at the
meeting of the board, a fortnight since, the guardians had
assented to a proposal on the part of the relief committee
' that each body should grant relief to the full extent, insteed
of a number of applicants being relieved in part by one
board and in pert by another. In order to carry this into
effect, the relief committees had issued papers recommend-
, iog the guardians to relieve all CAWS which they comidered
ought to come on the rates, and several instances bad ac-
eaned in which it wee alleged that persons had been refused
relief. The clerk explained the; when persons came before
the guardians with these papers they made a demand for
specified sums of money, and when the guardians, on making
inquiries into thaame,ordered them &certain amount of relief
they declined to receive it. They came there and presented
these papers as if they were a cheque on a banker, and
made demand for so much money. Mr. Howarth mid
it was impossible for the guardians to relieve the num-
bers sent to them by the relief committee, and thus far
be did not see that the arrangement could be curried into
effect. He urged the relief committee to grant relief to
a greater number of persons than they were doing, as it
would be impossible for the guardians to act upon the
principle urged by the deputation. In the township of
Oldham alone the expenses of relief during the past week
had been 8391. 11.. I Id, Taking that sum es a basis for the
12 months, it amounted ireround numoers to 43,6607. This
wu equal to *rate of 7s.7ad. in the pound forth. 12 months.
Now, when Mr. Farnall visited the union some time ago,
the total cost of relief in the whole of the union was only
127/. 7s. sd. per week. Since then a fearful change had
taken place. Their funds were almost exhausted, they
were pressed for money on all sides, and he wished them
to consider that the overseers found the utmost difficulty in
collecting the rates. Under these circumstances he did
think that the relief committee ought to place a greater
number on it' lists, as the guardians were really unable to
meet the demands of those thrown upon them. After
some discussion the deputation withdrew, the understanding
being that the relief committee would keep as many as
they could, and the guardians deal with the rest.

Par:rrort.—On Wednesday night a meeting of
the cottage property owners of Preston was held for the
purpose of receiving the report of a deputation appointed
st week to wait upon the overseen, the local board of
health, and the clerk to the Property-tax Commbsioners,
iu order to see if some arrangement of a temporary cha-
racter could not be made to reduce the rates and
taxes they are now subjected to, and which, owing to the
heavy distress which prevails, they are ao unable to pay.
The deputation reported that they bad seen the general
assistant overseer, and that he gave them no encourage-
meet whatever. They had also seen the clerk to the Pro-
perty-tax Commissioners, who intimated that they had the
remedy in their own hands. That official stated that if
they were unable to pay the tax at present upon their
property, they might reduce their rents to • mere nominal
sum, might bring the amount below the standard of the
oornmisaioners, and thus, until the times improved, obviate
the payment of taxes. A convention then ensued relative
to the Rate-in-Aid Bill, the general impression being that
it would not meet the requirements of the times. After
some discussion, it was resolved, " That a deputation be
appointed to wait upon the Preston Relief Committee, and
respectfully request that body to make some &Bowels°, for
rent in their administration of relief to the poor." It was
further resolved, " That a memorial be presented to the
board of guardians, requesting them, in coojunctiou with
the other authorities in the tows, to apply, along with the
cottage owners, for a loan of KOOK from the Consolidated
Fund, the repayment thereof to be spread over a number of
years."

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