The Express.
London, England, 1862-01-31 00:00:00

WILLS .411 D BEQUESTS.

The will of Colonel Sir Claude Martine Wade,
C. 8., of the Hon. East ladle Company's Bowies, late of
the city of Bath, was proved in Loodoe by two of the
executes—namely, Sir Fitzroy Kelly, Q.C., and Jobe
Romps, Req., solicitor, Bath reserved to
Robert Wigrant Crawford Feq.= .sheaf, City,
and John Dickinen, jun., Req., of Abbot's Hill, Hemel
Hempstead, the other examine& The personalty in Rei-
land wan sworn under 20,0001. Colonel Sir C. M. Wade,
the testator, distinguished himself both sa • mili-
tary Miner and u • civil diplomatist, and re-
mind the honour of knighthood, the rank of C. 8.,
and several other badges of distinction for his
valuable services. The testator has died poesemal of
a competent fortune, the principal of it Apparently
being invested in Indian securities. To Lady Wade, who
en income under settlement, he Ins bequeathed •
Millitarerest in two-thirds of the general estate, subject, to
' certain p_symenta as provision for younger children, his mu
Claude Fitzroy Wade taking an entire third el the property.
To Lady Wade is also bequeathed the jewellery, furniture,
carriages, ha, abided* ; but the presentation swords god
other trophies, seam fn., an ally beseseabsd to hoe for
life, being directed en her deems to peas to his ma Claude,
and retained by him as heirlooms. The residue of the estate is
bequeathed amenpt the teelatee's y. children. The
Wood he. left lognehe to the forismmg charitable Mediu-
time 3—T. the Earl of filhaftesbnry. fa according to his
dieweilee, towards the el ragged schools to
the Mineral Weber Inennary, Bathsupport_ , ;to St. Oeorp's
Hospital, Hyde-park, Rik ; sad to • lunatic asylum, BM BO
Mande hes left his becks, WS., and other documents to his
executor...An be dealt with according to their discretion, and,
if published, the profits arising from such are directed to
form • part of the residue of his estate.
The will of Sir James Williams, Bart, of Meal, Court,
eon Bideford, Devoe ; Rdwinsford, Cermarthemnre ; and
Upper Grosvenor-street, was proved in London on the 18th
ult. The executors appointed were the Hon. John William
Forteeme(rinse dammed), end the Hon. Gererd James Noel,
M.P. for to whom probate was granted, the
M"aelposenimnliet trial intil es": 1 pent conel3s tji ti
g ortinr James
mtsel:
estates, together with the
data
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above mentioned. He
married, in 1823, Indy Mary ter of Earl eogene,
by whom he had issue three tars (all married) ; and,
having no male heir, he has devised amongst them hie
various estates, rendered mosedingly lucrative from their
mineral products. Lady Mazy Williams being provided for
under settlement and otherwise, Sir James has bequeathed
to °her au immediate lope of 500 f., together with '
the enjoyment of the town mansion, furniture, co-
riagea, plate, ho. The plate, oe the decease of her
ladyship, is directed to pus to his three daughters
and to their children in respective portions. The daughters
are also appoietedresiduary legatees. The baronetcy, which
was mated In 1796, has now become extinct. Sir James
succeeded to the title and estates in 1829, es the death of
his father, and attained the age of 71. He served the
amen of high sheriff for Carraarthenshire in 1848, and re-
primand that county in parliament for a brief period. The
will is of rather unusual dimensions, ita contents having
=over an extent of nearly 303 folios, and bean date
bee, 1858, and • codicil 1859.—Illustrated London
Nene.

In view of the large expected influx of visitors
to London during the present season, the special
Sunday evening services in Westminster Abbey will
commence on the first Sunday in April, and occupy
a later portion of the year.

SOCISTY 1011 THZ Eiwouisrounwr OP THZ FIZZ
Arm—Led evening Mr. liontaitue Davis delivered • lec-
tors retitled the " Divine Whispering.; in Art." The sub-
ject nee handled is • masterly maser, and to the satire
estidaatios d the audience.

Tows AND COUNTRY.—We who are lovers of the
country are not unnaturally disposed to consider that our
preference argues some flair poetry of sentiment--some
steadier devotion to those ennobliny, studies which sages
commend as the fitting occupations of retirement. Bat
the facts do not justify that self-conceit upon our part. It
was said by a Philosopher who was charged with ail the
arm of a world's empire, that" there is no such great matter
M retirement. A man may be wiseaod sedate in a crowd as
well as in • desert, and keep the noise of the world from
getting within him. In this case, as Plato observes, the
walls of a town and the enclosure of a sheepfold may be made
the same thing." Certainly poets, and true poets, hove
lived by choice in the dingy streets of great towns. Men
of science, engaged in remonings the most abstruse, on
subjects the most elevating, have usually fixed their dwell-
ing-place in bustling capitals, as if the din of the streets
without deepened, by the force of contrast, the quiet of
those solitary closets, wherein they sat analysing the secret
heart of that nature whose everyday outward charms they
abandoned to commonplace adorers. On the other band,
men perforce engaged in urban occupations, neither bards
soy sages hut city clerks sad traders, feel a yearning of the
heart towards • home in the country ; loving rural eaters
with so pure a fervour that, if closer intercoume is forbidden,
they are contented to go miles every evening to kiss the
skirt of her robe. Their first object is to live out of Lon-
don, if but in • suburb • to refresh their eyes with the
green of a field ; to great tine first harbinger of spriog in the
primrose venturing forth in their own tiny realm of garden.
It is for them, as a class, that cities extend beyond their
ancient bounds ; while our nobles yet clung to their gloomy
halls in the Flat., traders sought homesteads remote from
their stalls and wares in the pleasing village of Charing ;
gradually nobles were allured by the gentle example, and
proud villas, with gardens sloping down to the river side,
chased the woodlark, or rather the bittern, away from the
Btraed. Nothing more stamps the true Coekoey than his
hate for the sound of Bow bells.—gir E. B. Lytton, In
Blackt.rood's Magnsiatc for February.

A DtissuaT'm FezuNos.—is it all over? May
we lock up the wee of instruments? Have we signed our
wills ; settled up our affairs ; pretended to talk and natio
quite cheerfully to the women at dinner, so that they Xhould
not be alarmed ; sneaked away under some pretext, and
looked at the children sleeping in their beds with their little
unconscious thumbs in their mouths, and a flush on the
soft-pillows.' cheek ; made every arrangement with Colonel
Maclurk, who acts as our second, and knows the other
principal a great deal too well to think he will ever give in ;
invented a monstrous figment about going to shoot phea-
sant. with Mac in the morning, so as to soothe the assume
fears of the dear mistress of the house ; early as the hour
appointed for the—the little affair—was, have we been
awake hours and hours sooner • risen before daylight, with
a faint hope, perhaps, that Ma;Turk might have come to
some arrangement with the other side ; at seven o'clock
(confound his punctuality !) heard his cab-wheel at the door,
and let him in, looking perfectly trim, frosts, jolly, and well
shaved ; driven off with him iu the cold morning, after a
very unsatisfactory breakfast of coffee and stale bread.and-
butter (which choke, somehow, in the swallowing); driven
off to Wormwood Scrubs in the cold, muddy, misty, moon-
shiny morning ; stepped out of the cab, where Mac has bid
the man to halt on • retired spot in the common ; in one
minute more, seen another cab arrive, from which descend
two gentlemen, one of whom bas a Case like fdacTurk's
under his arm ; looked round and round the solitude, and
seen not one single sign of a policeman—no, no more than
in is row in London ; deprecated the horrible necessity which
drives civilised men to the nes of powder and bullet . • taken
ground as firmly as may be, and looked on whilst Mac is
neatly loading his weapons • sod when all ready, and one
looked for the decisive one--two—three, have we even heard
Captain O'Toole (the woad of the other principal) walk up
and say : "Colonel Mai Turk, I am desired by my principal
to declare at this eleventh—this twelfth boor, that he is
will* to own that he seem he has been wrong in the dis-
pute which has arisen between him and your friend ; that
he apologises for offensive expressions which he has used
in the heat of disposal and manta the course he has
taken?" If something like this has happened to you,
however great your courage, you have been glad not to
fight ; however accurate your aim, you bays been pleased
nut to fire.—Corsetiii liopeeise for February.