The Express.
London, England, 1862-12-27 00:00:00

EXPRISS, SATURDAY EVENING,

THE DISTMit3 IN lAsNCABIIIRE.

The following is the variation in the amount of
pauperism in the undermentioned 21 unions on a
comparison of the third with the second week of
the present month. The total number of paupers
in the second week of December in the section
of unions marked (a) waa 114,080 ; in the section
(b), 9,160 ; and in the section (c), 150,600 ; toge-
ther, 273,840, having allowed fur a decrease of
1,040 in the Stockport Union, as shown by, last
week's return, received too late for publication.
The aggregate population of these unions is
2,080,000.

(a) Eight Maio= have mra s
Chatham
I=laid

. 720

390
110
• 310

Prestos

food at Manchester, making 23,0001. which they have sent.
They have suggested the application of • robed sum of 1
2,0133/. towards the employment sod support of the yoga(
women attendiug the " sewing classes, which have bent •
the means of doing much good, and preventing much evil.
COUNTY OF Dumisma.—The money paid into
beak for the Lancashire Relief Fund from such of the dis-
tricts es bud sent in returns on Wednesday last was found
to amount to 3,4381. Between 8001. and 9001. of this sum
hes been subscribed in the burgh of Dumfries—the First
Ward contributing ?AL 81. 6c1., and the Fourth, 2491. 2a.
Four parishes, composing the district of Lockerbie, bare
Riven the handsome contribution of 836/. 18e. 10d. From
the Moffat district, four perishes, 484./. 2s. 2d. has bees
meat ; from the burgh and parish of Lochmsben, 2591. ; and
from the small parish of St. Mosso, 2521. A remittance of
3,0001. has been made to the secretary of the Osotral Com.
mitts' at Manchester. _ .

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THE lINE3IPIOYED IN GLIBOOW.-011 Thlirkilky a I
meeting of the relief committee was held in the Conseil-
boll. The Lord Provost, who prod& 1, said the number of
applicants for relief on the roll a fortnight age was 3,095,
while last weep this number had lemma to 3,773. The
subecripaone had been coming in at a proportionably W-
ormed rate. The amount eontributed up till last meeting
had been 17,0001., end Mils sum bad now increased to
22,8101. He bad since last meeting ordered 10,000 circulars
to be print d for circulation among the inhabitants, solicit-
ing ooutributioos of clothing. Last week be hat seen it
noticed that the government of India bad recommended that
the ettrplos of 80,0001. of the contributions sent from Ws
country to India to relieve the distrese consequent on the
failore of the rice crop should be plac. I at the cilepovl
of the Lord Mayor of London, to be applird in the relief of
the cotton operatives of this country. (He (the Lord Pro-
vost) bad been chairman of the India Relief Committee in
Glasgow, and he found that they had given 8,E301. to the
fund, the gross amount of which was 185,0001. Now, if the
surplus were to be sent back, be thought that the propor-
tion to which the loople of Glasgow were entitled should be
returned. With that view he had communicated with the
Lord Mayor of London, but no answer bad yet beat received.He asked the meeting to conf ^in what be bad done, and to
take steps for getting the money. He reported favourably
of the industrial schools which have been opened in various
parte of the toe ..nd * I,:ch are bow attended by 800 mill-
workers.

WILLS AND BEQUESTS.

The will of the Right Hon. Lord John Dutton
Sherborns, late of Sherborne.lodge and fitendist.honee,
Gloureetershire, and Hyde Park-garden, wet proved, in
London, under 100,0001. panonal Cy ; the executor
nand being his lordship's nephew, the Bight Hon. Charley
John Howard, Earl of Suffolk and Berkshire; James
Houghton Langston Evq., of 219raden.house, Oxford ; and
Charles Frederick Bailey, Fag., of Stratford-place. Load
Sherboroe was poseersed of considerable landed property,
principally in P',mpshire, Gloucestershire, and Cheshire,
and succeeded to the title and estates, on the demise of WI
father, in 1820. His lordship attained to the greet age of
eighty-Three, and leaves a Inge family by his drat wife, the
daughter of Lord Stowell. The will bears date March,
1361, and by referring to deeds executed in 1826 and 1818
the testator has made them part of the will,
which—with • codicil dated July. 1862—comprises
468 folios. His lordship by these deeds hes
settled his estates chiefly upon his eldest soo, the
present baron, provision bring made for his other children,
as wells for hie relict. leer* is a legacy of 5,0001. to his
daughter, the Dowager Cones of Dune ; a like sum of
6,0004 to his son-in-law, Lord Domain ; and legacies of
5,0001. to two daughters of the present Lord Sherbets*.
Liberal legacies are olio left to his servants-1,0091. to
his butler, 3001. to his farm-bailiff, and annuities to his cook,
housetraid, mum, late gamekeeper, and other domestics
The will of Major-General Sir John Dudley Wilmot
Inglis, ILC.R, late of the Island of Corfu who died at
Homburg, in Germany, co the 27th of September; Jut, was
proved in Lotion on the 3rd iost., the executors appointed
Wog William Frederick Higgins, Fack., sod John Crooke
Halliburtoo, Fag. The personalty in this counts, was
sword under 10,0001. The gallant general bald the cent-
mend of the troops in the lonian Islands, and was colonel
of the 32nd Foot, and had been attached to that regiment
throughout the whole of hie military career, in which he
ad served with didinction and reward ;.9 Canada and
Jed's, and died at the wily age of 48. His name wi'l 'Tyr
be aseoeisted with Lawrence, at the ..easeful defence of
the residency at Locknow. The general's will is entirely in
his own leindwritiug, and was executed in 1851, he then
holding the rank of • Major and Brevet Lieutetiant.Oolonel
of the 32nd Regiment," which designation be appended to
his signature, witnessed by " Frederic Thomism and Gram
Martin." The will is very brief, and disposes of all invest-
ments, upon the decease of lady Inglis, ainmagn thelc
children in opal portions. Sir John wan the eon of the
late Bishop of Nova Scotia, and grandson of the first bi.,:iop
of that colony. His relict, lady Inglie, is the de*ghte-
of Lord Chelmsford, recently Lord High Chancellor of
England.
The will of Mrs. Ann Cott°, of Grenedeplace, Surrey,
relict of Mr. Abraham Onto, wan proved in London on the
4th inst. ; the personalty was sworn under 16,0001. The
executors are Mr. William Howard and Mr. Richard Stro
both of Old Kent-rued. This lady, who died on the 25th
ult., executed her will in September last, leaving to cher i-
table institutioos legacies little short of 10,0001. Her charm
(numbering 72) which she held in the Laden Joint Stook
Bank she has given, in four equal portions, to a gcdabild
and to three other friends; sod there are legacies of ICOI.
each left to a few other individuals ; but the residue of her
property she has not disposed of, which, Ulm anted in the
will, it was her intention to do by a codicil ; such document,
however, appears not to have been executed. The follow.
Mg are the charitable bequests, :—The National Lifeboat
Institution ; British Orphan Asylum, Clapham ; Infant
, Orphan Asylum, Wanstead; Asylum for FatherleasChildreu,
Croydon ; Governance' Benevolent Institution, Sous of
Clearly. St. Ann's Society, Idiots'Society, and Blind Asylum,
St. George's, to each a legacy of 1,0001. ; to the Marine
Society, Bishopegate, 1001. ; the United law Clerks' Society,
, 501. ; and to the Refuge for the Destitute, 501. ; &Mammies
to be paid in full, free of legacy duty.—from the Illustrated
London Seta.