The Express.
London, England, 1866-12-21 00:00:00

THE WESTMINSTER PLA L

The last performance for this year of the Andria
of Terence took place yesterday evening. The
theatre of St. Peter's was quite filled. Amongst
the audience were the Dean of Chichester, Mr.
Coleridge, M.P.. Dean of Westminster, Bishop of Ade-
laide, Bishop of Illiuois, Vice-Chanoellor Page Woad,
Sir James Fergusson, M.P., Mr. G. Darby, Mr. J. A.
Fronde, M.A., Mr. J. Chiehele Plow.len, Mr. J. Mare,
Dr. Waildilove, Mr. G. W. Dasent, LL.D., Mr. J. Man-
ship Norman, Secretary of American Legation, Rev. C.
Page, Bev. H. J. Hothan, and Mr. T. V. Acland, M.P.

WILLS AND BEQUESTS.

The will of Sir John Pollard Willoughby, Bart.,
of Westbourne.terrace. Hyde Park, and Fulmer Hall,
Slough, Bucks, was proved, in London, on the 3trth ult.,
by Lady Willoughby, his relict ' • Anthony Morris Storer,
Esq., his son.irelaw ; and Sebastian Stewart Dickinson,
Esq., the executors and trustees. Thu personalty in
England war sworn under 100,tee11. A duplicate of the
will was proved in Bombay. The will is dated January 3,
1866 ; and there are two codicils, both exocutesi in March,
1541;. Lady Willoughby and Mr. Storer are appointed
guardians of minor children. Sir John was for-
merly in the civil 'service of the lion. East India
Company, hail been Chief 1-f:ureter, to the Ilniolay
government, and a muniner of the local council, from
which he retired in 1831. Sir John died Sept. 1:s, 181i6, at
the age of 68. His only son and aucceaur is a minor, in his
seventh year. Sir John luau left numerous legacies to rela-
tives ; and to his executors :gee. each. Ile bequeaths to
the Grand Medical College, lionihny. and to the Bombay
District Benevolent Society, each 2.nou rupees ; to the iwur
of Marsh Belden, Oxfordshire ihis native plissel. lug., to
provide fuel and clothing for the most destitute • t . the
Cancer Hospital, and St. Mary's Hoopital,Padilingt.rn, each
lie bequeaths to Lady Willoughy, beyond any other
provision, a legacy of LOWY. and au annuity of 2,40.; sad,
after making sonic specific beiluesta to sonic of his children,
he leaves the reodue to be divided amongst them.
The will of General
ed pro Sir John Michell, K.C.8., late of
Portland-Ooze, was pv in the London i'ourt. on the
7th ult., by his relict, Lady Michell, and Thomas Ramp-
field Utterniore, Esq., the executor.. The personalty was
sworn under B,ute.d. The gallant general was attached to
the Royal Artillery, and had seen much active service in
Holland and the Peninsula, and greatly distinguished
himself in several engagements, and was rewarded with
many baiges of diatinction. lie attained the age of 86,
and died August V, BOW., having executed his will in
1842, and • in 18:4. He leaves the principal part
of his property to his wife. Ilia estates at Huish and
Langfort, liomersctlliire, after her ladyship's decease., he
leaes o his son dward, havin made lorOVI•i0411
fory t hie three daughEters, and martin g to the disposal
of the personal property of lauly accuriling
to her judgment and discretion. lie also leaves to her
ladyship all his shares in the Commercial Hank at Kings-
ton, Canada. The will of Mr. Serjcaut Storks, late of
Gower-street, Beilfurd.square, hut who shed on the 4th
of November, at 24, Avenue Iles Champs, Elyveea, Paris
was administered to in the London Court on Nov. r 2,
his sou, It.ibert Reeve Storks, Bop, the residuary legatee,
there bring no executor warned in the will, which is loief,
and entirely in hie own liamlwritiog, in the words to the
following effect :—" I leave to toy son, Rebut Reeve
Storks, all my personal property absolutely which is nut
specifically bequeathed. To Retiree 4. a year. Sir Henry
and Mary are provided for. Tom 1 omit, as he possesses a
fortune. Dated Oct. 12, lsal." The personalty was
sworn under 120,0110.—Iflostreit,d Looldow Ncrs.

Kortfe Cobt.tue SCHUOL.—The prises awarded
this term to the atudents in Kin' College School were
distributed yesterday in the Colleges Hall, where nearly
400 pupils were iisseuibled to witness the ceremony. The
Rev. G. F. Mocker, the newly-appointed head master,
presided ; he was supported by the vice-master, the Rev.
John Twentyman, and the other members of his staff.
The principal awards were made to Buckiiiaster, Batter-
bury, Gow, and Shears. Before the diatriblitiou a special
service was celebrated in the college chapel, at which the
Rev. Canon Jell, D.D., the principal of the college, was
present, with all the misters of the school.
MR. CHARLES Paesomitz.—We regret to learn
that one of the persons killed by the unfortunate accident
on the Underzr, °wail Railway is a son of Mr. Daniel Pass-
more, an artist of good repute. Mr. Charles Pawnee.: was
a young man of very high promise ; and but for his un-
timely death would doubtless have male his maretribute k in lite
rature. Though only IS learn of age, he had thd
to several current periodicals ; and with hilt sound modem
and classical education, 1111.1 his eminently studioua habits,
was looked mion by many friends as beiug meal
hen he was the very
threshhold of a brilliant and useful career, w
thus prematurely cut off.—. Star.
FIRS AT CAATLE MOM ARD. —On Wednesday
night, after 10 o'clock, Castle Howard, 3lalton, the seat
of the Earl of Carlisle, narrowly escaped destruction by
fire. One of the domestics smelt something horning. and
it was found that the upholsterer's room, where the matting
was on fire. The matting had
screw ateam 1 beeananbeiagnsitelwelrebsyt*trhede, stove, and fears were enteriainl4
, put
n2l;ito.—tilhe eD°nukedoinf eS'utherland 1 for the safety of the valuable pictures ill the gallery above.
into Plymouth Sound to-night from London, to cosh The door was burni
ng. and the plumber who ventured in
yacPhLt,Y3lform°Verrilly'biellognegi.
Her crew state that she has been sold to the Emperor ' was only saved from suffocation by being di,,gged out by
Maximilian, that she is en route to Gibraltar and Trieste. the leffe-, The walls beneath the pictures wcre scorched.
but no pictures were damaged. An engine and plenty of
She is lettered " Ondine of Idexico."—( Reuter's Tdroram. ) water were at hand, and the fire was subdued iii three
" Admiral " Semmes has at last found a haven. ileum
After a stormy career as a pinto, and .still stormier 1 PUBLIC CHANT% Bolt SUCCENATUL VACCIBATIoN.
one as judge of probate and editor of a daily paper, La haa —We have received information that gratuities in the
become professor of " moral philosophy and
hears shape of awards have been mad. to some of the public
in some college in Louisiana. The more one hears of this vaccinators in the country. We are nut able to state upon
gentleman the more one is astonished by his versatility. what rule the different amounts are awarded. bat we
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appears to no position in life for which he is net derstand that they are for results. The Privy Council
fitted. If he does not Wm his place we have very little (the bledical Department) has the distribution of the
doubt another can be foundfor him in some other Southern 1 money which has been devoted for this object ; and, as
institution of learn:mg an an instructor inßiblical exegesis. ! that office has been for sonic time, and is still, inquiring
or the civil law, or Sauscrit, or organic chemistry, Or ' state of public vaccination throhout the
music, or polite letter-writing—nothing will come anima.— I country,
ry, it is hest able to utdertake the distnWtion.—
New York Nation. British Medical loaned.