The Express.
London, England, 1866-11-30 00:00:00

WILLS AND BEQUESTS.

Probate of the will of the Marquis Camden,
K.G., late of Grosvenor-square; Bayham Abbey, Sussex ;
Wilderness Park, Kent ; and Brecknock Priory, Wales,
was proved in her Majesty's Court, on November 16, under
200,000/. personalty—the executors appointed being his
sun, the Marquis Camden ; Herbert Hurley Murray,
Eaq., of the Treasury ; and his lordship's brother-in-
law, the Rev. Jennyn Pratt, M.A., Rector of
Campsey Ache, Suffolk ; and they are also, in conjunction
with Mrs. Pratt, the wife of the last named executor,
appointed guardians of the persons and fortunes of his
lordship's children dunng their respective minorities. The
will is of considerable length, and bears date August 2S,
1:47.6, with three codicils. date -1 respectively 18--,6, 1861,
and 1865. His lordship died August 6, at his seat, Bay-
haul Abbey, at the age of 67. His lordship, besides em-
powering the trustees to raise the sum of 55.000/. for
younger children, bequeaths to his sons, Lord George and
Charles, each a legacy of 7,0001., and to each of his &ugh-
ters asuinequal to 5,000/.,and 200/. ayear whilst unmarried.
Hu leaves the furniture,wines, household effects, horses,car-
risges, live and dead farming stock to his eldest son abso-
lutely ; the jewels, pictures, books, and plate to be enjoyed
by the person iu possession of the family estates. His
lordship devises the Isayham estate and all other his
estates in the counties of Kent, Sussex, Berke, Middlesex,
or elsewhere, to his eldest son and his issue ; the name
of Pratt always to be used, and to quarter his
arum with their own. His lordship also leaves
to his eldest son the residue of his ler-
sanal estate, for his own absolute use ; and bequeaths
legacies to each of his executors, as follows:—To Mr. If. H.
Murray, 500/., and to the Rev. Jennyn Pratt, 1.0001., free
of duty. The will of Sir George Edward l'ocock, Bart., late
of the Priory, Christchurch, Hants, was moved in the
London Court by his relict, Augusta Ellinor, Lady
Pocock, thesole executrix. The personalty was sworn under
5,000/. Her ladyship was the granddaughter of George
William, sixth Earl of Coventry. Sir George was the eldest
son of the first baronet, and died Sept. 3, 1866, at the age
of 74, leaving two sons and a daughter. SirGeorgeexecuted
his will in 1863, and Wu bequeathed to his wife, Lady
Pocock, all moneys at his bankers and all property he may
be entitled to in reversion or expectancy, to be
held by her for life, and to be disposed of by her lady-
ship at her deceaseas she may deem right, desiring, how-
ever, that a portion may be given to her son, Alfred Drake
Pocock ; and he also leaves his plate and the residue of
his personal estate to her ladyship for her life, and at her
decease to become the property of his eldest son, Colonel
Sir George Francis Coventry Pocock, Bart. The will of
William Curling, Esq., of Denmark-hill, Surrey, was
proved, in London, under 120,000/. personalty, by his
sons-in-law, William Hunter and Herbert Dalton, Esqrs.,
and Charles Hilman, Eaq., of Herue-hill, the surviving
executors and trustees. The testator died Sept. 20, 1866,
at the age of 85, having executed his will Aug. 5, 1865. He
leaves to each of his executors, a legacy of 100/., and libe-
ral legacies t 5 his servants. To his daughter!, Mary and
Martha, he leaves equally between them the furniture,
plate, ,S,c. ; and there are legacies to his nephews and
nieces. To the widow of his late son James he leaves 5001.,
and the cum of 22,5001. is to be equally divided amongst
her children by his late son on their attaining 21, duty-free.
, To his four daughters awl their families he leaves the sum
of 40,0001., in equal proportions, and also divides amongst
thou the residue of ill/ estates, both real and personal.—
Illuartrated Loudon ~Vears.

ALARMING FIRE AT KENTISH TOWN.—Lsst night
about 12 o'clock • fire broke out on the premises of Mr.
Pettifer, cheesemonger, 167, Kentish Town-road, which
threatened serious consequences. The police with
difficulty roused the inmates, who were fast asleep,
and several engines having speedily arrrived, and
water being promued, the fire was subdued before ex-
tending to the adjoining houses. Dense clouds of smoke
burst forth, but the flames did not gain an ascendancy,
and by 1 o'clock this morning the fire was extinguished.
The police acted with great promptitude, and in a abort
times as many as nine engines were on the spot, and the
fire-escape was early at the premises. It seems that the
fire broke out in the shop, and it is supposed through the
gome, THE BISHOP OF OXFORD AND HIS PASTORAL
FRIGHTFUL COLLIERY ACOIDENT.—THREE MEN STAF?.—Mr. Hubbard, M.P., at a meeting in Buckingham-
KlLLED.—Yesterday morning, about 4 o'clock, • shock. shire on Tuesday, defended the Bishop of Oxford, and
lag accident happened at the No. I Wharncliffe Silkstone even the crook which has given such umbrage to
Colliery, near Barnsley, which resulted in the almost instan- "S. G. 0." "If there were evidence wanting," said Mr.
taneous death of three workmen. Their names are—Frank Hubbard, "of the great debt we owe to the Bishop of
Howden, blacksmith, 36 years of age ; Joseph Ogden, car- Oxford, I need only refer to the constant abuse of him
penter, (56, married, and • large family ; and Benjamin which appears in the public papers. No man who does
Goodliffe, blacksmith, years of age. It appears that the his duty can achieve entire popularity. It is written,
unfortunate men bad gone early to place a new rope ' Beware when all men speak well of you,' and certainly the
on the drum, and, having done this, they went down Bishop of Oxford is in no danger ou that point. But my
the shaft for the purpose of adjusting the chair to the new Lord" (turning to the bishop, who was present), you
rope. Having completed their work, they commenced to may turn from the attacks of anonymous scribes in the
ascend by the old rope, but when they had got 50 or 60 public papers, from the almost blasphemies of cavillers,
yards upwards the rope snapped asunder, and they fell to to the attachment, the reverence, the love which are felt
the bottom. William Parkinson, a fellow-workman, was for yourself by the clergy and laity around you. We
the first to go to their assistance, and he found the poor know that you are incapable of being moved by fear, or
fellows jammed underneath the chair ; and they presented by any other motive than a sense of duty, and that, foi-
e frightful spectacle, their bodies being shocking moth lowing in the steps of your Great Master, you are not
lated. They were just alive, but none of them spoke. ashamed or afraid to hold forth the ensign of your
They were got to the pit mouth as speedily as possible. work, and to carry before you that emblem of your
Ogden and Goodlife expired as soon as they were got to episcopal authority, which is not, as it appears to
the top, but Howden lingered until half-past 7 the some, • mere gilded bauble, but the emblem of • most
same morning. important Scriptural truth. In that pastoral staff which
DARING LEAP FROM A TRAIN.—OD WedGe34lay Precedes your lordship, what do we see ? Not simply an
morning a man named John Anson somewhat astonished ornament, but an emblem of your episcopal character and
his fellow passengers by making his escape? from • train functions, which has been used from time immemorial in
while at full speed. Having been convicted of felony the Christian church. It bears a double significance. With
at Burton-en-Trent, Police-constable Evans was taking one end you urge on the laggard and rouse the slothful,
him, with a female prisoner, to Stafford Gaol, to the other is the pastoral crook with which you reclaim the
endure a month's imprisonment. When the train came erring and the wanderer. In these two emblems of your
out of the Shugborough tunnel, which is about three. episcopal character we see an announcement of your de-
fourths of • mile in length, Evans found that his pri- termination to fulfil that great and sacred duty."
ironer had disappeared, and unceremoniously left the door ETON COLLEGE.—The school closes on Friday,
open on the down side. On arriving at Stafford, at • little the 14th December, on which day the whole of the stu-
after nine o'clock, the station-master ordered an engine dents take their departure. Their return to the school is
and several officials to return to the tunnel at once, where fixed for the lower boys for Wednesday, the 16thJenuary,
a light was procured, and the tunnel searched from one 1867. On Thursday, January 17, the fifth form return,
end to the other, • prooeteling which simply resulted in the and on Friday, January le, the sixth form return, when
finding of the missing man's wide-awake. At length, the the whole school will have assembled.
engine having returned to Stafford, Evans traced his man SUNDAY SCHOOLS' SHIPS.—The missionary ship
to Lord Lichfield's covers, and then, joined by Mr. Horning Supe-
r launched in September, has just left Boston
intendent Crisp and Sergeant Dabbs, followed up the for the
Sandwich Islands. Th'is
ship, stated, was
scent to Great Haywood. There the dicers learned that "A
the fugitive had been mistaken for an escaped lunatic,
150,000 children in American Sunday schools.
that several young amen bad chased andcaptured him,'and
then, finding no one at the police-station, had taken hint A SIAMESE. COLOSSI-R.—The Bangkok Recorder
to the surgeon of the village, who was dressing his wounds describes a visit to one of the wets or Buddhist cloisters of
when the police arrived. It appears that, in dropping from the city, the Wat l"O, which is the largest. It covers
the carriage to the ground, the man was thrown with such ten acres of land paved with grey granite, and presents the
violence against the masonry of the tunnel as to dislocate difficulties of a labyrinth. It contains two temples of
• shoulder bone and bruise him severely about the head. imposing architecture. In one is an image twice the size
This must be regarded as a slight injury considering the of life, and covered with heavy gold, in the other
very limited space allowed for his descent. teak iloors beautifully inlaid with mother-of-pearl.
AFFRAY WITH POACHERS.—A gang of poachers The letter contains an image which far exceeds
visited Lord Sidmonth's preserves, near Honiton, on the Colossus of Rhodes in size. He is reclining
Tuesday night, and made a murderous assault ou his oat the right side, with his head resting on the right
two gamekeepers, John Allford and John Hoakins. About hand. He is 13. S feet long, about feet around the belt,
1 o clock the party, consisting of five, were disturbed I and the length of the little toe on the right foot is .1 feet
by the appearance of the gamekeepers, and one of the 4 inches. The natives say his bowels are full of large
poachers tired, happily, however, without effect. A severe water jars. The labour of constructing and gilding this
struggle followed, in which the gamekeepers were beaten in image must have been immense, and have taken years to
a frightful manner, and Hoskins now lies in a precuious accomplish. The nearest approach to this in Christian
state. The poachers were also roughly handled. The gang churches is in St. Peter's and the Lateran. In the former
were snaking off after the brutal assault when a son of one the figures which support the holy water basins on enter-
of the gamekeepers, attracted by the noise, came up and ing look like infants but are the size of adults, while the
succeeded in capturing one of the ruffians whose name is founts toward the roof are in reality three times the size
Edward noble. The police are taking active steps for the of life.
apprehension of his comrades. i WHAT MR. COBDEN DID. —Blackuvocr s Magazine
REATENEOLOCK-01Tr.—At Milnrow, &suburb for December says :—" Mr. Cobden did some *tight aerrice
of Rochdale, we regret to find that there is too much reason in the matter of the French treaty, though in • somewhat
to fear another disastrous trade dispute. The weavers em- ungracious manner."
ployed by one establishment struck work for an advance I MODERN EPITHETS. —Never were niceties of
of wages. To a certain extent only their demand was
assented to, and thereupon they ceased work. The menu- open* ion compressed into so small • compass as by the
futures, therefore, held a meeting, and resolved to lock youth of the present day. We observe—and also find the
practice adopted in all books which desireto reproduce
out all their men until those who struck returned to work. society as it is—a general disposition to reduce all ilefini-
This step is to be taken to-day, and will not only throw tion to the use of two or three terms. All that affects the
out of employment 2,000 people, but must., neoesearily, boy agreeably is jolly ; all that annoys the girl is horrid ;
inflict great misery upon a large number of families.— elf that they find, or pretend to find, irksome, trouble-
Leeds Mercury. • some, or oppressive, is awful ; though even this rule of
OUR COMMERCIAL RELATIONS WITH AUSTRIA.— adaptation May be reversed : while every shade and degree
Lord Stanley, Minister for Foreign Affairs has replied to of satisfaction, from ease up to rapture, is expreased in a
the memorial from the Medford Chamber of Commerce compound of the two • and the schoolboy—along with the
regarding the commercial relations between this country considerable class that adopts his style—whole measure
and Austria. As soon as information reached Lord of content is filled up, is awfully jolly. Here
Stanley of the conclusion of peace between the govern- is the climax to which nothing further can be added.
meats lately at war on the continent, he instructed her All good talk is an art, and owes much to practice. When
Majesty's charge d'affaires to call the attention of the one of these airy talkers nears thirty, who has hitherto
Austrian government to the terms of the protocol of made two or three adverbs and adjectives serve his or her
July 2, alluded to in the memorial of the Chamber, tern, we can scarcely picture to ourselves • more helpless
and also to state that her Majesty's government will case. Ho has taste enough to feel that such high-pressure
be prepared to resume the negotiations which were un- terms are no longer for him ; they strike upon his own as
fo tunately interrupted by the war. In reply to the well as the listener's ear, as painfully at variance with the
communication thus made to the Austrian government, subdued level of his spa its. He is satisfied to be cove
Lord Stanley has received assurances of the sincere fortable without any sense of irrepressible unintelligent
desire of that government to bring the matter to an early delight in the mere sense of life. let what is he to do ?
conclusion, and one conceived in the spit it in which the He is sot willing to give up emphasis, but which is the
negotiations had been commenced, and the Austrian spice of conversation, but where is he to find it ? We are
government have fully recognised that tho terms of the satisfied that many fluent talkers among our youth will be
protocol are binding upon them. The state of affairs at stranded ten years hence, and will have to retire into
Vienna consequent upon the war has not, however, as social obscurity, their style pointless, the right word never
yet (Novembe; 6) admitted of the arrangement of a fixed presenting itself, simply because • few obtrusive but in-
period for the resumption of the negotiations, but the admissible expressions will always keep to the front of
Chamber will understand that Lord Stanley is fully alive memory, and put every fitting, select epithet out of reach,
to the importance of the matter to which they have called till the moment which called for it is past.—Blackwood'*
his lordship's attention. Magazine for December.