The Express.
London, England, 1867-08-09 00:00:00

REMARK&

Atmospherical pressure is lowest In the north, where It is now
sliziktly decreasing, but elsewhere It is increasing. Winds are
tmderate and generally westerly, Weather cloudy, and some
ram ha fallen.

The following is the committee appointed by the
House of Commons "to draw up lemons to be assigned to
the Lords for disagreeing to the amendments to whieh this
house bath disagreed :"—Mr. Gladstone, Mr. Cardwell,
Mr. Villiers, Sir Ramsdell Palmer, Mr. William Edward
Forster, Mr. Colvile, Mr. 11PCullagh Torrens, Viscount
Enfield, 31r. Monereiff, and Sir Colman O'Loghlen. Three
to be the quorum.

A Milan letter says :—" Tho magnificent
covered gallery leading from the Piazza del Duomo to the
Pima della Scala is to be inaugurated towards the end of
the present month. Thi■ passage is the largest and finest
in Europe, and will, when finished, have cost 25 minions
a francs for site and construction. The work hu been
executed by an English company. The King will probably
le present at the opening, as his Majesty laid the first
none in April, 1864. The same company is about to nom-
'arm* the reconstruction, according to a magnificent plan,
cf the entire Pima del Duomo."

The trill of William Henry Whitbread, Esq.,
of Soutbill, Beds, was proved in the London Court, on the
Nth ult. under zo,oow. penonalty the acting executors
and I:mains being John Manning Needham, Esq.; Thomas
Paumard. Esq., of Cople, Beds ; and Thos. G. Groves, Esq.
0 Lincoln's-inn-fields ; power being reserved to Robert J.
Falk and Jas. Leman, Ewe., the otharexecutors. The will
bears date 1803, and there are two codicils, February,
14iti, and May, 1867. The testator died at his seat,
beuthill Park, Biggleswade, on June 21, aged 72. The will
is of cansiderable length. He bequeaths to his
&righter, Jane, Countess of Antrim. a legacy of 14,000/.,
and leaves her the organ at Southill. To his stepson,
Tamer A. Macau, in addition to other bequests the sum of
21,0001., for himself, wife, and children. The testator
bequeaths to his relict, beyond any other provision,
an immediate legacy of 2,000/. and au annuity of 4,000/. ;
the residence at Purfieet, with the furniture there and at
Lownilealquare, and other portions of furniture and plate,
and his service of pewter. He appoints his nephew,
Samuel Whitbread, to succeed him as a partner in the
brewery, and leaves him 50,0001., part of his share therein.
He leaves an annuity to his late wife's niece, Harriet
O'Callaghan, in addition to an annuity settled by a
former deed. To Maria Grey, sister of Edward Codrington
Cree, be leaves the interest of 10,000/. for herself and
children. The residue of his property, real and pereonal,
10 bequeathed to his brother, Samuel Charles Whitbread.
There are no leas than thirty-six annuitants under the will,
besides his widow, whose amounts reach the sum of
;372/. per annum. Amongst them is his steward Samuel
Ldly, and to his wife, should she survive her hus-
band ' • also to his housekeepers, coachmen, gamekeepers,
PAlellera, and other servants. He has left 1101. • year to
the widowed daughter of his gamekeeper, Dines, who was
surdered many years since, and 52/. a year to the nurse
who attended the testator in his illness in 1861.—Ines.
bark,/ Loodun New.
MARRYAT IN HIM LATER YEAR-Y.—When first I
hal looked round the walls of Langharn cottage, end had
*es what capital pictures were there, what first-rate
inures and marbles, and what a splendid library, I
thought I began to understand how he could make him-
self happy in this seclusion. "He lives amongst his
beebe, and Ms writings and papers," thought I. "I an
tee that a man of literary tastes and pursuits may make a
world of his own." But he did not make • world in his
literary- pursuits. He was, at the time of which lam now
writing, engaged upon some book—one of his later chil-
dren's stories, I think—but his literary work was never
unaled on his family. There was no time of the day
'olarently when he was to be left undisturbed. The
t'aer members of the household went in and out of the
mom 'rime he sat, and never found him abstracted or
4.sinclinal to take an interest in the outer world. He
thew himself like a child into his children's pleasures ;
out corning helping to make a kite, the next listening to
verses, cr in the evening joining with them in
aziti.t charades. He would leave off in the middle of
"'lung his book to carry out • handful of salt to his
Lueinte calves upon the lawn ; and enter into the fanci-
ful ',meting of a boudoir with all the enthusiasm of •
h always struck me that Marryat was like an elder
ladber rather than a father to his own children, although
lus fully sure he lost nothing in their filial respect and
ar by the intimacy and freedom of their love ; and I
sots, after he has been dead 18 years, that the
of his children cling to his memory as fond'y as
did to himself in the days I speak of. It mutt be
..i..ething to be capable of inspiring love which will out-
last tinie and absence without climb:intim—Corn/an
31,,ga.:ime for August.