The Sun.
London, England, 1864-07-16 00:00:00

WILLS AND BEQUESTS,

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The will of Admina i.Sir Edward Tacker, G.C.8.,
of Dover-street, was proved in the Loa.
don Court, on the :29:h ult., by the executors,
Martin Tucker Smi th, his nephew, and George
Robert Marten, E,qc EL. The personalty was sworn
under £30,000. The. gallant Admiral, who attained
the age of 87, had se ma much actual service on the
Mediterranean, Indian, and other stations, and ob-
tained a good-service pension in 1858. He was the
son of Colonel Tuckstr, sth Drageon Guards. His
will bears date 1862, and a codicil, 26th August,
1863, being the mont h following the demise of his
wife, Lady Tucker. His estates in Ireland, toge-
ther with his person al property, he has left to his
nephew, Francis Tucker, of the East Indian Civil
Service, he paying £l,lOO to the testator's nephew,
Cecil Turner.

E►q., M.P., late of
oaTkhiaenwdsi,llmoafn
Surrey, was
Ichamese,,egrK,
proved in the Lon don Court, and the personalty
and Streatham,
sworn under £300,000. The executors and trustees
therein nominated are Mrs. Kershaw, the relict;
Frederick T. Elworthy and Samuel Armitage,
Esqs., the sons-in-law ; Sir Frank Crossley, Bart.,
M.P.; and Thomas Barnes, Esq., who are also
guardians of the children, who are minors. A
legacy of £lOO to each of them, in the character of
executors. The testator has made a liberal provi-
sion for his relict, and to the two sons of his late son
James he leaves a legacy of £5,000 each ; to each of
his seven daughters a legacy of £3,000, appointing
them also residuary legatees. The will bears date

1862. The testator died on the 27th of April last,
aged sixty-nine. Mr. Kershaw was partner in the
firm of Kershaw, Leese, and Sidebottom, mannfac•
turers, of Manchester—was a magistrate—was
elected Mayor of Manchester in 1843, and had
been M.P. for Stockfort since 1847.

The will of Colonel Richard William Astell, of
Everton House, Bedfordshire, formerly command•
ing, the 3d Battalion of the Grenadier Guards, was
proved in the London Court on the Ist instant by
the testator's brothers and executors, John H. Astell,
Esq,, M.P., and Charles Edward Astell, Esq. The
personalty was sworn under £BO,OOO. The will
bears date 1857, and a codicil, September, 1862, and
are in the testator's own hand-writing. The gal-
lant Colonel died at the age of sixty. He had
retired from active service. He was a magistrate and
Deputy-Lieut. for Bedfordshire. His will contains
many liberal legacies. To his sister Lady Fairfax he
leaves en annuity of £5OO and a legacy of £soo—
his sisters Louisa St. Quinton and Harriet Par-
doe, each £lO,OOO--and to his brothers Henry and
Charles, each a like legacy of 1.:10,000 (one-half of
these legacies on their decease to go to their chil-
dren), and liberal bequests to others of his family.
The residue, real and personal, is left to his brother
John Harvey Astell, Esq. To his nurse he leaves
an annuity of £3o—to his man• servant (a private
in the Grenadier Guards) an annuity of £25, and
to each of them a legacy of £5O, and legacies to
other servants. To the poor of Everton and Tet-
worth .£lOO, and to the Middlesex and Westminster
Hospitals, the Bedford Infirmary and the Royal
Free Hospital, Gray's-inn-road, each £lOO. All
legacies are to be paid free of duty.—lllustrated
London News.

LONDON GAZETTE.—Last Evening,

CROWN-OFFICE, JULY 13.

MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN THE PRESENT PAR.
LIAMENT.

COUNTY OF G LOUCES TER. —Eastern Division—Sir
Michael Edward Hicks Beach, Bart., in the room of Sir
Christopher William Codrington, Bart., deceased.
WAR OFFICE, PALL MALL, JULY 15.
89th Regiment of Foot—Major-General Charles Gascopie
to be Colonel, vice Lieutenant-General C. G. J. lirbuth-

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not, transferred to the 91st Foot,
91st Foot—Lieutenant-General C. G. J. Arbuthnot, from
89th Foot, to be Colonel, vice Lieutenant-General Chas.
Murray Hay, deceased.
ADMIRALTY, JULY 12.
Royal Marine Light Infantry—First Lieutenant Robert
Abarnethie Brutton to be Captain, vice Bent, placed on
half-pay—Second lieutenant Henry John Lawrence Nor-
cock to be First Lieutenant, vice Brutton.

NEW ZEALAND.
The " Gazette" contains a number of despatches relative
to the war in New Zealand, the substance of which wo
have already given.

In consideration of the services mentioned in these de-
spatches, the following promotions have taken place :
TO RE COMMANDERS.

Lieutenant George Graham Duff, dateof commission 29th
April, 1864.
Lieutenant Charles Frederick Hotham (so soon as ho
shall have completed the sea time required to qualify,hica
for that rank).