The Sun.
London, England, 1864-12-03 00:00:00

And, as compared with the month ending the 14th Nov.,
1863, the above returns show a decrease of £1,250,983
in the circulation of notes in England, and a decrease of
£1,302,742 in the circulation of the United Kingdom.
On comparing the above with the fixed issues of the seve-
ral banks the following is the state of the circulation :
The English private banks aro below their fixed
issue
The English joint-stock banks are below their
fixed issue £370,934

Total below fixed issue in England.... £1,37',37!
The Scotch banks are above their fixed issue .. £1,695,063
The Irish banks are below their fixed issue .... £398,184

The average stock of bullion held by the Bank of Eng-
land in both departments during the month ending the 9th
Nov. was £13,277,302, being an increase of £103,119 as
compared with the previous month, and a decrease of
£808,457 when compared with the same period last year.
The following are the amountsof specie held by the Scotch
and Irish banks during the month :
Gold and silver held by the Scotch banks £2,441,714
Gold and silver held by the Irish banks 2,136,817

£4,578,531
Being an increase of £226,488 as compared with the
previous return, and an increase of £17,254 when compared
with the corresponding period of last year.

WILLS AND BEQUESTS.

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(From the illustrated London NovB4

The will of the Dowager Countess of Effingham • was
proved in her Majesty's Court of Probate by her son, the
Right Hon. Henry Earl of Effingham, the acting executor.
The other executors appointed were her son, the Hon. C.
Howard; her daughter, Lady Baring; and her niece, Mrs
Brandreth. Her ladyship was the daughter of Neli, third
Earl of Rosebery, and married Kenneth, first Earl of Effing-
ham, who died in 1845, and afterwards married Thomas
Holmes, Eaq., who survives her ladyship. The will bears
date,lB62, and a codicil July 4, 1861, which are respectively
signed, " Charlotte Holmes, late Charlotte, Countess of
Effingham." Her ladyship has left to the Ragged School
Union the whole of her money and accumulated savings at
her bankers, Messrs. Drummond; end she bequeaths to her
three sons the property left to her by the will of her father,
the Earl of Rosebery, leaving to her son Charles £3,000,
and the remainder between her sons the present Earl and
the Hon. and Rev. William Howard.
The will of Miss Ann Cranstoun Fryer, formerly of The
Cedars, Hammersmith, but late of Reading, Barks, was
proved in the London Court on the 10th ult. under £90,000
personalty, the executors and trustees therein nominated
being the Right Rev. Walter John Trower, D.D., Bishop
of Gibraltar ; Wm, Whitmore, Esq., of Beckenham, Kent ;
and Edward Wells, M.D., of Reading. The will bears date
Jan. 21, 1860, and there are two codicils, dated 1861-3. The
testatrix has bequeathed to her sister, Janet Fryer, the
whole of her fat niture and household effects absolutely, and
a life interest in all her funded and other property, with the
exception of two legacies of £5OO each to the Societies for
Promoting Christian Knowledge and the Propagation of the
Gospel in Foreign Parts, to be paid free of legacy duty within
six months after her decease ; and she directs that upon the
decease of her sister there shall be first paid out of her estate
a sum of.nearly £26,000 to 17 charitable institutions, three
of them in London, viz. :—The Governesses' Institution,
£3,000 ; Church Missionary Society and Church Pastoral
Aid Society, each £l,OOO. The other institutions are. in
Edinburgh. To the Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, a legacy
of £6,000 is bequeathed, together with the residue of her
estate, after paying bequests of various amounts to about 40
legatees. The executors are left legacies of £1,600 each.
The will of Henry Seymor Ward, Esq., late of No. 3, St.
James's-place, Westminster, was proved in the London Court
by the executors, the Hon. George Godolphin Osborn (com-
monly called the Marquis of Carmarthen) and W. Montague
Calcraft, Esq., of Rempstone, near Wareham, Dorset. The
personalty was sworn under £30,000, The testator died on
Sept: 23 last, at 6, Chandos-street, having executed his will
on the 11th of the same month, bequeathing to his sister,
Fanny Maria, the wifo of Henry James Farquharson, Esq.,
the sum of £7,500 for her own use, and leaving the residue
of the personalty, togother with the real estate, to his
nephew, Frederick Henry Farquharson, the eldest son of
his sister, absolutely.
The late Mrs Symons left £l,OOO to the Church Missionary
Society, and £lOO, as stated last week.

ANOTHER GERMAN MURDERER.—A verdict of
wilful murder was, on Wednesday, returned by a
coroner'a jury at Falmouth, against Albert Bernhard
Julius Rudolf, a sailor belonging to a foreign at an-
chor in the harbour. The evidence taken was complicated,
voluminous, and conflicting, but it seems clear that the ac■
cured came ashore on Saturday, and against the advice of a
comrade, brought with him his clasp knife. Rudolf then
became somewhat intoxicated, was a party to a street guar%
rol, during which John Timmins, a young man employed

by a Penryn fish dealer, was stabbed to the heart, and died
almost instantly. Two or three witnesses express their be-
lief that Rudolf was the man whom they saw strike the
fatal blow. The moat damaging point is that the accused,
when arrested on board his ship, endeavoured to conceal his
clasp knife, which was found to be freshly stained with
blood. Rudolf is a Prussian, and his else, therefore, is
another instance in which murder is laid at the door of a
German sojourning in England.— Western .Morning .zvews.
The Union de la Sarthe states that a suicide was
committed two days since at Vilaine-sous- Luce (Sirthe) by
a man named F--, against whom a complaint had been
lodged for a criminal assault. When F-- was informed
that the police were come to make an inquiry into the mat-
ter, he told his wife that the gendarmes were coma to arrest
him, kissed her affectionately, and before she had recovered
from her surprise, took a gun and blew out his brains,