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

BUN OFFICE, HALF-PAST 4 O'CLOCK

AUSTRIA.

EDITION

SUN OFFICE, SIX O'CLOCK.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE—This Day,

CITY BETTING—Tms DAY.
GOODWOOD STAKES.
sto 2 eget Thaiestris (taken)
10 to 1 agst Bally EdmoLd (taken)
10 to 1 agst Blondin (taken)
12 to 1 agst Claxton (taken)
100 to 8 agst Fisherman's Daughter (taken)
100 to 1 agst Myrtle (offered)
GOODWOOD CUP,
6to 1 agat Dollar (taken)
sto 1 agst Scottish Chief (taken)
10 to 1 agat any other (offered)

ST. LEGER,
3to 1 agst Blair Athol
100 to 30 agst General Peel
9to 2 agst Scottish Chief (offered)

WILLS AND BEQUESTS.

The will of Admiral Sir Edward Tucker, G.C.8.,
of Dover-street, Piccadilly, was proved in the Lon•
don Court, on the 29th ult., by the executors,
Martin Tucker Smith, his nephew, and George
Robert Alarten,Esqrs. The pe►sonalty was sworn
under £30,000. The gallant Admiral, who attained
the age cf 87, had seen much actual service on the
Mediterranean, Indian, and other stations, and ob-
tained a good-service pension in 1868. He was the
son of Colonel Tucker, sth Dragoon Guards. His
will bears date 1862, and a codicil, 26th August,
1863, being the month following the demise of his
wife, Lady Tucker. His estates in Ireland, toge•
ther with his personal 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.
The will of James Kershaw, Eq., M.P., late of

Oaklands, Manchester, and Streatham, Surrey, was
_ _

proved in the London Court, and the personalty
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, Lsq,, 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 an 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 £lO,OOO (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 Aetell, 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. Al_
legacies are to be paid free of duty.—lllustrated
London News.

Course of the Exchange.--Yesterday.

Amsterdam
Ditto
Rotterdam l2 O
Antwerp.. .. 2.5 57f
Brussels — 25 57f
Ramburgh — 13 8f
Paris
Ditto
Marseilles
Frankfort on Maine — 1197
Vienna

11 17
12 Of
12 Of
25 65
25 65
13 8
25 22i
25 65
25 65
120
11 82!
11 04
31

Trieste

11 80

Petersburgh
Berlin
Madrid O •••
Cadiz
Leghorn
Milan
Genoa
Naples
Palermo

4Sk
454•
25 621
25 67k
25 67k
25 67k
25 67
25 67k
511
51i

45.-1
4S$
25 67i
25 72t
25 724
25 72i
25 721.
25 74,
51i
52

Messina
Lisbon
Oporto...-

THE GREAT EASTERN AT SIIEERNESS.--The
Great Eastern reached the Great Nore about 6 p.m.
yesterday evening, where she was met by three powerful
steamtugs. She was able, however, to dispense with their
assistance, and slowly steaming she rounded the point, and
made for her moorings at Black Stakes off Standgate-creek.
There she safely cast anchor about 7 p.m. She was
watched by a large crowd of spectators assembled along the
beach and on the pier. The necessary preparations will bo
adopted for the conveying the cable from the manufacturers
at East Greenwich in sections, to be coiled on board the
Great Eastern, as soon as the Venus and Iris, which are to
convey it, are made ready for this duty.

COPYRIGHT BILL.—The select committee on this
bill have reported to the House of Commons that, consider•
ing the difficulty and complication of the inquiry, they are
not prepared to recommend any amendment or consolida-
tion of the law of copyright without information which at
this advanced period of the session it is hardly practicable
to acquire. They recommend that the whole question be
ref erred to a select committee next session.

t !FEEBLE LITTLE JOKE OF Slll.llAEitre NrCoLAE.
—The late Sir Harris Nicolas used to practise
rather strongly upon some of his friends. I was not an un-
willing victim. The pleasure derived from the wit exceeded
any pain it inflicted. Indeed, Sir Barris himself one day
expressed his disappoinment at my illeenßibilitY, by saying
that he had never in his whole life been able really to hit
me. The late Lord S . .
was sitting with him one
•
morning listening to a very astute but rather dry explana-
tion of some matter about which his lordship had inquired.
At last he threw himself back in his armchair and said,
"My dear Nicolas, 1 ao, very stupid this morning ; my
the
gone to dogs." rl
brains are all\Ai Which Sir Harris
9 —Babbage's ilutobio-
xe clawed, "Poor dogs!
.1 RE Njiw" GOVERNOR, OF
pathetically
graphy.
THE CAPE.—L'eute-
re tenn t
appointed G e n eral
GovernorSi r Rob
oe
fr Robert
the P
Capecrcy ofD oeuogodlasH,
owpehoha has
eldest son of the late Sic Howard Douglas, who 'is the
eldestwas Go-
vernor of New Brunswick from 1823 to 1829, and Lord
High Commissioner of the lonian Islands from 1835 till
1840. The new
in GovernorlB6l. wHaes
hborn
beeninlBos,
Inspectoran dof
to the Militiabaronetcy
and Assistant-Adjutant-General to the Forces.
INDUSTRIAL AND PROVIDENT S OCIETIES.—The
annual return of registered Industrial and Provident
Societies in England shows that there wsro in 1863 454
societies, and 381 have made a return of the state of their
affairs. At the end of the year these 381 societies hod
108,588 members, an increase of above 11,000 in the course
of the year. The amount of share capital was £573,562,
and loan capital £73,545. 1 hey paid yearly £32,978 interest.
They paid £3,370,153 for goods bought, and received
£2,626,741 for goods sold. They realised a profit of £213,623:
The year's expenses amounted to £176,554- The returns
include the accounts of the great 00-operative stores in the
£lO,OOO
eenciation at
eNorth,apita 1 . withl i
e their
Co-operativelo ,O 0 0 , Lelost,too
nOos,
13Xi2nOti, Oi
nOog-A- es,,s,
Mitchell Hey Mills, Rochdale, returns its number of mem-
bers at 1,617; its share capital. £77,511; goods bought in
the year, £98,539 ; sales, £110,097; profit realised, £7,303;
expenses, 417,101,

SECOND EDITION.

VIENNA, Yaly 15.—The General Correspondence
declares that the news sent from Turin relative to
the existence of bands of brigands in Venetia is
completely unfounded.