The Sun.
London, England, 1864-06-25 00:00:00

WILLS AND BEQUESTS.

The will of the most noble Elizabeth, Duchess of
Gordon, of Huntly Lodge, Aberdeen, was proved in
her Majesty's Court of Probate in London on the
33 inst.—the executors being the Right Hon. Jas.
Alexander, Earl of Rosslyn, P.C., and Henry R.
Cox and Charles Hammersley, Eq., both of
Craig's-court, Westminster. The personalty was
sworn under £60,000. Her ladyship was the
daughter of Alexander Brodie, Esq., and married,
in 1813, George, fifth Duke of Gordon, who died
in 1836 ; title extinct. Her Grace's will bear date
September, 1862. After reciting several annuities
made chargeable upon her estate, she bequeaths a
sum of £3,000 towards the building of the
Gordon Schools, and for the benefit of the
Female School of Industry and Infant School
at Huntly. There are several bequests to
hzr relatives and personal friends, and she has
bequeathed the residue of her property to her cousin,
W. Brodie, Eeq., of Brodie. Legacies are also left

to servants—to two of them I'soo each, to another
£2OO, and to the others according to length of
servitude.

The will of Francis Edward Smedley, Rig., of
Grove Lodge, Regent's Park, and Beech Lodge,
Great Marlow, Berks, was proved in the London
Court under £70,000 personally. The executors
are the Rev. Henry John Ellison, M.A., Prebendary
of Lichfield and Vicar of New Winthor, Berks, and
George Montagu Jail, Esq., of Jermyn-street,
Piccadilly. The testator has bequeathed to
his mother his residence, Beech Lodge, and the
furniture, together with an annuity of £500;
and to his cousin, Menella Bate Smedley,
like annuity of £5OO, and upon her decease an an.•
nuity of £250 to her mother. To other relatives
liberal annuities and legacies are bequeathed. To
his cousin, Mrs. Hart, £2,000 is left towards the
building and endowment of a church at Glen Alla,
Donegal, Ireland, in lien of a legacy to her, at her
own request. To several of his acquaintances be-
quests are made varying in amount; to his execu-
tors :000 each; and to his servants liberal legacies.
All bequests are to be paid free of legacy duty.
The residue, real and personal, is bequeathed to his
said cousin, Menella Bute Smedley.
The will of the Rev. John Pinckney, D.D., late
of East Sheen, Surrey, formerly of Laleham, Mid.
dlesex, was proved in London under £120,000 per.
sonalty. The executors are his sons, Eryls-
man Charles Pinckney, Eeq. ; the Reverend
W. Pinckney, and George Henry Pinckney,
Esq. The will was executed in 1856. After
leaving a legacy of £6,000 East India Steck in
trust for his son Horatio, and £3,000 to his son
Erlysnaan, and annuities of £4O, £2O, and £lO to
three of his old servants, the testator divides the
residue of his property, real and personal, into four
equal parts amongst his three sons, who are his
executors, and his daughter Henrietta, wife of G.
Wood, E-1., M.D.

The will of Mrs. Eliza M. Claridge, who died at
Nice, in France, in the early part of this year, has
been proved in the London Court under £30,000;
the will of Thomas Boulton, Esq., of Madingley
Lodge, Kensington, under £20,000 personalty; and
that of Mr. Henry Burnell, of Cheyne•walk, Chel-
sea, £2o,ooo.—lllustrated London News.

Course of the Exchange.--.• Yesterday.

Amsterdam
Ditto
Rotterdam .. 12 01
Antwerp. .
Erns•sels — 25 CO
flamburgh — 13 8!.•
Paris
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Nlerseilles
'frankfort on Ilaine — 120
Vienna
Trieste
Peteniburgh
Berlin —

11 771
12 0j
12 O
25 621
25 621
13 9
25 221
25 621
25 621
120-
11 95
11 95
311

I\lacirid

Cadiz
Leghorn
Milan
Genoa
Naples
Palermo
Messina

48k
25 621
25 621-
25 621
25 65
25 65
25 65

4S
25 70
26 70
25 67i
2.5 70
25 70
25 7o

Lisbon

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Foreign Gold in Bars (Standar4), per 0z.... £3 17 9
Mexicans Dollars . .............. 0 0 °
Slyer inßars ( Standard) ... •' • ............ 0 0 0

NORTH DURHAM ELECTION.—Tho High Sheriff
of Durham has appointed Tuesday next for the elec-
tion of a member for the northern division of the county of
Durham, to serve in Parliament in place of the late Lord
A. V. Tempest, There is no opposition to Sir Hedworth
Williamson, the Liberal candidate, and it is officially an-
nounced that his return will not be contested,

"The steamvessel Yeddo," says the Gironde,
" Which has just been constructed in the building
yard of M. Arman, of this city (Bordeaux), and which is
supposed to belong to the Confederate Government, left the
roadstead yesterday morning. She had made a trial trip on
Monday last, and completed her preparations on the follow-
ing day. The Yeddo measures 682 tens, and has a crew
(entirely Frenet) of 65 men. She is commanded by Captain
Pater, who is a native of France also, and was for a long
time master of vessels belonging to Bordeaux. She is
freighted with different kinds of goods, and is despatched
ri:oint ''orts
by M. Arman himself through M. Causse, shipbroker.
The Yeddo is bound for Amsterdam ; but everything con-
cerning her departure and the object and aim of her voyage
remained a profound mystery. To the last moment the
freighters, (lacers, and seamen maintained an absolute
silence to all the questions put to them."
HOSPITAL FOR CONSUMPTION AND DISEASES OF
THE CHEST, BRUMPTON.—The pretty little chapel
(provided through the beneficence of the chairman of the
committee, some 14 years ago, for the use of the patients
and others connected with this institution), will be throws
open to the public on Sunday morning next, on the occa-
sion of the anniversary sermon, which will bo preached by
the Bishop of Ossory (the Right Rev Dr 0
'Ben
chapelo f,
tfe c iosn
gfittedregaut
congregation;
nw;i tahntdhae utmost
pleasingregard
to the
(ffee:, is imparted
to the interior, by the numerous stained glass windows,
which, with the ornamental carving, were designed by Mr
E. B. Lamb, the architect of the chapel. The approach to
the chapel is through the lodge gates, in the Fulham-road.
THE HOWLING DOG.—in the c int> assigned to the
cleoagof e%.,c the o
the ,ryan tt,s, si;itlToesi thatsenge verfrryom the world of the
de, we
super-
stition which recognises a death-omen wide-spread d
thee - sp rea d
howlingo of
a dog. An intelligent Londoner tells me he has ellen
seen the omen given, and verified its fulfilment. The
dog's mode of proceeding on such occasions, he say', ie
this—The animal tries to get under the doomed pereon's
window; but if the house stands within an enclosure, and
it cannot get in, it runs rcund the premises very uneasily,
or paces up and down them like a sentry. If the deg
succeeds in making an entry, it stops under the window,
howls horribly, finishes with three tremendous barks, and
hurries away. The same superstition prevails in France
and in Germany. In the latter country, a dog howling
before a house portends either a death or a gee. If it
howls along the highway, that is held iri Westphalia to
be a suretoken that a funeral will soon pass that way.
In the German, as in the Aryan mythology, the dog is an
embodiment of the wind, and also an attendant on the
dead. It appears in both characters in Odin's wild hunt.
Dogs see ghosts, and when lie!, the goddess of death, goes
about, invisible to human eyes, she is seen by the dogs,-
I''7'llY I'4o • Eireilean Tradition and Rik-Lore,

HOUSE OF LORDS—Last Evening,
The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack ai
5 o'clock.

CONVOCATION.

Lord HOUGHTON gave notice that on Tuesday net
he should ask a question regarding the powers of the Con.
vocation of the province of Canterbury.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.

The following bills were read a second time :—Metropoli-
tan and St. John's-wood Railway—Shrewsbury and
Welchpool Railway—Belfast Improvement—Nantwich
and Market Drayton Railway—Bristol Port and Channel
Docks—London and South Western Railway (North
Devon Ext ension.)

The following bills were read a third time and passed :
Sunningdale and Cambridge Town Railway, and Argyle-
shire Roads.

SLAVE TRADE.

Lord BROUGHAM gave notice that on Tuesday he
would call attention and express his high approbation of
the course pursued by the Government of Brazil in totally
abolishing the slave trade.
THE ROYAL ACADEMY.

Earl STANHOPE called the attention of the house to
the present position of the Royal A cademy, and asked what
further steps with respect to it were in contemplation by
the Government. He took the opportunity of referring at
length to the present state of the National Gallery and the
Royal Academy, the complaints of artists with re-
spect to the bad display of their works, and
various other subjects, all of which, he said, was occasioned
by the present inadequate space of the existing building.
He regretted the decision the House of Commons had
arrived at the other evening, and hoped he should hear some
satisfactory explanation from the noble earl, the President
of the Council, as to the future intentions of the Government.
Lord ST. LEONARDS concurred with the Royal Ate-

demicians in thinking that it was not desirable to introduce
a lay element into the academy. He did not think that it
would promote the harmonious action of the body. At
present they possessed the confidence of the public, and
they had deserved it. With regard to the propositions of
the commissioners in respect to the associates, he must say
that he thought they went too far, and that they would
have the effect of injuriously diminishing the power and
privileges of the academicians. He hoped that the Go-
vernment would consider well before they imposed upon the
Royal Academy any conditions which were unacceptable to
that body.

Lord TAUNTON said that the one great boon that the
Government could :confer upon the Royal Academy, and
upon the art of the country, was to provide an adequate site
for the exhibition of the national pictures, and of those of
the Royal Academy. So long as that was done, he cared
little whether the Royal Academy was placed in possession
of the present building in Trafalgar-square, or w;:re left to
erect a new building for itself in the gardens of Burlington
House, although he confessed that he should prefer the
farmer plan. He deprecated Government interference with
the constitution and administration of the Royal Academy,
and hoped that the adoption of any particular rules would
not be imposed upon that body as a condition of their re-
ceiving the grant of a site.
Lord HOUGHTON said it seemed strange that the
Royal Academy, which had done its duty loyally to the
country for nearly a hundred years, should be unpopular in
any assembly of Englishmen. It certainly seemed to him
that there never were censures more unfounded than those
which had been passed upon that body, In that house he
believed that they were unanimous in desiring that the
Academy should continue to exist, and to discharge the
functions which it had hitherto done. He did not think
that any conditions distasteful to them should be forced upon
them as a condition of their receiving a site for a build-
ing. At the same time, he confessed that he was sur-
prised at the opposition made by the academicians to the
reception of a lay element. From such an element the
Academy owed its rise; and he believed that its presence
in the Academy would be very useful. He thought that the
academicians were quite right in objecting to the associates
having votes. A substantial difference should be maintained
between the two ranks.

The Duke of RUTLAND desired to impress upon the
Government the necessity of taking immediate steps to pro-
vide adequate accommodation both for the National Gallery
and the Royal Academy. No time ought to be lost in meet-
ing this great public want.
Atter some observations from Lord HARDINGE,
Lord OVERSTONE deprecated the Government or
Parliament meddling with the details of the Royal Academy.
He did not think that any good would arise from the intro-
duction of a lay element into that body. He trusted that
no time would be lost in providing proper accommodation
for the National Gallery. Ho regretted that the House of
Commons had rejected the plan for erecting a new National
Gallery on the gardens of Burlington House. If that had
been carried out we should have had galleries superior to
those possessed by any other country in Europe.
Earl GRANVILLE said it was impossible not to feel
that the Royal Academy was a body of great public utility.
It was that conviction which led the Government to appoint
the commission which had been presided over by the noble
earl opposite. That commission had reported last year, and
their report had been sent by the Home Secretary to the
Royal Academy. The reply of that body was now under
the consideration of the Government. In reply to the noble
earl opposite, he had to state that the Government had felt
it their duty to bow submissively to the vote of the House
of Commons, rejecting tho proposition to build a now
National Gallery on the gardens of Burlington House.
They were now engaged in considering a plan for providing
the requisite accommodation in conformity with what
seemed to be the wish of the House of Commons, that the
National Gallery should remain in Trafalgar-square. He
should be sorry to see the Government or Parliament in-
terfere in the details of the administration of the Royal
Academy. But, on the other hand, he did not see why,
when they were giving that body increased facilities, by the
grant of a new site or otherwise, they should not by friendly
negotiation, endeavour to obtain the assent of the Academy
to such a popularisation of their constitution as would be
acceptable to the public and to artists generally. That
done, the best way would be to leave the Royal Aeademy
to manage its own affairs.
The subject then dropped.

In answer to a question from Lord RAVENS WORTH,

Lord STANLEY of ALDERLEY ascribed the imper-
fect working of the Act for the suppression of nuisances
caused by noxious vapours from certain manufactories to
the short time the law had been in operation.
The lordships adjourned at half past 7.

HOUSE OF COMMONS—Last Evening,
The SPEAKER took the chair at four o'clock.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.
The following bills were read a third time and passed :
Port Glasgow Harbour—South London Market—and Can-
nock Chase and 'Wolverhampton Railway.
POLICE IN ST. JAMES'S PARK.
Mr J. HARDY asked the Secretary of State for the
Home Department whether it was the fact that the police are
not employed in St. Tarnea's-park as they are in the Green-
park and other parks ; and, if
80) why that was the case
and, whether frequent complaints have been made to the
Home Office of the proceedings which take place from want
of police supervision in St. James's-park?
Sir G. GREY said that ever since 1810 the or:thiary
police had not been employed in the enclosure of 8,;,. Jamas
Park, as that Park was under the control of tb.. Pirst Com.
missioner of Public Works. The park-kee'Are were morn,
and exercised the functions of the polf.'4e in the parks, and
he had not heard of any complaint owing to the absence of
the regular police.
INTERCOLONIAL RAF WAY iN THE NORTH.

_ . --•
AMERICPIS.
Mr ADDERLEY eked the Secretary of State for the
Colonies, whether correspondence had been renewed be-
tween the North American provinces and the Imperial
Government on the subject of their application for assist-
ance in raising a loan for an intercolonial railway; and, if
so, whether Parliament will be fully informed and consulted
before any promise is made of an Imperial guarantee.
Mr CARD WELL said he should be happy to lay on
the table any papers in possession of Government on the
subject, but there had been no new correspondence with
Government in reference to the matter.

THE RIE A RSAGE.
Mr CORRY asked the Secretary to the Admiralty
whether the Admiralty would object to send a com-
petent agent to Cherbourg to examine and report on the
mode adopted to strengthen the sides of the Bearsage
against sb.'ot and shell, as described by Captain Semmes in
his lett-ar which appeared in yesterday's Times?
Lord C. PAGET said that the vessel was in this coun-
try in dock, and therefore all information relative to her
could be obtained.
TRANSIT OP TROOPS TO THE WEST INDIES.
Mr DALOLISFI asked the Secretary to the Admiralty
whether it was true that the transport which conveys the
troops from Cape Coast Castle to the West Indies is likely
to pass through a belt of 600 miles, in which only calms
anti light winds may be expected ; and if the mean limit of
the north-east trade wind in AuF,nst is now considered to be
in the I3th degree of north latitude?
Lord C. PAGET read a report of the hydrographer of the
Royal. Navy,

m indirect taxation of this country, the Excise on malt re-
quired consideration.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUE ,t agreed to
the propriety of the resolution in the abstract, but said it
would be unadvisable to pledge the house to ar y particular
t course of action in dealing with the remiaii ,r of a specific
impost. The arguments he (the Chanee of the Ex-
chequer) used in reference to the retention of
the malt duty were founded on present circumstances,
and had no reference to future legislation on this
subject. If a Government had a surplus at its disposal no
doubt it should be applied to the remission of duties on
' excisable articles, but a right of preference should be
conceded which would enable the Government
and Parliament to make remissions in a direc-
tion that would be oppressible, but which would
not be felt in regard to some particular com-
modity. The hon. member had contended that this duty
was a mill stone round the neck of the agriculturist, but
what was the fact ? Why the duty on spirits was between
£4OO and £5OO per cent., and Ireland and Scotland were
pressed on more severely than England, because spirits and
not beer or ale formed the national drink of the country.
With regard to any amount at the future disposal
of Government, they could not pledge themselves to its
specific application, and he trusted that the house would
decline to embarrass itself by any pledge.
Lord J. MANNERS agreed that it was impossible to
deny that the malt tax operated injuriously on the producer
of barley. This grievance was admitted, and yet, strange
to say, there was no attempt made to redress that griev-
ance. It had been said well by the right honourable
member for Oxford (Mr Henley) that beer was
to the poor man what wine was to the rich man, and he
contended by analogy that if they reduced the duty on the
latter, they should have done the same with the former.
(Hear.) He contended that a fallacy lay at the root of a por-
' tion of tharight hon. gentleman's theory, namely, that wheu
theduty on beer was reduced it would have the effect of di-
minishing the consumption of spirits, and therefore injure
the finances of the country. The right hon. gentleman
quoted statistics in support of his argument.
After a few observations by Mr P. URQUHART,
Mr NEATE, who had placed upon the paper an amend-
ment which he was precluded by form from moving, made
its allegations the substance of his argument against the
resolution—namely, that the owners and occupiers of land,
by reason of immunities from taxation, and the comparative
lightness of the burdens to which they are subject, are not
entitled to any priority of consideration on any review of
the taxation.
Mr NEWDEGATE briefly supported the resolution,
which was negatived upon a division by 166 to 118.
Mr D. SEYMOUR called attention to the system
pursued of removing paupers and persons under sentence
of banishment from Jersey to the seaports of England,
especially Southampton ; and asked the Secretary of State
for the Home Department whether he had received any
report upon the subject from the Lieutenant-Governor of
Jersey
Sir G. GREY offered to lay upon the table papers upon
the subject.
Mr MAGUIRE inquired the intentions of the Attorney-
General for Ireland regarding the promised bill for regu-
lating and reforming the Irish Court of Admiralty.
Mr O'HAGAN said a bill was in preparation, and no
time would be lost in proceeding with the matter,
The house then went into Committee of Supply pro
forma, and afterwards into committee upon the Inland
Revenue (Stamp Duties) Bill, after a short explanation by
the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
On the motion of the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER,
a clause was added to the bill fin' the payment of taxes in
Scotland by means of Post-office orders.
The house then went into committee upon the Chimney
Sweepers Regulation Bill, the clauses of which were
agreed to.
Mr COWPER, in moving the second reading of the
Cranbourne-strect Bill, explained its object and the finan-
cial details connected with it.
Mr A. SMITH suggested that the bill be referred to a
select committee in order that the facts alleged in the
preamble should be inquired into.
The bill was read a second time.
The Weighing of Grain (Port of London) Bill passed
the commitee.
COURT OF CHANCERY (IRELAND) BILL.
On the order for going into committee upon the Court of
Chancery (Ireland) Bill,
Mr LONGFIELD moved that the bill be referred to a
select committee, stating the reasons why he had not
made this motion, of which he had previously given notice,
on Tuesday, when he was present. Ho insisted that a bill
like this, containing 192 clauses, which he denounced as a
job, designed to increase patronage, could only be properly
dealt with in a select committee. In showing how the bill
originated, he gave a long and amusing history of the
attempts at Irish Chancery reform ; and he undertook to
predict that three of the members of the last Royal Com-
mission would be provided for under the bill, which, in-
etead of diminishing, would, he said, increase cost and ex-
penditure.
The amendment was seconded by Colonel DUNNE.
Mr HUNT protested against the course taken by the
promoters of the bill. The decision of the committee on
Tuesday showed an unwillingness to proceed further with
the bill, and, according to the ordinary practice, it should
have been dropped, Ho suggested that the bill had better
be withdrawn.
Mr. O'HAGAN reminded the house of the position in
which he stood in reference to this bill, which was introduced
in order to carry out the recommendations of a Royal Com-
mission of the highest authority, and upon which it was the
duty of the Government to act. The bill had been fully dis-
cussed upon the second reading, and most of its clauses were
clauses in the English bill. If, after the adoption of the
principle of the bill—which, ho repeated, would reduce ex-
pense—the house thought fit ,to reject the measure, he
should not be responsible and could not help it.
Mr WHITESIDE, after an argument of some length
upon the matter of order in relation to the past history of
the bill, proceeded to discuss the merits of the bill, which
was, he said, a crude measure, and he objected especially to
the system of the chief clerks and to the proposed construc-
tion of the Court. There was no evidence, he observed, on
the vital question of cost—and he repeated that the cost of
the new system would be greater by one-third than the pre-
sent. It would be much wiser, in his opinion, to postpone
this measure till next session, and in the meantime to sub-
mit it to the Master of the Rolls in Ireland and a Judge of
the Landed Estates Court.
Mr LONGFIELD having withdrawn his amendmerei,
Mr W HITESIDE moved to defer the committee foe three
months.
Mr BU IT supported the principle of the expressing
his astonishment at the reception it had reset with.
Mr GEORGE supported the amen ;went.
Upon a division, Mr WHITESID'S amendment was ne-
gatived by 51 to 49.
Mr VANCE thought the, considering the narrow ma-
jority, another opportun',..7 should be given to the house to
determine whether it should go into committee upon the
bill. He moved flat the debate be adjourned.
After a short discussion, upon a division, this motion as
negatived 1)-4, 56 to 51.
C:OLLINS moved that the house do adjourn.
T'eict discussion was renewed, and ultimately the motion
1.. r adjournment was negatived by 56 to 53.
The adjournment of the debate was tb.'en moved by Mr.
LYGON.
Lord PALMERSTON asseeited, and the debate was
accordingly adjourned.
The other orders of 'the day were then proceeded with,
and the house adjourned at 1 o'clock.

THE METROPOLITAN BOARD OP WORKS.--The
usual
the weekly meeting of this Board was held yesterday at
Coffices in Spring-gardens
are s —the chairman, Mr J. "mites, presiding. The first important business which
before the Board was to consider tenders which had
been made to execute the eastern portion of the Northern
Low Level Bawer. There was a short discussion as to the
policy of opening the contracts in public, but it was agreed
they should be a° °Petted, They were as follows :—Messrs.
T.
Mr A. Bras
W. sey
RitsonCo, 4258,000—Mr T. Pearson, £265,500
(the contractor for the second portion of
1;3
the Thames Embankment), __
37, 499—Mr G. Furness (the
contractor portion of the Thames Embankment
259,0 for3ir the.w first
),
Moxon, £247,840 —Mr W. Dethick,
0o
edBctheaot
44309,746—Mr W. Webster,
x£222393:oooooo.—Mltewssarss Tcahrormi
ge tenders should be con-
sidered in committee of the whole Board.
When the public
were re-admitted, Mr Carpmael brought
up a report from
moving that this
the committee, recommending that Mr . Webster's (the
lowest) tender should be taken, and, ut
expressed the
report should be adopted, Mr Carp.maei
Board's satisfaction with the works which lir Webster had
carried out. The motion was agreed to stem.
A report
was brought up from the Streets' Committee
. recommend
ing that certain lands should be acquired to form a park for
Southwark,and the question was discussed with closed doors.
It was agreed that the report should be adopted, ancl;tbat
the finance committee should have the power to negotiate a
loan for the purposes of the Act. Several thoroughfares
were ordered to be renumbered, with the odd numbers on
one side and the even on the other, and the various sub-
sidiary names in Englefield-road, and Englefield-road west,
Islington; in Middleton-road, Hackney; in Mayne-street,
Bethnal-green, and in the thoroughfare known by the name
of Arundel and Albion-street, in Camden-street, and in
Temple-street, of the same parish, were ordered to be
abolished, and the thoroughfares called by the first names.
A great deal of routine business of no general public im-
portance was transacted, and the board adjourned,
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