The Sun.
London, England, 1864-10-08 00:00:00

Wills and Bequests.

The late Lady Kindersley, wife of Vice-Chan-
cellor Sir Richard Torin Kindersley, of Hyde Park.
gardens, having died possessed of property in her
own right, without having disposed thereof by will,
letters of administration were granted by her Ma-
jesty's Court of Probate to her husband, Sir Richard,
as the sole person legally entitled thereto. Lady
Kindersley was the only daughter of the Rev. J. L.
Bennett, and married in 1824.
The late Mrs. Vickers, of Eistbourne-terrace,
Hyde Park, who died in August last, and whose
will has just been proved, has left legacies to the fol-
lowing institutions ;—The Deaf and Dumb Asylum,
Bath, £290 ; the Church Missionary Society,
£l6O ; the Church Missionary Society for Afi ica
and the Eist, the Bible Society, the London Society
for the Promotion of Christianity amongst the Jews,
the Ragged School Factory, Lambeth, to each £5O.
To the parish of St Peter and St Paul, and to the
widows and aged poor of Waleot, £l9 each.
The will of George Beaufoy, E-q., of South Lam•
beth, was proved in London under £250,000 per-
sonalty. The executors and trustees are his widow,
Mrs Anne Beaufoy, C. B. Thornhill, Esq. (his
nephew), John Bolton, and J. R. Turner, the two
named being engaged in the testator's but iness, under
the firm of Beautoy and Co., vinegar makers, manu,
facturers ofaeetio acids and chlorides of soda and
lime, also millers. The will disposes of his library of
books and museum, which had belonged to his late
brother, Henry B. H. Beaufoy, Etq , whose wish
was that the library and museum should not be
sold, but, whilst any of his lineal descendants re-
mained, be held as heirlooms with the family man-
sion, and carefully preserved, and at some future
period applied to a public purpose as an exhibition,
and designated the " Beaufoy Collection." To carry
out such object and intention, the testator has be-
queathed the sum of £lO,OOO. The library and mu
aeum to be held by his relict 110 oil his son Mark be.
comes of age. The testator directs that his business
shall be carried on by his relict, who shall receive
the profits to the extent of £7,000 a year, and leaves
to her his residence and the estate at Battersea. To
his daughter he leaves £30,000; and to his 8013
he devises his freehold estate, and appoints him
residuary legatee of personal property. To each of
his four executors £l,OOO, and a further sum to Mr
Bolton of 300 gs., and to Mr Turner 250 gs., and
like liberal legacies, varying in amount, to twenty-
five other gentlemen of his establishment. To each
of his clerks £lO, and legacies to his servants. He
has further expressed his wish that the annual feast,
as well as gratuities to the clerks, and prizes to the
men, should be continued whilst the business is in
the hands of his relict.—lllustrated London News.

M. RENAN.—The Correspondance litteraire states
that M. Renan is about to leave for Asia, to visit the places
which were the theatre of the greater part of the life of St
Paul. A new work of M. Renan's is to be devoted to the
preaching of the Apostles.
HOOD'S LEGS.—Confederate ingenuity is never
at a loss. The head and trunk of a man deprived
of one or more limbs will furnish the wisdom and ardour of
a perfect Hercules. The means of activity can be acquired
by art. A regular service has been organised in the Con-
federacy for the supply from the most skilful makers in
Europe of artificial limbs and members equipped with all
the most cunning contrivances that modern ingenuity has
devised to render them eff4ctive substitutes for liv'ng bone
and muscle. In the early part of this year an
eminent staff surgeon in the Confederate army was
despatched to London, and took up his quarters in
the neighbourhood of a skilled artist. He came provided
with models of the truncated members of a number of
Confederate officers, spent several weeks in superintending
the manufacture of a number of arms, legs, hands, &c.,
which were supplied in sots of two or three each, that amidst
the perils of blackade-running one at least should reach its
destination iu safety. On one particular specimen of inge
nuity particular care was bestowed, and the surgeon took
charge of it himself, sewing it up in a waterproof casing,
that it might survive the chance of being thrown overboard
to be rezcued from the clutches of Federal chasers. This
was the identical limb—an "Anglesey leg," as it is called
which enabled General Hood to take active service again,
and assume the command of the army at Atlanta.—The

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

SPAIN.

MADRID, OCT. 7

The Noticias of to-day says :—" It is asserted
that at a Council of Ministers held yesterday the
recall of Admiral Pinzon was decided upon.
" Measures were also adopted for the future come
mand and destination of the Pacific squadron."

CHINA.
(By telegraph from Suez )
SHANGHAI, AUG. 22.

According to the latest intelligence received here
faom Japan, the state of eiftirs had become more
complicated.

There was a prospect of hostilities in the Straits
of Shimonosaki.

An attack on Prince Nagato's fortifications was

expected.

THE WAR IN NEW ZEALAND.
MELBOURNE, AUG, 25.
Advices from New Zealand indicate the possi
bility of peace. The rebels are suffering from wan
of food.

No further military movements have taken place,

FRANCE.

PARIS, OCT. 8.
M. Bouree has been appointed French Minister
to Lisbon ; M. Gobinean to Athens; and M. Bondy
to the Court of the Elector of Hesse.
The speech which the Duke de Persigny deli-
vered some time back at St. Eienne having been
the object of many attacks, the Duke has recently
addressed a letter to one of his friends, in which he
replies to the objections of his critics, The follow•
ing are the principal passages of the answer;—
"When comparing the organisation of English society
with ours, I said that since, in France, the functions of
authority were not confided to the electoral body itself as
in England, but to an administrative hierarchy constituted
apart from that body, it was impossible to establish
amongst us the forms of English liberty without rendering
authority subordinate to liberty, and thus ruining one by the
other; that this all- important consideration imposed on us
the obligation of founding our institutions on the separa-
tion of authority and liberty, instead of uniting them in the
same hands as in England. This was the substance of my
speech. As the liberty founded by the Empire is, after all,
only an application of the theories propounded, by Locke
and Montesquieu, it would have been curious to see pro-
fessors of liberalism assail the leading doctrine of
of those two great chiefs of modern Liberalism.
Nothing could have been more piquant than the
refutation, by the Liberal school, of the famous chapter of
the Esprit des Lois, which treats of the condition of liberty
among all nations. When the illustrious philosopher so
strikingly demonstrated that liberty resides in the separa-
tion of the three great Powers which exist in every kind of
sooiety—the executive, the legislative, and the judicial and
—that as they happen to be more or less united in the hands
of one man or one assembly, or more or less separated and
independent, so despotism or liberty prevails, he little
thought that the day would ever come when his faith-
less disciples, more occupied with particular aims than
with liberty itself, would abjure his doctrines. What
do I say ? They have not ventured to deny the doc-
trines ; but, finding it more prudent to ignore them, they
have passed by without seeing them. Do you know, in
foot, in what light they consider the thesis of my speech ?
_ . .

Sometimes as the glorification of administrative centraliza-
tion in opposition of a political regime which would exclude
any change in the present state, by condemning before-
hand all the progress of which liberty is capable, The last

of those two charges appears to me to be puerile. How, in
fact, admit that a nation which disposes in a sovereign
manner of the legislative power by means of universal suf-
frage, can be deprived, against the progress which it
may wish to be accomplished ? In what can the principle
and form of the institutions of France be an obstacle to the
manifestation of het will From the moment the country
is rendered the master of its destinies, its liberty is founded,
for it has the means of realising whenever it pleases all the
developments which it may consider to be required. To it.
self, therefore, still more than to the founder of liberty, be-
longs the power of accelerating or retarding. according to
circumstances, the progress of its institutions. If, rendered
prudent by the experience of the former disorders of France
it shows itself to be less impatient than certain minds to

favour all the aspirations of liberty, that fact as a disposi•
tion of public opinion which may be approved or regretted,
but which can in no way affect the theory of the liberty of
the empire." The Duke complains of being unjustly blamed
as a pai tisan of centralisation, and calls attention to two de-
crees of an opposite tendency issued at his instance while
Minister of the Interior. He declares that he was in favour
of decentralisation before it had become popular, and sup-
ports his assertion by quoting from the preamble to the
decree of the 25th March, 1852, two passages in which he
stated the necessity of decentralisation in all administrative
matters. Though he still thinks, as he thought then, poli-
tical centralisation indispensable to the grandeur of the
State, he is and always has been desirous of seeing the de-
partments and communes left to manage their own affairs
Ile Duke concludes with asserting that none of his critics
have confuted the doctenes he advanced at St. Etienne,
and that he considers them unassailable.

By Imperial decree M. Brunet de Presle, mem-
ber of the Academy of Inscriptions and Belles
Lettres, has been named Professor of Modern
Greek at the special school for Oriental languages,
in the room of the late M. Hase.

According to the Obt-Deutsche Post, the Arch-
duchess Maria Theresa, eldest daughter of the
Archduke Albert, has been betrothed to Duke
Philippe of Wurtemberg. The Princess was born
in 1845 and her future hu&band in 1838. The
Duke is the eon of Duke Frederick William Alexan-
der and the Princess Marie of Orleans, daughter of
King Louis Philippe. It was the Princess Mare
who executed the well-known statue of Joan of
Arc, considered one of the most charming produc-
tions of modern art.

Several journals relate the following :—A con=
gram has just met at Brunswick. A congress ot
princes ? No. Of diplomatists ? No—but of hotel
keepers. Grave and interesting questions were exa-
mined. 1. The complaint of foreigners at the high
price of breakfasts and dinners. 2. The complaints
made against the smallness of the bottles. 3. The
outcry against the high charge for waxlights ; and
4. The discontent shown at the bad attendance of

the servants. What, think you, was the decision
come tot That waxlighte, dinners, breakfasts, and
bottles were all for the best, and that the only Com •
plaint attended to should be that about the servants.

The Patric, in reply to some journals which hsd
announced that the date for opening the session of the
French Chambers is to be this year advanced, states that it
has reason to know that the Senate and Legislative Body
will not assemble before the end of January or the begin-
ning of February.

BOURSE, Oct. 7. —The following Securities were
yesterday quoted ex div. :—Bank of France Shares
35f., Orleans (Old) Railway Shares 30f., Western
17f. 50c., Roman 12f. 50c. The market has been
very heavy; Stock and other Securities generally,
offered, and prices are lower. Threes, for the Ac-
count, are now at 65f. 700. Mobi:ier have receded
to 960 f. The Railway Market has also retrograded.
The market continued heavy to the close, and left
off as follows :--
It Per Cents .. 92.
Do. end -
3 per Cents
Do. end month 65 65

Italian Loan 6G 40
Do. end month 66 75
Ditto Threes ..
New Mexican 61
ussiau

Credit Mobilier,,,, 957 50
Do, end month.... 952 60

Bank Shares

3385

Austrian
Spanish Threes
Home Debt .. 47k
Deferrel

Credit 1, oncior l2OO
Roman

RAILWAYS.
Cash. Account.
810 837 50
985
985 ..
905 --.. 910
617 50 .. 622 50
600 -- • . --
495 .. 495
313 75 .. 315
435 411 2.1
520 .. 523 7.5
385 38.5
47.5 .. 475

Orleans
Northern . • ..
Lyons and Hedit4irranoan
Southern
Western ..
Eastern •• • •
Sardinian
. Austrian
L6n.lird
North of Spain
Saragossa
Ditto to Barcelona

200 - ••

ESCAPE OF A PRISONER PROM GRANTHAM GAOL.
—On Monday afternoon the police were thrown
into consternation by the discovery
of the escape of a pa.
goner, who contrived to get into the prisoner's house, whence
ho borrowed one of his great coats and coolly walked out of
the prison door in Guildhall-street. Within five minuted
he was missed by the warder, and immediately the officers
were sent iu all directions in pursuit of him, and succeeded
in securing him. The prisoner's name is Jessie Dale; he
was convicted last April sessions for picking the pocket of
a woman from Gonerby in Grantham-market, and sen-
tenced to 18 months' imprisonment, six of which he had
served. On Tuesday he was taken before the magistrates
charged with stealing the coat of Mr Mawyer (the governor),
And committed for trial at the next session,