The Sun.
London, England, 1864-07-01 00:00:00

BANKRUPTS.

The following are the only bankrupts of commercial im
portance in the Gazette:—

Course of the Exchange.—This Day.

Amsterdam
Ditto
Rotterdam .. 12 01 12 ot
Antwerp .. 25 60 25 65
Brussels — 25
.57i 25 65
Hamburgh — 13 8k 13 9 •
Paris
Ditto
Marseilles
_ _ _

FrankfOrt on Maine
Vienna
Trieste
Petersburgh
Berlin
Madrid
Cadiz
Leghorn
Milan . • • •
Genoa•—
Naples
Palermo ..
Messina .
Lisbon
0p0rt0...•

1191 1201
11 90 12 0
11 90 12 0
311 32

43 431
431
25 624 25 674
25 65 '25 70
26 621: 25 67i
25 65 25- 70
25 65 25 70
25 65 25 70
51t, 511
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WILLS AND BEQUESTS.

The will of the Hon. Charlotte Shore, of Hove,
Sussex, was proved in the London Court on the Bth
tilt., the executors and trustees therein appointed
being the Right Hon. Charles John, Baron Teign-
mouth, LL. D., D.C.L., F.R S. (the brother); and
Colonel Edward Charles Fletcher (the brother-in-
law), of lienward, Yalding. The personalty was
sworn under £16,000. Her ladyship was the
daughter of the first Baron Tsignmouth, who suc-
ceeded Lord Cornwallis as Governor-General of
India. Her ladyship attained the age of seventy-
seven, and executed her will in 1854, and a codicil
thereto in 1839; bequeathing, at the wish of her
father and mother, the sum of £13,000 Consols
in trust for two of her nieces and two of her
nephews; leaving a few other legacies to other of
her relatives ; also a legacy of £1,500 to her niece,
the eldest daughter of her brother Lord Teignmouth,
appointing his lordship residuary legatee. There
is a legacy of £lOO to her own servant free of duty.
The will of Frederick Richard Magenis, Esq., of
Grosvenor-place, was proved in London by the
executors and trustees, Sir Arthur Charles Mager
K,C.8.; Thomas F. Wallace, Esq., of St.
James-street, Westminster ; and William T. Car-
lisle, E-q., of Lincoln's Inn—the personalty being
sworn at £140,000. The will and first codicil are
dated Feb., 1861. There are altogether eix codi-
cils, the last dated March 31,1864, and the testator
died on the 11th of the following month. After
making liberal bequests,amounting to about £50,000,
including legacies of £3OO to each of his executors,
als3 legacies to his servants—to one man-servant,
£500; to his housekeeper, coachman and groom,
each £2OO ; to all his other domestics legacies, and
to his late butler an annuity ; also many charitable
bequests—he leaves the residue of his property to
his daughter, Elizabeth Florence, wife of James
William Baillie, Esq. His yacht the Minx, he
leaves to the Captain. The following are among
the charitable bequests :—To the Royal Naticnal
Lifeboat Institution, £1,000; Ragged School Union
£5OO ; Field lane Ragged School ; Houseless and
Destitute Dormitories, Bloomsbury and Great
Queen-street ; Convalescent Institution, Walton-
on-Thames ; Middlesex Hospital ; Royal Free
Hospital, Grays•inn-road ; the Dreadnought ; Ship-
wrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Society; Royal
Sea Bathing Infirmary, Margate, each £200; and
£lOO to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals.

The will of Roger Cunliffe, Eeq., of Bncklersbury,
banker, and of Highbury-place, was proved in Lon-
don by his sons, Roger Cunliffe and E. S. Cunliffe,
Esqrs., the executors and trustees. The personalty
was sworn under £120,000. The will bears date
Sept. 8, 1863, and a codicil on the February follow-
ing, and he died on May 18, 1864. He has dis-
posed of his property principally among his sons
and daughters, bequeathing to his two sons imme-
diate legacies of £4,000, and an equal satire in the
residue of his estate. To each of his five daughters
£10,000; and there are legacies to other members
of his family. He desires that no money be taken
from his share in the business but what may be
absolutely necessary, and to bear an interest of £5
per cent, and that three months' notice be given to
the partnership firm of any sums required exceeding
£l,OOO. There is one clause in the will we quote in
his own words—" And here I wish to explain that
there are no legacies given to religious or charitable
institutions by this my will, because it has always
appeared to me more proper to make such gifts in
the lifetime, and this I have been in the habit of
doing constantly daring a period of more than forty
years::

FISHING Er ELECTRIC LIGHT.—A first attempt
was made to fish by electric light a short time since
at Dunkirk. The light was supplied by a pile on Bunsen's
principle, composed of about 50 elements, and it succeeded
tolerably well, but the employment of the pile was attended
with much inconvenience. It was then determined to
repeat the attempt with a magneto-electric reschine.
machines and the light
The new experiments tried at Dunkirk and Ostend
had a double object-1, to prove bow the light pro-
duced by the machine would act under water ; and
2, to discover the effect the light would produce on the fish.
The first object was completely accomplished, and it is now
demonstrated that magneto-electric
they produce are applicable to all submarine works. In
fact, this light was constant at 180 feet under water, and it
extended over a large surface. The machine, nevertheless,
was placed at a distance of more than :300 feet from the
regulator of the electric light. The glass sides of the lantern
remained perfectly transfsreuty and the quantity of coal
consumed were less than if it were in the open air.
MISSING Star-
--The Edith Howe sailed from
Pernambuco oath e d 29t
Ofh of February for Liverpool, and has
not since been hTHE .
DAl4°-GERMAN WAR.—Mr. Wyld, on
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of sr in Denmark. The proposed boun-
nnetgaehsr.elcoyerf:satshht of
sown, and the map, therefore, will be found
ahneirshre,sGerentmpaenri, and
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THE AMERICAN WAR. Messrs. Bacon have
recently contributed some valuable help to the
intelligent study of the war now raging in Virginia by the
publication of two maps, which illustrate on a large scale
the prominent features of the country now occupied by the
contending armies of Grant and Lee. Every position
is
distinctly defined, and by their help the course of Grant's
advance, and the steps by which his adversary has foiled
his movements may be distinctly traced. One of these
maps represents an area of 50 miles round Richmond ; the
other takes a wider range, and embraces the whole state of
Virginia.
The funeral of the late Mr. Washington Wilke
will take place at Norwood at three o'clock to-naorrow
afternoon.
THE LAST DAY or TIIB TURNPIKES.—Last
night, at 12 o'clock, the act 20 and 27 Victoria, cap. 78r
abolishing a number of turnpikes in the northern vicinity
of the metropolis, and affecting others, came into operation,
HEALTH OF MR. SPOONER, M.P.—From in.
quiries last evening we are enabled to state that the health
of our respected county member (Mr Spooner) has slightly
improved.—.Birmingham Ga:et(c.