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

WILLS AND BEQUESTS.

The will of the most noble Elizabeth, Duchess of
Gordon, of Hur.tly Lodge, Aberdeen, was proved in
her Majesty's Court of Probate in London on the
3d inst.—tlie executors being the Right Hon. Jas.
Alexatuler, Earl of Rosalyn, P,C., and Henry R.
Cox and Charles Hammeraley, Es.q., both of
Cr.,,ioj_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 Hnntly. There are several bequests to
her relatives and personal friends, and she has
bequeathed the residue of her property to her cousin,
W. Brodie, Esq., of Brodie. Legacies are also left
to servants—to two of them £5OO each, to another
£2OO, and to the others according to length of
servitude.

The will of Francis Edward Smedley, Esq., of
Grove Lodge, Regent's Park, and Beech Lodge,
Great Marlow, Berks, was proved in the London
Court under £70,000 personalty. The executors
are the Rev. Henry John Ellison, M.A., Prebendary
of Lichfield and Vicar of New Windsor, Berks, and
George Montagu Jull, Esq., of Jermyn-street,
Piccadilly. The testator has bequeathed to
his mother his residence, Beech Ledge, and the
furniture, together with an annuity of £500;
and to his cousin, Menella Bute 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 lieu 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 £6OO each; and to his servants liberallegacies.
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 eons, Eryls-
man Charles Pinckney, Esq. ; the Reverend
W. Pinckney, and George Henry Pinckney,
Esq. The will was executed in 1856. After
leaving a legacy of £6,000 East India Stock in
trust for his son Horatio, and £3,000 to his son
Erlysman, 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, Esq., 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.

NORTH DURHAM ELECTION.—The 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. Y. 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 Gironie,
" which has just been constructed in the building
yard of M. Armen, 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 tons, and has a crew
(entirely French) 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
by M. Armen 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, officers, and seamen maintained an absolute
silence to all the questions put to them."

HOSPITAL FOR CONSUMPTION AND DISEASES OF
THE CHEST, BRuMPTON.-1:110 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 thrown
open to the putlic on Sunday morning next, en the occa-
sion of the anniversary sermon, which will bo preached by
the Bishop of Ossory (the Right Rev Dr O'Brien.) The
chapel is fitted up with the utmost regard to the comforts
of .the congregation; and a very pleasing effect 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
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the chapel is through th?, lodge gates, in the Fulham-road.
T sec the rider) assigned to the
dog. of E
theH OWLIN G the
oarsigaiomoesfsLtnhgaet vrefrry wide-spread super-
stition the world of the
dead, we
which recognises a death-omen in the howling of
a dog. An intelligent Londoner tells me he has often
seen the omen given, and verified its fulfilment. The
dog's mode of proceeding on such occasions, he says, is
this—The animal tries to get under the doomed person's
window; but if the house stands within an enclosure, and
it cannot get in, it runs round the premises very uneasily,
or paces up and down them like a sentry. If the dog
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, s dog howling
before a house portends either a death or a lire. If it
howls along the highway, that is held in Westphalia to
be a sure token 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 id, the goddess of death, goes
about, invisible to human eyes, she is seen by the dogs.—
Kelly's Indo-European Tradition and kolk-Loreq