The Sun.
London, England, 1864-11-26 00:00:00

Recent Wills and Bequests,

(From the illustrated _London News.)
The will of Mrs. Lydia Symons, wife of the Rev.
Benjamin Parsons Symons, D.D., Warden of Wad-
ham College, Oxford, was proved :n London under
£20,000. The executors nominated are her brothers,
Henry Masterman and Edward Masterman, Esqrs,
The ;testatrix leaves the property over which she
had power of disposition under settlement, and also
by the will of her late father, John Masterman,
q.—subject to her husband's life interest therein
—amongst her brothers and sisters and some of
her nit as, apponting her said brothers, Henry
and Edward, residuary legatees. There are 1):: quests
to the following institutions :—To the London So-
ciety for the Conversion of the Jews and the Church
Pastoral Aid Society, each a legacy of £3)0; and 1
to the Church Missionary Society, £lOO.
The will of William Stitt Wilson, E q., banker,
of the city of Norwich, formerly of Whitehaven,
St. Bees, Cumberland, was proved in Londo❑ on
the let instant, the executors appointed being
his brother-in-law, Thomas Dixon, Esq., of
Rheda, Cumberland, and William Dickinson, E-q.,
of Workington. The personalty was sworn under
£25,000. The will is dated 1863, and there are
three codicils, His wife, to whom a large portion
of the property was left, having died before the
testator, the personalty devolves, by the terms of
the wi,l, to his two executors, for their own use and
benefit, and they are left also the freehold property.
The estate of Coekshot is devised ►o his said brother-
in-law, Mr. Thomas Dixon (the brother of his late
wife). There is a legacy of £l,OOO to the East of
England Banking Company. Legacies are left to
several officers of banks. To the Whitehaven In-
firmary, £100; to the South Kensington Museum,
an antique Oriental china bowl or bottle, exhibited
at the Manchester Exhibition in 1857; to the British
Museum, the choice of nine articles of vertil from
his collection ; to the National Gallery, any two
oil-paintings the trustees may select,
The wilt of Richard Gibbs, Esq., late of the city
of London, teabroker, and of Upper Tooting, Surrey,
was proved in London on the 29th of October, by
his relict, the sole executrix. The personalty was
sworn under £lOO,OOO. After making several be-
quests, he leaves to his wife a life interest in the
residue of his property, with power of disposition
over a certain portion. The ultimate reversionary
residue is left amongst some of his nieces and others.
To his partner, W. Weston, Esq., be leaves the
option of retaining £lO,OOO at 4 por cent, interest,
from which annual sum of £4OO annuities of various
amounts to twelve persons are to be kept up, the
bequests being chiefly to individuals who had been
or were in his employ ; and on the decease of these
annuitants the principal sum of £lO,OOO will revert
to 23 charitable institutions. The legatees are nu-
merous, and the legacies are to be paid free of duty.
There are specific bequests of pictures, &e., to many
of his friends, members of the City Club, and to one
of the "Round Table." To each of his clerks who
have been four years in his employ he leaves a legacy
of £lOO, and £2O to each of the others; also
£lO to each of the porters, and legacies to his sera•
vents. His business, carried on under the firm of
Messrs, Gibbs and Co., he states, " was founded and
reared up by him, and, with the assistance of his
partner, has met with success, after many years of
indomitable perseverance and industry ;" and at the
conclusion of his will are these words, "I thank
Almighty God for inclining my heart from child

hood to feel for others' woes.'" The will bears
date July 4, 1864, and his death occurred by an
accident on the 7th of October last, in his seventy-
fifth year.

Vacancies, Promotions, and Appointments
in the Civil Service.

(From the Civil Service Gazette.)
COLONIAL-OFFICE—Mr A. A. King has been appointer
;o a writership, Ceylon.

EDUCNTION-OFFICE-Mr Jas. Smith has been appointed
an assistant clerk, London—and Mr Armytage Bakewell
has been appointed an assistant clerk, London.

BONED OF TRADE—Mr Thomas Edward Price has been
appointed to a clerkship in the Registry of Seamen's-office ;
and Mr Fredk. C. Deshon has been appointed a temporary
clerk in the Registry of Seamen's-office.

THE POST-OFFICE—The postmastership of Southampton
is vacant, salary £159. Mr James Guthrie has been ap-
pointed a sorting clerk, Glasgow.

CUSTOMS—Mr John Curdle has been promoted from the
sth to the 4th class of gaugers, London—Mr Joseph L.
Gregory has been promoted from the 6th to the sth class of
gaugers, London—Mr Richard Minors, clerk at Truro, has
been promoted to be senior clerk at Harwich—Mr John
Campbell, clerk and examining officer at Arbroath, has been
promoted to be examining officer at Truro—Mr Wm. Hay-
ward, 3d clerk at Portsmouth, has been promoted to be
clerk and.examining officer at Arbroath—Mr Henry Ford,
examining officer at Folkestone, has been promoted to be
senior examining officer at Harwich—Mr G. F. Trail,
examining officer at Glasgow Dock, Lancaster, has been
promoted to be examining officer at Folkestone—Mr M. S.
Luckley, out-door officer from Hartlepool, has been pro-
moted to be examining officer at Glasgow Dock—Mr S. F.
Rimington has been promoted from the 3d to the 2d class of
watermen, London.

INLAND REVENUE (Excise Branch)--Mr Thomas Tay-
lor, officer, Bingley, 2d division, Halifax collection, has
been appointed officer of Brecon division. Swansea col-
lection—Mr James Benjamin Smith, officer, Alford ride,
Lincoln collection, has been appointed officer of Bingley,
2d division, Halifax collectiJn—Mr William Kelly, first-
class assistant, Birmingham, 6th division, Birmingham
collection, has been appointed officer of Alford ride, Lin-
coln collection—Mr Edward Marshall, officer, Birr division,
Athlone collection, has been appointed officer of Dundalk,
Ist division, Drogheda collection—Mr Daniel Gough, officer,
Dundalk, Ist division, Drogheda collection, has been ap-
pointed cffiler of Birr division, Athlone collection—Mr
James Carpenter, officer, Kendal, 2d ride, Lancaster collec-
tion, has been appointed officer of Halifax, 2d ride, Halifax
collection.

IRELAND,— Vacancies have recently occurred in the
Register-General's office, and in the Money-order Depart-
ment of the General Post-office. There are vacancies for
two clerkships in the National Education office, for which
a competitive examination will be held on Tuesday next in
Dublin. Mr W. B. Drury has been appointed registrar in
the Court of Chancery, vice the Hon. H. Sugden, resigned
—Mr T. B. Martley, chief clerk, has been appointed deputy
registrar, vacant by Mr Drury's promotion.

THE EAST INDIES —Mr A.. G. Macpherson, barrister-at-
law, has been appointed assistant secretary to the Govern-
ment of India, in the legislative branch of the home de-
partment, in suecession to Mr Macleod Wylie, resigned—
Mr L. Teyen, 2d assistant in the office of the civil pay-
master, N. W. Provinces, has been appointed to act as chief
assistant, during the absence of Mr G. Bagley—Mr D. A
Gam'zer, accountant, Ist class, British Burmah, has been
appointed to officiate as deputy controller, public works
accounts, Hydrabad—Mr G. D. Prussia, accountant, with
temporary rank of 2d class, has been transferred from the
Straits Settlements to British Burmah—Mr J. W. Breeks
has been appointed judge of the Court of Small Causes of
Combaconum, but to officiate as private secretary to the
Governer of Madras--Mr H. E. Sullivan has been appointed
to act as civil and sessions judge of the zillab of Salem—
Mr W. M'Quhae has been appointed to act as sub-collector
and joint magistrate of Coimbatore—Mr W. S. Foster,
assistant to the collector and magistrate of Bellary, has been
appointed to act as head assistant to the collector and magi-
strate of Coimbatore—Mr F. Brandt, assistant to the collec-
tor and magistrate of Kistna district, has been appointed to
act as assistant to the collector and magistrate of Cuddapab.

At a nobleman's mansion in Sussex the following
notice has just been issued :—" From this date forward no
women servants will be allowed to wear crinolines while
doing their household work, Any infringement of this
order will be considered tantamount to notice to quit, and
they will be dismissed accordingly."
THE MURDER OF Mr. BRADDELL.—DUBLTN,
Thursday Night.—The Waterford ,standard of to-day,
from which yesterday's telegram of the supposed arrest of
Hayes, the murderer of Mr Braddell, was taken, says that
the person in custody hes turned out not to be the culprit.
The name of the man arrested is Edward Ryan, He will
be discharged.

BREAKFAST BEVERAGE.—UOtuo3vathic practitioners,
and the medical profession generally, recommend cocoa
as being the most healthf el of all beverages. When the doc-
trine of homoeopathy was first introduced lute this country,
there were to be obt tined no preparations of cocoa either at-
tractive to the taste or acceptable to the stomach ; the nut
was either supplied is the crude state, or so unskilfully
manufactured as to obtain little notice. J. Epp', of London,
nomccopathic Chemist, was induced in the year 1839 to turn
his attention to this subject, and at length succeeded, with
the assistance of elaborate machinery, in being the first
to produce an article pure in its composition, and so refined
by the perfect tzituration it receives in the process it passes
through, as to be most acceptable to the delicate stomach.
For general use Epps's Cocoa is distinguished as an invigo-
rating, grateful breakfast beverage, possessing a most deli-
cious aroma. Dr. Ilassall, in his work, " Food and its
Adulterations," says -" Cocoa contains a great variety of im-
portant nutritive principles—every ingredient necessary to
the growth and sustenance of the body." Again; "As a
nutritive, cocoa stands very much higher than either coffee
or tea." Directions—Two teaspoonfuls of the powder in a
breakfast cup, filled up with boiling water or milk. Secured
in tin-lined ilb., ilb., and 11b. labelled packets, and sold by
grocers, confectioners, and chemists. - [Awl%)

THIRD EDITIOSr.

SUN OFFICE, SIX O'CLOCK.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE—This Day,

CHERTSEY RACES—THIS DAY.
(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
RAILWAY STEEPLECHASE.
Gorsehawk
.......... I
Clavis
Six ran. 2
SURREY AND MIDDLESEX.
Meanwood ........
Yaller G
.. 2
stays
Five ran. Won in a c:innuon cautcr.
ATCII-c
MILITARY STEEPLECHASE.
PUSS
.. . .
Yallcr Ural
• Three ran.
II U.N TER S' STEE PLE CHASE.
Storm .................... ..................... I Holdersyke .................................... Sprat
Eleven ran.

SHIPPING-THIS DAY.

LONDON, Nov. 26 —Wind this day at noon—south_
Westerly ; moderate braze and fine weather, but rather
cloudy.

PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 23.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Henry
Duncan, from Quebec—Her Majesty's ship Geyser, from
Plymouth.

(BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH,)
GRAVESEND, Saturday Morning.
Arrived, Nov. 27—Arnica, Margaret, Ocean, and Ellen,
all from Guernsey.

DEAL, Saturday Morning.
Passed—Britannia. screw steamer, from Cadiz for
London.
Anchored—Heron, from London for Cardiff—Fortuna,
from the west for G braltar.

A GIIOST STORY.—It was the rule of my mother's
house that all servants should be in bed at ten
o'clock, and on the night of the ghost we were not to
go forth till midnight, when there would be enough
of a moon to dispel the pitchy darkness induced by a partial
fog, that at fist was an ample protection to the game. My
brother and myself were together, and well armed, and in no
mood to be nervously excited, and little inclined to be afraid
of anything. We passed by the still-room, intending, by
crossing the kitchen and going through the scullery, to
roach the courtyard by the back way. The large old heuse
was as still as death when my hand turned the handle of
the kitchen door, which opening, partially admitted me to
the room, at the bottom of the long table which, starting
from between the entrance where I was and the door of exit
to the scullery, ran up to my left in its full length to the
great fireplace a tall and expensive kitchen screen. The
screen stood to the right of the fireplace as I looked at it, so
that a large body of glowing embers in the grate threw a
steady distinct glare of red light throughout the entire of the
large apartment, making the smallest thing distinctly
visible, and falling full on the tall figure of a woman, di-
vided from me only by the breadth of the bottom of the
table. She was dressed, or seemed to be dressed, as a maid
servant, with a sort of poke bonnet on, and a dark shawl
drawn or pinned tightly across her breast. On my entrance
she slowly turned her head to look at me, and as she did
so, every feature ought to have stood forth in the light of
the fire, but I at once saw that there was beneath the bonnet
an indistinctness of outline not to be accounted for. Hold-
ing the door open with my left hand, with the right against
the post, I addressed to my brother, who was behind me,
simply the word " Look." As I uttered this, the figure
seemed to commence gliding rather than proceeding by
steps slowly on. up the kitchen towards the fireplace, while
I loivered my right arm from the post, and turned to let my
brother in, then closed the door, locked it, and put the key
into my pocket. In reply to me Moreton said, " I see her,
there she goes." I had not told him what I had seen, and
therefore could in no way have suggested the idea he seemed
to entertain. After I had thus locked the door, on turning
round there was no woman to bo seen, so I asked my brother
whither she had gone. He instantly replied, "Up the kit-
chen towards the screen." " Come on, then," I cried ; let's
have some fun and catch her, to see who it ie." Our impres-
sion was that it was one of the maid servants sitting up long
after the usual hours, and we at once proceeded, each taking
a separate corner of the screen, and meeting on the side
next the fire—but there was nothing there I Astonished at
this, we then commenced a most minute search of the kit-
chen, looked up the chimney and beneath the table, into the
oven and then into the drawers—in short,into every nook and
corner that could have held a rat. But there was no living
thing in the kitchen but ourselves. The windows were
fast, and so high in the walls that, even with the aid of the
dresser, no one could have reached them ; the door by which
we entered was locked and the key in nay custody, and the
only other door into the scullery we found locked, and the
key on the other side with us. We hear of hats that turn
and of tables knocked by the knuckles of ghosts; of pictures,
etched, drawn, and even coloured by spiritual agency ; of
handkerchiefs floating in the air; of words written by true
seen hands, but not always well spelt by their invisible
heads, not one word of which do I believe ; but here I offer
to my readers a fact impossible to be accounted for, an up-
paragon visible to two persons who, when they saw it
thought that it was a living body ; each supposed it to be a
woman, and fearless of spiritual agency, pursued it but in
vain.—My Life and .Recollections, by the Hon, Grantley F.
Berkeley.

Viscountess Palmerston has issued cards for a
small and early assembly this evening at Cambridge House.
Baron end Baroness Biome received a select
party at dinner last evening at the Hanoverian Legation in
Grosvenor-place.

Sir Roderick and Lady Murchison entertained a
small party at dinner 1•:st evening at their residence in
Belgrave-square.

The Right Hon. B. Disraeli and Mrs Disraeli
have left Hughenden Manor for Cuddesdon Palace, Oxen,
on a visit to the Bishop of Oxford.

Mr. M. D. Wesy, 99, Divies-street, Berkeley..
square, wishes to have it stated that he is not the person
alluded to in the case of " Wray alias Henery," tried at
the Central Criminal Court on the 24th inst.
TUE PRINCE OF WALES AND THE LATE DUKE
OF NEWCASTLE,—.We understand his Royal Highness the
Prince of Wales has, through General Knollys, signified
hi 4 desire to place a painted window in the chancel of the
beautiful church at Shireoak, near Worksop, in memory of
its lamented founder. The present Duke of Newcastle has
also expressed to the incumbent his intention of erecting a
handsome reredos. These, with the two windows offered by
the Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer and Mr
0 uvrey, the late Duke's solicitor, and two others to be raised
by the parishioners, will form a noble memorial of one who
was in lifo beloved, and is now in death deeply lamented,
and will make the church at Shireoak one of the most beau-
tiful in Nottinghamshire. The Prince of Wales laid the
first stone of the edifice on St Luke's day, 1861; the church
was consecrated by the Bishop of Lincoln on October 14,
1863; and the Duke died on the first anniversary, St.
Luke's day, 1864,

TESTIMONIAL TO THE CHIEF CLERK AT THE
GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY STATION, READING.-
A meeting of a very gratifying kind was held on Thursday
evening at the large waiting-room of the Great Western
Railway Station, Reading, for the purpose of presenting a
valuable testimonial—subscribed for by upwards of 60 of
the railway servants of that station—to Mr George Bland,
for several years the chief clerk, who had discharged his
duties in a manner which had won for him general respect
from the railway officials and the travelling public, and

who is about to remove to Paddington. The testimonial,

consisting of a beautiful timepiece, a pair of elegant flower

vases, and a chaste inkstand, was presented by Mr Harper.
one and Mr Weightman, the goods super-
intendent, of theendentinspectors,pe
, and others connected with the line, bore testi..
mony to the kindness of character and gentlemanly conduct
of Mr Bland. Mr Bland, in feeling terms, expressed his
heartfelt thanks for the unexpected present; and after a
veto of thanks had been presented to Mr Harper, and re-
peated cheers for Mr Bland, the meeting broke up.
HOW TO GO MAD.-130 an editor; let tue devil
be waiting for copy ; sit down to write an article, and get
a few sentences done ; then let an acquaintance drop in and
begin to tell you stories and gossip of the town; and let
him sit, and sit, and sit. This is the quickest way we ce
think of to go raving, distracted mad,—.Arcte York Herald
SEASONABLE AlD.—The Pay mater. General has
by the authority of the Lords Commissioners of her
Majesty's Treasury, paid to the treasurer of the Royal Free
Hospital, Gray'e-inn-road, the sum of £375, being a portion
of a bequest made by the late Madame de Lilly to her
Majesty for the benefit of the poor of London. This liberal
donation is indeed a practical recognition by the Crown of
the great benefits conferred on the poor. through the agency
of this excellent institution, the committee of management
of which have had but recently to incur large liabilities in
order to meet the daily increasibg demands of the sick poor
on the funds of this hospital.

THE LAW OF FINAL APPEAL IN CASES AFFECT.
ING DOCTRINE.--The following rather curious
announcement appears in the Church and 'State Review:
"The Provisional Committee of the Association for Amend-
ment of the Law of Final Appeal in Cases Doctrine have

agreed to promote petitions based upon the principle fol-
lowing--That for the time to come no Archbishop or

Biehc-p have any place in the Court of Final Appeal,

whether as member of the court or assessor; but that, iu

cases affecting doctrine brought before the court, it is
essential that the doctrine of the Church be declartd in-
terpreted and chewed' by rrierence to the spirituality,"