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

Recent Wills and Bequests,

merous, and the legacies are to be paid free of duty.
There are specific bEquests of pictures, &c., 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 g 1 00, and £2O to e?ch of the others; also
£lO to each of the porters, and legacies to his ser.
vants. 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 bis 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 Ci✓il Service Gazette.)

COLONIAL-OFFICE—Mr A. A. King has been appointed
o a writership, Ceylon.

EDUCATION-OFFICE—Mr Jas. Smith has been appointed
an assistant clerk, London—and Mr Armytage Bakewell
has been appointed an assistant clerk, London.
BOARD or 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 P osT-orricE —The pos mastership of Southampton
is vacant, salary .El5O. 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 Font,
OXFunicing-officer at Folkestone,- has been promoted to -be
senior examining officer at Harwich—Mr G, F. Trail,
examining officer at Glasgo-v Dock, Lancaster, has been
promo'ed to be examining officer at Folkestone—Mr M. S.
Luckley, out-door officer from Ilartlepool, has been pro-
moted to be examining officer at Glasgow Dock—Mr S. F.
Rimingtou has been promoted from the 3d to the 2d class of
watermen, London.

INLAND REVENUE (Excise Branch)—Mr Thomas Tay-
lot.; 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 collection—Mr William Kelly, first-
class assistant, Birmingham, 6th division, Birmingham
collection, has been appointed efficer 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, cffioer,
Dundalk, Ist division, Drogheda collection, has been ap-
pointed officer 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.

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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 succession 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.
Gamtzer, 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. Breaks
has been appointed judge of the Court of Small Causes of
Combaconum, but to officiate as private secretary to the
Governor of Madras--Mr H. E. Sullivan has been appointed
to act as civil and sessions judge of the zillah 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-
btrate of Coimbatorc—Mr F. Brandt, assistant to the collec-
tor and magistrate of ICiatna 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, sad
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 persen in custody has turnod out not to be the culprit.
The name of the man arrested is Edward Ryan. He will
be discharged.

BREAKFAST BEVERAGE.—Homoeopathic practitioners,
and the medical profession generally, recommend cocoa
as being the most healthful of all beverages. When the.doc-
' trine of homoeopathy was first introduced into this country,
there were to be obt fined no preparations of cocoa either at-
tractive to the taste or acceptable to the stomach ; "the nut
was either supplied in the crude state, or so unskilfully
manufactured as to obtain little notice. J. Epps, of London,
Homoeopathic 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 trituration it receives in the process it passes
through, as to be most acceptable to the delicate stomach.
For general use Eppa'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
Adulteratio.2s," 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 alb., alb., and 11b. labelled packets, and sold by
grOecrs, (011feCtlOuers, and chemists.- [ADvr.j

(From the Illustrated London .11reu.s,)
The will of Mrs. Lydia Symons, wife of the Rev.
Benjamin Parsons Symons, D.D-, Warden of Wad-
ham College, Oxfcrd, was proved in London under
£20,000. The execultors nominated are her brothers,
Henry Masterman tend Edward Masterman,Esqrs.
[he ;testatrix leaves the property over which she
had power of disposition under settlement, and also
by the will of her late' father, John Masterman,
E'q.—subject to her husband's life interest therein
—.amongst her brothers and sisters and Come of
her DiCetT, appointing her said brothers, Henry
and Edward, residuary legatees. There are bequests
to the following institutions :—To the Louden Se-
ciety for the Conversion of the Jews and the Church
Pastoral Aid Society, each a legacy of £300; and
to the Church Alissioe ary Society, £lOO.
The will of William Stitt Wilson, Rai., banker,
of the city of Norwich, formerly of IVnitehaven,
St. Becs, Cumberland, Wtis proved in London on
the Ist 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 as left, having died before the
testator, the personalty devolves, by the terms of
the will, to his two executors, for their own use and
benefit, and they are left also the freehold property.
The estate of Cockshot is devised to 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 lett to
several officers of banks. To the Whitehaven In-
firmary, sroo; 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 ver; u from
his collection; to the National Gallery, any two
oil-paintings the trustees may select.
The will 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 execetrix. Tho 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., he leaves the
option of retaining £lO,OOO at 4 per 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

OVERLAND M AILS.

SOUTHAMPTON, Nov. 26.
The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer
Massilia, with the heavy portion of the above
mails, has arrived here.

She brings 52 passengers and a general cargo,
including 218 bales of raw silk, value X 20,000
sterling,
From Malta to this port she experienced strorg
head winds and a heavy Eel.

On the 19 h inst. she spke the steamer Syria,
on the 20:h the Prussian brig Philomel, and on
the following day the E tea na er Victoria, of
L•mdon.

The Syria, with the outward mails of the 12th,
encountered a heavy gale in the My of Biscay.
A heavy sua struck the vessel, carrying away
the fore companion, and crushing the arm of the
quartermaster of the ship.
GIBRALTAR, Nov. 20.—Exchange on London,
53 to -1-; on Miraeilles, 5.22 ; I%.l.ldrid, 2 die,
Freights unaltered.

CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS.
The following telegram has been received at Mr
Reuter's office from the Peninsular and Orient-al
Steam N.►vigation Company, Nov. 25:
MARSEILLES, Nov. 25.
The Delta arrived at 9 a.m. to-day. The mails
lcave for London at 11.30 e,m.

LONDON GAZETTE---Last Evening,

At the Council Chamber, Whitehall, the 254 h day of
November, 1864.
Her Majesty having been pleased to appot-ut the Right
Eon. Edward, Lord Belper, to be her majesty's Lieutenant
of the county of Nottingham, his Lordship this day took
and subscribed the oath appointed to be taken thereupon
instead of the oaths of allegiance, supremacy, and abjura-
tion.

FOREIGN OFFICE, Nov. 23.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint Robert
Thomas %.;harles Middleton, Esq., now a Second Secretary
in her Majesty's Diplomatic Sex vice, employed in Ler Ma-
jesty's Legation at Lisbon, to be Secretary to her Majesty's
Legation at Mexico.
ADMIRALTY, Nov. 22.
Mr Clement iiirizA has this day been promoted to ',,h©
rank of Master in her Majesty's Fleet.

Noy. 23.
Mr Edward Hocken at d Mr Henry Rider have been this
day iromoted to the rank of First Class Assist•dnt Engi-
neers in her Majesty's Fleet, with seniority of ),At
bar, 1861.

Cdurse of Exchange,—Yesterday.

Amsterdam
Ditto
Rotterdam — 11 191 12 191
Antwerp
Hamburg — 13 Si 13 9
Paris
25 ;.5-
Ditto
Marseilles — 25 60 2,5 65
Frankfort on Maine — a
Vienna
10
Trieste
Petersburgh — 291 201
Berlin —
Madrid
Cadiz 461 471
Leghorn — 26 75 25 SO
Milan
Genoa
Naples
Palermo -_ 26 77f 25 i2i
Messina — 26 77f 25 821
Lisbon
Oporto
Foreign Gold in Bars (Standard)......per oz., £3 17 9
Mexican Dollars
0 0 0