The Sun.
London, England, 1863-07-25 00:00:00

WILLS AND BEQUESTS.

The will of the Right Hon. Arthur Marcus Cecil
Hill, Baron Sandys, p.C., K.T.S.,
of Orabersley
Worcester, and Chesham-street, Belgrave-
square, was proved in LCourt, ondon by his brother, Lord
George Augustus Hill, and Sir Edmund Filmer,
The personalty was sworn under £30,000.
Bart.
lordship had held many diplomatic appoint-
His
ttache at Madrid in 1816 21;
ments. He was A
had been Secretary of Legation at Florence, Lisbon,
Rio J aneiro, and to several epecial embassies ; and
also Comptroller and Treasurer of her Majesty's
Household, and died at the age of 65. The will was
executed in November, 1860, and a codicil in Janu•
y, 1862. The dispositions are purely of a family
ar
nature. To Lady Sandys he has secured an income
of £1,200 per annum, and to younger sons a legacy
£5,000, and to daughters £6,000. The residue
of
of his property he leaves to Lady Sandys, with
power of appointment as her ladyship may direct.
The will of Admiral the Hon. Sir (ileorge Ellthe
iot,
K.C.13., was proved in Loudon by his nephews,
Hon. George Francis Stewal-
liam Brownrigg Elliot, herd Elliot and Mr. Wi
joint executors ; the
personalty being sworn under £25,000. His real
estate in Scotland he has devised to his eldest son,
as far as thr law of Scotland will permit. His se-
curities in America and his shares in the North
Eastern Railway Company he in spec
amounts and proportions to his sons and daughter,
his son George residuary legatee. The
appointing
of Mr. John Charles Schreiber, of Henhurst,
will
Woodchurch, Kent, was proved in the London court
by his relict, together with his nephew, Mr. Arthur
Thomas Schreiber, the joint acting executors, the
personalty being sworn under £350,000. The testa-
tor also died possessed of considerable real estates,
chiefly situated in Kent. The will was exe-
cuted in February, 1863, and the dispositions
are confined to his relict and nephews. To
his wife he leaves his estates, real and per-
sona!, during her life or widowhood,
and upon her
decease the whole of the estates will devolve to his
two nephews, Messrs. Charles Schreiber and Arthur
Thomas Schreiber. To the former is bequeathed the
outlying farms and the London property, and to
the latter nephew, Arthur Thomas Schreiber, is
bequeathed the remainder ef his property, which is
iderable. He is also the trustee of the
very cons
estates.—lllustrated London News.

THE MANSLAUGHTER OF A WIFE BEATER,—
An inquest was held at St. George's Workhouse on
Thursday night on the body of Thomas Corbett, In our
report of the proceedings of the Southwark Police-court on
Wednesday the particulars of the lease were given. Be.
ceased had been beating his wife in the street while in a
state of intoxication, and a man named Crawley interfered
to save the woman. In the struggle between the twc men
deceased received a fall, which caused an internal rupture,
resulting in death, A verdict of accidental death was re-
turned,

LI

The Wanderer in Western France. By George T. I
Lowth, Et.q., Author of " The Wanderer in
Arabia." Illustrated by the Hon. Eliot Yorke,
M.P. One vol., pp. 360. Hurst and Blackett.
Mr. Lowth is of opinion that in order fully to
appreciate the peculiar characteristics of a foreign
country, you should approach it from the sea, and sud-
denly find yoarself in an unknown scene. Whereas
in arriving from a land journey, you " approach
your novelties by degrees," after a broken fashion.
" This," he says," is a wrong to your object—and to
your nature, which enjoys surprises?' In pursuance
of which opinion, Mr. Lowth, in visiting Brittany,
proceeds from Jersey direct to St. Malo, and is
delighted to find himself, almost, as it were, at a
leap, in Old France. Nantes, Rennes, Chatillon,
La Vendee, the Boc4ge, and other places of in
terest in those romantic and picturesque localities,
are visited and described in turn. The style
of the narrative is easy and gossiping,
but we are sorry to notice a disposi-
tion to censure or to ridicule whatever may
be uncongenial to the traveller's views, or perhaps
unfamiliar to his comprehension. Without doing
at Rome as the Romans do, it is most courteous
as well as most charitable to give to strangers and
to strange customs the benefit of the doubt, and not
be ready to condemn or laugh before we inquire or
understand. With these reservations the traveller's
reminiscences are sufficiently amusing. Here is a
lively specimen—
On reaching the entrance gate again, I was invited to
write my name, and any remark, in the visitors' book.
Looking through this I found two or three amusing things.
One Frenchman had written these words, " J ai admire la
nature—J'ai reconnue partout I'artiste." Signed--" Ad.
Cremieux." M. Cremieux was one of the Ministers under
the Republic of 1848. Under the above words were written
these twe lines—

"Plut au ciel quo pour to figure
L'artiste out aide la nature."
Monsieur Cremieux was not handsome,
Then, again, were these two lines in another hand—
" Adieu, bosquets charmane—adiou, sombre castel,
OA ron vit a. I'abri du Constituti ,nnel."

Signed—" Veron."
The porter said M. Veron, the well-known editor of the
Constitutionnel, had one day walked over La Garenne, and
on going away had merely written his name in the visitors'
book, without adding any remarks, On a subsequent day
Alfred de Musset paid a visit to La Garenne, and in look-
ing over this book came to this signature, " Vt-ron." There
being a blank apace above the name, he 'took the pen and
wrote the two lines quoted, immediately above it. Pleasant
and laughing Alfred de Musset I
Two beautilully coloured lithographs, from draw-
ings by the Hon. Eliot Yorke, adorn the volume,
and a map of Brittany, Normandy, and La Vendee,
showing the author's route from St. Malo to La
Rochelle, in one direction, and to L'Orient in
another, adds to the interest of the narrative.

Odd Fellows' Quarterly Magazine.
A more than usually varied and excellent num-
ber (27) of this clever little quarterly has just made
its appearance. Seeing how very readable it is
throughout, and that its editor, Mr. Charles
Hardwick, has gathered about him a most
able corps of contributors—one wonders more
than ever how for one shilling subscription per
annum, so much entertaining and instructive
literature can be put within reach of the Odd
Fellows. They must be Odd Fellows, indeed, and
unworthy of the name, who fail to support it—seeing
that they can, by supporting it, obtain (quarterly)
so much that is really worth having, and
looking into, and binding up, when read,
into an annual volume, for preservation upon
their bookshelves, for what Montague Tigg might
well refer to as the ridiculously small amount
of—Fourpence! Among the more remarkable
contributions to the July number of the Odd-
Fellows Quarterly Magazine are some noble,
thoughtful stanzas by the People's Poetess, Eliza
Cook—original verses, headed " The Infinite."
Numerous other papers of merit lend their interest
to the number, as, for example, the articles respec-
tively entitled " Self Help" and " Success."