The Sun.
London, England, 1863-04-04 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS MAGAZINES.

Several of the magazines and periodicals having
come to hand after "Magazine Day," we are con-
strained as usual to notice nearly the pick among
them, and those even thus briefly and together.
Temple Bar (like "Once a Week" now in this par-
ticular), finds its chief attraction in the serial pub-
lication of a new story by the authoress of " Lady
Audley's Secret." Miss Braddon's latest sensa-
tional venture, here, in Temple Bar, being three
additional chapters of " John Marchmont's Legacy."
They will hardly add to her reputation. Mr. Sala's
seventh " Breakfast in Bed" (rather a vulgar title)
is called this month (still more vulgarly) " On
the Condition of my Poor Feet." The same pro-
lific writer has some well-timed recollections, in
another paper, of " One Day in Denmark." Edmund
Yates contributing a vivacious article entitled,
"Put to the Test."—The St. James's can hardly be
said now to have any notable serial at all since
Albany Fonblanque's "Tangled Skein" was un-
ravelled and wound up. " Aubrey Marston," there
is, " or, The Game of Speculation"—entire and com-
plete, though not a literary chrysolite. The Hermit
of Belgravia,.Masquerades at the Pantheon—Mary
Bennett sings another of those interminable wel-
comes " To Alexandra"—and other contributors are,
in turn, as industrious but not a jot more original.—
The Saxpenny Magazine is chiefly remarkable this
month for, inasmuch as it contains no less than
five more chapters of "Talbot of Earn's Cliffe,"
and as many as six more of " The Scapegoat."
Another instance of vulgarity, here, being the
twelfth illustration of Popular Fallacies, absurdly
entitled " A Rare Spree ! What a Lark ! Such Fun."
Dr. Winslow's Quarterly Psychological Journal,
just published simultaneously with the April maga-
zines, leads off with an eminently philosophic paper
"On the Nature of Volition"—a metaphysical
treatise, penned by Mr. Lockhart Clarke, F.R S.
Perhaps the most interesting contribution of all in
Newton's London Journal of the Arts and Sciences
(of which, by the way, the present issue is the
" hundredth") is the notice it contains of Devey's
Life of Mr. Locke, the late eminent engineer.

RECENT WILLS AND BEQUESTS.

The will of the Right Hon. Henrietta Elizabeth,
Dowager Countess Granville, late of He..eford-
street, Park-lane, was proved in London on the 19th
ult., by her son, the Hon. Edward Frederick Leve-
son-Gower, M.P., the personalty sworn under
£lO,OOO. Her ladyship was a daughter of the fifth
Duke of Devonshire, K.G., and married to the late
Earl Granville, P.C., G.C.8., Ambassador Extra-
ordinary and Plenipotentiary at Paris, who died in
1846, and had issue three sons and two daughters.
Her ladyship, who died in November last, executed
her will in 1857, and two codicils in 1860-1. The
will is signed Henrietta Elizabeth, and the codicils
Harriet Granville. Her ladyship appoints her son,
the present Earl, a trustee with her other son, who
is the sole executor, and is heir presumptive to the
earldom. Her ladyship bequeaths to her son, Earl
Granville, the plate; end to her daughter, Lady
Rivers, she leaves the residue of her property. This
is subject to the payment of five annuities—namely,
one of £5O, two of £3O, and two of £25. These are
chiefly left to the servants of the testatrix.
The will of Mr. Edward Loyd, late of Combc-
house, near Croydon, formerly of Greenhill, near
Manchester, was proved in the London Court on
the 16th ult. The personalty was sworn under
nMthanec3hoetsh-
and was formerly a baenlcdie.erdaot
£600,000. The executors nominated are his sons,
Messrs. Louis Loyd, Edward Loyd, and William
Jones Loyd. The testator was the uncle of Lord
Manches-
ter and a magistrate for the county of Lancashire.
la'thrcieeh
Overstone,
His will bears dateii()
0705050,
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of January last, aged 83, lie bequeaths to I •
the interest of
absolute legacy of £6,500, to ethePer •
and the plate and furniture , booksburtwitha residence
tend pic-
tures at her decease he leaves' to his ldeto
whom he has devised his freeholdand other son,
other estates.
To each of his sons
he leaves a legacy of £lOO,OOO
sterling,
and to each of his daughters (for whom
a prior provision has been made) a legacy of £5,000.
'file will of Mr. George Forbes, of Bereleigh.
house, Petersfield, Hants, was proved in London
by the executors, Mr. James Stuart Forbes, the
testator's brother, and Mr. Daniel Boys and Mr.
Alex. Forbes Tweedie, of Ely-place, London. The
personal property was sworn under £140,000. The
testator held the office of Deputy-Lieutenant for
Middlesex and Westminster, and was a magistrate
of t hat city and town, also for Hants and Atierdetn.
Mr. Forbes was a son of tht3 late Sir Chas. Forbes,
and married in 1843, and had only attained the age
of 58 when he died, in January last. His will hears
date 1855, whereby he bequeaths to his wife a life
interest in his estates, both real and personal, and
upon her decease he devises the freeholds to h
eldest son or other issue ; but should no
child
attain a vested interest therein, then he devises
sh.isr
real estates to the second son of his brother,
i
Charles, and bequeaths his personal estate among
but in failure, then to
his (testator's) children,
nephews and nieces ; bequeath to his
Siing .sister,
r Charles, each a
Katharine, and his brother,
legacy of £l,OOO, also £lOO to each of his execu-
tors.—lllustrated Veto.