The Sun.
London, England, 1863-04-18 00:00:00

RECENT WILLS AND BEQtESTS.

(1.1 om the Illustrated London News.)
The will of Miss Hester Walker, of Weybridge
Park, Surrey, was proved in the London Court under
£90,000 personal property, and probate granted to
John Walker, Esq., her brother, and Francis
Walker, Esq., her nephew, who are the executors
and trustees. The will bears date 1856, and a
codicil, 1863. The testatrix appoints her brother,
who is her executor, the residuary legatee of her
personalty, and directs her real estates to be sold,
and the proceeds arising therefrom to be divided
amongst her said nephews and nieces, to whom
liberal legacies are bequeathed. Legacies are also
left to her servants—to three of them £lOO each.
Miss Walker forgives all persons who may be in-
debted to her in any sum. The following are her
bequests to charitable institutions—To the National
Benevolent Society, £2OO ; the Blind School, St
George's-in-the-Fields, £2OO ; Deaf and Dumb
Asylum, Old Kent-road, £200; and the Infant,
Orphan School, Wanstead, £2OO.
The will of Sir Matthew Blakiston, Bart., of
Sandybrooke Hall, near Ashbourne, Derbyshire,
was proved in London on the 2d inst. by his son,
Sir Matthew Blakison, Bart., and the testator's
nephew, Matthew Folliott, Esq. The testator was
formerly in the Indian army, and is of an ancient
and distinguished family long settled in Derbyshire.
Sir Matthew was in his eightieth year, and died on
the 23d of December last, having executed his will
only three days prior thereto. After making spe-
cific bequests to his wife, Lady Blakiston, he directs
that her ladyship may select such plate, books, rand
linen as she thinks proper, and that his servants
may each receive a year's wages over and above
what may be due to them. The testator then be-
queaths the rest and residue of his property to his
eldest eon and heir, who inherits the estate and
baronetcy.

The will of Admiral Sir James Whitley Deans
Dundas, G.C.8., late Barton Court, near Hunger-
ford, Berkshire, was administered to in the
London Court by his son, the Rev. James Whitley
Deans Dundee, M.A., Vicar of Kintbury, Berkshim
the residuary legatee, to whom the grant was made
from the circumstance of the excutors who were
appointed—namely, Major-General Sir William
Brereton, K.C.8., K.H., and S. B. Merriman, Esq;
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LONDON, - ny CHATHAM, AND DOVER RAILWAY.—.
OPENING
OF THE GREAT TUNNEL UNDER THE
CRYSTAL PALACE.—Yesterday afternoon the completion of
one of the most important portions of the works in connexion
with the metropolitan extensions of the railway system
(under the auspices of the London, Chatham, and Dover
Railway Company), was celebrated at the Penge Wood end
of the great tunnel running from Dulwich, under Sydenham-
hill, to that place. The chief engineer of the company, Mr.
F. T. Turner, accompanied by Mr. Betts, one of the con-
tractors for the construction of the line, Mr. Watson, and Mr.
Baldwin, both of whom are heads of departments under
Messrs. Pete, Bette, and Crampton, together with several
other officials of the compiny,assombled at the cutting near
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the Alleyn's Head, Dulwich, and proceeded to the mouth
work-
men the tunnel, where they were escorted by a numbhcer
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men bearingfltwbeaux, and minutely iospectedork Itt
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the construction of this most gigantic
on the metropolitan extension
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bridge over the Thames at Bloc. .
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character. The
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lines,
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2,200 yards in length • there are
182 feet below'
eleven shafts, the deepest one being
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passed
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staff, contractors, and other officials having
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where a large temporary platform was
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gratification of effecting the completion
of this great railway
chief engineer, had the
work. by laying the lest brick, •
In the operation of which he
was immensely
cheered.