The Sun.
London, England, 1862-12-06 00:00:00

WILLS AND BEQUESTS.

The will of the Right Hon. Leicester Fitzgerald Charles
Stanhope, Earl of Harrington, C,11., of Elvaston Citale,
Derby ; Gawsworth, Chester, and Kensington Palace Gar-
dens, was proved in London on the 24th ult. The per-
sonalty was sworn under £250,000. The executors and
trustees are the testator's nephew, the Marquis of Kildare;
her Majesty's Attorney-General, Sir William Atherton;
William Lloyd Birkbeck, Esq., Inner Temple; and James
Boyd, Esq., Furnival's Inn. The will is of considerable
length, bearing date November, 1861, and is entirely of a
family nature. The Earl has bequeathed to his relict, the
Countess,a life interest in the estates over which his lordship
had a power of dispositioa,which he has charged with annui-
ties to his two daughters. To the countess is alsobequeathed
an immediate legacy of £3,000, together with a disposition
over £lO,OOO, and to etch of his daughters he has given a
like disposition over suns of £lO,OOO each. The remainder
of the estates, real and personal, are left to his lordship's
only.son and successor, t}l., resent Earl of Harrington
(now in his seventeenth year), who is appointed the resi-
duary legatee. The late Earl, who attained the age of
seventy-eight, was a Colonel in the Army, and a Knight
Commander of the Order of the Redeemer, of Greece.

The will of Sir Robert Henry Gunning, Baronet, of
Horton, Northampton, was proved in the London
Court, by the executors, the Reverend Sir Henry John
Gunning, Bart., M.A., Rural Dean, Rector of Wigan,
Lancashire, the testator's brother; and W. M. Fladgate,
Esq., solicitor, Craven-street, Strand. The personalty was
sworn under £9,000. The will bears date 1860, and a co-
dicil, August, 1862. These documents occupy many pages
with directions as to the security and payment of several
annuities. There are legacies left to his steward, gardener,
and to all his other in and out door servants. His estates,
subject and chargeable with these bequests, he has left to
his brother and successor to the baronetcy. The testator
died a bachelor at the age of 67.

The will of James Walker, Esq., C.E., President of the
Institute of Civil Engineers, who died at his residence,
Great George-street, Westminster, on the Bth of last Octo-
ber, aged 81, was proved in the London Court on the 16th
ult., the executors nominated being his sons-in-law, Alex.
Boyle and Wm. Smythe, Esqrs., together with the Rev. J.
Hoole, M.A., and G. K. Rickards, counsel to the Speaker
of the House of Commons. The personalty was sworn
under £300,000. The will was executed in March,
1860, and there are appended six codicils, which,
by revocations, involve much complexity. These instru-
ments are of very ample dimensions, extending oer up-
wards of 300 folios. The bequests are also exceedingly
numerous. There is a singular item in the will with refe-
ence to wine, in which the testator mentions one stock
as consisting of 5,500 dozen and upwards, a number almost
unprecedented in the cellars of a private gentleman. A large
portion of these wines is bequeathed, conditionally, amongst
his sons-in-law and some personal friends. His estates,
subject to the payment of annuities and legacies, he directs
to be divided into ten parts, and shared in certain specified
proportions, chiefly amongst his daughters and their hus-
Lands and children. Legacies are left to servants, and to
the London and Westminster Hospitals £5OO each, and £5O
for the Westminster Dispensary.—From the illustrated
London News Deo. 6.

THE MAGAZINES.

Fraaer's Magazine.

We find in this number an interesting article on
" The Reaction in Naples," the writer of which
states his conviction that the Bourbon dynasty finds
no sympathisers among the better classes of the po-
pulation, and that the brigandage derives its
strength entirely from the help afforded it by the
Roman Government. In support of these states-
monis he brings forward some curious facts. For
instance the brigand prisoners taken by the French
soldiers " are marched to. Rome, where they are at
once handed to the Pope's authorities, who without
delay met them again at liberty. In this way up-
wards of a thousand men have at different times
fallen into the hands of the French soldiers, with no
other effect than to oblige them to make a journey
to Rome. That this liberation really does take
place, and is no idle invention, has been satisfac•
torily proved by the fact that the French have on
some occasions caught the very same individuals
whom shortly before they had delivered into the
Pope's keeping." The article on the "Present
Position of the Church of England" will also repay
perusal. " Laurel and Cypress" is an account of
the late Australian exploration of Burke and Wills.
Mr. Ruskin gives another essay on Political Eco-
nomy, and the tales, " A First Friendship" and
" Adrian," are still in progress.