The Sun.
London, England, 1862-08-23 00:00:00

SPORTING---THIS DAY.

LATEST CITY BETTING.
ST. LEGER.
4to I agst Marquis (taken freely)
11 to 2 agst Buckstone (taken)
11 to 2 agst Caractacus (taken)
11 to 1 agst Carisbrook (taken)
13 to 1 agst Exchequer (taken)
20 to 1 agst Hurricane (taken)
20 to 1 agst Johnny Armstrong (taken)
18 to 1 agst Stockwell colt (taken)
30 to 1 agst Old Calabar (taken)

WILLS AND BEQUESTS.

The will of the Right Hon. Charles John, Earl
and Viscount Cauning, K.G., G.C.8., P.C., K.S.I.
(knight of the most exalted Order of the Star of
India), lc te Governor-General of India, is now
proved in her Majesty's Court of Probate, and has
become a public document. It is lengthy, and bears
date 1844, to which in 1855 a codicil was added.
Both instruments were executed in this country.
The executors nominated are the late Countess Can-
ning (the testator's wife), the most Hon. Henry de
la Poer I3eresford, late Marquis Waterford, together
with the surviving and acting executors, the Hon.
and Rev. Gilbert Chetwynd Talbot, D.D., and the
Right Hon. George Warren, Baron De Tabley. The
property is considerable, the personalty alone in the
United Kingdom being sworn under £250,000. The
testator having no issue, it is directed to pass to his
nephew, Lord Hubert de Burgh Canning, the
second son of the Marquis of Clanricarde
—the Marchioness of Clanricarde being the
late Earl's sister—and that the estates shall
remain in the possession of such younger
issue of the Marquis whilst not inheriting the title.
Strict injunctions are given that the possessor of
the property is to assume, in addition to his own,
the surname of Canning, and that, in all deeds and
writings, the name of Canning is to be invariably
used.

The will of Vice-Admiral Sir George Tyler,
of Cottrell, near Cardiff, Glamorganshire,
was proved in London, under £25,000 personalty—
the executors appointed being Lady Tyler, his
relict; George Henry Tyler, Esq., his son; and the
Rev. R. T. Tyler, M.A., Rector of Llantrithyd and
and Mynachlogddu, the testator's brother. This
naval officer was the eldest son of the late Admiral
Sir C. Tyler, G.C.B. The family appear to be
settled in Wales The testator represented the
county of Glamorgan in Parliament, and was for-
merly governor of St. Vincent. The will is strictly
a family one, and bears date 1858, and a codicil
IS6I. Lady Tyler, the relict, takes a life interest

n all the property, real and personal, sub-

ject to the payment of certain annuities
and legacies to their sons and daughters.
On the decease of the widow the family-
estate called Cottrell, and other freeholds, are de-
vised to the testator's eldest son and his issue. The
remainder of the property is left amongst the chil-
dren in certain proportions, the residue passing to
the eldest son. The testator has bequeathed lega-
cies of £lOO each to two domestics who have been
in his service for a lengthened period.
The will of Samuel Francis Thomas Wilde, Esq.,
barrister-at•-law, of Sergeant's Inn, Fleet street,
and of Hadley, Middlesex, was proved under
£50,000 personalty, the executors and trustees
being the relict, together with the testator's sons—
Samuel John Wilde, Esq., and the Rev. Richard
Wilde—and Frank Milne, Esq., of Hadley. The
will is strictly a family one, and bears date, 1848,
and a codicil so recently as the present year. To
his relit, who takes a life interest in his estates,
real and personal, he has also bequeathed his library
and household furniture, together with a legacy
of £5OO. The law-books are given to his eldest son.
Upon the decease of the widow, the entire property
is directed to be divided equally amongst the tes-
tat-A's children.—lllustrated London News,Ang. 23.

THE MALIGNANT DISORDER AMONG

SHEEP.

Nearly a month has elapsed since the outbreak of small-
pox in Mr. Joseph Parry's celebrated Allington flock. The
disorder is now spreading, to the great dismay of all flock-
masters, in Wilts, Hants, and Dorset. The rumours re-
specting the calamity are exceedingly numerous, and many
of them utterly false, those in particular that apply to
places in mid• Hampshire, and to a district westward of
S,uthampton, on the immediote border of Dorsetslaire. We
can make this assertion on the best authority. With re-
gard to the spread of the disorder in Wiltshire, we find the
most reliable information in the Devizes Gazette of yester-
day. It would appear that up to Monday morning no
symptom of infection had manifested itself beyond Ailing-
ton, and as a few more days would have seen Mr. Parry's
sheep through the last stage of the disease, the adjoining
fi ,ckmasters entertained good hope that the loathsome and
fatal malady would have been eradicated without doing fur-
ther mischief. The disease, however, has shown itself in a
flock of 400 beautiful fat wethers belonging to Mr. Harding,
of Etchilhamp ton, which were being corn-fed in prepara-
tion for Wilton fair, on a spot at least a mile and a half
from Allington, and divided from it by the canal and by
intermediate farms.

Naturally apprehensive for the safety of his flock, Mr
Harding had, immediately upon hearing that the disease
had broken out among Mr. Parry's sht ep, his own flock
removed to the remotest corner of his farm. They were ac-
cordingly placed in a field near " the Monument," adjoin-
ing the Salisbury load, where it seemed almost impossible
that the disease could reach them—without, at all events,
first passing through the flocks which were folded on the
intermediate farms. About midday on Monday the atten-
tion of the shepherd was arrested by the staggering gait of
some of the sheep, and upon an examination being made, it
was unmistakeably apparent that the dreaded malady had
come among them. Mr. Harding at cace went over to
Allington to consult with Mr. Parry, and, finding that Pro-
fessor Simonds was expected from London on the following
day, he awaited the arrival of that eminent veterinary, and
on Tuesday Professor Simonds examined the flock, and by
his advice the whole of the sheep cn Monday were inocu-
lated, as the most likely means of lessening the fatal conse-
quences of the attack.

The consternation which this fresh outbreak has caused
will, as the Devizes paper points out, readily be understood,
and the danger is the more alarming from the inexplicable
way in which the disease has been conveyed. Had it ap-
peared in either of the flocks on adjoining farms to Mr.
Parry's, it might in some way have been accounted for, but
there is no means of accounting for its appearance on the
spot where it has now shown itself—far removed, as we
have said, from Allington Farm, and with flocks folded on
intermediate land, which up to the present time are per-
fectly healthy and well.
The medicines which have been used in the case of the
Allington flock have been very simple, consisting chiefly of
nitrate of potass, mingled with the water which is placed in
the troughs, until a subsistence of the fever takes place,
after which sulphate of iron has been substituted. Where
diarrhoea has come on—as it not ,infrequently does in the
latter stage of the malady, more particularly if the pox
becomes confluent—opium is recommended as a valuable
agent to arrest the attack, which, if not quickly stopped,
very soon carries off the sheep.
In short, the general principles which Professor Simonds
lays down for the guidance of flockmasters who may happen
to be visited with an attack of small-pox among their
sheep are—to isolate the infected sheep from the healthy, to
separate the former into small lots, to protect them from at-
mospherical changes, to husband the strength of the pa-
tients by good nursing ; to use depletive remedies with the
greatest caution, and only in the first stages ; to have early
recourse to stimulating and tonic agents; to guard against
the use of local applications, except when ulcerous sores
exist ; and last, but not least, to call in the services of a
properly educated veterinary surgeon, and rely with con-
fidence on his judgment and skill.
Nearly three weeks have now elapsed since Mr. Parry's
flock wet() inoculated, and it is worthy of remark that out
of 446 ewes in which the disease was thus artificially, as it
were, produced, he has lost only four, while of those which
took the disease naturally, the losses have already been 60 per
cent., and there are lumbers of other sheep of the recovery
of which there is little hope—indeed, the total loss of those
who have taken the disease in a natural way, Mr. Parry
estimates, will not be much short of 65 per cent. Putting
this, therefore, in contrast with the results after inocula-
tion, which, under the most unf ‘vourable circumstances,
are not expected to average a mortality of more than 5 per
cent., the desirableness of inoculation immediately upon the
appearance of the disease in a flock, is placed beyond
doubt.
The deaths in the Allington flock up to the present time
cannot be reckoned at less than 400; but as the lambs were
not inoculated for at least a week after the older portion of
the flock it is impossible to say what the ultimate result
will be. One thing, however, is already apparent—that the
lambs which are
affected as those which took the disease naturally, and there
sickening are by no means so seriously
seems every reason to hope that the rate of mortality will
be light even among this portion of the flock, although
young sheep are, as a rule, always more susceptible to the
inautnce of the disease than those of older growth.