The Sun.
London, England, 1865-09-30 00:00:00

RECENT WILLS AND BEQUESTS.

(From the Illustrated London News)
The will of Richard Cobden, Esq., M.P., late of
Danford, near Midhurst, Sussei, was proved in the
Court at Chichester. The executors and trustees
appointed are Thomas Thomasson, sen., and Thomas
Thomasson, jun., both of Bolton, Lancashire, cot-
ton spinners, and Mrs. Cobden, the relict. The
personalty was sworn under £B,OOO. The will is
dated April 1, 1865, and is witnessed by John Ro-
berts, M.D., 75, Grosvenor-street, and Richard
Fisher, Hill-top, Midhurst. The testator died on
Aliril 2, the day after the execution of his will, at
the age of 61. He was formerly a manufacturer at
Stockport, and a director of the Manchester Chamber
of Commerce, and bad been a member of the House
of Commons since 1841. He has left to his wife his
furniture, pictures, books, wines, carriages, horses,
&c., for her own absolute use, and has also bequeathed
to her a life interest in the rest of his property, real
and personal ; and at her decease the same is to be
equally divided amongst his five daughters.
The will of Sir Robert Hermann Schomburgk,
Knight, formerly her Majesty's Consul at the Island
of St. Domingo, afterwards Consul at Bangkok, in
Siam, was proved in the London Court, on the 20th
ult., by the sole executor, Edward Buxton, Esq., of
Ealing, formerly of Ampthill-square. The will is
dated Nov. 26, 1848, and is attested by H. Holste,
of Harrington-square, and Edward Fuchs, then of
the Globe Insurance Office, but nowVice-Secretary
to the Northern Assurance Office. Sir Robert died
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orders. Sir Robert has left the whole of his pro-
perty in England, St. Domingo, and elsewhere, to
his sister, Louisa Theresa Schomburgk, of Merse-
berg, Prussian Saxony.
The will of John Allan, Esq., late of Leadenhall-
street, shipowner, and of St. John's-villas, Lewisham,
was proved in London on the Ist inst., by the exe-
cutors, viz., Mrs. Allen, the relict ; and the testa-
tor's three sons, John, Henry, and Charles. The
personalty was sworn under £90,000. The testator
died on the 29th of May last, having executed his
will in 1862, and added four codicils. He leaves his
wife a liberal legacy absolutely, and a life interest in
his freehold and leasehold estates and in the residue
of his property, which, upon her decease, will be
divided amongst their children. His freehold and,
other estates in Yorkshire will devolve to his son,
John Harrison Allan ; a freehold in Herne Bay to
his son Charles ; certain leasehold estates to his
daughters Mary and Elizabeth. Out of the residue
he leaves £lO,OOO to his daughter, Harriet Poland,
and £4,000 to each of his daughters Mary and Eliza-
beth. There are the following charitable bequests :
—To the Merchant Seamen's Orphan Asylum,
£lOO ; the Ladies' Samaritan Society for the Relief
of the Paralysed and Epileptic, Queen-square,
Bloomsbury, £lO.

A CASE OF CHOLERA.--A poor woman has died
at Parson Drove, Wisbech, of cholera, after an illness of
only a few hours. This is the only ease yet reported in.
thin dixtriot,...Matnford Mercury.