The Sun.
London, England, 1865-12-29 00:00:00

Lord Palmerston's Will.

The will of the Right Hon. Henry John Viscount
Palmerston, K.G., G.C.8., was proved in the prin-
cipal registry of her Majesty's Court of Probate
on the 22d inst. The executors appointed are his
relict, the Right Hon. Emily Mary Viscountess
Palmerston, and her second son, the Right Hon.
William Francis Cowper, but the latter only proved
the will. Power is reserved to Lady Palmerston to
do so hereafter. The will is dated Nov. 22, 1864.
It occupies only four brief sheets. The last sheet
bears his lordship's signature, " Palmerston," in a
firm and clear hand. The personalty was sworn
under £120,000. His lordship confirms to his wife
all her trinkets, jewels, and paraphernalia, and all
things constituting her ladyship's separate property,
and also leaves to her ladyship absolutely his car-
riages and horses, and the wines and consumable
stores at Cambridge-house and Broadlands. The
deceased Premier has left his letters and papers to
Lady Palmerston, which her ladyship is to retain
or deal with as she thinks proper. His lordship
leaves to his brothers-in-law, the Right Hon. Laur-
ence Sullivan and Admiral Sir Wm. Bowles, and to
his friends Sir George Shee, Bart., and Sir George
Bowles, legacies of £lO5 each, and to his executor,
the Right Hon. W. F. Cowper, six shares in the
Welsh Slate Company. The residue of the person-
alty his lordship bequeaths to Lady Palmerston for
life, when (with the exception of 18 shares in the
Welsh Slate Company, which her ladyship may
appoint and dispose of as she thinks proper) it is to
revert to her son, the Right Hon. W. F. Cowper.
His lordship has also left to Lady Palmerston a life
interest in all his real and leasehold estates as well
in Ireland as in Great Britain, and on her ladyship's
decease they are devised to her said son absolutely,
and the testator expresses his earnest wish (but
without imposing any obligation on the devisee)
that the right hon. gentleman will, immediately on
coming into possession of the estates, apply for her
Majesty's license and authority for him and his des-
cendants to take and use the surname of " Temple,"
either in substitution for, or addition to, that of
" Cowper," but so that " Temple" be the final
name, and that the family arms of " Temple " be
quartered with those of " Cowper."

Overland Communication with China.

ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. 23.

The following official notice with respect to in-
creased facilities of overland postal and parcels com-
munication with China has just been published by
the Russian post-office :
In consequence of information received from the
Governor-General of Eastern Siberia, the postal
department has to inform the public that postal
communication was opened on the sth of last Octo-
ber between Kiakhta and Tien-tsin, by way of
Ourga, Kalgane, and Pekin. Single letters, or
letters containing enclosures of money or
documents, as also parcels and telegraphic de-
spatches, are forwarded four times a month both
ways, at the undermentioned dates :

" In the direction of Kiakhta to Pekin—from
Kiakhta, the sth, 12th, 19th, 26th ; from Ourga,
the 7th, 14th, 21st, 28th ; from Kalgane, the 6th,
23d, 30th, 7th ; from Pekin, the Bth, 25th, 2d, 9th.
In the direction of Pekin to Kiakhta—From Pekin,
the 4th, 11th, 20th, 27th ; from Kalgane, the 6th,
13th, 22d, 29th ; from Ourga, the 15th, 22d, Ist,
Bth ; from Kiakhta, 17th, 24th, 3d, 10th.
" The charge upon correspondence for China is
fixed as follows :—a. The charge from the point of
departure in the interior of the empire to the fron-
tier post-office at Kiakhta is the rate fixed by the
postal tariff for the interior. b. The charges be-
tween Kiakhta, Ourga, Kalgane, Pekin, and Tien-
tsin are :

" a. Single rate-1. For every single letter with
documents, credit or bank notes, small objects in
silver or gold, and for telegraphic despatches, per
loth (half ounce)—From Kiakhta to Tien-tsin,
Pekin, and Kalgane, and vice versa, 30 copecks ;
from Kiakhta to Ourga, and vice versa, 10 copecks ;
from Ourga to Tien-tsin, Pekin, and Kalgane, and
vice versa, 20 copecks ; from Tien-tsin to Pekin and
Kalgane, and vice versa, 10 copecks.
" 2. For parcels, ordinary or containing docu-
ments, per livre (pound)—From Kiakhta to Tien-
tsin, Pekin, and Kalgane, and vice versa 40 copecks
for single parcels, and 65 copecks if they contain
documents ; from Kiakhta to Ourga and vice versa,
for single parcels, 15 copecks—with documents, 25
copecks ; from Ourga to Tien-tsin, Pekin, and Kal-
gane, and vice versa, for single parcels, 25 copecks
—with documents, 40 copecks ; from Tien-tsin to
Pekin and Kalgane, and vice versa, for single par-
cels, 15 copecks—with documents 25 copecks.
" 3. Parcels containing objects of value, if weigh-
ing under a pound, will be charged letter rate upon
every loth ( ounce), if weighing exactly a pound
or over, will pay per pound parcel rate. Coin and
goldsmiths' work can only be forwarded by the
Mongol post in parcels not exceeding 101 b. weight,
packages included. Parcels containing coin or
goldsmiths' work should be packed in the most
substantial manner.

"b. Charges upon unpaid parcels are reckoned
in the same proportion as for their transmission
from the point of departure in the interior of the
empire to the frontier post-offibe at Kiakhta.
" The charge of couriers between Kiakhta and
Tien-tsin is for one horse 98 roubles, for two 147
roubles. The department thinks right to add that
the post leaves St. Petersburg for Kiakhta every
Tuesday and Friday, and reaches Kiakhta in five
weeks."

DEATII OF LORD EDWARD PERCY ST. MAUR.--
Information was received yesterday by the Duke of Somer-
set of the death of his youngest son, Lord Edward Percy
St. Maur, which took place on the 18th inst. at Bombay.
The telegram states that his lordship was shot in the knee
on the 14th inst., and that he had to undergo an operation
in consequence of the serious injury he had sustained.
MR. RUSSELL GURNEY, M.P., AND HIS CONSTI-
TUENTS.—The member for Southampton has ail-
dressed the following letter to one of his constituents :
" 8, Palace-gardens, London, W., Dec. 23, 1865.—My dear
Sir,—You will have seen from a paragraph which has ap-
peared in the newspapers that, supposing arrangements
satisfactory to the Corporation of London are made for the
due performance of my duties as recorder, I have consented
to act on the commission which is about to be appointed to
inquire into the circumstances attending the recent dis-
turbances in Jamaica. I very much regret that one con-
sequence of this shall be that I shall necessarily be pre-
vented attending Parliament during the first few weeks Of
the session. I trust, however, that you and my other
friends at Southampton will feel that the importance of the
duties in which I shall be engaged will justify that ab-
sence. The office was not sought for by me, and had I
consulted my own ease or my own wishes I should have
persisted in declining it. The inquiry is one the import-
ance of which it would be difficult to over-estimate.
Feeling this, I thought that I was not the person to de-
cide upon my fitness to conduct it, and that I had no
right to shrink either from the labour or the anxiety
attendant upon it when I was assured by those on whore
the responsibility of the appointment rested that 01.9
acceptance of the office would be conducive to the
interest. Trusting that my constituents will not think I
have acted unwisely in this matter, I remain, &c., Bussrl.l4
GURNEY."
The Globe contradicts the statement that certain
of Lord Palmerston's effects at Cambridge-house are to be
sold. Any sale in connection with the contents of Cana:
bridge-house must, it is said, relate to the property of 6"
John Sutton, not of Lord Palmerston.