The Sun.
London, England, 1865-04-08 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE,

MANCHESTER, April 7.—The market for shipping
yarns has been very depressed, with next to nothing
doing and lower prices. For home trade yarns the
market has been very stagnant, with a decline of Id.
per lb. in prices as compared with Tuesday. Scarcely
any business has been done. The advices from
India continue to be discouraging, and those from
Bombay are considered to be particularly so, tend-
ing to prevent operations both in yarn and cloth.
In cloth a continuation of the depressed feeling ex-
isting on Tuesday has stood very much in the way
of business, and prices arc slowly but steadily droop-
ing. Failures and anticipated failures in London,
Liverpool, and here have a bad effect on business.
A desire to honour the memory of Mr. Cobden on
this, the day of his funeral, has no doubt helped to
lessen the desire to do business, which may be said
almost to have totally closed for the day from the
hour of high 'Change, which is 2 o'clock.
Norm 7th.—There was a better attend-
ance of merchants and manufacturers at the Ex-
change-hall to-day, but the demand for lace yarns
was slow, and rates remained without material
change. The demand for hosiery yarns was limited,
and previous rates may for the most part be quoted.
There was very little doing in brown nets, and the
sales made were at about previous rates. Silks a
ready sale, and prices have a tendency to improve.

WILLS AND BEQUESTS.

(Front the Illustrated London News.)
_ _

Probate of the will of Admiral the Most Noble Algernon
Percy, Duke and Earl of Northumberland, K.G., P.C.,
D.C.L., F.R.S., passed the seal of her Majesty's Court of
Probate on the 29th ult., and was granted to the Right Hon.
Hugh Lupus, Earl Grosvenor, M.P., and the Right Hon.
John Thomas Freeman Mitford, Baron Redesdale, the
executors. The personal property was MOTU under X. 500, 000.
The will bears date February 11, 1848, being the year after
he succeeded to the title, on the death of his brother, the
third Duke. The attesting witnesses are Alfred Bell and
Henry Lloyd, solicitors, Lincoln's Inn-fields. His Grace
died at Alnwick Castle, on the 12th of February last, at the
age of 73. He married, in 1842, Lady Eleanor Grosvenor
(born 1820), eldest daughter of the second and present
Marquis of Westminster, but has no issue. To her Grace
he leaves a life interest in the estates at York and Durham
over which he had power of disposition ; he also confirms
two marriage settlements in her favour, adding thereto a
sum making up £5,000 per annum, "and leaving her grace a
legacy of £B,OOO and the plate having the baronial coronet
and crest of "Prudhoe" (his former title), two carriages,
and four carriage-horses; also the paintings, pictures, books,
articles of vertu, furniture, wines, &c., and the deer at Stan-
wick-hall. The residue of his property he leaves to the
possessor of the estate of Alnwick Castle, Northumberland.
The will of the Hon. George Scotland, C. 8., of St. Mary
Abbotts-terrace, Kensington, formerly Chief Justice and
Judge of theVice-Admiralty Court atTrinidad, Companion
of the most Honourable Order of the Bath, was proved in
the London Court under £40,000 personalty in England by
two of the executors and trustees, viz.—Wm. Hnmphrys
Scotland and Henry Scotland, Esqs., sons of the testator;
power being reserved to the Rev. John Scotland, also a,
son, and trustee and executor. his relative, Dr. Thomas
executor of his
pArondpeerrstyoni,n M
the.D islands, of
of Trinidad, ,
d Trinidad, to whom
he leaves a legacy of £2OO
• to Nathaniel Humphrya, Esq.,
Clerk of the House of Assembly in the island of Antigua,
£1,000; and legacies to other persons in. Antigua, and Tri-
nidad, and to two of his nieces in the United States. To
principal clerk in the banking-house of Sir C.
Antigua an is appointed
; £lO to one other clerk of
that house he may select ; to the servant who has been
longest with him .£2O, .and £lO each to two other servants.
Mr. Dixon,
a n d Co., ho leaves .£'2s
He appoints his three sons, John, William, and Henry, re-
siduary legatees.
The will of Miss Anne Dealtry, formerly of Bedford-
square, but late of Bryanston-square, was proved in the
London Court, on the 30th ult., by her sister, Miss Frances
Dealtry, the sole executrix, to whom she has bequeathed
the whole of her property absolutely. The personalty was
sworn under £60,000.
The will of the late Capt. Sir W. Cunningham Cavendish
Dalzell, Bart., of Greenwich Hospital, and of Binns, in Lin-
lithgowshire, N. 8., has been proved by Lieut.-Col. Charles
T. Du Platt, of the Royal Artillery, and John Ward
Nicholls, Esq., Royal Navy, two of the executors. The
personalty was sworn under £lB,OOO. The real estate of
Binns descends, with the baronetcy, to the only surviving
son, Robert Alex. Dalzell. Lady Dalzell and the daughters
being respectively provided for under their several marriage
settlements, the personalty, after payment of certain be-
quests to the son and daughters and legacies to the two
executors, falls to Lady Dalzell, as residuary legatee. Sir
William died on the 16th of February, 1865.

THE SUPPOSED MURDER AT FROME.—An inquest
into the circumstances attending the death of Mary
Wallis, seventy years of age, who, it was supposed, had
been, while quarrelling,murdered by the man, John Biggs!,
with whom she lived, took place on Thursday at Frome.
The facts of the case will be fresh in the recollection of our
readers. The man and woman quarrelled in their cottage,
Biggs being intoxicated at the time. The deceased was
found directly afterwards by a neighbour lying insensible
on the floor, and a little time afterwards she died. The
post-mortem examination did not discover any marks of
violence, but the brain was congested, and presented an
appearance which was probably the result of a blow.
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LONDON, SATURDAY, APRIL 8, 1865.

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Yesterday the grave closed over one whose
memory will long live in the hearts of Englishmen.
The impressive ceremony was attended by a nume-
rous assemblage, and thus, although the funeral
was private according
was virtually a to the letter of the term, it
public one, and in some respects,
indeed, it was better, for all who came were spon-
taneous visitors, who were eager to offer their
tribute of respect to the memory of the departed.
The friends of Mr. Coil
DEll may be well satisfied
at the numbers which flocked to his obsequies. No
public man could have been more regretted, or
left a better testimony behind him of the respect
with which -his name was associated ; this is a
gratifying circumstance to dwell upon now, and
will hereafter prove the most honourable
and enduring attribute of his fame. It
is an affecting occurrence to take place at any
time, that of the funeral of a distinguished man,
but perhaps it could never occur more impressively
than as it did yesterday, when so many of the
spectators had just come from the haunts of
crowded cities, and fresh from the pursuits of com-
merce, the strife of politics, and the turmoil of life's
busiest and brightest scenes, repaired to the quiet
churchyard far away in the stillness of nature's
repose, there to assist at the most awful ceremony
which human nature can behold. The House of
Commons was represented in strong force, and
Cabinet Ministers mingled with the throng who
assembled there. A special train was despatched
from the Waterloo station, by means of which hun-
dreds were enabled to proceed to the spot in time for
the ceremony. The local deputations were numerous
and testified to the high esteem in which the de-
parted was held throughout the COuntry. Altogether

It is not surprising that before the dispersion of
Parliament several members should be anxious to
learn some of the facts cnncerning our very un-
satisfactory relations with Bhootan. Nor is it at all
surprising, but rather in accordance with all previ-
ous experience of official answers to such queries,
that under the marvellous light which Sir CHARLES
WOOD threw on the affair every thing became co-
leur de rose. The gentleman selected as Ehvoy, so
far from having been irascible or imprudent, had
acted with singular discretion ; the force sent to ob-
tain redress from the Bhootanese had been corn-.
posed of the best possible elements, and was sent
just at the right moment. Demangiri had been
evacuated voluntarily, and the missing gun had not
been lost, but left behind. The officers had not been
wanting in skill nor the men in courage ; the deaths
had been few, and those few principally owing to
the explosion of a mortar, so that the mists raised
by hon. members were speedily blown away. But,
unfortunately, however true may be the official ver-
sion of the case, affairs in Bhootan are not altoge-
ther satisfactory. By following a timid and inde-
cisive plan of action, we have failed to assert our
authority, or to put an effectual check on the inso-
lence or aggression of other native courts. There
is always so much delay before we get in motion,
and generally so much uncertainty as to the manner
of carrying out our objects, that we have in the
long run to put forth much more power than neces-
sary to subdue a petty Eastern province. It was
not necessary or advisable to annex Bhootan, but it
would have been wiser to have pushed boldly on,
and by some decisive stroke have asserted our in-
jured dignity in the face of all Bhootan. Sir C.
WOOD says that a temporary occupation of Bhootan
would have been unwise, became we must have had
the support of one party against the other, and
have got mixed up in the intenial dissensions of the
country. But surely we are strong enough to hold
Bhootan without any assistance from either faction !
If, however, it was thought best to occupy the
Dooars, and by cutting off the supplies from the
outer world to subdue the people, though this was
a less effectual and summary method of bringing
the assailants to reason, it should have been done
Promptly and decisively. More Europeans should
have been employed, and certainly if the want of
water drove the troops from their position at De-
mangiri that important matter should have been
seen to before they occupied the place. If the offi-
cer under whose direction the place was evacuated
left two guns hehind as a parting 'gift to the
enemy, it was, to say the least of it, an extraordi-
nary proceeding. The guns were no, t lost, says Sir
C. Woos—only, like the Irishman's tin kettle, they
• are not available at present. The feeling of the
House was clearly that there had been mismanage-
ment at the outset, and Mr. SEYMOUR'S remarks as
to the probable indiscretion of Mr. EDEN were evi-
dently concurred in by the majority. Whatever
the origin of the dispute, having begun it should be
firmly and quickly carried out. Our troops should
push on into the-country and enfo:ce submission