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T_HE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, _NOVEMBER 18, ISO.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

teer
and midshipman under Capt. Sir T. M. Hardy
and Cant. Sir Charles Ogle, with whom he wit-
nessed the chief operations of the American war. In
1824 he became first lieutenant of the Ruby sloop,
Capt. H. P. Hoppner, and took part in Capt. Parry's
second expedition in search of a north-west passage.
In 1827 he was appointed to the Chanticleer survey-
ing vessel, and on the death of Capt. H. Foster he
succeeded to the acting command. He obtained the
command of the Salamander in November, 1832.
After obtaining post rank he was appointed, in No-
vember, 1839, to the Cyclops, in which vessel he
took part in the operations on the coast of Syria.
For his services on the coast of Syria he was nomi-
nated a Companion of the Order of the Bath. The
deceased admiral held various commands up to April,
1863, when he was appointed Admiral-Superinten-
dent of Malta dockyard, which he held up to No-
vember last year. He was made a Knight Com-
mander of the Order of the Bath in March last. His

commission bore date as follows :—Lieut., Sept. 9,
1822 ; Commander, May 26, 1831; Capt., June 28,
1838; Rear-Admiral, Nov. 28, 1857; and Vice-Ad-
miral, Oct. 20, 1864.

By the death of Vice-Admiral Austin, Capt. Cos-
patrick B. Hamilton attains the rank of Rear-Ad-
miral.

The following appointments were made yesterday
at the Admiralty :—Lieut. 11. F. Croker, to the
Duncan; G. Shield, assist-paymaster additional, to
the Narcissus; John H. S. Hall, clerk additional, to
the Sutlej ; and A. W. Pearson, assist.-clerk addi-
tional, to the Narcissus.

RECENT WILLS AND BEQUESTS,

(From the Mostrated London News.)
The will of the Right Hon. Diana, Countess of
Clare, was proved, in her Majesty's Court of Pro-
bate, by the Rev. Henry H. Hutchinson, the Right
Hon. John Baron Wodehouse (her son-in-law), and
James Leman, Esq., solicitor, Lincoln's-inn-fields,
the executors. The personalty was sworn under
£5,000. Her Ladyship was the daughter of Charles
Brydges Woodcock, Esq. ; was twice married, first
to M. C. Moore, Esq., and secondly, in 1825, to
the late Right Hon. Richard Hobart, Lord Fitz-
Gibbon, third Earl of Clare. Her Ladyship died
on the 29th of September last, having executed her
will on the Bth of February, 1864, and a codicil in
April, 1865. Her Ladyship has disposed of the
family pictures between her daughters Lady Dillon
and Lady Wodehouse, and leaves the residue of
her property to be equally divided amongst the
children, of her daughter Lady Elinor Cavendish.
Her Ladyship has left to three of her servants
legacies of £2OO each.
The will of the late Alderman Farncomb was
proved in the London Court, on the 26th ult., by
the surviving executors, William Rixon, Esq., and
David Henry Stone, Esq., the testator's nephew.
The personalty was sworn under £140,000. The
will appears to have been made in the year of his
mayoralty, being thus indorsed :—" The will of the
Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, Thomas Farncomb,"
and bears date September 25, 1850 ; and there are
two codicils, 1851 and 1861. The testator died on
September 23, 1865, at his residence, Rose Hill,
Forest-hill, Surrey, at the age of eighty-six, a
bachelor. He carried on business as a wharfinger
and merchant. The bulk of his property, consist-
ing of the residue, he has divided into four parts, leav-
ing one-fourth to his brother Henry, one-fourth to
his brother Edward, one-fourth to the children of his
deceased brother John, and the remaining fourth to the
children of his deceased sister, Winifred Arkcoll, by
her first husband. .To his said nephew and execu-
tor he has left a legacy of £B,OOO and the estate at
Hollington, Sussex ; to his executor, Wm. Rixon,
£5OO ;to each of his clerks at Griffin's-wharf, 19
guineas; to his chief clerk, Mr. Thomas Maxfield,
£2OO ; also legacies to his servants ; and to the.
Philanthropic Society and the Asylum for Deaf and
Dumb Children of the Poor, £lOO each.
The will of the Rev. John Clayton, many years
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the minister of the Poultry Chapel, lately residing
at Bath, and previously of Brighton, was proved in
London,
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end,
Croydon, the acting executors and trustees. John
Esq., of Denmark-hill, also an executor, renounced.
The personalty was sworn under £25,000. The
testator died, on the 3d of October last, at the age
of 85. The will is dated February, 1860, and there
are two codicils, one dated March, 1860, and the
other January, 1863. He has bequeathed to his
son, Edward Clayton, a legacy of £4,000 (New
Three per Cents) ; to his orphan granddaughter,
Sarah Ellis Clayton, £3,000 ; to his daughter Sarah,
wife of Alfred Randall, £6,000 ; to his daughter
Mary, wife of George Rawson, £6,000 by the will,
and an additional £l,OOO by a codicil and has ap-
pointed his said two daughters residuary legatees
of his entire estate, real and personal. There are
a few small legacies. To the British and Foreign
Bible Society, the British and Foreign School So-
ciety, and the London Missionary Society, each a
legacy of 19 gs• ; and to each of his executors, £5O.
There are also legacies to his servants, and to a
Mrs. Fenn an annuity of £lO, in addition to an
annuity of £2O left to her under the will of the
testator's wife.

The will of the Rev. John Greenwood, D.D.,
rector of Colne Engaine, Essex, has been proved in
London, George Henry Greenwood, of the Sun
Fire-office, the acting executor, power being re-
served to the Rev. John W. Lay, his son-in-law.
The personalty was sworn under £3,000. Dr.
Greenwood was Head Master of Christ's Hospital

(or Bluecoat School), and was presented to the
living of Colne Engaine, in 1827, by the governors
of that hospital, the patrons, the annual income

returned at £GBO. Dr. Greenwood attained the

age of 79, and died on the 14th of August last.

The will was made in 1862, and is in-his cwn

handwriting, and attested by John Taylor, of

White Caw, and the Rev. Edmund Jeuner.

IS THERE NO MEDIUM COURSE ?—Alluding to
the prospects of Reform, the Law Times of to-day remarks :
—" The Star, in leaded type, makes the significant an-
nouncement that Earl Russell and Mr. Gladstone have
resolved to introduce a Reform Bill, on a democratic basis,
immediately on the meeting of Parliament, at which Mr.
Bright's organ is, of course, very jubilant. It remains to
be seen whether the country will consent to the transfer
of all political power from property and intelligence to
numbers."

Commodore Dunlop, Superintendent of Wool-
wich Dockyard, went up to Deptford-in the steam
tug Bustler, and inspected the arrangements for
launching her Majesty's 22 gun steam frigate Endy-
inion, 2,478 tons, which will be cast off her build-
ing slip to-day at high tide about 12 o'clock. After
the launch the Endymion will be brought down to
Woolwich under orders to be towed to Sheerness to
be completed for sea. The whole of her machinery
of 500-horse power, by Messrs. Maudslay and Sons,
the boilers, and interior fittings have been trans-
mitted
from Woolwich to Sheerness for that pur-
pose.

The iron steam store ship Supply, Staff-Com-
mander Charles Bowden, on particular service,
having completed her specific term—viz., four years,
was yesterday paid out of commission at Woolwich.
The officers and crew were granted 24 hours' leave
of absence. The ship will be again put in commis-
sion to-day, when the entire complement of officers
and men, with the exception of the assistant-engi-
neer and four men and boys, will'rejoin Commander
Bowden and enter on the new commission.
The sailing frigate Terpsichore, 18, the vessel de-
stroyed on the late occasion of the trial of Mr.
Beardslee's torpedoes, at Chatham, and since sta-
tioned in dock, is ordered to undergo a temporary
repair in order to allow of her being removedround
to the Thames, to the yard of Messrs. ;Castle and
Beech, at Charlton, the contractors to the Admi-
ralty for breaking up old and useless vessels of war.
The order received at Chatham directs her to be
broken up.
The Frolic, 18, another of the old class of sailing
ships attached to the reserve in Chatham harbour,
will be towed round to Messrs. Castle and Beech's
yard to-day, for the purpose of being broken up.
Vice-Admiral Sir Horatio Thos. Austin, K.C.8.,
expired on Thursday morning at his residence in
Leinster-gardens, in his Oth year, after a very
short illness. He entered the navy in 1813. Ac-
cording to O'Byrne he served as first-class volun-
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THIRD EDITION.

SUN OFFICE, 6 o'CLocK.

PORTUGAL.

LISBON, Nov. 16.—Count Mello, Minister of
War, is dead. Viscount de Praia has been charged
ad interim with the vacant post. The Duke de
Saldanha has published a pamphlet against civil
marriage.

American Claims on England,

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A war with Great Britain, in consequence of the
official refusal of that nation through Lord Russell to re-
pair the injurjes done our commerce by the Alabama, is
not beyond the bounds of possibility. A city journal, sup-
posed to bo inspired by secret information derived from
the Department of State, has within the last few days ad-
mitted as much. A war with that country, while it would
prove perfectly ruinous to its commercial interests, and
very probably induce its bankruptcy, would also be very
undesirable and disadvantageous to us, considering the
heavy war debt which already presses upon our industryv
and resources.

In this condition of things it may be well worth con-
Hsidering what other steps may be taken which would be
as effectual, give us immediate indemnity and throw the
responsibility of a war upon the aggressors themselves—a
moral disadvantage to them, which would inevitably lead
to their humiliation when superadded to other and material
causes.

One of these steps or measures is the resort to the law
of retortion or reprisals, known and practised as long ago
as the time of the Romans, and still recognised every-
where. The principle is this :—" If a nation refuses to
repair or give satisfaction for an injury, the injured party
may seize things belonging to the wrong-doer and apply
them to his own use, until he is paid the amount that is
due, with damages ; or he may detain as a security until
full satisfaction is given." This is a well-established
right, and to put it in force letters of reprisal may be
granted to those persons who have suffered the injury.
Grotius, Vattell and Azani fully treat of this right and
acknowledge its existence.
It is, then, our obvious and convenient policy to resort
to this measure without the necessity of firing a gun.
There is British property enough in this port and city to
cover all our losses by the Alabama liable to immediate
seizure under this law, and the reprisal would be in effect
" sharp, short, and decisive."
This indemnity in hand would go a great way to pre-
pare us for an encounter if it should come ; but we are
inclined to the opinion that the people of Great Britain
would much prefer to come fairly to terms than lose their
best customers, and the merchants and bankers would
rather continue to draw their millions of gold from us
week after week than run the risk of deprivation and
insolvency. And although the immediate effect of non-
intercourse upon ourselves would be the suspension of our
traffic with England, it would give an immense start to
that between us and all other foreign nations, so that our
customs revenue would be but little affected. But if it
were we should stop at once sending gold abroad, and it
would accumulate here rapidly, and become so much
cheaper as to make it more available than ever for the pay-
ment of interest on our national securities. In either case
the result would be about the same.
It would be, in fact, much cheaper for up buy a few
millions of gold from our own mines, in case it became
necessary, than to incur another immense war debt, when
we have at hand an easy remedy, recognised by all nations
well known to the British Ministry and extremely applic-
able to this very case.—New York Herald.
If Lord Russell had indicated a willingness to
refer to a commission all the questions in dispute, his pro-
posal would have deserved careful consideration. But
this is not the case. He refuses distinctly to submit to
such a tribunal the only points of difference to which the
least importance can be attached. We hold the British
Government responsible for the losses inflicted on Ameri-
can commerce by privateers built by British subjects in
British ports, equipped by British capital and protected by
British recognition of a flag unknown to the nations of
the world. We insist that in thus acting she was our
enemy in spite of solemn treaty engagements to be our
friend. We assert that in so acting she violated the
plainest principles of international law and morals, and
inflicted upon us, in contempt of our rights, the most
serious injuries that one nation can sustain at the hands
of another. She did it not in haste, but with deliberate
premeditation. Sho did it in spite of remonstrances, of
arguments, and of warnings, repeated over and over again,
and pressed upon her attention at every successive stage
of the whole transaction. She did it openly, defiantly, in
studied and ostentatious contempt alike of our wrongs
and of our remonstrances. We should earn the scorn of
the civilised world, and should deserve, what we should
unquestionably receive, the contempt of England, if we
were to submit to these outrages and insults without
redress.—New York Times.
It may be assumed as certain that there are at pre-
sent no prospect of the two Governments coming to an agree-
ment on these two points ; and the momentous question at
once arises what consequences will the failure to agree
have upon the future relations of the two countries ? Mr.
Adams, as early as 1863, suggested the submission of the
whole question to arbitration ; but this England declines,
on the ground that the English Government is the solo
guardian of its own honour. The whole controversy, there-
fore, centres in the question—Aro neutrals to be the sole
judges of what is due to a belligerent, and is the belligerent
to have no right to reparation for wrongs inflicted ? Mr.
Adams points out with great force that if England were in-
volved in a war with a power which could fully avail itself of
the principles professed by her during our, late war, she would
very soon find that among all the nations of the earth not
one could suffer more severely from the adoption of her
principles than she herself. As England had just at
present no foreign war on her hands, she prefers to bo
altogether regardless of the future, and only intent upon
escaping punishment for past misdemeanour. The future
history of the controversy will be of the utmost impor-
tance, not only to the interests of the United Stetes and
England, but to the peace of the whole world. Should
England be ever involved in a serious foreign war, before
her difficulty with the United States is settled, it would
probably not require much time to cause her to disown
her present principles. —New York Weekly Tribune,