The Sun.
London, England, 1865-08-14 00:00:00

RECENT WILLS AND BEQUESTS.

(From the Illustrated London News.)
Probate of the will of the Right Hon. Henry Viscount
Maynard, of Easton Lodge, near Dunmow, Essex, and of
38, Grosvenor-square, was proved, in the principal regis-
try, by the surviving executors and trustees, H. Gibson,
Esq., of Ongar ; and the Rev. G. E.tymonds, 8.A., of
Tilty. The other executors appointed were his lordship's
wife, Viscountess Maynard (who died in 1857), the late
Lord Braybrooke, and W. Gibson, Esq., also deceased. The
personalty was sworn under £50,000. The testator suc-
ceeded to the title on the death of his uncle in 1824 ; mar-
ried in 1810 ; and died, on the 19th of May last, at the age
of seventy-nine. His lordship was vice-admiral of the
coast, and lord-lieutenant of the county of Essex. The
will was executed so far back as 1846, and there are six
codicils, the last dated 1861. His estates in the counties of
Essex, Leicester, Cambridge, Northampton, and-elsewhere,
he had devised to his only son, the Hon. Charles Henry
Maynard, who died, on the 2d January last, without male
issue, by which the title becomes extinct, and the property
descends to the son's eldest daughter. The testator has made
provision for his own three surviving daughters, the two
eldest of whom are married; and has left annuities to his
aunts, Eliza and Ann Barnard, and to his brother-in-law,
George -Rabett ; likewise annuities and legacies to his ser-
vants. By a codicil his lordship states that he has been in
the practice of letting cottages and gardens to the labouring
poor on his estate at low rent; and was erecting other cot-
tages; and expressos his wish that the person becoming
beneficially interested therein should continue the same
course.

The will of Andrew Robert Drummond, Esq., of Cad-
lands, near Southampton, and 2, Bryanston-square, and of
Charing- cross, banker, was proved in the London Court
on the 3d inst., and the personalty sworn under £70,000,
the executors appointed being his sons, Edgar Atheling
Drummond and Alfred Manners Drummond, Esqrs.,
to whom probate was granted. The will is dated April
12, 1865, and he died on June 20, at the age of seventy-
one. The testator was the head of the banking firm of
Messrs. Drummond, and was the eldest son of the late
Andrew Berkeley Drummond, Esq., and Mary, daughter
of John, second Earl of Egmont, and married, in 1822,
Lady Elizabeth Frederica, daughter of the lato Duke of
Rutland, K.G. The testator confirms the settlements
made on his marriage in favour of his wife, and adds thereto
that which will make up the sum of £2,000 per annum, and
leaves to her ladyship a choice of residence, with furniture,
carriage, &c., and an immediate legacy
of £2,000. To his
eldest son, Andrew John Drummond, he has secured a
like annuity of £2,000. To his second son, Edgar, he has
devised his estate of Cadland. To his other sons he has
made provision by way of annuities and legacies ; and, as
regards his daughters, he intimates they were amply pro-
vided for on marriage. He has left legacies and annuities
to his servants.

The will of James Henry Crawford, Esq., formerly of
Bombay, but late of Brighton, was provedin London-under
£20,000 personalty, the executors nominated being his son,
James Alexr. Crawford, Esq.; his nephew, Robert Wigram
Crawford, Esq.; and Henry Ray Freshfiold, Esq., solicitor,
Bank-buildings. The testator has liberally provided for
his daughters. His daughter Henrietta received her por-
tion on marriage. To his daughter Mary he leaves the
interest of £6,000 for her life; and a sum of £3,000 is left
for the advancement of such of the sons of his late daughter,
Helen Cruickshank, as may require it. He has also made
provision for her daughter, appointing his said son John
residuary legatee, and to whom he has made specific be-
quests of plate, &c., presented to him by native friends at
Bombay, as well as of several silver cups won by his horses
at the raoecourse at Bombay.

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~` The Queen's Visit to Germany.

The Duke of Somerset came to town on Satur-
day from Portsmouth, and left his official residence yester-
day, accompanied by Lord Edward St. Maur, to embark at
that port to-day with the other Lords of the Admiralty to
visit Cherbourg.

The Duke and Duchess of Manchester entertained
last week, at Kimbolton Castle, during the Huntingdon
race meeting, the Marquis of Hartington, M.P., Maria
Marchioness of Ailesbury, the Earl and Countess of West-
morland, Viscount Canterbury, Viscount and Viscountess
Grey do Wilton, Lord and Lady Proby, Mr. H. Chaplin,
Mr. Charles Leslie, &e.

The Marquis Conyngham, who arrived in town
on Friday from Cowes, Isle of Wight, left on Saturday
evening for Holyhead, where he meets his yacht to take
him to Dublin, on his way to Slane Castle, county Meath,
Ireland.

The Marchioness of Huntly and family arrived
last week at Aboyne Castle, for the autumn, from Orton.-
Longueville, near Peterborough.
The Earl and Countess of Coventry have arrived
at Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square, from Norway.
The Earl of Sandwich received a large party
during the Huntingdon races, at Ilinehinbroke. The
Duke of St. Albans, Count Batthyany, Lord and Lady
Cecilia Bingham, General Peel, Mr. and Lady Louisa
Mills, Mr. H. Greyille, &c., were among his lordship's
guests.

The funeral of the Dowager Countess of Shaftes-
bury took place on Saturday at St. Giles, Dorset. The
Earl of Shaftesbury and other sons of the deceased countess
attended the funeral, which was of a strictly private cha-
racter.
Viscountess Amberley was safely delivered on
Saturday morning of a son and heir at Alderley Park.
Both her ladyship and infant are doing well.
Lord and Lady 0 tho Fitzgerald left town on
Saturday on a visit to the Duke of Leinster, at Carton
House, Maynooth, Ireland.

Lord Henry Bentinek has arrived at his shooting-
box in Scotland for the season, and has already had good
sport in deer-stalking.
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The Right Hon. Sir Charles Wood and Mr.
Wood have arrived at Homburg, whore they intend to re-
mail for a month. Lady Mary Wood and Miss Wood had
previously arrived at Homburg from London.

The Right Hon. Sir George Grey left town on
Saturday evening for Falloden, Northumberland.

The Earl of Leicester and the Tenantry
upon the Holkham Estate.

Lord Leicester has issued the following address
to his tenantry:--

" HOLKHAM, AUG. 11, 1865.
" Gentlemen,—On my return from Norway I saw, for the
first time, the circular which had been issued during my
absence from the MAW:lam-office, and sent to each of my
tenants. I learnt, moreover, from report, and have read
with my own eyes, the indignant expressions which it has
called forth both within and beyond the county ; and I
needed no information from friends or other quarters to
acquaint me with the feelings of surprise and pain which
it must naturally have excited in my tenantry.
" The judgments of the public or political opponents I
must bear. Ido not, and perhaps cannot, complain that,
with a somewhat ungenerous haste, they have attributed to
me, on the ground of this document, an attempt to coerce
my tenants in their political action in a manner utterly at
variance with the principles and practice of myself and my
house.

But my relations to my tenantry are of a different cha-
racter, and the necessity of an explanation to you directly
is apparent ; the circular was addressed to you, was issued
with apparent authority, and called forth feelings of sorrow
and mortification which I both respect and justify.
" Explanation is indeed to me most simple ; though, in
offering it, I may seem to reflect upon the discretion of an
agent in whom I repose great confidence.
The circular, as I hare said, I never saw; the spirit of
it is in flagrant contradiction to the principles and practice
that have been professed and followed on the Holkham
estate for nearly a century, and I feel it due to myself here
and at once to disown and disclaim it.
At the same time, gentlemen, I would have you think
considerately of Mr. Shellabear. Immediately after the
meeting of the Liberal party of West Norfolk, held in Lon-
don, at which Sir W. Jones was unanimously selected to
be the second candidate, I wrote to my agent to inform
,him of this resolution ; I urged on him the necessity of
prompt and vigorous action from Holkham. I was the more
decided in my expressions to him, inasmuch as rumours
were prevalent in the county not only that I was indifferent
to Liberal opinions, but that I even secretly desired the
success of the Conservative party ; I counselled, not dicta-
tion, not coercion in any form, but the adoption in common
with my tenantry (whose political sympathies as a body
are strongly and avowedly with the Liberal cause) of every
legitimate measure to achieve the return of Mr. Gurdon and
and Sir W. Jones. In a letter written hastily on the eve of
my departure I could not, and did not, enter into details;
my views were firmly and decidedly expressed ; but the
execution of them was left to Mr. Shellabear's discretion.
Zeal in carrying out instructions which were only indicated,
and not given in detail, and the heat and fervour gene-
rated in an election, the battle of which had to be fought in
the course of a few days, ledhim to issue the circular which
has caused so much scandal—the impolicy and unfitting-
ness of which no one now sees more clearly than himself.
And now, gentlemen, a word more. Coercion of the
political views of the tenantry has never existed on the
Holkham estate. My fathered gathered round him a body of
tenantry who were attached to him by a community of sen-
timents. He and his tenantry were devoted to the Liberal
cause; their united action in times past powerfully swayed
many a hardly-contested election in Norfolk,a fact recorded
in the political history of our country. An honoured rem-
nant of that tenantry still exists on the estate. Sons and
grandsons occupy the places of fathers and grandfathers
who are gone. Like myself, they have inherited the same
great political principles, and I have a proud consciousness
that no estate in England has a tenantry with more united
sentiments, even in politics ; that with us Liberal principles
are an heirloom and a tradition, and that coercion, always
a crime, would be to you an unparalleled blunder and folly.
—I am yours truly,

LEiczsTER.

AN ACADEMICIAN ROBBED OF ONE OF HIS PIC-
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quested to be supplied with an order for the delivery of
the picture referred to, so that it might be removed from
the premises in Trafalgar-square. Mr. Ward was engaged
at the time, and believing that the demand came from his
frame-maker, and was made in the manner commonly
practised by such agents, as all artists know, had no hesi-
tation in giving the order required. In due time this
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AN ODD ADVERTISEMENT that, according to the
Examiner, there is no Standing or Understanding
either.—Amongst the curiosities of the educational adver-
tisements of tho Times we see a " Professor of Standing."
Dancing masters call themselves professors of dancing, but
what in the name of wonder is a professor of standing ?
Is it the opposite to dancing, or what ? During the elec-
tions we might have supposed that candidates might take
lessons from the professor of standing, as to the places for
which they might stand in the hope of sitting, but that
solution cannot be good now. We must refer the question
to "Notes and Queries," and we should be glad at the same

time to learn how it is that the educational advertisements
are about the worst written that appear. Is it to give fair
warning of the sort of instruction to be expected ? If so,
the thing is well done in its way, and the caution in the
slip-slop tongue could not be conveyed in fewer words.
In justice we must, however, note a difference between the
male and female professions—the schoolmistresses having
much the advantage of the schoolmasters. The former use
and abuse a few fine words that might be well spared, but
we have never seen thorn promise the services of a professor
of standing.

ANTWERP, Aug. 9.
Her Majesty the Queen arrived at Antwerp at
half-past six o'clock to-day in the royal yacht
Victoria and Albert, after a fine passage from the
Thames.

Soon after the royal yacht had come to anchor
his Royal Highness the Duke of Brabant and her
imperial Highness the Duchess of Brabant visited
her Majesty on board.

Her Majesty proceeds this evening, with the royal
family and suite, in a special train to Darmstadt,
and will leave Darmstadt to-morrow evening for
Coburg.

DARMSTADT, Aug. 10.
Her Majesty, with the royal family and suite,
arrived here shortly after nine o'clock this morning.
The Queen and princesses, attended by the
Duchess of Roxburghe, drove to Kranichstein to
pass the day.

Prince Leopold and the remainder of the suite
went to the Grand Duke's palace in Darmstadt.
Her Majesty continues her journey to Coburg
to-night.