The Sun.
London, England, 1865-02-04 00:00:00

Wills and Bequests.

The will of the Right Hon. John Thos. Manners
Sutton, Baron Sutton, of Portman-square, was
proved in her Majesty's Court of Probate on the
17th ult. The personalty was sworn under £lOO,OOO,
the executors and trustees appointed being his lord-
ship's cousin, John Henry Manners Sutton, Esq.,
of Kelham Hall ; Charles Spencer March Phillips,
Esq., of Tiverton ; and James Edward Dashwood,
Esq., of the Foreign-office, Downing-street. The
will is dated Aug. 10, 1864, and a codicil Oct. 13 ;
and his lordship died on Nov. 14, at Hastings, at
the agepf 46. He succeeded to the title in 1812.
His 'lordship was the only-son of ithe first baron,
who was a grandson of the third Duke of Rutland,
and was for many years Lord Chancellor of Ire-
land. The testator has bequeathed to his
eldest son the two pieces of plate which
were presented to his late father, Thomas Lord
Manners, one of the members of the Irish Bar,
and the other by the officers of the Court of Chan-
cery in Ireland. To each of his younger sons and
children he has left the sum of £lO,OOO. To Lady
Manners, who is provided for under settlement, he
has bequeathed an immediate legacy of £l,OOO,
together with his carriages, horses, the house in
Portman-square, with the furniture, pictures, books,
&c., and such plate as her ladyship may require.
The will of Major-Gen. William Nepean, in her
Majesty's service, formerly residing at South -street,
Grosvenor-square, but late of the Marine Parade,
Dover, was proved in London by his brother-in-law,
Sir Chas. Yorke, G.C.B. ; his son, the Rev. Evan
Yorke Nepean ; and his sister, Miss Anna Maria
Nepean. The personalty was sworn under £14,000.
This gallant military officer was at the memorable
battle of Waterloo. His will bears date June, 1862 ;
and he died on the Bth of December last. To his son
he leaves all his plate having his family arms and
crest and a silver embossed drinking-cup ; all the
rest of his plate, together with a silver vessel for
holding rose-water, he leaves to his daughter, and
he also leaves to her all the linen. The rest of his
property he directs to be divided equally between
his said son and daughter, whom he appoints resi-
duary legatees. The will was attested by F. F.
Dyke and H. Hollis.

The will of John Arnold, Esq., of Great Bar-
ford, Bedfordshire, and of Aldersgate-street, drug-
gist, was proved in the London Court by his only
daughter, Miss Anne Fanny Arnold, the sole exe-
cutrix. The personalty was sworn under £60,000.
The will bears date February, 1863, and he died
on the 29th of August last. The trustees are his
nephew, Alfred Benjamin Arnold, and his cousin,
Charles Edwin Ogden. The testator has left many
legacies, in which he has remembered his brothers,
sisters, nephews, nieces, cousins, and other relatives
and friends ; also his clerk, warehousemen, and
servants. All legacies to be paid free of legacy
duty. His freehold estate at Peterborough he de-
vises to his nephew, Edward Arnold ; all the rest of
his freeholds, together with his personal property,
he leaves to his said daughter, whom he has ap-
pointed residuary legatee. There are the following
charitable bequests :—To the Domititic Mission,
£1,000; the Ragged School Society, Spitalfields,
£lOO ; Bedford Infirmary, £lOO ; to the Vicar and
Churchwardens of Great Barford, £l,OOO, the in-
terest to be expended annually in coals and clothing
for the poor of that parish.—lllustrated London
News, Feb. 4.

Newport-Market Refute.

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Yesterday the first annual meeting of this charity
was held at the Refuge, in St. Giles's. The Right
Hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer took the chair
at the opening of the proceedings, and there were also
present Lord Robert Cecil, M.P., Mr. Hubbard, M.P.,
Mr. Philip Cazenove, and many ladies, to whose
bounty during the past year the Refuge mainly owes
its existence. Mr. Gladstone, having to attend a
Cabinet Council, had merely time to formally open
the proceedings in a brief speech, in which he gene-
rally expressed his high sense of the value of such
institutions as supplementary aids to the working of
the Poor Laws, and then at once called upon the Rev.
Mr. Williams, the Secretary, to read the first annual
report. This report, which forcibly told the necessity
for the maintenance of these institutions in the pre-
sent state of the laws relating to the relief of the
casual poor, was to the following effect :-
4, lii December, 1863, the attention of the public was ur-
gently drawn to cases of death from exhaustion and exposure
reported in the daily papers. One of the clergy, resident in
the district parish of St. Mary, Soho, the Rev. J. Williams,
after visiting several of the neighbouring workhouses, be-
came so deeply impressed by the miserable appearance of
the numerous unsuccessful applicants for admission, as they
lay huddled together at the doors, that he resolved to hire a
room in which eight or nine men might lie down and sleep,
providing them also with hot coffee and bread night and
morning. Appeals were then made, together with a state-
ment of what was being done to relieve these cases, which
met with a liberal response from many benevolent persons.
Among these was Mrs. W. E. Gladstone,
who was so to-
rested in the work that she undertook the task of
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funds to start a Nightly Refuge of a more extensive charac-
tercd for this part of London. An additional room was secured
which, with the one first engaged, provided accommodation
for 20. Subsequently, the old slaughter-house of Newport-
market was offered to the committee, which had a large area
of accommodation, and, from the fact of the building being
lofty, and having a clear space from floor to roof, it seemed
well adapted for ventilation. The committee would hardly
however, have been justified in leasing such extensive pre-
mises, had it not been for the large sum placed at their dis-
posal by Mrs. Gladstone. It was originally intended that the
Refuge should only be open during the winter months; but
on trial, it was found that many deserving applicants sought
its shelter during the summer ; and its doors accordingly
remained opened during many months, while nearly all the
kindred institutions were closed. The accommodation pro-
vided has been of the roughest character. The beds are
merely strips of cocoanut matting, 22 inches in width,
stretched on iron rods. About 100 persons are proivded for
in this manner. In addition to this from 50 to 80 poor
people have, of late, begged to be allowed to sleep on the
bare floor. A woollen rug is the only covering issued, and
Boz. of bread and a cup of coffee night and morning the
only food. Appliances for washing are provided, and of
these the poor inmates gladly avail themselves. The com-
mittee humbly but confidently hope that their endeavours,
and those of the other Refuge committees, to ameliorate
what is, confessedly, a great social blot upon our nation,
may, ultimately, along with other determinating causes,
induce the Legislature to grapple with the whole subject in
a more comprehensive measure. The women'sewtahed
opened in October. In establishing this Refuog
com-
mittee have striven as far as possible that
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mendicancy, and that efforts should be
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for the aid which they haveprendered in raising funds for
this Refuge. They also have to acknowledge the kindness
of Mr. Poland in acting gratuitously as surveyor, and of
Mr. Peebles in discharging the office of honorary auditor.
Cast-off clothes and under-clothing, books and magazines,
are of the greatest service."

The financial statement showed that the annual
subscriptions during the past year had only amounted
to £330, but the donations had reached the munifi-
cent sum of £3,473. The expenditure during the