The Sun.
London, England, 1854-11-18 00:00:00

MUNIFICENT BEQUESTS.

The will of the late John Hinchliff, Esq., late of
Notting-hill, has just been proved at Doctors'-commons,
by which he has bequeathed the following sums in stock
for charitable purposes, after the decease of his widow,
now in her eighty-ninth year, viz. :
Indigent Blind Society £l,OOO
Deaf and Dumb Society
London Truss Society
Journeymen Tailors' Society
Asylum for Idiots l,OOO
Westminster Hospital
Charing-cross Hospital l,OOO
Middlesex Hospital
London Fever Hospital
St. Mary's Hospital l,OOO
Cancer Hospital
Magdalen Hospital
Lock Hospital
Houseless of Poor Society
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals 500

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, Nov. 17.

The dinner party, yesterday, included the Duchess
of Kent, the Duke and Duchess of Bedford, Viscount
and Viscount Canning, Viscount Hardinge, Lady
Augusta Bruce, Baroness de Spetb, Captain G. H.
Seymour, R.N., and lir. Gibbs.
The Q.ieen walked in the grounds adjoining the
Castle this morning, and afterwards rode in the Riding-
house.

The Princess Royal and Princess Alice also rode on
horseback.
Prince Albert and the Prince of Wales, accompanied
by the Duke of Bedford, hunted with the harriers this
forenoon, attended by Captain Du Plat.
Viscount Hardinge left Windsor by an early train for
London.

Lord Bloomfield has been invited, and is expected this
afternoon.

The Turkish Minister hadan interview with the Earl
of Clarendon yesterdity at the Foreign-office.
The Marquis of Lansdowne has arrived in town from
his seat, Bowoud Park, Wilts.
Det-patclaes from the Governors of the West Indian
Colonies were received yesterday at the Colonial-office.
Despatches were sent last evening from the Colonial-
office to the governors of the North American provinces.

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon at the
Foreign-office. Tire Ministers present were—The Earl
of Aberdeen, Lord John Russell, the Lord Chancellor,
the Earl of Clarendon, Sir George Grey, the Duke of
Newcastle, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Jaynes
Graham, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Sir Charles Wood,
the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, Sir William Moles-
worth, and Earl Granville. Tie Council sat three
hours.

GRLY'S-INEr, Nov. 17.—At a pension of the Hon;
Society's of Gray's-inn, held this play, Robert Baker
Jones, Esq., was called to the degree of barrister-at-law.
MIDDLE TEMPLE, Nov. 17.—The undermentioned
gentlemen have this day been called to the degree of the
utter by the Hon. Society of the Middle Temple ;
Michel Maxwell Philip, Esq., Certificate of Honour;
John Dunbar, Esq. B.A. ; Hamilton Charles Palmer,
LL.B. ; Richard Greene, Esq., B.A. ; Michael Angelo
Garvey, Esq., LL.B. ; and Ralph Walters, Esq.
INNER TEMPLE, Nov. 17.—The undermentioned gen-
tlemen
Society
tthhei s
Innerd ay e.
a IT
eedm
stone Grant Duff, Esq., M,A. ' MC" IV
i I Ithil 8 Nkoerbti.,
Esq., B.A. ;Henry Latham, :—...Vountstnart
oEtiphin-
Lg., B.A. ; Chas.
Est., M.A. ; John Dawson Mayne,- Esq• ;
ptole the bar, by the____l!!n.
Joseph Torr, 'Esq.Esq. ; Charles
Esq. ; George Moubray Sutherland, Esq.
James Watkin Williams, Esq. ; Henryit. Bruce Arnaud,
Bacheler Coltman, .
, B.A. ; Williamand,

. .
Esq.
17.—The undermentioned gen.
Locates-nor,
of Lincoln's-inn,Alen.
law by the Hon. Society
iler Egq. ; John Westlake, Esq.
ander Edward ML, .
Charles Piffard, Lq. ; James
Herbert Colelidge, .e.sq• ,
Chas. . Parker Batt, Esq. ; Leonard
tleinen wore this daNyCvailed to the degree of barrister-at.
Cottingbam, ci;
J mes Drummond Griffith, Esq.
Hill Esq. ; a
John ' Monkheuse, Esq. ; Graham Hastings,
Robert
Joseph • Bowden, Esq. ; Charles Plummer, Esq. ;
Esq.B: Charles Wetherell Willett, Egg. ; elm.
ES tseqw.aFt,ranet
sand Joseph Dacre, Esq.
vacated by the retirement of
CIVIL SBRVICS— CUSTOMS APPOINTMENTS. —The office
ye
about to be filled up by the ap-
pointment the inspector-general of imports and exports, Custom.
Messenger, assistant inspector.
no\dfvo Mr.ono,d ir ;lee.
lednAt recently
general of that department. Mr. W. Alexander has
been appointed principal coast officer at Whithorn, Wig-
pMhooiruftltem%Lnn ;
town. Mr. T. P. Mostyn has been appointed extra
clerk in London. Mr. G. F. Barry has been appointed
clerk in Dublin. Mr. A. 13. Delap has been appointed
extra clerk in London. Mr. W. E. Tatton has been
appointed extra clerk in London. Mr. A. D. Gowing
has been appointed extra clerk at Lowestoft. Mr. C.
H. Maclean has been appointed junior clerk to Comp-
troller-General in London. Mr. IL P. Williams has
been appointed clerk at Cardiff. A clerkship for general
business at Liverpool is vacant, vice Mr. A. Thompson,
_
appointee to long room department ; salary 701. Mr.
James Slater has been appointed a clerk in the Money
Order Office, Edinburgh, vice Hobbs.— Civil Service
Gazette.

A. FALSE ALARM.—An alarm was given on Monday
night by the unexpected tolling of the large bell at half-
past eight o'clock, and it was conjectured that Sebasto-
pol had at length been taken by the Allies. All anxiety,
however, was soon set at rest when it was discovered
that a boy from the High•street, who bad been lending
his assistance in ringing the bell at the usual hour
(oiv,ht o'clock), bad been shut in, and not relishing his
col<in”d lonely quarters, be had by dint ofgreat exertior),
to ,et the bed tolling, and thus brought as
beliroan to his rescue.—Brechin, Advertiser.
SitIIGLINT SuLuvArr.—Sergeant Sullivan, who is So
honourably mentioned in Lord Raglan's despatch, is
the first man below the rank of ensign ever Nehtioued
in a public despatch of a British Genvial.