The Sun.
London, England, 1870-03-07 00:00:00

WILLS AND BEQUESTS,

The will of Don Gregorio de Mier y Feran has been
proved in the London Court under £500,000 personal pro-
perty in this country. The will of Countess Antoinette
Wilhehnina Jane Bentinck has been administered to in
the London Court under 21,500 personalty in England.
The will of Joseph Barratt, Esq., J.P., of Holywath,
has been proved- at Lancaster under £140,000. The
testator died November 9 last, aged forty-three, having
executed his will August 2 preceding. He leaves
certain of his estates, including his mining
shares, to his two sisters and his uncle Francis Barratt.
There are also legacies to his uncle Francis Kent and to
the widow and children of his uncle Alexander Barratt,
and to other relatives, friends, and servants.—The will of
John Parsons, Esq., of the city of Oxford, banker, was
Proved in London on the 17th ult., under £160.000 per-
sonalty. The testator has left several legacies to his relatives,
and to his personal friends, clerks, and servants. The corona-
tion cup presented to his father by his Majesty George IV.
is to be preserved in the family. To his wife he leaves
the interest of £30,000, and to each of his daughters a
legacy of £13,000, and appoints his sons residuary lega-
tees. He has left the following charitable bequests—viz.,
to the Margate Infirmary, £500; the Wanstead
Asylum and St. Ann's Society, each £3OO ; the
Weymouth, Sanitarium, and nrompton Consump-
tion Hospital, each £200; the Blind Asylum,
Deaf and Dumb Asylum, the Society for Promoting
;he Enlargement and 13uilding of Churches, the Society
for. the Spread of the Gospel in ForeignParta and Addi-
tional Curate? Aid Society, each £lOO. All legacies to
be paid free of duty.—The wills of the undermentioned
.1110.e2ireccatly_proved :—J. S. Woodin £70,000 ;
'Thomas Criaiths (Durham), £60,000 ; John W. Pike
(Wareham), £60,000 ; G. Hooper, £lO,OOO ; John L.
Armitage, £50,000; John Kitson (Norwich), £9,000; and
Samuel Last (New Bond-street), £25,000.

INDIAN A PFAIII s. —T h e Bombay Gazette of the
12th February says that the :Madras Government has re-
solved to disallow the recent illicit grant of 12,000 rupees
out of the Madras municipal fund for fireworl--s to enter-
tain the Duke of Eainburgh and no one seeks to defend
the grant. The Viceroy and his staff were to take a tour
through the central provinces. It is believed that Sir
Rutherford Aleoek's visit to Calcutta is to be made with
the object of explaining the reasons of the provision in
the new convention with Pekin, by which nearly half a
million sterling of the opium revenue of India is likely to
be sacrificed. Colonel Telly is to confer with the Viceroy
on the best mode of establishing an Indian navy. Infor-
mation has been received by the Calcutta Chamber of
Commerce, that Mr. Cooper, the explorer, in his attempt
to reach China, had been stopped at the Ihibetarn frontier
rnd compelled to return to Assam.

DOMESTIC LIFE IN JAPAN.—M. lllllllbOrt, the
wiss Minister at Jeddo, has just published some amusing
details of the domestic life of the Japanese. In Japan
marriage is the universal habit. Almost the only
exceptions are to be found in the case of certain monastic
orders and among the ladies in attendance upon the
Empress. Men marry at about twenty and women at
fifteen years of age, but except in the Buddhist
sects the act is marked by no religious ceremony.
Among the presents displayed is always to be seen a
double-lipped vase. At a given moment one of the brides-
maids advances, fills it with saki, and presents it alter-
nately to the bridegroom and bride until the goblet is
emptied. Under this symbol the idea is conveyed that
together the husband and wife must drink the cup
of conjugal life to the dregs—whether it be
filled with ambrosia or with gall. Japanese
mothers have greater authority over their children than
their fathers, and the rights of women are so far
recognised in the country that a woman has wielded the
sceptre of the Mikados. But to return to the home life.
The law of the country insists that each child shall be
daily exposed to the air without clothes and with its head
shaved, and in spite of both rain and sun.
During infancy the child's ordinary playmates are a
fat, short-legged dog, and fatter tailless cat. Instruction
Is never forced upon either parents or children ;
it is supposed to recommend itself naturally
by its own intrinsic merits ; and every man and woman
throughout the empire is able to read, write, and cipher.
The thirtieth day after birth every citizen receives his
first name ; on attaining his majority he takes a second, a
third on his marriage, a fourth on being invested with any
public function, which he changes upon attaining each
higher grade, and so on to the name given to him after his
death. The last is engraved on his tomb, and he is by it'
known to all succeeding generations.—. Pall Mall Gazette.
THE WEATHER IN BELGIUM.—TIIO indepenciance
liege says that sudden changes of temperature are common
enough in Belgium ; but that they have seldom experi-
enced one of so startling a nature as that which has just
occurred. Last week the frost was exceptionally severe,
the mercury standing at 14 below zero. In a single
night the Sierian temperature was transformed to that of
spring, and since Sunday the thermometer marks nearly
15 above, and people are walking about in Brussels in
summer clothing.
RITUALISM IN LIVERPOOL.--T heLiverpool Mercury
says :—A number of the attendants at Christ Church,
Hunter-street, are indignant at the appointment of the
Rev. W. R. Scott, whom they describe as " a Romant
Catholic priest in disguise," to that Church. Mr,..50c.0 t
having declared in one of his sermons'
,tbat riii,na-
es-
tantism had emptied heaven and filled hell,' P..n
tion meeting was held in November last,,
an
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bishop of the diocese was asked to remove him.
tha
that time other complaints have been made to
but
bishop respecting Mr. Scott's ritualist practices,
although the bishop has written several letters on the
.ind °the
was therefore held on Thursd, -remng, at which res -
sub-
ject,
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tions were passed against Mr
bishops generally came in
having done their duty by
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sanctioned Mr. Scott's ap]
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plied to Dr. Doßinger's eel(
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fully proved by the very
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in Catholic Christianity,
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maker, of Stirling, was eh;
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watchers proved that the'
and cut a long branch.

having caught' a salmon
dress. The Sheriff fined

of payment this sportingmss.

ursday evening, at
Mr. Scott's appointment. The
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hat if the bishop of the di,
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