The Sun.
London, England, 1870-02-26 00:00:00

WILLS AND BEQUESTS,

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The will of the Right Hon. Elizabeth, Countess Dela-
warr, Baroness Buckhurst, relict of the Right Hon. George
John Sackville West, Earl Delawarr, P.C., and daughter
of the third Duke of Dorset (title extinct), of Upper Gros-
venor-street, and Buckhurst Park, Sussex, was proved in
her Majesty's Court of Probate on the 15th inst., and the
personalty sworn under £IS,OOO. The will is dated
May 31, 1869, and her ladyship died on the 9th ult.,
aged 74. She bequeaths to the possessor of the
linole estates 300 deer ; and to the possessor of the Buck-
hurst estate all the farming stock and cattle. She
bequeaths the sum of £4OO, to be expended in the
chancel of the Church of St. John, Crowborough,
where the family remains are entombed. She leaves 21000
for the ahnshowes at St. John's, Crowborough, founded by
Iker ; and 21,000 to the Godden-Green Hospital, also founded
)y her ; and bequeaths the sum of £666 in the Three per
Cents for the choir and organist of Withyham, and a
lep.cy of £lOO for that parish. There are numerous
41)3cific bequests to her sons, daughters, grandchildren, and
others of her relatives and friends. The residue of her
property, real and personal, she leaves to her sons Morti-
mer, Lionel, and William.—The Illustrated London News.

LONDON, CHATHAM, AND DOVER
RAILWAY.

A disorderly meeting of the mortgagees and debenture-
holders of this company was held- at the Victoria station
on Friday.
Mr. JOHN DIXON, who presided, entered into a lengthy
justification of the part he had taken in issuing the special
report of the three mortgage directors, to which the
chairman of the meeting on the previous day had re-
ferred ; and he repeated the statement that the state of
the company's management required looking into and a
new system adopted. The report was intended to be
issued at the same time as the board report had appeared
before, through their not knowing the precise time ; and
it was not issued to prejudice the shareholders by antici-
pation. _ . _

Mr. Moat ITT of the CrMit Foncier) attempted to
answer some reflections made by the chairman, but it
was not till after considerable uproar had ensued that he
was allowed to speak.
Mr. PPICE, Q.C., then moved the adjournment of the
meeting until after they had received the decision of the
arbitrators who had the company's affairs in hand.
An amendment was proposed adopting the report, and
expressing strong disapprobation of the course pursued by
the mortgage directors in circulating the special report.
andwant of confidence in them.

The amendment on being put was declared to'be lost
anal the mover demanded a poll, which gave rise to the
utmost confusion of considerable duration. At's'length,
however, the poll was agreed to, and it occupied over an
hour. The result was found to be a majority of 8,309 for
the amendment, which was accordingly carried.
The remainder of the business, which was chiefly of a
formal nature, was then disposed of.

THE GOVERNMENT EDUCATION BILL.

FRIDAY.

The Executive Committee of the Welsh Educational
Alliance which was appointed to report on the Government
Education Bill, have met and passed resolutions, the main
points of which are as follows. The committee protests against
the measure being carried into law chiefly on the follow-
ing grounds :—That it does not extend the blessing of
free education to all children alike, and that it will em-
ploy the funds of the State for the direct teaching of reli-
gion in schools. They consider the Conscience Clause
wholly indefensible in principle and impossible in practice.
That it will establish a system of concurrent endowment
as objectionable in its nature, as that condemned last
session by the whole nation with regard to the churches
in Ireland. Objection is made to the delegation of the con-
trol and management to three persons without restriction;
and the impossibility to maintain for anylength of time the
present undenominational sytem in Ireland, thus necessi-
tating the handing over of the education of the Irish
people to the Roman Catholic priesthood. Exception is
taken to the election of school boards by Town Councils
and vestries, instead of by the direct vote of
the ratepayers, and to the fact that there is no provision
for anything higher than elementary education, thus
virtually excluding the children of the middle classes from
the benefits of a national measure. The committee consider
that the Government measure will render every
school district a scene of religious strife. That under it,
by the employment of schools for the purpose of religious
worship, funds which have been expressly raised for the
purposes of elementary education may be diverted in their
application so as to afford the means of encou-
raging a most unjustifiable system of church extension,
Finally, they contend that the Bill is incomplete, inas-
much as all the minutes of the Committee of Council on
Education to which it refers should be incorporated
with it.

An extensive system of smuggling through the
mails has been discovered in Chicago, Books, laces, furs,
Ste., of European manufacture, were sant through in news-
paper wrappers, with the necessary stamps according to
weight. Among the seizures were twalre dozan of hymn
books, addressed to Brigham Young, at Salt Lake. A
member of the Chicago Board of Education is also iindi-
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