The Sun.
London, England, 1846-06-29 00:00:00

CHARITABLE TRUSTS.

Bill for procuring Accounts of Receipt and Expenditure
by all persons administering Charitable Trusts in
England (first prepared and introduced into the
House of Commons by Mr. Hume and Dr. Bowring).
1. That all persons in whom any property is vested
on any charitable trust, or who act in the administration
of any property appropriated to charitable purposes in
England, shall from time to time, in all cases in which
no other provision is made for the appointment of a
clerk to the trust, appoint, one of themselves, or some
other fit person, to act as the clerk of such charitable
trust, for the purpose of keeping the accounts and mak-
ing the returns required by this Act.
2. That the clerk of every such trust shall, in books
to be kept for that purpose, enter, or cause to be en-
tered, true accounts of all moneys received and paid on
account of the said trust, and of the several matters
for which sums shall have been received and paid.
3. That the said clerk shall, on or before the first
day of March, in the year One Thousand Eight Hun-
dred and Forty-seven, send to one of her Majesty's
Principal Secretaries of State a statement of the real
and personal estate vested for any charitable purpose in
the trustees whose clerk he is, and shall at the same
time, and also on or before the first day of March in
every following year, send to the said Secretary of State
a statement of all moneys received and paid by the said
trustees on account of the said trust, within twelve calen-
dar months next before the time of making up the said
account, and of the moneys and securities for money
then standing to the credit of or owing to the said trus-
tees, and of the debts and liabilities far which they are
then liable ; all which statements shall be prepared in
such form and manner as the Secretary of State shall
direct ; and an abstract of such statements and accounts
under general heads shall be laid before both Houses of
Parliament during their sitting in the same year in
which the said statements shall be so sent.
. 4. Act may be amended or repealed.

DEATH FROM BEING OVER• FED.—Yesterday an in-
quest was held before Mr. W. Baker, jun., at the Globe,
Goldsmith's-row, Shoreditch, on the body of Eliza Anne
Elizabeth Storey, aged eighteen months. It appeared from
the evidence that en Tuesday morning the mother of the
deceased while at breakfast gave her the yolk of two eggs,
also a piece of bread and cheese, which she shortly after
vomited. The deceased continued to get worse, and on
Wednesday morning it was found necessary to send for Mr.
Wallace, a surgeon in Hackney, but before he arrived the
child expired. A post mortem examination was afterwards
made, and IMr. Wallace stated that from the appearance of
the brain he should say the deceased died from convulsions,
arising from its; being over-fed. The jury returned s verdict
to that effect.

W ILLS.
LATE EARL OF Vintrum.—Probate has been granted of
the will, with two codicils, of the late Right Hon. Jame
Walter, Earl of Verulam, Baron Verulam, of Gorhambury
Hertfordshire, Viscount Grimston, and Baron of Dunboyne,
in Ireland, and Baron Forrester, of Costorphine, ih Scotland,
and a Baronet, Lord Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum of
Hertford. The acting executors are his sons, the present
Earl of Verulam also the lion. Robert Grimston, and the
Hon. and Rev. E'H. Grimston. The personality was valued
for duty at 25,0001. Bequeaths to his Countess a sum that
will make her income 3,0001. a year, and to his younger
children a sum that will make up with other provisions
10,0001. to each. The will was made in July, 1843, and the
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codicils last year. His Lordship bad attained his 70th year,
and left issue five sons and four daughters.
LATE VISCOUNT HOOD.—The Right Hon. Samuel Tibbitts,

Viscount Hood, of Whitley Abbey—, near Coventry, Barton
Seagrave, Kettering, and Bryanston-square, London, had
recently purchased the inheritance in fee-simple of the
estates in Whitley and Penley, Warwickshire, adjoining to
part of the settled estates of the family, with a sum of
23,0001., derived from property of his wife paternal grand-
father, and which, with all other real estate, he has devised
with the settled estates. From his personal estate, valued
at 35,0001., he leaves an annuity, to be secured on 4,0001., for
his mother, the Hon. Caroline Hood ; leaves an immediate
pecuniary legacy to the Viscountess, and the carriages,
horses, farming stock, furniture, books, and jewels ; the
plate, bearing his arms and coronet, in trust for her life,
anti then to the eldest son ; the residue amongst his
younger children. The acting executor is the Hon. Lieut.-
Col. Francis Grosvenor Hood, the brother, and, with the
Viscountess and the other executors, the Hon. Samuel,

Baron Bridpert (the uncle), and the Hon. Alexander
Nelson Hood, are appointed guardians of the children.
He has left three sons and one daughter, and died in his
38th year, on the Bth of May last.
General Sir Henry Bayly, C. 8., Colonel of the Bth Foot
(King's regiment) who died in April last, at the advanced
age of eighty, by his will, executed in August, 1845, has di
rected 2,000/. to be invested for the benefit of Hugh Forbes,
late of the Coldstream Guards, and 3,0001., equally between
Hugh Forbes, the younger, and Archibald Forbes; on failure
of both attaining twenty-one, the whole for the children of
Mrs. Buchanan, wife of John Buchanan, Esq., Carbeth, North
Britain. The residue and reversion of his personal estate,
together with his real estate, he leaves to the said Mrs. Mary
Louisa Buchanan, for her own absolute use and disposal, and
has appointed her solo executrix. She has duly admi-
nistered to the will in London. The personal effects were
estimated at 6,0001.
Rear-Admiral Valentine Collard, late of Teddington, has
left the property which he acquired by the will of Mr. James
Forth, distiller, at Kingston-upon-Thames, the uncle of his
deceased wife, to her brother, Mr. W. H. Kempster, and the
books, plate, furniture, &c. ; a legacy of 2001. to Mr. Chris-
topher West, commander R.N. ; and legacies to other of his
friends. The residue, real and personal, he bequeaths to his
nephew, Mr. Robert Lendrum, and has appointed him and
Mr. Kempster, together with James Williamson, Esq., of
Gray's Inn, the executors. The personality was valued at
9,000/. He made his will in January, 1845, and a codicil in
February, 1846 ; the death of this gallant admiral occurred
on the 18th of March last, at the age of seventy-six.
The late Colonel the Hon. Fulke Greville Howard, of
Castle Rising, Norfolk ; of Ashstead Park, Surrey ; of Levens,
Westmoreland ; of Elford Hall, Stafford ; and of Grosvenor-
square, London ; died without issue. His estates in West-
moreland and other hereditaments comprised in bis marriage
settlement, subject to his wife's interest and disposition, he
has devised to his nephew, the Hon. G. F. Upton, second
son of Viscount Templetown, those at Kilburn, Middlesex;
to his nephew, the Hos. Arthur Upton ; his estates at Elford
and Stafford, except certain estates at Fisherwick and Elford
which he has devised to Captain Henry Bagot, son of Sir
Charles Bagot, are left under same trusts as the estates of
Stafford, by the will of his late father-in-law, Richard
Howard, and those of Ashstead and Castle Rising, to
wife for life, and then in the same manner as the estates
of Ashtead and Headley are derived by the same will,
the bulk of the estate at Castle Rising being limited
to appointment by the Honourable Mrs. Howard. The
personal estate, which was valued for probate duty at
120,000/., he has disposed of by a codicil, made only the
week before, his death, leaving legacies to his godchildren,
and specific bequests to his family and acquaintance. To his
brother, Viscount Templetown, the whole of his valuable
collection of pictures, except the pictures of one room, to
his sister, the Hon. Sophia Upton, and two pictures at
Ashstead, of St. Mary in Egypt, and the death of Seneca,
to the Marquis of Bristol. To his nephew, the Honourable
Henry Montagu Upton, all his books, and the reversion
to the pictures on the death of his father. His musical
instruments to his brother, General the Honourable
Arthur Upton, with a pecuniary bequest. He has left liberal
legacies to his servants ; to his steward at Ashstead, 500/. ;
his personal servant, 4001. •, to his gardener at Levens, 400/. ;
the gardener at Ashstead Park and at Elford Hall, to each,
300/. ; and the like legacies to his coachman and cook, and to
the porter, at Grosvenor-square. The residue he leaves to
his wife, the Honourable Mrs. Howard, whom he has ap-
pointed, together with his said nephew, the Hon. H. M.
Upton, and the Rev. William Legge, rector of Ashstead, to be
the executors of his will, with a legacy of 500/. to each.
The Hon. and Gallant Colonel died at Elford Hall, on the
4th of March, in his 73d year.
The late Sir William Boothby, Bart., of Ashborne Hall,
Derby, Receiver-General of her Majesty's Customs, had
made his will in 1833, during the lifetime of his former wife,
Lady Boothby, and, in the event of her surviving, had made
a provision for her of 300/. a year; but Sir William did not
alter his will on his intermarriage with Mrs. Nesbitt, nor
has he made any testamentary disposition in her favour. To
his daughters, Louisa, Caroline, and Maria, he leaves 3,0001.
each ; and as the late Earl of Liverpool has amply provided
for two of his children, Cecil and Fanny, he leaves to them,
as a mark of affection, 100/. each. The residue of his pro-
perty, real and personal, he leaves to his son, Sir Brooke
William Robert Boothby, Bart., who is the acting executor.
The freehold in Derbyshire, and all other estates, he directs
to be sold, the funded and personal property amounting to
only 2,0001.
The late Elias Goldsmid, Esq., of the Stock Exchange,
left personal property to the amount of 16,0001., and has be-
queathed to his brother Aaron Goldsmid, Esq., for his life an
annuity of 300/., the surplus, together with the principal, he
bequeaths to his brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs.
Levieu, under the like trust of their marriage settlement.
The will of the Honourable and Very Reverend H. L
Hobart, D.D., late Dean of Windsor, and of the Collegiate
Church of Wolverhampton, was proved in London on the sth
of June, by two of his executors, Captain Sir George Tyler,
R.N., and Edmund Fitzmoore, Esq., of the Inner Temple; a
power being reserved to the Honourable Mrs. Hobart, his
relict, to whom he has bequeathed an annuity of 300/. in ad-
dition to the provisions under marriage settlement, and
leaves to her his carriages, horses and furniture; the residue
of his property he leaves to be divided amongst his children.
The personal estate was estimated at 35,000/. His will is
dated in 1829, and he died on the Bth of May, in his seventy-
fifth year. He held the livings of Great Hasely, Nocton,
and \Vantage, and was Registrar of the Order of the Garter.
The late Rev. Dr. Walton, Rector of Birdbrooke, Essex,
has bequeathed the following charitable bequests :—To the
Clergy Orphan Society, 1001. ; to the Society for Promoting
Christian Knowledge, 100/. ; to the Society for the Propa-
gation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, 100/. ; to the Charity
for the Essex Clergy, 100/. ; and to the poor of Birdbrooke,
10/. ; also to the trustees of the district church of St. John,
Finchingfield, Essex, 100/. for the repairs of the church ; and
to the Reverend John Russell Stock, minister of St. John's
Chapel, and his successor, such books out of his library as he
may consider necessary to form a foundation for a useful
library in his study. All his freehold and copyhold estates in
Fordham, Warningford, Coln, and other parts of Essex, he
leaves to his nephew, the Rev. Russell Skinner, M.A., Rector
of Sweffling, Suffolk, and appoints him, together with J. D.
Williams, Esq., of Essex, and J. Roberts, Esq., of the Middle
Temple, executors. Leaves to each of his eight godchildren
100/., and the residue to the children of his said nephew. The
iersonalty was valued at 7,oool.—Post.

A KING CONDEMNED TO IMPRISONMENT WITH HARD
LABOUR.—We find the following curious account in a letter
from Copenhagen of the 15th :—",Our prison has just received
two remarkable guests, an African King and his prime mi-
nister. At the beginning of last year, this black monarch,
whose name is Aquatimozin, and who was under the sove-
reignty of Denmark, as the country over which he reigns
forms part of the Danish possessions on the coast of Guinea,
entrapped into his territory another African king and his
prime minister, and at night, with the aid of his own minister,
attacked them and put them to death. The murdered prince
was sovereign of another portion of the coast forming part of
the Danish possessions. The murderers were arrested and
brought to trial before the Danish colonial tri-
bunal. The defence made by the advocate en-
gaged by the prisoners was, that Aquatimozin, as a sove-
reign prince, had a right to put his enemy to death, and
that Kongitl, his minister, being under his orders, was only
performing an act of obedience, the refusal of which would
have caused his own death. This defence did not avail, and
the ex-king and ex-minister (for both had been deposed by
orders from Copenhagen) were condemned to die. The pri-
soners appealed to the King of Denmark for mercy, and
were so far successful as to have the sentence of death com-
muted into perpetual confinement in the prison of Copen-
hagen, to which they were brought in the Eagle corvette.
Aquatimozin is 72 years of age, of small stature, excessively
thin, and with white hair. Kongiti is in the prime of life,
and very stout and tall. These two men, who a year ago
governed a kingdom and had a large revenue, are now K ork-
ing in prison, rasping dye-woods, for which each receives
two skillings (less than a penny English) per day. Aquati
mozin appears very resigned, and works assiduously. His
ex-minister has less philosophy, and is only kept to his work
by the frequentapplication of the whip."
EMBEZZLEMENT AND FLIGHT OF A CLERK OF MONEY
CLuns.—A series of frauds, by which a number of respect-
able parties in Sheffield will sustain great loss, has just come
to light by the sudden flight to America of James Charles
Simpson, of that place, pawnbroker. The accused was clerk
to a number of money clubs, and he enjoyed such a high
degree of confidence that the committees of the clubs were
lulled into security, and he seems to have managed them
almost as he pleased. Previous to his leaving home on the
23d May, he disposed of a valuable collection of pictures (of
which he was a great connoisseur), and his stock of goods,
transferring the pledges to Mr. Eaton, who paid him the
money lent upon them, and his household furniture. He set
sail for America on the 28th ult., on board the
John R. Skiddy packet, accompanied by. one daughter
leaving his wife and another daughter in England to
shift for themselves. Yesterday week a fiat in bankruptcy
was opened at the Sheffield Court, and we understand it is in
contemplation to send out a messenger by the next steamer
to arrest the delinquent, and recover the property in his pos-
session. The extent of the frauds he has committed has not
vet been ascertained. There is no doubt that they amount
to 3,0001. or 4,0001., and probably a much larger sum.—
Doncaster Gazette, June 26.
AN INFIDEL WIFE.—We read in a letter from Berlin
of the 20th, published by the Gazette des Tribunaux, " About
three years ago Mr. and Mrs. Aston, natives of London, ar-
rived at Berlin with their daughter, then two years old, and
soon afterwards fixed their residence here by virtue of a spe-
cial authorisation from the Minister of Justice. Towards
the end of February last Mr. Aston applied for a divorce
from his wife, on the ground of her having for some time
openly professed atheism, and he at the same time demanded
that the child might be given up to him, in order to prevent
its being educated in the atheistical principles of the mother.
The Tribunal of First Instance of Berlin, after having re-
ceived from the mouth of Mrs. Aston an avowal that she dida
not believe in God, pronounced the divorce, and orderedwtehe t
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the child should be given up to the father withinhea
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Court. Scarcely an hour after the confirmationob
the director of
of the judg-
ment, Mrs. Aston received an order f
police to quit Berlin in two days, a
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within a week. She appealed to the_
form odifying this order ;
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