The Sun.
London, England, 1870-06-04 00:00:00

WILLS AND BEQUESfS.

The will of the Right Hon. Dowager Baroness
Lyttelton, formerly governess to the children of her
Majesty Queen Victoria, was proved, in London, under
£lO,OOO personalty: Her Ladyship was the eldest
daughter of the second Earl Spencer. The will of the
Right Hon. Elizabeth Baroness Panmure (relict of the
Right Hon. William Maule, Baron Panmure,
and wife of Bonamy Mansell Power, Esq.) was
proved under £1,500 personalty. The late
Lieutenant-General Sir Charles Ashe Windham,
K.C.B. Colonel of the 46th Regiment and Commander-
in-Chief of the British forces in Canada, having died in-
testate, letters of administration of his personal estate
and effects in this country have been administered to under
£3,ooo.—The will of Sir Henry Light, K.C.8., of Kim-
berley House, Falmouth, was proved, in London,
under £3,000 personalty, by Henry Erskine Law
Hussey, Esq., of Lincoln's Inn, and the Rev. Henry W.
Haygarth, M.A., of Wimbledon, the joint acting executors
and. trustees. The will is dated Feb. 7 last, and Sir
Henry died on March 3rd following, aged eighty-seven.
Sir Henry formerly served in the Royal Artillery, and
in 1836 was appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Antigua,
and in 1838 Governor and Commander-in-Chief of
British Guinea. His wife, to whom he had bequeathed
an annuity of £250, died only a few hours before him.
He has bequeathed to his daughters Lady Holmes
and Charlotte Light, his share and interest in
the Hetton collieries : he also leaves them his
000 ks and MSS. The residue of his propery he leaves
between his son, Lieutenant-Colonel Alfred. Light, of the
Royal Artillery, and his daughter Charlotte. Amongst
other wills was that of John Meeson Parsons, Esq., under
£120,000. He has bequeathed to the National Gallery
one hundred oil paintings, to be selected from his
collection by the trustees ; and has left to the
British Museum and the Museum of Science and
Art many articles of worth and merit. The re-
mainder of his collection of antiquities and relics he
leaves to his daughter and only child, wife of Sir Charles
W.lAthol Oakeley, Bart., and has made a large provision
for her ; and also, should she have a son to succeed to the
baronetcy, a handsome provision is made for him, and
bequests for any other of her children ; but, on the failure
of issue acquiring a vested interest, then the property is
left to the testator's two nephews. There are legacies to
his servants and labourers.

The Correctional Tribunal of Toulouse has just de-
cided a singular question :—" Is an elector who goes to
vote compelled to take off his hat in passing the President
and assessors ? If he does not do so at the request of the
first, is he guilty of an offence ?" This point has been
decided in the negative, after a suit set on foot by the
electoral officers against a Mayor of Toulouse who had
resigned.

It appears from a return just published, that the
quantity of coals, cinders, and cuhn shipped at the several
ports of England Scotland and Ireland, coastwise to other
ports of the TJnited Kingdom in the year 1860 was
10,452,135 tons, as compared with 10,575,275 tons in 1868.
The quantity of coals, cinders, and culra- exported was
10,588,452 tons, and the declared value £5,067,700 in
1860, as against 10,837,804 tons declared value £5,352,525,
in 1868.