The Sun.
London, England, 1870-07-30 00:00:00

WILLS AND BEQUESTS.

The will of the late Right Hon, Robert King, sixth Earl
of Kingston, of Roscommon, and second Viscount Lorton,
in the Peerage of Ireland, was proved in London on
the 12th instant, and the personalty in England sworn
£30,000. The will is dated in 1861, with two codicils,
dated May and June, 1869. The will and codicils
are revectivelv signed " Lorton," his lordship having
only succeeded to the earldom on the Bth of October last.
The executors appointed are the Hon. Lawrence H. K.
Harman, of Ireland ; Captain Caleb Robertson, of
Abbey View, Boyle, Ireland ; George Noakes, Esq., of
London ; and George Ridsdale, Esq. ,M. D., of London. He
directs his executors to sell all his sheep, cattle, and
farming stock at Rockingham, Roscommon, as well as
all other his property. He leaves to his daughter, the
Hon. Frances Isabella Warburton, £3,000, in addition
to £20,000 under settlement. He bequeathes to
each of his executot s a legacy of £5O for their trouble, and,
in addition thereto, he leaves to the said. Captain C.
Robertson (his valued agent), £5OO ; to Dr. G. Ridsdale,
£lOO ; and to Mr. G. Noakes £6,000, and also appoints
him residuary legatee. lie has left to three of
his servants legacies of £2OO £lOO, and £5O.
There are a few other legacies, all free of duty.—
The will of Admiral Robert Mitford, late of Mitford
Castle, Northumberland, and of Hunmanby Hall, York-
shire, was proved in London, on the 15th inst., by the
testator's son-in-law, William Amhurst Tyssen Amhurst,
Esq., the executor for life ; and he appoints after his
decease his (testator's) brothers-in-law, Alexander
Dunsmure and James Dunsmure, Esqs., to be execu-
tors and trustees. The personalty was sworn under £35,000.
The will of Thomas. William Burt, Esq., M.D., formerly
surgeon in the Hon. E.I.C. Bengal Medical Establish-
ment, and late of No. 2, Obere, Promenade, Homburg,
Prussia, was proved in London on the 7th instant, and
the personalty in England sworn under £30,000. The
will of W. S, Burnside, Esq., was proved at Nottingham,
under £250,000 personalty.—The Illustrated London News.

A meeting of the Bishops of the Province of
Westminster will take place in London, at the residence
of the Archbishop, on the Bth of August.

MADAME RA TTAZZI. - The reported death of
Madame Rattazzi, the Emperor's cousin, was a piece of
false news, originating in a mistake. hi. Rattazzi, the
eminent Italian statesman, has just lost his mother, and
not his wife, as the first telegram stated.

A woman na-ied Mary Ann Taylor has died from
injuries inflicted through the upsetting of the Leeds and
Boston Spa omnibus. The inquest has terminated in a
verdict of manslaughter against the proprietor of the
vehicle.

The limes hears on good authority that a large
section of Roman Catholics in Austria have made up their
minds to secede to Protestantism unless Cardinal Rauscher
promptly repudiates the dogma of Papal Infallibility.
This is a startling comment on Dr. Manning's declaration
in the Vatican Council, that the immediate effect of pro-
claiming the dogma would be to induce a large secession
from Protestantism to Roman Catholicism.

The Civilian states that the reductions in the War
Office have now almost reached their limit, but the " re-
construction " of the department is making neither a rapid
nor a brilliant progress. Sixty gentlemen are at present
absent "on leave ;" but their leave will be perpetual, as
they are not to return to the office. They will, however,
continue on full pay until the end of the year, when
they will be superannuated in conformity with the scale
of retiring allowances published by us some months ago.
Several of the most zealous and efficient members of the
department, dissatisfied with the scanty recognition their
long and meritorious services have received, are to be
found among the sixty candidates for retirement.
THE MEN OF WAD. AND THE PILOTS.—We
have already stated that Trinity pilots have been em-
ployed to take charge of Prussian and French men of war
passing up and down the Channel, and that on Monday
one was taken on board the flag-ship of the French fleet,
Which he piloted until near Ostend. Orders have now
been issued by the authorities at Trinity House that
during the war the Trinity pilots are not to navigate
French or Prussian men of war out of their own waters.
_Dover Chronicle.

WORKING MEN AND THE WAR.—The General
Council of the International Working Men's Association
has issued an address respecting the war. After stating
that the refusal of the working classes in all the
industrial centres of. France to vote for the Ple-
biscite was the work of the Society, it says
that the victory of the Emperor, obtained by the
ignorance of the rural population, was the signal for
the assassination, not of an individual, hut of nations.
The "war plot" of July, 1870, it describes as an
amended version of the coup d'etat, and it
declares that the French working men are strongly
in favour of peace. However the contest may end,
the death-knell of the Second Empire has already
sounded in Paris. If the German working
classes allow the war to lose its strictly defensive charac-
ter, and to generate into one against the French people,
victory or defeat will prove alike disastrous to them. The
address maintains, hovvever, that the principles of the
International Association are too widely spread among
them for this to be possible.

THE CHANCE OF PEACE.—I must tell you that the
impression is rapidly gaining ground, at Berlin as well as
in this commercial centre, that the enthusiasm. of
France for the war "is diminishing daily, and
that the Emperor, alarmed by the firm attitude
and enormous military resources of Germany,
as well as by the defection of Denmark, is
seriously disposed to listen to reason. Of course, no
one believes that an arrangement acceptable to both belli-
gerents—such an one as would culminate in a general
disarmament can be arrived at until a battle shall
have been fought ; and even then its attainment would
be terribly jeopardised did such a battle result in a de-
cisive victory for either the Prussian or French army.
It is therefore earnestly hoped by the advocates of peace
—who constitute the majority of the German nation, for
all the indignation felt against the French Government—
that the first general engagement will be a drawn battle,
equally " honourable " to both combatants, and that
the judicious interference of England and Russia will,
immediately after its conclusion, arrest the progress of
hostilities ere the feelings of either people become too
violently embittered to permit their withdrawal from the
awful struggle. No serious collision between the armies
is expected before the sth of August.—Correspondeng of
the Telegraph.

AROUND PARIS AND UNDER IT.—ln the neigh-
bourhood of Paris, and indeed beneath that city, mush-
room culture is carried on to an extraordinary extent.
The stone of which a great part of Paris is built is taken
from underground quarries, seventy to eighty feet below
the surface, worked like our coal mines, and in these old
quarries the mushroom is grown most successfully. It is
said that in one of the abandoned quarries there are
upwards of twenty-one miles of mushroom beds, in
another sixteen miles, and as many as three thousand
pounds have been sent in one day from one of these
quarries to the Paris market. The culture of the
mushroom is very simple, and some tables are
kept supplied, by a small bed in one corner
of the cellar. The only conditions required
for the healthy growth of mushrooms are a
mass of short stable manure that has heated to the
warmth of from fifty-five to sixty degrees, and lumps of
spawn about the size of walnuts, tucked in just beneath
the surface, six inches apart all over it, the whole covered
with an inch thickness of good, light, friable earth, and
three or four inches of straw, a little of any kind to keep
in the very moderate warmth. This can be managed in
any dark cupboard or cellar, and as the size of the bed is
immaterial, it may be made on a shelf eighteen inches
wide, or as mush larger as convenient or desirable on the
floor. When the bed approaches dryness it must be
sprinkled with water with the chill off, enough to wet th(
earth, but not the manure. Mushroom spawn can Le
obtained at some of the seed stores.- -Philadelphia
Ledger,