The Sun.
London, England, 1870-09-12 00:00:00

WILLS AND BEQUESTS.

The wills of the undermentioned distinguished foreigners
have been recently proved in London The Most
Excellent Visconde de Valmor, Joze Isidoro Guedes ;
Count de .St. George, Alexander Henry Augustus
John ; Baron von Brentano, Johann Jedocus Anton ;
Sir Anthony Pieter.van Doom, Knight. The will of Sir
Thomas Herbert Maddock was proved in London, on
the 15th ultimo, by Lady Maddock, his relict, and the
personalty in this country sworn under a nominal sum.
Sir Thomas was formerly in the Bengal Civil Service of
the H.E.1.C., and was successively Secretary to the
Indian Government, Deputy Governor of Bengal, and
President of the Council of India; was M.P. for
Rochester 1852-7 ; and died January 15 last, aged 78.
The will is dated March 30, 1868, and is very brief,
being contained in the these words :—" I, Sir
Thomas Herbert Maddock, will and bequeath to
my wife all property lam possessed of in England and
elsewhere, and all that may hereafter fall to me, and
appoint her sole executrix." The will of Lieutenant-
General Edward Hungerford Delay al Elers Napier, of
Her Majesty's 61st Foot, was proved in London, on the
17th ult., by Eliza Louisa Elers Naples, his relict, the
sole acting executrix, the other executor, the Rev. H.
Jodrell, having power reserved to prove hereafter. The
personalty was sworn under £2,000. To his son, Lieutenant
Charles E. Napier, R.N., he has left his plate, and directs
that all the rest of his property shall be divided into three
parts, leaving one such part to his wife absolutely, and a
lifeinterest over the other two parts, which ultimately will
revert to his said son and his daughter, Sibyl Napier.
There is this paragraph :—" At the request of Lady Tul-
lock I hereby bequeath the sword she presented to me
(that had belonged to her late husband, Sir Alexander
Murray Tulloch, K.C.8.) to his nephew Captain Alex-
ander Bruce Tulloch, 26th Foot." The will of Mr.
Arthur Lewis, formerly of Champion-hill, Dulwich, but
late of Brighton, was proved in London on the 9th ult.
under ninety thousand pounds personalty. The late Miss
Elizabeth Champion, of Wandsworth-common, whose
will has been proved under £120,000, has left legacies
to several charitable institutions, among them are the
following :—The Society for Promoting Christian Know-
ledge, Society for the Spread of the Gospel, Church Build-
ing Society, National- Education Society, National Benevo-
lent Institution, Governesses' Benevolent Institution,
Metropolitan Convalescent Institution ; Bethlehem, Lon-
don, and St. George's Hospitals, each £lOO. The Church
Missionary Society, St. Ann's Schools, Asylum for the
Indigent Blind, Asylum for Deaf and Dumb, Battersea
National Schools, and Surrey Society for the Employ-
ment of Discharged Prisoners, £5O each ; and legacies to
some othet societies—all free of duty.—lllustrated London
Neese.

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.
It is intended to use some of the empty buildings in
Woolwich dockyard for housing the gun carriages and
waggons just put into order, and ready for delivery to the
field batteries of Royal Artillery whenever they may be
required at the grand depot. They are now so numerous
that sufficient covering cannot be found for them there,
and they are in consequence exposed to the action of the
weather.

The United Service Gazette says the War office intends
trying pebble powder in the' Channel Squadron, to ascer-
tain the effect of recoil. —Mr. Nelson Girdlestone, superin-
tendent of Naval Stores at Whitehall, has returned from
a tour of visits to her Majesty's Dockyards, where
he has been inspecting the quantities of the
various descriptions of stores availablc for service ;
and we learn, on good authority, that he has found
them lamentably deficient. The new system for the
supply of naval stores, which was adopted by the present
Administration fn 1869, has entirely broken down, and
the old system has been reverted to. The
Lords of the Admiralty have given instructions
for the seaman in the Channel Fleet to be instructed
in the use of Adams's breech-loading pistols, with
a view to their adoption if found suitable. The Hydro-
grapher of the Navy, Rear-Admiral George H. Richards,
F.R.S., is in communication with the Hydrographer of
Marine of the French Republic, with the view to a joint
survey, by the two Governments, of the Red Sea.
During the absence from Whitehall on leave of Admiral
Sir Spencer Robinson, K.C.8., the duties of Controller of
the Navy are being conducted by Mr. Nathaniel Barnaby
assistant-constructor.

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The Army and Navy Gazette says :—The French army is
unanimous in declaring that their Intendance, which is
equivalent to our Control Department, has proved the
most hideous failure experienced in the war. The atten-
tion of Mr. Childers having been drawn by the Medical
Director-General to the professional and other merits
of Messrs. Henry Slade, Acmuty Irwin, and
W. B. Dalby, he gave directions that, although
those officers had not completed their twenty
years' active service, they should be immediately
promoted to the rank of Staff-Surgeon. We are glad to
be able to report that the augmentation of the forces goes
on with very commendable rapidity. The recruits for the
regular Army were stated by Lord Elcho last week to
amount to nearly 4,000 men, and since then upwards of
300 fine young men have been obtained from various parts
of the kingdom.—The Lords of the Admiralty have awarded.
to Mr. J. B. Rogers, the inventor of a life-saving appara-
tus, the sum of £2OO towards defraying the expenses to
which he has been put in carrying out experiments shew-
ing the merits of his invention.—Commander Harvey has
been ordered to be borne on the books of H.M. Excellent,
pending the further trials of his torpedo system.—
As we anticipated some weeks
and the 2nd battalion
6th Royals at Pembroke Dock, will replace the 89thand 63rd Regiments, under orders to embark for
India next month, upon the Irish establishment. The.
98th will, doubtless, be the first regiment to cross the
Channel, leaving England towards the end of the present
month, relieving the 89th Regiment, the 2d battalion 6th
following immediatelya!ter Nothing
has been arranged
with respect to the regiments which are to occupy New-
castle-on-Tyne and Pembroke ; so that although the 2d
battalion 13th Light Infantry and 4th battalion 60th Rifles
are named, the statement must be regarded as premature.

FRANCE AND THE WAR-SHIP.
LINES BY TIIE LATE SIR THOMAS WYSE.

The following poem (never before published) was
written during the American War by the Right
Hon. Sir Thomas Wyse, in the December of 1861,
four months before his lamented death. Ita appear-
ance at this moment upon the morrow of the
dreadful calamity which has just occurred off Cape
Finisterre, seems to us in every sense appropriate,
the lines having an affecting application to the
fate which has just befallen the great war-ship, the
Captain, and another application also to the situa-
tion of the Vessel of the State in France :

THE LESSON.
A fearful sight in the grey dawn to see
_ A mighty Ship in death-strife with the power
Of the huge roused Atlantic, in one hour
Dying—yea gone ! the wild waves fierce and free
To prey on what they list. But what are they ?
Waves, winds, and ship, to a great nation tost
To utmost wreck, by thousand whirlwinds tost,
Wrestling for life, far down the gusty sea
Of popular will. Welcome to gaze and grieve
Over our neighbour, but not less our fate
To read in his ; how little gold can give
When souls are tried ; how envy grows to hate,
How selfishness is weak ; how men believe
In vain, who will not act ; how Freedom waits
For life on order,—last, how Truth is power
Alone to save in this last proving hour.

Mr. M'Combie, M.P., writes to say that there is
not the slightest foundation for the rumour that he was
about to retire from the House of Commons.

Sir William-Stirling Maxwell (says the Edinburgh
Courant) has furnished another proof of his genuine
interest in the cause of education by contributing £l,OOO
to the Glasgow University fund.
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The Irish national papers are in ecstasies at the
" establishment "of the French Republic. It compen-
sates, they think, for all the losses of the war. They are
of opinion that the Parisians act reasonably in rejoicing
over the turn in affairs, and are eager to rejoice along
with them.

CESAREWITCH.
20 to lon the field (offered)
1000 to 30 agst Coutts (offered) -
1000 to 25 agst Barfordttaken and offered)
1000 to 25 agst Royal Rake (taken and offered)
1000 to 25 agst Adonis (taken and offered)
1000 to 25 agst Recorder (taken)
1000 to 15 agst Dutch Skater (taken)
1000 to 15 agst Dalby (taken)
CAMBRIDGESHIRE.
1000 to 30 on the field (offered)
1000 to 25 agst Podesta. (taken)
1000 to 25 agst Barford (offered)
1000 to 30 agst Queen of Hearts (taken and offered)
50 to 1 agst Asterope (taken)
1000 to 15 agst Referee (taken)
2000 to 30 agst Barrier (taken)
1000 to 15 agst Douglas (offered)
1000 to 15 agst Westley (offered)

CITY BE ['TING—SATURDAY.
GREAT YORKSHIRE HANDICAP.
4to 1 agst Geant des Battailles (taken)
5 to 1 agst The Bobby (taken)
6to 1 agst Lord Hawthorn (taken)
7to 1 agst Viscount (taken)
9to 1 agseClemence (taken)

ST. LEGER.
6to 4 apt Kingcraft (taken freely)
4to 1 agst Palmerston (taken and offered)
10 to 1 agst Captivator (taken and offered)
12 to 1 agst Sunlight (taken)
33 to 1 agst Wheatear (taken and offered)
33 to 1 agst Macgregor (taken and offered)
40 to 1 agst Alaric (taken)
1000 to 25 agst Hawthornden (offered)
1000 to 20 agst The Boy (offered)

PORTLAND PLATE.
100 to 8 agst Hawthornden (offered)
100 to 7 agst Fugitive (taken)
100 to 7 agst East Coast (taken)
100 to 6 agst Pretender (taken)
100 to 6 agst Moslem (taken)

CESAREWITCH.
20 to 1 agst Rattlepate (offered)
25 to 1 agst Tabernacle (offered—take 30 to 1)
1000 to 30 agst Adonis (taken)
1000 to 30 agst Coutts (offered)
40 to 1 agst Briton (taken and offered)
40 to 1 agst Barford (taken)
1000 to 20 agst Siderolite (taken)
1000 to 20 agst Pero Gomez (taken)
1000 to 20 agst Make Haste (taken)
1000 to 20 agst Mars (taken)
1000 to 20 agst Princess Maud
1000 to 10 agst Lady Superior (taken)
1000 to 10 agst Pax (taken) '
1000 to 10 agst Dutch Skater (taken)
500 to 5 agst Cherie (taken)

CAMBRIDGESHIRE.
25 to 1 agst Ashfield (offered)
25 to 1 agst Uncas (offered)
1000 to 25 agst Vandenhoff (taken)
1000 to 25 agst Coutts (taken and offered)
1000 to 25 agst Podesta (taken)

THE ST. LEGER.

On Wednesday the great St. Leger race will be run for
at Doncaster. The meeting, commonly called the Don-
caster September meeting, commences to-morrow (Tues-
day) and ends on Friday. There is no pleasanter gather-
ing in the whole range of racing fixtures than this one
upon the far-famed moor. Apart from the St. Leger
stakes the struggle for the " cup " is sure to give rise to an
exciting contest, as our best English horses will be
opposed by the pick of the French thoroughbreds, many of
whom are now located at Newmarket. With the sporting
papers Sornette appears to be the most general favourite.
The struggle for the St. Leger at one time promised to
lie between Kingcraft and Macgregor, one of whom has
won the Two Thousand and the other the Derby, but re-
cent information to hand does not go to favour the chance
of Macgregor, who is reported to have " pulled up lame,"
or come in badly after some canter or other. The follow
ing is a list of starters in the race :
Horse.
Palmerston .
Kingcraft ....
Wheat-ear
- Tabernacle
Haw thornden
Torreador
Bonny Swell
Captivator
Alaric .
Sunlight
Enterprise
Normanby
The Boy

Jockey.
Chaloner
French
Morris
Goater
Grimshaw
J. Osborne
Jeffery
Fordham
Custance
Snowden
M`Ewen
Hunt
Wyatt

Nobleman
Macgreg or
Champion
Valois .. ...
Cymbal

Maidment

Ptarmigan
Irregularity