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.8., 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
cooks 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. Athol 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.—lllustrated London News.

THE WORKING OF THE NEW BANKRUPTCY

LAW.

In an application which was made to the Chief Judge
in Bankruptcy on Friday an extension of an interim
injunction granted at a former sitting, Mr. Bagley, in
opposing the application, strongly denounced the
abuses which had crept in under the arrangement
clauses of the Act. Short as was the time during
which the new Act had been in operation, it was well
known, he said, • that those liquidation cases were fast
becoming a scandal, and realising what Mr. Justice
Wales had said of deeds under the Act of 1861, that they
were a system of legalised plunder. The debtors who
petitioned for liquidation were much more numerous
than bankrupts : and if they had a hostile
creditor nothing was more easy than to omit him from
the list ; he was not summoned to the meeting ;
and in this way majorities were obtained for any pro-
posal the debtor chose to make. Unlike bankruptcies,
the proceedings in those cases were initiated by the debtors
themselves, and whether they would ever be carried out so
as to benefit the creditors it was impossible to say. Of all
portions of the act that required to be watched
with the utmost vigilance. Unless it were done the inte-
rests of creditors would be seriously compromised. Mr.
Reed, though opposed to Mr. Bagley in the case before the
court, agreed with him as to the necessity of the court
regarding those arrangement-cases with a vigilant :eye;
otherwise the bankruptcy law would be open to
frauds of all descriptions. The Chief Judge said that
it always had been so. He quite agreed as to the neces-
sity of the utmost possible vigilance being exercised in the
working of this branch of the law. No doubt in the hands
of dishonest men the law as it stood furnished means of
attempting fraud, but they would always find that the
law was quite strong enough to prevent the actual perpe-
tration of fraud. It had always been possible in bank-
ruptcy to attempt fraud, and sometimes the attempt had
succeeded. It would be the business of the court to en-
deavour to prevent the success of any such attempt, if
made under the present administration. He was glad
the matter had been discussed, because it would let every
one know that the court would exercise its own vigilance
as far as it could do, and creditors would see the necessity
of their doing the same ; but no doubt fraud might be
attempted, and where was the branch of our social
system in which frauds might not be attempted ? He
was sure that the learned counsel who had brought the
matter before him would do all in their power to expose
and prevent such frauds.

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 culm shipped at the several
ports of England, Scotland and Ireland, coastwise to other
ports of the United Kingdom in the year 1869 was
10,452,135 tons, as compared with 10,575,275 tons in 1868.
The quantity of coals, cinders, and culm exported was
10,588,452 tons, and the declared value £5,067,790 in
1869, as against 10,837,804 tons declared value £5,352,525,
hi 1868.