The Sun.
London, England, 1860-05-08 00:00:00

WILLS' AND BEQUESTB.

Lady Dover—The will of the late Right Hon.
Georgiana, Baroness Dover, was administered to in
the principal registry, on the 30th of April, by the
Right Hon. Henry Agar Ellis, Viscount Clifden,
Baron Mendip and Dover, her elest son. The per-
sonalty was sworn under £25,000. The Duke of
Sutherland and the Earl of Carlisle, her brother,
who are the surviving executors nominated in her
ladyship's will, having first renounced the grant of
probate. Her ladyship has left all the correspon-
dence, journals, and manuscripts of her late hus-
band—the Right Hon. George James Welbore
Agar Ellis, first Lord Dover, who died in July,
1833—together with all the plate, pictures, books,
furniture, and other effects, to her son, Viscount
Ctifden, to whom she has also bequeathed a por-
tion of her diamonds and jewels; the rest of her
diamonds and jewellery she directs to be divided
amongst her daughters, and has bequeathed the
residue of her property amongst her younger
children, the Hon. Leopold George Frederick Agar
Ellis, the lion. George Victor Agar Ellis, Lady
Bagot, and the Hon. Mrs. Coke. The will bears
date the 23d of May, 1837, being four years after
the death of the late Lord Dover, and her ladyship
has made no alteration, nor added any codicil
thereto. She had attained her fifty-sixth year.
Her ladyship was of distinguished rank; was the
daughter of George, sixth Earl of Carlisle, and
allied to some of the first families in the kingdom.
Lieut.-Colonel Harris, K H.—The will of Sir
Thomas Noel Harris, Lieut.-Colonel in her Ma-
jesty's Army, Knight Commander of the Hano-
verian Guelphic Order, who died at his residence,
Updown House, near Eastry, Kent, on the 23d of
March, 1860, at the age of seventy-five, was proved
in the principal registry, on the 25th of April, by
Lady Harris, his relict, the sole executrix, to whom
he has left the whole of his property, raal and per-
sonal. It was attested by John Soden, surgeon,
Bath, and William Ford, butler to Sir Thomas.
There is one very remarkable circumstance connected
with his brilliant career which will descend as an
heir-loom in the family ; he was the officer intrusted
with the important news to this country of hostili-
ties having ceased between France and England in
the great Continental war of 1814.
Joseph Miller, C.E.—The will of Joseph Miller,
Esq., late of Alpha-road, Regent's Park, but who
died at Charlestown, South Carolina, on the 23d of
February, 1860, in his sixty-third year, was proved
in London on the 13th of April liy Thomas Lloyd,
Chief Engineer to the Board of Admiralty, the sur
'riving executor. The personalty :in this country
was estimated for probate duty at £50,000. He
has bequeathed all his papers and drawings of a
scientific description to the Institution of Civil
Engineers, Great George-street, Westminster;
and also an immediate legacy of £3,000, and a
further sum of £2,000 on the death of a Mr.
John Miller, of Hope Bay, in the Island of Jamaica,
the interest to be applied to premiums and prizes to
the students of the institution, to be called " The
Miller Gift." He leaves to his sister, Mrs. Mary
Ann Harper, formerly of Virginia, in the United
States, but lately residing with him in London, a
legacy of £20,000, and all his furniture, plate, linen,
carriage, &c., and has appointed her residuary
legatee. There arc many liberal legacies to his
relatives and friends. To his executor he has left
a legacy of £2,000, and has bequeathed to each of
his servants £lOO, nod to the Cumberland Infir-
mary £l,OOO. The will is dated August 26, 185 C.,
—lllustrated London ezb s.

The accounts from Aberdeen to-day state that the
defalcations of John Blaikie, the advocate who has lately
absconded, will be about £200,000. At first it was feared
they might be double that amount. He is stated to have
obtained advances from the Union Bank of Scotland to the
extent of £30,000 or £30,000; but they have numerous se-
curities, and are not likely to lose more than £lO,OOO or
£15,000. Blaikie is understood to be in Sweden.

PROGRESS OF PARAGUAY AND TUE
RIVER PLATE.

The news by last mail from the River Plate,
under dates March 20 from Asuncion, March 29
from Buenos Ayres, and April 1 from Monte Video,
may, on the whole, be considered satisfactory.
Commerce was very active at Buenos Ayres, and
large transactions had taken place, both in imports
and exports. The annual elections for the renewal
of one-half of the Chambers were over, giving as
the result the triumph of the Liberal party. It
wls believed that the present legislature would
secure to General Mitre his election as Governor of
Buenos Ayres, which was to take place on the Ist
May. In the Confederation, Derqui's Ministry
had been organised as follows :—lnterior, Pujol ;
Exterior, Alvear ; Finance, Alberdi ; Worship and
Instruction, Amos ; War, Victorica. All the States
were progressing, and it was expected that the re-
conciliation of Buenos Ayres with the Confederation
would, by restoring peace, give a stimulus to indus-
try and enterprise. Paraguay continued its on-
ward progress. Railways through the most pro-
ductive districts were vigorously carried on. Two
new steamers, the machinery of which is being
made in London, were in course of construction.
Trade was prosperous, and the general entries were
50 per cent. more in February than in the corres-
ponding period of last year. The Government
had issued a decree against the introduction of
false notes, and had succeeded in discovering the
offenders, three of whom were in custody. Benito
Hortelano, another of the offenders, had been ar-
rested at Buenos Ayres, at the request of the Para-
guayan Government. The result of the mission of
Senor Calvo to England was awaited with interest
throughout the Platine region. The clemency
extended to Canstatt created hopes that the outrage
committed on the national flag by H.B.M. s
steamers Buzzard and Grappler would be reproved.
Mr. Henderson's demands on behalf of Canstatt
had caused serious disquietude, and to them are
attributed the exertions that are being made for
a South American Alliance, with which project
the journals of Ascuncion, Buenos Ayres, and.
Monte Video were warmly occupied. The agita-
tion of this question had extended to Brazil, and a
Rio journal thus comments upon it :
" The alliance question has given rise to explana-
tions from the Asuncion journal, which, in our
opinion, expresses the exact views of the Para-
guayan Government on that important topic. Its
observations thereon having produced some alarm,
from the supposition that Paraguay favoured the
alliance with hostile views towards Brazil, the
Senzanarie denies that its article had such tendency,
and adds that ' Brazil ought not ignore that
Paraguay may have enemies and aggressors every-
where. Perhaps those whom the Alliance has
alarmed found their apprehensions on the fact that
Brazil has not been invited; but this may be
easily understood when it is borne in mind that
the three republics have mutual interests, and
that their alliance might eradicate the dissensions
wherewith they so frequently mortify each other.
Brazil is too strong to need our feeble co-opera-
tion, and may believe, moreover, that Paraguay
looks at such alliances with sufficient caution. At
a period not remote, an invitation was tendered
to Paraguay to form a quadruple alliance with
Brazil, Uruguay, and the Argentine Confedera-
tion. The Brazilian Government may remember
the reply made by Paraguay to that invitation, and.
the consequences that would have resulted from
such an alliance of the republics with a more
powerful empire having strong territorial preten-
sions with each of them.' It would be deplorable
that England should enter into new complications
with those warlike peoples who gave us so much
trouble in the time of Rosas, without other result
to us than the loss of our influence, and the ruin of
British commerce, which is the most important in
those regions. It behoves the Government, there-
fore, to take care of British interests, and not to
sacrifice the general good to a mistaken self-love
by persevering in protecting a foreigner, and per-
haps an adventurer, for such have generally been
those who have promoted these difficulties."