The Sun.
London, England, 1860-08-21 00:00:00

_RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

SOUTH WALES.
The directors of this company state in their re-
port that the receipts for traffic during the half-
year ending the 30th of June amounted to
£170,577, as compared with £160,062 in the cor-
responding half of 1859, showing an increase of
£10,515, of which £2,115 was derived from pas-
senger traffic, and £8,399 from goods traffic. A
dividend for the half•year on the ordinary stock of
the company at the rate of 2 per cent. per annum,
leaving a balance of £1,979 to be carried forward,
is proposed by the directors.

TAFF VALE.
Assisted by the amount reserved from the pre-
ceding half-year, the directors declare a dividend
at the rate of 8 per cent. per annum upon the stock
of the company, and on the amount called up on the
£2O shares, payable on the 6th Sept. next.

NORFOLK.
It appears that the directors of this company in-
tend to recommend the proprietors at the ensuing
half-yearly meeting to declare a dividend at the
rate of £1 102. per cent, for the half-year ending
30th June,

SOUTH YORKSHIRE.
The half-yearly meeting of this company was
held yesterday in Doncaster. The report was
adopted, and a dividend upon the guaranteed and
ordinary capital, at the rate of 4 per cent. per
annum, was declared.

WILLS AND BEQUESTS.

Lady Byron's Will :—The will and codicil of the
Right Hon. Anne Isabella, Baroness Noel Byron,
relict of the poet Byron, and Baroness Wentworth
in her own right, acquired in the year 1856, was
proved in her Majesty's Court of Probate by the
Right Hon. Stephen Lushington, D.C.L., one of the
t executors an d trustees, power being reserved to Lord
Byron, the other executor and trustee, to prove here*
after. The personalty was sworn under £60,000.
The will is of great length, and bears date, with the
codicil, April 30, 1860. The Baroness has devised
the estate of Oxneyfield, situate at Darlington., in the
county of Durham, to her grandson, Ralph Gordon
Noel King, the son of her daughter Ada and the
Earl of Lovelace, which is entailed upon his issue,
and, in default thereof, then to her grandson,
Viscount Ockham ; and that the inheritor of the
estate shall use and acquire by royal license the
surname of " Milbanke, which was her lady-
ship's maiden name, her father being the late Sir
Ralph Milbanke, Bart., who, upon the death of
his brother, Thomas oel, ate Viscount Went-
worth (title now extinct), acquired by sign manual
also the name of " Noel." To her said grandson,
Ralph Gordon, she also leaves a legacy of £25,000.
To her granddaughter, Anne Isabella Noel King,
she leaves a life interest in all other her estate, and
on her decease to be divided amongst her children ;
and given her all her jewellery, household furni-
ture, and articles of virtu absolutely, and ap-
pointed her residuary legatee. To Mrs: Greig
£3oo—" who bas been a true friend to my
daughter, granddaughter, and myself." To Charles
Follen, Esq., of Boston, U.S., £3OO, "to assist him in
the difficulties he will have to contend with in his
disinterested advocacy for the rights of the coloured
race." To the Hon. Amelia Murray, the Misses
Bathurst and Skerrett, each a legacy of £3OO for
charitable purposes. To the Revs. J. H. Young,
F. E. Tower, and T. Badcoek, all of Leicester-
shire—incumbents under her patronage—she
leaves to each a legacy of £lOO to
distribute as they may see fit amongst
the poor of their respective parishes. To
Dr. W. King, £3OO. There are many other legacies
and several annuities. Lady Byron was in her 66th
year, and died at her residence in Regent's-park,
on the 16th of May, 1860.
Dowager Baroness St. John (Lady Vaughan) :
The will and codicil of the Right Hon. Louisa,
Dowager Baroness St. John, formerly of Spratton,
Northamptonshire, of Bletsoe and Melchbourne,
Bedfordshire, and of St. Leonards-on-Sea—first the
wife of St.. Andrew, Baron St. John, and after-
wards the wife of the Right Hon. Sir John
Vaughan, Judge of the Common Pleas, whom she
survived—were proved in the London Court of
Probate, and administration granted to her sons,
—viz., the Right Hon. St. Andrew Beauchamp,
Baron St. John, and the Rev. Charles Lyndhurst
Vaughan, ivt.A., two of the executors. The Rev.
W. W. Hume, of St. Leonards, the other executor,
having renounced. The personal estate was sworn
under £45,000. Her Ladyship has bequeathed to
her son, Baron St. John, and to her two daughters,
some pecuniary legacies in token of affectionate
remembrance ; her daughter, the Hon. Mrs. Louisa
Macleod having received as a gift the family estate
called Spratton, her youngest daughter, Emily,
the wife of Sir Charles Edmund Isham, Bart., being
well provided for. To her said two daughters her
Ladyship leaves her jewellery and personal orna-
ments ; and to her son Charles she bequeaths all
her plate and household furniture, and also leaves
him a life interest in the sum of £6,000, which, at
his decease, is to be divided amongst his children ;
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December 11, 1857 (signed " Louisa St. John"),
and the codicil is dated Oct. 14, 1859.
Baron de Hochepied Larpent, of the Holmwood,
Dorking, who died on the Bth of June last, had
made his will on the 12th of January preceding,
which was proved in the principal registry by
his relict, the Baroness, and his brother-in-law,
the Rev. Frederick J. l. Reeves, of East Sheen,
the acting executors. The personal estate was
sworn under £5,000. He bequeaths to his wife,
the Baroness, all his furniture, household effects,
and carriages absolutely, and a life interest in his
estates, which on her decease are to be divided
amongst his children, with one exception—namely,
to a daughter whom he states is already provided
for. Ho has left his copyhold estate in Knights-
bridge to his third son, in trust, to see to its _
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franchisement. The will bears date the 12th of
January, 1860.—Illustrated London News, Aug. 18.