The Sun.
London, England, 1860-09-15 00:00:00

WILLS AND BEQUESTS.

Lord Sandys: The will of Lieut.-General the
Right Hon. Arthur Moyses William Hill, Baron
Sandys, Colonel of the Scots Greys, was proved in
her Majesty's Court of Probate on the Ist of the
present month by his brother, Lord Geo. Augustus
Hill, the sole executor. The personalty was sworn
under £lO,OOO. His Lordship has left the whole
of his property, real and personal, to his brother,
Lord George Augustus Hill, fifth son of the
second Marquis of Downshire. The will bears
date the 17th of July, 1848. His Lordship died at
his seat Ombersley Court, Worcestershire, on the
16th of July last, at the age of sixty-nine, and was
the second son of the said Marquis, Lord Sandys
having died a bachelor, the title and entailed estates
pass to his brother, Lord Arthur Marcus Cecil Hill,
P.C., K.T.S. of Portugal, the third son of Arthur,
the said Marquis.

Major-General Godfrey Charles Mundy, Lieut.-
Governor of the Island of Jersey, who died in Lon-
don on the 10th of July last, had made his will on
the Bth of May, 1855, which was proved in London
on the 10th of this month. The executors are Mon-
tagu Chambers, Esq„ Q.C., and Abel Jenkins, Esq.,
of New Inn, who are also the trustees. The personal
property was sworn under £12,000. The Major-
General had, moreover, a power of disposition over
various sums of trust property, amounting to
£30,000, and on the decease of his wife—who is
the daughter of the late Hon. and Very Rev. Wil-
liam Herbert, Dean of Carlisle—he directs that the
said sum and all other property shall be divided
between his two sons, the elder taking two-thirds
and the younger the remainder. The Major-
General has made bequests of three swords
which he appears to have highly es-
teemed. These decorative weapons he has be-
queathed to his eldest son and his (the testator's)
two brothers, one to each. The family of this gal-
lant officer is highly distinguished in rank, as well
as in naval and military command.
Major-General Frederick Thomas Buller, of St.
Alban's place, Pall-mall, who held a commission in
the Coldstream Guards, died at Dover on the sth
of June last, at the age of 61 ; and during a resi-
dence in Austria made his will, dated the 21st of
August, 1857, in Ischl, leaving all his property to
his brother, the Rev. W. Buller, whom he ap-
pointed sole executor. The terms of the will are
very brief, and drawn up in his own handwriting,
and attested by two witnesses, one a French sol-
dier and the other a native of Austria.—From the
Illustrated London News, &pt. 15.

COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT, Sept. 14.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
COWES TOWN REGATTA.

This event, which has been delayed to this late period of
the season by. the wet weather in August, is now proposed
to come off on Thursday the 20th. Her Majesty and the
Royal family are annually present at the Town Regatta,
and if it does not take place between the 18th and 22d that
cannot be the case this year, as her Majesty will not arrive
till the 18th and leaves Osborne upon. the 22d inst.
The Sun, the Moon, and the Planet Venus were in
conjunction on Wednesday, and were visible to the naked
eye the whole day.

EMBARKATION OF 7hER MAJESTY
FROM GRAVESEND.

It having been officially intimated to the Corporation of
Gravesend that it is the intention of her Majesty to em-
bark at that town, for the Continent, on Saturday, the 22d
inst., a special meeting of the Town Council was held at
the Town-hall on Thursday, the Mayor in the chair, for
the purpose of deciding upon the arrangements requisite
for her Majesty's convenience. A communication was
received from the London and Tilbury Railway Company,
offering to place the Terrace Pier at the disposal of the
Corporation for the day, and it was then resolved that this
offer be accepted, and that similar arrangements should be
made on the Pier for her Majesty's embarkation, and for
the accommodation of the burgesses, &c., as on previous
occasions. The Gravesend Volunteer Artillery Corps has
applied for permission to form a guard of honour to her
Majesty, but an intimation was given by the Lieutenant-
Colonel of the Brigade that such privilege belongs specially
to the regular troops. It has, however, been arranged that
the Volunteers will have, the honour of firing a royal salute
from the battery at New Tavern Fort, at the moment of
her Majesty's embarkation on board the Royal Yacht.

DINNER TO MR. BUCKSTONE.—Ibe members of
the Haymarket company, in return for a similar invitation
which they had had given to them a few weeks ago, invited
their esteemed and respected manager to a dinner on the
9th inst. Mr. Chippendale, Stage-Manager, was in the
chair, with Mr. C. Mathews facing him, and amongst the
few visitors invited were Mr. Benjamin Webster, and Mr.
Robert Keeley. As the dinner was entirely of a private
nature, we need only record that the numerous toasts and
speeches pleasantly commemorated the harmony that has
reigned throughout the establishment for so long a period,
and that the health of Mr. Buckstone elicited one of the
heartiest responses of the evening.
MADAME GRISI AND MR. E. T. SMITM—Some
weeks ago we recorded in these columns the announcement
of an engagement having been made by Mr. E. T. Smith,
the lessee of her Majesty's Theatre, which secured the
valuable services of Signor Mario at that establishment, at
the same time that it would lead to Madame Grisi taking
her farewell of the lyric stage, on the boards where she
first made her debut in the metropolis. A contradiction of
this statement having appeared in some of our contempo-
raries, who assume to be well informed on operatic matters,
we take this opportunity of again assuring our readers that
the fact is exactly as we originally reported it, and that the
subscribers to her Majesty's next season will have the op-
portunity of hearing both the above-named artistes, and
that the positive farewell of the " great Grisi" will take
place on that stage..—Era.

It is stated that the directors of the Great Ship
Company intend to appeal against the award of £17,000 or
LlB,OOO, made by the arbitrators in favour of Mr. J. Scott
Russell, who had previously received some £14,000 in ex-
cess of the contract price. The directors consider that the
evidence taken before the arbitrators was of a one-sided
character, and that the award is not just.
There are good grounds for believing that the
statement of the strength of General Lamoriciere's army
lately circulated by several Paris papers is erroneous, and
that the Papal forces are considerably more numerous than
they were there made to appear. lam assured that they
are very little, if at all, under 30,000 men.
The French Government is despatching vessels
from St. Nazaire to China laden with coal, the produce of
the mines in the Haute Loire, for the supply of the squad-
ron in those waters. The coal reaches St. Nazaire by rail-
way. Three vessels, the Niemen, the Armonia, and the
Souvenanoe, have left, or are on the point of leaving, con-
veying 2,650 tons of French coal.
HEENAN'S BELT.—We understand a gentleman,
well known for his liberality in yachting, as welt as in thea. •
trical circles, has dis,eharged the money duo to the host
where Heenan's belt was retained, and has forwarded the
same to him by the last American mail,—Era.
EXTRAORDINARY SHOOTIN..—Five sergeants of
the 22d depot battalion, Stirling, having got up a shooting
match in the first period (from 150 to 300 yards) on Friday,
the 7th inst., made an average of 29.40 points per man ;
and having, on Sunday last, seen in the United Service
Gazette a paragraph relative to a detachment of eight men
of the 2d battalion. 18th Foot making in the Ist period—
file, volley, and skirmishing practice—the then unpre-
cedented average of 55.64, the sergeants then resolved, if
possible, to gain permission to perform the file, volley, and
skirmishing practice. This liberty having been granted,
and the practice conducted under the superintendence of
Capt. Webber, 42d Royal Highlanders, musketry instructor
to the battalion, the following are the averages obtained :
let period, 29.40; file firing, 13.20 ; volley, 13.20 ; skirmish-
ing, 9 80—making the figure of merit 65-60. Per centage
of hits to rounds fired, 86.80. which we believe to be the
best shooting with the Enfield rifle ever published,

LAT EST NEW S.

The following telegrams have been received at
Mr. Reuter's office :

PARIS, SEPT. 15.

The Constitutionnel publishes an article by its
chief editor M. Grandguillot, explaining the policy
followed by the Emperor in Italy-.
The Constitutionnel says :—The object of the
French Government in recalling its Ambassador
from Turin is to express its dissatisfaction at the
course which has been taken by Sardinia, but such
a disavowal is far from a rupture. The interests
of France and Sardinia always coinciding, re-
quire that Piedmont should remain the insur-
mountable rampart of the Italian peninsula.
The legitimate enlargement of her territory, which
she owes to our common victories and to the treaties,
cannot in any case be compromised."

TURIN, SATURDAY.
General Fanti entered Perugia yesterday.
The town was taken, after a hot fight, which was
continued in all the streets.

The troops of the enemy withdrew into the for-
:ress, which surrendered towards evening.
Our troops made 1,600 prisoners, among whom
us General Schmidt.
Our losses are insignificant.

TURIN, FRIDAY EVENING.

General Cialdini, after having followed the
enemy's corps on the road to Ancona, and dispersed
them, has re-entered Sinigaglia with 200 German

prisoners.

The official Gazette of Turin publishes a Govern-
ment memorandum addressed by the King of Sar-
dinia to his representatives abroad, and dated 12th
September. The memorandum explains the state
of things in Italy since the peace of Villafranca. It
adverts to the refusal of the Court of Rome to accede
to the demand of Sardinia to disband the foreign
legions, and justifies by imperative reasons the step
taken by Sardiaia. The Sardinian Government
could not allow the Italian movement to dissipate
itself in anarchy and disorder.

The memorandum confirms the assurance already
given that the royal troops will scrupulously re-
spect Rome and the surrounding territory, and it
makes an appeal to the Holy Father, who some
years ago inaugurated the national movement. The
memorandum thus concludes :—" When the Pope
shall recognise the regeneration of Italy, which
enters into the designs of Providence, he will again
become the Father of the Italians, as he has never
ceased to be the august and venerable Father of
all the faithful."

PARIS, FRIDAY.

The Petrie says :—" Authentic advices report
that the revolutionary movement in the Marches
and Umbria does not extend itself among the in-
habitants of those countries."

The same journal announces that Baron Brenier,
with the personnel of the embassy, has embarked at
Naples, in order to return to Paris. The repre-
sentatives of the> other powers have also received
orders immediately to quit the kingdom. Baron
Talleyrand will leave Turin on the 15th instant.
Count Rayneval will undertake the direction of the
affairs of the French Legation.
The Opinion Nationale says :—" If we are well
informed, the Austrian cabinet has announced to
the French government that Austria, for her own
security, is about to concentrate a corps of observa-
tion of 50,000 men at Mantua and on the river Po,
but that she has no intention of intervening in the
events resulting from the entry of Sardinian troops
into the Papal States."

AJACCIO, SEPT. 14.
The Emperor and the Empress have arrived

here.

TURIN, SEPT. 14.

The Turin journals publish a proclamation ol
General Lamoriciere declaring a state of siege at
Perugia. The proclamation is dated the 7th inst.

General Lamoriciere threatens the inhabitants
with confiscation of property, death, and a fine of
30,000 ducats, for even a more fracture of the tele-
graph wires,
The Opinione says :—" Cardinal Antonelli hav-
ing refused to accede to the demands of Piedmont,
Count Minerva has left Rome and has arrived at
Florence."