The Sun.
London, England, 1869-10-19 00:00:00

THE WILL OF A MILLIONAIRE.

The will of William Henry Forman, Esq., merchant, of
Queen-street, Cheapside, and of Dorking and Doncaster, was
proved in the London Court on the Bth inst., and the person-
alty sworn under £1,000,000. The executors and trustees are
William A. Collins, Esq., Stone-buildings ; Henry Kebbel,
Esq., All Hallows-lane; and Mr. George Hardy, 28,
Queen-street, Cheapside. The will is dated 1860 ; and a
codicil November 1868 ; and the testator died at Fonthill
House, Tunbridge Wells, 28th August last, aged 75. He
leaves to each of his executors an annuity of £lOO for ten
years, for their trouble in the execution of the trusts.
He leaves annuities of £1,500 to 'each of his sisters, and
to his sisters-in-law, the widow of his brother Thomas,and
the widow of his brother Edward, and also a like annuity
to his brother, Richard Forman, and to the latter a further
bequest of £lO,OOO. There are legacies to each of his god-
children. Ho has left his residence, Pippbrook House'
Dorking, to his sister-in-law, the widow of his brother
Thomas, and in succession to others of his family ; and
bequeaths the sum of £250 a year for the keeping in order
the plantation and shrubbery ; also £3OO a year for cloth-
ing the domestic servants; and £5O a year for fuel. The
residue of his property, real and personal, he leaves to his
nephew, Alexander Henry Browne, eldest son of his sister
Helena Gwinnefrid, wife of Major Alexander Browne.—
City Press.

THE ALTERNATIVE TO THE CONGE

D'ELIRE.

• There appears to be an impression among some of those
who are' promoting petitions to the Dean and Chapter of
Exeter against the election of Dr. Temple that a
cathedral chapter, if it be willing to risk the penalties
of a przemunire, or, in ecclesiastical phrase, " undergo
the spoiling of its worldly goods," can prevent
a royal nomination from taking effect. The following
extract from 25 Henry VIII., c. 20, which still governs
elections to bishoprics, will shew that, in the event of a
dean and chapter refusing to elect the person named in
the Queen's letters missive, the Crown can nominate by
letters patent :—" And furthermore be it obtained and
established by the authority aforesaid, that at
every avoidance of every archbishopric or bishopric
within this realm, or in any other the King's
dominions, the King our sovereign lord, his heirs
and successors, may grant to the prior and convent,
or the dean and chapter of the cathedral churches or
monasteries where the see of such archbishopric or
bishopric shall happen to be void, a license under the great
seal, as of old time hath been accustomed, to proceed to
election -of an archbishop or bishop of the see so being
void, with a letter missive containing the name
of the person which they shall elect and choose ; by virtue
of which licence the said dean and chapter, or prior and
convent, to whom any such licence and letters missive
shall be directed, shall with all speed and celerity
in due form elect and choose the same person named
in the said letters missive to the dignity and office of the
archbishopric or bishopric so being void, and none other.
And if they do defer or delay their election above twelve
days next after such licence or letters missive to them de-
livered, that then for every such default the King's High-
ness, his hci s a•-.d successors, at their liberty and pleasure
shall nominate and present, by their letters patent under
their Great Seal, such a person to the said office and dignity
so being void as they shall think able and convenient for
the same.

A LETTER FROM MR. THOMAS CARLYLE.

The American Scotsman, a new weekly, published in
New York, prints a letter from Mr. Thomas Carlyle. It
refers to a pamphlet, "Tho Temple of Isis," by Mr. William
Denovan :—" Chelsea, London, January 19, 1869.
Dear sir, At last I receive your pamphlet ; and
have read it, with what attention and apprecia-
tion I could bestow. Considerable faculties of mind
aro manifested in it; powers of intellect, of imagination;
a serious earnest character; here and there a tone of
sombre eloquence, and vestiges of real literary skill. But
my constant regret was, and is, to see such powers operat-
ing in a field palpably chaotic, and lying beyond the limits
of man's intelligence. These are not thoughts, which you
give ; they are huge gaunt vacant dreams, for ever incap-
able, by nature, of being either affirmed or denied. My clear
advice, therefore, would be, Give up all that; refuse to employ
your intellect on things where no intellect can avail; to
sow good seeds on realms of mere cloud and shadow. The
highest intellect which issues in no certainty has com-
pletely failed. The world of practice and fact is the true
arena for its inhabitants ; wide enough for any or for all
intellects of men; and never lay more encumbered
with sordid darkness and pernicious delusions
than even now. Real intellect might write with
advantage on such things ; better still, perhaps, it
might remain silent, and bend its whole force on illuminat-
ing one's own poor path in such a wilderness; on more and
more clearly ascertaining, for at least one earnest man,
What to do, and How to do it. Probably you will not
adopt this advice, almost certainly not at once;
nor shall that disaffect me at all. Your tract I found
throughout to be rather pleasant reading, and to have
a certain interest ; nothing in it, except one small section,
treating of a thing I never mention, unless when com-
pelled—the thing which calls itself `Spiritualism' (which
might more fitly be called Ultra-Brutalism,' and 'Liturgy
of Dead-Sea Apes ')—was disagreeable to mo.—Yours, with
many good wishes, T. Csitix-LE."

It is said that Mr. Stephenson, the Chairman of
Inland Rovenue, is likely to be offered the permanent
Secretaryship of the Treasury.

The Fine Arts Exhibition at Simla was opened by
the Viceroy of India on the 24th of September. The
Exhibition is expected to be a great success. The contri-
butors number more than 300, many of them being ladies.
The photographs of Indian scenery, including some views of
Neilgherry Hills, are said to be remarkably fine.
The day now definitively fixed for the opening of
the new bridge at Blackfriars by her Majesty is Saturday,
the 6th of November. Intelligence to that effect was re-
ceived at Guildhall on Monday. The Holborn Viaduct
will be opened to tho public on the same day with much
ceremony.

The Crown Princess of Prussia is a great favourite
in the Prussian army. At the recent manwuvres at Star-
grad she appeared at the head of the regiment of dragoons
of which she is the colonel. The staff of her regiment are
about to offer her Royal Highness a sword of honour, on
the blade cf which is written, in golden letters, "From tho
dragoons of the Crown Princess to their colonel."
FIVE PERSONS SWEPT AWAY BY A WAVE.—A com-
munication from Dundee says :—" While a party of fivo
young men were sitting on a rock, on the coast near Mont-
rose, watching the gale on Sunday afternoon, a large wave
swept over them and carried away all the five. Three, by
desperate efforts, clambered up the rock and were saved,
but the other two, aged respectively 20 and 12, were
drowned."

SUCCESS IN THE MEDICAL PROFESSION.—The
last volume of the "St. Bartholomew's Hospital Reports"
contains a paper written by Mr. Paget, with the assistance
of Mr. Callender and Mr. Thomas 'Smith, in which an
analysis is made of particulars collected respecting 1,000
students whose careers Mr. Paget has, with the aid of his
colleagues, watched and noted during the 15 years subse-
quent to the commencement of hospital work. Of
these, 23 achieved distinguished success, CC considerable
success, 507 fair succe.;s, and 121 very limited success; .50
failed entirely, CC left the profession, 87 died within
12 years of commencing practice. and 41 died cluxin4
pupilage.