The Sun.
London, England, 1860-04-16 00:00:00

LATE WILLS AND BEQUESTS.

Dowager Lady Cowley—The will and two codicils
of the Right Hon ;Georgiana Charlotte:Augusta
Baroness Cowley were proved in London on the 2d
April by the Most Noble the Marquis of Salisbury,
K.G., the brother, Viicount Cranborne, the nephevr,
and the Hon. and Very Rev. Gerald Wellesley, Dean
of Windsor, the joint acting executors ; the per-
sonalty sworn under £12,000. Her ladyship has
bequeathed to her only daughter, the Right Hon.
Georgiana Charlotte Mary, wife of his Excellency
the Right Hon. Sir Henry Lytton Earle Bulwer,
G.C.8., P.C., her Majesty's Ambassador at Con-
stantinople, all her jewellery, plate, paintings,
books, Sevres, Dresden, and ornamental chink
articles of vertu, and curiosities; and has directed
that all the rest of her property (saving some legs:,
cies by codicil) shall be invested in the purchase of
an annuity for her life and for her sole and separate
use. By her first codicil her ladyship has bequeathed
to her nephew, Lord Eustace Gascoyne Cecil, .£5l
worth of London and Brighton Railway shares ; and
by her second codicil she leaves to her old and faith'
ful servant Mary Smith a pension of 14s. per weelc
for her life, to be paid out of her shares la
the Continental Gas Company. The will bears
date June 29, 1857 ; first codicil, December,
1858 ; second codicil, Fb. 8, 1859. Lady Cowley.
was the eldest daughter of James, first Marquie 0,1
Salisbury ; was born March 20, 1786 ; and married
Feb. 27, 1819, Henry, Lord Cowley, who died ill
Paris in April, 1847.
Baron Watson—The will and codicil of Sir lir*
H. Watson, one of the Hon. the Barons of her Ma:
jesty's Court of Exchequer at Westminster, has jobs.!
been administered to in the London court by la'
son, J. W. Watson' Esq., and the personalty sworn
under £50,000. The will is very short, and writtea
entirely in his own handwriting, but without date,
yet it is known to have been made on or about Aug'
31, 1850. There is also a codicil dated Oct. 1.859
He leaves his law books to his son John Williare,
and all his other books he leaves to his son Williata
Henry, and also leaves to him his Bermuda medals 3
sword, and guns (Sir William was formerly in th,.
army at India), and also leaves him his best watch'
The residue of his property he leaves as follows ..
One moiety to his son John absolutely; and of t.line
other moiety the principal to be invested and th.e,lso
terest and dividends arising therefrom to be pal? tol'
his wife for life, and at her decease the prinell?tr,
become the property of his said son William£lllo7
000
absolutely. The codicil refers to a sum of , _
under marriage settlement of his son John, to
out of his estate. He has left to his clerk,
Lancelly, if with him at the time of his
.d t
Buller, 56, Lincoln's-inn-fields, and S. guy of £3OO. The witnesses to the wilsleasreutJt.o4--)
his clerk.—lllustrated London Neu's._

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LARGE STEAM CYLINDER.---A few days ag°,,Vl
oscillating steana cylinder weighing 30 tons was suc'ciii;
fully cast at the Bowling Ironworks near Bradford. 12ft.
cylinder is Bft. 2in. diameter, Ilft. lin. in length, and
Bin. in width across trunnions, with steam chests and.
bottom. Upwards of 40 tons of metal were prep 103194
furnaces. The cylinder, when bored and finished, Is intQ.
to be placed in a oteain-youel building the