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

TVILLS AND BEQUESTS.

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 Velbore
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
Clifden, 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 Hon. George Victor Agar Ellis, Lady
Bigot, 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 11.—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, real 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 why
died at Charlestown, South Carolina, en the 23d of
February, 1860, in his sixty-third year, was provcd
in London on the 13th of April by Thomas Lloyd,
Chief Engineer to the Board of Admiralty, the sur
viving executor.. The personalty e n 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 Civjl
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 are many liberal legacies to his
relatives and friends. To his executor he has left
a legacy of £2,000, and has bequeathed to (Itch of
his servants £lOO, and to the Cumberland Infir.
mart' 4-'l,OOO. The will is dated August 26, 185 e%
—lllustrated _London News.

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 £60,000 or £BO,OOO ; 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.