The Sun.
London, England, 1860-11-23 00:00:00

WILLS AND B_EQUES2'S.

The will and codicil of Mary Lady von Stierne-
man, who died at Norrkoping, Sweden, on the 15th
of July last, in her 70th year, which are dated
severally in 1851 and 1852, have been proved in
Doctors' Commons by Mr. D. M. Johnston, the
sole executor in England. The personal estate is
sworn under £3,000, and the executors nominated
for Sweden are her husband, the Hon. Frederic
William von Stierneman, and John Aloselius, Esq.,
the late British Vice-Consul in Sweden. Her lady-
ship's first husband was Colonel James Inglis
Hamilton, of INlurdieston, Lanarkshire, who fell
gallantly at the head of the Scots Greys at Water-
, 100. She subsequently married Captain Edward
Payne, also of the Scots Greys. A dowry of £133
was charged on the estate of Murdieston, and she
also received, for the long period of 45 years, from
Government, in recognition of Colonel Hamilton's
meritorious services, an extra pension, of £230,
partly from the 'Waterloo fund, and partly from the
Royal bounty. She was probably amongst the last
recipients of such proofs of national gratitude for
services rendered at and antecedent to Waterloo.
Captain Payne having died in 1841, she married,
thirdly, in 1844, the Hon. F. W. von Stierneman,
a member of the Swedish House of Lords, and to
him she makes a bequest equivalent to £1,400.
She likewise makes specific bequests to a nephew
and to nieces of Captain Payne. The residue her
ladyship bequests to her executor, David Morice
Johnstone, Eq., of Moorgate-street, London, but
subject as to £l,OOO Consols, part thereof, to thel
contingency of his surviving her husband;
interred
s ie
desires that her remains shall be ultimately
in England, in the tomb of her
tr
second
ofondChailey, husband,
Captain Payne, in the churchyard
, _

Commandant
iII
Sussex.
The will of Lieutenant-General Sir
Harry
Smith,
Bart., G.C.8., Colonel Coandant of the Rik,
Brigade, and late Governor and Commander-in..
Chief at the Cape of Good_
relict, Hope, was
proved
eneral John Bell sworn under
London on the 15th of November by hisct, the
xso6le,ooeox.ecuitx,wtillileispaeruesosntaea ltyby being
General
and Lieutenant-Colonel H. H. Rigby; it was
executed on the 30th of July,
Harry died on the 12th of last lB6O, and Sir
month at his re-
sidence, 1, Eaton-place
general married, in 1814 aged, seventy two. The
Suana de los Dolores d _, a Spanish li.idy—Donna
he leaves all his property, both, real and personal,
e Leon, of Badajos, to whom
for her own use
of the marriage, absolutely. There being no issue
relative and the General having no male
his surviving, the baronetcy becomes extinct.
Sir Harry was raised to the baronetcy in 1846 for
services in the l Affg han 'stan campaign, at
Moodkee, Sobraon, and Ferozeshah.
_ The personal estate of the late Sir John Edward
Swinburne, Bart., was sworn under £BO 000
The will of the late John Finlaison, isq.,—
the late Government Actuary and Financier—for-
merly residing at Gothic House, Richmond,
Surrey, and late of 15, Lansdowne-crescent, Bays-
water, was proved in London on the 13th of
November, by his relict, the sole executrix. The
personalty was sworn under £2,000. The will is
attested by Andrew van Sandau, solicitor, King-
street, Cheapside, and R. S. Tripp, Richmond. It
bears date the 16th of April, 1851, an
A d the testator
died at his residence on the 13th of pril ,in
1 his 77th year. The will is very brief, and he disc
poses of the whole of his property to his relict,
" feeling confident," as he has himself expressed it
in his will, "that she will provide for the interests
of their three children to the best of her ability."
--Illustrated _London News.

We mentioned yesterd. ay the melancholy occur-
rencefollowing the Beaufort hounds.
which happened on ruesday
The leers expressed have
to Mr. Bally, while
been unlieppily realised by Mr. Baily's death. Ho was
riding with his usual spirit, and had just remarked that
the fox. wsuld escape by drowning, when ho
was attacked
by ft fit of apoplexy and fell from his horse. Death termi-
nated his sufferings the same evening.. Unfortunately,
Airs. Bally was at Weston-super-Mare, from which she
wasimmediately summoned to the family residence, Al-
derley Court. Her father (Mr. Daniel Cave) also proceeded
to the house, but life had fled ere they reached it. Mr.:
Bally was long a well-known citizen of Bristol, being for
many years engaged in the lead trade, and his sudden re-
moval is regarded with sorrow by a large circle of friends.
lie was 55 years of age.