The Sun.
London, England, 1860-04-28 00:00:00

WILLS AND BEQUESTS.

Lord John Scott : The Right Hon. Lord John
Douglas Montagu Scott, late of Cawstown House,
Duachurch, Warwick, who died on the Bth of
January, 1860, and was in his 50th year, had exe-
cuted his will on the 14th of March, 1845, leaving
the whole of his personal estate and effects to his
wife, the Right Hon. Alicia Ann Douglas Montagu
Scott, and appointing her sole executrix, but her
Ladyship renounced her right to the probate or ad-
ministration, which was thereupon granted to his
brother, the Most Noble Walter Francis Montagu
Douglas Scott, Duke of B uccleuch and Queensberry,
K.G., as one 'of the next of kin, the personalty in
the United Kingdom being sworn under £16,000.
Sir Charles M. Lamb, Bart.: The will of the
late Sir Charles Montolieu Lamb, Bart., of Beau -
port Park, near Battle, Sussex, who died on the 21st
of March, 1860, in his 75th year, was executed by
him on the Ist of February preceding. Sir Charles
has bequeathed to his relict, Francis Lady Lamb,
all his disposable real and:personal estate absolutely ;
and by virtue of a certain agreement and limitation
and by other powers under the will of Chas. James
Savile Montolieu Lamb, his late son and heir, born
of his first wife, who was the Dowager Lady Mont-
gomerie, the daughter and coheir of Archibald, 11 t h
Earl of Eglinton,and who died inlB4B,leaving her son
surviving, whose trustees are the Earl of Eglinton,
Sir Fred. Leopold Arthur, Bart., and Henry Danby
Seymour, Esq., Sir Charles has further bequeathed
to his relict a sum of £10,200, from part of the
lands of that value from the park of Beauport.
Lady Lamb is also sole executrix, and administered
thereto. Sir Charles is succeeded in his title and
estate by his grandson.
Vice-Admiral Digby, who died on the sth of
March, 1860, at the age of seventy-four, and
made his will on the 26th of November, 1857,,
to which he has added six codicils, the last
dated February the 20th, 1860. The property
is small ; and, after making a few bequests and
leaving mourning-rings to several friends, he leaves
the residue to his grandson, James Macgregor; but
the furniture he leaves by a codicil to his nurse for
her long and attentive services to him, whom he
had also remembered in his will, and has left her
the Douay edition of the Bible, Probate was
granted to John Thomas Perceval, Esq , of Herne
Bay, the sole executor.—lllustrated London News.

SCOTTISH CANALS.—The profits of the Forth
and Clyde Canal during the last six months enable the
governor and council to declare a dividend at the rate of 61
per cent., less income tax. An enlargement of the cut of
the Junction Canal at Grangemouth has been completed.
The Caledonian Canal is to be closed for traffic for three
Weeks at the end of June, to enable the Ross-shire Railway
Company to proceed more readily with the construction of
a bridge which they have on hand. In the interval the
Works are to be overhaulei, and any repairs executed which
'nay be considered necessary.
RUSSIA.—The ice on the Neva broke up on the
6th inst. On the 6th the commandant of the fortress of St.
Petersburg crossed the Neva, according to custom, guns
berg fired to announce that the navigation was open,