The Sun.
London, England, 1869-05-22 00:00:00

WILLS AND BEQUESTS.

The will of the Right Hon. George Wyndham, Baron
Leconfield, dated August 21,1867, with three codicils, has
been sworn under £250,000. The executors appointed are
his two sons, the Right Hon. Henry Lord Leconfield, and
the Hon. Percy Scawen Wyndham. The testator observes
that," inasmuch as Lis eldest son is provided for under the will
of the late George O'Brien, Earl of Egremont," he makes
several gifts in favour of his second son, Percy, including
the manors and lands in Sussex purchased of the Duke
of Marlborough, subject to certain provisions ; and,
after making a trifling be quest to one of his
daughters, he leaves to his son Percy the residue of
his real and personal estate in England and Ireland. He
bequeaths to his son Henry, now Lord Leconfield, all his
plate, racing-cups, horses, hounds, and farming stock, and
the furniture in his residences at Petworth, Brighton, and
elsewhere.—The will of Sir George Chetwynd, J.P.,
Deputy-Lieutenant for Warwickshire, late of Grendon
Hall, near Atherstone, was proved in London on the 13th
inst., under £30,000 personalty, the executors appointed
being the Right Lion. William Pitt, Earl of Amherst, Sir
John llanmer, M.P., and the Rev. Henry Hanmer.—The
will of Sir Arthur William Buller, Knt., M.P., formerly
Judge of the Supreme Court at Calcutta, was proved in
London on the 12th instant, by the joint acting executors,
Mr. Edmund Robert Wodehouse and Admiral Sir Robert
Spencer Robinson, C. 8., Controller of the Navy. The
personalty in England was sworn under £35,000. The
will is dated April 29 last, and the testator died the
following day at his residence in Halfmoon-street,
Piccadilly, at the age of 63. He was born in Calcutta
in 1806, and was the son of Mr. C. Buller, M.P., formerly
of the East India Company's Civil Service. The
testator has bequeathed to his daughter, Annie Kate
Buller, for her own use absolutely, 80,000 rupees of the
currency of India, and leaves the residue of his
property to his executors for their own use, equally
between them.—The will of the late Miss Anna Maria
Michell, of Speen, Berkshire, was proved at Oxford under
£30,000. She has bequeathed to the Oxford Diocesan
Church Building Society, the Society for Promoting
Christian Knowledge, the Society for the Propagation of
the Gospel, and the Royal Berkshire Hospital each £lOO.
—The late Miss Elizabeth Scattergood Kemp, of City-
road, London, has bequeathed to the National Lifeboat
Institution, the Royal Free Hospital, Gray's-inn•lane, the
London Missionary Society, and the British and Foreign
Bible Society £lOO each.—Plugratal London News.

Lord Stanley of Alderley is now lying in an en-
tirely hopeless condition:
The Liverpool papers report a case before the
magistrates which shows that the town has had a narrow
oscare from "one of the most serious disasters which ever
visited the world." A charge was brought, under the Liver-
pool Prevention Act, against a licensed war, houseman
of allowing a fire to 2 be lighted iu the miedle of a
streot, within a few yards of immense petrokum stores.
The fire was lighted for the purp:se of soldering and
unsoldering tin cases containing this tlangetcts oil, and it
was only twelve yards Irt an a warelicuse hero petroleum
was stored, the door of the wart hems Lei! g open at the
time, and about a dozen men walking shunt with
soldering arms. In the street in question (ilrwasley-
street), and three other streets adjoining, the quantity of
petroleum oil and its products stored in the licenzed
sheds was between 16,000 and 17,000 b rrels, besides a
quantity of cotton. So that if a fire had broken out it
would have been simply inextinguishable, and it is no ex-
aggeration to say that the whole town was in danger of
being destroyed. The defendant having erred through
mere carelessness, and not with criminal intent, the Bench
contented themselves with cautioning him to discontinue
Driotico tortukperilQuA totito Old PK.9l3litis.