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

WILLS AND BEQUESTS.

The will of the Right Hon. George Wyndham, Baron
Lecoufield, dated August 21,1867, with three codicil; 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 his eldest sonisprovided 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 bequest to one of his
daughters, he leaves to his son Percy the residue of
his real and personal estate in England and Ireland. Ho
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 Hon. William Pitt, Earl of Amherst, Sir
John Hanmer, 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, endives 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
I 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.—Plustratcd London News.

Lord Stanley of Alderley is now lying in an en-
tirely hopeless condition.
The Liverpool papers report a case before the
magistrates wLich shows that the town has had a narrow
escaio from "one of the most serious disasters'.l hich ever
visited the world." A charge wasbrcngla, tinder the Liver-
pool Frevention Act, against a licensed war,houserniin
of allowing a fire to Le lighted in the iniedle of a
street, within a few yards of iinineLso petroleum stores.
The fire was lighted for the purpose of soldering and
unsoldering tin cases containing this dsngercus oil, and it
was only twelve yards from a warehouse where petrotenin
was stored, the door of the warehouse being open at the
time, and about a dozen men walking about with
soldering arms. In the street in question (Alawdslcy-
street), and three other streets adjoining, the quantity of
petroleum oil and its products stored in the licensed
sheds was between 16,000 and 17,000 b rrels, beedes a
quantity of cotton. So that if a fire bad 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. Thu defendant Laving erred through
mere carelessness, and not with criminal intent, the Bench
contented themselves with cautioning him to discontinue
the Practice solearfully perilous to life and property.