The Sun.
London, England, 1860-02-06 00:00:00

RECENT WILLS AND BEQUESTS.

The will of the Right Hon. Thomas Philip Wed-
dell, Earl De Grey, K.G., F.R.S., F.S.A., late of
St. James's-square, and of Wrest Park, Bedford-
shire, was proved in the principal Registry of Lon-
don, on the 25th of January, by the Right Hon.
Anne Florence, Dowager Countess Cowper, his
eldest daughter, and Henry Vyner, Esq., his son-
in-law, the joint acting executors. The personalty
was sworn under £lOO,OOO. The trustees are the
Earl of Clanwilliam and James Henry Cole, Esq.,
of Eaton-place. His lordship has devised his estates
in the counties of Bedford, Wilts, and Leicester in
trust for his eldest daughter, the Dowager Countess
Cowper, for her life, and then to her son, Earl
Cowper, and his issue—the estates and barony of
Lines of Crudwell are now possessed by the coun-
tess. The estates in Craven are devised to her
second son. The Newby Hall estates are devised
to his youngest daughter, Lady Mary Gertrude
Vyner, and to her husband and their issue.
The family plate is bequeathed to his daughter,
Countess Cowper. The statues and pictures at the
several mansions are to be held with the estates as
heirlooms. Legacies are left to all the servants.
His two daughters are appointed residuary legs.
tees. His nephew, the Right Hon. George e
D.
Frede-
rick, Earl of Ripon, succeeds to the earldom
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Grey and the barony of Grantham. The
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who was residing at 27, Nottingham-place,
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proved in London on the 26th of January.Shehas left her property to be equally divided
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her two granddaughters, Mdlle. ih
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la Belinaye and Mdlle. Laura Maria Josephine de
la Belinaye, -whom she appointed
The latter has alone duly ad her executrixes.
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The will and codicil of G mnstered thereto.
George
formerly of Calcutta, in the oErge Shearwood, Esq.,
East Indies, and of
Lime street, London, merchant, and residing at
113, Gloucester-terrace, Hyde-park, were proved
in London on the 28th of January by his relict,
and George Perry Shearwood, Esq., • his son, two of
the trustees and executors--power reserved to his
son William Lachlan
Shearwood, Esq. The per-
sonalty in England was sworn under £25,000. He
has bequeathed to his
wife all such goods, chattels,
and
furnituie, wine, ()tler effecdtls as she may select
for her own use absolutely
in Gloucester-terrace for a
hereav e
life,
here resi-
dencerthdeuri.w.idowhood, and then to his daughter Isabella. Allng
hispersonal estate in Great Britain, India, and
elsewhere, to be held in trust till the youngest of
his_ children attain the age of 21, when the same is
to be equally divided amongst them, his widow in
the meantime receiving the dividends, and interest
for their maintenance, and an annuity y to b o secured
to her of £BOO. The will, which bears date the sth
March, 1853, was made at Calcutta, and witnessed
by Thos. D. K. Watts, solicitor, Calcutta, and G.
Gliddou ; the codicil was executed in London on
the 19th of April, 1853.—/Ilustratid London
Arms.

CLEVER CAPTURE BY THE OVERLAND

ROUTE.

Col. Hogg, the Chief Constable of Staffordshire,
received information, on Saturday afternoon, of the
clever capture in Melbourne, by one of his force, o f
a man who ran away from that county, a short time
ago, with nearly £4OO. On the 27th of last August,
one of the Messrs. Benjamin Gibbons, ironmasters,
of Bilston, after taking from the Dudley Bank
wages necessary to pay the workpeople of the firm
at Highfieldsand Millfields respectively, instructed
one of his men to meet him on the road and take
to the last-named works the proportion of cash
which was required there. The fact was known to
a clerk at the Millfields works, named Swatman,
who intercepted the messenger, obtained the money
from him, and sent him on an errand in another
direction. This money amounted to £350. I'Vith it
and other moneys belonging to his employers he
decamped, and by his adroitness in employing the
messenger after getting the money from him, suc-
ceeded in obtaining so good a start of the police
that he got clear away, and all efforts to find him
were fruitless until, about the 22d of September,
the authorities learnt that he had sailed on the Bth
of that month to Melbourne, in the steamer
Monarch, from Plymouth. The lateness at which
the information was obtained left only one means
open whereby there was a chance of arresting him
even at the antipodes. The Messrs. Gibbons,
determined to avail themselves of this means,
applied to Colonel Hogg to find them an
efficient and trustworthy officer to go over-
land to Melbourne. The Chief Constable
of Staffordshire at once selected a member
of the corps, who was a man of good edu-
cation and gentlemanly manners, and in a short
time had so distinguished himself as to be promoted
to a rank which in ordinary cases Is attained only
after prolonged service. The officer's letters sent
to the chief constable from different parts of the •
route have shown that the pursuer was in every
way fitted for the responsible task which had been
assigned him. Although he left England a fort-
night later than the Monarch, yet he reached Mel-
bourne a few days before the vessel arrived in that
port. and although he did not know the fugitive
yet he arrested the right man, obtained possession
of the greater portion of the money that had been
stolen, and is now on his way home with the thief
in his custody. The expenses of the overland route
and the return passaga will be more than £l5O, a
sum with which the detective was entrusted.
Messrs. Gibbons will have this covered in the sum
found on Swatman, and will have done good ser-
vice to the public in showing dishonest persons who
may feel inclined to follow Swatman's example
that they may be equally unsuccessful.

COUNTRY MARKETS.

NORWICH7-FEn. 4.

At to-day's market the supply of wheat was short, and
the condition of a few of the samples being rather improved
there was a little better demand. In flour little is doing,
but prices firm. Barley rather falling off, but late prices
supported.
White wheat ..46s to 49s 1 Red wheat 40s to 45s
Malting barley....42s to 46s Chevalier barley 34s to 404
Distilling do.. ....25s to 27s 1 Oats..
Flour, 29s 6d to 30s per sack from the miller.