The Sun.
London, England, 1867-09-23 00:00:00

without foundation, knowing the antecedents and the
after career of the man to whom it was attached ? None
of those who parade their intimate relations with Sir
Charles were ever suspected of the crime. But of my
father, whose touch even at that early period of his life
was detected in the competition drawings—" whose powers
of creation" and "inventive genius" are the theme of Sir
Charles Barry's praise—it is credible enough. Depend
upon it, the tradition, true itself, rested on a foundation
of truth, and every effort to kick the dead lion only re-
veals the character of those who commit the outrage.
Rather, in your own words with reference to my father,
"let us remember to his honour that if now there seems
to be the dawn of a better architecture—if our edifices
seem to be more correct in taste, more genuine in material,
more honest in construction, and more sure to last—it was
he who first showed us that our architecture offended not
only against the law of beauty, but also against the laws
of morality."—Your obedient servant,
21, Savile-row, Sept. 17. E. WELBY PUGIN.

WILLS AND BEQUESTS.

(From the Illustrated London News.)

Probate of the will, with eight codicils of his
Grace the Most Noble George, Duke of Northum-
berland, P.C., LL.D., of Alnwick Castle, was
granted by her Majesty's Court of Probate to his
eldest son and successor, Algernon George, hereto-
fore Earl Percy, the sole executor. The trustees
therein appointed are Lord Redesdale, and the tes-
tator's brother, the Hon. C. B. Percy. The per-
sonalty in this country was sworn under £350,000.
The will is dated Feb. 22, 1865, and the last codicil
July 13, 1867 ; the signature feebly written. The
testator was grandson of Hugh, first Duke of
Northumberland, and succeeded to the title and
estates Feb. 12, 1865, and died Aug. 21, 1867, at,
the age of 89, leaving issue three sons anddaughters,
his eldest son and successor being now in his 57th
year. By the death of the late Dowager Duchess
of Northumberland, July, 1866, his grace states in
his will that his income had increased £12,000 per,
annum, from which he makes a further provision
for his daughters and younger sons, in addition to
the bequests by the will, and leaves the policies
which were effected on his life in the Equitable Law'
Life and other insurance offices to his two sons,•
Lord J. W. Percy and Major-General Lord H. IL
M. Percy, V.C., M.P., and appoints his eldest son,
the present duke, residuary legatee of his personal,
estate. There are liberal annuities to his butler,
coachman, and housekeeper, free of duty in consi-
deration of their long and faithful services. He
leaves hispictures, books, manuscripts, globes, busts,
statues, bronzes, vases, antiquities, coins, medals,
and all other works of art and virtu, with the or-
naments, plate, china, and furniture, to be treated
as heirlooms, and to go with the inheritor of the
title and estates.

The will of the Right Hon. Benjamin Baron
Llanover, who died on April 27 last, was proved in
the Probate Court of London, by his lordship's
widow, Augusta, Baroness Llanover; John Johnes,
Esq., of Do!oucothy, Carmarthenshire ; and Mr.
Henry Ray Freshfield, of Bank-buildings, London.
The will is dated Dec. 28, 1866, and, in the fewest
words, leaves all his lordship's property, real and
personal, " to his most dear and devotedly-attached
wife Augusta, Baroness Llanover." The personalty
was sworn under £25,000.

The will of James Wilson, Esq., of Brinkcliffn
Tower, Sheffield, was proved in the Registry at
Wakefield, by his partner, Samuel Younge, Esq-i
solicitor, and the testator's three sons, the ReY.
James Allen Wilson, rector of Bolton ; Charles
Macro Wilson, of More Hall, Ecclesford ; and the
Rev. William Reginald Wilson, incumbent of Bol•
sterstone; power being reserved to the Rev. George
Anderson, his brother-in-law. The personalty was
sworn under £25,000. The will bears date 1855)
with four codicils, the last dated April, 1865 ; and
he died July 14, 1867. He leaves his eldest son,
James, the family pedigree, " Hunter's Hallan►-
shire," and all other written and printed books and
papers relating in any way to the family history'
including " Staniforthiana ;" also the family grout
and family portraits and pictures, except any sped"
fically disposed of, and also leaves to his said soil
his large silver plated epergne. He leaves all his
law books in his office at Sheffield to his son Charles
Macro Wilson, and bequeathes all his other books
in his dwelling to his five children, and divides
amongst them the residue of his estate, both real
and personal. There are legacies to his servants.

The late Mrs. Sarah Pugh, of Vale Royal, Tun'
bridge Wells, who died in May last, leaving perso-
nalty sworn under £70,000, has bequeathed to the
Church Missionary Society, £1,000; the British and
Foreign Bible Society, £4OO ; the Church Pastoral
Aid, and the Incorporated Society for Promoting
Enlargement, Building, and Repairing of Churchl
and Chapels, each £200; to the Rev. Mr. Pope,
Tunbridge Wells, for the purposes of his char'',
£2OO ; and to the Kent County Hospital, £2OO.
The late Miss Elizabeth Carne Sloman, of Longton,,
Staffordshire, who died in March last, possessed o'
£9,000 personalty, has left to the Society for PO'
moting Christianity amongst the Jews, South Aloe'
rican Missionary Society, British and Foreign Bible
Society, Church Missionary Society, Exeter Bible
and Domestic Mission, Crystal Palace Boarding'
house for Young Women, at Norwood, Surrey, each
£lOO ; to the Rev. P. M. Walker, for the Edennot
New Schools, Longton, £lOO ; and a like sum Or.
the general purposes connected with Edensor Church]
to the Irish Society for Promoting the Scriptumn
Education and Religious Instruction of Irish ROO ,
Catholics through the medium of their own 19111;
guage, and to the Exeter Blanket Society, ea°
£lOO.