The Sun.
London, England, 1858-01-28 00:00:00

Wind S.S.E.
Arrived—Aristarchus, from Reni.
(Br SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.

GRAVESEND, Thursday Morning.
Wind S.E. ; tide, three hour's flood ; fine.
Arrived, Jan. 27 - Wakefield, Swan, Argo, and Con,
eordo—all from Dunkirk ; Billow, Ostend ; Metropolis,
Guernsey.

His Royal Highness the Prince of Prussia, after the
departure of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and
Princess Frederick William of Prussia for Windsor
Castle on Monday, honoured the Countess of Jersey with
a visit at her ladyship's residence in Berkeley-square.
SKATING IN THR PARKa.--Yesterday a great number
•'f persons covered the ice in the parks, and enjoyed
themselves in skating and sliding. Several immersions
took place, but none of them ended fatally.
THE IRISH LAW APPoINTHINTS. Mr. Justice
O'Brien, Queen's Bench ; Mr. Justice Christian, Com-
mon Pleas ; and Mr. Hughes, Solicitor-General, were
sworn in on Tuesday.
Advices from Stutgardt state that the irritation of the
chest and the cough of the King bad again somewhat
increased from the change in the temperature, but that
the fever had not returned, nor bad his Majesty's
strength been impaired.
Field-Marehal Count Parr and Colonel Baron de
Prokeech left Vienna on the 23d for Athens, to con-
gratulate the King of Greece, in the name of the
Emperor of Austria, on the 25th anniversary of his
accession to the throne.

DON'T ..
mum; YOUR OWN WILL.—I am iFitnewhat
unwilling to give you any instructions for making your
will, without the assistance of your professional adviser ;
and I would particularly warn you against the nee of
printed forms, which have misled many men. They are
as dangerous as the country schoolmaster or the vestry-
clerk. It is quite shocking to reflect upon the litigation
which has been occasioned by men making their own
wills, or employing incompetent persons to do so. o
save a few guineas in their lifetime, men leave beh*d
them a will which it may cost hundreds of pounds to have
expounded by the Courts before the various claimants
will desist from litigation. Looking at this as a simple
money transaction, lawyers might well be in despair if
every man's will were prepared by a competent person.
To put off making your will until the hand of death is
upon you, evinces either cowardice or a shameful neglect
of your temporal concerns. Lest, however, such a mo-
ment should arrive, I must arm you in some measure
against it. If you wish to tie up your property in your
family you really must not make your own will. ft were
better to die witbout a will than to make one which will
only waste your estate in litigation to discover its mean;
ing. The words "children," "issue," "heirs of the body,'
or "heir,"sometimes operate to give the parentthe entire
disposition of the estate, although the testator did not
mean any such thing. They are seldom used by a man
whomakes his own will witboutleading to a lawsuit. And
now an operation has been given to like words b. y the new
statute, which I could not explain to you without yon
possessed more knowledge of the law than I give you credit
'or. It were useless for me to attempt to show you how
to make a strict settlement of your property and therefore
I will not try. I could, without difficulty run over the
names of many judges and lawyers of note, whose wills
made by themselves have been set aside, or construed so
las to defeat every intention which they ever had. It is
not even a profound kaowledgeof law which will capaei.
tate a man to make his own will, unless he had been in
'be habit of making the wills of others. Besides not.
.ithstanding that fees are purely honorary,yetitie
almost proverbial that a lawyer never does anything
well for which beis net feed. Lo
Lord Mansfield told
a
story of himself, that feeling this influence, he once
when about to attend to some professional business
awn, took several guineas out of his purse, and put of
fehmis
into his waistcoat pocket as a fee for his labour.—Lord
0. Leonardf Handy Book.