The Sun.
London, England, 1860-12-29 00:00:00

WILLS AND BEQUESTS.

The will of his Grace the Most Noble Charles Gordon,
Duke of Richmond and Lennox, Earl of March and
Darnley, Baron Settrington and Methuen, and Duke
d'Aubigny, in France, K.G., P.C., of Gordon Castle, N. 8.,
Goodwood Park, Sussex, and of Portland-place, bears date
the 19th of July, 1850, and is very brief. His grace has
appointed his son the Earl of March and Darnley, now
Duke of Richmond and Lennox, sole executor, to whore.
probate was granted on the 17th of December by her Ma-
jesty's principal registry. The personalty was sworn
under £120,000. The dispositions contained in the
will are to the following effect :—His grace directs that all
books and family pictures, both ancient and modern, con-
tained in Gordon Castle, be held in trust as " heirship
movables" according to the law of Scotland. The books,
plate, and family pictures contained at his grace's seat,
Goodwood, and at his town mansion, Portland-place, be
held in trust as heirlooms. His grace then devises and
bequeaths the whole of his property, real and personal, to
his son and successor, the present duke. This contains the
whole substance of the will, there being no other bequest
whatever. The attesting witnesses thereto are Messrs. M.
S. and F. G. Davidson, solicitors. His grace died at his
residence, 61, Portland-place, on October 21, aged 70.
The will of Admiral Sir Charles Napier, K.C.8., M.P.
for Southwark, of Merchistoun Hall, Hordean, Hants, and
Albemarle • street, Piccadilly, dated the 4th of Dec. 1848, was
proved in the London Court of Probate on the 12th of Dec.,
by his daughter, Eloisa Fanny Harriet Jodrell, and her hus-
band, the Rev. Henry Jodrell, M.A:, chaplain to the Duke
of Leeds, and rector of Gislekare, Suffolk, two of the execu-
tors ; power reserved to the Right lion. Francis Lord
Napier, of Thirlstane, Scotland. The personalty was sworn
under £30,000. Sir Charles disposes of his estate, real and
personal, to his daughter for her life, and after her decease
to her husband, the Rev. Henry Jodrell; and on the death
of the last survivor of them the estates are to devolve to
their eldest son on the express condition of his assuming
the name of Napier, together with the arms and crest of the
family. The witnesses to the will are C. B. Hibbard, solicitor,
and J. C. Chandler, his clerk. There is a codicil so recently
executed as 1855 in Sir Charles's own handwriting. This
instrument gives an annuity of £lOO, together with the
Admiral's residence, Albemarle-street, and the furniture
contained therein, to Mrs. Charles Wilkins, which annuity
and bequest on her decease are to"descend to her children.
This codicil is witnessed by Captain G. T. Gordon, R.N.,
and J. W. Onard, Paymaster, R.N. Sir Charles died on
the 6th of November last, aged 74. This gallant Admiral,
who was so eminent in his profession, was decorated with
several foreign orders and titles. _

The will of his Excellency Sir Henry George Ward,
G.C.M.G., Governor of Madras, formerly Governor and
Commander-in-Chief of Ceylon, bears date in 1839,
at Gilston Park, Hertford. The executors nomi-
nated are his relict, Emily Lady Ward, and her
'brother, Rear-Admiral C. H. Swinburne, who have
both renounced the grant of probate, whereupon letters of
administration, with the will annexed, were taken out on
the 17th of December in the London Court by Swinburne
Ward, Esq., the testator's son. The personalty in this
county was sworn under L 5,000. Sir Henry died on the 2d
of October last. Tho dispositions of the will are confined
to a few sentences, giving the whole of the property to his
wife, Emily Lady Ward, for her own use absolutely. Sir
Henry was well known for his distinguished services as a
diplomatist and attache, and as a member of the House of
Commons; and, previously to his appointment as
Governor to the Presidencies of Madras and Ceylon, he
had held the office of Secretary to the Board of Athol-
ralty.—lllustrated News.

THE SYLPIIIDE SCANDAL.—Mr. W. J. Grandy,
Second Master of her Majesty's ship Himalaya, and son of
Captain J. S. W. Grandy, R.N., commanding the Marquis
of Downshire's ship SylphPe, yesterday waited upon our
Portsmouth correspondent and handed to him for his in-
spection letters received from Captain Grandy, dated on
board the Sylphide in the Bay of Naples on the 18th and
19th inst. These letters contained nothing beyond what a
gentleman might be expected to write to his family in
England while absent in foreign parts. The dates of the
letters themselves are the best proofs which' can be given
of the falsehood of the scandal which has obtained such
circulation.—Times.

THE WEATTIER.-011 Thursday the Tyne had a
singular appearance off Newcastle quay and Gateshead.
It was entirely frozen over from the Tyne bridge to the
bottom of the quay, forming a very fine sheet of ice. Hun-
dud of persons were upon the ice, skating and sliding, and
in the afternoon it appeared as if all the quay .side brokers
and merchants had taken to .the ice, and were disporting
themselves as if they were boys again. A tent was erected
in the middle of the river, from which refreshments were
dispensed. It is 35 years since the Tyne was frozen over.
The river is entirely blocked up down to the low end of the
Long Reach. At Fill Point, St. Laurence, and some other
parts of the river, an immense mass of ice is accumulated.
Above Tyne-bridge the river is entirely covered with ice.
A fleet of light collier vessels has arrived in the Tyne.
Fortunately, the entrances to the Tyne and Northumber-
land Docks are open, so that there will be no impediment
to their loading, as all the colliery railways are working. ,