The Sun.
London, England, 1867-03-23 00:00:00

WILLS AND BEQUESTS.

(From the Illustrated London News.)
The will of the Right Hon. Win. Keppel, six__
Viscount Barrington, late of Beckett House, Shri
venham, Berks, and Cavendish-square, London,
passed the seal of the principal registry on the 13th
ult., and probate granted to his relict, the Right
Hon. Jane Elizabeth, Dowager Viscountess Bar-
rington, the sole executrix. The personalty was
sworn under £BO,OOO. The will is dated Feb. 28,
1861, and his lordship died Feb. 9, 1867, aged 73.
He leaves to his wife all his real and personal estate
not otherwise disposed of in his will, together with
the plate kept at Beckett House, and such of the
furniture, books, and other effects as she may select;
the rest he directs to be added to the list of property
contained in the family mansion of Beckett House,
and to be held as heirlooms in the same trusts as
those under the will of his great uncle the Hon. and
Right Rev. Shute Barrington, Lord Bishop 'of
Durham. To his son, the present Viscount, who
succeeds to the estate, he leaves all his wines and
consumables, and 20 shares in the Great Western
Railway Company.
The will of the Right Hon. Lady Caroline Caven-
dish was proved in London, on the 26th ult., by her
nephew, Col. William Henry Frederick Cavendish,
and her niece, Mrs. Henry Lee Steere. The per-
sonalty was sworn under £45,000. The testatrix
was the daughter of the first Earl of Burlington.
Her will bears date May 23, 1866, and she died Jan.
9, at the age of 69. Her ladyship has made bequests
to her nephews and nieces. To Mrs. Lee Steere she

leaves £5,000, and appoints Colonel William
Cavendish residuary legatee. To her sister, Lady
Charles Fitzroy, she leaves a life interest in
£15,000, and after her decease directs the
same to be divided amongst three of her nieces.
Liberal legacies and annuities are left .to her ser-
vants. All legacies to be paid free of duty.
The will of Johann Andreas Frerichs, Esq., of
Thirlestaine Hall, Cheltenham, was proved on the
14th ult., by the executors—namely, Henry Fran-
cis Shaw Lefevre, Esq., of London ; Francis
Mowatt, Esq., of the Treasury, Whitehall ; Johann
Heinrich Frerichs, Esq., of the city of Bremen, the
brother ; and Karl Julius Gerhard Knoop, Esq., of
Manchester—to each of whom a legacy of £5OO is
bequeathed. The , personalty was sworn under
£160,000. The testator died November 3, 1866,
at the bath establishment, Kirchberg, in Bavaria,
aged 67. The will is dated April 24, 1866. The
testator, after leaving £lOO to each of his nephews
and nieces, and an annuity of :£l5O to Elizabeth
Pohlenz, who resided in his house, directs the residue
of his property, real and personal, to be divided into
two equal parts, leaving a moiety to each of his
daughters, the interest to be enjoyed by them for
their respective lives, and the principal at their
death to be divided amongst their children.

The wills of the undermentioned persons have
been recently proved :
Mrs. Elizabeth Chaplin, £120,000 personalty ;
William C. Towers, Esq., £70,000 ; Richard C.
Bowden, Esq., £35,000 ; Thomas Morgan, Esq.,
£45,000 ; and Robert Nesbett, Esq., £50,000.

The Hon. Francis Elizabeth Mitford died intes-
tate, leaving £45,000 personalty ; also, Sir Charles
Henry Rich, Bart., personalty, £5,000.

J. Rigby, Esq., has bequeathed to the Church
Pastoral Aid Society £1,000; and to the Society
for promoting Christianity Amongst the Jews, the
Church Missionary Society, and the Naval and
and Military Bible Society, each a legacy of £lOO.
His personal property was sworn under £12,000.
John D. Middleton, Esq., has left £2OO to each
of the four following hospitals—viz., the Charing-
cross, Westminster, Middlesex, and the Con-
valescent. his personalty was sworn under £30,000.

The Inman Line.

A paragraph we lately cut from an American
paper states that the steamship City of Boston, of
the Inman Mail Line, which arrived at New York
on the 2d of February, after a ten days' passage
from Liverpool, had then completed within the year
no less than ten round voyages between Liverpool
and New York, being a distance of more than
60,000 nautical or 70,000 statute miles, a perfor-
mance believed to have never before been equalled
by any other vessel. Since that date this steamship
had returned to Liverpool and back again to New
York, and it is probable that shortly after this is in
print the City of Boston will be again in the Mersey.
A very fast run may be due to an accident, but a
year's steaming backwards and forwards across the
Atlantic, in its roughest parallel of latitude,
gives the surest possible test of the vessel's power.
The yachts from New York to Cowes made
the passage in the shortest time by boats propelled
by sail, and the chances are that had they run the
race twenty times again they would not once have
equalled their first performance. One good run is
not a sure test of a
:ship's sailing capacity, nor does
one good ship establish the character of a fleet. Take
then the City of Paris, and it will be seen that if
the City of Boston is unrivalled in the sum of her
performances, the City of Paris very nearly equals
that total, while she stands unrivalled in the speed of
a single passage. The Americans have gained a
world-wide renown as sailors. The recklessness of
their daring on the sea is scarcely redeemed as a
fault by their great nautical skill. Yet people who
suppose them to be a seafaring nation would be in
error. The masses in America have never seen the
sea. These know it only from COOPER'S novels,
from tales of travel, and from harrowing ac-
counts in the columns of newspapers of disas-
trous shipwrecks. The loss of the London
in the Bay of Biscay, and of the Evening Star, off
Cape Hatteras, make an impression on an inland
farmer's family which nothing ever removes, and
they dread the sea as an element of danger and dis-
aster. To them " there is no music in its roar,"
nor have they the slightest fancy for "laying their
hands upon its mane." Though it might excite
their curiosity and exert a terrified fascination, none
in these homes could exclaim with BYRON—
" And I have loved thee, Ocean ! and my joy
Of youthful sports was on thy breast to be
Borne, like thy bubble; onward."
Speed and safety are to such people the first re-
quisites, more especially the latter. And they
require strong proofs when they entrust their pre-
cious persons to the safe keeping of an ocean
steamer that she is worthy of that confidence. The
Cunard line has established this feeling by years
upon years of security, arriving with more than the
punctuality of a railway train. This has been ac-
complished by an enormous expenditure, by an
amount of energy, forethought, and unremitting
care, by huge subsidies, and still more by the very
prestige which safety and punctuality have given.
The name has become a tower of strength. 1t
enables the owners to charge for their second cabins
what other fleets charge for their first class accommo-
dation. The Cunard deserve all the support they
have received, and they have a well-established
right to make people pay for a name which is a
guarantee of excellence. There are, however,
thousands who must cross the ocean to whom the
difference in the passage money is a material object,
and it must be to them a matter of no small impor-
tance to see the Inman line by which they can afford
to travel attaining the same results. Competition has

shown its healthy effect in working up many com-
petitors to the standard of the leading fleet. At
the close of last year there were 13 companies run-
ing steamers, between Europe and the United States,
yielding a gross annual revenue of £4,000,000.
This number will shortly be increased, and the
opening season will probably be one of great profit
to them all. -It is satisfactory that it should be so,
for the margin of profit to many of them in past
years cannot have been large in the face of the huge
outlay required by these monster floating hotels,
and the liberal expenditure forced on the owners
by the close competition. Whatever strengthens
these lines will tend to the public weal, and no
stinted 'need of praise should be bestowed
on the management of fleets which have attained
to such a measure of excellence that they can carry
their passengers at but a little higher rate than
they would pay for the accommodation of a good
hotel, while they land them at their destination
with a safety and punctuality which is certainly
not vouchsafed to people who walk about the
streets of London.—Avlo-American Times.

I LONDON GAZETTE—Last Evening.
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WAR OFFICE—MARcH 22.
17th Lancers—Cornet Wilfrid Brougham to be Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice Arthur James Billing, who retires;
Sergeant-Major John Brown to be Corner, by purchase,
vice Brougham.
Royal Artillery—Surgeon Willliam Younge Jeeves, from
the 25th Foot, to be Surgeon, vice Surgeon-Major
James Somerville Litle, deceased; Staff Assistant-
Surgeon Thomas Turville Gardner to be Assistant-
Surgeon, vice M. J. Jones, placed upon half-pay.
Ist Foot.—Staff Assistant Surgeon John Middleton, M.D.,
to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice James Barker, appointed
to the Staff.
10th Foot.—Lioutenant Charles Anthony Denny to be
Captain, by purchase, vice James M. Daly, who retires ;
Ensign James Wolcott Lang to be Lieutenant, by pur-
chase, vice Denny; Francis Loftus Tottenhamt, Gent.
to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Lang.

COUNTRY MARKETS.

WAKEFIELD.-FRIDAY.

Higher prices are asked for wheat, which checks the de-
mand, and in a few instances only are the rates of Friday
last exceeded. Barley a dull sale.

LINCOLN.--FRIDAY.

New white wheat, 69s to 72s ; new red, 51s to 64s per 36
stone. Barley for malting, 49s to 54s per qr ; grinding,
32s to 36s per 30 stone. Oats, 24s to 365. Beans, 48s to
50s per 38 stone.