The Sun.
London, England, 1867-02-26 00:00:00

WILLS MID BEQUESTS.

(From the Illwfrot,:q London News.)

The will of the Hon. Charlotte Selina Hobart,
late of Langdown, Southampton, was proved in the
London Court, on the 7th inst., by her sore, Robert
Henry Ilohai t, and George Beale Benjamin
Hobart, Esquires, the joint acting executor.
The personalty was sworn under £2,000. The tes-
tatrix married, in 1824, the lion. and Very Rev.
Henry Lewis Hobart, I)ean of Windsor, youngest
sou of the4hird Earl of Buckinghamshire, whodied

in 1846. The testatrix died Jan. 12, 1867, having
executed her will Nov. 2, 1866. She leaves her
estate at Dibden to her second son, George ; and
her residence of Langdown House and land, and all
other land, to her eldest son, Robert; and also

leaves to her eldest son her wreath of diamonds and
diamond ring, and bequeaths the rest of her jewel-

Ivry to her daughter Louisa Charlotte. There are
a fe►w other specific bequests to her family, and
aunuities to her two daughters. The residue of her
property she divides equally between her two sons
and two daughters.

The will of the Rev. Godfrey Harry Ark-
wright, M.A., of Sutton Scarsdale, Derby-
shire, was proved in London on the 11th instant
by the executors, John Knight Fitzherbert and
Henry Edward Pellew, the brothers-in-law, and M.
Forster Mills, Esq., of Duckmanton Lodge, Derby.
They are also, together with Mrs. Arkwright, ap-
pointed the guardians of hisehildren. Thepersonalty
was sworn under £300,000. The will is dated Nov.
14, and a codicil Dec. 6, 1866 ; and the testator died
on Dec. 17, at the age of 52. He leaves to each of
his executors, Mr. Fitzherbert and Mr. Pellew, £lOO ;
and to Mr. Mills, £5OO, free of legacy duty. lle
bequeaths to his wife £2,000, immediate, and such
furniture as she may select, and directs the trustees
to purchase for her residence at a cost of £lO,OOO,
and leaves her the sum of £30,000 in addition to her
marriage settlement. He devises all his estates

in Warwickshire to his eldest son, Francis, and
which are entailed on his male issue, and leaves
him a legacy of £20,000 on attaining twenty-
one, and the residue of his property, real and per-
sonal, on his attaining the age of twenty-five. Ho
bequeaths to his second son, William, £40,000 on
attaining 21, and also the residence that may be
occupied by Mrs. Arkwright upon her decease ; and
bequeaths to his sons, Godfrey and Walter, each
£20,000, and has made a liberal provision for his
daughter Marian, in addition to that under settle-
ment. There are legacies to his servants.

The Richest Man in the World.

(From the Cosmopolitan.)

The young Lord Be'grave, grandson of the Mar-
quis of Westminster, if he lives to inherit his patri-
mony, will be the richest man in the world. When
what is now the fashionable section of London
known as Belgravia was but a sheep-farm the first
marquis was leasing lots at 99 years. By the time
the heir to the Westminster estates attains his ma-
jority all these leases will lapse, thereby adding an
almost incomputable amount of ground-rent to the
estate. The present income of the property is said
to be £l,OOO a day ; ten years hence it will be ten
or twenty times times that amount ! The present
Marquis of Westminster is about 72 years of age.
His eldest son, the Earl Grosvenor is about 47; and
his youngest son, the young Lord Belgrave, is about
13. By intermarriage this colossal fortune has not
only been kept in the family, but multiplied in
arithmetical ratio. The Marquis of Westminster
married the Ltcly Eliz 'bath Mary Leveson Gower,
second daughter of the first Duke of Sutherland.
E irl Grosvenor married lynly Constance Leveson
Gower, daughter of the. second Duke of Sutherland.

Rich as thes: people are, we d.) not suppose
I that either the Grosvenor sous or daughters will be
likely to " marry for love," unless there is plenty of
wealth to hack it. At this rate of accumulation,
how long will it take for the Grosvenor family to
monopolise the wealth of London ? This is a mere
question of time and simple arithmetic. Any expert
at figures can cypher it out. Perhaps this problem
is already under discussion at the midnight meetings
and machinations of Bright, Beales, and Co. The
" roughs" are asked to look at the palaces and
hovels of London ; to contrast its princes and its
paupers ; to listen to the songs of revelry, and to
I sniff the odours of feasts in the grand mansions of
Belgravia, and also to listen to the groans of the
starving thousands in the " poor districts." Pro-
perty is sacred, they are told, and protected by all
the majestic power of the law. But life is still more
sacred, and " bread or blood" is to be the revolu-
tionary battle-cry of the down-trodden millions.
They are nightly inflamed with the idea that these
rich and lazy nabobs, who do not know what to do
with their money, are living and fattening at the
expense of the poor of the " working classes," of
themselves, whose wives and little ones are famish-
ing for food. They are told that no man ought
to be allowed to possess an unlimited estate—say
one million as the maximum ; and that any person
having in his possession an excess of this very com-
fortable sum should be compelled to give it to the
State on account of the debt, or to the poor whose
wants and woes weary the ear of Heaven. These
are the agrarian doctrines beginning to be mooted
by " Reform Leagues." They are radical and re-
volutionary in the extreme ; but they are makingmasses.
rapid progress among the subterranean
They are the legitimate results ofth
they threaten
e "philosophy"
of Bright, Mill, Beales, and Co.,and
to undermine the very foundations of British insti-
tutions—dynasty,Government, society, religion, and
all. Manhood suffrage, female suffrage—these are
what the so-called "Reformers" are clamouring for ;
but they mean revolution. They mean to republi-
canise England, to rdvolationise Ireland, to destroy
the nobility, to abolish primogeniture, to drive the
Queen into exile, and make John Bright President
of England,with Beales, M.A., for his Prime Minis-
ter ! Gentlemen of England, do you like the picture?

Another Fearful Steamship Collision.

--~-

SINKING OF THE MIRANDA STEAMER.

Another fearful steamship collision, resulting in
the loss of the Miranda screw steamer, is reported to
have occurred in the Swin, a few miles below the
Nore. The Thames steamer has returned to the
river with the shipwrecked crew, and from their
statement it appears' that the Miranda, which was
a fine powerful vessel belonging to Hull, left the
St. Katharine's Dock in the course of Thursday
afternoon for the North, in order to take a cargo for
the Mediterranean. About 11 o'clock at night she
had reached the vicinity of the Gunfleet, when she
hove to for the purpose of putting her London pilot
on board a steamer bound to the river. She was
waiting for the return of the boat which had taken
the pilot off, when the Thames iron screw steamer,
bound to Grangemouth from London, came in fear-
ful collision with the Miranda, cutting her down
considerably on the starboard side. It was immc-
mediately discovered that the water was rushing
into her, and that she would not keep afloat long.
The crew of the Miranda, after some difficulty, suc-
ceeded in getting on board the Thames, which also
sustained considerable damage in her stern, and in
a short time the Miranda foundered in deep
It appears that the Thames left the river about two
•
hours after the Miranda, and it is stated that when water.
boat, their being a strong
in order to pick up
the vessels came together the Miranda was
theretarded the
flood tide running which progress of
Miranda'sbacking
The weather, however,
the boat to the ship, the
be visible to the Thames.
was fine and clear. The Thames fortunately was
and returned up the river to
kept free of water,
landed. The loss of theMirandamust Miran a involve a
Carron Wharf, where the crew. of the Miranda were
considerable sum.

THE QUEEN'S SPEECII.—The New York morn-
ing papers of the Gth inst., says the Pall Mall, received by
the last mail, give the whole of the Queen's Speech on the
opening of Parliament here the previous .day, it having
Y the Atlantic cable. been transmitted verbatim b

1,

4c SINGER," New Noiseless LockStitola
FAMILY SEWING MACHINES.
Chief Office in the United Kingdom-147, Cheapside,
London.

'THEATRE ROYAL DRUR,Y-LANE,
Sole Letseee and Manager, Mr. F. B Chatterton.

THIS EVENING, THE MERCHANT OF VENICE.
Shylock, Mr. flielps; Messrs. E. Phelps, Barrett, T. mead,
Barsby, C. Warner; Mesdames Hermann Veal], Gorier,
and Hudspeth.
To conclude w:th the Pantomime, entitled NUMBER
Nit' ; or Harlequin and the Gnome-King of the Giant
Mountain. . . .