The Sun.
London, England, 1866-09-22 00:00:00

WILLS AND BEQUESTS.

(From the Illustrated London Nam)
The will of the Right Hon. Henry Charles Noel,
Earl of Gainsborough, of Exton Park, Rutlandshire;
Barham Court, Kent ; and 17, Prince's-gate, Ken-
sington, was proved in London on the Bth inst., by
the sons and acting executors, Earl of Gainsborough,
the Hoc. Henry Lewis Noel, and the Hon. Roden
Berkeley Wriothesley, power being reserved to
Dowager Countess Gainsborough, the relict of the
Hon. Gerald James Noel, the son, and the Earl of
Roden. The personalty was sworn under £40,000.
His lordship executed his will on July 5, 1862, and
added eight codicils, the last dated March 23, 1866 ;
and he died on June 10 following, at the age of 85,
having married four times, and had issue eight child-
ren. His lordship was the eldest of 18 brothers and
sisters. His lordship has bequeathed to his countess
the furniture, pictures, &c., at his town residence, an
immediate legacy of £l,OOO, in addition to all other provision, and the use of his plate ; and subject to
such use he leaves the plate known as the Bou-
verie plate, the Middleton plate, and all other
plate which has been in the family, and passed with
the Noel estates, to his eldest son and heir to the
title and estates, whom he appoints residuary legatee
of both real and personal estate. It is understood
that the bulk of the old and extensive family estates
devolve by entail upon the present earl, with the
usual provisions for the dowager countess
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as directors of that company. Provision is made for
each of his children. There are a number of small
legacies, in which the servants are included.

The will of Lieut.-General Thomas Henry Paul,
of the Bengal army, of 4, Melcombe-place, Dorset-
square, was proved in London by the acting execu-
tors and trustees, Thomas Eld Baker, Esq., Dor-
chester-terrace, and A rthur John Baker, Esq., Mon-
mouth-road, Bayswater ; the other executor and
trustee, Henry E. S. Rudgerd, Esq., the nephew,
having renounced. The personalty was sworn
under £35,000. The will is dated January 9, 1862,
and two codicils 1862 and 1865, and the gallant
general died June :19, 1866. He bequeaths to his
daughter, Mary Paul, his residence and furniture,
together with the cash at his bankers' and a life in-
terest in his personal estate, which, after her decease,
is t
o be equally divided between his nephews and
legacy
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free of duty.
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only son, Charles Chicheley Plowden, Esq.,
power being reserved to Harriet, his only daughter.

The personalty was sworn under £14,000. The
will is dated Feb. 25, 1862, and he died July 21,
1866, at the age of 70. He has bequeathed the whole
of his property, real and personal, to his wife for
her life, which after her decease will devolve to his
son and daughter.

Mr. Wm. Urry Crocker, late of Lee Park, Black-
heath, Kent, has left the following charitable be-
quests :—To the British and Foreign Bible Society,
£100; and a like bequest to the Church Mission for
Africa and the East, to the Church Pastoral Aid
Society, to the Irish Church Missions for Promoting
the Education and Religious Instruction of the Na-
tive Irish through the Medium of their own Lan-
guage, to the Irish Church Mission to Roman Ca-
tholics, and to the Bath United Hospital.

AMERICA.

(By Atlantic Telegraph.)

NEW Yorm, Sept. 19 (Evening).
Gold, 1451. Exchange on London, 155.
Five-Twenty United States' Bonds, 111 i.
Sept. 20 (Evening.)
Gold, 144 k. Exchange on London, 154.
Five-Twenty United States' Bonds, 1111.
Cotton—middling upland, 33c.
The prospects of the cotton crop are said to be
very bad.