The Sun.
London, England, 1866-02-24 00:00:00

RECENT WILLS AND BEQUESTS.

(From the Illustrated London News.)
The will of Vice-Admiral the Hon. George John
Cavendish, of Lyne Grove, Chertsey, was adminis-
tered to in the principal registry, on the 16th inst.,
under £4,000 personalty, by Caroline Prideaux Ca-
vendish, the relict and universal legatee, there being
no executor appointed therein. The will was made
on the 10th of October, 1864, and executed on the
13th of the same month, the Hon. Frederick Caven-
dish being one of the attesting witnesses. The tes-
tator died on the 23d of October, 1865, at the age
of 68. The will is very brief, the disposition of his
property being contained in one clause, in words to
the following effect :—" I give, devise, and bequeath
to my wife all my property, real and personal, as I
am confident she will dispose of it justly." The
gallant admiral was the third son of the second
Lord Waterpark, and entered the navy in 1810, and
served with honour and distinction in the North
American and West Indian stations and in the first
Burmese war; was a deputy-lieutenant for Surrey;
and had held the office of High Sheriff for that
county in 1858.

The will of Major-General John Fitz-Maurice,
K.H., of Drayton-green, Ealing, was proved in the
London Court on the 29th ult., by his son, John
Gerald Fitz-Maurice,
.Esq., the sole executor. The
personalty was sworn under £14,000. The will is
dated Dec. 22, 1865, and is attested by Geraldine
Fitz-Maurice and Gertrude Fitz-Maurice. The
testator died on the 24th of the same month, at the
agt) of 72. lie—has .44stioseci,--Of Jig„„wholo of. his
property, real and .perion'ili: S wife, Frances
Maria Fitz-Maurice, for her own absolute use and
benefit. The General entered the British Army in
1811, in the 95th Regiment Rifle Brigade, and was
constantly employed, and obtained a good-service
pension, as well as pensions for wounds received at
Badajos and Quatre Bras, and was rewarded with
the Waterloo and other medals and badges of
distinction.

The will of James Morrish, Esq., of Ellerslie,
King's-road, Clapham Park, was proved in London,
on the 18th ult., under £lOO,OOO personalty ; the
executors being John P. Foster, Esq., of Wood-
street, Cheapside ; and Benjamin Darby-
shire, Esq., of Liverpool, merchant ; together
with Thomas Buxton Morrish, Esq., the
son ; the wife being appointed guardian of
the infant children. The will is dated Dec. 21,
1865 ; and the testator died on the 25th of the same
month, at the age of fifty-eight. He bequeaths to
his wife all his furniture, plate, linen, china, glass,
books, pictures, horses, and carriages, and all stores
and effects in and about his residence and grounds,
together with au immediate legacy of £l,OOO, leav-
ing her also a life interest in the residue of his real
and personal estate. To his son Thomas, James,
and George, each a legacy of £lO,OOO ; and £5,000
to each of his other seven children, to whom he
leaves the ultimate residue of his property, in equal
shares, their claims to be received by them on their
respectively attaining the age of twenty-five years,
or on the daughters marrying. There is a legacy
to his sister, Mrs. Barnard, being the interest of
£1,200 for her life, and the principal to her chil-
dren ; also an annuity of £4O to his wife's sister,
Mrs. Eliza Mundy.

The late Dr. Dauglish, who was distinguished
for a peculiar process hi the making of bread, died
intestate, leaving personalty to the amount of
£25,000.

THE GROWTH OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS.—TiIe
Chicago Tribune gives some statistics of the
growth of the State of Illinois during the war :
The census for 1865 shows a remarkable increase
in population, wealth, and industry during the past
five years, in spite of the adverse influences of a war
almost unparalleled in history. The population,
from 1,711,951 in 1860, has increased to 2,123,606
—an addition of 411,655. The manufactures, from.
an annual value of $57,580,887, have increased to
ofcs
$62,159,809. Our contemporary is inclined to be-
lieve, however, that the actual increase of manu-
factures is far greater than would be represented
isb yptrhoebs
probable
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that figures.
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Thelar census
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1860
articles ll beings
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the United States, and that of 1865 by the gain4by
aSretateenui-t
merated among manufactures by the compilers of
the United States than by those of the State census.
The product of wool grown in Illinois in 1850 was
2,150,113 pounds ; in 1860 it fell off to 1,989,567
pounds ; while in 1865 it has
risen to 6,106,120 pounds.
Two causes Dave contributed to encourage this
enormous increase in 'wool-growing, viz., the loss
of the cotton crop and the high freights on agri-
cultural produce, which have
tended to make it
more profitable to graze and feed live stock of all
kinds than to raise and ship produce. The value
of the agricultural products is given by the census
of 1865 at $87,073,565. As the United States
census of 1860 furnishes us with the quantities, and
not the values of agricultural products, no basis
for comparison on this point may be derived from
these sources. The value of the annual product of
live stock of the State was, for 1850, $`24,209,255;
for 1860, $72,501,225; and for 1865, $120,724,726.
In view of the fact that during these years the
State sent to the war 258,217 men, whose terms
of service were of such length that they amount to
212,694 men for three years, thus withdrawing
about one-eighth of the entire population of the
State, such an increase in the population, wealth,
and industry of the State is little short of
mar-
vellous—the nett increase in the population
amount-
ing to nearly twice the number sent to the war.

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