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London, England, 1866-01-06 00:00:00

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RECENT WILLS AND BEQUESTS.

(From the Illustrated London News.)
The will of William Borradaile, Esq., of Worthing,
was proved in London on the IGth ult., and the per-
sonalty was sworn under £lOO,OOO. The testator
died on the 11th of November last, at the age of 65.
He has left the following charitable bequests :—To
the Sussex County Hospital, Charing-cross Hospital,
Brompton Consumption Hospital, the Dreadnought
Ship Hospital, the Corporation of Friends of the
Clergy, and the Governesses' Benevolent Institution,
each a legacy of £5OO ; to the female school at
Ramsgate for the daughters of naval officers, £3OO ;
the British Orphan Asylum and the Cumberland
Benevolent Institution, each £2OO ; and to the Wells
Infirmary and Dispensary, the Worthing Infirmary
and Dispensary, and the Home for Seamen of all
Nations, each £lOO.

The will of the Rev. Simon Hart Wynn-Nanuey,
rector of West Barkwith and vicar of Burgh-on-
Bain, Lincoln, and of Maesynewydd, Merioneth-
shire, was proved in London on the 21st alt. ; the
executors and trustees appointed being Thomas
Phillips, Esq., solicitor, Plymouth, who alone is
acting, and Edward Lawton Hannon, Esq., proctor,
of Borden, Kent, to whom a power is reserved.
The personalty was sworn under £4,000. The
testator, on succeeding in June last to some family
estates in the counties of Denbigh, Merioneth, and
Flint, assumed the additional surname of "-Nan-
ney." The will bears date Sept. 16, 1863 ; and he
died on the 15th of November last. To his wife he
leaves au annuity of £2OO ; also au annuity to his
adopted daughter, Alfreda Kirby, of £lOO, with a
power of disposition over the same by will to her
children ; and appoints his sister, Mrs. Kirby, re-
siduary legatee for life ; and at her decease the
property is to be divided equally amongst her
daughters.

The will of Joseph Holland, formerly of Den-
bigh-lodge, St. John's-wood ; Burlington-cottage,
Turnham-green ; and late of Chiswick, coach-
builder, was proved in London by the executors
and trustees—Mrs. Ann Holland, the relict ; John
Wills, of the. Esplanade, Ealing ; and John New-
son, of St. Peter's-square, Hammersmith, coach-
builder. The personalty was sworn under £30,000.
The will is dated in 1860, and two codicils, 1863
and July 20, 1865. The testator died, o'n the 25th
of July last, at the age of 73. He has left to each
of his executors a legacy of £lOO, and has divided
the rest of his property between his wife and three
daughters.

The will of Mr. George Treadaway—late of Hayes
House, Hayes, formerly of Washington House,
Westbourne-grove, and Chepstone Lodge, Padding-
ton—was proved, in London, under £35,000 per-
sonalty. The executors are John Harris, of West-
bourne-grove, and William Boutcher, of Sussex-
road, Kensington. The will is dated 1859, and a
codicil the Bth of October last. The testator died
on the .13th of the same month. To his son, George
Frederick Treadaway, he has bequeathed certain
houses and premises in the Harrow-road, in which
he had carried on business as outfitter, draper, and
clothier; and has left him his stock in trade and
other property; and, after making several bequests
and annuities, bequeaths the residue of his property
to his wife for her life, and then to his children by
her, being his second marriage.

The Belgian 111oniteur announces that King Leo-
pold received two days back the envoys who were about to
leave Brussels for the different Courts of Europe to notify
the death of Leopold I. and the accession of his successor.
His Majesty has also given audience to the Count de Ma-
rogue, Minister of Bavaria, who presented the usual letters
at the commencement of a new reign.
A FARMER KILLED ON TILE RAILWAY.—An in-
quest was held at Bolton on lyeantuday on the body of
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Mtn. At a private crossing on the railway at Gilnow Mr.
llostron got out of the vehicle, for fear of being shaken, as
the road was in bad condition. The seven a.m. train from
Bolton to Fleetwood had not passed, being about twenty
minutes behind time; but, whilst the servant was supply-
ing the gateman with some milk, the train suddenly came
up. Mr. Restrain, not seeing the danger he encountered,
went through a gate and crossed the line. The two men
thought ho had escaped; but when the train had passed
they found the unfortunate man's body had been dragged
a distance of thirty yards up the line. His body was
shockingly mutilated, the scalp was torn from the front to
the back of the head, his legs were broken and almost
severed from the body, and the intestines were protruding.
The jury returned a verdict of Accidental Death.
THE ENGLISII AND AMERICAN NATIONAL DEnTS.
Two lines in our yesterday'spaper, multipled by four,
represents the annual honesty of this great empire. The
important couplet runs thus :—" The amount to be inves-
ted on account of the Sinking Fund during the current
quarter is £630,142." This is at the rate of two millions
and a half yearly. It is true that at last March 31, in one
way or another, the whole debt stood at very nearly five
millions less than on the same day in the previous year ;
but that was owing to some extraordinary circumstances ;
and the present average raduction of the National Debt is
nearer two millions than five. On March 31, the Debt,
under all heads, funded, unfunded, and terminable annui-
ties, exceeded £808,000,000. Supposing we went on
steadily at our present rate of reduction, we should have
the pleasure of cancelling the last bond, and declaring the
State out of debt, in the year A.D. 2270, under circum-
stances probably vary different from any we can now antici-
pate. We have only to look back four centuries to form
some idea of the changes whicl we and the world will
have undergone before the completion of another such
period. Four centuries ago the New World, we may say,
was not even thought of. In foitr centuries more the New
World will have ceased to be new, but the Old World will
have become very old indeed. The truth is, so distant an
era is altogether out of our political ken, and we have no
right to claim any hold upon it, or to class it under the same
political unity with ourselves. Pecuniary obligations
at all events, must contemplate a practical term, not one
that can only be imagined. In strict honesty, it may be
doubted whether we have a right to look forward beyond
our children's children, or three generations, including
ourselves. This is not more than one century. That seems
to us a very fair period to assign for the redemption of a
National Debt. Before the late troubles put them so much
on a par with ourselves in these matters the Americans
scrupled to make public promises for a longer period than
ton or twenty years. During the whole of our own Euro-
pean war our financial scrupilists maintained a continual
testimony against any Debt except in the form of Termin-
able Annuities, and it was only when our necessities placed
us at the mercy of the capitalists that we resigned our-
selves to the more convenient form of a perpetual annuity.
But England still has a conscience and some degree of
forethought. She can, too, be recalled to duties that she
has all but forgotten. She can repent, and reform, and
improve, and progress, and become consistent, and do all
the other things that constitute the moral life of a man. It
is possible, then, that she may one day see the error of her 1
ways, and take serious steps to remove her huge Debt.
She is not taking serious steps at present. She is trifling
with her duty. It is little else than child's play to leave
an existing obligation to be discharged by the people who
may happen to be living in these islands, and inheriting
our name, in the twenty-third century of the Christian era.
But just now the whole question has received a new
aspect, and one that compels a fresh consideration. The
United States' Government suddenly finds itself in our
case. It has acquired several experiences. It can carry
on a stupendous war, and bring it to a successful con-
clusion. It can raise an aggregate of loans once believed
to be impossible in a now and Republican soil. It believes,
,also, that it can liquidate its debt, and it seriously talks of
doing so, not in four hundred years, not in a century, but
in thirty years. What if it should accomplish that bold
design ? The United States will then, if all be well, be
twice as populous and twice as rich as they are now ; and
if they shall also have paid off their present debt, they
will enjoy a confidence far stronger than that from simple
unindebtedness, —the confidence, namely, of those who have
both borrowed and paid, with still increasing resources.
Should the United States find themselves clear of the debt
at the end of this century, and should we, on the contrary,
find that we had only lowered our debt by seventy millions,
leaving it still £730,000,000, the contrast will be not only
shameful, hbut dangerous. In the event of a contest
between the old and the new country, the former will start
with a burden of debt proved to be impossible of payment,
and the latter will start clear altogether. That is a con-
sideration which will be fully " discounted" in American
public opinion and feeling. We might be able to stand the
reproach, hard as we have been upon American repudi-
ators ; but we shall not be able to prevent the Americans
thinking themselves vastly richer, and stronger, and
better than ourselves, and therefore more likely to come
Well out of a fresh war.—Times,