The Sun.
London, England, 1859-09-24 00:00:00

WILLS AND BEQUESTS.

The will of the Honourable Catherine Elizabeth
Boscawen, relict of the llonourable and Reverend
John Evelyn Boscawen, M.A., Prebendary of Can-
terbury, was proved in the principal Registry of
the Court of Probate by the Right Honourable Vis-
count Falmouth, the son, and sole executor. Her
ladyship has specifically disposed of all her jewels
and trinkets amongst her sons and daughters. A
portion of her property under settlement had been
appropriated to her two married sons and four
married daughters, and she disposes of the remain-
der of her fortune between her three unmarried
daughters and her son Edward James, who are also
appointed residuary legatees—the eldest son being
amply provided for. The will bears date the 14th
of November, 1856, and she died on the 31st July,
1859.

The will of the Coantess Elise De Viry Beauman,
late of Turin, relict of Admiral Beauman, was ad-
ministered to in London by her sister-in-law, Dame
Emily Thaon de Revel, the residuary legatee, owing
to the executors (Chevalier Charles 1)e Viry, her
brother, and Chevalier Genova Thaen de Revel)
having renounced the grant of probate. The will
is translated from the Italian and French languages.
After giving directions for her funeral and masses
for her soul, she disposes of her property, leaving to
her two nephews, the sons of her brother William,
all her railway shares and bonds, realising 6,000 fr.
per annum, in the hands of her bankers at Paris.
This bequest is made to equalise the disposal of her
fortune amongst her nephews, as the sons of her
brother George have received three-fourths of her
fortune during the lifetime of her husband, with
her consent. She leaves to Jaques Alarchisio, her
servant, 1000 fr., and to each of her other servants
one year's wages. All the rest of her property,
and the money at her bankers, she leaves to her
said sister-in-law, Dame Emily Thaon de Revel.
The will of Thomas Henry Smith, Esq., of
Bermondsey, who died in July last, was proved
in the London Court of Probate by his cousin,
Walter Smith, Esq., the sole acting executor; the
personalty sworn under £BO,OOO. There are be-
queathed to friends a variety of legacies, specific
and pecuniary—the latter amounting to between
£5,000 and £6,ooo—and there are the following
charitab'e bequests : —To the Female Orphan
Society, £2OO ; Southwark Female Society, £lOO ;
United Brethren Society £5O ; Charity Schools at
Leatherhead, 19 guineas : United Charity Schools,
Bermondsey, 19 guineas ; to the Vicar and Church.
wardens of Leatherhead, £5OO, to be invested, and
the interest applied in keeping in repair the family
vault at Leatherhead; the surplus to be disposed
of amongst the poor. The residue of his property
he leaves to be divided equally between his sister
and his cousin, the said Walter Smith.

It is stated that in the course of his private in-
terviews with the deputations from Parma and Modena,
King Victor Emmanuel urged upon them the necessity of
developing the armaments of Italy. "It is not impossible,"
he said, "that the present situation, still critical, will com-
pel us to draw the sword once more; and in that case you
wiil understand that I rely upon the arms of those who
proclaim themselves my subjects."
A RELIC.—Some men while engaged dredging
in the Mersey on Tuesday fished up an old 28-pounder,
which is supposed to have belonged to the man-of-war brig
Pelican, which upwards of 90 years ago capsized in the
Mersey. Tho "old gun" was covered with a soft earth,
which in some places had the appearance of becoming fos-
silised. Several rare specimens of shellfish were found ad-
hering to the old war missile.
The following letter, written by the Emperor
when Prince Napoleon, was published by the National in
December, 1835, and is now reproduced by some journals as
not without interest :—" Arenemberg, December 11, 1835.
—Several journals have stated that I am about to leave for
Portugal as a pretender to the hand of Queen Donna Maria.
However flattering for me may be the supposition of a union
with a young, beautiful, and virtuous Queen, widow of a
cousin who was thar to me. it is my duty to contradict such
a rumour, since no step known to me can have given rise
to it. I must even add that, notwithstanding the lively
interest which is felt in the destinies of a people who have
just acquired their liberties, I should refuse the honour of
sharing the throne of Portugal, if by chance some persons
should cast their eyes on me for it. The noble eonduct of
my father, who abdicated in 1810 because he could not re-
concile the interests of France with those of Holland, has
not been forgotten by me. My father, by his just example,
has proved to me how much one's own countryis preferable
to a foreign throne. I feel, in fact, that accustomed from
my infancy to love my country above all things, I can pre-
fer nothing to French interests. Persuaded that the great
name I bear will not always be a ground of exclusion in the
eyes of my fellow-countrymen, since it reminds them of 15
years of glory, I await with calm, in a hospitable and free
country, that the people will recall among them those who
wore exiled in 181.5 by 1,200,000 foreigners. This hope of
one day serving France as a citizen and a soldier fortifies my
heart, and is worth in my eyes all the thrones of the world.
—Accept, &c., NAPOLEON LOUIS BONAPARTE."