The Sun.
London, England, 1866-10-20 00:00:00

WILLS AND BEQUESTS.

(From the Illustrated London News.)
The will of the Right Hon. Henry George, Earl
Bathurst, D.C.L., of Oakley Park, Gloucestershire;
Langworth Lodge, Northamptonshire ; and Wilton
Crescent, Knightsbridge, was proved in her M
jesty's Court of Probate, on the 13th ult., by the
executors—namely, the Right Hon. Wm. Lennox,
Earl Bathurst, his lordship's brother ; and Mr.
Allen Alex. Bathurst, M.P., his lordship's nephew
(heir presumptive to the family honours), and only
son of his.lordship's late brother, the Hon. Thomas
Seymour Bathurst. The personalty was sworn
under £90,000. The will bears date July 14, 1842,
with two codicils—July 21, 1860, and January 15,
1863 ; and his lordship died on May, 25, 1866, at his
seat, Oakley Park, at the age of 76, a bachelor. JO
lordship was the son of the third Earl Bathurst and
Georgiana, daughter of Lord George Lennox. his
grandfather, the second earl, was Lord High Chair
cellor 1771-8. His lordship commences his will with
a legacy of £3OO to his then valet, George John-
son, and leaves legacies to his other servants, all
to be paid free of duty. He leaves to trustees
a sum of £15,000, the interest for his sister LOY
Emily Charlotte Punsonby, and the principal to he'
three daughters. He bequeaths to his sister, LadY
Lousia Georgiana Bathurst, an annuity of £400:
He devises his real estates to his brother, now Earl
Bathurst, which he has entailed on his issue male,
and bequeaths to his said brother the residue of bin
personal estate. His lordship directs that all his
diamonds, pearls, and other jewellery, and all plate,
pictures, statuary, marbles, paintings, and his
library, with the furniture and other effects, be held
as heirlooms with the title. The will of Mr. Jell°
Borrer, J.P., of the Manor House, Portslade, Sus'
sex, was proved in London, on the 25th ult., by the
executors and trustees—namely, his brother, the
Rev. Carey H. Borer, M.A., rector of Ilurstpier‘
point, Sussex ; Mr. Eardley N. Hall, Brighton,
banker ; and Mr. William Hall, of Southwicl‘
Lodge, Sussex. The personalty was sworn under
£45,000. The will is dated Jan. 23, 1866 ; with
three codicils, executed April and May followingl
and he died on August 12, aged 81. He possesse',
large landed property, a considerable portion 01
which, together with a sum of £13,000, h°
has left to his son, Henry Hall Borret,
and afterwards to his children. He leaves to his
daughter Mary, widow of John Blaker, an estate 0
Lewes, together with a pecuniary legacy. To 11!
daughter Kate he bequeaths Portslade Lodge, with
and land at North and South Borsted. 1°
bequeaths to his daughter Sarah Ann, Raglan
Portslade, with land, and a legacy of £4,0001 to-
gether with the interest of £lO,OOO. His residence/
when sold with land adjoining, is to be divided
one moiety to his son, and the other moiety, in equal.d
parts, between his three daughters. He divides Ow
plate, furniture, and other household effects oral
between his son and daughters, appointing thel
residuary legatees of both his real and persol.
estate. To each of his executors he leaves £lO „
There are numerous small bequests; also legacies i;
all his servants, free of duty. The late Mrs.
llutchings, wife of Mr. Charles Hutchings, of Wei;
mouth and Melcombe Regis, Dorsetshire, has 1313
the following bequests, payable on the decease
her husband, to the undermentioned institutions •,
The Church Missionary Society for Africa and tuo
East, £l,OOO ; the British and Foreign Bible s°;
ciety, Church Pastoral Aid Society, Western Mist
Missions, Society for Promoting Christianity amougs
the Jews, Religious Tract Society, and the London
City Mission, each a legacy of £5OO.

Mr. BARON MARTlN.—Yesterday at the Judge°l
Chambers, Mr. Baron Martin attended in relief of Obireo
Baron Kelly, who is not expected to attend at chanii)e-ci
again, as the long vacation ends on Tuesday nest, aIIa
there will then be a daily attendance, until Term, of e
of the other learned judges.
DEATH OF LORD PLUNKET, BISHOP OF TI-T-a:'•„t
We learn by telegraph from a Dublin correspondent tu;
that Lord Plunkett, Bishop of Tuam, died at 1 o'clock 11;
terday morning at his residence in the county of Afar'

was in his 74th year.
FORTHCOMING REFORM BANQUET AT MANC°SO;
TER.—The banquet •given by the National EeNtiii,
Union at Manchester has been fixed for the 20th of No`l°--di
ber next. Thirty-five members of Parliament have all© ht,
accepted invitations, and among them Mr. John
Sir F. Crossley, Sir John Gray, Mr. R. Palglish,
Hughes, Mr. W. H. Stone, Mr. E. J. Seymour, gr.
Synan, Mr. Samuelson, Mr. Finlay, Mr. C. Gilpin, Nit' p,
Stansfeld, Mr. J. Candlish, Mr. W. E. Forster, 3.1 r. 14*

Murphy, Mr. T. Cave, Mr. E. Baines, &c. tO
THE LATE CAPT. ARKWRIGHT. We TegrOu
state that intelligence has reached us this morning °Ltil o°
death of. Capt. Arkwright, aide-de-camp'to the Lord-JP";
/30;. tenant. The melancholy event occurred in Switzerl9
and in the presence of some of his nearest relatives.
.eitoC6'
Arkwright was upon the staffs of Lords Carlisle and
berley, as well as of the Marquis of Abercorn, and was 14103
popular and esteemed among us. In him the serviceijal.
lost a most promising young officer.—Dublin Eveni4"7ol
A MAN KILLED IN PICCADILLY. This inorol";
Mr. F. S. Langham, deputy-coroner for Westminster, ill on
an inquest in the Board-room of St. George's ilospit3,„r.
the body of Thomas Dixon, aged 55 years, a cati-drIT 0,
The deceased, while in a state of intoxication, drov°
furious rate along Piccadilly, and came in collision Wit a
hansom cab on the rank nearly opposite Clarges_street,
which he was thrown from his box, and falling on
skull watii killed. DO.

TIIE FATAL BOILER EXPLOSION AT LivEa' op.
—The inquest on the bodies of the men killed by tile citY
plosion of the donkey engine boiler on board the sbiPlyir
of Liverpool, at Liverpool, was resumed yesterday fined,
nesses on behalf of the makers of the boiler were exanj—
ad'
but the faulty character of the safety-valve was 6611
mitted. Mt'
ENCLOSURE ACT.—The second Enclosure co,
passed on the last day of the Session, authorised tilw°
closure of the following places : St. Julliott,
CopesC°r,ll-
Widdington, Essex ; Mynydd Bodafon, Anglesey; edest,
try, Warwickshire ; Waintleet, Lincolnshire ; I"Pk'osl
Hertfordshire ; Hopton Wafers, Salop ttud
Hertfordshire,

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