The Sun.
London, England, 1859-07-22 00:00:00

WILLS AND BEQUESTS.

The will of Baroness de Sternberg, late of Bels
field, Windermere, Westmoreland, has just been
proved by the executors, T. Tilson, Esq., of Brix-
ton-hill, T. Johnstone, Esq., solicitor, Raymond's-
buildings, and Mrs. Armistead. The personalty
was sworn under £lOO,OOO. The will bears date
date the 4th of June, 1859, and the Baroness died
on the 21st of that month. The charitable bequests
are numerous, and of large amount, exceeding
£25,000. Her ladyship has bequeathed to the
London Hospital, the Samaritan Society con-
nected therewith, and to the Marine So-
ciety, £3,000 to each. To the Whitehaven Infirm-
ary, £l,OOO, towards forming a fever ward ; £3OO
towards repairing a wing thereto, which was built
at her expense ; £l,OOO for a Samaritan Society to
the same, and £l,OOO towards the support of a
chaplain to that infirmary ; and has bequeathed to
the Whitehaven Infirmary the portrait of the late
Joseph Steele, her friend and benefactor, with a
request that it may be placed in the board-room of
that institution. To the Tower Ward School, in
the city of London, £2,000 ; the interest to be ap-
plied yearly in apprenticing the most deserving
boys of that school, who are to be called " Joseph
Steele's Apprentices." To the Royal Medical
Benevolent Fund £l,OOO, and a legacy of
£5OO to each of the following institutions :
The National Society for Promoting the Education
of the Poor in the Principles of the Established
Church throughout England and Wales, Society
for Promoting Christian Knowledge, Society for
the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts,
Society for the Employment of Additional Curates
in Populous Places, Society for the Enlargement,
Building, and Repairing of Churches and Chapels ;
Corporation of the Sons of the Clergy; London
Orphan Asylum, Clapton; Infant Orphan Asylum,
Wanstead; Adult Orphan Asylum, Regent's-park;
British Orphan Asylum, Clapham; Blind School,
St. George's-fields ; Deaf and Dumb Asylum,
Old Kent-road ; Governesses' Benevolent Insti-
tution, Harley-street ; City of London Lying-in
Hospital, City-road ; Middlesex Hospital, the Can-
cer Ward ; Brompton Consumption Hospital ; St.
Luke's Hospital ; Asylum for Idiots, Redhill ;
Refuge for the Destitute, Horton ; Eastern Dis-
pensary, Great Alie-street ; the Westmorland
Society, for the maintenance and education of chil-
dren of Westmorland parents, or of a Westmorland
parent, born in or near London. The whole of the
bequests, whether charitable or otherwise are to
be paid in full, without deducting the legacy duty.
The Baroness has bequeathed to:her nephews and
nieces legacies amounting to about £50,000 leaving
also among them the residue. She has directed £lOO
to be given to the poor of the parish in which she
was buried ; £5OO to the Churchardens and
minister of Allhallows, the interest to be applied in
keeping in repair the vault of the late Joseph Steele,
and the surplus given to the poor ; £3OO to keep in
repair the altar-grave of her mother ; and £5OO to
the Church of St. James, Dover. She leaves to her
pensioners liberal legacies, as well as to all her
servants.
The will of the right Hon. William Earl of
Devon, D.C.L., was:proved on the 15th of July by
the Right Hon. William Reginald Earl of Devon,
the son and sole executor. The will is dated
the 25th of September, 1850, leaving to his
Countess a small pecuniary legacy, and the re-
sidue of his estate real and personal to his son,
the present earl.
The will of General Sir James Law Lushington,
G.C.8., of her Majesty's Indian Army, was proved
on the 6th of July by Malcolm Orme, Esq., and
Lady Lushington, the surviving executors. The
late Lieutenant-Colonel George Cordell, of the East
India Company's Madras establishment, was also
an executor. The personalty £12,000. The tes-
tator bequeathed to Lady Lushington for life his
estate at Murston, Kent, and after her decease to
his nephew, Charles Hugh Lushington, of the
Bengal establishment, his• heirs and assigns, and
bequeathed a pecuniary legacy amongst his nieces,
and the residue to Lady Lushington. The will
was dated 9th of July, 1849.—Illustrated London
News.

SUICIDES IN THE SERPENTINE.—Yesterday
morning more than ordinary excitement took place at the
Royal Humane Society's Receiving-house on the north
bank of the Serpentine river, Hyde-Park, in consequence
of the bodies of two adult males and a youth being taken
out by the drags near Kensington-gardens-bridge. It ap -
pears that Parsons, the principal boatman, was out in his
boat, as is his custom every morning, when he made the
discovery. With assistance sent from the receiving-house
by Mr. "Williams, the superintendent, the whole three
were brought ashore and placed in warm baths ; and
Dr. Christian, the medical attendant to the Humane
Society, was promptly in attendance, and for a
considerable time endeavoured to resuscitate the bodies, but
without sucesss, as life was quite extinct. One of the in-
dividuals appeared about 60, dressed genteelly in black, but
no money or letters to lead to his identity were discovered ;
the other man about 35, was dressed as a mechanic—noth-
ing was found upon him ; the lad appears about 18 or 19,
and was respectably dressed. The bodies have been re-
moved to Mount -street Workhouse to await the coroner's
inquest, and information has been sent round to all the me-
tropolitan police stations, giving a description of the per-
sons of the deceased, clothes, &c. It is supposed that the
three unfortunate beings precipitated themselves off the
bridge into the water, as their bodies were found closely
contiguous to the bridge.
THE PORT OF LIVERPOOL AND ITS DEFENCES.
—This subject was brought up at the meeting of the Mersey
Dock Board yesterday, the chairman in reply to a question,
stating that he had consulted the mayor upon the matter,
and that they coincided in the opinion that some movement
ought to be made by the public generally in the first in-
stance ; that the Chamber of Commerce, for instance, and
the owners of goods were the proper parties to take the
initiative, rather than the custodians of the goods. Mr.
Laird observed that Captain Mends, of her Majesty's
steamer Hastings (stationed in the Mersey), had been re-
quested by the government to report upon the subject. Mr.
Hubbuck gave notice of a motion, in order that the ques-
tion might be fully entered into at a future meeting.
THE MEDITERRANEAN FLEET.—We have letters
from Malta to the ;16th of July, announcing the intended
departure that day of a squadron for Naples, under Vice-
Admiral Fanshawe, to be present at the coronation of the
new King, and to impress upon his Majesty the necessity of
granting a constitution and of another squadron for
Alexandria, under Rear-Admiral Mundy, to do honour, it
is said, to the Sultan should he carry out his projected visit
to the Pasha of Egypt, who seems to have incurred the
wrath of the Sultan in not immediately complying with
his demands for troops and money, threatened as Turkey is
by Persia on her frontier. The Cressy, ship of the line,
reached Malta from England on the loth of July. The
Banshee left Malta for Marseilles on the 16th, conveying
his Royal highness Prince Alfred and Major Cowell, his
governor repairing to England at the solicitation of her
Majesty.
FALLACY OF "PERPETUAL MOTION."— How
many truly beautiful mechanical contrivances have been
constructed, with the fallacious idea that they would con-
tinue to go on perpetually I It is one thing to impart a
sufficient amount of centrifugal force to overcome those of
friction and gravitation, but quite a different matter to
store it up and control it. A cannon acquires its propelling
power by the chemical action of fire and gunpowder pro-
ducing suddenly a quantity of gas. The mechanical action
or force of this drives out the ball, and the mechanical
action of the air stops its flight, while the force of gravita-
tion brings it to the ground. In Galileo's Wheel, the
power of velocity to overcome gravitation is demonstrated,
but so long only as the force of the momentum lasts. After
all, however, what are the most wonderful productions of
the greatest human genius—even those of a Newton or a
Galileo—when compared with the handiwork of One who is
the only maker of Perpetual Motion, in matchless majesty
and harmony I—aalileo'elrlisel,the,New Toy from Tuscany.