The Sun.
London, England, 1861-01-14 00:00:00

RECENT WILLS AND BEQUESTS.

The will of the Most Noble Henry Granville Fitzalan
Howard, Duke of Norfolk, Earl of Arundel and Surrey,
Baron Fitzalan, Maltravers, Chun, and Oswaldestre, Premier
Duke, Earl Marshal, and Hereditary Marshal of England,
was proved in her Majesty's Court of Probate on the 2d of
this month by two of the executors—namely, her Grace
the Duchess of Norfolk, and James Robert Hope-Scott,
Esq., Q.C., D.C.L.—power being reserved to Lord Petre
and Lord Stafford, the other executors nominated. The
personalty was sworn under £90,000. The will bears
date the 30th of May last, and a codicil on the 29th of
October. His Grace died on the 25th of November, aged
45. The will is signed "Norfolk, E.M." The wit•
nesses are Michael Ellison, of Beech-hill, Sheffield, gentle.
man, and Marcus Smith, Sheffield, land-surveyor. The
dispositions contained in his Grace's will are very few, and
strictly confined to the members of his family. His Grace's
children (two sons and six daughters) are all in their
minority; his son and heir, now Duke of Norfolk, is only
in his 13th year ; they are left under the care and guardian-
ship of the Duchess and Dr. Rope-Scott, Q.C. The Duke
has charged his ancestral estates with the sum of £25,000
for the benefit of the Duchess, to whom also he bequeaths
all his real and personal estate. His Grace has also charged
the ducal property with the further sum of £60,000 for his
daughters. Thera Is no disposition in favour of, Lord
Edmund Bernard Howard, his Grace's second son, the
Duke assigning as his reason for omitting him there
being an ample provision made for this young nobleman
under the will of the late Earl of Shrewsbury, who has
attached a desire accompanying it that Lord Edmund
Bernard Howard should incorporate with;• his own the
name of Talbot. This is the whole substance of his
Grace's will, there being no other disposition of any kind
whatsoever.

The will of the Hon. Eliza Blackwood, of Hinde-street,
Manchester-square, who died on the 12th of December
last : This lady's will was proved on the sth of this month
by her son, Alexander Adair Brice, Esq., the sole executor.
The personal property, sworn under £30,000, together with
the realty, she has, with a few exceptions, bequeathed to
her son absolutely, appointing him the residuary legatee.
The testatrix leaves an annuity of £2O to a domestic ser-
vant, and a legacy of £2O to another. This lady's first
husband was Colonel Brice; and her 'second husband,
whom she survived upwards of 27 years, was the Hon.
and Rev. John Blackwood (uncle to Price Blackwood, the
fourth Baron Dufferin, a Captain, R.N.).—.ll4.Btrated Lon-
don News.

The present advises from Shanghai mention that
the Yang-tse is infested by pirates, and that another gun-
boat had been despatched for their destruction. The lugger
Chance had just been brought into port, having been fallen
in with by her Majesty's ship Pioneer, after the whole of
her cargo had been plundered and half her crew killed.
In addition to the gold ships previously men-
tioned, the Clutha sailed from Geelong for London on the
IGth November, IN ith 23,755 ounces,
worth £95,000,
making the total on the way hither £686,000.
The Pungolo states that General Turr left Genoa
for Caprera in a government steamer, and that he was
charged by the king, with whom he had a long and confi-
dential interview in Turin, with a conciliatory message for
Garibaldi.

You would be very pretty, indeed," said a
gentleman patronisingly to a young lady, if your eyes
were only a little larger." "My eyes may be very small;
sir, but such people go ycq gQne.fig them."