The Sun.
London, England, 1861-11-22 00:00:00

WILLS AND BEQULSTS.

(From the Illustrated London Hetes.)
The will and two codicils of the Right Hon. Sir
James Robert George Graham, Bart., M.P., P.C.,
G.C.8., &c., of Netherby Hall, Cumberland, and
46, Grosvenor-place, was proved in the principal
registry on the 12th inst. by the executors, Major
George Graham, Registrar-General, the testator's
brother, and James Laman, Esq., solicitor, Lin-
coln's-inn-fields. The personalty was sworn under
£35,000. This distinguished statesman has disposed
of his property entirely amongst his family. Sir
James made his will in 1858, being the year following
the decease of his wife Lady Graham. In 1860 and
1861 two codicils were added to it. Sir James has
devised tohis eldest son, Sir Frederic Übric Graham,
Bart., all his real estates, and has left him also the
residue of his personal property. To his two other
sons and to his three daughters sums amounting to
£lO,OOO are left by will and settlement, his eldest
daughter taking the furniture and some other
effects at his town residence, Grosvenor-place. Sir
James has empowered his trustees to present to his
son, the Rev. Maline Reginald Graham, the next
avoidance to the living of Arthuret, Cumberland.
These gentlemen are also requested to inspect all Sir
James's official papers, correspondence, documents,
&c., and to destroy, preserve, or publish any, accord-
ing to their discretion. To the executors legacies
of £2OO each are bequeathed.
The will of Henry Littledale, Esq., of Crick,
Northamptonshire, was proved in London on the
Bth inst. by the Rev. Charles L. Swainson, 8.D.,
Rural Dean, Rector of Crick, and C. H. Percival,
Esq., of Liverpool, merchant, the executors, the per-
sonalty being sworn under £7,000. This gentle-
man's will disposes of property of a mixed kind, in
some instances depending upon contingent circum-
stances. The testator has bequeathed to his mother,
who it appears was twice married, all his real and
personal property, and also any sums coming to his
estate under the wills both of his uncle, the late Sir

Joseph Littledale, and of his sister, Mrs. E. Bolton,
appointing his mother residuary legatee. The testa-
tor bequeathes to his half-brother, the Rev. C. L.
Swainson, a sum of £4,000 to which he (the testa-
tor) would be entitled on the decease of his mother ;
and a further sum to which he is also entitled under
marriage settlement on her decease is bequeathed
to the testator's godson, Mr. George Henry Trench.
The will of Charles Tilt, Eiq., of Pembridge-gar-
dens, Bayswater, which was proved in London by the
executors, VT. H. Dalton, George Gladstone, and the
testator's cousin, Benjamin B. Turner, Esqrs. was
sworn under £lBO,OOO pet sonalty. Mr. Tilt
was a publisher of considerable prominence, and
carried on anextensive business for several years in
Fleet-street. His spirited enterprise resulted in
the realisation of a large fortune, which he has be-
queathed almost entiroly to his daughter, his only
child. This lady is the wife of John Hall Gladstone,
Esq., and the property is bequeathed to her for life,
and on her decease to her husband for his life, and
ultimately to devolve to their children.

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The official Gazette of '1 urin pu_ :es a Itoya.
decree reorganising the battalion of young men instituted at
Palermo by Gen. Garibaldi in Juno, 1860, under the name
of " institute Militare Garibaldi." By this decree the
battalion in question is to comprise 500 pupils, divided into
four companies, and is to be assimilated, as regards instruc-
tion, to the battalion of soldiers' sons at Racconigi.
It is mentioned in the Manchester Guardian that
throughout the Lancashire cotton districts the spinners are
now generally making experiments with Indian cotton, and
that the opinions expressed of the result are various, but
that it is evident that, by a slight alteration in the
machinery, this cotton may be mado to enter, in various
proportions, into much higher numbers than has hitherto
been supposed likely.
THE WEST LONDON RAIDWAT.—The following
relates to the extension of the West London Railway, and
the preservation of Holland-house :—" Sir,—A slip of land
at the extremity of the Holland estate, some quarter of a
mile from the park, has been sold to connect four of the
principal railways for the conveyance of passen-
gers to the International Exhibition. This fact,
added to the circumstance that a skirting of Holland..
park upon the Notting-hill side is being built upon and
that a new plantation to take the place of the de-
caying elms upon the Kensington side has lately been
made, has given rise to a fear that an intention exists to in-
fringe upon the domain proper attached to the noble old pile,
and eventually to hem in, if not to desecrate, the ancient
house itself. So far from this being the case, it would ap-
pear to be the fixed intention of Lady Holland to preserve,
not alone the mansion, but the whole of the Kensington
approaches and surroundings inviolate. More than this,
every memento scattered about the house and elsewhere
has recently been looked over and arranged, and a liberal
allowance set apart to keep up the buildings and their
grounds in the exact state and character they have hitherto
held,