The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-04-04 00:00:00

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Among the special constables sworn in London, last
week, was Prince Louis Napoleon Bonaparte.
Lady Macnaghten, wife of the Ambassador murdered at
Cabool, arrived at Southampton, on Thursday. _ _ _

Of the sixty prisoners taken up at Glasgow for being
concerned in the late riots, twenty were convicted thieves.
Lord John Russell has received the design of the new
two-shilling piece from Mr. Wyon, and has submitted
the same to the Queen, who has approved of it.
CHLOROFORM.—It appears, by experiments made at
the Bicetre, Paris, that inhalations of chloroform induce
fits of epilepsy in those persons liable to such visitations.
There is no truth in the report that the poet Words-
worth is in a state of imbecility. His intellect is as clear
and vigorous as ever.
CHINESE JUNK KEYING.—This extraordinary vessel,
so long expected to arrive, reached the Thames on Mon-
day.

A memorial to Lord John Russell to stop all Sabbath
Post-office work in the provinces, has been signed by
upwards of 600 male heads of families in Bedford.
Of 106,000 emigrants who lately crossed the Atlantic
for America, 6,000 died during the voyage, 4,100 on their
arrival, and 5,200 were sent to the hospital ; and of those
who settled in the towns, 1,900 died._ _ _ .

A correspondent of the Morning Chronicle states that
tobacco stalks, which may be bought on the continent at
12s. per cwt., are, when landed in England, worth £lB,
and truly observes that no fiscal regulations can stand
against a profit of £3OOO per cent. to the smuggler.
THE BANK OF ENGLAND.—Henceforth the system of
electing the governor and deputy-governor by rotation is
to be abandoned, and methods are also to be adopted to
give a somewhat more public character to the ordinary
elections for directors.

A very heavy thunder storm passed to the east of Sun-
derland on Wednesday. The thunder was very loud and
protracted. The morning had been very wet, but the
afternoqn was fine and calm, and no rain fell after the
thunder.

Turnips continue so plentiful in North Northumberland
and Tweedside that the farmers are not only taking in
sheep to eat them off the land, free of charge, but, they
are finding the shepherd and his dog with provisions and
lodgings without cost.
EXTENSIVE ROBBERY.—On Saturday night last, a
Mr. John Kingham, of Birmingham, who had arrived at
Gloucester that day, was in company in the evening with
a woman of questionable character, who contrived to ease
him of bank notes to the amount of £7OO.

There was not a single prisoner for trial at the late
Merionethshire :assizes, a fact which testifies strongly in
favour of Welsh morality • and there was not a single
cause in the paper, a fact Which bears equally strong wit-
ness to Welsh wisdom. • _ _ _ _

AN OBSTINATE CONSCIENCE.—A Mr. John Deferne,
formerly a respectable tradesman in Leeds, was commit-
ted for a contempt to the Queen's Bench prison in March,
1812, and is now its inmate, having been incarcerated 36
years, his conscience not allowing him to make a state-
ment that would at any time restore him to liberty.
THEATRICALS EXTRAORDINARY.—Last week the Bath
theatre was despoiled of its properties to a considerable
extent, both tragic and comic costume having been stolen.
Among the articles enumerated were " A countryman's
red curly wig," and " A pair of blue coarse trousers,
women'e size, &c., &.
Th. 0/49,7 ver, of holiday, c ontalus a statement that
rumours are circulation in the county of Lincoln that Dr.
Willis. formerly one of the physicians to George 111.,
who died in 1835, leasing a fortune of £300,000 was poi-
soned. It is said that a servant of the deceased recently
confessed, on his deathbed, that he poisoned the doctor.
EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE.—On Friday, at the Mary-
lebone Police-court, the Earl of Kingston, a peer of the
realm, was committed on a charge of having indecently
assaulted a young man. The magistrate said he would
take bail, the prisoner in £5OOO, and two sureties in
£2500 each. _

William Jones and Lewis Fleming, engine driver and
stoker in the service of the South Western Railway, were
tried at Islington, on Wednesday, for having, through
negligence, caused the death of David Markland, engine
driver, at the late accident near the Woking Station.
They were both acquitted.
The stoppage of the Grantham bank of Messrs. Kew-
ney and King was announced on Monday. It was a bank
of issue, established in 1812, and the fixed limit of its
circulation was £19,401. Its outstanding notes, however,
according to the last returns, amounted only to £17,382.
Messrs. Barclay and Co. were the London agents, but
they sustain no loss.

The colliers are still stopping out unemployed, with
results to themselves and families, as well as to Newport
and neighbourhood, of still largely augmented wretched-
ness and depression. Very many weeks have now elapsed
since the commencement of this unhappy strike, and one
would fancy, in all conscience, that all concerned had
had quite enough of it. _

ENGLISH REFUGEES FROM FRANCE.—The Mayor of
Plymouth has received a communication from Port Admi-
ral Sir John West, stating that when occasion shall arise
at Plymouth for providing a temporary asylum for English
artisans, refugees from France, Her Majesty's ship Tyne,
26, will be removed from Hamoaze to Catwater, and there
placed entirely under the control of the municipal autho-
rities. _ _

On Monday, an inquest was held in London on the
widow of Mahomed Sidkay, who was Turkish ambassador
in England, in 1811, and who died here in that year,
leaving his family in very necessitous circumstances. The
deceased, whose death was caused by injuries inflicted by
a cab that ran over her, was in the receipt of an allowance
of 3s. a week from the parish of Marylebone : and her
daughter is now a servant in London.
DISCOVERY OF SIR JOHN FRANKLIN.--Lady Franklin
has issued a notice offering a reward of 20001. with a view
of inducing any whaling ship which resorts to Davis's
Straits or Baffin's Bay, to make search for the expedition
under the command of Sir John Franklin. Her :adyship's
notice stipulates that search shall be made in those ports
which are not in the scope of the expedition sent out by
government. ^ _ _

In June, 1847, Adelaide Bell, aged 18, prosecuted to
conviction her master, a beer-shop keeper, whom she
charged with having committed a rape upon her, and who
was sentenced to fifteen years' transportation. in con-
sequence of his friends doubting the truth of the girl's
story, they made inquiries into her character, which led
to her conviction for perjury, and she was a few days ago
sentenced to siX montns- imprisonment.
Sir William Gossett, sergeant at arms of the House of
Commons, died at eleven o'clock on Monday morning at
his country residence, Charlton Grove, near Woolwich.
The deceased gentleman had been indisposed some time,
and his illness was much aggravated by an accident which
happened to him some time since, when he was knocked
down and run over by a cab, which broke his leg, and
since then the deceased has not been in attendance at the
House of Commons, we believe, more than once or twice.
At Lewes Assizes, on Thursday,' John Goldspink, the
footman who concealed himself under a bedstead; and
when discovered by Mrs. Fulcher, his mistress, a lady
living at Brighton, violently assailed her, was indicted
for an attempt to murder her or do her grievous bodily
harm. The Lord Chief Justice did not think the evidence
bore out the charge, and the man was convicted of an
assault only. He was sentenced to be imprisoned for
twelve months.
At Hanham, the family of Mr. Jumlett, clock and
watch maker, have been thrown into great distress by the
careless use of firearms. A charged fowling-piece was
left in Mr. Jumlett's bed-room, into which two of his
children, one aged fourteen, the other two, wandered,
when the former took up the gun, and aiming it at his
brother, said, " I'll shoot you." Scarcely had he said so
before the piece exploded, and its contents passed through
the child's head.
THE WELSH EDUCATION COMMISSIONERS' REPORTS.
—At a large and important meeting held in the market-
place, Aberdare. on Friday se'nnight, resolutions con-
demnatory of the report of Mr. Commissioner Symons,
and of the details furnished to the commissioners by the
Rev. James Hughes, rector of Llanhilleth, as unfair,
garbled, and ungenerous, were agreed to. Commodious as
is the market-place, it was not half large enough to ac-
commodate the whole of the vast number of persons who

flocked to the meeting.
A meeting was held in the Mayor's Chamber, at Dur-
ham, on Friday evening, for the establishment of an
Athenaeum in that city. Professor Johnston, the origin-
ator of the project, occupied the chair. The object of the
society is the establishment of a reading-room, for news-
papers,and periodicals, the formation of a library, and the
delivery of public lectures. The establishment of the
society is more especially intended for the middle classes.
The constitution of the society was adopted, and officers
elected ; the Rev. Dr. Gilly is president,

Thomas Aldridge Shirley was tried at Norwich assizes,
on Wednesday, for shooting his uncle, William Page, with
murderous intent. Page had often lent money to his
and bad at last put an execution into the debtor's
. Shirley went to Mr. Page, and fired a pistol,
shot away his jaw. He was found guilty, and re-
ceiced sentence of death. _ _ . . .

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A parcel of watches, stolen during the riots in Glasgow,
have been found secreted in a dunghill, and others have
been picked up in the shops of the low brokers. A gold
watch was recovered in rather a curious manner. A fel-
low, named Kilian, was undergoing examination before
the sheriff in Gorbals, when he lifted his leg as if to scratch
his ancle, and immediately a gold watch popped out of
his boot. It was identified as one of those stolen from
Messrs. Finlay and Field.
THE POISONING CASE AT LLANELLEN.—At the Mon-
mouth Assizes Mary Howells and J. Price were charged
with the murder of W. Howells, husband of the former
prisoner. It will be recollected that at the Coroner's
inquest it was proved that the deceased died of poison,
and there was strong evidence that it had been adminis-
tered by his wife and the man Price who, there was reason
to believe, had cohabited together immediately after
Howell's death. To the great surprise of all, the Jury
returned a verdict of " Not Guilty."
FATAL COAL-PIT ACCIDENT.—On Wednesday, an acci-
dent took place at a coal-pit at Malinslee, Shropshire,
called " the Lodge," which resulted in the death of eight
men. The pit was worked by a steam-engine, and was
175 yards deep. About half-past five o'clock, these un-
fortunate men were descending the pit for the purpose of
going to work, when about 40 or 50 yards down, the pins
which held the main shaft broke, and the poor fellows fell
to the bottom, and the chain rope, about two tons weight,
getting off the barrel, fell on them.
CONVICTION FOR PERJURY.—At the late Carmarthen
assizes, Thomas Thomas was (in the words of the Judge)
convicted of wilful and corrupt perjury. For the sake of
obtaining the reward offered by the Queen, he made a
false charge, on oath, against three men, and the conse-
quence of his so doing caused them to be committed for
trial on a most serious charge, and confined in prison as
felons, and on which, if they had been convicted, they
would have been subjected to transportation for life. The
prisoner was sentenced to be transported for seven years.
The Morning Post calls the attention of the police
authorities to swarms of unwholesome-looking people,
abounding more in beards and whiskers than in clean
linen, who throng the cigar-shops and lounges of the West
End. They are thought to be for the most part foreign
propagators of sedition, whose mission here and in Ireland
is to do the work of the Republican Propaganda of Paris.
If this be so, they are the proper mark for every just
man's indignation, and no chastisement can be too severe
for the union of so much crime with so much impudence.
OBSTINACY.—A young girl, named Ann Waters, aged
about thirteen years, who was living with a relation at
Cwmbrane, Monmouthshire, from whom she experienced
much kindness, having been lately reproved with sharp-
ness for some neglect, sulked, left the house, and re-
mained away without her friends having any knowledge
of her retreat, for four days, during which time it appears
that the poor creature took no sustenance, and slept out
in the open air. She at length returned home, but in
such a weakly state, from self-inflicted privation, that she
languished for a short time and died.
At Hereford, John Beavan, aged 26, pleaded guilty to
an indictment charging him with the manslaughter of his
brother, whom he struck at a ball they were at together
in fun ; the other returned the blow rather severely. The
prisoner struck him a second on this, but it not appearing
violently ; but it was a most unfortunate blow, as the
next moment the poor young man lay a stretched corpse
at his brother's feet. Judge Cresswell sentenced him to
be confined in prison for the remainder of the day, as he
could not for a moment imagine he meant to injure, much
less kill his brother.

A brutal outrage and robbery were perpetrated at
Coggeshall, Essex, on Saturday week. Three men with
their faces blackened entered the house of an elderly man
named James Finch, and in order to make them confess
where their money was concealed, placed him and his
housekeeper on the fire, where their clothes were much
burned. They then put a rope round the old man's neck
and drew him up to a beam until he was almost strangled.
Being at last convinced that they had made a mistake as
to money being in the place, the villains decamped, after
regaling themselves with ham and other provisions.
FATAL ACCIDENTS IN SHOOTING.—The annals of the

eighbouring county of Shropshire present two very melan-

choly instances of fatal occurrences of this kind,- the one
in the death of the only son and heir of the late Andrew
Knight, Esq., of Downton Castle, which happened some-
where about twenty years ago, and the other in the very
recent death of that excellent nobleman, Earl Powis. But
the remarkableness of these two events occurring in the
same county, and amongst those of its higher-born classes,
would not be matter for observation were it not for a most
singular, not to say extraordinary, coincidence which is
equally connected with both of these sad catastrophes,
namely, that at the time of Mr. Knight's accident his life
was in a lease of property belonging to the Bishop of
Worcester, and that the life inserted in that lease to sup-
ply the place of Mr. Knight was that of the late Earl
Powis !—Worcester Herald.
CURIOUS DEFENCE.—At the Midland Circuit assize,
held at Derby, a man, named James Turner, was indicted
for stealing some potatoes, on the Ist of February. The
prosecutor, it appeared, missing the potatoes, traced foot-
steps from his own door to the house of the prisoner, and
on entering, found the potatoes he had missed, which
were immediately given up by the prisoner, who said he
had found them at his door the previous night. The pri-
soner, in his defence, produced the leaf of a bible, con-
taining the Ist and 2nd verses of the 22nd chapter of
Deuteronomy, which were to the effert, " that if a
brother's ox or sheep went astray, or if he lost his raiment,
or anything belonging to him, they should be taken in and'
kept by the finder until the loser should seek them, when
they were to be restored to him." The Judge stated it to
be his opinion that the text in question was not an irre-
levant or improper defence. The prisoner was acquitted.

A fatal and destructive fire occurred at Barnard- Castle
on Monday last. It broke out on the premises of Messrs.
Weatherilt and Marshall, drapers. An assistant, named
Loadman, jumped from the third floor into the street, a
height of 40 feet, and was so severely injured that his life
is despaired of. The progress of the flames was not
arrested until the stock was destroyed, the premises
gutted, and the adjoining premises. belonging to Mr.
Bayles, cabinet-maker, were considerably damaged. The
servant girl was rescued from her perilous situation by
means of ladders, but Mr. Weatherilt was burnt to death
in his room, and when his remains were discovered, after
the fire, they were found to be reduced to a cinder. The
uninsured damage is estimated at £3OOO, which will
principally fall on Mr. Bayles. The stock and fixtures
were worth about £lOOO, insured for £6OO. How the
fire originated is yet unknown.
SALE OF THE BEAUTIFUL SERVICE OF PLATE OF THE
DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM.—On Thursday, the sale of the
beautiful service of plate of his grace the Duke of Buck-
ingham was proceeded with by Messrs. Christie and Man-
son, the auctioneers, of King-street, St. James's, the
rooms being crowded by the nobility and gentry. There
were 163 lots disposed of ; some of the pieces of plate
being of the most magnificent description. A candela-
brum, with arms of the family, standards, and heraldic
supporters upon a plinth, surmounted by a palm tree,
from which spring branches for six lights, (presented to
the duke by the officers, non-commissioned officers, and
privates of the Bucks Yeomanry Cavalry), and weighing
340 ounces, sold for 10s. per ounce. A magnificent side-
board dish, with medallions, one of the coronation of
George 11., and the other a crest, surmounted by wreaths,
and suspended by ribbons, the border richly chased, sold
for Bs. ld. per ounce. A pair of beautiful ewers, chased,
with shells, fetched 9s. 6d. per ounce. The other articles,
consisting of vases, goblets, ewers, dishes, &c., fetched
sums varying from ss. to 10s. 9d. per ounce. The cellar
of wine, sold on Tuesday and Wednesday, fetched remark-
ably high prices, champagne selling from 755. to 80s. per
dozen. _ _

At Exeter Assizes, on Saturday, Ann Fisher was tried
for the murder of her husband, Richard Fisher, by poison-
ing him with arsenic. It appeared that her husband, who
was a farmer possessed of some property (£500), was con-
siderably older than herself. It was also stated in evi-
dence that an intimacy existed between the prisoner and
a man named Leach, to whom she had been previously
engaged ; and a chemist named Woods proved serving
the prisoner and Leach with arsenic. The jury, however,
returned a verdict of acquittal; no doubt influenced by a
most barefaced perjury by a woman, described of the
most revolting aspect, who declared that the prisoner,
while in gaol awaiting her trial, confessed the murder to
her, with most horrible additions, many of which were
proved by other witnesses to have been impossible. On
her cross-examination, the wretch admitted she had
o'aargoa Dover.' mon with sore, ‘,-'trout el ohavilo laaing
brought home to any of them. The motive of the woman
in making such a statement appears as incomprehensible
as her tale was incredible ; and though the "case was, in
circumstantial evidence, very suspicious, a doubt and
mystery was thrown over the charge by evidence so dis-
gusting and malicious, as to prevent the jury from safely
arriving at any other verdict than that of acquittal.
MRS. BUTLER'S READINGS.—This lady was invited to
read two of Shakspeare's plays at the Literary Institution
at Highgate. The plays selected were Macbeth and The
Merchant of Venice. The first was read on Saturday,
and the second on Tuesday last. On both evenings the
room was crowded to overflowing, and the deep and silent
attention in which the audience were held was only inter-
rupted by the bursts of enthusiastic applause which were
elicited by the delivery of some of the most striking pas-
sages. It would be difficult and almost invidious, where
all was excellent, to point out the particular parts that
pleased us most. But in the Macbeth it was impossible
not to be impressed by a sense of the mystery and terror
which invested the incantations of the witches, and by the
eminently firm, distinct, and forcible delineation which
was given of the hero. Indeed, we not only admired the
Macbeth more than the Lady Macbeth, finely as that
part was portrayed, but we doubt whether Mrs. Butler's
conception of the character is not the most true to Shak-
speare which has ever been witnessed. The Merchant of
Venice afforded a more ample display of her versatility
than the Macbeth, and it would be hard to decide whe-
ther the grave or the comic
.parts of the play were most
perfectly rendered. It is remarkable that in her reading
Mrs. Butler never once reminded us of her father, whom
she must have so often heard, while she was continually
recalling to our recollection her aunt, Mrs. Siddons,
whom she probably never heard read at all.—Times.
THE BILE INFALLIBLY CURED BY HOLLOWAY'S PILLS•
—Many who suffer from bile are unconscious of it ; they
complain of sick headaches, derangement and sinking at
the stomach, loss of appetite, lowness of spirits, want of
energy, feet, hands, and face swelling, and know not that
these symptoms denote the imperfect action of the liver,
and if not remedied may lead to dropsy. Holloway's
Pills will always be found to act directly upon the liver
and stomach, and carry off the redundancy of humours,
arid thereby immediately restore the patient to a full en-
joyment of health. The blue bill is a mercurial and
1 destructive medicine, which no one should take, ttra-c-Ar

DEATH FROM AIR IN A VEIN.—On Wednesday, an
inquest was held at Barnes, on the body of W. Richards,
a coal-porter. The deceased had been suffering from
inflammation of the wind-pipe, and died after the per-
formance of an operation. The Jury consulted for a few

minutes, and then returned the following special verdict:
" Accidental death, from the entrance of air into a vein
in the neck during an operation performed by Dr. Willis :
but the Jury cannot separate without expressing their
opinion that such operation was cautiously and skilfully
performed ; and, as appears by the evidence adduced, the
said operation was fully warranted by present practice.
SINGULAR Loss OF Two LIVES.—An inquest was held
on Wednesday on the bodies of two men, named Wain-
wright and Moore. On Tuesday Wainwright, who was a
horse-keeper in a cab yard, was " larking with a man
named Peacock, when they began to wrestle and both
fell to the ground, the head of the deceased striking a bolt
in the door and causing the blood to flow. He was con-
veyed to the hospital, where erysipelas set ini and he soon
after died. After Wainwright had been carried away.
Moore said something to Peacock which exasperated him,
and they were about to have a scuffle when Moore sud-
denli dropped down dead. In this case the opinion of
the medical men was, that death was caused by excite-
ment, and in the other case a verdict of Accidental Death
was retarned.—London paper.

A DiscovEay.—On ThUrsday, while Irvine, one of the
criminal officers, was engaged in the necessary investiga-
tions, in order to trace out a gold watch which had been
stolen, he made a discovery which tends to explain the
extreme difficulty which is met with in the recovery of
such property. In searching the premises of a watch-
maker, who is known to be engaged in renovating, or in
other words disguising stolen watches, certain parts of
several watches were found, which led to the suspicion
that the parts belonged to as many stolen watches. The
watchmaker's assistant being the son of a broker, who
was known as a dealer in the trade, as the practice of re-
setting watches is called by the parties, search was made
for the other portions of the watches, corresponding to
those in the watchmaker's possession. The search proved
to a considerable extent successful, the works of a number
of watches having been recovered minus what was found
with the watchmaker. This was so far well, but a part of
them was still awanting—the plate which bears the
maker's name, and the number of the watch. This was a
puzzler, but accident supplied the required information.
While the officer was engaged in his inquiries, a parcel
from London was opportunely delivered to the broker,
which on being taken possession of and examined, turned
out to be the old name plates which were missing, care-
fully and ably furnished with a new face. The whole
of the parties are in custody.—Glaegow Paper.

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MIDNIGHT HUNT IN THE SHEFFIELD TUNNEL.—On
Tuesday week, soon after midnight, one of the servants of
the Midland Company was proceeding up the tunnel, to-
wards the Manchester station, and when he had got some
distance along the dark and dreary cavity, he was alarmed
by a loud barking and clattering of hoofs at the upper end
of the tunnel. He listened for a moment, and finding
that whatever animals the noise came from were graining
fast upon him, he wisely took to his heels, and darted
back towards the point he started from. Having taken
his! position out of harm's way, he waited but for a brief
space, while the clattering of hoofs and the barking were
getting nearer and nearer. In another minute out bolted
a jackass at the top of his speed, with a dog yelping at his
heels. Away they went up the line towards Attercliffe,
the ass ever and anon flinging his heels at the dog, and
coc*Aing up his head, right and left, to see the whereabouts
of his pursuer. The men who were on duty at the station
now joined in the pursuit, and at some distance up the
line, Mr. Neddy was brought to bay, and duly captured.
On further inquiry, it appeared the poor donkey had
strayed into the Sheffield and Manchester station at mid-
night, and wandered to the upper end of the tunnel.
While there, he was beset by the dog, to escape
whose fangs he shot down the tunnel, and caused the
alarm and confusion above described.
THE LATE THOMAS DUNCOMBE, ESQ.-The will of the
late Thomas Duncombe, Esq., of Copgrove, in the county
of York, was proved in the court at York, on the 29th Feb.,
and in London, on the 6th ult. The personal pro-
perty within the province of Canterbury alone paid a duty
on £60,000. The will is dated the 19th of February,
1840, and the executors appointed therein are Lord Fe-
versham, the nephew (then the Hon. Wm. Duncombe),
and the Rev. Edward Duncombe, a son of the deceased,
and who alone proved the will in the respective courts.
The testator has bequeathed to his eldest son, Thomas
Slingsby Duncombe, Esq., a legacy of £5O; his mansion,
and all the messuages, lands, and hereditaments in the
township of Aldborough, Yorkshire, he leaves to his son
Edward and his heirs for ever. The estates which he held
on lease under his Grace, the Archbishop of York, situate
at Monkton Naine, he leaves to his son Henry John Dun-
combe, together with the tithes arising from the said
estates, and devises to him for his own use the messuages,
cottages, lands and estates in the pariah of Burton Leo-
nard, in the township of Brearton, Yorkshire, and all
other his real estate, whether.in possession, reversion, re-
mainder, or expectancy, and over which he held any power
of ' disposition, and not specifically given or devised.
Leaves in trust to his son, the Rev. Edward Duncombe,
and his son-in-law, the Hon. and Rev. John Venables
Vernon, so much capital as, when invested in the Three
per Cent. Consols, will produce the annual dividend of
£5OO sterling, to apply such dividends to the use and be-
nefit of his son, George Duncombe, for his life, and after
his decease shall fall into the residue of the personal estate.
Directs that his diamonds, jewellery, pictures, paintings,
busts, statues, library, his wines, furniture, carriages, and
horses, shall be shared equally among his sons, Henry and
Edward, and his daughters, Emma Dawkins, Frances
Barbara Vernon, and Harriet Vade, and appoints them
residuary legatees.