Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1856-04-30

The JENNINGS EsrArE-Who has not heard of
this famous property in England, which waits legal
ownership, and which has almost as many claimants
in the United States has been developed i'll the
recent "White" case?
"Wm. Jennings, by whom the estate was left, died
in London in 179S, aged 81 years. He had been
page to George l. and during the long period of his
life, remained bachelor, more given to penurious-
than hospitality. He the last annuitant of
the ExcheGuer Tontine of ;flOO share, for which
he resolved &c, 900 year for many years past. He
had property in almost every fund, and such was
the immense wealth, that the dividends most of
his stocks have not been received since 1873, nor
! the interest on his mortgages for long time. In
his iron chest, the key Of which could not be found
till after a long scarch-hd in mortgage deed
there bank of the year 173S to the amount
of $4,000 and several thousand new guineas.-
About 500, 0C0 were found in money and bank notes
at his town and country houses, and also key to
the chest containing his mothers plate and valua
bes, which is deposited al Chlds the Bankers and
has never been opened since his dcccase. lie is
ported to have always kept 100000 in his bankers
hands for any sudden emergency, and had not drawn
draft the Bank for the las: IA years. lie
till very lately employed regular steward. Not
many years since, an eminent attorney Of Suffolk
offered his assistance at his audit, thinking the IA
t;gue too great for Mr. Jennings age; but he was
answered, "What Do you think l can't write ?"
He was very regular and exact in all his accounts,
nsomuch that he even noticed his household bills
exceeding the usual weekly amounts His expenses
were supposed not above e3, 900 per year. although
his property, it is thought cannot fall far short of
two millions pounds. ltappears that he had very
faithful servants, who will be all provided for. A
will was found in his coat pocket sealed, but not
signed, which was owing, as his avorite servant says
to his master leaving his spcctacles at home, when
he went to his Solicitor for the purpose ofduy
ting it, and which he afterwards forgot to do"
Quite number of the Jennings claimants reside
in Virginia. those bearing that throughout the
country have held numerous meetings, and gone
to considerable trouble and expense to establish
their claim to this enormous property, but thus far
quite fruitlessly.
The Boston Courier makes the following remarks
IN speaking of the possibility of war between Eng
land and America -
England would have no chance of winning any
glory from contest with us, without her people
were thoroughly united and jealous for the war; this
they are not nor are they likely to he. Should they,
however, forget their own pursuit of freedom, and
join their oppressors in seeking war with the only
country in the world that sympathizes with the
cause OF labor and liberty, the struggle would be
indeed one worthy Of heroice age-a contest for
the dominion of the ocean. The weakness of Eng.
iahds nsuar position would be apparent in once or
TWO years, when the unequalled supplies of timber
ana naval stores, iron and coal of America would
nc exhloted In the continued production of fleets
SURPRISING tho capacity of all the world To-day
nere arc snip carpenters and joiners enough in the
OM0ed states to build two hundred war steamers Of
the size Of the Merrimac each year, without divert
ing man from any other branch of trade, and ma
chnsts enough to fit them with engines, and sailors
enough to man them Since the days of Tromp
ana fuyter, England has never had a really naval
power to contend with. She has destroyed fleets,
Out the nations who owned them have not been able
70 replace them again. We do not speak Of armies
lor IN such war they would be of secondary inn
| portance The chivalrc valor of our people needs
no encomium, and the superior military education
our officers over the British is too notorious to re-
quire comment" 49,, = - I