Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1883-12-29 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

RECENTLY PROVED WILLS.  The will of Sir Edward Henry Scott, Bart., J.P. D' .L. the senior partner in the firm of Sir Samuel Scott and Co., bankers, who died in August last, has been proved, the value of the personal estate in the United Kingdom amounting to upwards of £917,000. This sum does not include £500,000 in the hands of trustees under a settlement made by his late uncle Mr. Samuel Scott, and over which he had a power of appointment among children. The testator leaves his property to his widow and children ; and bequeaths besides £5OO each to the Middlesex Hospital, St. Marylebone Almshouses, St. Marylebone Charity Schools, and the Governesses' Benevolent Institution; £4OO to the Bromley Cottage Hospital ; £3OO each to St. Mary's Hospital and the Caledonian Society; and considerable legacies and annuities to relatives, executors, trustees, clerks, yacht's crew and servants. —The will of Mrs. Caroline Elizabeth Case, late of Folkestone, has been proved, the value of the personal estate exceeding £105,000. The testatrix bequeaths £2OO to the Liverpool Royal Infirmary; and £lOO each to the Church Missionary and the British and Foreign Bible Societies. The bulk of her real and personal estate she leaves to her children and grandchildren.—The will of Mrs. Jane Austen, late of St. Leonardls-on-Sea, has been proved, the value of the personal estate amounting to over £74,000. The testatrix bequeaths sums of money to various charitable institutions, and the residue of estate is divided between her seven nephews and nieces.—The Scotch confirmation of the will of Sir William Taylour Thomson, K.C.M.G., C. 8., formerly her Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary in Persia, late of Caerlee, Innerleithen, Peeblesshire, has been sealed in London, the personal estate in England and Scotland exceeding £34,ooo.—The will of the Right Hon. William Bereeford, P.C., late of Hampton Court Palace, has been proved, the value of the personal estate amounting to over £20,000. The testator gives all his property to his eldest son Mostyn, his two younger children, Edward Marcus and Frances Arabella, being provided for by settlement. The deceased was M.P. for Harwich from 1841 to 1847, and for North Essex from 1847 to 1865, and was Secretary for War from March to December, 1852.—The will of Miss Elizabeth Jane Dodsworth, late of Hastings, has been proved, the value of the personal estate exceeding £11,000; the testatrix bequeaths legacies to her brother and others, and £1,600 to Cardinal Manning, to be applied in or towards the erection or otherwise for the benefit of the Roman  Catholic cathedral in Westminster. The residue of  her property, including jewellery not specifically be:neathed,she also leaves to Cardinal Manning for the same purpose.—The will of the Right Rev. Francis Kerrit Amherst, Roman Catholic /Bishop of Sozusa, sometime Bishop of Northampton, late of Fieldgate House, Kenilworth, has been proved, the value of the personal estate exceeding £9,800. The testator bequeaths, among other legacies, £2OO to the Roman Catholic Bishop of Birmingham, for the permanent benefit of the Kenilworth mission. A piece of freehold land at Kenilwoith, on which stand a Roman Catholic church, priest's house, and schools, with a burial-ground attached,he leaves to the Roman Catholic Bishop of Birmingham.—lllustrated London News.  The annual ieview publ.shed on Thuriday of the Clyde Jh ppalg tiade shews that during thi, year 329 ships have been launched, representing an aggregate tonnage of nearly 420,000, this being an increase I 30,000 over last year. Only about half the numbc% of orders are, howevr, in the hands of builders now as there were at the end of last year.  George Baldwin,a labourer, was on Thursday coin mitted for trial from the Lambeth police-court or. the charge of murdering a man named George Hoare, at Kennington. The facts of the case are well known. The two men had been drinking together on the night of the 13th inst. Hoare went to bed, and, subsequently, Baldwin went up to his room to bid him good night and cut his throat with a pocket-knife. The prisoner said he was drunk at the lame, and had no recollection of what happened. Lord Lyons, replying to toe aeirvind of Victor Hugo that the sentence upon O'Donnell should not be carried into effect, 853 • he is instructed to express the regret of her Majesty's Government that the request could not be complied with. He adds that the Queen in such matters always acts upon the advice of her Ministers, who saw no reason to interfere with the execution of the sentence. Victor Hugo has received a letter of thanks for his unsuccessful intervention from a London branch of the Irish National League,