Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1892-01-09 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

CHARITIES IN 1891.  Although during 1891 there were many liberal bequests and donation*, their total fell below those of former years, if we except the £2,000,000 given for the relief of Russian Jewe. One of the earliest of the larger bequests announced during the year was that of the murdered General Seliverstoff, who left £120,000 to charities. Mies Emma Abbott was the next donor, a telegram from New York stating that she had given her fortune, estimated at between £200,000 and £400,000, to charities. The Charity Record, to whom we are indebted for these particular., next mentions Mr. T. B. Bolitho, M.P., who gave £lO,OOO for eight beds in a convalescent home, promising further sum• if needful. Mr. G. Langland bequeathed £lO,OOO to Glasgow charities, and Colonel Seeley gave a similar sum 10 erects convalescent home for men at Skegness. Dr.. C. Lane endowed the Cooper Medical College of San Francisco with £50,000, after having previously spent £lO,OOO on it. The late Marchese Vincenzo Bugeja, among other some, left £175,000 to the various branches of the Conservatorio Vincenzo Bugeja. Another legacy of £lO,OOO was that of the late Major J. Atkinson, who divided it among venous charities, while Mr. J. Edwards, late of Islington, similarly left £11,700. Surrey was preeented anonymously with a Convalescent Hospital, the value of the gift being £25,000. Sir George Stephen, the 6rst colonial peer, marked his elevation by a donation of £lOO,OOO to found a Victoria Hospital in Montreal. Mr. David Price left £38,000 to London charities.  A good example-fo-r-o-t-lie-rs--;Tollow is the case of the late Cardinal Reynold, who, during the last 15 years, had given an average of £32,680 a year in charity. Colonel North is said to distribute £20,000 annually. In about a year's time Hamburg will be in possession of a hospital costing £98,010, the girt of Iferr von Donner. London charities lost seriously by the death of the Rev. T. S. Echalas, who, during his lifetime, had bequeathed about £19,000. Min Mary Bradford, Mr. H. A. Brassey, Mr. Robert a Dunville all gave over £lO,OOO to charities. The Ducheess Eugenia Litt& Bolognina marked her grief at the loss of the young duke by selling her jewels, valued at £20,000, and endowing a children's ward ate Milan hospital with that sum.  A wonderful work wae that of Verdi, who, having founded an asylum for distreesed musical artists, a a cost of £47,616, built at Milan a similar institution costing £19,840, endowing it with a .um of £79,360. Birmingham charities received a windfall of nearly £lOO,OOO by the death of the last surviving eieter of the late Mr. A. S. Wilkes. The Ruesian Jews benefited to the extent of £2,000,000, the gift of the Jewieh communities of London and Paris, headed by Baron Hirsch. We cannot give space to a full lien of charitable bequests, but we may name among , others the following, with the eines given or lefb 'by bequest : Mr. Cadge, Norwich, £10.000; Mien Scheer. Glasgow, £40,000; Mr. T. Hope, Domf rise, £102,650; Mr. Andrew Pickard, £17,250; Mr. Eli Lose, Oldham, £10,000; Lady V. Long-Wellesley, Bognor, £17,000; Mime Mellor, £41,000; Mr. S. Adam., £15,760; Mrs. M. A. Spencer-Bell, £25,000 ; ; Mr. C. B. Wight-Boycott, the reversion of £50,000; Mr. J. Verdin, £26,000. The Empress of Germany was asked to diepose of £10,500 in °hackie..