The Kenilworth Advertiser. — 1876-12-23 (Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England)

OOO. The testator gives his household furniture and effects to his wife, and the income of the entire residue of his property for her own use and the maintenance and education of his children. On her death the property is to be divided between all his ehildren.—The wili, sla.ed July 25, 1874, of Mr. Charles M'Niven, late of Perry afield, Surrey, who died on the 9th of September last, was proved on the 25th ult, by the Rev. Charles Mannoir M'Niven and Henry M•Nisen, the sons, the executors, the personal estate beings worn miner .E 90,000. —The will, dated March 13,1875, of Mr. James Austin, late of Princes street, Finsbury square, and of Augustine house, Queeu's road, Finsbury park, who died on the 2nd ult., was proved on the 2 ,th ult. by Junes Tennant and John Arkell, the surviving executors, the personal estate being sworn under .C 60,000. Toe testator gives legacies of £l5OO to esAlt of lie daughters, £lOOO to each of his six sons, and TA to each of his executors. Provision is made for the continuance of hie business by his sons Edwin, Francis, and Arthur. The will, dated January 24, 1853, of Mr. John Bramwell, formerly of A herdeen, and late of No. 132, Westbourne terrace, Paddington, who died on August 8 last, at Harrogate, was pr ved on the 24th ult. by Mrs. Isabella Bramwell,, the w dow, the personal estate being sworn under .C 45,000. The will and five codicils, dated respectively Match 6, 1860, July 28, 1863, May 6, 1867, February 14, 1872, August 11, 1875, and May 29, 1867, of Mr. Percival Andree Pickering, Q.C., Judge of the Passage Court of Liverpool, and Attorney-General for the County Palatine of Laacaster, late of the Inner Temple, and of No. 48. Bryanston square, who died at the Lord Warden Hotel, Dover, on August 7 last, were proved on the 2nd inst. by Mrs. Anna Marta Wilhelmina Pickering, the widow, the p,•rsonal estate being sworn under £3o,ooo.—The wilt nil codicil of the Rev. Robert Halley, D.D., formerly of New College, St. John's Wood, bat late of No. 83, Downs road, Lower Clapton, who died on August 18th last, at Arundel, Sussex, were proved on the 13,1 ult. by the Rev. Robert Halley, the son, and Joseph Thompson, the executors, the personal estate behig sworn under £9OOO. —lllustrated London Neu%  The Right Rev, Dr. Wheelan, Bishop of Bombay, died last week, at Dublin, aged 76. Fran ToReEDOEs,—The War Department has ordered of Mr. Whitehead 200 of his fish torpedoes at a contract price of about £5OO each, and they are to be manufac.ured under the superintendence of the patentee, in Austria. The cost of making like torpedoes in the Royal Laboratory Department of the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, with all the latest improvemen's, is A:300 each, Sc. A similar order has been received at that department. CArirAL PcsisiimENT.—Sir Eardley Wilmot, Bert., M.P., who is spending the winter at Mee, in the South of France, has written to Mr. Tallace, secretary of the Howard Association, Londou informing him that it is his intention in the coining se,aion of Parliament to introduce a short bill to restrict, the capital penalty to cases of murder where the jury find th t actual premeditation of the cella existed. Sir E. Wilmot's act on hi this respect is without preiudice to Mr. J. W. Pease's intended [notion for the total abolition of capital punishment. Both are members of the lloward Asiatic etion for the Promotion of the best Methods of the Treatment and Prevention of Crime; but Sir E. Wiltuot d es not, like Mr. Pe ise, advocate the total abolition of the deat',. preally. He considers, however, the existing law of murder to be fraiiebt with anomahes and gnat irregu,arities. manor) itioane..-or the American rriMiEarit Bohmpal diocese of Albany, a a late service, severely criticised modern church music. He thinks that it is given over to the hands of men and WeineU who are only musical in a secular sense, and who are used, avowedly, to draw a multitude of listeners who prefer the kind of music they have learned to love in °pros and concert halls, • The Paris correspondent of the Vritish Medical Joursal reports that the epidemic of typhoid th veil on the decline; for, inbtead of lo' deat t e for the week before last, the mortuary report for the week ending 1),(4 mber 7 shows a mortality of F 6 from typhoid ferry That fr in other iliseases ha. also ben conrderably red red; and, indeed, the s udtary condition of Paris may be considered exceptionally good for the time of the ye r.  SHOCEI:ok