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POSTSCRIPT. Satuedat, August 17.
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TO CORRESPONDENTS . j # g < xbe letter alluded to appeared in the Morning Chronicle of the 5 th instant . Miss Martineau ' s very excellent letter on Association was not received in time for to-day ' s publication . We shall have much pleasure in publishing it next week .
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SIB ROBERT PEEL'S WILL . From the Times of this morning , we take the following abstract of Sir Robert Peel ' s will , as furnished to it by a correspondent : — «« The will of the late Right Honourable Sir Robert Peel has been proved at Doctors' Commons by the three executors , namely , Colonel Peel , the Right Honourable Mr . Goulburn ( member for Cambridge University ) , and the Right Honourable Sir J . Hobhouse . The will is dated March 8 , 1842 , and extends over upwards of fifty sheets of brief paper . He bequeaths to each of his executors a
legacy of £ 1000 , and also a legacy of £ 3000 to Lady Peel , to be paid immediately after his decease . He also bequeaths to her her jewels and ornaments , as also such articles of furniture , plate , carriages , horses , &c , in his residence at Whitehall as she may choose to select ; and for her to occupy such residence during her life . In default of her doing so he directs the house to be let , and the rent to be produced thereby to be paid to her . After her death he directs the house to go to his eldest son , the present Sir Robert Peel . His pictures at Dray ton he directs his trustees to hold in trust for the person who
would , for the time being , be entitled to the possession or receipt of the rents and profits of his house at Dray ton ; all his books , prints , furniture , and household stores , farming stock , &c ., he bequeaths to the present barone { . Upon Miss Eliza Peel attaining the age of twenty-five years , he directs a sum of £ 25 , 000 stock to be invested for her benefit , the dividends thereon to be paid to her during her life , and on her death to be divided amongst her issue ( if any ) in the usual manner . The late Sir Robert Peel provided for future daughters in a similar way . All his personal property he bequeaths to his
executors , in trust to realize the same , and first to pay his debts , funeral and testamentary expenses , and the legacies given by his will , or any codicils , and to invest the residue for the benefit of all his present and future sons who should attain the age of twenty five years , except the son who should for the time being be heir male of his body , subject to a provision for bringing into hotchpot certain estates situate at Sutton Coldfield and Hampton-in-Arden ; if no son ( other than the eldest or heir male ) should attain twenty-five years , and either survive him or die in his lifetime leaving
issue living , the residue he directs to be in trust * for the eldest son or heir male . He directs his trustees to raise annual sums for every daughter who should not have attained twenty five years , or married , and from eighteen to twenty-five years he directs an allowance to be made to each of them , and the balance to be paid to Lady Peel for their maintenance and | education . The testator refers to his marriage settlement , and appoints a sum of £ 1000 thereby settled . He then devises certain freehold estates in Sutton Coldfield and the manor of Hampton-in-Arden . and all pther
hereditaments belonging to him at the time of his death in Arden , to his son , Mr . Frederick Peel ; if be dies under the age of twenty-five , or after that age , in testator ' s lifetime , without leaving issue living at Sir Robert Peel ' s death , the same to go to his son , William Peel , and so on in similar events to other sons , with a proviso that whoever took such estates should bring the value of the same into his share of the residuary estate : and in case no sons or
the issue of any should become entitled to the estates , the same to go to his eldest son ; if he dies under twentyfive years of age , or having attained that age in the testator ' s life , without leaving any issue at his death , the estates to go to his eldest daughter for her life , then to her sons and daughters equally , failing such issue to his next daughter for her life , then her issue , and failing such issue to the same uses in favour of after-born daughters and their children successively .
" If Mr . Frederick Peel or any other son should become heir male , or heir male apparent , before the lastmentioned estates should vest in him , the same estates are to go to the person next entitled , as if he had died under twenty-five . He then devises his estate in the Isle of Thanet and estate at Cumber ford , In Staffordshire , to his trustees for sale , and the produce thereof to form part of his residuary estate . The will contains the usual power to grant leases until the estates devised vest . While his sons are under twenty-five the trustees are directed to receive the income and accumulate the same ,
with a proviso against accumulations for more than twenty * one years . A small property , called Cawnes Flat , he devises to the uses as concerns the holding of the manor of Drayton Bassett . All his other real estates he devises to his eldest son , the present Sir Robert Peel , for hie life ; then to the use of his sons successively ,
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By extraordinary express , in anticipation of the regular mail , files of papers from Madras to July 9 , Calcutta to July 2 , and Hong-Kong to June 22 , have been received . The Bombay mail has again , failed . The Afreedees have again become troublesome . The passes are no longer secure . Lieutenant Pollock , Mr . Brand Sapte , and Lieutenant Miller of the Guide Corps , who hadfeommenced a journey on horseback through the pass from Peshawur to Kohat , were fortunately stayed in time from proceeding at the certain loss of their lives . In the Punjaub all is going on comfortably . In Burmah a domestic war is waging , but no particulars are given . From China the news is not of much interest .
The Queen and Prince , with the Princess Helena , left Buckingham Palace for Osborne yesterday morning . The royal party proceeded in carriages to the Nine Elms station , and left by a special train for Qosport . On
Tuesday next , as at present arranged , her Majesty and Prince Albert will take a cruise in the royal yacht Victoria and Albert to Belgium , making for the port ; ol Ostend . His Majesty the King of the Belgians will dine on board the yacht , which will return on the following day to Cowes . . ,. ., Her Majesty ' s Commissioners for superintending the Exhibition of 1851 , at their meeting on Thursday , decided that the last day for receiving demands for space in the building from local committees in . the United Kingdom and Channel Islands should be the 31 st oi October . Parties failing to give such notice as then nearest local committee may require cannot be assun a that their claims for space will receive any consideration . Though the 31 st of October is fixed , it is obvious that it will materially forward the arrangements of th * exhibition if immediate notice is given to the nearest loeaj
committee . The obj p et of Mr . Shea Lai or in waiting on Lord John Russell at his official residence on Thursday was to represent to his lordship the conclusions at which the Irish Tenant Right Conference have arrived on the important question which formed the subject of the late deliberations of that body . ' From what passed during the interview there is every probabiliiy of something being don « to amend the Jrish law of landlord and tenant in % he next session of parliament , though we are sure , nq £ so sweeningjy as to satisfy extreme and unreasonable expectations . — Globe .
The three candidates for the Recordership , vacant by the death of the Honourable C . E . Law , M . P ., are Mr . Sergeant Merewether , the town-clerk of the pity ; Mr . Edward Bullock , the Common Sergeant ; and Mr . Russell Gurney , the Commifaioner . The strike on the Eajstern Counties Railway bids fajr to assume a very serious matter to the public . All chance of an amicable arrangement seems to have fled , and early on Monday morning the entire body pf drivers and firemen in the service of the company w \\ l pease runping on the line .
An aggregate meeting of Wesleyan delegates , who have been ' sent from all parts of the country to consider the steps to be taken in consequence of the expulsion of several preachers and others belonging to the Wesleyan body , "topic place yesjterday a * AJbion Chapel , Moorfields , one of the largest buildings in the metropolis belonging to the Dissenters . It was stated that * the proceedings would be for the most part devotional , and that they would be introductory to the formal sitting pf a body which might be termed the " People ' s Conference , " having nothing to do with the ordinary Conference of preachers now holding their annual meetings in London . The Reverend W . Griffiths , the" Reverend
Samuel Dunn , and . the Reverend James Everett conducted the proceedings of the evening . Mr . . Griffiths stated that tens of thousands of pei&ons in different parts of the world were looking to the forthcoming sittings of the People ' s Conference , and he prayed that the delegates might have wisdom in their councils , moderation in their measures , and firmness in their resolves , so that no serious evils might arise out of this present state of connectional agitation . Mr . Everett announced to the meeting , amidst loud cries of disapprobation , that
on the previous day the Reverend James Bromley , one of the most able and zealous preachers of the Wesleyan body , had been expelled from the connection by the Conference . There were men who , acting the part of pirates , were endeavouring to steal away the consciences of their fellow men , and to impose upon their worship matters which were unsanctioned by the Scriptures . It was announced that on an earl y day a great public meeting would be called in London , in order that the intentions of the Reform party might be fully made known .
The friends of peace from various countries in Europe , and from the United States of America , are about to hold their third congress at Frankfort-on-the-Maine . A large party of delegates and visitors , upwards of 600 in number , will proceed from this country , special trains and si earners having been engaged to convey the company direct from London to Frankfort . They will leave the London-bridge station on ' Monday , at four o ' clock , and will reach Frankfort on Wednesday night . A woman apparently about thirty-five years of age , mounted the parapet of Blackfriars-bridge , near the second arch of the Surrey side , yesterday morning at four o ' clock , and plunged head foremost into the river . She was alive when taken out , but expired in ten hours .
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Public attention seems to be directed to the progress of the President through the departments . As far as the news has yet reached us , the sayings and doings on that account have hitherto not answered the expectations of any of the parties concerned . The Moniteur publishes the following telegraphic despatches :- — " Macon , Aug . 14 , p . m . —The President of the Republic left Chalons-sur-Saone at tleven o ' clock . He stopped at Tournus , and arrived at Maqon at half-past three o ' clock . The entire population spontaneously a « - sembled on his passage—having the municipalities and . National Guard at their head . The boats dressed in
colours , the fire of musketry and artillery , and the sympathetic acclamations of the population , all contributed to g ive the journey the appearance of a continual festival . [ ac , on presented an immense population . The entire line of quays along the banks of the Saone was covered with spectators . The review was magnificent ; the receptions which followed were fxtreme ' y numerous . The municipal corporations came in full from the farthest points ; some Iroru twenty leagues distance . " Lyons . August 15 , Half- » a * t Four , p . m . —The reception which the President of the Republic met at Lyons surpasses all expectations . "
Letters from Copenhagen bring the intelligence of the left-handed marriage of the Kiug of Denmark with Lola Rasmussen , a dressmaker .
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and , failing such issue , to his next son in a similar manner , and then to other sons and daughters in like manner , and failing all such issue to the present Sir Robert Peel and other sons and daughters successively , and failing all such issue to Jhe same uses as are declared concerning his estate at Drayton Bassett , and that any person who should become tenant in tajl who was born in the late Sir Robert Peel's lifetime to take the estate for life only , and then to his sons in tail male , and while such tenants are under
twenty-one , the trustees are empowered to receive rents , &c ., and make advances for maintenance , &c , and to accumulate the residue of income . Powers to tenants for life and to his trustees during their minority to grant leases , &c , and to sell and exchange estates and lay qut the produce in the purchase of other lands , and the income to be paid to the person who would have taken the rents of the estate . The will contains the usual provision for the appointment of new trustees to his will , and the mode of appointment and indemnification and protection to the trustees in the usual manner , and power for maintenance and advancement in life of children .
" By a codicil dated the 14 th day of June , 1842 , the late right honourable baronet bequeaths legacies to two of his stewards , and to some of his stewards , if in his service at the time of his death , a year ' s salary each ; to other stwards and to each of his servants and labourers in his employment at the time of his death the following legacies , —to each of his stewards ( other than as aforesaid ) , if they have been in his service ten years , one year ' s salary , —if less , half a-year ' s salary ; to his head gardener and each of his other domestic servants who shall have been in his service ten years , one year ' s wages , —if a less period , half a-year ' s wages .
? ' To each under-gardener , farm labourer , and other out-door servants who shall at the time of his death have been in his employment regularly for" ten years , £ 10 ; if a less period , £ 5 only . All such legacies to be paid within three months after his decease . He also bequeaths to his executors £ 200 for the poor of the parish of Tamworth ( excepting the townships of Fazeby , Bouchell , and Wilnecote ) , £ 150 for the poor in the last-named excepted townships , £ 100 for the same class in the parish of
Drayton Bassett , £ 100 for ditto in the parish of Kmgsbury , £ 50 for the same in the parish of Hampton-in-Arden , £ 50 for ditto in the township of Oswaldwistle , Lancaster , £ 100 for same or any other detached estates belonging to him and not situate in the places before named , or who may be or have been employed thereon * or resident in the neighbourhood , such respective suras to be applied during the first or first and second winter after his decease , free of legacy duty .
" By a further codicil , executed in 1844 , the testator directs an estate at Baughley to be sold , and the produce thereof to form part of the residuary estate . " And by a further codicil , executed on the 24 th of March , 1849 , which relates solely to his literary possessions , he bequeaths all his manuscripts and correspondence , which he states he presumes to be of great value , as showing the character of great men of his age , unto Lord Mahon and Mr . Cardwell , with the fullest powers to destroy such as they think fit ; and he directs that his correspondence with her Majesty and her Consort and himself shall not be published during their lives without their express consent first had and obtained , for them ( the trustees )
to make arrangements for the safe custody and for for the publication of such of them as they may think fit , and to give all or any of them to public institutions ; and the codicil contains general directions for the . custody of such as shall not be disposed of in such manner . Bequeaths to Lord Mahon and Mr . Cardwell £ 1000 upon trust , to invest and to apply the income , and the principal if required , in the execution of his wishes for carrying them out . The trust is expressly limited against perpetuities . The codicil also contains the usual powers for the indemnity of trustees , and also for their new appointment . Sir Robert Peel also bequeaths to each of Lord Mahon and Mr , Cardwell a legacy as a recompense for their trouble and pains in such matters . " The probate duty that has been paid to Government is £ 6000 . "
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POSTSCRIPT . Satuedat , August 17 .
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 17, 1850, page 491, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1850/page/11/
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