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Lord Melbourne has given directions for the fitting up of Brocket Hens, which has been closed the last five years, since the decease of Lady Caroline Lamb, very shortly before his Lordship came to his present title. It will form the rendezvous of certain political coteries, who, by the departure of the noble owner of Pansanger, are at present deprived of a convenient locale. Brocket Hall is nearly the same dis- tance from town as Pansanger.—Morning Herald.
The Committee appointed to carry into effect the wishes of those who subscribed to the expedition in search of Captain Ross, have de- termined, now that further expenditure is unnecessary, to devote the balance in their hands to the relief of his shipwrecked crew, and to the support of the relatives of those who perished.
The will of the late Lord Dudley, which occupies twenty-two closely-written sheets, is dated on the 26th of July 1831. It consists entirely of devises of his real and personal property (chiefly estates in the counties of Stafford, Worcester, Middlesex, and Merioneth), in trust to the Earl of Aberdeen and the Right Honourable James Aber- cremby, Lord .Chief Baron of Scotland ; and, also in trust, to the Bi- shop of Exeter, the-Right Honourable J. Littleton, Mr. Downing, and Mr. Benbow, for the benefit of his cousin, the Reverend William Humble Ward, and his family. The former has a specific annuity of 6,0001. Various sums are bequeathed out of the trust-estate to Mrs. Ward, and to the two sons and daughter of Mr. Ward, with contingent remainders of a complicated character. The accounts of the trust- estate are to be audited by Mr. Jetties Loch, of Bloomsbury, who is to receive an annuity of 5001. a year for that office. ( Some other person had been named, as Mr. Loch's name is written over an erasure.) In case of his declining, or death, two autiii.:;Fs are to be named by the exe- cutors, with a salary of 2001. a year each : the -g:nnunt of this salary has been altered since the will was written. The Bishop o: (Dr. Phillpots), Mr. Littleton, Mr. Downing, and Mr. Benbow are named executors. The codicils are four in number; the three first are dated in September 1831; the last in October 1831. They are all au- tograph, and written upon note-paper. By the first, the noble Earl has bequeathed 25,0001. to Mr. Frederick William Spencer, son of the late Commissioner Spencer; the interest to be paid to him during his mi- nority, and the principal on his attaining the age of twentyone. By the second, his Lordship bequeaths legacies to the following Downing, Mr. Abercromby, 6,000/. ; Mr. Benbow, ; Downing, 4,00/. ; the Bishop of Exeter, 2,0',3iji. -By the third, he bequeaths an annuity of 8001 to Spencer, the relict of Mr. Spencer. By the last, his Lordship has left an annuity of 2,0001. a year to the Baroness Lyndhurst, secured to her sole and separate with it proviso that the bequest shall become void in the event of the annuity being assigned or sold by her Ladyship. Probate of the will and codicils has been taken by all the four executors, and the value of the personal property within the province is sworn to be under 350,0001—Times.
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