11 FEBRUARY 1871, page 11

Modern Fortunes.

T HE fortune bequeathed by the late Mr. Brassey, the con- tractor, is probably, as the Observer says, the largest which ever passed the Court of Probate,—for the very few......

Ebtvos.

REMARKABLE man has died in Hungary. The Baron A Joseph Etitvtis, so long and so favourably known to Englishmen conversant, with the contemporary literary and poli- tical history......