DEATHS.-Nov. 29. At Southampton, colonel George Evatt, commandant of the Royal Military Asylum in that town. 31. At the university of Charlottesville, Virginia, United States, aged 43, professor Charles Bonnycastle, many years professor of that institution. Lately. In Pall Mall, aged 65, Hugh Hammersley, esq., banker. In consequence of his having no partner, the bank was obliged to stop at once. NOVEMBER. 1. At Pimlico, aged 86, Edward Harding esq., formerly print and bookseller in Fleet-street, and subsequently librarian to her late majesty queen Charlotte at Frogmore. -At Assam, the celebrated linguist Dr. Lum Qua. He assisted Dr. Marsham in his translation of the New Testament into Chinese. In Montego Bay, Jamaica, aged 117, Mrs. Princess M'Uwin. The deceased arrived at Kingston during the administration of the government by sir Edward Trelawney in 1739. 2. At his house in Langhamn-place, after an illness of some weeks, sir Anthony Carlisle, senior surgeon to the Westminster hospital, one of the council and court of examiners of the royal College of Surgeons, of which he twice held the office of president, a fellow of the royal and other societies, &c. This very eminent surgeon was born at Stillington, in the county of Durham, in 1768. His professional education commenced under an uncle at York. On proceeding to London, he immediately entered himself at the Hunterian school of Anatomy in Windmill-street, where his acuteness and zeal attracted the notice of the celebrated John Hunter. He then became a resident pupil of Mr. Henry Watson, F.R.S, a surgeon of the Westminster hospital, to whose office on his death in 1793, Mr. Carlisle succeeded. In that ancient institution he speedily distinguished himself, and there originated the important practice of open consultations on the propriety of operating in cases admitting the slightest doubt, and which has since been generally adopted. Mr. Carlisle was one of the earliest and most indefatigable labourers in the field of cornparative anatomy, abundant evidence of which is to be found in the Transactions of the Royal Society, of which learned body he was elected a member in 1800. His intimate acquaintance with sir Joseph Banks, led to, or perhaps originated in, his inquiries into many branches of natural history. The result of these appear in the volumes of the Linnean and Horticultural Societies, and in several English scientific publications, including journals, magazines, &c., from the end of the last century to a very recent period. When young, Mr. Carlisle was admitted a student at the Royal Academy, on the recommendation of sir Joshua Reynolds, and in 1808, he succeeded Mr. Sheldon, as professor of anatomy in that institution. In the course of an extensive practice, Mr. Carlisle much improved the instruments used in surgical operations; to him the public are indebted for the introduction of the present excellent amputating instruments. At the accession of George IV. Mr. Carlisle, who had been Surgeon-Extraordinary to the Prince-regent, received the honour of knighthood. In a resolution passed after his death at a meeting of the governors of the Westminster Hospital, it was mentioned that that institution had during a space of forty seven years been indebted to him for his excellent professional services, and singularly so for greatly increasing, through his influence, the support of the charity, and that it was owing to his personal energies that the first subscription towards the erection of the present new hospital amounting to nearly 8,000l. had been raised. In Dorset-square, aged 65, Samuel White Sweet, esq. solicitor. 3. At Stagbury-park, aged 85, T. Walpole, esq. nephew to the first earl of Orford. He was called to the bar in 1779, and was subsequently envoy at the court of Munich. He married in 1803, lady Margaret Perceval, 8th daughter of John, second earl of Egmont, by whom he has left issue five sons and two daughters. 7. At Dublin, aged 52, major Richard Stack who commanded the company of the 45th regiment, which defeated the Chartists at Newport, in Wales. He was a native of Kerry, and served with great distinction in the Peninsula and in India, and was wounded at Bhurtpore. 9. In Norfolk-street, Park-lane,inajorgeneral William Hull, C.B. of the hon. East India Company's Bombay service. 11. At Liverpool, William Wallace DEATHS-Nov. Currie, esq., the first mayor of Liverpool under the municipal corporations act. His father is well known as the first biographer of Burns, and the son was a gentleman of great taste, learning and refinement. 13. Aged 16, Mr. Charles B. Adam, midshipman of her majesty's ship Fairy, son of vice-admiral sir Charles Adam. The ship is supposed to have been lost on the 15th of October in the North Sea, when all on board perished, thirtyfive in number. The captain's name was Hewit, and the master Mr. Stevens his brother-in-law. At Richmond, aged 62, sir William Dundas, bart. He was the eldest surviving son of sir David Dundas, created a baronet in 1815. 17. At his residence in the close of the cathedral, Lincoln, in his 72nd year, John Gardiner, esq., one of her Majesty's deputy lieutenants for the county of Lincoln, and formerly distinguished as a naval surgeon. 21. At the house of his son, the grammar school, Andover, in his 64th year, Francis Reynard, esq., formerly master of a mathematical school, near Reading, and author of several useful elementary works, chiefly in mathematics. 23. At Netherby, Georgiana, daughter of the late col. and lady Elizabeth Callander, of Craigforth, Stirlingshire. At Hatchett's hotel, Piccadilly, lient.-colonel John Craigie, of the Bengal army. He died from taking poison during a fit of temporary insanity. 24. At Pau, in his 27th year, the hon. William Lushington Thomas Harris, second son of Lord Harris. 27. At Southampton, aged 76, Charles Tinling, esq., read-admiral of the red. 22. At Forbes, D. G. Forbes, esq. of Culloden. Mr. Forbes was the great grandson of the celebrated Duncan Forbes, lord president of the court of session at the stormy period of 1745. 30. In London, M. de la Bourdonnais, said to be the first chess player in the world. At Peterhead, aged 95, commander David Horrie. He entered the navy as a common sailor, and was promoted to the quarter deck for his gallant and loval conduct when on board the Inflexible at the mutiny of the Nore. Lately. At the house of Dr. Kernan, Roman Catholic Bishop of Clogher, Miss Kernan his sister. 1. At Talaton, where he had been residing for the benefit of his health, aged 40, lord Bruce, eldest son of the earl of Elgin. 3. At Coughton Court, Warwickshire, in his 84th year, sir Charles Throckmorton, the seventh baronet of Coughton, county of Warwick (1642). 4. In Cumberland-place, Regent's Park, aged 23, Emma-Jane, wife of the hon. sir Edward Butler, son of lord Dunboyne. 7. At Bold, aged 42, Dorothea, wife of sir Henry Bold Hoghton, bart. At Bath, aged 75, sir William Dick, eighth baronet of Braid, Scotland. 8. At Petersham, the hon. Eliza Mackenzie Elphinstone, daughter of John, eleventh lord Elphinstone. 11. Aged 41, Dr. Michael Ryan, editor of the Medical and Surgical Journal. 12. At Charles-street, St. James's, in his 35th year, Capt. the hon. James Stuart, late of the 85th light infantry, third son of the right hon. the earl of Moray, K. T. At Cheltenham, aged 70, sir Bagenel Willm. Burdett, third baronet of Dunmore, county of Carlow (1723) 14. Henrietta Wharton, lady of sir James Wemyss Mackenzie, bart., lordlieutenant of the county of Ross. 16. Aged 81, the Abbé Voyaux de Favers, for many years the principal of the Roman Catholic chapel at Chelsea. 17. In Norfolk-street, Strand, Henry Brandreth, esq. M.A. and F.S.A., of Houghton Regis, near Dunstable, Bedfordshire, author of several minor poems. 19. At Edinburgh, Miss Elizabeth Sutherland Stuart, daughter of the late hon. David Stuart, R.N., son of James, eighth earl of Moray. 20. At Mormand-house, county of DEATHS.-DEC. Aberdeen, James Strachan, esq. M.D., inspector general of army hospitals. This highly respected officer served his country in every quarter of the world for a period of forty-four years with distinction. At Ventnor, Isle of Wight, aged 39, John Forbes, esq., eldest son of sir Charles Forbes, bart. 21. In Wilton Crescent, aged 76, John Wishaw, esq., M.A., F.R.S., senior bencher of the honourable society of Gray's Inu, a gentleman long known and eminently respected in the legal literary and political circles of the metropolis. 23. At Wardy Hill, Coveney, aged 102 years, Mr. D. Cox, farmer. 24. In Portland-place, in his 77th year, George Hay Dawkins Pennant, esq., of Penrhyn Castle, near Bangor. 28. At Lincoln's-inn, aged 83, Thomas Lane, esq., having held the situation of steward to that hon. society forty-eight years. He published "The Student's Guide ;" being an Account of Lincoln's Inn. 12mo. 1803. 30. At Clarendon Park, Wilts, aged 30, Lady Harvey Bathurst. At James-street, Adelphi, Thomas Hill, esq., a gentleman much respected for his kind-hearted attentions to authors, artists, and men of taste in general, and a great collector of old English poetry. 31. At Rendlesham Hall, aged 34, the right hon. Eliza-Charlotte Lady Rendlesham. Lately. At Great Yarmouth, at an advanced age, Mr. James Sancroft, surgeon, who was lineally descended from archbishop Sancroft, and in his features resembled the portrait and medal of that prelate. In London, the baronne de Feuchères. Madame de Feuchères was an Englishwoman of the name of Daws, who was married in this country to a French gentleman. On his separation from her she obtained great influence over the late duc de Bourbon (the father of the unfortunate duc d'Enghien), whose corpse was one morning found hanging to the window of his bedroom in 1830, and whose demise put an end to the illustrious house of Bourbon Condé. Through her extraordinary ascendancy over that aged prince, the immense property of the house of Condé was divided by his will between her and Louis Philippe's fourth son, the duc d'Aumale, the latter having by far the larger portion. The will was disputed by the princes of Rohan, the duc de Bourbon's kinsmen, but its validity was maintained by the French courts. Ma. dame de Feuchères died in London a few weeks ago, about the age of 50, of a dropsical complaint, having left France some months before, after selling most of her landed property in that country, including the fine chateau of St. Leu, which once belonged to Louis Bonaparte. According to an extract of her will, published in the Gazette des Tribunaux, she has left the bulk of her property, which is estimated at 800,0007. to her niece, now nine or ten years old, the daughter of one of her sisters, who is married to a French gentleman of the name of Thanaron. Among her other bequests is one of 20007. to a servant of the late duc de Bourbon, "the only witness who gave his evidence honestly" in the lawsuit she had to sustain after the duke's death. In Burlington Gardens, aged 46, Frances Susan, the wife of Colonel, the hon. Henry Cavendish, and only sister of the late earl of Durham. She was married first in 1811 to col. the hon. Frederick Howard, son of the earl of Carlisle, who died in 1815 of wounds received at Waterloo, and in 1819 became the second wife of col. Cavendish. At Rome, aged 23, the princess Borghese, daughter of the earl of Shrewsbury (before her marriage the lady Gwendaline Catharine Talbot). She was married to the prince of Sulmona, eldest son of the Italian prince Borghese, in 1835, and in July, 1840, presented him with a son and heir of the principality and estates, born at Alton Towers, county of Stafford. Dugald Moore, the well-known Scottish poet. At Chirton House, aged 91, John Collingwood, esq., brother of the late Lord Collingwood. - In Brook-street, Grosvenor-square, in his 65th year, Sir Horace David Cholwell St. Paul, of Ewart Park, county of Northumberland, bart., count of the Holy Roman Empire, and a colonel in the army. a TRIALS, LAW CASES, &c. WOOD AND OTHERS, AGAINST GOODLAKE, HELPS AND OTHERSThe following is the judgment given by sir Herbert Jenner, in this celebrated case, the fact of which, it so clearly and fully states as to dispense with any further detail of them. The question to be determined, observed the learned judge, arose with respect to certain testamentary papers which had been propounded as the will of the deceased, Mr. James Wood, of Glocester, who died on the 20th of April, 1836, aged about eighty. The papers were three in number, two of them bore date on the 2nd and 3rd of December, 1834, and were propounded as together, containing the will of the deceased, both being drawn up by Mr. Chadborn, the confidential solicitor of the deceased, and who was appointed in one of the papers an executor and universal legatee. That paper purported to appoint four gentlemen executors, and to "desire" that they would retain to themselves all the personal property subject to debts and such legacies as he should afterwards direct. That paper was signed by the deceased, but was not attested by any witness. The second paper, dated the day following, was executed by the deceased in the presence of three witnesses, and purported to dispose of all the estate, real and personal, and to give it to his executors and their heirs in equal proportions, subject to his debts and to any le gacies or bequests he might thereafter make. This was, therefore, a complete disposition of the whole estate to "his executors," those executors not being named in the paper. The third paper was dated in July, 1835, (there being no day of the month affixed,) and was alleged to be in the handwriting of the deceased, and to be signed by him; and it purported to give a legacy to the corporation of Glocester to the amount of 60,000l. reciting that he had, by a former codicil, given to the same corporation a legacy of 140,000l. There were traces in the evidence of other testamentary papers, which had been executed by the deceased, independent of the codicil referred to in the paper of July, 1835 (and which was not forthcoming)namely, a will executed in 1823 or 1824; another testamentary paper had been seen in 1833; and it was in evidence that the deceased had complained that he had lost certain testamentary papers, which had been carried away without his knowledge. The history of the deceased it was necessary to advert to. He had been a draper and banker for many years at Glocester, as well as his father and grandfather before him; he was a man of some peculiarity and eccentricity of character, extremely parsimonious, and by that parsimony, and attention to business with certain adventitious circumstances (such as the bequest of property from other persons), he had amassed at his death a property real and personal, of the value of nearly a million of money. He was unmarried, he had two sisters who both predeceased him; one of them died unmarried in 1824; the other Mrs. Willey, died in 1833, a widow, without child. The nearest relations of the deceased, at his death, (as far as the court had any knowledge,) were two second cousins both of whom were parties in this suit. One was Mrs. Elizabeth Goodlake, the other Mr. Edward Hitchings. The interest of Mrs. Goodlake had been admitted by the parties who propounded the papers of the 2nd and 3rd of December, 1834. The interest of Mr. Hitchings had not been admitted by the other parties but he had been admitted as a contradictor to the will; he was, therefore, just as much entitled to the protection of the court as if he had established his interest. He was the more entitled to the court's protection, because he had offered an allegation pleading his relationship to the deceased, which the court, thinking he had been too late, had rejected. Mr. Hitchings had appealed to the judicial committee, who had been of opinion that this court had not done right in rejecting the allegation, and had directed it to be suspended, till the hearing of the cause. These two persons, then, Mrs. Goodlake, and Mr. Hitchings, appeared in the characters of next of kin, the interest of one being admitted, and that of the other not being admitted, but he being admitted a contradictor; and if the court should be of opinion that the will is not proved, they would be entitled, in the event of establishing their relationship, cr to the whole personal property, amounting to 700,000l.or 800,000l. It did not appear who the deceased's heir-at-law was; the deceased had stated that his heirat-law was in America. The paper of December 2nd, 1834, was headed "Instructions for the will of me, James Wood, esq., of Glocester," and it is as follows:"I request my friends, Alderman Wood, of London, M.P., John Chadborn, of Glocester, Jacob Osborn, of Glocester, and John S. Surman, of Glocester, to be my executors; and I appoint them executors accordingly; and I desire that they will take possession of, and retain to themselves, all my ready monies, securities and personal estate, subject to the payment of my just debts, and such legacies as I may hereafter direct." As far, therefore, as this paper of instructions went, it gave the whole residue of the personal estate to the executors; but the paper also referred to the real estate in the following terms:-" And with respect to my real estate, I shall dispose of the same to such persons, and in such parts, as I shall by any writing endorsed herein direct. Witness my hand, this 2nd December, 1834, James Wood. It was endorsed, "2nd December, 1834. Mr. Wood's instructions for his will. The second paper, dated the 3rd of December, was originally on a separate sheet, for it did not at the time form any part of the paper of transactions. It was not therefore a paper "endorsed" on the sheet of instructions, as would seem to have been intended by that first paper; it was a separate sheet, and was to this effect:-I, James Wood, esq., do declare this to be my will for disposing my [sic] estates, as di |