MISCELLANEOUS.

Grey River Argus, Volume VIII, Issue 575, 23 September 1869, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS.

The will, or Scotch confirmation, of the late Right Hon. Jameu Carr-Boyle, Earl of Glasgow, was sealed in the principal registry of her Majesty's Court of Probate in London on June 12, the personal estate being sworn under L 170,000. Tha deceased nobleman was formerly in the navy, which he entered at the age of fifteen, and was in active service fof ten years. In 1818, on the decease of his eldest brother, he succeeded to the title of Viscount Kelburne ; and in 1843, on the decease of his father, became fifth Earl of Glasgow. His mother was daughter of the fourteenth Earl of Erroll, and granddaughter of Sir William Carr, of Etal, Northumberland, whose surname of Carr, before that of Boyle was by him assumed in 1822. His lordship married, in 1821, the lady who snrvives him, but leaves no issue, He is succeeded by his half-brother, who has but one child a daughter. The next heirpresumptive to the Earldom is Patrick Boyle, a grandson of the second Earl. The Etal estates pass to the late Earl's only sister, Lady Augusta Fitzclarence. The late Earl was Lord Lieutenant and Sheriff Principal of Renfrewshire, and died at his seat, Hawkhead, in that county, on March 11 last, in his seventyeighth year. He was the oldest member of the Jockey club, and has bequeathed to Mr George Payne L 25,000, in addition to one-half of the horses in training, leaving the other portion to General Peel. He beqneathes to the Hon. James Maqdonald LB,OOO ; to the Hon. Colonel H. Forester, L 5,000; to Mr Cunningham, who had charge of his stud paddocks at Doncaster, LSOO, and also leaves him the stallion Tom Bowline ; and to Tom Aldercroft leaves by cpdicil, made only two days before his Lordship's death, a legacy of LSOO. [Mr Payne intends running the horses bequeathed to him in his Lord ship's colors — white body, crimson sleeves and caps.] " Beating the parish bounds" is a venerable absurdity in England, still kept up to afford amusement, we suppose, to a set of silly boys and idle ruffians. At Hanwell, the other day, a curious scene occurred on the occasion of the perambulation of the parish by the overseers, churchwardens, and other p\Vblic functionaries of the place. A large crowd had assembled in front pf the Duke of York Inn, where the party were to finish their fourteen miles' journey, and the crowning ceremony was to eventnate in a pubhc dinner, to which the clergy, the Dissenting ministers, and the Catholic priest, the Rev. Dr. Laing, were invited. There being a slight interval* the crowd amused themselves as best, they could ; but when Rev. Dr. Laing crossed the road, a party of the rougher sort surrounded the reverend gentleman, demanded that he should be bumped (or " bummed," as it is called), rudely seized him by his leg 3 and arms, bore him forward amidst tremendous shouts, and in the presence of greatly increased numbers of people, notwithstanding his loud protestations, they thrice violently bumped him against the sign-pole which stands in the front of the inn. Dr. Laing ; being of a rather corpulent disposition, the operation was by no means an easy or pleasing one, and even when it was over he was still beset aa he rushed into the Duke of York, and was glad to compound for a non-repelition of the process by paying for a libation of beer. A policeofficer from the vicinity, -a reporter from the next parish, and others, had to go through similarly rough treatment; and it is intended to summon the principal roughs for the assault. The boundaries of Hanwell have been beaten only twice during the last 69 years. Julia Gibb3 and Ellen Woodson, both colored, recently fought a duel with clubs, seconds being present, at Richmond, Virginia. The woman Ellen was go badly injured that she died on the field. Jealousy was the cause. Mr Home, the medium, has been giving evidence of the usual kind before the Dialectical Society as to an appearance of the hand of Napoleon.!, before the present Emperor and Empress of the French in his own presence. The hand leaned over the table, took a pencil on the far side of it, and wrote "Napoleon" in the great Emperor's handwritiug. . After delivering this autograph, the Emperor, says Mr Home, kissed the hand, then the Empress kissed it, and then Mr Home said he should like to kiss it. The hand hesitated about going to the lips of Mr Home, but — probably not having been very much used to kisses as yet in the other world, where there must be a great many shades or persons to whom it was a destroying hand, and nothing more — apparently decided, on the whole, on receiving this unmeaning kiss from Mr Home's lips, for it came back to Mr Home after a little wavering, for that purpose, and the kiss was, we conclude, impressed. Mr Home added that "his information led him to the opinion that precisely as we go to sleep here, so we awake in the other world ; Wesleyans were Wesleyans, Sweden borgians were Swedenborgians, aiid Mahometans were Mahometans. 1 ' He did not add, what, however, he doubtless in- | tended, that " spiritualists*' wake up spiritualists, and — as we hope—disbelievers in spiritualism — which would make the thing quite complete. We should then have the satisfaction of finding in the other world that. the spirits who are supposed to have stretched back their hands iuto this worlds disbelieve in their own manifestations, and of heartily agreeing with them. . The Emperor Napoleon addressed such of the soldiers at Chalons as had served in the Italian war. He bade them " keep always in their hearts the remembrance of their battles," for the " history of French wars is the, history of the progress of. civilisation." The "military spirit is the triumph of noble over vulgar passions." "Fidelity to the standard is devotion to one's country." " Continue- as in the past, and you will maintain that military spirit bo necessary for a great people." Considering that this speech is made ten years after the Italian war, that no incident has given rise to it, and that nothing | calls for a display of the military spirit, its tone cannot be deemed "eminently i pacific." Note that the Franco-Belgian ! Commission, which has been sitting these three weeks, can get nothing settled, ami that references about unexpected demands have been made to Belgium. The latest style of wedding cards in New York is to have the names of the bride and ! groom, groomsmen, bridesmaids, and ushers all on the one card.