Lord Stowell, to save the legacy-duty, gave all his property
to his son, recently deceased. This will render it necessary for Lord Stowell, as his legal representative, to administer to his son's effects ; by which he will be compelled to pay a larger duty than the property would other- wise have been subject to had it been left in the usual way.
Lady Frances Charlotte Ponsonby, only surviving daughter of the Earl of Durham by his first marriage, died on Thursday week at Bes- borough House, in Kilkenny. Her death will occasion deep grief to Lord Durham, whose domestic attachments are of tile strongest and most affectionate nature. Lady Frances was the interesting young lady who accompanied Lord Durham to the great Reform festival at Glasgow in the autumn of 1884. She was universally esteemed and beloved ; and her amiable and excellent qualities are not exaggerated in the following brief notice, which we extract from the Dublin Freeman's Journal.
"Lady F. Pow-onby was married but a few months since, and personified all that was lovely and most estimable in the Inumaa creation—portrayed in her thoughts and actions the most estimable disposition, and endeand herself to all who had access to her by the affability and kindness of her manners. Her premature death has proved a source of deep and unionized affliction, and east a gloom of regret and sorrow over the entire neighbourhood. Her Ladyship had been but seldom abroad since her arrival in this country; an insidious disease having eat ly developed its fatal symptoms, with a certainty that marks the progress of the despoiler, who spares neither the exalted in rank, the ami- able in disposition, nor the worthy aud beloved in virtue and charitableness.
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