The will of the late Mr. Alfred Belt was published
on Friday week, and proved to be in every way a testament worthy of a far-sighted and public-spirited man. Among the more important bequests, we may note that the famous Reynolds, "Lady Cockburn and her Children," returns to its home in the National Gallery. Over 2130,000 is left to the College of Technology in connexion with London University, an enterprise with which Mr. Belt was always associated ; £200,000 to the University of Johannesburg; £200,000 for educational and charitable purposes in Rhodesia ; £50,000 for the same purposes in Cape Colony and the Transvaal; while many educational institutions benefit by smaller bequests. Finally, the sum of 21,200,000 is vested in trustees as a "rail- way fund," the income of which is to be used to assist the formation, construction, and equipment of railways, telegraphs, and telephones in such parts of Africa as may be traversed in establishing the Cape-to-Cairo system. Mr. Belt has given noble proof of his interest in the well-being of that sub- continent from which his wealth was drawn, South Africa receiving in one way and another £1,700,000.
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