The will of Mr. Jacob Yallowley Powell, merchant, of Limo
Street, who died on May 12th, leaving personal property to the amount of /160,000, is worth notice. lle leaves £5,000 to the Libera- tion Society, a number of large legacies to Nonconformist objects, and £20,000 to two nieces, Mary Ruth and Charlotte Elizabeth °Beier, with the proviso that if either of them marry a clergyman of the Established Church, or a person holding a commission in her Majesty's Army, she is to lose her legacy, which is to go to the Nonconformist societies named. We have a suspi- cion that the latter clause might invalidate that part of the will, the dissuasion of any one from entering her Majesty's military Service being, as was shown in the Darnley dispute with the Volunteers, a distinctly illegal act, but we quote the will as evidence of a state of feeling supposed to be passing away. Forty years ago, there were hundreds of Dissent- ing families whose members would, to the utmost of their power, avoid even speaking to a clergyman or an officer of the Army. They held both to be open and vowed servants of the Devil.
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