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Lord and Lady Holland and a numerous suite left the York Hotel, Dover, on Sunday, for Calais, in her Majesty's packet Beaver, Captain Mudge. The naval authorities paid every attention to the noble per. sonages. The packet was placed at the disposal of his Lordship by order of the Board of Admiralty.
Sir Franck BurJett is expeceed to pays visit in the present week to Sir Robert and Lady Peel, at Drayton Manor.
The Attorney-General and Mr. Fox Maule are at present at Inver- eshie, on a visit to Mr. Ellice. The former was in Inverness on Tues.
day.—Inverness Courier.
The Speaker is expected in Inverness in a few days, on a tour of inspection of the Highland roads and bridges and the Caledonian Canal. It will be recollected that the right honourable gentleman is chairman of the Board of Commissioners for these public works,. Inverness Courier.
Mr. Beaumont, the Member for Northumberland, is sporting a plus surelacht, which is said to be the most superb vessel of its kind ever sent to sea, and cost 20,0001.
Brighton is unusually full of company. The applications for bouws and lodgings were never so numerous.
The will of Mr. Peter Holford, a barrister, and late of the Isle of Wight, has just passed under the seal of the Prerogative Court of the Archbishop of Canterbury. It is in the handwliting of the testator; who bequeaths the whole of his immense and princely fortune (with the exception of 5001, which is left to the executor,) amounting to upwards of 1,000,000/. , exclusive of freehold, leasehold, and copyhold estates of great value in different counties to his ti,phew, Mr. Hol- ford. The stamp on the probate was 13,060/, and the further duty will be about 30,0001. more ; making a total payment to Government of a sum of 45,0001. out of a single estate. It is an extemonlinary fact, and presents a striking contrast to the will of the late Lord Eldon, which occupied forty-eight close.written skins of parchment, that this will is contained on one side of a sheet of letter-paper. Mr. Holford wu
but twenty-two years of age, and unmarried. With the exception of the late Alr. Rothschild, and Mr. Rundell, of the well.known firm of Itnndell, Bridge, and Rundell, goldsmiths, of Ludgate Hill, the stamp-duty upon the upper value, a million, has seldom of late been caller: into operation, 15,000/ being the highest probate-duty.—Mors" ing Chronicle.
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