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II ■ 470 I of the issue female of the house of Denmark, in the eeent of issue male being extinct. But the Danish Ministry, by the Law of Succession of 31st July, 1853, have declared that females shall not inherit the throne of Denmark. Whatever may have been the motives of tha Danish Mi nistry, the result of this law is quite simple. The treaty of London has declared that Denmark and Sleswig shall not be separated from Holstien. The law of July, 1853, is explicit that females shall not inherit Den mark. Who, then, is to be King of Denmark if the two male children of the Princess Louise and Prince Christian die? The Emperor of Russia ! who, as the heir of Hol stein, claims Holstein, Sleswig, and Denmark because they cannot be separated. For the Emperor of Russia, then, the Danish Ministry destroyed the claims, and annihilated the rights, of the Princesses of the house of Denmark. BANKRUPTCY COMMISSION. Tau report, of the Bankruptcy Commissioners has at length been presented to Parliament, awl printed, together with the minutes of e)itienee ird the answers to the circular of questions. The commissioners make a number of snggestions for reducing the costliness and bettering the condition of a tribunal which hitherto has not been very successfully re formed. They recommend that creditors he attracted by a revision of the fees and per centages, and greater control over the official assignees •, and debtors, by a revision of the penal clauses, and by allowing a trader to obtain an ad judication in his own case if he can show available assets to the extent of 1501., instead of (as at present) ss. in the pound. On the question of a continuance of a system of classification of certificates the commissioners are divided in opinion ; but those of them who approve it are for having two classes only—a* certificate of the bankrupt's conduct, and a certificate merely of his conformity to the bankrupt laws, leaving mistionduct to'be punished by sus pension or refusal of the certificate. The commissioners are in favour of two proposals of Lord St. Leopard's, one for extending the jurisdiction of the Court of Bankruptcy to the administration of deceased traders' estates dying in solvent ; the other for making the district bankruptcy courts auxiliary to the Court of Chancery intaking accounts, prosecuting inquiries, examining witnesses, and the like. They report, but pronounce no judgment upon, the pro pOsal of one of their bud); ( Mr. M. D. Hill) to make the court a court, of general administration, with jurisdiction over small trust estates, and power (upon the submission of the parties) to wind up partnerships snd conduct arbi trations. They object to Lord Brougham's proposal to abolish the district bankruptcy courts, and transfer the jurisdiction to the county courts, considering the character otthe business of the two essentially distinct, anddreading another heap of compensations. Among those stilTpayable in consequence of the reform of the bankruptcy courts is one that swells the list of " enormous compensations." The patentee of bankrupts, his office being abolished, is allowed upwards of 7,0001. a year. FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE. Tuesday, May 18. BANKRUPTCIES ANNULLE D.—Wm. STRAFORD VAILL, East I:Bromwich, licensed victualler—DANlEL FRED. loom), Grosvenor.place, Commercial-road East, draper. BANKRUPTS.--JAmEs MERCHANT, Foulmire, Cambridge shire, grocer—CHART:AS HENRY MAY, Edgware-mad, Maryle bone, jeweller—JOHN HAMER, Erigware•road, and Jonson-place, Westbourne-green, draper--JoHN SHARPE, Barnes, Surrey, cow. keeper—Wm. Dot Tom, Sutton St. Mary, Lincolnshire, common brewer—THomAs MANNINd, Combe Lake, Devonshire, smith— MAIMICE JARVIS, Leeds, woolstapler—EDWAßD COULTATE and THoMAS SwiNDELs, Manchester, brokers. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. Jon Went, Glasgow, grocer —DANIEL HAMILTON, Esq., Edinburgh ALEXANDER Donuts, Glasgow, tea merchant AYES HOWDEN and ANDREW HOWDEN, Edinburgh, jewellers. Friday, May 19. BANKRUPTS.—FRANCIES FANNY liEvarr and JOHN FIN EA.YBON, Hampstead-road, brass-founder% and engineers —Sir EVAN MACKENZIE, Bart, ROBERT CAMERON, and JAMES Botugs ROYER, St. Helen's-place, merchauts—HENßY SEASON CHAMPION, Austin Friars, ship and insurance broker—CHARLES 00ALNE, Plymouth, builder —Joni.; R'ttsoN, Barking, corn and coal dealer--BENJAMIN RsorznN, Manchester, stonemason and contractor—FnEnsmcs DursoAtn, Coleman-street, London, dealer in iron—LEWIS BENJAMIN, Princes-street, Leicester square, jeweller—Mott ELDRED, Witney, grocer—Ssmom. Bottr.roN and JOHN SwiNnicus, spelter manufacturers and cement makers—CHARLES SMITH, Air-street, Regent-street, coffeehouse-keeper. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATION. —RonEwr REID, Denny, baker. ,ok place in Paris last week at the residence of Prince Czartoryski. were present, and the Prince pro lob he alluded to the hope which , they thought, reason to entertain ►wning on Poland. He dwelt on and recommended that every ex effect the formation of the Polish one, the Prince observed, thought On Poland was concerned ; all that the well-being of that unfortunate al Wysocki obtain the command nt Zamoiski would not hesitate to ieral Dembinski addressed the and declared that he was willing ewer for the advancement of the for the future he would be guided Czartoryski. It was mentioned ,ng that Lord Stratford de Redcliffe in forwarding the ♦iews of the in endeavoring to induce the Porte formation of the legion, TUE PR SS. ttlai~. THE LONG-PREPARED "AGGREGATE MEETING" of the Itoinan Catholics of Ireland came off op Monday last in the Dublin Rotunda. The requisition for convening the assembly was signed, as stated in the advertisement, by thirty-one Roman Catholic prelates, ten peers and sons of peers, a considerable number of the Roman Catholic clergy and gentry, including among the latter thirty-four members of Parliament and a long list of barristers and other professional men. The object of the meeting was "to protest against a parliamentary inquiry into conventual and monastic institutions, and to adopt a petition against legislative interference with those sacred institutions." The chair was taken by the Lord Mayor shortly after twelve o'clock. The proceedings went on with tolerable order until Dr. Marshall rose to address the assembly. ' Immense and repeated disturbance was eviWd by the speech' of the reverend gentle man. In the course of his remarks br. Marshall referred to the recent speech of Prince Albert at the Pestival of the Sons of the Clergy, and spoke in warm and indignant terms respecting that portion of the Prince's speech in which he referred to the Reformation and the abolition of celibacy amongst the clergy : That royal personage, he said, claimed from them the performance of certain duties, but if they had duties to him he had duties to them likewise—( cheers)—and let it be known and honestly spoken out, in spite of any efforts made to stifle our utterance, as a useful warning to make him remember and look back to past history, when med dlers behind the throne were punished with exile from the land which had adopted them. (Loud cheers, mingled with hisses, and succeeded by uproar and confusiop quite indescribable, which continued for fully fifteen minutes.) CHAIRMAN (who interrupted the rev. speaker) : I must again interpose, and call on Dr. Marshall to sit down. Dr. MARSHALL: I have said all I wish to say on that subject. The chairman tried to make his voice heard, but did not succeed, in consequence of the uproar on the platform as well as in the body of the meeting. Mr. John O'Connell mounted the table, and endeavoured without success to uell the tumult. CHAIRMAN: I call on Dr. Marshall to sit down, and allow me to speak. Dr. MARSILLL : I will sit down if Mr. John O'Connell does so. CHAIRMAN : I will adjourn the meeting if you do not sit down. Thereupon arose another great uproar, during which ite are Old that Dr. Marshall continued stand ing and amused himself with sucking an orange quite undisturbed by the Babel of tongues around him. Presently he was allowed to proceed, and briefly wound up his speech. Some more " scenes " followed. Mr. John O'Connell was called upon to address the meeting, but tranquillity was not per fectly restored until he had proceeded some way in his speech. Another row arose during a speech of Mr. G. 11. Moore, M.P., who proposed a resolution in favour of "independent opposition." The Lord Mayor declined putting the resolution, and a scene of the greatest uproar ensued, which ln'ded for some time. Amidst all this confusion, however, the meet ing succeeded in passing sundry resolutions, all of which were founded upon the Roman Catholic " Declaration " published some time since. A GREAT number of Roman Catholic prelates are at present assembled in Dublin, having come in obe dience to a very urgent rescript from the Pope to hold a synod, which commenced its sittings on Thursday, for the purpose of making final arrange ments to open the Rotnan Catholic University. THE additional advance of duty on Irish whisky has given much dissatisfaction in Dublin, and is the occasion of severe comments in almost all sections of the press. The assertion is that it will have the effect of stimulating illicit distillation and smuggling; and that, by diminishing the consumption to a large extent, it will be much less productive to the revenue than the Chancellor of the Exchequer may have cal culated. THE BANK OF IRELAND last week raised the rate both on English and Irish bills to 54 per cent. The interest on loans, with the collateral security of Government on Bank Stock, is 44 per cent. FATHER MATHEW has sustained, according to the Limerick Chronicle, another attack of paralysis, and the state of his health causes deep anxiety to his friends. THE value of property in securities and possessions assessed in Ireland to the income tax under schedule D was, In 1850, 895,3471.; in 1851, 663,7891.; in 1852, 699,8781.; and in 1853, 870,719/. The value of the property in the fluids, similarly assessed under schedule C, was, in 1850, 114,3881.; in 1851, 105,0981. ; in 1852, 102,7201.; and in 1853, 104,8951. The amount of the salaries and pensions assessed under schedule E was, in 1850, 80,5711. ; in 1851, 81,0171. ; in 1852, 84,8221. ; and in 1853, 85,6801. THE salaries paid to the Irish constabulary have been increased. The scale of advance is as follows : To every man who has served two years in the force an increase of lid. a day has been allowed ; to those who have served seven years, 3d. per day; fourteen SATURDAY * years, 44d.; (mid twenty years, per day. The county inspectors have been allowed 20/. per annum • as lodging money, and the sub-inspectors a propor tionate amount for the same purpose. lehitu4rg. The Hon. and Right Rev. Rican BAGOT, Bishop of Bath and Wells, died nir Monday, at Brighton, iu th e 72nd ,year of his age. He had been seriously ill for some time past, and therefore his decease was not unexpected. The deceased prelate was third son of the first Lord Begot, by the eldest daughter of the second Viscount St. John. Born 1782; married, 1806, Lady Harriet, yotuOst daughter of the fourth Earl of Jersey. Was educated at Rugby School; thence proceeded to Oxford, where he was elected Fellow of All Souls' College in 1804. 116 Was copse crated Bishop of Oxford in 1829; translated to the see of Bath and Wells in 1845 ; was patron of eighty livings, and visitor of Wadham College, Oxford. The diocese includes the whole of the county of Someniet with the exception of the parish of Bedminster. Annual value, 5,0001. We have to announce the death of CArruxl3Ancur ALLARDICE, Of liTy, who expired at pry on Monday morning. To a very recent period he was in the en joyment of his usual health. Captain Barclay was in his 75th year, having been born in 1779, and by his death North Britain has lost one of its most enter prising and skilful agriculturists. The Aberdeen Herald says:—" The captain used to say that he was a delicate boy when he left Scotland ; hut he must have improved rapidly on the EngllBh pasture, for, at the early age of fitteen, we find him gaining a match for 100 guineas for walking six miles within an hour. This was the beginning of a career which made him the most famous pedestrian of the early part of the century, and which has never yet, in some points, been equalled. His matches were numerous and almost all successfully performed ; but his ordinary walks on matters of business or for fun were equally surprising. Bethought nothing of walking from liry to Ellon (thirty two miles) to breakfast and home again within twelve hours; more than once be went eighty miles to the top of Don, and returned without sleeping, in an almost incredibly short period; and, when he had a day's hunting before him at a die. tance of thirty or forty miles, it was quite usual with him to walk to the place of meeting in the morning, and home again in the evening. But his grand feat was his celebrated walk of 1,000 miles in I,oooconse cutive hours. The captain could lift half a ton from the ground, set au eighteen -stone man on the table with one hand, and knock down an insolent bully as easily as a butcher tells an 'ox. When any company be formed a part of were annoyed by rude ness or puppyism, a very quiet hint from him that the room had a door generally produced an effect Of causing the offender to take the outside." The Madras journals just received announce the death of his Excellency Lieut.-General Witnem STAVELEY, C. 8., Commander-in-Chief of the Madras army. The melancholy event took place on the morn ing of the 4th of April, in his transit-carriage, shortly after his departme from TiPpicadoo. Since leaving Madras General Staveley had improved in health and spirits, and early on the morning of the 4th ex pressed himself as being " Never better in his life." At Bandipoorah he partook of an excellent breakfast, and on arrival at Tippicadoo left his carriage and walked some few yards. Upon his reentering the carriage be lay down, as if for the purpose of going to sleep, and into which he immediately fell, and from that passed to death without the slightest snug• gle or groan. The body was examined on the morn•. ing of the sth at Ootacamuud, and extensive disease of the heart was discovered. THE MEDITERRANEAN TELEGRAPHIC CABLE. THE first portion of the great Mediterranean cable, the largest ever made, and in point of circumference also the largest at present existing, is now just completed at the yard, near Greenwich, and ready for shipment. The screw.steamer Persian is destined to carry it, and the subterranean works on the island of Corsica, &c., will be ready to be connected to the cable on its being )aid doers. The cable is about 110 miles in length, and weighs some where about 800 tons. It contains six copper wires, or conductors, protected by a gutty percha covering, secured in a hempen rope, and finally surrounded by twelve iron wires of No. 1 gauge. The projector and originator, Mr. John Watkins Brett, profiting by experience, has allowed 20 miles for what is technically termed slack and way, and for depth of the ocean. As coiled in the yard, the cabl e Occupies about 75 feet, taking its convex sides. The per pendicular height of the coil Is about 5 feet, and the width of one side of the coil from convex to concave reaches 24 feet. The moment it is laid, London will be in immediate communication with Cagliari through the cable and about 401) miles of subterranean wire. Extensions to Mahe" Turkey, &c., would give us news from the seat of war in an incredibly short space of time, and might, in the matter of rapidity of proceedings, speedy communication of orders , knowledge of wants, 4:c., be of essential service to the country. AL MEETING OF POLES tool Hotel Lambert, the resit About four hundred were flounced an address, in whic he and his friends had now, tl that better days were dawn the necessity of union, and ertion should be made to en legion in Turkey. No ore of personal interest when l any one had in view was the country. Should General of the Polish legion, Count serve under him. Gene meeting alter the Prince, a to do everything in his pole common cause, and that foi by the views of Prince C incidentally at the meeting had shown great zeal in Polish emigrants, and in el in "went W Ow formation gl, a ■