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London, England, 1854-05-20 00:00:00

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,

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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.

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The Hon. and Right Rev. Rican BAGOT, Bishop
of Bath and Wells, died nir Monday, at Brighton, iu
the 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 cable
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

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MAY 20,1854.

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Memoirs and Correspondence of Major-General
Sir William Nott, G.C.B. By J. H. Stocque•
_ __ _

ler. London : Hurst and Blackett.
Tats biography is not well written, yet is far
from deserving the severity of censure with
which it has been visited by some critics. Mr.
Stocqueler writes as if always in haste ; his
style is occasionally wordy and feeble, and
the occasions are rare on which he shows any
graphic power; but he tells a plain story
plainly, and brings together many interesting
facts respecting the great Affghan tragedy.
This historical event, in fact, occupies the
greater part of the two volumes before us ;
the private life of Sir W. Nott affording few
subjects, and being very briefly disposed of.
William Nott, the hero of the story, was
born in January, 'B3, being the second son of
a Herefordshire farmer. Of school-teaching
he had little, but a country life gave him early
habits of activity, and his energetic spirit
broke out, like that of Clive, in freaks of boy-
ish mischief. He helped his father in farming
business, and often drove the plough himself,
a reminiscence to which in later days he was
fond of recurring. Not destined originally for
the army, he became a soldier by accident.
The invasion of Wales in '97 by a French
force led to the formation of volunteer corps
everywhere : Caermarthenshire, to which the
Nott family had removed, contributed her
share of men, and William Nott, a lad of
fifteen, enrolled himself as one of the national
defenders. Their campaign was bloodless ;
but it turned the young farmer's head. Nothing
would content him but a commission, and this
he seems to have obtained without difficulty,
through the influence of one Mr. Twining. It
is not stated how a piece of patronage usually
above the expectation or reach of one in his
father's station came to fall to his share ; but
India in 1798 was very unlike the India of
1854. He who left England as a cadet took,
probably, an eternal farewell of family and
friends; his letters reached him at most once
or twice in the year; the voyage home occu-
pied on an average six mouths, and the ex-
pense of the passage placed it beyond the
reach of a young officer ; consequently few re
turned, except when far gone in years, and
with the intention of quitting India for ever.
Add to this that deaths from climate were
twice as frequent as now,—hill-stations being
unknown, the Himalayas inaccessible, and
men's social habits intemperate; that the
total destruction of English power in the East,
a catastrophe which even alarmists have long
ceased to predict, was at that period no im-
possible event; and that an officer life resem-
bled one long campaign, while European
society (especially that of women) was a luxury
unattainable except at the Presidencies. All
these inconveniences taken together, and
doubtless magnified by report, tended to
lessen the number of aspirants after Oriental
renown. Perhaps also the threatened in-
vasion of England, and menacing aspect of
Europe, had turned away the eyes of soldiers
from the great work which was slowly but
surely doing in the East. Be this as it may,
the wishes of Nott were gratified with little
delay : he embarked for Bengal in 1800, was
captured by a French privateer, wounded in
the struggle, and with his fellow-passengers
put on board an Arab vessel, which carried
him on to Calcutta. In the latter part of the
passage great hardships were endured ; the
ship in which Nott sailed had of necessity
taken in the passengers and crew of another
Indiaman burnt at sea; and now the living
freight of two large vessels was transferred on
board a single small one, having already her
own complement. Water ran short; the
voyage was protracted ; sickness broke out
on board, and the young officer, who had
lost his property in the captured vessel,
landed at Calcutta sick, destitute, and friend-
less. Hospitality is still the Indian virtue,
and it was more so in that day, for hotels
existed not, and every European found it his
interest to give the assistance which he was
sure in turn to require. So the new-comer was
kindly treated, and soon became fit to join his