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DEAT :Ei OF TIIE EARL OP SHREWSBURY.

In
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Second Edition,, revised.—ln a few days, la 2 vols., wit L fine portraits,
engraved by Heath, 21s , bound, _or
J ,ng Earl of Shrewsbury, which took place at Lisbon
'THE LIFE of MARGUERITE D' ANGOTT- ?' . the 10th inst. His Lordship had been indisposed at
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y, in whic, o too'. As pa. Igt
for Lisbon, with the intention of spending a part of the
summer at Cintra, and of making a voyage later in the
autumn either to the Mediterranean or to Madeira. On
arriving at Lisbon his progress to Cintra was delayed by
various causes, and among others by the breaking out
of the cholera in Lisbon and the neighbouring diwtricts.
He therefore took up his abode at the Hotel Braganz%
at Lisbon, where he bad a return of the more serious
symptoms of his malady, under which he rapidly sank.
His Lordship was accompanied in his voyage by Miss.
Anne Talbot, the sister of the late Countess of Shrews-
bury, the Rev. Mr. Garside, his domestic chaplain, and
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by Dr. Mervyn Crawford, an English physician of emi-
nence, whom he had engaged to continue with him.
His Lordship was the 17th Earl of Shrewsbury, and
Premier Earl of England, the creation dating as far back
as 1442 ; he was also Earl of Wexford and Water ford,
and hereditary Lord High Steward of Ireland. Ho
succeeded to the tit'e on the death of the late Earl in
1852, being at that time under age. Having attained
his majority, he took his seat in the House of Lot-3s in
February, 1854, and at the time of his death was in his
24th year.
The noble family of Talbot of the English branch is
one of ancient celebrity, and second only to the great
houses of Howard and Seymour in historic interest. Its
founder was a Norman noble who must have come over
to England with the Conqueror ; for Talbott is not a
Saxon name, and yet Richard de Talbott is mentioned in
Domesday BOok, as holding nine hides of land from Wal-
ter Giffard, Earl of Buckingham. From him the Shrews-
bury branch in England, and the Talbots of Malabide,
in Ireland, as well as the untitled but elder branch of
Talbots of Bestial!, Yorkshire (now extinct in the direct
male line), can trace their pedigree through nearly eight,
centuries by direct descent to the present day. From
his second son Hugh, Governor of the Castle of Plessy,
in Essex, who afterwards assumed the monastic habit,
like so manny warriors of hie time, six generations bring
us down to Sir George Talbot, Lord Chamberlain to
King Edward 111 , by whom he was summoned to Par-
liament as a Baron in A.D. 1331. His son, Sir Richard,
Lord of Gederich Castle, and 2d Baron, distinguished
himself in the wars of Edward 111., and became great
grandfather of Sir John Talbot. 6th Baron, summoned
to Parliament in 1409 as Lard Talbot do Furnivall. In
1412 the latter illustrious warrior was appointed Lord
Justice of Ireland, of which he became Lord• Lieutenant
in A.D. 1414. He subsequently rendered good service
to his country in the French wars of Henry V. ;
but his highest renown was gained under Henry VI.,
upon the Paine field under the Regent Plantagenet
Duke of Bedford. It is said that his character be-
crone far and wide so formidable to the French, ow-
ing to the constant success which attended his
expeditions, that mothers used to hush their children
into silence by pronouncing the name of the " Great
Dogge Talbot." He was attacked, however, by Joan
of Arc, the Maid of Orleans, at Patay, in 1429, when
his army:was routed and he was himself taken pri-
soner. Being subsequently exchanged, and having gained
for himself fresh laurels, be was created Earl of Shrews-
bury by King Edward IV., in 1442. Again resuming
the Lord Lientenantcy of Ireland, which at that day was
rather a military than a civil post, and having been ap•
pointed Lord High Steward of that country, he was
raised to the earldoms of Wexford and Waterfoid in A,D.
1446, and thus became Premier Earl in the Irish as well
as the English peerage. Again engaging in foreign war-
fare, though in the 80th year of his age, the earl ad-
vanced with a British force to the relief of the Castle of
Chatillon in France, beneath the Walls of which he was
mortally wounded, and died July 20, 1453, with the re-
putation of having been victorious in about 40 different
battles. His younger son, Lord Lisle, fell dead upon
the same field. John, the second Earl of Shrewsbury,
K.(1., Lord Treasurer, first of Ireland and afterwards
of England, was killed at the batt's of Northampton in
A.D. 1460, while fighting under the Red Rose. He was
succeeded by his eldest son, from whom the title de-
scended regularly to the fifth earl, the most consistent
statesman of Queen Mary's, reign, and the only noble-
man except the Viscount Montague who, on Elizabeth's
accession, opposed the repeal of the act of submission of
the House of Lords and Commons to the authority of
the See of Rome, which had been carried into effect in
the preceding reign. Though thus strongly attached
to the religion of his forefathers, Queen Elizabeth re-
tained him in her service, and even admitted him to her
Privy Council. His son, the sixth earl, is known to
history as the most wealthy and powerful peer of the
real m, and the guardian to whose custody the person of
Mary Queen of Scots was intrusted by 'Elizabeth. On
the death of the eighth earl, in 1617, the title reverted
to a distant cousin, Mr. George Talbot, of Grafton, as
great-great-grandson of the second earl ; and from him
it descended regularly to Charles, twelfth earl, who
having conformed to the Established Church, became a
prominent statesman in the reigns of William
Mary, Anne, and George 1., under whom he held the
highest offices, and by whom he was rewarded with the
Dukedom of Shrewsbury and the Knighthood of the
Garter. At his death in 1717 the dukedom expired,
and it is not a little singular that, from that day to this,
the earldom has never passed directly from a lather to a
too. The 13th earl, being a Jesuit priest, of course did
not assume the title, which accordingly passed to the
son of his brother George, as 14th earl, and the last of
his male descendants is now deceased." It wou'd be alike
tedious and profitless to trace the exact pedigree for the
last century, which merely exhibits a series of nephews
and cousins inheriting in succession ; we will therefore
only mention that the son and nephew of John, 16th
earl, having died during their minority, Bertram Arthur
Talbot, in 1846, became heir presumptive to the Shrews-
bury title and estates, to which be succeeded as 17th earl,
as we havealready stated, towards the close of the year
1352. It is this young nobleman's death that it has be-
come our duty to record to-day.
His lordship was the only son of the late Lieut.-Colonel
Charles Thomas Talbot, nephew of Charles, 15th earl, by
Julia, third daughter of the late Sir Henry jo:eph Tich-
borne, Bart. (since remarried to Mr. Washington Hib-
bert, of Bilton Grange, near Rugby), and was born Dec.
11, 1852. He was educated almost entirely by private
tutors, under the roof of Alton Towers, by the late Earl
and Countess, to whom he was devotedly attached. lie
was Premier Earl in the English and Irish Peerages,
Vice-Admiral of Cheshire, a Deputy-Lieutenant for
Staffordshire, and High Steward of Allbrighton, in the
same county ; he also held the honorary distinctions of
a Knight Commander of Malta, and a Knight Grand
Cross of the Order of Pope Pius IX., and it was
reported in our columns only a few days since
that he was about to be nominated a Knight
of the Order of St. Patrick. Lord Shrews-
bury also claimed the office of Hereditary Lord High
Steward of Ireland, and his claim was under the consi-
deration of the House of Lords, having been referred to
la Committee of Privileges, when his death supervened.
Lord Shrewsbury was a person of singularly mild and
gentle disposition, and of refined and elegant tastes ; he
was an accomplished scholar, especially in modern lan-
guages, of which his long residence upon the continent
had made him a perfect master. His charities were most
extensive, and, humanly speaking, his death must prove
a "heavy blow and great discouragement" to the pro-
spects of the Roman Catholic religion in this country.
He has left two sisters, both recently raised by her Ma-
jesty to the precedence of the daughters of an earl : the
younger, Lady Geendaline Talbot, is unmarried ; the
elder sister, Lady Annette, was married in January,
1855, to Sir Humphrey de Trafford, of Tr dford Park,
Lancashire. The property of Alton Towers and the other
estates have been devised by the will of the late earl to
Lord Edmund Bernard Hovyard, the infant so❑ of the
present Duke of Norfolk, with remainder to his Grace's
other younger sons, and to his brother, Lord Edward
Howard, M.P., who is married to the late earl's cousin,
Miss Augusta Talbot.
The greatest emotion was caused in all the Roman
Catholic chapels of the metropolis yesterday at high mass,
when the name of Bertram, Earl of Shrewsbury, was
given out among the list of the departed for whose souls
the officiating priests requested, as is usual, the prayers
of their respective congregations.

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Shooting, and for Tourists, &c. Visitors to his rooms can at once
compare the varied products of the Three Kingdoms.
D. MACDOUGALL, Inverness.

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* Burke and Dod are accordingly mistaken in counting
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DUBLIN, SATURDAY MORNING.
GOVERNMENT PATRONAGE.
The pleasant appointment of Clerk of the Hanaper in
Ireland, vacant by the death of Mr. C. Fitzsiinon, hal
been conferred upon Mr. John. O'Connell, M.P., brother-
in-law Of the last possessor of the office. No reasonable
or imputial person would venture to cavil at this dis-
position of Government patronage. In strict justice to
the memory of one of the most remarkable men of the
day, it should be borne in mind that, whatever may
hale been the failings of the late Mr. Daniel O'Connell;
the charge of nepotism could never fairly be laid to his
account. Re died without making any provision for
portion only of the family estates, the re-
three of his sons. The eldest (now also no more) inhe-
rited
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w small
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ni
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party in the borough, he has succeeded in disarming the
hostility of many of his former political opponents: As
a matter of course, he, is no longer a member of the
Legislature, and there is every probability of a warm
OClatest for the seat thus left vacant.

LONDoN, MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 18, 1856.

t MORE T.REMENDOUSCONPLAGRA7'IOATS. ENOR-
MOUS DF.STRUCTIOY OF PROPERTY, AND
MIRACULOUS ESCAPE OF SEVERAL PER-
SONS.

Yesterday morning., about a qualter before three
o'clock, a fire, attended with the destruction of several
thousand pounds' worth of property and almost fatal re•
sults to three persons, took place in the extensive range
of premises belonging to Mr. J. Golding, boot and shoe
meinUfacturer, carrying on business at Nos. 3 and 4,
Church-street, Shoreditch. The property had a frontage
of at least 59 feet, was most extensively fitted up, and
contained a stock in trade, independently of the furniture
and other effects, worth some thousand pounds sterling.
From the inquiries made during the raging of the
flames it,appears that the discOvery was made by Police-
sergeant Hunt, No. 19 of the H diVision, who at once
gay.e an alarm, and after repeatedly knockng at the
street-door he succeeded in awakening the inmates, con-
sisting of three persons. Those parties at once made an
attempt to descend by the staircase ; 11.4 upon getting
upon the landing they found immense 'bodies of sparks
and huge volumes of smoke ascending, and at the same
time tee landing was so hot as to nearly take the skin off
their feet. In this extremity the occupants hardly knew
what to do to save their lives, being convinced if them
attempted to run down stairs they must of necessity be
suffocated, and if they remained in their, then perilous
position they would be speedily burnt to death. What
to do for the best the affrighted creatures scarcely knew
—more especially as there was a man upwards of 60
years of age, and a cripple, in the building ; and to get
this person out by the other parties in the house seemed
next to an impossibility. The two occupants who were
able to get about therefore made for one of the front
attic windows, and called loudly for help. They were
just going to precipitate themselves from the parapet
when the officer told .them -:to' remain where they
were. Fortunately the inmates did as they were re-
quested, and in the course of a few seconds con•
ductor Barton arrived with the Roye,l Society's
fire escape, but then t smoke 41aiseeiegin,such huge
bodies that it•was diffiNti for him to see the inmates
whose life were thus jeopardised, or even the front of the
building on fire Fortunately he managed by some
means to pitch the machine in front of theberning pro-
perty, and having ascended the outer ladder, he entered
the rooms which were already on fire, and brought down
in the presence of Mr. Lough, the senior churchwarden
of the parish, and many others, the whole of the occu-
pants. The conductor, as he brought the parties down
and placed them upon terra firma, was loudly cheered.
The present makes-no less a number than 32 individuals
the same conductor has saved at fires in the immediate
locality during a year and ten months.
The engines of the parish and four of the London Bri-
gade were as quickly as possible on the spot, under the
direction of Mr. Foga, the principal officer of the A
district, and Engineer Bridges, Maiciman, Baylis, eeca
A splendid supply of the East London Company's water
was at once procured, and not a moment lost by the fire-
men in taking advantage of the same ; but, in spite of
the exertions of the Brigade, the fearful element con-
tinued to spread, and before the conflagration semld be
arrested in its progress, some thousand pounds' worth
of property was totally destroyed ; in fact, both houses
and all they contained were consumed ; and the adjoin-
ing house, belong ng to Elr. W. Weston, No. 1, Bonn-
dery.street, seriously damaged, more especially by
water.

Mr. Golding was fortunately insured for 2,4001. ; but
that amount is far below the loss.

As to the origin of the Sre not the least information
of a reliable character could be ascertained.

company.

A very serious fire, and attended with a still greaterloss
of propertythan the above, took place on Saturday night,
in the premises belonging to Mr. J. Warrener, tumor.
ter of fancy toys and articles of vertu, situate at No.
191, Bishopsgate-,treet Without, which for hours con-
tinued to illuminate the eastern portion of the metropo-
lis. The building in which the misfortune commenced
wag several floors high, and of considerable depth, each
compartment being stored with goods of a most expen-
sive charac'er.

The discovery was made by one of the City police,
who on passing along his beat to. go to the station saw
ke issuing from the ground floor. The officer at
once set off for the fire escapes as well as the engines,
and in a very short space of time the Royal Society's es-
capes aWnded. and also the Brigade engines from sere-
rarstati ‘ns, which were under the personal direction of
Mr. Superintendent Braid wood, Mr. Fogo, the foreman
of the district, and Mr. Engineer Bridges. The West
of England engine and firemen, under the command of
Mr. Connorton, were also soon in attendance, and no
time being lost in setting the machines to play, some im-
pression vai quickly made upon the fire, when some
one informed the firemen that there was upwards of
700 lb. weight of gunpowder on the premises, and Mr.
Biaidwood not wi,ning to risk the lives of the,inen under
his charge, had them removed to a distanneaa: immteitta
avoid b-,ing blown up when the supposed gunpowder
took fire. By so doing the services of two engines were
obliged to be dispensed with, and the conflagration con-
tinued to travel with the gr.atest impetuosity, firing in
ripid succ,ssion, floor after floor, in the building, each
filled with property of great worth, until the entire struc-
ture became ignited from the base to the roof.

The reflection of such a great fire chew to the spot
many thousand spectators, and it required a powerful
body of the City police, under Mr. Superintendent
Hodson and Inspector Scott, to make a way clear fur
the firemen and the engines to pass along.
Fortunately the rumour of such an enormous quantity
of gunpowder being in the premises turned out to bs
wholly unfounded, and no explosion consequently oc-
curred. The firemen, under the orders given them by
their superior officers, laboured for hours without sub-
duing the flames, and it was not until they had passed
through the building that they eventually got the flames
subdued in sufficient time to depart to attend the first-
named conflagration.

The loss atthis fire is also very considerable, as very
little of the four floors has escaped, and the contents
may be said to be destroyed, or nearly so.
The back premises of Messrs. Jones and Son, leather-
cutters and curriers, are likewise damaged by fire, and
the contents by water. Mr. Warreuer was insured in
the Phaeoix Fire-office, and Messrs. Jones were insured
in the Sun Fire-office.

Another firs broke out in the premises of Mr. W Bol-
ton, operative chemist, No. 146, Holborn-bars, City,
which was welt nigh attended with a loss of life. It
seems that all of a sudden, and by golllE unaccountable
cause, two bottles of ether exploded, aua the spirits be-
coming ignited the most disastrous consequences were
apprehendei. Mr. Bolton, who wai present at the
time, and who endeavoured to extinguish the fire, got
badly burned over the face and hands. The fire was,
however, extinguished, and confined priacipally to the
destruction of two bottles of ether, and about one gallon
of some articles of trifling value. The property was in-
sured in the Sun Fire-office.
A fire also broke out in Church-lane, Hendon, on the
premises of Mr. F. Sweetland, a farmer, but from what
cause is not known. When discovered a rick of hay,
containing 70 loads, was in flames. The parish engine
and one of the brigade from London attended, and
owing to the exertions of all present the fire was con•
fined to one rick. The loss occasioned 'ill fall on the
Atlas Fire-office.

A fire also happened in the extensive aad well-known
ranze of premises belonging to Messrs Bryan, Price,
and Co., army contractors, carrying on huffiness at No.
8 and 9, Ware•street, Westminster. Th* engines of the
parish, West of England, and London Prigade, having
been sent for, they arrived in a space of time almost in-
credibly brief, when the firemen found that the fire had
taken place in one of the, stores formerly occupied as a
stable. By great exertions a mob numbering nearly
10,000 were kept back by the p.,lice, under the admir-
able arrangements of Mr. Superintendent Gibbs, of the
B division, by which means the firemen were enabled to
confine the flames to that portion of the property in
which they commenced. The lose, which is not very ex•
tensive, will fall on the Anchor Fire-office.

THE SA DLEIRS A N D THE NE TV CASTLE-
ON-TYNE COMMERCIAL BANK.

The following special report, prepared by Mr. Wil-
liam Walker, manaqing director of the Newcastle-on-
Tyne Commercial Banking Company, gives the official
history of the transactions of the Sadleirs with that
establishment :
"The managing director has the honour to lay before
the meeting a special report respecting the affairs of the
bank.

" The managing director, in peiforming this duty, is
compelled to express his annoyance and regret at the
fact of the funds of the bank having b-en mast impro-
perly devoted to purposes of a fraudulent character,
without tlr-, knowledge or consent of the management in
Newcastle. The circumstances under which this arose

it is necessary to render clear to the shareholders of the

" be remembered that, in December, 1853, the

managing director, Mr. Walker, had a severe attack of
illness, which ended in total inability to use his limbs.
Mr. Walker considers that he had conducted the affairs
with care and judgment. An average dividend of 6 per
cent, had been paid from the commenceweat of the bank
and the capital was deemed safe and entire. In this
state of things Mr. Walker and others considered to
wind up the affairs of the bank, discharge its engage-
ments; 4nd divide the capital rateably among the
shareholders.

" While discussions on the subject of Winding-up
were pending Mr. Walker opened a communication with
his friend, Mr. Ald..Kennedy, of London, with a
view to dispose,of the, business of the company to the
Royal British Bank. These negotiations failed.
Mr. • Ald. Kennedy then conferred with Mr.
Wilkinson, of the firm of Wilkinson, Gurney,
and Stevens, solicitors, to the, London and County
Bank, and, through the instrumentality of Mr. Wilkin-
son, Mes.sr?. James Sadleir and Law came down to
Newcastle, invest;gated the affairs of the bank, and the
bank -was 'finally sold t., Messrs. Kennedy, Law, and
Jatnea Sadleir, by agreement between these gentlemen
and Mr. Walker, bearing the date of the 6th Oct. last. It
will be race nt- end that Messrs. Kennedy, Sadleir, and
Law agreed to purchase the shares at„s/.,per share, with
5 p-r cent. interest, pay-ible in 12 months, eubj-3ct to a
c mditiou that the shareholders should specify their in-
tention to sell six months before the.day of payment of
the purchase money. Mr. Walker, in the contract,
u .dertook to obtain transfers of 4,000 shares, in order
to give the purchasers control over the choioe of new
directors. A board, with a considerable infusion of new
shareho'ders, was deemed desirable by the purchasers, to
enable them to control the affairs of the bank previous
to the completion of the purchase. As the purchasers
would he required to pay Si. per share, with 6 per cent.
interest, on the 6th Oct., 1856, it seemed plausible and
proper that they should have a superintending power
over the property they had purchased. Five directors,
nominated by the purchasers, were elected at their own
time and in their own mode. Messrs. Sadleir and Law,
two of the purchasers under the contract, were present
at the general meeting, when they and their nominees
were chosen directors.

"Immediately after the general meeting a meeting of
directors was held is Newcastle, composed of Messrs.
Walker, Sadleir, and Law. Mr. Walker was somewhat
surprised at the request made by Messrs. Sadleir and
Law, that the cash and bills should be sent to No. 6,
King William-street, London, where it was proposed
that the new direcors should meet to superintend and
regulate the affairs of the bank. The grounds stated for
this arrangement were, that it would be necessary for
the board to examine the bills before they were placed
in the hands of the agents —the London and County
B ink—for collection. Within a month a large amount
of cash and bills was duly forwarded to London.
"Oa the 12th of December last, the board in London,
meetiag at No. 6, King William•btreet, began to inter-
fere actively with the affairs of the bank in Newcastle.
A. notice of the discharge of Mr. Peter Davi Ison, the
manager at Newcastle, was forwarded to Newcastle
from London ; and this was carried into effect. Mr.
O'Shea was appointed, by the London board, manager,
in the place of Mr. Davidson, at a salary of 500/. per
annum. •

"On the 31st of January last Mr. Walker himself re-
ceived notice from the board in London that he was to
interfere no longer in the management of the bank—the
entire responsibility of conducting the business was to
be placed in the hands of Mr. O'Shea. Mr. Walker,
after having filled the offices of managing director,
trustee, and public officer, from thecotutuencement of
the-bank, felt this order very acutely, because lie consi-
dered that, until the purchase-money was paid, the
manitgeinent should remain with him, and not be trans-
ferred to a stranger, who, however competent, had not
beern'stifficiently long in Newcastle to understand the
peculiarities of its commerce and the characters and
positions of the customers of the bank."

V -On the 611 h of February a communication was re-
ceiiei4-by Mr. Walker from the board in London, which
amounted to a request that he should leave the bank
entirely. Mr. Walker firmly but respectfully resisted
this attempt on the part of the London board, who at
that period had paid no portion of the purchase-money
of 50,0001. Mr. Walker's firmness was effectual, and no
further efforts were made to interfere with him.
" On the 10th of March last Mr. Walker was informed
by Mr. Alderman Kennedy that Messrs. James Sadleir,
Law, and Keatinge, three of the London board, had
allowed the funds of the bank to be used in discounting
orders of the Tipperary Joint-Stock Bank, endorsed by
Messrs. Wilkinson, Gurney, and Stevens, or by Mr.
Gurney only. This, Mr. Kennedy stated, had been
done without his knowledge, or that of his co-director
and relative, Mr. Valliant.

" This was the first intimation of the fraud received
by Mr. Walker ; and the shareholders may, readily con-
ceive Mr. Walker's chagrin, when he found that his
friend at tie board in London, Mr. Alderman Kennedy,
on whose judgment and integrity he chiefly relied, had
allowed himself to be imposed upon by other persons at
the same board. On the 17th of March Mr. Walker
discovered that the sum represented by these Tipperary
orders amounted to 51,000/.

" Mr. Walker has taken steps to prove the debt due by
the Tipperary fßank, but Mr. James Sadleir has created
considerable impediments in the way of the proof. Mr.
Walker has commenced legal proceedings against Messrs.
Wilkinson and Stevens for 16,000/. It was expected
that the case would have been tried at the last Newcas-
tle Aissises, but on the application of Messrs. Wilkinson
and Stevens the cause has been removed to London,
where it is hoped that it will be disposed of in Novem-
ber next. An application to the Court of Chancery by
Messrs. Wilkinson and Stevens to retrain the action
has not been successful.
"The sound condition of the nffsirs of the Bank at
Newcastle has exceeded Mr. Walker's most sanguine
expectations. The bills in hand have been well paid,
and the solvency and soundness of the customers of the
bank have thus been conclusively established. Mr.
Walker is now convinced that, if the bank hal been
wound up on the plan he origiraqy proposed to himself,
every holder would have received 51. 105. per share."

NIAVSPAPER