HASZARD’S GAZE'I"l‘E. MARCH 19. 
     
    
   
   
    
     sanr.arii.’s caassa nan rrs catas- 
     
     '.l'lt0I'Hl. 
     
    

    
     (From the London Observer.) 
     
    

    
     The history of Sadleir’s career presents 
     
     a startling instance of the pliability ofliu- 
     
     nian nature. riginally an attorney—an 
     
     Irish attorney—in ve moderate business, 
     
     he suddenly changed the scene of his oper- 
     
     ations from the county of Tipperary to the 
     
     more congenial atmosphere of the British 
     
     metropolis. His first debut in London was 
     
     as a parliamentary agent; in which capacity 
     
     his “ tact” rather than his legal knowledge, 
     
     and his force of character rather than his 
     
     skill, caused him to obtain considerable 
     
     employment, especially in connection with 
     
     Irish railways. Previously, however, as 
     
     well as rocollection now serves, he ha 
     
     developed his talent ass financier; more 
     
     strictly speaking. that predominant passion 
     
     of his soul, the desire to have the handling 
     
     of other people's money, by establishing 
     
     the Tipperary Joint Stock ank. is 
     
     connection with this undertaking brought 
     
     him in contact with City capitalists “ and 
     
     men upon ’Changc,” both Jew and Gentile, 
     
     to whom his off-hand business manner also 
     
     not a little recommended him; and the re- 
     
    
   
   
    
     sult was, his elevation to the chairmanship . 
     
    
   
   
    
     of the board of direction of the 
     
     London and County Joint Stock Bank, an 
     
     ofiice which he appears to have filled until 
     
     his death. In this position it was, 
     
     doubt, that he began that career ofcrime 
     
     which terminated in his suicide. 
     
    

    
     When the potato blight fell upon Ireland 
     
     and ruined the potato aristocracy of that 
     
     wretched country, almost to a man, John 
     
     Sadleir, with the keen perception of the 
     
     predatory animal, ever on the watch for 
     
     prey, saw at once that his time was come. 
     
     Whether or not he had ever heard or read 
     
     of In bande iioire in France, that association 
     
     ofcapitalists who bought up in a lump all 
     
     the forfeited estates of priests and nobles 
     
     in the time of the first French revolution 
     
     is not clear, as Irish attorneys of the class 
     
     to which he belonged are not famous for 
     
     their profound knowledge of liistory, local 
     
     or geiieral—biit this is certain, that he or- 
     
     ganized ii similar association in England 
     
     for the purpose of purchasing properties 
     
    
   
   
    
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     rush into the arms of the Ministry was 
     
     the leader of the Irish Brigade—John 
     
     Sa eir. 
     
    
   
   
    
     instance, an 
     
    
   
   
    
     d returned again to Parliament for Sligo, he 
     
    
   
   
    
     Sadleir‘s election for Csrlow, in the first 
     
     his rejection for the same 
     
     place in the second, subsequently to accept- 
     
     ing place as a Lord of the Treasury, cost 
     
     him not only large sums of money, but like- 
     
     wise, the lastshrcd of political character 
     
     which still stuck to him. His persecution 
     
     of Dowling, the voter, who voted against 
     
     him, after having had his “ little bill” dis- 
     
     counted at Sadleir’s bank, is fresh in the 
     
     recollection of everyone, as is likewise his 
     
     double defeat and disgrace in the law pro- 
     
     cecdings consequent thereon. The affair 
     
     cost him his post as a Minister; and though 
     
    
   
   
    
     ceased to swell the list of ollice-bearers 
     
     under the Government. This enabled him 
     
     however, to turn his attention all the more 
     
     "closely to “the ways and rnearis;”and it 
     
     was probably during the period of political 
     
     leisure which supervened that the great 
     
     bulk of the frauds with which his memory 
     
     is now charged was accomplished, and the 
     
     unparalleled mass of forgeries attributed to 
     
     him at present was done and effected. 
     
    

    
     Sadleir was literally at “ all in the ring,” 
     
     in the most extended sense of the fistic 
     
     formula. He was chairman of the Swedish 
     
     Railway, as too many know by this time to 
     
     their cost, and in that capacity he was, as 
     
     his temper prompted him to be, the abso- 
     
     lute master of the company. He establish- 
     
     ed an insurance company, and prosecuted 
     
     to conviction a “ petty-larceny rogue” 
     
     who had sivindled it out of a couple of 
     
     hundred pounds. He established a pious 
     
     newspaper in Dublin to sirhserve his own 
     
     peculiar interests. He was deep in Italian, 
     
     Spanish, and Ainericaii railways. He 
     
     was, in fact, in cvei-_itliing where money 
     
     was to he gained, and, perhaps, recollec- 
     
     tion of his friglitful positioii was to be lo.-:t. 
     
     And yet he was pcrsoii.ili_v an inc.\’pcn.-ivo 
     
     riian; that ii to say, he was not yet knoivn 
     
     to be fl(I(iICi: .2 to any of tin: ordinary vices 
     
     of social lllf‘, nor has he over had the 
     
     reputation of bein even ;(l)llt‘l‘I.'llS in his 
     
     general disliurscinciits. lli: livctl plainly, 
     
     enter-tnined sparingly, if he enterlaiiietl at 
     
    
   
   
    
     no 
     
    
   
   
    
     sold in the Encumbcred Estates’ Court, a , 
     
     from seven to twelve years’ purchase, withj 
     
     the view ofre-selling them at from eighteen  
     
     to twenty years’ purchase. The uneoii- 
     
    

    
     trolled power his position as promoter 
     
     trustee, and factotuni oftliis “ black band,’ 
     
     conferred on him, were,_ however, his ruin; 
     
     for it appears now, the facilities for fraud 
     
     it afforded were so great, that, if he ever 
     
     was innocent of crime, he soon ceased, 
     
     under the influences ofhis unlimited oppor- 
     
     tunities, to be honest any longer. One of 
     
     the gravest charges against him is, that he 
     
     appropriated the purse of this association 
     
     to his own private purposes, and gave the 
     
     members fictitious title-deeds to property 
     
     which, in some cases, had no existence- 
     
     “ no local habitation, and no name”-—for 
     
     their money. It will be seen in .tlie state- 
     
     ment‘ penned b his “friend,” and pub- 
     
     lished elsewhere, that be forged the convey- 
     
     ances of the Encnmbercd Estates’ Court to 
     
     an extent at present unknown; and that the 
     
     seals ofthe court were transferred from the 
     
     conveyances of trivial purchases effected 
     
     for that especial object.- 
     
    

    
     The poet. describes ambition as “ the last 
     
     infirmity of noble minds.” It_is, however, 
     
     within every_man’s own experience, that 
     
     ambition may be an infirmity of minds even 
     
     the atost'i oble. ' John" Sadleir was am- 
     
     bitiods in an extraordinary degree; for he 
     
     ambitiotied not only the post of legislator, 
     
     auchufit is,‘ Ill! be also arnbitioned to be 
     
     the of a party. in parliamenl—sn 
     
     Irish party. On O’Connell’s death he 
     
    

    
     sped at 0'Connell’s’functions; and, by 
     
    

    
     ‘at of much caiolery and more cash, he 
     
     was selected by the priests of Ireland as 
     
     their instrument and organ, sndpelectod 
     
     accordingly for Csrlow. At the same time, 
     
     were elected also a body of Irish members 
     
     in thd popular interest, who swore (figura- 
     
     tively) upon the altar df their country to 
     
     accept no rsonal advantage at the hands 
     
     ofany mln ry, and to seek only justice to 
     
     Irelanda-that ' desiderntaiii being typified by 
     
     "Tenant Right." For a'tinie all ,-went 
     
    
   
   
    
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     well with this pbrty, Ithst is, in the intervail-“concerts in the garden of the palace. ' If s 
     
    
   
   
    
     d’ the sessions of Parliament; but soon, all 
     
     he baser passions of human nature surged 
     
    
   
   
    
     :ill, and appeared to limit his c..ti-avagancc 
     
     in point of expenditure in ii small stud of 
     
     horses, three only in niinibcr, which he 
     
     kept in the vicinity of 'vVtttl'0i-d, for the 
     
     purpose of hunting with the Guniiersbury 
     
     hounds. 
     
    

    
     It is beyond a doubt, that the name of 
     
     Sadleir is as unpopular, politically speaking, 
     
     with the Irish, as is that of Luttrell, 
     
     “who sold the ass." He was looked 
     
     upon as the betraycr of the Irish party, 
     
     and he was supported onl_v by the priests, 
     
     whose interests are not national, but secta- 
     
     rian, in Ireland, as well as in every other 
     
     country. A proof of his unscrupulousness 
     
    
   
   
    
     abuse Popery in all its forms, and to im- 
     
     prccate the Blessed Virgin; himself the 
     
     while standing on the nhrainontane princi- 
     
     ple-—‘ ‘ Ireland for the lr-isli priests.” T 
     
    
   
   
    
     his principal opponent, as the lesser evil of, 
     
     the two. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The last scene of his life was in keeping] 
     
     with his whole career. As. he stood alone] 
     
     in the’ darltiiess of the midnight hour upon 
     
     that solitary heath, at the portals of eterni- 
     
     ty, and saw the world for which he had 
     
     sacrificed so much ahrivel up like a parched 
     
     scroll, thcgagony of the moment must have 
     
     been too bitter to .imagine. At the same 
     
     time it msyitruly be said of John Sadleir, 
     
     that nothing in his life became him so much 
     
     as leavin it. He perished in his prime, a 
     
     criminal of the first msgnittide;— 
     
    
   
   
    
     ed to the construction of a covered pro- 
     
    
   
   
    
     np into light, and among the foremost to 
     
    
   
   
    
     menadc t'oi- the audience. 
     
    
   
   
    
     after all. 
     
    
   
   
    
     should prevail. 
     
    
   
   
    
     ing. This, we re ret 
     
    
   
   
    
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     Wednesday. Hatch 10. 1856. 
     
    
   
   
    
     EA8ZARD’8 GAZETTE 
     
    
   
   
    
     Wx begin to have some hopes that we are at 
     
     last to have a Bank ; the meeting at the Court 
     
     House on Monday last showed that _there is 
     
     something of the “go a-head" spirit in us 
     
     There is is sad want of knowledge 
     
     in those quarters where the highest intelligence 
     
     The leader of is government 
     
     should be either himself well skilled in politi- 
     
     cal economy or have among his followers some 
     
     one upon whose opinion both he and the coun- 
     
     try could coniidently rely, particularly in those 
     
     branches of it which relate to finance and bank- 
     
     to say, is not the case. 
     
     We can hardl th nk, that Mr. Coles is hostile 
     
     to the establishment of a Bank, and yet his 
     
     conduct at the meeting would have induced 
     
     most people to so pose. that he wished to pre- 
     
    
   
   
    
     Tbe clinirnian called the meeting to order 
     
     and alluded to a clerical error having been 
     
     spoken of in the Real allowance of the Bank 
     
     Act. The H n A may General explained. 
     
     The following Resoliitions having been seve- 
     
     rally moved an seconded, ssed 
     
    

    
     l.—’1‘hat whereas six weeks must at least elapse 
     
     before, according to the provisions of the Bank 
     
     Act, the first instalments can paid in, and 
     
     the clerical error alluded in the Despatch will, 
     
     ‘ no doubt, be corrected in the meantime; There. 
     
     fore Resolved, that the business of this meeting 
     
     do proceed by opening is Subscription List for 
     
     persons willing to take shares wit in the limits 
     
     prescribed by the btatute. _ 
     
    

    
     2.—Rc.voIved that, trusting to the good faith 
     
     which should always subsist between the Go- 
     
     vernment and the governed, and believing that 
     
     the faith of the Imperial Government is pledged 
     
     for the bonafitle an free operation of the Bank 
     
     Act as it now exists, this meeting proceed to 
     
     subscribe for shares, on the express condition, 
     
    
   
   
    
     "M ii” °b-l°°l° ll" m°°fi"5‘ by '"gg°"in3“ that no change shall be attempted in the fun- 
     
    
   
   
    
     improvements upon the Act, already if an thing 
     
     too stringent, by wsyof precaution; w ichi 
     
     do ted, would have had the ellect of disgusting 
     
     itiilists and preventing them having any- 
     
     thing to do with the project. A certain quan- 
     
     tity of ballast is necessary to put the boat in 
     
     trim and assists not only her sailin qualities, 
     
     makes her answer her helm well. 
     
     her to stand still‘ and steady, prepared to face 
     
     the gale,whether it comes in the shape of ii 
     
     white squall or an enduring south-eastcr. But 
     
     too much ballast may be equall 
     
     little ; overloaded she becomes s uggish, and if 
     
     brought suddenly on her beam euds,is swamped 
     
     before she can right herself. So it is with 
     
     Acts of Parliament constituting joint stock 
     
     companies , certain prohibitory or restrictive 
     
     clauses are inserted to prevent danger to the 
     
     stockholders or to the public; the number of 
     
     these, and their re uisite stringency are as tho- 
     
     roughly undcrstoo by well informed politicians, 
     
     as is the proper quantity of ballast by an experi- 
     
     enced boat siiiler, and in either case if you add, 
     
     more you are certain of doin ' ' 
     
     Bank Act provides, that the liability of 
     
     .sliarcholders shall be restricted to double t 
     
     amount of their slnircs: that is, in case of 
     
     the shareholder besides losing his ,, 
     
     be liable to pay to doulile the 1 
     
     amount of the shares he may then hold. The 
     
     Act also allows the Bank to issue paper to 
     
     three times the amount of the mono‘ in its 
     
     vaults, and, as a guarantee to the pub ic, pro- 
     
     vides that this cash third of its paper issue sh 
     
     be there at all times, and gives certain parties 
     
     the right to see that it is so, and by the pro- 
     
     vision before inentioned,cach slnireholdcr is 
     
     liable to pay his proportion of two-tliirds more. 
     
     Piiyniciit of the whole issue of notes is thus 
     
     Mr. Coles however wants more, 
     
     ic wishes each shareholder in the event of los- 
     
     ing his share by tho iinprudcnce or villainy of 
     
     the directors to be compellable to answer out 
     
     fhis private purse three times the amount of 
     
     his original share, that is to 
     
     rtion 0 
     
    
   
   
    
     Oil 
     
    
   
   
    
     lizuikruplcy, 
     
     I 
     
    
   
   
    
     share sha 
     
    
   
   
    
     rovidcd for. 
     
    
   
   
    
     amount of his pro 
     
    
   
   
    
     the must determine 
     
    
   
   
    
     inyury. '1' 
     
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     iii. 
     
    
   
   
    
     is mentioned in conne.\ion with his lastttudltors andcommitteeofinspectionaddedtoa Itis asserted by Geologists, that m 
     
     clcctign for Slign, ii is said; he smned ,, ‘ wnnt_o_l‘ solvency in every one whose notes or ages must have ela sedsince the crest on ofour 
     
     hggh orange ca,,d;d,,,c, ,,, his 0,", cos,’ to-B€clll‘|lleS have been given in cxcliaugc for the world, from the act, that the earth having 
     
    

    
     ’ ‘ Mr. Coles. has we think, had in view been originally in a molten state, 
     
    
   
   
    
     at enables 
     
    
   
   
    
     fatal, as too 
     
    
   
   
    
     lltlg 
     
     he; that the number of shares taken, amounted to 
     
    
   
   
    
     licl 11 
     
    
   
   
    
     2*". 
     
    
   
   
    
     four times the 
     
    

    
     paper money 
     
     afloat, supposing t 0 whole in the iuiirket. The 
     
     contingency that Mr. Coles apprehended could 
     
     not by any possibilit happen. It prcsup poses 
     
     rascality on the part of 
     
     the directors, who must -all of‘ them have been 
     
     , an ers or ubscondent; it assumes likewise the 
     
     .most perfect neglect and apathy on the part of 
     
     , the slinreholders, gratuitous villainy in the with each otlier—-So with the science ofGeol 
     
    
   
   
    
     daniental principles ct’ the Law as it now exists. 
     
     3.—ResoIm1, ‘hat a Committee be ap inted 
     
     to keep open the Subscription list, t 
     
     public may have an 0 
     
     rcmainingvshai-es. 
     
     Rerolvai, list a Committee of seven be appointed 
     
     to make all necessary preparations revious to 
     
     the first General meeting to be he d the first 
     
     Manda in May. 
     
    

    
     'l‘he ollowing Gentlemen were then appointed 
     
     to prepare bye- aws, &c. 
     
    

    
     Messrs. John Kenny, John Longworth, Hem- 
     
     Ilaszard, James Duncan, T. Heath Ilavilan 
     
     Frederick Brecken, and Tlieophilus Desbrisayl 
     
    

    
     A subscription list being opened, a number 
     
     of gentlemen subscribed their names. 
     
    

    
     On motion, the chairman was requested to 
     
     leave the chair, and James Duncan Esq. was 
     
     called thereto, when the thanks of‘ the meeting 
     
     were given to 'I.‘. lleath Ilaviland, Esq. for the 
     
     interest taken by him in the Establishment of 
     
     the Bank. 
     
    

    
     The Secretary immediately after announced 
     
    
   
   
    
     I: the 
     
     pportunity of taking the 
     
    
   
   
    
     40, or to £13,460 up to this diite. 
     
    

    
     Ueiitlcmcn desirous of taking shares, will find 
     
     the List at the Secretury‘s. 
     
    

    
     ni:o. Di-JSIIRISAY, Sec’y. 
     
    
   
   
    
     THE Bnirisii .‘\l.iii. arrived rather tincxpcctcdl 
     
     on Siturilay night. The news by this in-i-im, 
     
     iiiigcrs well for Peace, but of course all is con- 
     
     Jccture as to the termination of the conferences. 
     
     There seems to he no likelihood of any thing 
     
     serious occurring with the United States. Our 
     
     readers will find ample extracts of theprincipa] 
     
     news from the English papers. 
     
    
   
   
    
     )'()l'.\'G man's ClIltlS'I‘lAN association. 
     
    

    
     In accordance with it previous announcement, 
     
     it highly interesting Lecture was delivered at 
     
     tho Temperance Hall, on Thursday last, to ii. 
     
     large and doe ly attentive audience, by Captain 
     
     Urlebar, it. . on the “’I‘wo records, or the 
     
     Harmony of the Book of Nature with the word 
     
     of God." 
     
    

    
     The lecturer commenced by referring to the 
     
     fact, that the system of astronomy, when first 
     
     pi-oinulgatcd by Galileo, was considered at 
     
     variance with the Bible, but that modern dis- 
     
     ccverics have proved, that they are reconcilnblc 
     
     ogy. 
     
     i-iiids of 
     
    
   
   
    
     those myr- 
     
    
   
   
    
     tlie disastrous consequences attendant on the hide of ages would be required in the formation 
     
    
   
   
    
     limited liability by 
     
     property was p 
     
    
   
   
    
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     n— 
     
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     shares in the Bank 
     
    
   
   
    
     ,ruin of the private banking house in which Sir, 
     
     'John Dean Paul, Strahan and Bates, contrived to 
     
     hisiappropriato to themselves and dissi 
     
     was done’ to divide the Protestant votes, .'people's money. He forgets that there was no 
     
     which would have been “in” to some,-,’|poiver to look into their iron vaults or safes- 
     
     no auditors to publish half-yearly balance 
     
     sheets-—and above all, that there was an un- 
     
    

    
     these people whose whole 
     
     _ ged to the satisfaction of 
     
     ‘their creditors; not those who dealt with the 
     
     , bank only, but of every description, win. my. 
     
     ‘chants, fislimongers,_)cwellera, and the whole 
     
     host of those who minister to reckless extrava- 
     
     gance and criminal luxury. The directors of 
     
     Joint stock incorporated bank may individual. 
     
     me e_uibsrrssss_d, but their creditor. on 
     
     only take in execution htbe aaiount of their 
     
    

    
     . w ich are b 
     
     Cf?‘I:II'0iI‘I'6(I to °q,t.her ihsi-eliolders. 
     
     so no tlier ri r iicr- poorer. the urn _ 
     
     We shall probably have oocasiolai, to refer.a.grs°ih 
     
    

    
     'ntsrss - 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     nested to take the chair, 
     
     ‘sq. to act as Secretary. 
     
    
   
   
    
     to other 
     
    
   
   
    
     y this Act 
     
     the bank it- 
     
    
   
   
    
     of the dilfirent strata; but as this was regarded 
     
     as opposed to the scriptural -account, he re- 
     
     mar ed. that it would be well to bear in mind 
     
     the purpose for which the sacred Volume was 
     
     given, not to impart scientific knowledge, but 
     
     to make us acquainted with those :trnths' rela- 
     
     ting to our salvation. The Bible however 
     
     professes to give us an account of the creation, 
     
     which, though apgiorsntl . opposed to ch; 
     
     discoveries of gen, , is ‘ n reality perfectly 
     
     reoonoilsble. '1be lac ureirtlien ’proc'ccded to 
     
     account for this a crent discrepancy, showing 
     
     that in the 1st of n'ssis,'tlie general‘ fact of 
     
     creation was a tsd.ys£.a tflnsd atanystated 
     
    

    
     eriod; but in ght be da back. at an iudgfiu. 
     
     itely distant peri_oti—-cs itvsegardl the info;-mg- 
     
     tlon coutsiuedlii t at c apter subsequently to 
     
     the two that verses, it fcii-ed‘ not to the go; of 
     
     creation itself.’ ‘but to tlre"rentodolln or iii; 
     
     esrth, soss to inskrlta suitable ‘ll [motion 
     
     for man. Tliesix dsys employed for' this "pur- 
     
    
   
   
    
     . . ‘to ti’ ' d ' - 
     
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