Major-General Sr William Nott has not long survived his triumphs
in India: he died, at his seat near Carmarthen, on New Year's Day. William Nott was born in 1780, at Neath, in Glamorganshire; and was consequently in the sixty-fifth year of his 11,v. In early life he left Neath and accompanied his father, a respectable innkeeper and mail-contractor, to Carmarthen, where he resided for some years. At the time the French landed in Fishguard, in 1798, William Nott, then eighteen years of age, joined the Carmarthen Militia as a volunteer. Soon afterwards he went out as a Cadet to India. In 1826, he returned to Wales, with injured health, the rank of Major, and a fortune; which enabled him to buy an estate called Job's Well. The failure of a Calcutta bank seriously shattered his means; and, selling Job's Well, he returned to India; where promotion and good fortune again attended him. At the close of the late war in Afghanistan, Major-General Won received the Grand Cross of the Bath; and returning home, he repurchased Job's Well. On the voyage, however, at the Cape of Good Hope, be was seized by the illness which proved mortal. Sir William Nott was twice married; and his last moments were attended by his four grown-up children and Lady Nott, who is but twenty years old.
Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton is dangerously indisposed, at his seat in Norfolk. In the course of the year 1844, the following Peers have died. One Duke— Grafton, ged 85: two Marquises—Hastings, aged 36; and Donegal, 75: six Earls—hesborough, aged 86; Lonsdale, 86; Athlone, 64; Kintore, 50; Mountmania 74 (extinct); 'Limerick, 87: two Viscounts—Sidmonth, aged 87; and Powerscourt, 30: and eight Barons—Douglas, aged 71; Wallace (extinct); Abinger, 77; De Blaquiere, 67; Huntingfield, 66; Keane 63; Western, 77 (extinct); and Say and Sole, 76: total, 19. In the year 1813, died, twenty Peers, three Dukes, one Marquis, eight Earls, two Viscounts, and six Barons. During the last year died twenty-nine Baronets, among whom was Sir Francis Burdett.
Letters from Rome, of the 15th December, announce the death of the greatest litigant in the world—Prince Francesco di Massino, in his seventy-second year. He was so eager in resorting to the law, that on the day of his death he had seven hundred legal processes pending. k5 heirs have abandoned every one, inahe hopes of saving a remnant of the fortune that he had wrecked ' Letters from Hamburg announce the death of Mr. Solomon Heine, the great • banker of that city, in his seventy-eighth year. Having risen from a very humble grade, he left property worth a million sterling.
The late Duke of Angonleme's will has lately been proved in Doctors Commons. The personal property is sworn to be under 250,0001. The Duke leaves 25,000 francs (1,0001.) to be expended in =WM for his soul; 25,000 francs to the pear; 22,000 francs for other legacies; the remainder to his wife for her life; to
go after her death, two-thirds to his nephew Henry of Bordeaux, and ane-thiad to his niece. He desires his wife to forgive any wrong that he may involuntark have done to her.
By the latest accounts from the Levant, we learn that Dr. Wolff was on hia way from Tehran to Erzeroum.
The Courrier Francais savs that Count Iselli, an Hungarian magnate, and possessor of an estate worth 140001. sterling annually, was about to marry Made. moiselle Catherine Evers, one of the most celebratect vocal performers in Gtrmanr.
The mother of Miss Rainforth has contradicted a report which had appeared, of the young lady's marriage.
A correspondent of the South Carolina Spartan reports the continued domestic felicity of Messrs. Chang and Eng, the Siamese twins; who last year married twat sisters. The twins, who have settled in Wilkes county, are "talkative and happy," the ladies "amiable and industrious"; and each has presented her had with "a fine, fat, bouncing daughter."
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