Star.
London, England, 1831-08-19 00:00:00

FRAUDS ON CREDITORS.

The following clauses, prepared by Lord Plunkett,
are proposed to be added on the third reading of
Lord Wynford's " Frauds on Creditors' Bill":
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1. And be it further enacted, that this act shall
not extend to persons who shell be beyond sea in
:Inv part of Europe at the time of its passing, pro-
vided such persons shall within six months from
the time of its passing put in and justify bail in
the, bailable actions brought against him or her, or
pay, secure, or compound for the debts for which
such actions are brought, to the satisfaction of his
or her creditor or creditors ; and that all convey-
ances, sales, gifts, or dispositions of any property
of any such debtor who shall becomo bankrupt un-
der this act, made after such debtor shall be gone
beyond sea, or in contemplation of his or her going
beyond sea, shall be void.
2. And be it further enacted, that where any
person, having an estate tail or remainder after a
life estate, shall become bankrupt under this act,
such estate tail shall not be sold under the com-
mission issued against such tenant in tail, during
the life of the tenant for life, but the debts proved
louder such commission shall be a charge on such
estate tail from the time of the issuing of such com-
mission, which shall prevent such tenant in tail
from further encumbering the estate, or disputing
the right of two assignees under the commission
from selling or otherwise disposing of such estate
for the benefit of the creditors under the commis-
sion, after the death of the tenant for life.
3. And be it further enacted, that any plaintiff
or plaintiffs who shall have obtained or shall here-
after obtain any judgment against any debtor, not
being a trader within the meaning of the laws con-
cerning bankrupts, and who shall have duly entered
such judgment according to the provision of the
act passed in the 29th year of his Majesty King
Charles 11. entitled, " An Aet for the prevention
of Frauds and Perjuries," before such debtor shall
have committed an act of bankruptcy under either
of the provisions of this present act, may have an
elegit against the lands of such debtor; provided
always, that the Lord Chancellor, Lord Keeper,
or Lordi Commissioners of the Great Seal. may
order any such plaintiff or plaintiffs to vacate his or
their judgment, or to enter in it for a less sum
than that for which it is entered, and that the lien
created by such judgment shall by such order be
either entirely removed, or remain only for the
sum which the Lord Chancellor, Lord Keeper, or
Lords Commissioners shall direct it to be entered for;
but it is further provided, that no plaintiff shall be
ordered to vacate or reduce a judgment altered
upon a verdict or on an assessment of damages
under a writ of inquiry, until a jury, miler an
shall.have found that the plaintiff or plain-
tiffs have no right to any debt or damages under
the judgment, or have only a right to a debt or da-
mage, to a less amount than that for %%filch such
judgment is entered.

The unjust mode of levying the probate duty is
one among the many objects which require reform,
and the immediate investigation of the legislature.
According to the existing law, if a man die leaving
l!!,0001, and the debts he owed amounted to
4,0001. the' duty must be paid upon the 10,0001,
and the administrator compelled to wait twelve
months for the returnable duty on the 9,0001. In
many cases it may be extremely distressing, and
sometimes nearly impossible, to pay the duty on
the gross amount.
PA I.ROTZIIIN T.—This is the new name given
to an itinerant *cutter-of-portraits-with-scirsors.
This rage for compound epithets from the Greek is
really' becoming alarming—science, particularly
Chemistry, set the example, and we shall next have
the washerwomen and dustmen call themselves by
similar nomenclature.
EXTREME HEAT.—A Correspondent writes
from Verona,' that the oldest person does not re-
member so hot a summer as the present. In
Middle and Lowtr Italy, the almost insupportable
beat produces brain fevers and other disorderS. At
Ron*, the heat rose to 30 degrees of Reaumor.
In that city. 86 persons have within a short period
been sent to the Lunatic Hospital. Letters from
tyre( say, .‘ The heat here is almost intolerable.
. The harvest is over, and at Botzen the grapes are
completely ripe, a circumstance which has not
occurred for'hall a century."
* The Lords are 'quite right in having their House
better ventilated' previous to the crowded state and
warm ilebates which the Reform Bill is likely to
.peoduce ; 4660, after all, that bill itself will, we
,sitipect,
.be* the 'insist 'safety-valve their Lordships
can bare recinirc e to.

Mr. Courtenay intends to revive the subject re-
specting, the capture of the Portuguese fleet.
.This evening he has intimated that he will move
. an Address,. to his Majesty for papers concerning
the late proceedings of the English and. French
squadrons respectively in the Tagus.
The • Lehls! . Minutes, in mentioning the Beer
Act.. Amendment Bill,;•facetiously enough call it
the IA Beer timendruent7. Bill. This it malting,
light -of heaerhuoinees, .bat. it, womicl, neriirthe—
lam, • inwcheiiring if • Asir lAtitilballei Wore .09111-
plied' 'to prate: ihae.mielt .111.1134,tenden‘, of their I
measure. There certainly is much room for
amendment is beer.