Star.
London, England, 1826-01-16 00:00:00

NEW BANKRUPT ACT.

LIABILTY OF MEMBERS Or PARLIAMENT—STA T. 6;
G. IV. c. 16-SECT. 9.—And be it enacted, That if any
such trader having privilege of Parliament, shall com-
mit any of the aforesaid acts of bankruptcy, a cammis-
:ion of bankrupt may issue against him, and the Com-
missioners,and all other persons acting under such com-
mission, may proceed thereon in like manner, as against
a:her bankrupts, but such person shall not be subjected
to b- ariested or imprisoned during the time of such
privilege, except in cases hereby made felony.
SEC r 19.—Aad be it enacted that if any creditor or
creditors of such trader having privilege of Parliament
to such amount as is hereinafter declined requisite to
support a commission, shall file an affidavit or affida-
vits in any Court of Record at Westminster, that such
debt or debts is or ate justly due to hi& of them le-
spectively,and that such debtor, as he or they verily be-
lieve, is such trader as aforesaid, and shall sue out of
the same Court a summons or an original bill and sum-
moos against such trader, and serve him with a copy of
such summons, if such trader shall not, within one ca-
lendar month after personal service of such summons,
pay, secure, or compound, for such debt or debts, to the
satisfaction of such creditor or creditors, or enter into a
bond in such sum, and with two sufficient•sureties, as
any of the Judges of the Court out of whi, h such sum-
mons shall issue, shall approve of, to pay such sum, as
shall Fe recovered in such action or actions, tcgether
with such costs as shall be given in the same, and within
one calendar month nest after personal service. of
such summons, cause an appearance or appearances to
be entered to such action or actions, in the proper Court
our Courts in wtoch the same shall have been b: ought,
every such trader shall be deemed to have committed
an act of bankruptcy from the time of the set vice 01
such summons; and any creditor or creditors of such
trader, to such amount as aforesaid, may sue out a
commission against him, and proceed the:eon in like
manoer as ag.oust other bankrupts.

By advices from Bogota of the Ch of November,
received at Kingston, we learn that affairs were pro-
ceeding in a very favourable train at the Columbian
capital, where the Congress was expected to asst•mhle
early in the present month. An entertainment was
given on the 28th of October, in honour of the birth-
day of Btauvan, and the saloon in which it was held
was decorated with the standards with which Partite°
fist entered Peru, in the year 1533, and which were
taken by the Colombians at Cusco.
Mr. WILLIAM P. SV.WART, Proprietor of die Dowt•
nica Chronicle, who suffered an imprisonment of
eighty-three days for alleged contempt r f the House of
Assembly of that Island, and who was lately proiecuted
for a libel against that House, after a trial of six bouts,
has been acquitted by a Jury.
Accounts from St. K'it's state, that a communiqa-
dun from the President of the Council and Speaker of
. The term" grocer" was originally employed to dis- the Assembly of An•igea to the Speaker and President
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voguish a dealer in goods in gross quantities, in oppo. of St. Kitt's, had been laid bcfoi e the Ilhuse, referring
sktion to the mere retailer; though now extended to all to what is wrongly called "The novel dect: rue that
who earl in either Way in "the mystery of grocery," a sl ores taken to England by their owners were entitled
to min this instance, by the Ine, lather oddly applied, to their freedom on their return to the Island," and ie.
'I he more ancient designation, however, of this !rater. questing the co-nperatinn of. the Legislature there in a
pity, was that of the pepperers, on account of pepper remonstrance to hilt Majesty's Government on that
being the principal article in which the grocer dealt. subject. This was to be taken into consider ation.
The fraternity were first incorporated as grocers by a Two WoMEN BURNT 'ro DEATSI.—On the night of
charter from Edward ill. in 1345, which was renewed Sunday, a poor woman, of the name of Mary Henaing.
and confirmed by several succeeding monarchs. A way, e. as burnt to death in her house at Drighlingten.
uepper, r was still, however, not unfrequently a ktistinct —Thursday se'nnight, a woman in the back row of
business; and cootirtued so till as late a period as 15.59. Falkirk, was sitting by the chimney, her clothes had
in that year a quantity of pepper having been taken caught fire, and in endeavouring ter get to bed the the
in a Spanish CAI rack,•was purchased from the Queen at was communicated to the bed curtains. Upon removing
.nod price, by certain exclusive dealers in that article. the burning fragments of her garments, nearly the
The grocers, however, endeavoured to undersell the whole of her body, except a past or her back, was
feppe.ers by making otlitT importations of their own, .shockingly binned, the hair of her head was completely
%%Lich caused the latter to petition her Majesty that no singed off, and in many pacts the skin could easily be
pr.,ii,er might be imported for three years, which would severed from the body. The poor woman appeared
enable them to keep their engagement *ith her Ma. Almost insen•ible to what had taken place till nest day,
esty ; and to induce her to do so, they promised n• tto when, alter lingering in great agony till about mile
raise die price of pepper above Ss. in the pound. o'clock in the evening. she t spit eti.
In consequence of the great demand for si:ks at Ly- HZ Pn.+R IN THE PiticsaNT SEAs(I4.—A philii.ahrn-
ons, the manufacturers ate endeavouring to increase the pic Correspon.ent tecommeuds to the heads of ail ia.
means of production. They have alitas'y had smite rni!ies to order the pie,es off the plate., and all iernitaiits
success this way. M. AUGUSTIN ConosT his insented 'whatever, to be put into a large pin, kert tor that intr.
a machine by which this object is much facilitated. by pose, and twice a week, with the add. jot net a new pea“,
IN; mach ne a single person may perform iix }accesses „r Scotch bailey, would make soup for thousands now
At once. It has Ist:en well uied, and has fully succeeded. „tarring 'a thel melancholy tontes.