The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-08-06 00:00:00

LA IV INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF REVIEW Ix BANKRUPTCY, JvLY 29•

ER PARTE MOLYNEUX. IN RE RUMBERSTON ; AND

EX PARTE BRANCKER, IN THE SAME.

The first petition sought to increase a proof for £9OO
to £3,036; the latter sought to reduce it to £2OO. The,
questions arose relative to a shipment of cotton from
Charleston on the order of Humberston and FrothilylZ,
of Liverpool. Bankruptcy intervening, an attempt
made to stop the goods in transitu, which was success
fully resisted, on the ground of the delivery having been
completed on shipment in a vessel hired by the purcua:
sers. The dispute on this matter has given rise to aui
action at law, and several trials ensued.
The Chief Judge saw no reason why the seller shodld
not be entitled to payment for his goods. The proceed-
ings on the actions relative to the stoppage in trans=its,
were no longer material.
Proof enlarged, costs out of the estate of Humberstott
and Frocisham.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS BILL.—Lord Brougham's
bill,
entitled " An act to amend an act passed in the sth and
6th years of the reign of her present Majesty, entitled
' An Act for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors,' and to limit
the power of arrest upon final process," has been brought
down from the Lords, and read a second time in the Com"
mons. The notice to creditors in the Gazette, previous
to presenting petitions for protection from process under
the sth and 6th Victoria, chapter 116, is, by the fire
clause, entirely dispensed with, another form of petition
to the Court of Bankruptcy for protection from process,
to be verified by affidavit, being laid down in the schedule
of the bill. Forthwith, after the filing of the petition, no'
tice thereof is to be given to the creditors, and advertised
in the Gazette, and a public sitting of the court appointed.'
for the first examination of the petitioner, and for the
choice of creditors' assignees. The property of the pew-
tioner to vest in the assignees pro tens, by virtue of their
appointment. Upon the petition being filed the commis',
sioner is to have the like power touching the seizure o_,
the property of such petitioner (except in certain cases/
and the examination of persons, as in cases of bankruptcy'
All prisoners in execution at the time of passing this ocV
upon any judgment in any action for the recovery of
debt, may be petitioners for protection from process, an
such petitioners shall be protected, by an interim order,,
from detention in prison, upon any judgment for the re,',.
covery of any debt mentioned in their schedules; and If
so detained, the commissioner may order their discharge,'
Petitioners in custody, and not entitled to be dischargew
may be brought up by warrant. Wearing apparel, work'
ing tools, &c., of the value of £2O, are exempted from the
operation of this act. Final orders under the act to pro'
tect the person of the petitioner from process in respect°
the sums or debts particularly mentioned in the clause+
viz., from process in respect of the debts due to the erethi
tors named in the schedule, or in respect of the claims of
any other persons not known to such petitioner at ti7c
time of making the final order, who may be endorseeee,
-t eafenrtaioPuugr , and liable
holders of any negotiable securities set forth in such sv'e,
dule. Prisoners in execution at the time of filing their Ped,
titions may be discharged by the commissioner, if detain
for any debt in respect of which they are protected fr%
process by the final order. A discretionary power is Me
of
to the commissioner to adjourn the consideration
final order sine die. No debtor to be imprisoned for fore
flail 12 calendar months for any debt contracte be
filing his petition, in case the finaloardefirnsahlal
processl bo
e refused.e
for h
nl
or shall not be made, or in case the porLio, dulrent ache'
not be renewed. Persons making
dules will be deemed guilty of a ntarerleabour. The fitb
tc ol a
dischargethreeu se y
distinctlyema years'
, haobwo,
el imprisonmentivsehrell
recovered shall not exceed ,Or
debts wherein the sum .
e of
esrdof
fsei
foesminthtpshaooerfwn abeeturidhledled,ut
to
Ist
which,
continue
issue
syhndut:iynifauofiepf asalsti
sa obtainingeoibnavl
e:vits,a,rbt
in,
0 eolh:le,
exclusive of costs. Persons in
inexecution at the time ...
• this act, in judgment any court in any ,410',
debt where the sumshall
tion for any not exceed IJ,i
bear rretaken dupon
in execution. ' "if
shall be discharged on application to a judge of one of tu.r
superior courts.
estatectt
hhoeem Lmchoeoirnefdfc teche
enactments
aan
cdndtecmbet
latelokonrertPssei
solvency, they had not been taken in execution. By the 38th clott,
passing
ruptcy against a trader, having filed a declaration of I',.
on the petition of the trader himself. Such eii,
next—that is to say, on the eve of Michaelmas term.

HONESTY !—Many men there are who, for the 11/10(1;
would not take a purse, yet who would steal what is °f et
higher value and importance. An instance has 'Pr
reached us, where a firm of long standing, Messrs. 60i
LAND and SONS have acquired high reputation—a 'll :gtiof
name," in short, for the value of those articles whim' jag
have discovered and prepared for the toilet. Lea,r%d
the success which Messrs. Rowlands had achieveat,oo,
the reputation which had attached to their produc,.tl"ol,
other parties by a new and despicable species of loae
have concocted some trashy compounds, resembling those
prepared by Messrs. Rowlands, and by adopting the to,
same names, and closely copying the advertisenle"xs,
coolly endeavour to pass off their trash as " true IVIAc, at
SAR OIL," " real 'CAL'S:DOR," &C., though a glo-
the signature, which is not that of Messrs. Rowlandst,the
once convinces the purchaser that he is buying ,rrtiotif
real production, but a spurious and trashy pa'
which may be, and in fact is, of the worst pernira"a
cious
ture,—S ee advt.