The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-04-03 00:00:00

EXECUTORS' AND ADMINISTRATORS' BILL.

Abstract of a bill relative to Executors and Administrators,
as amended by the committee. Brought in by Sir J. Camp-
bell and Dr. I;ushington.
The word " will" to extend to a testament and to a codicil,
and the words " personal estate" to leaseholds, monies, goods,
'rights, and all other personal property ; and the singular num-
ber shall apply to the plural, and the masculine gender to the
feminine. The assent of an executor or administrator not to
pass legal title to a legatee until the former has executed au
assignment or release. Auy executor of an executor, whether
'or not he has proved the will of the testator, may, before act-
ing as such, renounce the executorship of such will, and any
. —other person may ad..4mister to it.—Where letters of adini-
. :nistrat►on haVe been grantett'to anether persott, although there
•was an executor, such letters to be voidable only when revoked,
or when probate of will is granted to the• executor. All acts
done under voidable letters of adtniuistration shall be valid;
but the persons receiving property under them to account for
it in equity to whoever is entitled to it under the will. All
• Bleeds executed by an executor before proving. the will.shall be
void. 'When an executor or administrator is desirous of being
. discharged from that office he may be so by any court of
equity, and the letters of administration may be granted
to auy other person. This act not to extend to wills or letters
of administration relati❑ to persons who shall die before the
let of Januttry, 1836, and not to extend to Scotland.

DUBLIN ELECTION COMMITTEE.—WEDNEspAy

The committee assembled again this morning at the usual
hour, when Mr. Harrison was heard at considerable length, in
reply to Mr. O'Connell's argument of yesterday.
The committee subsequently retired, and after a lengthened
consultation returned into court, when the chairman said, that
they . had resolved on admitting parole evidence to supply the
deficiencies of the affidavits that had been tendered for the pur-
pose of verifying the poll books, in accordance with the act of
the 4th of Geo. IV. c. 5, s. 71.
Mr. Fiarrison.—Then I have now to proceed with the exami-
. nation of my witnesses. The learned gentleman then called
Mr. Long, the clerk of the peace of the city and county of Dub-
lie. This gentleman proved the handwriting of the Right-Hon.
J. Perrin. the Lord Mayor of Dnh.in, and also th_, manner iu
which the election was conducted, and the poll taken. The
books now before the committee were altogether correct.
This gentleman's examination was continuing when our re-
porter left.
This decision having disposed of the objection on which the
sitting members principally
.relied,..ths qsuestion will be fully
entered into, and decided en its merts. The friends and par-
tisans of those hononrable gentemen were
fitted at this to them unlooked-lfor occurenece.xceedingly discom-

On Thursday evening tire inhabitants of Carstairs village
were surprised and excited bg the unusual conduct of a dog
that went howling round the loch in the centre of the village,"'
and trying to direct the attention•of all he met towards some-
thing in the water. Lights being brought out, and the surface
of the loch examined, a moving body was discovered, iwhen
some persons plunged in, and found the almost lifeless body of
an Edinburgh carrier, only the skirts of his coat being above the
-water. About an hour elapsed before animation mind be re-
istored, but by the exertions of the villagers, and a surgeon from-
.Carnwath, the torpor of death was exchanged for the ravings of
intoxication, and by day-break next morning the carrier was
able to take the road, in dry clothes,in Jears of gratitude to the
people of Carstairs, and with a humiliating sense of the striking
contrast between the rationality of the-dog and the irrationality
of his toaster.—Gla,gow Chronicle.

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