The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-03-22 00:00:00

ULSTER RAILWAY

On Wednesday last there was a meeting of the proprietors
of this company, held at the directors board room, Belfast,
James Goddard, Esq. in the chair, who read the notice con-
vening the meeting, after which the chairman proceeded to
read the report. _

The following is a summary of the traffic for the last six
months, distinguishing the several periods during which it was
conducted, on portions of the line different in extent:

Passengers.
Ist Sept. till 7th N0v.... 64,120.. 43,688.
Bth Nov. till 30th Jan... 66,056.. 3,042,
31st Jan; till 28th Feb... 37,364.. 1,262.

Parcels. Total.
.. £66.... £1,755
.. 379.... 3,242
.. 272.... 1,535

SECOND EDITION.

Standard-office, Eleven o'clock

DISTRESSING SUICIDE OF THE EARL OF

MUNSTER.

(From the London Standard of last

night.)

It is our painful duty this day to record the melancholy
suicide of the Earl of Munster, son of his late Majesty Wm.
IV. This distressing event took place last night at half-past
seven o'clock, at the new residence of the late earl, No. 13,
Eaton-square, Pimlico. His lordship retired to his bed-room
shortly after 11 o'clock, and soon afterwards the inmates of the
house were alarmed on hearing a great noise proceed from-that
direction. It was immediately discovered that the noble aerl
had commited suicide. We hear that he placed the end of a
pistol barrel in his mouth, and so effectual was the discharge
that he died almost instantaneously. Several reports of the
details are in circulation, but as the inquest will be held this

evening, we refrain from noticing them. We may, however,
remark, that the unfortunate nobleman has left behind him a
young family of six children to deplore their loss, and that
he had only taken possession of his late residence in I

~aton-

square five weeks ; since which time he had been in a .vcry
low and desponding state of mind. His lordship was created
Earl Munster in 1831 ; he married the daughter of the third
Earl of Egremont. Second title Viscount Fitzclarence, a
colonel in the army, Go; error of Windsor Castle, Aide-de-
Camp to the. Queen, Lieutenant of the Tower of London,
and Colonel of the Ist Regt. of Tower Hamlets Militia. He
was also a Privy Councillor, and F.R.S.
The late earl was in his 48th year, having been born in
1794.

The above distressing intelligence was forwarded at an early
hour this morning to the members of the Royal Family.

THE BANKRUPT LAWS AMENDMENT BILL

The following is a brief extract of the principal features of
the new bill for the amendment of the Bankrupt Laws, lately
presented to the House of Lords by the Lord Chancellor
(Lord Lyndhurst). It is entitled, "An Act fer the Amend
merit of the Law of Bankruptcy."
Clause 3. Enacts that the Lord Cha
of petitions for the issue of a fiat in bankruptcy, dispense, it
he shall think tit, with the petitioning creditor's bond, &c

in cases

4. Enacts that all fiats in bankruptcy shall be forthwith
transmitted by the Lord Chancellor's secretary of bankrupts
to the court authorized to act in the procecutiun thereof.
5. Enacts, that any person against whom a fiat in bank-
ruptcy has issued, on proof of probable cause for believing
that he is about to quit England, or to remove or conceal his
goods, with intent to defraud his creditors, may be arrested
and detained, &c. _ _ . .

6. Empowers persons so arrested to apply for their dis-
charge forthwith, and empowers the court to make absolute
or discharge the order or rule calling on the petitioning cre-
ditor to show cause, &c. (Orders of court may be appealed
from the Court of Review.)

6. Enacts that no person shall be liable to become bank-
rupt by reason of any act of bankruptcy committed more
than 12 months prior to the issuing of any fiat in bankruptcy
against him.

7. Acts of bankruptcy concerted between bankrupts and
creditors, &c., not to invalidate any fiat in bankruptcy, &c.
9. Enacts the amount of the petitioning creditor's debt ;
requires that the single debt of such creditor shall amount
to £5O or upwards ; that the debt of two creditors so peti-
tioning shall amount to £7O or upwards ; and that the debt
of three or more creditors so petitioning shall amount to
£lOO or upwards.

10. Enacts that all livery-stable keepers, coach proprietors,
carriers, ship-owners, auctioneers, apothecaries, market-gar-
deners, cowkeepers, brickmakers, alum-makers, lime-burn-
ers, and millers, shall be deemed traders, and liable as such
to this and other statutes relating to bankrupts.
11. Enacts that, if any creditor of any trader shall file an
affidavit of his debt, and of his having required payment, the
court may summon such treder to appear before the said
court, &c.

13, Enacts that any trader not attending such summons
(having no lawful impediment,) or upon appearance refusing
to admit the demand, and not making deposition of belief of
a good defence thereto, then and in either case not paying or
compounding within a certain time to the satisfaction of the
creditor, or giving bond to pay such sum as shall be reco-
vered, with costs, &c., shall he deemed to have committed
an act of bankruptcy, &c.
11. Enacts what shall be deemed a refusal of admission of
debt.

15. Enacts that any trader signing an admission of demand
and not paying or compounding to the satisfaction of the cre-
ditor within 21 days next after the filing of such admission,
shall be deemed to have committed an act of bankruptcy,
&c.

20. Enacts that any trader not paying or compounding for
a judgment debt, upon which the plaintiff might sue out ex-
ecution, within 21 days after notice requiring payment. shall
be deemed to have committed an act of bankruptcy.

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21. Traders disobeying orders of courts of equity, or orders
in bankruptcy or lunacy, fur payment of money, after service
of order of•payment on a peremptory day fixed, to be deemed
to have committed an act of bankruptcy.
22. Traders tiling a declaration of insolvency in the office
of the. Secretary of Bankrupts, to be deemed to have com-
mitted an act of bankruptcy.
23. Enacts that all persons adjudged bard:mots shall have
notice thereof before the adjuudication be advertised, and
shall be alloyed five days to contest the same before the court
adjduicatiii, ; if the petitioning creditor's debt, trading, or
act of bankruptcy, appear insufficient, the adjudication to be
annulled, &c.

24. Enacts that if the bankrupt shall not, within a limited
time, proceed to dispute the fiat, and prosecute his proceed-
ing with diligence and effect, the Gazette shall be conclusive
evidence of the bankruptcy as against the bankrupt, and
'against persons whom the bankrupt might have sued had lie
not been adjudged bankrupt, &c.
25. Proviso for debtors to the bankrupt's estate paying the
debt into court when sued by the assignees, within the time
for bankrupt to dispute.
26. Audits and dividends to be had and made whenever
the court think fit after the time appointed for the bankrupt's
last examination.
27. Provision respecting the wages or salary of clerks and

servants.
28. Provision respecting the wages of labourers or work-

men.
29. No distress for rent made after an act of bankruptcy to
be available for more than six months' rent, accrued prior to
the date of the fiat; the landlord to prove for the residue.
32. Enacts that bankrunts who shall not surrender or sub-
mit to be examined, or wlio shall not deliver up their estates,
Lcoks, &c., or who shall remove, conceal, or embezzle to the
xalu-3 of £lO, shall be deemed guilty of felony, and be liable
to transportation or imprisonment.