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

SECOND EDITION.

Standard-office, Eleven o'clock

DISTRESSING SUICIDE OF THE EARL OF

MUNSTER

(Front 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 d

iscbarge

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 Eaton-

square five weeks ; since which time he had been in a very
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. Governor of Windsor Castle, Aide-de-
Camp to the Queen, Lieutenant of the 'rower 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
1791.

The above distressing intelligence was forwarded at an erly
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-
ment of the Law of BankrUptcy."
Clause 3. Enacts that the Lord Chancellor may, in cases
of petitions for the issue of a fiat in bankruptcy, dispense, if
he shall think fit, with the petitioning creditor's bond, &c.
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 prncecution 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 net sot

t of bankruptcy committed more
nor to the issuing. of any fiat in bankruptcy

rapt by reason of an

shall be liable to become bank

than 12 months

- 7. Acts of bankruptcy concerted between bankrupts am:
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 be deemed to have committed
an act of bankruptcy. &c.
14. 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,
shalt 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 2l days after notice requiring payment. shall
be deemed to have committed an act of bankruptcy.
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 filing 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 pe.rsoils adjudged bankrnuts shall have
notice thereof before the adjuudication be advertised, and
shall be allowed five days to contest the same before the court
adjduicating ; if the petitioning creditor's debt, trading, or
act of bankruptcy, appear insufficient, the adjudication to be
annulled, &c.

21. 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 he
not been' adiudged bankrupt, &c.
23. Proviso for debtors to th'
debt into court when sued by the ass!

Ink rupt's estate paying the
flees, 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 w

es or salary of clerks and

servants

28. Provision respecting the wages of labourers or work-

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

33. The conrt may enlarge the time for the bankrupt sur-
rendering himself.

34. Penalties on bankrupts fer destroying or falsifying their

books, &C

35. penalty on bankrupts for carrying on business and ob-
taining goods in contemplation of bankruptcy, &c.

36. Provision respecting certificates

37. Bankrupts not entitled to certificates, and such certifi-
cates, if obtained, to be void, if they have lost by gaming £2O
in one day, or £2OO within 12 months, or £2OO by stock-
jobbing, or if they have concealed books, or committed other
fraudulent acts specially mentioned in this act.
38. Prescribes the mode of obtaining certificates of con-
formity, &c., &c.

39. All contracts and securities given to induce creditors
to forbear opposing such certificates, to be void.
40. Penalty on creditors for obtaining money, goods, &c.,
as an inducement to forbear opposition, &c.

42. No bankrupt to be liable upon any promise to pay
debts discharged by virtue of such certificate, unless such
promise be in writing.

The remainder of the clauses relate to matters of minor
importance to the public.

ENORMOUS COLLECTION.—We have been informed that
on Sunday fortnight a sermon was preached at the parish
church of Hawstead, for the benefit of the Society for the
Propagation of the Gospel, when an enormous collection was
made amounting to threepence. The population of the pa-
rish is, we believe, 480.—Bury Herald.

Loss OF A FRENCH FISHING SMACK, AND NINE LIVES.
—On Saturday morning intelligence was received in the city
of the total loss of the fishing-smack St. Louis, No. 52, be-
longing to Boulogne-sur-Mer, during a strong gale on Friday
morning, near Dungeness. The crew, consisting of the
master, five fishermen, and three apprentices, unfortunately
perished.
Mr. FERRAN' AND THE LEAGUERS.—No man has lately
made such a sensation in the House of Commons, on a sud-
den, as Mr. Busfield Ferrand, member for Knaresborough.
He is not an orator. neither is his manner very good ; but he
goes straight on to the mark, and will not be put down. He
is master of his subject too, and has great self-possession.
The etiquette of parliament paralyses some men—it cannot
affect Ferrand. He does not mind it in the least. That eti-
quette requires, for instance, that a member must not name
another in his speech ;—it must be " the hon. member for
Salford," " the hon. member for Wolverhampton," or " the
right hon. member for London." Instead of that, Mr. Fer-
rand speaks of Mr. Brotherton, Mr. Villiers, and Lord J.
Russell, precisely as if the said etiquette was (as it ought to
be) a dead letter ;or as if he knew nothing of it. He has
trade very serious charges against, Cobden, Brotherton, and
Others ; and, while making them looks full in their faces, as
if his duty was to address them instead of the Speaker. He
tells plain facts, in a plain way ; and the millocrat members
hate him for exposing them. Put him down in tine usual way
(by crowing, grunting, scraping. and coughing,) they cannot.
If they apply strong language to him, he coolly retorts with
stronger. Ile is quite a thorn in the side of the league. He
has an excellent temper, and a good voice. They tried to
bully him, by saying that he had charged all the manufactu-
rers who are members of the league with being truck-masters,
&c. ; but he pinned them to what he did say—and many of
them were. Mr. Ferrand is quite a young man—under 30.
He was a solicitor in Yorkshire, and did not dream of en-
tering parliament until his mother's succeeding to a very
large property made him independent. He lost little time in
presenting himself to the electors of Knaresborough, by whom
he was returned last June.—Salopian Journal.
TIM GENTLEMEN OF THE LA-w.—The number of per-
sons who have risen by the ',,aw from low fortunes to the very
highest places in the state, is extraordinary. The present
Attorney-General of England (Sir F. Pollock) is the son of
a saddler. The shop (known to sporting characters) at
Charing-cross, now kept by Messrs. Cuff, belonged to Pol-
lock pere,
who disposed of his business to its present pos-
sessors. The father of Sir Wm. Follett (Solicitor-General)
still keeps a timber-yard near Exeter. Sir J. Williams (of
the Queen's Bench in England), is the son of a Yorkshire
horse-dealer. The Chancellor of Ireland (Sugden) is the
son of a barber : it is only fair to soy that this profound
lawyer glories in his origin. At the Cambridge election,
when Lord Monteagle beat him by a majority of 28, Sir
Edward was assailed,
while speaking from the hustings, with
a cry from a whiff snarler, of •` Off! off! you barber's son !"
Sir Edward not at all disconcerted, said at once, " The
,
difference between the person who thus assails me and myself
is simply this—had he
been horn the son of a barber, he
would have remained in the same condition during all his life ;
I was horn one, and have risen from that humble sphere."
The father of Mr. Platt,
Queen's counsel, one of the most
eminent of the English common law bar,
,was a clerk to the
late Lord Ellenhorough, Baron Gurneys mother kept a
small shop for political pamphlets. Mr. Petersclorffs father
was a furrier. Lord Kenyon, who was successively Attor-
ney-General (under Lord Rockingham'ssecond dministra_
. 84, and in
tion), t, baronet, and Master of thei
Rollsn
1788 Lord Chief Justice of the Queens Bench (in sucves-
sion to the Earl of Mansfield), and who died worth 1300,000,
was clerk to an attorney. Lord Hardwicke, who was Attor-
ney-General in the 34th year of his age, was son of an
attorney at Dover, who, according to some
persons, was
atas
hanged for forgery. Lord Eldon was son of a cob
Newcastle-on-Tyne, and his brother (afterwards Lord Stow-.
ell), borrowed £lO in order to enable him to go his first
circuit. Lord Tenterden's father was a barber at Canterbury.
Lord Langdale was formerly an accoucheur. Lord Camp-
bell and Serjeaut Spankie were formerly reporters on the
Morning Chronicle.—Dublin Monthly Magazine.