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

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 prosecution 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-
char,,c 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' per son 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 Y7O 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, brickmakcrs, alum. makers, lime-burn-
ers, and millers, shall be deemed traders, and liable as such
to this and other statutes relating to bankrupts.

11. Enaets that, if any ci-ediCor 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 suns 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,
shall be deemed to have committed an act of bankruptcy,

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.
21. Traders disobeying orders of courts of equity, or orders
in bankruptcy or lunacy, for payment of money, after service
of order of payment on a peremptory day fixed, to be deemed
to have committed an act of bankruptc):
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rraders 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 persons adjudged bankrupts shall have
notice thereof before the adjuudication be advertised, and
shall be allowed five days to contest the same before the court
adjdnicating-; if the petitioning creditor's debt, trading, or
act of bankruptcy, appear insufficient, the adjudication to be
annulled,

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 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 disput
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Audits and dividends to be had and made whenever
the court think lit after the time appointed for the bankrupt's
last examination.

Provision respecting the wages 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
he available for more than six months' rent, accrued prior to
the date of the fiat_; the landlord to prove for the residue.

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32. Enacts that bankrupts who shall not surrender or sub-
mit to be examined, or who shall not deliver up their estates,
books. &c., or who shall remove, conceal, or embezzle to the
value of £lO, shall he 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, &c.
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 hooks, 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.
10. Penalty on creditors for obtaining money, goods, &c.,
as an inducement to forbear opposition, &c.
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42. No bankrupt to be liable upon any proinise :o 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 ilawstead, 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.

WEST INDIAN STEAMERS.-By the last advices from New
York we learn that the Royal West India mail steamer
Clyde, Captain Woodruffe, arrived at New York on the fore-
noon of the 27th ultimo. She arrived at Charleston on the
evening of the 22d from Granada, via St. Croix, St. Thomas,
Turk's Island, Nassau, Savannah, and left Savannah for
New York on the 22d. She was to proceed to Halifax,
N. S., returning the same way to New York, thence to
Charleston, Savannah, and Havana. The Clyde brought
eleven clays later news from England than had previously
arrived.

Loss or 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. FERRAND 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 nut 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
made 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 the usual way
(by crowing, grunting, scraping. and coughing,) they cannot.
Irthey apply strong language to him, he coolly retorts with
stronger. He 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. - lie lost little time in
presenting himself to the electors of Knaresborough, by whom
he was returned last June:—Salopian Journal.

THE GENTLEMEN OF THE LAW.—The number of per-
sons who have risen by the law 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. Fcllett (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 say that this profound
lawyer glories in his origin. At the.Camhridge 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 whig 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 born 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 Ellenborough. Baron Gurney's mother kept a
small shop for political pamphlets. Mr. Petersdorff's father
was a furrier. Lord Kenyon, who was successively Attor-
ney-General (under Lord Roekinghatn's second administra-
tion), a baronet, and Master of the Rolls in 1784, and in
1788 Lord Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench (in succes-
sion to the Earl of Mansfield), and who died worth £300,000,
was clerk to an attorney. Lord Hardwicke. who was Attor-
ney-General in the 3-ith year of his age,. was son of an
attorney at Dover, who, according to some persons, was
hanged for firgery. Lord Eldon was son of a coal-titter at
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 Serjeant Spankie were formerly reporters on the
Morning Chronicle.—Dublin Xlonthly Magazine.
—'rhe American rises earlier than
AMERICAN HUSBAND.
the Englishman, eats a hasty and hearty breakfast without
speaking, has no time to converse, for he is planning for the
day. He plunges into business, catches a bite at one o'clock
if it comes handy, works on till dark, goes home worn
out, drinks a cup of tea, and sits down to his desk to calcu-
late. If his children climb his knee, " the envied kiss to
share," the mother is summoned to take them away and
send them to bed, for their father must not be interrupted,
he must attend to his business.—The wife sits in the corner
the live-long evening, communing with herself. If her hus-
bandglad you've
takes his seat on the sofa by her side (which is actually
" Well, hubby, i'm
sometimes done), she says,
got through with your business. Now I, must read you a
work in this charming new work of Irving s. " Oh, fudge,
Mary, don't bother me with such trash. llt buy books as
but YOU
many as you please (which is true as holy writ),
must read them. But now throw aside your book, and we
will talk about something of more consequence. I;Ave made
five hundred dollars to-day as sur.; as fate.
~" rhy, my
wire i
dear, I'm very glad. Pray tell me all abou.t.iti.
stens he
to hbo
erok
is thrown upon the table, and the dutiful
know, has been
lord's report.—" There's young
out to lowa. Well, he's made fortunedollars,
and —ind' independent in
six weeks. He took away two thousand five hundred f
and he holds the deeds of fourteen thousand acres o and
besides twenty-seven lots in the new city just. lawid out in
county."—" Well, dear, but tell me I
made your five hundred dollars to-day.,,_wily7
11 sell
I bought
five of his city lots for five hundred dollars, and I cou (have
them to-morrow for twice the money."—But,
you ever seen them ?"—" Why, no! I've not seen t e
my dehar,m
ex-
actly, but—bless my soul, only think of it—buy
city lots for one hundred dollars a-piece. I don't want to
five splendid
see them. I know I can sell them for double the money
yes, treble—but I won't sell them AT ANY PRICE ;
11
keep them : and I've been thinking we had better sell out
and move to lowa ; its only two thousand miles out there.

THEATRE-ROYAL, WILLIAMSON-Slat/ARE.
ONR, EASTE MONDAY, March 28, will be presented,
for the first time in Liverpool, Shakspeare's

MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM,
With entirely New Scenery, Machinery, Dresses, Decora-
tions, and Appointments;
Preceded. by Mendelsshon s celebrated Overture.
The Musical. Arrangements by Mr. Aldridge.
The Scenery by Mr. C. Parker, Mr. Johnson, Mr. Kelsliaw,

and Assistants

The Decorations and Appointments by Mr. M'Crutn.
The Machinery by Mr. Willmore.
The Dresses by Mr. Coombe, Mrs. Hall, and Mrs. Watson,

The Dances by Mons. Schmidt. /
The whole under the direction of Mr. W. J. it-tan:mon&

Theseus .. (Duke of Athens).. Mr. ?dude.
Lysander.... (in love with liermia)... Mr. Nantz,
From the Theatres-Royal, Bath and Birmifigbam, his first

appearance on this stage
Quince.... (the Carpenter).... Baker.
Bottom (the Weaver) Mr .J. Hammond.
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..-- . .. . . ~
Flute (the Bellows-mender).. Mr. Slaiter.
Snug..
Hermia (in love with Lysander)..
Helena.. (in love with Demetrius).. Miss Julia Bennett.
_ _

FAIRIES.
Oberon (King of the Fairies) Miss Gardner.
Tita u i a . . (Queen of the Fairies).. Miss Ellen Chaplin,
From the Adelphi Theatre, London.
Puck, or Robin Goodfellow.... (a Fairy) .. Miss Webster

First Fairy

Miss-E. Howler.

Second Fairy Mrs. Barton.
The Scenery will represent Colonnade in the Palace of
Theseus ; the Terrace, Statuary, Gardens, and distant View
of Athens.—Room in Quince's Cottage.—Fairy Haunt, and
Titania's Bower.—Wood near Athens, by Moonlight and
Sunlight.—Grand Hall in the Palace of 'Theseus.7-With
temporary Stage for the Representation of the most Lament-
able Coivedy and Cruel Death of Pyramus and Thisbe.—
Prologue by Quince (the Carpenter.) Pyramus by Bottom
(the Weaver.) Thisbe by Flute (the Bellows mender.)
Wall by Snout (the Tinker.) Moonshine by Starveling (the
Tailor.) Lion by Snug (the Joiner.) Concluding with an
Illuminated Gallery ! Oberon and Titania assemble their
Fairy Troop to bless the Nuptials of Theseus and Hippolyta.

The Evening's Entertainments will terminate with the

Farce of
A ROLAND FOR AN OLIVER,

Sir Mark Chase.. Mr. Baker I AlfreEl_llightlyer..Mr.Nantz

Fixture.... Mr. kV. J. Hammond.
Maria Darilngton.. Miss Julia Bennett.
The Box-office will be opened daily, when Places may be
taken of Mr. Comm, from Ten until Three o'clock. No
Places can be secured untess_Tiekets are taken._ _

Doors to be opened ai.nia. If-pest-Six; and the Performances
to commence at Seven o'clock precisely.
Lower Boxes, 4s. ; Upper Boxes, 3s. 6d. ; Pit, 2s. 6d. ;
Gallery, is.
SECOND PRICE will be taken at the end of the Third Act
of the Midsummer !Night's Dream. Lower Boxes, 2s. 6d. ;
Upper Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, is. 6d. ; Gallery, 6d.
A limited number of Season Tickets, not transferable and
not admissible on Benefit Nights, may be had on application
to Mr. CooKE, at the Box-office.

THE Proprietors of the AMERICAN COMPANY OF
EQUESTRIANS beg leave to intimate, that having
taken the

ROYAL AMP HITHEATRE,

it is their intention to OPEN that Establishment for a li-
mited number of Representations, with a seleetiAMEß WAN
COMPANY. including a splendid
STUD OF AMERICAN HORSES.

They will have the honour of making their first appearance
in Europe on

EASTER MONDAY.

The Entertainments will be of the most novel and varied
character : a full and particular Programme of which will
appear in future announcements.
March 18th, 1842.

TO PROFESSIONAL GENTLEMEN AND
OTHERS.

it jr B. II EW ITT, SHORT-HAND WRITER A. PRINCIPAL
• REPORTER TO THE LIVERPOOL. STA ARD, begs to
offer his services to Legal Gentlemen and o rers who may
wish to obtain SPECIAL REPORTS of any Cases for Trial
at the ensuing LIVERPOOL ASSIZES.
Standard-office.