The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1842-03-22 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

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-deCamp 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 bankruptcy 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 discharge forthwith, and empowers the court to make absolute or discharge the order or rule calling on the petitioning creditor 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 bankrupt 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 petitioning 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-gardeners, cowkeepers, brickmakers, alum-makers, lime-burners, 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 recovered, 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 creditor 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 execution, 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, 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 committed 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 proceeding 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 submit 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.