The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-04-25 00:00:00

IRELAND.

The Limerick Chronicle states that the Attorney-Gene-
ral Brewster is forthwith to be placed on the Irish bench.
TRINSPOBTATION.—On Wednesday last, 250 convicts
sailed from Spike Island depot, in the Amazon, for Ber-
muda. William Brooke Kirwan, convicted of the murder
of his wife on Ireland's Eye, was one of the number.
TIIOMAS MAGUIRE, a coal porter, whilst in a state of

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intoxication, jumped into the Liffey on Monday, after his
hat, and, having gained the prize, was unable to reach the
shore, and lost his life.
DUBLIN GREAT CATTLE SHOW.—The annual exhibition
of cattle, horses, sheep, swine, poultry, and agricultural
implements, under the auspices of the Royal Dublin So-
ciety, was opened on Wednesday, and it is generally allowed
that it is in all respects the largest as well as the finest
show of the kind which has been hitherto held in that
city. The Exhibition building, together with the large
court and yards of the society, are crowded with stock of
all kinds, and of a truly superior quality.
THE EiODUS.—The Mayo Constitution states that the
flight of the population from that county, especially those
of the " comfortable farmer " and artisan classes, almost
exceeds credibility:—" Daily tens and twenties pass through
this town on Bianconi's cars and Wallis's vans for America
and Australia. To the latter country the emigration is
comparatively small, but to the former it is beyond belief,
which, of course, is owing to the encouragement by the
remission of large sums of money by those who have for-
merly emigrated from this country to their friends here."

COMMITTAL OF BANKRUPTS FOR THE SECRET RE-
move'. or PROPERTY.—Considerable excitement has been
caused this week in Derby, by the discovery that property,
consisting of silk, cotton' furniture, and various articles,
the property of Messrs. Robson and Son, silk manufac-
turers, who have been recently adjudicated bankrupts, had
been removed and secreted. It appears that in the month
of February last the above-named firm found themselves
unable to meet their payments, and submitted a statement
of their affairs to their creditors, with the view of inducing
them to accept a composition. The younger Robson went
himself to London, to endeavour to carry out an arrange-
ment, when an assignment for the general benefit of the
creditors was proposed. On his return, it appears that
both he and his father immediately commenced the removal
of property from the silk mills and their dwelling-houses.
Difficulties arose in the way of carrying out the assign-
ment, and a petition for adjudication of bankruptcy was
filed in the district Court o Bankruptcy against them on
the 17th of March, which was at once opened. Rumours
came to the ears of the official and trade assignees, that at
once induced them to institute strict inquiries about the
doings of the bankrupts for the month immediately pre-
ceding the bankruptcy, and it was discovered that silk
had been offered for sale under very suspicious circum-
stances. The Burton road was pointed out as the direction
in which the goods had been removed, and after a long
search, an unoccupied house was discovered, which, for the
purpose of concealment, had before one of the windows a
piece of bagging nailed up
opened, and property as a blind. The window was
to a considerable amount discovered.
Another search was made in a house in Macklin-street,
and more silk discovered. A special court was held on
Saturday, at the residence of Mr. Commissioner Balguy,
at Duffield, and, by adjournment, at the Royal Hotel, at
Derby, on Monday and Tuesday, which resulted in the
discovery of more property, and the remand by the Mayor
of both bankrupts for felony Witil Tuesday next.---Per4
Mercury,