The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1841-12-31 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

THE TWEED BANK.—The first meeting of the creditors of Messrs. W. S. Batson, J. Wilson, and J. Langhorn, partners in the Tweed Bank, Berwick, bankrupts, was held at the large assembly-room of the King's Arms Inn, in that town, on Wednesday, for the purpose of receiving proofs of debts and appointing assignees. The room was crowded to excess with anxious creditors, from town and country, throughout the day ; and, after sitting from ten o'clock in the morning till eight at night receiving proofs of debts, the commissioners adjourned the meeting until the following morning, when the business of admitting claims was resumed, and at its close the assignees were elected. The amount of proofs admitted on Wednesday and Thursday was very large, and it waa thought that the liabilities of the bank would amount to nearly £350,000. The deposits prove to be very heavy indeed, and the note circulation is also considerable. There are several large debtors to the estate, and as to the amount of dividend much must, of course, depend upon their ability to discharge, or satisfactorily compound, their obligations. It is believed, however, that the assets are considerable, and that they will be divided with all practicable despatch.—Scotch paper.  MURDER OF THE BOY THOMAS MAquinx,.—Since the holding of the inquest on the remains of the above ill-fated child the county coroner, Mr. James M`Carthy, has been indefatigable iii attending to every information calculated to throw any light that might possibly lead to the discovery of the perpetrator of the atrocious murder. Additional depositions to those given on the inquest have from day to day been received by him in his magisterial capacity. Some portion of this goes strongly in corroboration of the former evidence, establishing the fact of the boy having been seen with the prisoner Delahunt, shortly prior to the discovery of the body in the lane off Pembroke road : while other portions of these subsequent informations refer to different points bearing on the case. We select the follow.. ing:—James Maguire, a market boy, living at 4, Cherry-lane, Great Britain-street, was, in consequence of a statement made by him to the coroner, sent on Thursday to Kilmainham prison, where, amongst seven or eight other persons, he he at once identified the prisoner John Delahunt, and whom he deposed to having seen, on the afternoon of Monday last, at half-past five o'clock, enter Mr. Drake's public-house, in Capel-street, with a boy, answering generally to the description of the deceased Thomas Maguire, whose body he had viewed also oa Thursday at the Irislitown police stationhouse, Soon after entering the public-house Delahunt went out, leaving the boy behind him ; he returned in about a quarter of an hour, and, without mentioning any name, desired the child to come away; the little fellow did so, and they left the place. It appeared that a boy named Butler, living in Plunket-st., had stated that on Monday he saw a man go up to the deceased, who was at the time at play with other children in Francis-street, and call him by his name, Thomas Maguire, telling him to go with him, which the other did. An information was sworn by Thomas Gavan, aged 10 years, from which it appeared that while he and two other boys, named Michael Harney and John Hand, were at play in the field described at the inquest as adjoining the lane off Pembrokeroad, in which the murder had been committed, he found, within a few yards of the wall bounding the lane, a knife. The knife was produced. It appeared to be an ordinary breakfast knife, having a white haft, the blade rather considerably worn, and narrowed very much towards the point, but the edge not particularly sharp. Some parts of the blade bore marks strongly resembling blood stains. There was further evidence besides that adduced before the coroner in the first instance, showing that the deceased had been seen late in the afternoon of Monday, in company with Delahunt, in the neighbourhood of Baggot-street. A person named James Mooney, resident in Eastrnorland-street, deposed, on Monday last, that on Monday evening, the 20th instant, at about ten minutes to seven o'clock, he saw John Delahunt, whom he had known by sight for some three or four weeks previously, walking up and down in a stable lane off East,. morland.lane. The foregoing comprises the principal of the facts elicited since Monday last. On Christmas morning the body of the murdered boy (which had lain at the Irishtown police station-house since the view of it by the jury on Tuesday), was consigned to the grave in St. Kevin's Churchyard.—Dublin Freeman's Journal.