The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-07-28 00:00:00

SHOCkfkG CkE CTIP WIVE 1110EPER.

On Wednesday at about two o'clock in the nieinirig,-
a miner at BilSton, in South Staffordshire, came home
with a. companion after his family had retired to rest.
His wife let him in, hut being in her night clothes, ran
back tip stairs on seeing that another man was at the
bor. CAW lief brick to " took 'him some steaks,"
Under threat of " duffing hei ttitidai tfctitt tit to ear."
When the stianger had gone, she Came down, liehied to
thicitesi bar hilsbdrid, add returned to bed. lie again
called bet chid said; 4 Polly; gie. Ei and
stabbed her in the side With a huge dPiltig elder; knife.
The wound is one inch and a half long, and the *dniati
is since dead:, HaNing stabbed her, he said, "I am
satisfi,edll—Qt4.4 I;a:ve killed yon." T Wigg is in custody,
and tVe Frii a tide forind id ihe fire.. The unfortunate
woman has before had id jump out oii the wincloW to
escape being stabbed by her brute of a hushaild.

THE NORTH OF ENGLAND INSURANCE

COMPANY.

MTRAORDINARY REVELATIONS

An adjourned general ttleeittig of the North of Eng-
land Life and Fire Insurance Cenipany Otis betd at the
4 ces, in the Haim4lEet, .ilrfOeld, Thursday. Mr.
Isaac frOnildli presided: annual general meeting
was adjourned to allow a cdn4rdifice; then appointed,
time to investigate the affairs of the
following occurs in the report, which was adopted unani-
mously : —"The shareholders will observe that in addi-
tion to the minor points in Mr.Watkinson's report r.IV
had been eniployed to investigate the accounts] there are
filets disclosed ll:Writing three most serious accusations
against tlta direCtors. i. dross fulsitieltion of the accounts
Of We company, fiiblished by tile ciftecidtg, add signed
by the ificiiitiger and it!ddito'ig.. Contracting debts vtith
the bankers of the conitido . tti ItAr;tinct to the
express provisions of the deed of set:denied, cOn'tiatVg
that fact from the shareholders. 3. Paying dividends dtit
of capital, and when a large portion of the capital was
lost. In the judgment of the committee, the scourge of
the law ought to be applied to the directors for those
offences, fo drat tt compel them to make restitution to
the sliareholders *hors the flag thiceiYed, and whose
property they hate Tasted. They, thetekliCi tOWnl,
mewled they 4poititnient of a committee With fill powwet
to talk dticli delis as tltty be' decided ddvildble td obtain
justice for the shatilioldefs.4
After some discussion, the following restiliition was
also carried :
" That a committee be appointed with full power to
take such steps as they may deem advisable to obtain
justice for the shareholders."
A tottinlittee WO appointed, and at the close of the
rrieetitig ^ giiatkidtee feed Wir3 entered into to carry out
the foregoing.

FIRE LA,T Niont—Alxitit, eleven o'clock last night
a fire broke out in a cork-cutter's shop, in Lambert-
street, off. London-road, but fortunately it was extin-
guished by a few buckets of water.
1241Vristd, --ro the Unmans this diversion was
searikily tenotvn td We cliqg cill,Yesrlisladi yet it was in-
troduced soon after. Vrobabir adopted it from
the Britons, but they greatly imprOvel it vi
duction of spaniels into the island. In this state it
appeared among the Britons in the sixth century. In
after times hawking was the chief amusement of the
English. A 136t5Utt of rank scaroely etirred.,without his
hisirk Oil his hind, Which irt old paintings ib the crite-
rion df Egon, the ladies constantly carried on
their gldvcis the rilerliri di epaitoW-haWk ; and it is
mentioned that one of the tilt& wig suich a feonrite
with a bride, that at her nuptials she carried it td the
altar.—Rcnienisanccs of an Old Sportsmen.
DISCIRACEITL SCENE.—DISINTERMENT or A BODY.
—At the Eckington petty sessions, on Thursday, four
men, nanted Joseph Charles Barker, Charles
Hardwick, and David Downing,
all of Norton, near
Sheffield, *are sitnirtioded for disgraceful conduct in a
chtirthydid, aiid disiiiterriik the body of a !nail named
Joseph Bingham. On the ldth tleofge Shelton,
the sexton at Norton church, was interring the toCit of
Joseph Bingham in a grave in which his father was
buried. While he was closing the grave, a woman
named Fisher went to him, and told him that he bad_
buried Bingham in a grave that belonged to her, and in
Was interred, The sexton denied
this, and a moll got round WI; eetno of the fore-
rrioit forbidclinoic, hied to fill the glace!.. Ilea how--
Over; i'lonipleo , work,Mid then *era aWay.
Shortly atter he liift place; the defendants
went to his daughter, and having got the todi-Votise
door key, possessed tbemsemselves of the Sieltoils
tools, and then exhumed the body. They got the
coffin out of the grave, and dug the ground on which
it had becn laid to see whether or not Mrs. Fisher's
linstand Was' buried there ; but Mr. Bagshaw, a neigh-
Vot!rfrlg ithtgistr4teishottly after wards arrived, and telling
the defendants tHn ecinieldette of *hat they had done,
they placed the coffin in the gra:4.e dial, arid coveted it
with earth. The defendants were fined is eiclt and
£1 Os 6d costs.

THE FROME MURDER.— The unfounded rumour,
which has been so industriously circulated, to the effect
tliat the deceased child entertained a strong antipathy to
Miss donsidece; is ac false as it is wicked. So far from

that having been the case, pilot to' the child's untimely
death, he was on the most affectionate &Mfg with her,
so much so, that on the evening before the murder Nat
committed, whilst in the course of a childish romp with
Constance, he gave her a little bead ring, he himself had
triad° for her. A great deal of gossip, too, has been cir-
culated, ie; did etfea that a girl, named. Moody, a school-
fellow of Miss Constinee, earel her give utterance
while at school, to some revengeful eiptesslots respecting
the deceased. With the express object of alteitaiiiing
the character and demeanourof Miss Constance, in the
prosecution of her scholastic duties, Captain Meredith
and Mr. Superintendent Woolf yesterday visited the
school at Beckington, and interrogated Miss Williams,
the principal, with regard to this point. Both Miss I
Williams and her assistant, Miss Scott, spoke in the
highest terms of Constance, saying that she was a well
conducted pupil in every respect, while in that establish-
ment; and that so assiduous was she to her studies, that
she became a successful competitor at the half-yearly
ekaminetion, and carried off the second prig,.—From
.flath drtlaide of Thursday.
MAILS FOR SlCliit /Iv STEAM PACKET FROM GENOA
ANI) LEGRORN.—lnformation has been received from
the Director General of the Sardinian Post Office of the
establishment of steam packets to run twice a week from
Genoa and Leghorn to Palermo. These packets will
leave Genoa every Monday at eleven p.m., and Leghorn
every Saturday at noon. The following shows the rate
of postage to be paid upon letters, newspapers, and other
printed papers transmitted by this route :—Letters not
exceeding lot., (Ids ; above ioz. and not exceeding loz.,
Is. ; above IoZ. Mid not exceeding loz., is. 6d.; above
joz. and not exceeding loz., 25. ; and for each additional
;oz., 6d. Newspapers and other printed papers—For a
packet of British newspapers duly registered at the Gen-
eral Post Office for transmission abroad, not exceeding
40z., 4d. ; above 4oz. and not exceeding ills., Bd.; above
!lb. and not exceeding Ilb., Is. 4d. ; above llb. and not
exceeding 1 2s. ; for each additional {lb Bd. For a
pact of printed papers other than British newspapers
registered at the (=mend Post Office for transmission
abroad, not exceeding 4oz. 6d. ; above 4oz. and not ex-
ceeding tlb., ls. ; above lib. and not exceeding 11b., 25.;
above lib. and not exceeding 1 Ib., 35.; for cach addi-
tional alb., is. These sums comprise the British,
Fr'neh, and Sardinian rates of postage, but not the
Sicilian. The above postage must in all cases be paid in
advance, or the letters, &c., cannot be forwarded. Let-
ters, &c. intended for conveyance by these packets must
be specially addressed— Vie Sardinia. By command of
life—ever
the Postmaster General. RowLsNo HILL, Secretary.
—General Post Office, July 25, IR6O.
"Life," we are told by the author of " Physio- '
logical Riddles," in the August number of the Con/-
g
itself, yet
irlotw.:lilnagitaozliz,yiestael;seortid;orutinilgt;heinvger—d;;
ding, ever
being born ; cut dowci and destroyed by accident,
by violence, by pestilence, by famine, preying
37:1 and filling
rneumilotirpsleyleitsisgly
and extending
every spot of earth on which it once obtains
a footing ; so delicate,. so, feeble; so dependent
upon fostering circumstances and • the kindly
care of nature, yet so invincible ; endowed
as if with supernatural powers, like spirits
of the air, which yield to every touch and seem
to elude 'our force, subsisting by means
impalpable
to our
.grosser sense, yet wielding powers which
the mightiest agencies obey. Weakest, and
strongest, of the things that (od has made, Life
is the heir of. Death,
andyet his conqueror.
Victim at once and victor. All living things
succumb to .Deatlf:s.. assault.; Life smiles • at
his impotence, 444 -makes- the grave hercradle."