The Sun.
London, England, 1859-01-29 00:00:00

-11U1WER IN SIIEFFIELD:-

• An atrocious and cowardly attempt to-take the life of a
man was made on Thursday morning, opPositc'the General
Post-office, Sheffield. William Wilson, a brass turner, who
lives in No. 8, Court, Fitzwilliam-street, a few minutes'
before one o'clock, was opposite the end of the' Harts-
head, and-was proceeding homewards, when an :unprovoked
'attack was made upon him ;, and, from the nature of this-
injuries.which he sustained, there can-be little doubt that
the object of the assailants was to destroy his life. ' Accord-
ing to the wounded man's account of the transaction, three
or four -Men, who came out of a presage opposite the Post-
tiffice,which is:known as the Hart's-head, ran at- him, and
one of them plunged a knife or some other pointed instm"
meat into his'abdomen. The men immediatety ran away.
From the effects of the stab the man fell to the From:Dd.
and lay totally incapable of moving. At lite„d* t
there were no „other persons near.
con-
sciousness,:and called out to the-best of,
passing that way
ance. Two or three persons who
ofwerei hHiseabriel ability for assist-
his appeal,' believing:
went by without taking notice
that he was, under the influence of liquor., 1- Ultimately •
0 attracted° by his moaning,
a man naided Peter Ri7isse,in'ared coati requested Rose to
' went to his assistance.
accordinglyjraised him from the ground,
help him, and Ross
covered with blood. Mr. J. Mar-
He found that he
compositor, waswho was passing, assisted Ross -to
shall,
hima the ost-office archway.. found
carry into p
a an's clothes and that his
some the injure in P_
some! of . As soon as. he saw this he ran to
bowels were protruding . ,
Town-hall for assistance, leaving Wilson in the care-Of
the Town-
Mr. 3farsha, who was afteriVards joined by'-Owen, the
market watchman; and police-constable Grimshaw. On
re
his turn Ross found that the persons in care of Wilson
were preparing to carry him
.to the Town-hall, and he•iii;
vordingly assisted. On the arrival of the injured 'ma* at
the Town-hall, messengers were sent for surgical assistance,;
Mr. Bland, of the Brunswick Hotel, Haymarketo hearing.
of the occurrence, verpkindly went in search of a surgeon.,
but was unsuccessful in five or six instances. In the.ntean-
time, however, information was serif to Mr. W.. 11. Booth,
Paradise-square, who was promptly in attendance. He
found the man,lying at the Town-hall in a very exhausted
condition, and on examination he ascertained that the in-
testines were protruding from a punctured wound on the
right side of the abdomen, just over the region of the liver.
His clothes were completely saturated with blood. After
the necessary surgical treatment, the man was removed on,
a stretcher to a room in the building where he would be
more comfortable, but he died in the course of the day. He
was a married man, in the employ of Mr, John Lambert,
in Charles-street.

LIVERPOOL BOROUGH BANK.—In the Liverpoo,
Borough Bank case of " Scott v. Dixon" the application
for a new trial has been refused. This decision will, of
course, bear fatally upon the prospects of the Directors of
the Western Bank of Scotland in their attempts to escape
that civil responsibility which the shareholders--after
having observed the determination of the Government to
interpose a screen against every other kind of process—
have resolved, if possible, to establish. It may likewise
lead to some new movement in connection with the liqui-
dation of the Northumberland and Durham District 131111150
which seems at present to be most adroitly kept ferofigyviel4
remark, although it is generally alleged to la
features such as have not been exceededmixt
flyma be hailed
affair. In this respect, therefore, the reanalogous
ded on strictly per-
with the greatest satisfaction. negar ardship. Mr. J
sonal points, however, the cases director
to make good the
Dixon,‘‘the defendant, who, of the Livery
Borough Bank, has now been condemned
of shares effected on the faith
loss sustained on a purchasef
theboard endeavouringhad long encountered the
of the last report o
opposition of his eollesvirgu s in to establish
heen he detected the doubtful state
sound management.
he proposed a full report the
shareholders, the bank's accounts. _ _.. to
, shareholders, but was resisted and overruled, and at last
induced to agree to the issue of a modified statement which,
without absolutely concealing the losses, avoided that
broad
description. of them which he himself desired, and
which could alone have prevented the possibility of.miscon-
ception. At a subsequent meeting of.the shareholders he
' admitted this fact, and it was only upon such admission he
1
was made liable to damages. The circumstance of his
being singled out for attack, while the other directors, who
might have saved the bank if they had listened to his re-
monstrances, have thus far beenleft un.scotched, will there-
fore, OA equitable grounds, be a subject of regret.