The Daily Times. — 1860-08-01 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

THE PROGRAMME.  - The company will assemble at the Southport Townhall at ten o'clock, and a procession will be formed in the following order :  tolke Flag, La ,r Clerk, Contractors, and Engineer. Band of the 3rd Royal Lancashire Militia; in full Uniform: Directors and Shareholders. Ch.irnian d Commussioticrs, Clergy; and. Magistrates. Improraritent Commissioners. ~ Residents and Visitors. 3iessrs. Galloway'„ 'Workmen. Flag. rife and Drum Band, 13th Lancashire  The procession will proceed from the Town-ha;', up Lord-street, along Sea Bank-road and the Pr-menade, up Coronation-walk and Lord-street, and down Nevill- to the pier. On arriving at the platform end, an address will be given, and an altered version of the National Anthem. /ill be sting. The company will then embark on the Storm King steamer, fur a cruise On the return of the vessel, the procession will proceed along Nevill-street to the Town-hall, to luncheon. Ladies intending to join the excursion by the steamer will be admitted on the pier, by showing their tickets, up to 10 30 a.m. The shopkeepers and others will close their establishments during the forenoon, to enable persons in their employ to join in the procession. In the evening, a full dress ball will be given at tbe Townhall .  On Monday last, James Hankinson, a gunsmith, was brought before the borough magistrates at Wairington, under the following circumstances :—Sarah Ann Green deposed that she lived next door to the prisoner, in Buckley's-Court; and that soon after breakfast on Sunday morning, she heard him abusing his wife. There was a continual Sound of quarrelling till about dinner time, when the witness heard Mrs. Hankinson scream, and .then-say, ".Lord help_ me; Hankinson, thou'lt murder me." Mrs. Green then went outside, and saw the nrisonei standing at his door, from which was Ilse issuing a vast nnantity of smoke. Mrs. Green asked what was burning ; and the 'prisoner said, " The b--- old thing won't come out." Mrs. Green asked if his .wife was inside; but to this _he made no answer. The witness for some time was unable to see into the house, in consequence, as she said, of the smoke and sulphur that was issuing from it. At length she cowered down on her hands and knees, and looking in, saw the prisoner's wife lying on the floor about a yard from the are-place. Her clothes were then all in red heat. When she saw this she screamed out, "Murder ; poor Letty Hankinson is burning .to death." The prisoner took no notice, and never offered to render his wife any assistance. Mrs. Green at once gave information to the police, and medical assistance was procured. On the arrival of the doctor and the constables, a bed was got downstairs, cad the poor woman placed upOn it. She was shockingly burnt, her lower limbs being completely charred, and, she died in a few minutes. The prisoner was remanded till after the inquest, which was held yesterday morning, at the Rodney Hotel, before Mr. Driflield. Drs. Sadler and Artiistead, who had made a post oto!tent examination Of the body, deposed that the death of-the deceased was caused by burning. The evidence showed the cruelty of the husband to have been most inhuman. The prisoner will be brought up for examination again before the magistrates this day.