The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-09-25 00:00:00

THURSDAY

The Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Charlotte Dundee,
arrived in town, soon after one o'clock yesterday afternoon,
from Windsor Castle. Her royal highness v►s►ted her
Majesty the Queen Dowager at Marlborough House. The
royal duchess, attended by Lady C. Dundas, left her resi-
dence. lngestre House, Belgrave-square, at three o'clock,
for Kensington, and afterwards left the residence of the
Princess Sophia, at Kensington. for Windsor Castle.
The Duke of Sussex and the Duke of Cambridge attended
at Clarence House, St. James's, yesterday morning. Capt.
Seymour groom in waiting on Prince Albert, arrived in town
from Windsor Castle, and had an interview with their royal
highnesses. The Queen Dowager came to Clarence House
in the forenoon. In the afternoon, a meeting of medical
gentlemen took place at Clarence House ; there were pre-
sent Sir Henry Halford, Mr. Keate, and Mr. Moore.

Major-General Sir Edward Bowater, equerry in waiting
on Prince Albert, arrived in town from Windsor Castle in
the afternoon, and had an interview with the Duke of Sussex
at Clarence House. .

The Lord Chamberlain called frequently at Clarence
House, in the course of the day.
Their Royal Highnesses the Dukes of Sussex and Cam-
bridge took their departures in the afternoon, and went to
Gloucester House.
Her Majesty the Queen Dowager visited the Duchess of
Gloucester yesterday morning. Hcr Majesty also paid
visit, in the afternoon, to the Princess Sophia, at her resi-
dence at Kensington, attended by the Countess Brownlow
and Lady Bedingfeld.
Captain Seymour. after his arrival in town from Windsor
Castle, yesterday morning, waited upon her Majesty the
Queen Dowager, at Marlborough House.
Several of the foreign ministers and a numerous list of the
nobility and gentry called yesterday at Gloucester House, to
make inquiries after the health of the Duchess of Gloucester,
and left their names for her royal highness.
A deputation, headed by Mr. Grote, M.P., and including
Messrs. Kilby, Clegg. and -Clarke, had an interview with
Viscount Palmerston on Tuesday, at the Foreign-office.
The Right Hon. H. Labouchere left town yesterday, for
his residence, Ovesstowry.

HER LATE ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCESS

AUGUSTA

Supplement to the London Gazette, Tuesday, Sept. 23.
WHITEHALL, SEPT. 23, 1840.
Yesterday evening, at twenty minutes past nine o'clock,
departed this life, at Clarence House, St. James's Palace.
after a long and painful illness, her Royal Highness the Prin-
cess Augusta Sophia, aunt to her Most Gracious Majesty, to
the great grief of all the Royal Family.

ANOTHER ATTEMPT TO MURDER NEAR
BEESTON.

(From the Chester Courant.)
In ail probability this county will speedily obtain a horrid
notoriety for the commission of a crime of the worst descrip-
tion—we mean that of wilful and premedidated murder, as
since our last publication, an attempt, at least, has been
made to sacrifice another individual to the lust of plunder.
The attempt was made in the immediate vicinity of the place
where the murder of lienshall, as recorded in our last, was
perpetrated. It has been long known to the police autho-
rities of the county, that for a district of several miles round,
there are numbers of ruffians to be found, who are ever ready
to commit a larceny or a murder, as occasion may best suit.
The individual whose life was in this instance placed in
jeopardy, is Mr, William Bower, manager of some brick-
works at Wardle, where he resides, and son-in-law to Mr.
David Skellet, a master brickmaker, of Beeston. It appears
that Mr. Skellet has a contract with Messrs. Jackson and
Bean, railway contractors, and is engaged by them to do a
certain portion of Work, his brick-kilns at Wardle being
managed by his son-in-law, Mr. Bower. The latter indivi-
dual was in the habit of going once or twice a fortnight to
Mr. Skellet to obtain money to pay the brickmaker's wages,
and the knowledge of this fact by some parties, it would ap-
pear, had instigated the murderous attack. On Tuesday
evening last, Mr. Bower visited his father-in-law, though
not in this instance to receive money to pay wages with, and
returned home about half-past seven o'clock at night. On
passing through Crimes-lane, a gun was fired at him from
behind a hedge on the road side, the ball of which passed
through his hat, about four inches below the crown, and car-
ried it off a distance of several yards. Mr. Bower thus pro-
videntially escaped unhurt, and picking up his hat, he imme-
diately hastened home, in a state of the greatest agitation of
mind, and without any knowledge of the parties implicated
in the murderous attack. It has been generally reported
that a second ball was fired, but this statement turns out to

be incorrect.
On the following morning, information of the occurrence
was sent from Mr. Dumville, solicitor, of Tarporley, to Mr.
Hill, superintendent of the poliee in this city, who has since
been indefatigable in his exertions to discover the perpetra-
tors of the atrocious deed, but hitherto without success.
Indeed, we are informed that such is the terror exercised
over the minds of the farmers and cottagers in the neigh-
bourhood generally, by the lawless ruffians who infest that
part of the countfy, that information in such matters is ex-
tremely difficult to be procured. It is stated, however, that
two men, who are not supposed to be known, were overheard
conversing near the spot, by a cottager living in the neigh-
bourhood, about the propriety of getting into the field, or re-
maining by the road side. While Mr. Hill was engaged in
searching some houses in the neighbourhood, he discovered
in those three men, named Thomas Guest, William Huxley,
and - Dean, some property belonging to the Chester and
Crewe Railway Company, and they were, on Saturday last,
committed for trial for stealing it. In the house were also
found guns, which belonged to themselves. The investiga-
tion will be pursued with the greatest activly, and we sin-
cerely hope that the perpetrators of the attempt on Mr.
Bower's life may yet be brought to justice.