The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-08-31 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

Wtrinsoa, SUNDAY.—Yesterday, Lord and Lady Barham
and Lord and Lady Albemarle took their departure.
This morning the Queen attended divine service at St.
George's Chapel. Her Majesty was accompanied by her
Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, and attended by the
Marchioness of Normanby, Baroness Lehzen, Lord Torring-
ton, Hon. Col. Cavendish, Lady Gardener, the How. Misses
Murray and Pitt, Major Keppell, and the Hon. Mr. Murray.
The service, Boyce in C, was chaunted by the Rev. H. But-
terfield; the " Sanctua" and responses, Jomelli; Creed,
King, in C; the anthem, " Oh, where shall wisdom be found,"
Dr. Boyce, was well sung by Masters Rode and Brian, and
Messrs. Harris, Hill, and Mitchell. The Hon. and Very
Rev. the Dean of Windsor, assisted by the Rev. Mr. Proby,
officiated at the altar. The former preached an admirable
sermon from the 13th psalm, Ist verse. Mr. Elvey (Mus.
Bac.) presided at the organ.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited her
Royal Highness the Princess Augusta at Frogmore this
morning.

Her Royal Highness the Princess Augusta attended
morning service at the Windsor parish church.
The Terrace was crowded with fashionables. The bands
of the royal blues and life guards were present.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince George
of Cambridge paid a visit to her Majesty the Queen Dowager
on Saturday, in Bushy Park. Their royal highnesses dined
with her Majesty.
WIN mos, MONDAY.—This afternoon the Queen gave an
audience to Viscount Melbourne, who arrived at the Castle
at half-past four o'clock.
The Queen, accompanied by her Royal Highness the
Duchess of Kent, rode i❑ the park on horseback, and was
attended by all the ladies and gentlemen of the royal suite.
-The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Prince George and
the Princess Augusta of Cambridge, attended by Miss Kerr,
Col. Schluter, Col. Jones, and Col. Cornwall, came to town
on Monday morning from Kew. Their royal highnesses
ashamed to Kew in the afternoon.

Lord and Lady Wharucii;;;e staying on a visit to her
Miliesty the Queen Dowager, at Bushy Park.
WIND3okt, TCESDAY.—The royal dinner party last even-
ing included her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent,
Viscount Melbourne, Mr. and Mrs. Harcourt (of St. Leo-
nard's-hill). the Marchioness of Normanbv, Lady Mary
Stopford, Hon. Miss H. Pitt, Hon. Miss Murray, Lady
Gardiner, Baroness Lehzen, Viscount Torrington, Hon. C.
A. Murray, Hon. Colonel Cavendish, and the Hon. Major
Keppel.
Her Majesty, it is expected, will ride out this evening.
The Duchess of Kent took an airing in a phaeton yesterday
afternoon. Viscount Melbourne joined the equestrian party
with the Queen yesterday.
The Prince of ()tide has left his residence in the Regent's
Park on a tour to the manufacturing districts.
The Duke of Cambridge, attended by Colonel Schluter,
and Prince George of Cambridge, attended by Co!. Cornwall,
came to Cambridge-house on Tuesday morning from Kew.
Their royal highnesses returned to Kew in the afternoon.
The Bishop of Nova Scotia, Sir Dudley Hill, Sir Richard
Bourke, Dr. Berry, from St. Helena, Mr. Thornelaw, and
'Mr. Browne, had interviews with Lord Glenelg on Tuesday
at the Colonial-office.

T.lDrummond, Assistant Secretary for Ireland, ar-
rived in town on Tuesday morning from Dublin. Mr. Drum-
mond had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exche-
quer in Downing-street.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.—TUESDAY, A uc. 28.

(Before Mr. Justice Bosanqnet.)
Tag_ CASE. OF MYERS AND POW. _
• Angeline Pow, a female dressed in•wiciow's weeds, was in-
dicted, with one, Henry Myers, for the murder of Thomas
Davison Pow,.by administering- to him while in a weak and
• distempered state of . body, certain large quantities of a
spirituous liquor called gin, and also by causing to be taken
. from him divers excessive quantities of blood,
Myers did not surrender. The case appeared to excite the
most intense interest. Mr. Prendergast applied to have the
trial postponed until Myers should
.surrender, but the court
'declined to accede to the request.
Mr. Prendergast then addressed the jury. He said, the
' ease which he was about to lay before them was one of consider-
-Id& iinportance—the indictment imputed to the prisoner the
`Murder of her husband; he was certain therefore, that the
.ltity would give the case the calmest consideration, and that
dido, would dismiss from their minds all prejudice that might
rile/front reports upon the subject that they bad heard out of
izemik 'lt would appear that the prisoner and the deceased
had Use* Eving in a very unhappy manner for some time be-
fore **occurrence took place that would be brought before
their nettee4-The deceased had been in the habit of drinking
ardent .spitite 'to excess; and be had been attacked with a
disorder called. deli,uns tremens,
and had been treated for that
disorder at the Middlesex Hospital, but he was discharged
• from that. establishment in the month of July in a tolerably
rood state- of health. • &bout this time it would appear that
lite other Person (Myers bad taken a house in London-street,
Fitzroy-square, and thither be, the deceased and the prisoner
went together to live. Soon afterwards it was observed that
considerable quantities of gin were brought into the house ;
so much so as to attract attention.- The deceased was soon
el, to
andattend
upon him; he rallied the
afterwards again taken ill, and a nurse was hired d
ir
a little, but ultima ei
'jury would have to consider under what circumstances that
death had taken place.
Mr. Justice Bosanquet, after consulting with Mr. Justice
I t'
Coleridge, expressed an opinion that upon the Statsteamned.
n "
'the counsel for the prosecution, the case could not
Mr. Prendergast said that be felt the difficulty of the case.
Mr. Justice Bosanquet then told the jury that the prisoner
.• mild not be convicted upon the indictment preferred against
her. •
A; verdict of not guilty was accordingly returned.
The prisoner was again arrainged upon the coroner's in-
quisition, and a verdict of not guilty was recorded.

-'- MARCH or MIND.—An honest farmer in the state of
Pennsylvania married a Miss from a fashionable boarding
school for his second wife. He was struck dumb with her
elognence, and gaped wonders at his cit'e's learning. " You
InueVi said be, bore a bole through the solid girth, and chuck
&millstone, and she'll tell you to a shaving how long the
• - stone wilibe going clean threw. She has larnt kimistry and
'',eockneyolngy, and talks a heap about ox hides- and comical
infinities. I used to think that it was air that I sucked in
'lively time that I expired; howsorndevar, she felled me that
knave& better—she told me that I had been sucking in
' 4100-kinds of-gin! ox gin and high gin! Mr stars! I'm a
tumbledown tee towtal temperance manouid yet bayelieen
drinking ox gin and-high gin all my.life.” .•. .• '