The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1855-12-04 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

ATTEMPTED 11117RDER IN LEICESTERSHIRE.—About midnight on Sunday last week, the village of Snarestone, which lies between Ashby-de-la-Zouch and Atherstone, was the scene of a most atrocious attempt at murder. There is a small farmer of Snarestone, an old man, named John Fowkes, who was to make his will, leaving a large proportion of his property to his grandson, names John Acres Fowkes. At this, one of the old man's sons, who was also named John Fowkes, felt aggrieved, and he had been ,repeatedly heard to threaten his nephew. About half-past eleven o'clock on Sunday night, the young man John Acres Fowkes met with a county policeman, and asked him to go into his grandfather's and have a glass of ale. To this the policeman assented, and at the old man's house they found, besides the grandfather, an uncle of the young man, a shopkeeper, named William Fowkes. Just about midnight, a gun was fired apparently close to the window, the shot from which struck the young man in the face, particularly about the eyes and forehead. He was sitting nearly opposite the window, about two yards and a half from it, and fell down directly he was shot. Immediately the gun was fired, William Fowkes exclaimed, " That's our Jack that fired." The policeman rushed to the door, but found it fastened on the outside. After some little delay the cord with which it was fastened was cut, and the officer went into the street and round the house, but could see nobody. He went to Ashby, and about five on Monday morning, the uncle, John Fowkes, was taken into custody on a charge of shooting his nephew.A gun and some shot were found in the prisoner's house, and a pair of boots which corresponded with some footmarks discovered near his father's house. The cord with which the door was fastened on the outside has been identified as his property. The prisoner was a butcher, and lived about half a mile from his father's. The young man's recovery was considered to be hopeless.  Tun EMBASSY TO Bunmell.—The embassy has been duly received at Ava. The official audience was granted on the 13th of September. The envoy, attended by Burmese officersof the household and a magnificent cavalcade, entered the palace by the eastern gate. The route was most circuitous, the king having desired that his subjects should have a full view of the procession. At the foot of the steps leading to the audience-hall the British officers took off their shoes and• swords, and then seated themselves on the carpet in front of the throne. The roof of the audience-hall is supported on a vast number of beautifully-carved and gilded pillars ; the floor of masonry is raised 15 feet from the ground, and is- as, smooth as marble. The throne stands on a pedestal of gold, inlaid with mirrors and coloured glass, and over it is a gilded canopy. Below, within eight yards and a little to the left, sat the heir apparent in a car facing the throne, and behind him and on the other side sat some members of the royal family, and in the centre and immediately before the British 'officers sat the king's and the heir apparent's sons, five of each; all these were most richly dressed in velvet brocade and gold tissue. Still further back, and in the same line with the embassy, sat the ministers and other officers of state. The King was magnificently dressed, being loaded down with jewellery, while the Queen, on his right hand, wore a crown of diamonds shaped like a cornucopia. A sort of hymn was sung by the attendant priests, formal compliments were exchanged, and presents given and received. Major Phayre received a gold chain of nobility, a ruby ring, a richly einbos§o4 gold cup, and a piece of silk. Captain Yule, Dr. Forsythe, Major Allen, arid Captain Rennie received each a ruby ring, aplain gold cup, and a piece of,silk, and all the others a ruby ring and a piece of silk. The reception was gracious, but there is evidence of the disposition to consider the mission as a. sort of sin offering. Major Phayre has once or twice been compelled to assert his dignity as a British representative. The introduction of the Queen marks the wide dissimilarity of Indian and Burmese manners. The embassy has, by this time, returned to Rangoon.—Bombay Times.