The Express.
London, England, 1864-07-29 00:00:00

NATIONAL RIPLE ASSOCIATION.

The trial of the relative merits of muzzle-loading
and briere-loading rifles for the Marquis of Tweeddelle's
press was acableud yesterday at the Soottish reaps, near
the ices hease, Wistiedian-ecauses, is the pram» of
Lard Althea Cagthis RN. in =dory, oath Bray of
the members d the sonacil. A rifle which was tried yes-
terday was one patented by Greer Brothers, manufactured
by Rally sad Co., New Oxford-sheet. The Lepel action
is on the sliding priociple, and It was said that this gun has
• great edematous over say other pier of a like nature
hitherto cestrived, as the breech pine could be instantly
detached from the weapon and attached at pleasure. in
the centre of the breech bed is a square stump bolt
riming through it, to which is attached the trigger, and
there is also a slot in the breech bolt on the
usderdde by which the bolt eau psis and repass
freely one jt. By this anasgement an !tridental die.
charge is reordered imperials so long as the breech is sot
bolted home. Looking at this cootrivance from a military
point of view It power the &Overarm that is a campaign
the rides as MOO WOW could be sent by one route to the
army, and oo the advice of their eafe arrival the breech
Peps might follow by soother. Should only one part fall
IPSO the hands of sa enemy it would be perfectly useless
without the other ; and the weapons could be made by
fsery to page, and the part therefore be inter-
.
These papaw have scarcely had a fair trial.

Another gee width atireeted a good dell of attention yen'
Lady was me introduced by Mr. G. B. Midland, of Lime.
street, London, the agent foe the London, Birmingham, and
Foreign Armoury Agency. ft is painted by Snider. with
01/1111111 fuze eartridges containing their own ignition ; and
the great merit of this breach-lade is that the utmost ra-
pidity of fire ran be maintained, and it centavo in itself
the means by which muzzle-10'day could be converted with-
out weakenieg the arm. Then trials are of the utmost
iureetartoe, for there can be no doubt that the results
arrived at will form the beats on which the governmsnt will
be guided as to which breech-loader shall henceforth be
=ed to the army in the place of the present muzzle.

[TWOPENCE

THE MURDER AND SUICIDE IN SWIMS TOWN.

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Yesterday afternoon, Dr. laakeeter, coroner for
Coated iiddlras, and a jury of 16 inhabitants of FM.
Yams, of whish Mateo% a niembr at Übe miry,
was einem foreman, opmad an inquest at the Elopeast see
Castle Tavern, King's-raid, Camdee-town, no the bodies of
James Brown, aged 56, and Rosetta Bishop, aped 41, the
lomat of whim is believed to have been the murderer of
the latter, sod then to have committed suicide, at 15,
Bmith-street, Brown-town, nadir Me circumcision already
made pubhe.
The procealinp excited peat Intrinet, and the jury room
ma crowded. Mr. Impactor Gibson, of the 8 evince,
watched the nee on the part of the police ; aad a solicitor
ropreesatei the (Brady of the dsoessed main The jury
having viewed the bodies, which lay at Bt. Amens deed

dia-evelotte Willis:ma, of 12, Qiurinstrest, ld
said that she was sister to the deceased, RosethiSist
was the wife of Brighton Bishop, from whom she been
'operated several years. She last saw her alive about a
meth ago ; they passed each other and did not spook, as
they were sot &Loudly.
Brigham Bishop said be resided at Gloomier, and was a
painter. Be had beau married to her 19 years, sad separated
from her nine year' lip, end had ewer known where she
was till aims this allefaliad been made peldie. Hanes the
body, but could not identify her from its advsayed state of
deconsporitioe. She was is the habit of drinking, sad they
mir=rety mutual corniest.
Murphy deposed that she resided at 16, Smith-
skeet, Bouseretown. The deseassd, Rosetta Bishop, lived
seat duo, at No. 15. Knew her as Yrs. Bishop, and she
lived with. • man as her hastead, who was called Bids*.
%ashen real name is Brows. Saw the diesemed wears
bear/fag dribs, out ia the yard about four days before the
quand on last Tuesday week. Beard Brown and Yrs.
Bishop quarrelling en the Tuesday, about 1 o'clock, and
heard her meream. Had seen Brown on the Wednesday and
Thursday mond , but not the deceased. Did not
we thedeceased woman after. On Monday last,
about 11 o'clock, tritons went to No. 15 for • pall
of water, anal/re. Loader. the lodger in the front kitylose,
let bar in. Asked Mra. Loader where Mrs. Bieber. was, and
she mid she had not been home after the quarrel, and she
said she was very unhappy about it. Asked Am Lawler
what made her unhappy, and abs said all was not right.
She said Brows bed told her that Yrs. Bishop had rase of
with a "fancy man" of hers. Bise then told witeem about
the quarrel on the Tuesday, and that mhe heard her fall with
a blow. Whams said it was a very strange thing, andiron
what Mrs. Loader bad said ohs behoved the woman was
dead is the borne, sad that • policeman ought to be seat
foe. Mrs. Laid., said if so site was is die cellar under the
stairs. Whales tried to open the back kitchen door with
the front door key, but it would not opera at. WHOM' this
west mad sad epeeist the backyard window, and es
opining the oilier door witness discovered the bodyi of the
woman fa the cellar.

&nabs& Leader said she and her huaband lodged to the
frost kitchen of No. 15, Smith-street. and were tamed to
Yea. Bishop and Brown. They both drank °madman sad
quarrelled very much, but mon so when they were in drink.
Had heard Brown sense the decried woman with going
with other sass. I have know. gentlemen to visit he. One
she mid was her uncle—an old gentleman about 50 years of
age. The other was a man about 40. The younger one
cease mostly mos a week. Becollected Brows and Bishop
having a quern! on Tneaday week, between twelve and oo
o'clock. Had seen them both that morning. Brown tome
ia at Wiliest elevate and asked when kis mistress
was. She cease is about twelve o'clock ad weal
into the back hitches where they bed a good
many words. I hosed her screaming, end then
beard a fall When she tame in was the lam time Eters
bad seen Rosetta Bishop alive. Witness went out. sad en
coming back about 20 minutes after she saw Brown sitting
lin the parlour with the parker_ dear open. He called her
aad "The bird has Bow." Ifs them told bar the dress
she had us, and mid "she snapped her fingers at him out-
side the door." He mime dowalst the afternoon and bad
tea with witness and her husband about 4 o'clock. Bow
Stowe again about 11 eras& lie the Wedoesday, and also
re the Thursday zooralerg. He said be had bees op all the
eight before and was going to bed. Did sot see hies spit
till Saturday sight, when he came horns, and met him as
the Sunday moninajaizootniag down stairs, sad afterwards
ot in th I. the &Derme summer house. He ap-
pears* as anal, OM sidling about lira. Bishop. That •
was the bet taw lasses had seen Brown alive.
By the Jdry-1 had smelt a very bed smell, but thoughtit was the &air, as at times they smelt very badly.
The eel, untrue& to the dolcupboard, when the woman's
body was found, was under the stairs.
By the Oarater—l ban maned letter for Ilre. Bishop,
hat on tistardes Lot 1 notived one for her ander cover.
addressed to me. The inside saveloys was addrineed "Mee.
Bishop, 15, Smith-street."
Inspector Obese pedaled the letter, which was identi-
fied by the wittier sod reed by the COMA% IS was es
follows

" eaturday, July 23.
"Dear Rasstak —I was much surprised and iinappoiated
at not nasetiag you according to promise, on Tiwaday, and
have likewise expected you every altoroooe shwa, which I
had prepared for aseordiegly. I sisoarsly truss thaa your
batt is over •it sot, you seat be bras in the
sad Dot Suck Iron your colours. lays been vory=
all the week— scarealy able to work. Meet tee, dssrest, at
Liverpool-street, sa two o'clock to.day.—Yogis for ever.
W.N." _

'thalami Woodrow, polio* 'mutable 1659, deposed to being
called is en Aoaday alumna, having beim told a newton
was murdered in • kitchea as No. 16, Binith-inreat. He
went thus, and found the body of a woman in a coal cellar
nader the stairs leading from the back kitchen. He could
only at Brat sae her band, her clothes being over her bead.
He seat for a surgeon, end this found a knife in the kitchen.
with blood which appeared to have been wiped off. (The
had. was produed) Had also subsequently fouled the
hatchet produced in the water butt, aid saw it had blood
sad hair upon it--evidently a woman's hair.
Joke Hodgman' MarroT, come?. °facer for the parish
of St. Pencem, proved swag to the //mama. Smith tree,
and tiding the bodies—that of the woman in the kitchen.
and Oho man Brown is the parlour. Os searching the
kitchen hand • hearth rug rolled up, and I. it • quantity
of mattes, which Dr. Bothnia, the divisional polies surgeon.
who was peewit, pronounced to be human basins, and also a
pima of skull.
Dr. &dhotis here produced a lams triangular pieced the
skull referred to._ _

Mr. William Jackson, surgscia, of 42, Brower. amet,
Samire-lowa, mild he was called I. 12, 12linith-street, se
Houday afternoos, shortly after two o'clock. He found the
demand in a cellar in the book kitchen, which was so small
that in order to get the body In, the lags wen weed up
over the main sealant the wall. Oe dreggleg the body eat
he (wed en extensive wooed along the whole al the right
aide of the brad. Had *Moe made a part mortem
tics of the erscsaies body. Them were several healers is
the hip, aid es the right fore arm them was as liaised
wound completely dividing the alma. On examining the
head found five several wounds at d tractors.. The first
was ma the upper and 'Minor portion of the left parietal
boo., cutting through the skull for an inch sod a half, and
penetratiag the brat.. The second was a wound screws the
right temple taking off the upper part of the right gar,
which was ;Sill miming. The third was a wound
upon the right meter boos The wooed through
the integuments barium the appearance of a pima
titre. The fourth was a wound is the obis,
dividing the lower jaw. The fifth was a most ulcer
fracture, portions of the skull brios beaten in and gone, ex.
seeding from the occipital eed from the beak to
she trout of the head. Several portions of the boos of the
Atoll were miming. No doubt the piece of bone produced
by Dr. Sutherin was • pima of the skull. Of the brain itself
Owe was sot more than me-third left.
By the Coroner—The cause of death was the injuries to
the head. These injuries must have been inflicted by soma
other llamas head, and sot by isseideet. The hatchet pro-
duped was joie the aort of inetnuneut with which such in-
juries inieht be produced. There was human hair on it, but
the blood might-het/ailed eft with the water.

Tb. Corosio et this poti.t •Ospetod stliouroeseet Were
=into videos. am to the death of the uses, but the jury

James Georg* Brown , Little Church-strwat, Meryl&
'woe, was then azamiae 73,d, and mid be was the sou of the
deceased man, and resided with hie mother. Hie father
had left his mother about seven years. Saw him last
alive on Sunday and on the previous Saturday. He seemed
depressed, and as though lie had given way to drink. Knew
him to be living with Mrs. Bishop. Had met his father on
the previous Thursday, and be gave wittiess a silver watch,
either on Wetisseday or Thursday, saying he was rise to
Australia. On Saturday night he gave witness some papas,
which he said related to property valued at 1501., but
witness did sot understand them.

E. Sewell, 50, ChaltOO.strTeet, Emtoe-road, said he
had known the dammed Brown, wbo name into DU her with
a brown paper parcel, sad showed him some deeds and *alga-
meats of property. This was on Tuesday week. He said he
had had arow with his mistress, who Dad broughtsomeSowers
horns from Comet -garden, and said they lt+id bees gives
bar by some you's fellow. Them deeds related to boom in
Weet-street and about Burtes-cneoset. They win M.
domed "Mrs. Itiohnp ;" but b said he hadpaid Ilse my
for the house is Weetntreet. It we about 11 o'clock ia
the morale,. Bad not men hies for three months before.
He came on the Wednesday, and wanted witness to lewd
kin a sovereign en the deeds ; but, wider the advice el his
wife, he did not do so. He earns again is the Tlisreday,
and alter joking with a man as the bar, he let. He left
the deeds in witness's possession, and came on Saturday
night Met with his see (the witness), George James Brows,
Heeled eked fr r the deeds, he banded this. to his we,
telling him to take we it them. The son hod since lett
them in his (witness's) possession.
Elisabeth Loader, he answer to a question, idestißod lho
statist as one ab had frequently lees Bieber sae for
chopping fireweed.
Tb inquiry was adfouraod till Tuesday evesisisazt.