The Express.
London, England, 1863-07-17 00:00:00

NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION PRIZE
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The International contest between eight of the
but pitied shots on each side to represent England and
ttntd, for the Echo shield, commenced yesterday. This
was instituted Let yen by the joint exertious of
Lord Bury and Captain Horatio Rose, for the purpose of
testing the respective merits of the selected number of each
country in the art of rifle shooting. On that occasion Eng-
land was represented by Lord Bury, Civil Service ; Captain
Heaton, 3rd Manchester; Mr. Martin Smith, Victoria
Riles ; Major Halford, Ist Leicester ; Earl Dune, Resign
Halliday, Civil Service ; Private Beasley, Ist Warwick ;
and Sergeant Row% Ist Devon. Scotland wee represented
by Captain Horatio Roes, 6th Kincardine; Mr. Feiguica,
let Inverness;: Mr. Henderson, Blairgovrrie ; Mr. Muir, Ga-
loway ; Mr. Moir, Stirling ; G. Peterkin, Cambridge The
Master of Lovat, Inverness; and Mr. Edward Roes, CM-
bridge University. As will be seen by the lit given pater-
de:. than names have on each' side been subject to alter•
Ulan, as it was the desire that both countries should be
represented by some of the best men that could be found.
On that occasion the victory fell to England, she making •
grow total of 890 marks, while Scotland made but • gram
total of 721 marks. This defeat, large as it was, sspa•
dared no at the time, but there was a steady
determination expressed if possible on the put of
Scotland to slier the result next year, er in
the words of Lord Echo, he proposed "Three cheers
for the licking that England should receive at the next
meeting." To accomplish this object trial meetings were
held in the first instance at Edinburgh, when four of these
who had made the highest scores were selected, which em-
braced Mr. Henry, the inventor of the rifle that bean his
name, who is • Got-rate shot, but he afterwards retired in
favour of Lord Elolio. The sexed trial meeting was after-
wards held at Gravesend, when Mr. Edward Roes, Mr.
Hercules Ross, Mr. Colin Rosa, and the Master of Linn
were selected to make up the other four. Therefore, from
the preparations which have been made it is evident that •
great effort was expected. The different competitors were
requested to parade yesterday morning at half-put nine
o'clock in front of Captain Mildmay's test, and
soon afterwards the shooting commenced at 800
yards. The Rutish party were not long before
they began to show their powers, Lord Bury
commencing with six bull's-eyes, and subsequently, after en
outer, three more, making • total wore of 5L Lieutenant-
Colonel Holford, let Leioestenhire, made six bull's-eyes,
sooting 49. Captain Heaton, 3rd Manchester, made ten
bull's-eyes, 'coring 54 marks; Earl Dude made • score
of 51; Sergeant Martin Smith, Victorian, made seven bull's-
eyea with 49 marks ; Lieut. Hanker Smith, Middlesex, sir
bull's-eyes, and 48 marks ; Private Ashton, five bull's-eyes,
and 47 marks ; and Captain Rowland made 37, which modes
grin total for England at 800 yards of 386 marks. On the
put of the Scotch Captain Horatio Rom made • total score
of 53 marks at the 800 yards nage, being 10 bull's-eye' and
' five centres in the 15 shots. Corporal W. Fergana, of
Inverness, made nine bull'soyes in hie score of 52 marks.
Captain E. Rom elm made • total score of 52 marks, which
included eight bull's-eyes, six centres, and one outer. At the
900 yards range Captain Heston headed the list by
making • total score of 56 marks, which comprised
12 bull's-oyes, 2 centre*, and 1 ester, and was justly consi-
dered by all to be very excellent shooting. Sergeant Smith
brought up the rear with • total soon of 55 marks, composed
of 10 bull's-eyes and 5 centres. On the Scotch side Captain
B. Roes was the highest, with • total score of 53 ranks,
which comprised 11 bull's-eyes, 1 centre, and 3 oaten At
the 800 yards range England had made • total score of 386
marks, being 3 marks hos than the total number obtained
by Scotland at that range. In the 900 yards range, how-
ever, the tables were turned, England having made 341
marks and Scotland 362 marks, which, after deducting the
three mirk/ previously against the English, gave them •
majority of 29 marks. Up to gun fire last evening England
had not finished the 1,000 yards range, and Scotland had
not commenced firing at that distance.
In the evening • concert was given in the Clubroom, at
which Madame Goldachmidt (Jenny Lind) gave her valu-
able services.
Previous to the commencement of the concert Captain
Drake, E.E., gave • dramatic rending.
Mr. Storm, the inventor of the breech-loading rifle bear-
lag hia name, has given two prises to be shot for this day-
-201. and • Stem-converted breech-loading rifle. Competi-
tors are to fire with any breech-loader, carrying .577 ammu-
nition. The target will be given up to each competitor for
two minutes, widths greaten sore made in the two minutes
will win. The range is to be 200 yards. Entrance fee, ss.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
(THIS DAY.)

COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE.
(Before the Judge Ordinary.)
acorn v. nom crow Main).
This morning Captain Scott, the petitioner, wee suVectel
to a croes-exaniination of some length bi the Queens Ad-
vocate, who appeared. with Dr. Spinks, for the respondent.
He mid—ln Mho I threatened to break off all intercourse
with Mrs. Morris, my wife's mother, because I regarded her
as the cause of all my unhappiness, sad became I found that
my child WU being brought up to hate and dislike his father.
I had Major Greenwood and Lord Forth with me at %mo-
tion, but Mrs. Scott was not there with Lord Forth ; I would
not lave permitted it. Ido not know that Major Green.
wood was a person with whom no lady ought to have
associated. Major Greenwood was a gentleman—when he
was not drunk. (Laughter.)
The Judge—And how often was that?
Witnees—l never saw him drunk at my table when Mrs.
Scott was there. I may have called him " • nasty, dirty
beset" any man is a" dirty beast" that gets drunk. He
would also come to table In a dirty shirt. I may have
said that I only endured him on account of the
money be paid me. No doubt his payments were
very convenient to me. My wife never complained
of what she suffered from the company _of
Major Greenwood. When I said that my wife dressed in
ao outrageous way, I meant that she dressed in the height
and extreme of fashion. Ladies do not dress in that way
when they walk out with their husbands. It was on that
account that I thought people, would take me for a man.
about-town urd her for my misname. I told Mr. Church
and Mr. Hunt that my wife was a woman lost to all society,
and consequently cared little for exposure in this c
ored
I do not recollect saying that " she was an abandoned
woman and that no one would visit her." I have given you
the substance of what I said, so far as I recollect it. Mr.
Church said, " Yon must be a pretty fellow to make an
observation like that of your wife when you are seeking
her restitution—go into court and repeat that and your ease
is damned." We then both laughed.
Re-examined by Mr. Kerslake, Q.C. (with him Mr.
Shawl—My wife's dress was not the sort cif dress in which I
saw other ladies walk in the park. My wife did not wish
to leave Stroutian oo account of Major Greenwood being
there. The observation I made to Mr. Church about my
wife had reference to the charges against me which she had
put in her mower, and which she knew to be wholly
groundless. I did not referto her previous conduct while
she was living with me.
Colossi! Jenkins —I am staff officer of the pensioners at
Chatham. I was the captain-commandant of a depot at the
time Captain Scott was married. With the exception of a
slight quarrel that occurred in consequence of Mrs. Morrie,
I was on teems of intimacy with the petitioner and his wife
while they were at Brompton. Captain Scott's conduct to
ree=t was kind and all that a gentleman should be.
Simmons, of the 41st Regiment, C. 8.—1 was in
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1847 when Captain and Mrs. Scott came there. I
that they had very good lodgings. Mrs. Scott
mode no complaints. Had mu them since at intervals
down to 1861. Dario' the whole time I sow them toga.
then the conduct of Captain Scott was that which we usually
see from a gentleman to his wife.
Crosseixamined—hare. Scott was very fashionably dressed.
That was the only thing that seemed to outrage her hus-
ked's feelings. I think be once spoke to me about her ax-
OMB of dram and said it made her quite remarkable.
Mr. George Harrison, of 65, Grosvecorstrest, F. r.s.—l
have known Captain Scott since 1841. I visited his family
as a friend and pridessicerally down to 1858. Captain
Scott's conduct wax uniformly kind—particularly so.
Mn. Catherine Whitt—l am the wife of a rector in
Suffolk, and brother to the petitioner. I visited the
parties in the Hebrides, and I think stayed with them about
three mouths. Captain Scott's conduct to his child was
good, very good ; but at times be had words with his wife.
Crossexamined—l certainly have taken Mrs. Scott's
and I have been very sorry that her husband should
speak against her mother. Being the daughter of a widowed
mother, I felt for her. Hie language might have been what
I mad violent ; but I have myself been used to gentle
baggage. I never beard him swear in my life. I may
have °pedaled with Mrs. Scott on his violence ; but I gene.
rally referred to his conduct with respect to her mother.
I have no recollection whatever of ever saying to her,
" Would you not rather seethat dear child in his coffin
thee that he should grow up such a wretch as his poor
father r
Charlotte Palmer—l was lady's maid to Mrs. Scott from
1845 to 1856. I was at Stornaway and came into the room
after the child was flogged. It was my duty to wash and
dream him ; and I found no marks upon him. The stick was
• little switch. 1 never heard my master swear at my mis-
tress.
Croes-examined—l took the stick out of Captain Scott's
hand ; but I cannot say why I did it. I did not snatch it
away. I raid, " Please to give me the stick."
By the Judge—When 1 went into the room the child was
lying quiet in -his mother's arms. I had beard him scream-
ing about half an hour before. He was not sobbing. I re-
turned to my work immediately afterwards.
Delilah Morgan, who was nursemaid in Captain Scott's
family while they were living at Weymouth, and Sarah
Wheeler, a perlour maid, also in their service for thirteen
months, also declared that the petitioner behaved well to
his wife.
Capt•in Edward Francis Boultb7-1 am a captain in the
West York Militia, which the petitioner joined after he left
the army. I was with him at Sheridan, and I never heard
him me violent or abusive language to his wile.
Crom-examined—l was there with Major Greenwood.
Hit conduct was at times objectionable, but I don't think
his habits were of a filthy and disgusting character. He
occasionally drank too much. I should not have thought
him fit society for my own wife. I cannot recol-
lect that I said he was unfit company for Mrs.
Scott ; but very likely I did. I do not know
that I ever spoke to Captain Scott on the subject. I don't
remember saying to Mrs. Scott " We must get you away."
I always understood that she was to leave Stroutian at
Ohridmas.
Ile-examined—l only objected to Major Greenwood be-
cause be drank, which used to make him very talkative
and unpleasant.
The evidence of the late Hannah Young, a housemaid of
the partite, was read. It was to the same purport as that
of the other servants.
Dr. Woodhouse, of Reading (one of the trustees of the
marriage settlement)—At the beginning of 1%2, Captain
Scott spoke to me on the subject of kis wife's
beteg away from him. At his suggestion I went up
to town and saw Mrs. Scott at the Great Western
Hotel, where she was staying with her mother.
There were present Mrs. Scott, Mrs. Morris. Colonel
James, Captain Scott, Mrs. White, and myself. A long
dismission ensued. A charge was made to the effect that
Captain Scott had presented a pistol at his wife in 1853.
Captain Scott said that at that time he bad DO pistols
Mrs. Boob, on being pressed, then said it might have bees
something else. The result of the discussion was that Cap-
tain Scott should go back to Bath, and take rooms in a
boardinghouse for himself and wife. Had bad several
opportunities of seeing them at different periods, and
Captain Scott's conduct was always kind.
ined—Captain Scott admitted that he might
ha.. pretended to shoot his wife with a raxor-strop or a
clothes brush.
The Rev. Mr. White—l cannot say whether at the inter-
view I asked Mrs. Scott to forgive her husband. I tried to
induce her to go back to him.
A locksmith, named Plankley, who bed been employed in
removing a bolt, described the conduct of the respondent as
very violent, and said that that of the petitioner was kinder
than he should have thought a gentleman could have been
under the circumstances. (Laughter.)
This was the petitioner's came in reply, and the learned
ennead were addressing the jury when we wont to prem.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Yr. Comeliest/mei Fans.)
BE LYRES SANULIA.—A NAB WEN BIITENAL ADDRESSES,
This was an examioatios meeting sod applicatioc for dis-
charge under the failure of Lewis Samuels. described am
silk and cotton agent of ca sea Merpret's-grove. Stoke
Newington. The bankrupt, who came to the court cie
his own petition, has no lea than eleven "descriptions" of
pleas of business, having sometimes traded in the same of
" Staunton." The accounts show unsecured debts, 421/. ;
secured, 250/. ; liabilities on bills discounted, ; debtors,
bad, 9701., the principal being Mr. Matthew Blake, " gentle-
man," for 8131 for money lent in 1861; property, 201
ditto in the hands of creditors, 4001.
Mr. Pock supported the bankrupt.
Mr. Sykes Goodday said bankrupt held a reversionary in-
terest under his father's will, but Mr. Pook h.(' undertaken
to amply a copy of that document. He therefore offered no
opposition.
The Commissioner passed the essraination, and greeted
the order of discharge.
Its ALBERT HIBSCIIN A SM.—IL poirrArr QUESTION IN UMW.

NAL raosscurtogs.
The bankrupt was a foreigner, who carried on business as
• merchant in Moorgate-street. Haring in the course of a few
months after his arrival in this country obtained goods to •
large amount from English houses, which he immediately
pledged, be was criminally prosecuted, sad is undergoing
two yea's' imprisonment. There is oo estate, and the Coln.
missal:ler refined to make an order that the coats should he
paid out of the chief registrar's fund.
Mr. Ernest Reed, for the assignees, said they had de-
termined to take the opinion of the Lord Chancellor upon
the subject, and asked that the deposit of 201. should be
reduced to 10/.
The Commissioner —I shall decline to make say order.
Mr. Reed—Notwithstanding we will appeal.
The Commissioner —I shall not interfere.
RI READER. _ _ _

The bankrupt, a commission agent, formerly of Battersea,
applied for and obtained his order of discharge.

Harvest operations have oommenced in the
neighbourhood of Stamford. Several lands of onto h
this week submitted to the scythe, and the cutting ~f this
deftwiption of corn is expected to be general next we, k.
Wheat, which is well spoken of, will be rearl for the sickle
in abort a week or tee days, with a continuance of sunny
weather. Bain in muck needed for all root crops.
The New York ferried hare already carried this
year fifty million passengers, without the loss of a Biagio