The Express.
London, England, 1866-10-19 00:00:00

Y EVENING, OCTOBER 19, .1866.

LATEST INTELLIGENO

ALLEGED SLUED= BY A TRADESMAR AT
BETTAL-GREEN.
ADJOUBAND vrQUEST.-(THIS DAY.)
The investigkidiod into the circumstances of the
Atmurder of Mary Ann Scott, otherwise Burgess, by
band, William Scott, was resumed this morning by
Mr. 3. Humphreys, Middles*: oareart, at the Prim
Albert Tavern, Mape-dreet,'Bethnal-green.
Mr. Abbott slimmed on behalf of the friend' of the do-
omed ; Mr. T. Beard defended the amused.
The prisoner, William Scott, was brought up in custody,
by Impostor Honey, under • warrant from the Secretary
of State. He trembled much while the Coroner read over
the two depositions made on Friday last.
Mr. Beard declined to cross-examine the witnesses pre-
viously examined.
Herbert Matthew Burgess, 12, Essex-street, Bethnal-
green-road, said that he was the son of the deceased's
first husband. About 34 years ago witness went with his
mother-in-law and Wm. Scott to Hackney Church. Wit-
ness was to give her away to Mr. Scott. Before the
clergyman performed the ceremony Scott impt out of the
church and Mrs. Burgess then went away. They were not

married.
The prisoner—Not on the second oemaion, b sat I was—
Mr. Beard anu the Coroner here checked the prisoner,
and he did not conclude his remark.
The witness continued, and said that the prisoner and
Mrs. Burgess were not married afterwards, nor were they
married before to his knowledge. But she told him that
she had been married to Scott while Burgess was still
alive. Burgess went to sea afterwards, and it was
believed that he was drowned.
The prisoner—l can easily prove that we were married.
By Mr. Abbott—The prisoner said himself, four years'
ago, that he was not married.
Elizabeth Marsh, 1, Park-street, Bethnal-green, said that
on the Saturday prior to the deceased's death, she went
into her shop in the Bethnal-green-road. Scott sent for a
quartern of gm. Deceased said, "That is howhe spends the
money." Soott replied, " Yes, I will while I can get a sixpenm
to spend." Deceased stooped to settle her stocking; Scott took
up &poker and said " I will smash her legs." Witness
interfered, and shoved him away. That took place in the
room behind the shop. She left to go into the shop,
saying " That is language to use to a 'dying woman."
She took up a pound weight, and flung it at
him, but witness caught it in her hand. Mr. Scott
kicked the deceased behind, and then in the chest, saying
that he would kick her eyes or nose, witness could not re-
member which. Deceased, when kicked, screamed violently
and seemed much hurt.
By Mr. Abbott—Soott used to give her drink. They
used to drink together. Some time since Scott said be
would be her death.
Other witnesses spoke to acts of violence on the part of
the prisoner during her dying hours, and to statements
made by the deceased, when lying in her bed, respecting
blows which he had given her. *
Some of the language spoken of as used by the prisoner
during the last hours of the deceased is extremely revolt-
ing. To one witness the unfortunate woman had shown
a wound on her head which the prisoner hod made with
the heel of his boot.
The medical evidence testified to the existence of bruises
of recent inflietion on almost every part of the body. Mr.
Gant, of the Royal Free Hospital, said he was of opinion
that death resulted from repeated acts of violence ; and
Mr. Ralph, who was present at the post-mortem examina-
tion, fully ooncurred.
The jury, after some deliberation, agreed to a verdict of
" Aggravated manslaughter."
The Coroner said that the verdict would be one of man-
slaughter only. The question of aggravation could only
be considered by a judge in passing sentence.
A verdict of " Manslaughter" against William Scott was

agreed to.
The prisoner was then removed in custody, and large
c-owds assembled in the street to see him, giving the police
some trouble.

The New York World publishes what it calls a
" smashing letter" from Mr. Charley Meade, defending his
story, " Griffith Gaunt,"j from attacks which have been
made upon it in the columns of some of the American
journals, more particularly in the publication called The
knout Tabh. "Of course," writes Mr. 'Wade, " Griffith
Gaunt,' like Hard Cash,' is not a child's book, nor a
little girl's book ; it is an ambitious story, in which I
present the great passions that poets have sung with ap-
plause in all ages ; it is not a boatful of pap ;
but lam not paid the price of pap. By tho very nature
I of my theme I have been compelled now and then to tread
on delicate ground ; but I have trodden lightly and passed
on swiftly, and so will all the pure-minded men and women
who read me." The remarks of the writer in The Round
Table he considers so scandalous that he is about, he
says, to " sue an English weekly for merely quoting
The editor of the former periodical ho means to bring

before a jury of Americans.
\Vu read in the New York World of the 6th

" The official statement of the public debt on the let of
October, which we print this morning, shows that its amount
on that day, lees the cash in the treasury, was 2,57.3,336,941
dollars. Going back two months, and comparing this
with the corresponding statement made on the Ist August,
we find there has been a reduction of 59,762,335 dole., or
about sixty millions in 61 days. At this surprising rate,
the whole debt would be extinguished in less than seven
years. It is obvious that the rate of reduction will be
rapidly accelerated as the debt approaches extinction, in-
asmuch as large sums now annually paid to keep down
the interest will then go towards the liquidation of the
principal."
The American vessel the Miantonomoh and her
consorts are at Hamburg, and a banquet has been given
to the officers.
We understand that the Institute of Painters in '
Water-Colours, 53, Pall-mall, will open their winter exhi-
bition of sketches and studies on the sth proximo.
THE LATE CAPTAIN ANEW RIGHT. —WO regret
to state that intelligence has reached us this morning of
the death of Captain Arkwright, aide-de-camp to the Lord
Lieutenant. The melancholy event occurred in Switzer-
land, and in the presence of some of his nearest relatives.
Captain Arkwright was upon the staff of Lords Carlisle
and Kimberley, as well as of the Marquis of Abereorn, and
was highly popular and esteemed among us. In him the
service has lost a most promising young officer.—Dublin
Brining Mail.
REPRESENTATION OF BELFAST.—In consequence
of Sir Hugh Cairns having accepted the Lord Justiceahip
of Appeal the leading conservatives of Belfast have &heady
held a private meeting, at which, after some conversation
it seemed to be ascertained that, of the names mentioned
as yet, that of Mr. Chilies Lanyon would be most accept-
able to the electors for the vacancy created by Sir Hugh
Cairns's promotion.
LIFEBOAT SERVICE. —HOWTII, DUBLIN BAY,
OCT. 17.—During a strong gale from the S.S.E. this
morning (says the Staff Commissioner, H. D. Burney,
R.N.), a signal of distress was observed from a vessel in a
north-westerly direction. The Howth lifeboat of the
National Lifeboat Institution (the Sir George Bowles) was
thereupon promptly launched and proceeded through a
heavy sea to her assistance. She was found to be the fishing
smack Favourite of Peel. She had carried away her fore-
sheet and missed stays, and had then stranded off
Bahlcoyle. The sea was making a complete breach over
the smack, and the orew were in a very exhausted state.
The lifeboat was fortunately successful in rescuing the
shipwrecked crew of seven men and a boy, and in bringing
them safely ashore. The night was very dark, and but for
the timely aid of the lifeboat the crew must have perished,
as their vessel was in a position of great danger. The cost
of this lifeboat, as well as that of the Cahore lifeboat, was
presented to the Institution about four years since by
General Sir George Bowles, K.C.8., and since then the
Howth boat has been the means of saving the lives of 23
persons from various shipwrecks.
BUSBY ITE SERVICES. —The churches which were
so notorious last spring are equally notorious still, and a
visit to such a place as St. Alban's, Holborn, on the occa-
sion of what is called the " High Service," is still suffi-
cient to startle even the most tolerant of ordinary
churchmen. Priests, as they delight to call themselves,
in defiance of the most judicious of English divines, are
conspicuous in dresses unknown to the English
eye for three hundred years. Three of these
personages, bedizened with green and gold and
yellow, and covered with black stripes and crosses,
stand with their backs to the congregation
on the elevated steps at the east end of the church. The
altar is overladen with gorgeous ornament, and illumi-
nated at noonday with two great lighted candles. Pyra-
mids of rapers, such as are seen in Roman catholic churches,
are placed at each side ; the chancel is emblazoned with
tinsel banners, and the white surplices of the choristers
are the only things in the gaudy spectacle which could re-
mind one of the customary ritual of the English church.
Here, across an atmosphere which is faint with the odours
of incense, the green and gilded priests are dimly discerned
performing unintelligible manoeuvres, bowing and bending
and turning and crossing from side to side, until the recita-
tion of the words of the service becomes the smallest
part of their functions. Two white dressed attend-
ants carry a silver censor, from which the fumes of the
incense are incessantly toned, now over the altar, now I
over the book from which the gospel is read, and now into
the faces of all the Performer in the chanoeL A fine
organ and excellent singing, in which, where it is allowed,
the congregation join with impressive effect, supply the
only legitimate element in the ceremonial, andthe perform-
ance culminates in a series of flexions and genuflexions,
which can only be fitly described as the Elevation of the
Man.-2'nm.
A communication from the Dutch government
was read at the meeting of the Meney Dock Board yester-
day, intimating that they were about to send commis-
sioners to the peineipal ports and manufacturing estab-
lishments is lengialid and Scotland, for the purpose of
gaining information as to the system of lighting porta end
harbours adopted by the English government The
board decided to afford every facility to the oommissionen
on their arrivaL