The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1860-09-11 00:00:00

EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF COURTSHIP.

At the Northampton County Court, on Satunlay
we k, a female nation! Catherine el ICI Hie a married
woman, who for the last five months has been dreadng I
lwrself in node attire, 'busing herself off to be a mail
and the son of her husband, and who has been received
.1a the accepted suitor of Mini Ellen Smith, underwent
examination. The extraordinary circumstances which
surrounded this case, rt mitring it in many reapects
Mfferent from those of • similar description which have
occurred in this country. caused an imineum crowd ..f
persons—particularly of females—to thrmig the court
and tic arelillei leading thereto on Saturday, in order
to catch a glimpae of the prisoner -the female Lothario
and her dupe. The prisoner was brought up in the
custody of Mr. Inspector Evans. She is said to have
marrie.l at li, and to he now 23 year.. of age ;
judging from the boyishness of her size, and the general
juvenility of her fare anti appearance, we should not
take lire to in, above IS at present. She looked a neat,
ilapp...r, :loart sort of )otang fellow, and very respectably
attmed. Sae wore 011 the (mirth finger of her right hand
lenereme ring, emit a iniii,,•• a stilt which gliatened, awl
which she did not fit to h.w off to the best advantage
as a present she had reerired f Miss Smith. She
carri,d II icr hand lit r elotli cm., with peat
and b.:ipl. Her ha .r, a 1 f ,sidenalde cut, and
short, Was litally partedon the left side. and well brushed
up and oiled. She wore a dark.eoloured coat, much in
the Newili eket fashien, with outside letekets. Iler sest
awl ft-netters were light alei well eloped ; and her boots,
heed Up ill front, Were heavy, aud what are c died
Balmoral*. Alt..,:ether, elle presented the general out-
line of a pretty little Man, and there was nut 0110 ill
court, who, if they met her in the streets, or coliver.ed
with her, would ever eutertain the thought that she was
a female. If she wag the •• oust reed of all observe'," on
Saturday, the eenam who ranked next to her in point of
interest was modem .bly Hiss Smith, who was htrettent
with her father, brother, and friend., and who appeared
about 17 years of age. Miss Smith was sum well and
faaloonehly dressed, her hounet and large Cashmere
shy. I being new. She is rather above the middle height.
Her Matinee are small and hatebionie, and her manners
are much more lady.like than one would expect to find
in her walk of life. We understand that she has always
conducted herself with great propriety in Bedfordshire,
of which county she is a native, and therefore it is not
wondered at that she blushed deeply, and otherwise
moms' to fret greatly the awkwardness of her situation.
The prmoner, on the contrary, bore the ordeal through
which she Was 'meting with a g...i deal of nem...tire
and ti as. though, toward the close, she shed a few
t. ars. Her husband Was ill toWII, but Was not lemma.
The only witness ctnuiijioah was Miss Smith's father, a
decent-lot.king elderly man, who stated the general facts
of the ease. Ile Nod the primmer was the wife of a
painter, her first wind,, to whom she rats merried at
Cheltenham /ICV1:11 years ago, when cliv was sixteen years
_

Mr. Srtberroat said that, after a careful consideration
of this most extraordinary caoe, the magistrate. hail
COllle to the conclusion th a they had ie. power to inter
(err. The ease hail originatol in Bedfordshire, and there
the father of Miss Smith could commence all acti ~,, in
the couoty or wine other civil court against the prisoner
an.l her husband for the logs of his Ilnugliter'a services.
'fhe prisoner wept, and said it was all a fossils!' lark, and
is. the case ended.

THE CAPITAL CONVICT AT LIVERPOOL—The culprit
Gallacber, who was sentenced to be executed at Liver-
pool for the murder of his wife, was hanged on Saturday
at ii i day. He wee very penitent.
VoLUATEEILY Eon Otptain Hampton,
the agent fur Ganbaldi, is now in Liverpool, enrolling
volunteers (or the Italian Liberator. His success has
been considerable, atol he is about to proceed to Man-
cheater for the purpose of enrolling volunteers there.
Chineie turilooi of umlikty Cotmerfra Gnierm,kr.—
" A most curious sight," writes Mr. Montgomery
Martin. "met our view Oh entering the factor, a. wine
"See hundred CI • were seen busily engaged alter-
ing the 411 We and covering with a 6111101 110Mder the
" very lowest withered Tea leaves to • 'tate Gun-
" powdei. If our merchants discouraged this absurd
" practice, the Chinese could nit possibly diagniee sod
" male saleable the brown withered leaves to counter/ea
" Gunpowder. the choicest and ,11114 costly tea ma-
" port,d." Hon J ~, an and Co., London, knowing Ms-
tomer. suffer much disappointment end loss from the
objectionable custom of colouring tea, import ad their
wittiont any putakra colour on the surface.
Horniman's Pure Tea, secured in packets, is sold by
agents in this locality, aa list adtedised in oar winnow