The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-04-20 00:00:00

Debonsbire.

Exma.—The City Sheriff's glover will have a
good time of it. That high official has had to give a
pair of gloves to the learned Judges at the recent
arises, bemuse it was a maiden sense ; and on Mon.
day he had to give the Recorder a pair of gloves,
because it vu a maiden sessions. It was mid in the
Guildhall that when a maiden sessions followed a
maiden arise, the High Sherif is bound to give all
city maidens of a size a pair of gloves likewise. But
we rather think that the only parties who can, by
custom, claim the gloves in such a cam are the eldest
daughters of freemen, being maidens. But it is very
long since any distribution has taken place; and if
Mr. Sheriff Sanders should do the handsome by the
maidens' hands, he will be hand and glove with the
matrons of the old city for thereat of his days.

A company has been established in Exeter for the
supply of unadulterated flower and bread, at a price
proportionate to the value of wheat. They have
alread7 commenced operations in the shop lately
occupied by Mr. Blactmore, in Fore-street, and, as
might be expected, are doing a capital trade.
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THE RECENT EXTRAORDINARY MARRIAGE AT
TORQUAY. —Mr. F. R. Carter, solicitor, has pub-
lished the following explanation of his connection
with the extraordinary marriage at Dawlish. He
says :—"The short facts of the case as far as I am
concerned are as follows :—ln January last Mrs.
Crews, then Mrs. Oliver, and her son, consulted me
with reference to the case of her son-in-law, who
had been committed for trial on a charge of embez-
zlement She stated that he had obtained from her
a considerable part of her late husband's property,
and that she was liable on a bond for £4OO more,
that she was about to be married, and inquired of
me the effect it would have on her interest under her
husband's wilt I perused this will, which she
handed to me, and informed her I was of opinion
that, having parted with a portion of the property
to her son-m-law, she had committed a breach of
trust as executrix. Thereupon I was instructed to
take counsel's opinion on the effect and operation of
her intended marriage. I took the opinion, which
confirmed my own, and I then sent a copy of it to
Mrs. Oliver and her son. About a fortnight after-
wards, the man called Crews, accompanied by Mr.
Holman, called on me, and stated he was about to be
married to Mrs. Oliver, and that arrangements
had been made between them, without disclosing
the nature thereof to me, and inquired if I thought
he could rely on Mrs. Oliver's word. I replied that
as bx ea I knew he could do so. At this time Crews
was a perfect stranger to me. It is wholly untrue
that I directly or indirectly had anything whatever
to do with the marriage in question, or procuring or
bringing together the parties hereto. About a week
subsequently Mrs. Oliver and Crews called on me,
and stated that they were about to be married. I
informed them that the breach of trust would have to
be made good to Mrs. Oliver's children, and also that
the other property would then revert to them, ac-
cording to my previously expressed opinion' and as
counsel had advised. This Crews said he fully un-.
derstood, as Mrs. Oliver had explained the matter
to him. The only deed that was signed by Crews
and his wife was a security to the children for the
amount of the breach of trust committed, and that
was signed not on a Sunday, nor at my house, but
on Tuesday, the 2nd of February, at Dawlish, in the
presence of Mrs. Oliver's son. It having become
necessary for Mrs. Crews, in obedience to an order
of the Court of Chancery, with respect to the breach
of trust, to make an affidavit of the monies she had
received and paid as executrix of her deceased hus-
band, she made this on the day of her death; it con-
sists of a few items only, and which she voluntarily
supplied to me.
LIRKEARD AND Looz UNION.—Mr. Fitzroy re-
ported from the committee that the proposed ad.
ditional capital to be raised by this canal com-
pany for the construction of the railway and works is
£13,000, and the amount of loan £4,000. The
length of the railway Is 7 miles 19 chains, and it is
intended to form a junction with the Liskeard and
Carsdon Railway. The steepest gradient is lin 6R
It is intended to cross one road on the level. The
estimated cost of the railway is £12,000. Mr. S. W.
Jenkin was the engineer examined in support of the
Bill, and the committee were satisfied of the fitness,
in an engineering point of view, of the proposed
railway.