The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1862-09-23 00:00:00

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ACTION FOR &MOTION AGAINST A CLERGYMAN.—
On Thursday last a ease was called before Sheriff
Smith, at Forfar, at the instance of Helene Morrison,
weaver, Market-street, Brechin, with the consent of
her father as her administrator-at-law, against the
Rev. William Allan, minister of the parish of Tenni'.
dice, which concludes for £2OO as damages sustained by
the pursuer, and solatium to which she is entitled for
wrmnded feelings, under the following circumstances:
—l' is pursuer alleges that on or about the month og
June, 1860, the defender formed the design of seducin f
her, while she was a servant with him in his manse o
Tannadice, and of thereafter debanching her by some
other man, in order to fix the paternity of any child
which might be born by the pursuer on the latter.
That, in pursuance of said object, the defender had
promised marriage to the pursuer, and at various times
had made her presents of gown pieces, by which moans
the pursuer had been induced to have illicit intercourse
with him, in consequence of which the pursuer became
pregnant, and was delivered of an illegitimate child, of
which the defender was the father. That the defender
in order to secure himself, induced the pursuer to
receive the addresses of a young man resident
in the neighbourhood, who, on the child
being born, admitted himself to be the father of
the pursuer's child, by advice of, and promises of money
from, the defender. On the case being called an order
for condeacendeime and defences was made.
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LADY ANGLER& —Angling is becoming quite a
fashionable sport with ladies in the north of Scotland.
Among other piscatorial feats performed by fair hands,
we notice that last week the Duchess of Richmond
landed from the Spey a fine griale weighing Mb., and
three sea trout, her Grace's skill and luck being, how-
ever, surpassed on tho same river by Lady Caroline
Gordon Lennox, who on Thursday killed a salmon of
91b. and a grisle of 71b.. winding up her line and the
week's doings on the Friday by " basketing" a splendid
salmon of 2011 b.
GIFT OF THE EMPRESS OF THE FRENCH TO THE
LOCHLOMOND STEAMBOAT COMPANT.—The two splendid
vases presented by her Majesty the Empress Eugenie, ,
a short time ago, to the Lochlomond Steamboat Com-
pany, by the hand of 31. Rouher, Minister of Agricul-
ture and Commerce of France, have just been erected
in prominent places in the company's two vessels, The
one has been fixed on the chiffonniere in the saloon of
the Prince Consort, and the other in a prominent place
at the entrance to the cabin of the Prince of Wales.
They are both covered with glass globes, 16 inches in
diameter by 32 inches in height, and are planed on
mahogany stands. Dee care has been taken to prevent
any damage being done to them by the vibration
caused by the working of the steamer, or the bumping
which sometimes takes pleas at the quays, the vases
being supported by neat brass brackets, covered with
india rubber at the points where they impinge on them.
The two vases form a most valuable gift and fine
ornament to the company's vessels. They are of fine
Sevres porcelain, mauve coloured, with burnished gold
bands, and beautifully enamelled foliage and flowers on
all sides, the blush rose being most conspicuous. Each
vase is 24 feet in height, and 3 feet in circumference.
The subjoined inscription, in English and French, has
been placed under each glass case:—" Presented by her
Majesty Eugenie, Empress of the French, to the Lochlo-
mond Steamboat Company, in acknowledgment of the
attention paid to her Majesty by the directors and
officers of the company on the occasion of her Majesty's
visit to Lochlomond, November, 1860.-26th duly,
1862."