The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-07-23 00:00:00

THE PEgRAGE.

The snit which came to an end on Tuesday last was
Militated to try the right to the title and estates of the
earldomof Bolidelbane, with other material and honorary
advantages therewith connected. The last earl died
in 1862, leaving no issue, and his property, being
entailed, reverted to one of two collateral relations.
Of these the first in order was Mr. John Alexander
Gavin Campbell, or Campbell of Glenfallocht as he
has been designated in these procoedinp ; while next
to him came Mr. Charles William Campbell. a
Ileatenant in the 19th Bengal Calvary, celled for ditties.
Sion Campbell of Borden& Each litigant in making
out his title traces it through William Campbell, their
great grandfather, whose second son Janice was grand-
father of Campbell of Glinfalloch, while the sixth son,
John, stood in the same relation to Campbell of Bore.
land. admit parities, therefore, the descendants of
Janice Campbell would have the best right to the
inheritance, and all the fighting in the case has been
caused by certain singular episodes in hi. career. Like
many others of his country and clan, Mr. James
Campbell adopted the profession of arms. In 1782 be
was an ensign in the 40th Foot. employed Upon
recruiting service in the county of Gloucester. With
what mooed he performed this portion of his duties we
cannot say, norl at this period of time, is it material to
Inquire. Certain I. it that, possibly pour passer le
temps, he made love of certain sort to the wife of an
apothecary practising in the village of Chipping
Sodbary, and indimed the faithless fair one to forsake
her husband and her home to share his wanderings and
his fortunes. She accompanied him to Nova Scotia
and at once passed as his wife, being called on all
ocemions Be, CampbelL From the year 1780 to the
year 1806 this connection lasted, the cohabitation
subsisting both in England and Scotland, and the
woman being dirays acknowledged as Jamie Campbell's
wife by the Madly. Now, if Eliza Maria Blanchard
had been • single woman at the time her connection
with James Campbell began, there would be little
doubt about the validity of her marriage and the
legitimacy of her son, William John Lamb Campbell,
the father of the respondent. Bat Bliss Blanchard
was, In fact, the wife ef Christopher Ludlow at the
time of her elopement In 1780; and Ludlow did not
die till January, 1784. It was therefore argued for
the appellant that • connection which WWI illicit in
de origin scald pot Weenie the foundation of such
"habit and repute" as Todd be 111111011111 i proof of •
subsequent marriage. To this it was answered that
se the parties lived together when they were free to
lieeome man and wife, and the man gave the woman
his name and acknowledged her to be his wife, a
marriage must be held to hare been contracted. As
the parties cohabited in this mussel's Scotland, which
was the domicile of James Campbell, such • marriage
might have became valid even witheat any formal
ceremony. Their lordships dismissed the appeal. An
widow and estates, worth .C 40,000 • year, dill fdlow
this Judgment.

THE SULTAN'S lILPRBSSIONS OF PARIS
AND THE PARISIANS.
The special oorreepondent of the /risk Times tells the
following story in illustration of the isti adaiwart costars
of the Sultan :—" I was speaking to one of his =Naito
who was fluent in the French language and asked him
what the Sultan most liked in the lark Exhibition.
' Nothing In particular,' was the reply. 'Do.. he
admire the French ladies? 'He says they are hideous
to look 11, and he cannot speak to them. 'Does be not
think Parts &beautiful eity Mislays ibis well enough
for a place no far from the sea.' 'He was at the opera
test night, how does he like it? fie was laslined to go
to sleep at Trovatora but the ballet of Gaulle be
thought one of the prettied things he bad for some time
seen." He went, after all, to the small party at the
Hotel de Pill.; did he like the illuminations! 'He
thought H. Hasamann too free in the apparent humility
of his attentions , be admired the flower.; the few
ladies present rather disgusted him; he thought the lees
the best thing about them; they spoiled their
and looked like tope in pititerta, in hlseyee; where
theyshould be narrow (at foot they Were Weeded; he
thinks a finely-formed small head in woman a beauty,
and cannot comprehend why it should be made long and
ugly with dirty frissied Teases of false hair.' Why,
your Sultan seems hard to please: he tnuat, at least,
admire the expreative eyes of the French dames.' 'Net
at all; he thinks them too round and bold; they have
not the languishing tenderness of the alsiond.shaped
eyes; they seem only fitted, ha thinks, to look in the
mirrors at their horrid naked bosom.; he wonders their
men do not make them cover their necks, or, if there
must be an exposure, shorten their dresses behind.'
'But, rosily, your master hes nasty ideu I should not
listen to' is there anything in Paris that surprises
him Yes, one thing greatly; he never ceases to
wonder at the excellent manner In whieb the common
people are shod.' "