The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-11-21 00:00:00

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lara Ym.vgirrov's ease against She Saturday Review;
ia expected to be tried soon—perhaps within three
weeks, almost certainly not later than Christmas—for
the Review people have given notioe of trial at that
time, and she is pressing to have it within three weeks
before Lord Jerviawoode.

THI TOINILLY CHILD MDRDERISH. —The case of
Charlotte Winaor again flame beVre the Court of
Queet'a Bench on Thursday. Mr. Hannon, on behalf
of the Crown, moved for a rule to show cause why
certain amendments should not be made in the record
of the trial which has been returned to the court. The
object of the learned counsel is to substitute • definite
for a vague form of expression in the document in
question. Mr. Justice Shee said that the Bench would
be happy to agree to the proposed amendments if
counsel could obtain Baron Channell's saaetion. Baron
Cbannell subsequently Italie his consent, and the record
was amended. No day was named for taking the
arguments, but it must be done in the *nurse of next
week, as term ends on Saturday week, and the convict's
respite expires on the 27th inst.

A may Locum ffr Tic Dam,—The trial before a
judge of the Court of Queen's Bench at Montreal of the
persona concerned in tbe attempt to kidnap Mr. G. N.
Sanders lasted several days, and on the 20th of October
the jury retired to unsider their verdict. They came
Into court many times and had colloquies with the
judge, stating that they could not agree, and the
*censel for the prisoners claimed that this being so
they should be directed to acquit them, but the judge
held otherwise because he considered the charge fully
proved beyosid all reasonable doubt, and in fact inti-
mated plainly that the jury were pervene. Thua
matters went on, the judge stating that the jury
appeared to be in no danger of physical exhaustion' and
that they were to be treated aa if in an hotel. Aociord-
testy he kept them in their room at their tack until
the end of the sittings on Monday, the 30th of October,
and then dieehuged them, telling them that they had
calmed a felines of justice for the time, but that he
should remand the prisoners to gaol to await the nest
sittings in March. Some of the jury appear to have
objected to believe a principal witness, & Roman
Catholic, because he is a Freemason.
Ten BBILDALII.IIII Ciel bee Kane local interest.
The
.question in law relates to the validity of the
marriage of Glenfalloch's grandfather and grandmother,
a lady who we. the wife of • druggist in Chipping Sod-
bury, and eloped with Lieutenant James 'Campbell
during her husband's lifetime, and continued to live
with him as his wife until he died, some twenty years
after the elopement, her lawful husband having died about
three years after it; and the legal queries is whether
• connection beginning in adultery can be held to be •
marriage from habit and repute, or from oral acknow-
ledgment& of the married relation after the death of
the deserted lleaband had removed the legal impedi-
ment to marriage. Lord Dimple decided that the
habit and repute of marriage was sufficient evidence of •
lawful marriage. That view of the case, however, is
reckoned doubtful, and more sebum may be placed
upon the acknowledgments of the married relation
after the parties were free to marry. A ceremony of
marriage by a Gaelic miaister in Edinburgh before the
death of the Chipping tiodbury, druggist,duid relieved
his wife from her marriage with him. Looked at in
the light of the Yelverton case, the result seems per-
fectly uncertain, being dependent, in fact, upon whether
the majority of the Law Lord, who beard it in the
House of Lords be in the intellestmal type of Lord
Weetbrury and Lord Wensleydale. [They are doing
everything tounsettle the Scotch Marriage Law, which
regarding marriage as only • civil ciootreet appears loose
enough already in English eye.; but in our time, and in
the Edinburgh Civil Law Class, we were certainly
tonight theta mid-inspediinent was an effectual bar to
18111101Pletien per essimeqoeses matrimoniem. —lld.
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WINTER GAOL DELIVERY.

Days and plaees appointed for holding special oom•
missions el Oyer and Terminer and Gaol Delivery :
Flougassreataa.—Elatarday, 14744er 2. at Taunton.
COUNTY or lionraaurro4— , December 7,
at tbepastle of Winebeeter. - "