The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-07-20 00:00:00

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AN UNROMANTIC ELOPEMINT.—The daughter of •
small farmer, in the neighbourhood of Alloa, ran away
with • juvenile smith. They eloped on Saturday, 'adv.
Mg in Glasgow on the same evening en route to New
York, on their arrival at which city they were to be
married. In the meantime Vulcan, in company with
hie sweetheart, called on au acquaintanoe, with whom
they went out to take a view of the oity. In the course
of their perambulations the smith took hie companions
into a shop for the purpose of giving them some refresh-
ment. Here lie left them together, and was seen no
more. It Was afterwards discovered that he had gone to
the house where they had first called on their arrival,
and walked off with the girl's portmanteau, containing,
besides her wearing apparel, £5 iii money.

THIG EDISIBUR01:1-14:\ TIO:;IAL GALLEKY-.—The arrange-
ments for givin; E linhurrh • Nat'onal Gallery of Art
are nearly urstured. The building is completed, and the
Treasury he. appointed the first officers—the keeper
being Mr. Johnsne, of the Scottish Academy. The
trustees of the Board of Manufactures will hereafter ap•
point and pay salaries, in., from their funds. These
will be relieved of the cost of the School of Design,
which is to be affiliated with the Science and Art De-
partment. The Edinburgh School of Design has hitherto
held an insulated position, apart from all other echonls,
end he. not competed with them. Standing thus aloof,
its coat has been at the rate of €8 or no per student for
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COURT Or BBBSIOR. —EDINBURGH, June 13.—The
whole of the judges of the Court of Session assembled
this morning in the First Division Court-room, for the
purpose of rewiring Her Majesty's ookumission to Mr.
John Inglis, as Lord Justioe Clerk of Scotland. The
Interest incidental to the occasion, and the popularity
of the appointment, attracted an overflowing and almost
unprecedented assemblage to witness the ceremony.
The body of the court and centre gallery were, except-
ing the official seats, almost entirely occupied by ladies ;
while the members of the her And other gentlemen
crowded the lobbies and doorways, and thronged the
side galleries, and all those who had not taken their plows
long before the prweedings commenced were totally un-
able to obtain access. After the Lord Justine Clerk
elect lied presented his witimiseion, Mr. Baillie, the
new Loid-Advocate, and Mr. More, the new Solicitor-
General, presentsd their letters of appointment, and
were duly sworn into office. The new judge then pro-
ceeded to the Outer House, and sat AA Lord Probationer,
hearing and giving hie opinion in several oases, along
with Lord Naives. He afterwArds oonoludod ilill formal
trials by hearing a case in the First Division, his reports
on the different owes being approved by the judges
there. On Wednesday he was sworn and installed
into offioe at the inetking of the Court, and took him
seat as President of the Second Division. On the 21st
he will take his seat on the justiciary bone). It is
stated that Mr. Gordon, the senior Advooate-depute,
will be appointed Sheriff of Perth, in the room of Mr.
More, now Solioitor-General. By the elevation of Mr.
Inglis to the benoh the honorary office of Dean of the
Faculty of Advocates becomes vacant, but it is not
known on when the choice of the Faculty will fall as
leader of the Scottish bar.

MORALPI i ABINDRINSHIRR.—At the last meeting of
the U.P. Presbytery of Aberdeen, Mr. Turner, of Craig.
dam, made the following etateMent :—" So for as his
nburvation extended (speaking of the country liistrlote),
It would seem that a servant, 'nein or female, about
farm plums, who hu not been guilty, and is not known
to have been guilty, of the violation of the law of chas-
tity is the exception, not the rule ; and, again, that it is
the exception if the muter has not been chargeable,
some time or other, with corrupting those under him.
Only in one department of the community OM it be said
that this sin has not this prevalenoe—namely, females
above the rank of servants. In the oouree of the pro.
oeedinp Mr. Brown referred to the rates charged for
proclamation of banns of marriage as so high that lie had
heard it alleged by parties living in cohabitation as hav-
ing operated in the way of • bar to their marriage."