The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-04-19 00:00:00

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Mr. Bailie, the hool.Advocato, will fill the vacant
seat on the judicial bench in Scotland, and will be stle•
ceeded as Lonl Advocate by the present Solicitor•Gene-
roil for Scotland, Mr. David Muir.
Mr. William Chamber,. (of Chambers Amnia!, ke.),
has given to the inhabitsnts of Peebles, his native place,
the property of an institution, to be called " The Chain.
hers Institution." The buildings, including a public
assembly hall, a museum and gallery of art, reading-
room, and libraty, will, it is said, coat about £720,000.
COOL APPROPIIIATION.—A gentleman, drecaed in con'
Microbic fashion, arrived at the Golden Lion Hotel,
Stirling, driving a gig which he had hired in Alio,.
Having ilineti, and made himself oinufurtoble, lie in•
formed the hotel keeper, that as he hod to visit a gentle-
man in the neighbourhood, and as its gig was • little
dusty he would avail himself of one of Mr. Cainpliell'a,
with which be would retuni in an hour uric, when lie
would pay for the convenience, and return to Allos.
He accordingly got possession of • horse and gig—and
went off with it.

DARING THErT.—On Friday afternoon Mr. For-
rester, baker, Gordon-street, Glasgow, proceeded to
the Royal Bank, shortly b.fore tl.e time of closing, to
lodge a stun of money. Having counted out £175 in
large notes, lie placed them in a bundle on the telling
table, and was about to count out some small notes to
make np Vie soon he wished to lodge, when • person
asked him if he could give him a £5-note for five I:1-
notes. This he was about to do, when, on turning
round, he saw, or thought he Saw, • hand hastily drawn
from the counter, and when he looked more particularly
found, to his surprise, that his bundle of £l7:, had dia.
appeared. He then oilerved a smart little fellow
hastily leave the bank, whom lie at one suspected of the
theft, and whom lie immediately followed. On gettiog
to the street. however, the fellow ILA tlGlted the
corn r, Iv fore 'Mr. Forrester could give the alarm. l'he
during thief cam,. 'mmtly escaped, but we hope only to
be captured. Information was at once given to the
hut as yet we hove not heard of any traces of the
rascal having been found.
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ENGLISH I ~Ke,pr. IN SCOTLAND.--.tn interb,cu-
tnr Iwo been issued by Lord Kinloch in the Court of
Sessions. in Scotland. in the Celle of "Joel r. Gill,"
which, if ultimately suataineil, win go for to destroy
the refuge hitherto found in S,otland by English bank-
rupts. Mr. William Gill, twrister at law, Lincoln's
Inn. after 40 days residence in Tibenuory, in the ialand
of Mull, applied for and obtained sequestration in the
Sheriff Court there in Anguat last. under cireuniatances
rendering it improbable that his creditors, who were all
in England, could be duly appriaed of, utu-li lees take
Lan in. the eroceedings under the aequedrat ion. Mr.
Joel, One or his creditors, applied to the Coed of
Session, kr mall of the MN oestrati (((( , and on the 7th
of October last Lord lienholuie granted recall, on the
ground of buperfect designation in the Gazette. This
decision was carried before the judges of the second
division, who ordered the case to he enrolled of new on
• more complete record of the facts. The case was then
fully debated before Lord Kinlock. who recalled the
sequestration on the ground that Gill was not subject
to the jurisdiction of the Scottish Conde in the trios
sense of the statute. This judgment having been cm-

ried by reclaiming note t, the Stconil Division of the
court of Stadion. the CAM: s.4h &hated before thelr
! lordships, before the Court rose for the spring vacation,
and was ultimately put out for further iliseusaion vu au
early day in the summer session.