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

Scottanb.

Mr. Baillie, the Lord-Advocate, will fill the vacant
seat on the judicial bench in Scotland, and will be suc-
ceeded as Lord Advocate by the present Solicitor-Gene-
ral for Scotland, Mr. David Muir.

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Mr. William Chambers (of Chambers Journal, &O.),
bao given to the inliabit,ints of Peebles, his native place,
the property of an institution, to be called " The Cham-
bers Institution." The buildings, including • public
assembly ball, a museum and gallery of art, reading.
room, and Ural y, will, it is saki, coat about £20,000.

CA)OL APPROPRIATIOX.—A gentleman, dressed in con-
siderable fashion, arrived at the Golden Lion Hotel.
Stirling, driving • gig which he had hired in AIM'.
Having dined, and made himself comfortable, he in
funned the hotel keeper, that as he had to visit • gentle-
man in the neighbourhood, and as his gig was • little
dusty he would avail himself of one of Mr. Campbell's,
with which he would return in an hour or so, when be
would pay for the convenience, and return to Alias.
He scconlingly gut possession of a horse and gig—and
went off with it.

mum; Turrr.—On Friday afternoon Mr. For-
rester, baker, Gordon-street, Glasgow, proceeded to
the Royal Bank, shortly bufore tl.e time of closing, to
lodge a sum of money. Having counted out £175 in
large notes, he placed them in a bundle on the telling
table, and was about to count out some small notes to
make up t'ie sum he wished to lodge. when a person
asked him if lie could give him a 123-note for five
Ll-
notes. This he was about to do, when, on turning
round, he saw, or thought he saw, a hand hastily drawn
from the counter, and when he looked more particularly
found, to his surprise, that his bundle of £1.75 had dis-
appeared. He then observed 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 bad turned the
coml., before Mr. Forrester could give the alarm. The
daring thief consequently escaped, but we hope only to
be captured. Information was at once given to the
police, but as yet we have not heard of any traces of the
rascal having been found.
ENGLISH BANKRUPTS IN SU/ILA/CO.—An interlocu-
tor has been issued by Lord Kinloch in the Court of
Sessions, in Smithuid, in the ono of "Joel r.
which, if ultinistely sustained, will go far to destroy
the refuge hitherto found ill MCOtinild by English Mink-
rapt& Mr. William Gill, barrister at law. Lincoln's
fan. After 40 days residence in Tobennory, in the iiiland
of Mull, applied for and obtsineil sequestration in the
Sheriff Court there in August last, under cirenuistances
rendering it improbable that his creditors, who were all
in England, could be duly apprised of, nisch less hike
part in, the proceedings under the sequestration. Mr.
Joel, one of his creditors. applied to the Court of
Session, fcr recall of the sequestration, and on the 7th
of October last Lord llenholine granted recall, on the
ground of imperfect designation in the Gazette. This
decision was carried before the judges of the second
division, who ordered the case to be enrolled of new on
a more complete record of the facts. The caw was then
fully debated before Lord Kinlock, who recalled the
sequestration on the ground that Gill was not subject
to the jurisdiction of the :icottish Courts in the true
genre of the statute. This judgment haring been oar-