The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1861-11-26 00:00:00

Legal.

WOODIN r. TUE LANDO', AD filuTe-WrrirrEnx

fl*i'.w.iT 'WI PA IT we. an act ti.4 in 1.17;
Court of Exclueluer on Tocoulay, before Mr. Baron
Martin an.l • common jury. Thu plaintilf, the well-
known Mr. Wuralm, amilut to recover compensation in
damages ingtinA the defendant. for bre.tch of content.
The defendani • paid the sum of Ws. ittu court in soh*.
faction of plaintdri claim. It appeared that on the 15th
of August last the plaintiff gave • petforniance at
Yeovil, and haul announced one to take place at Cruker,
• place about tot lode. distant, on the following even.
ing. On the ltith he accor.limfly attracted with the
defendatuta to convey tbe van atitaininz his ulret,ea to
Croker. The annually failed to du It(), aitul the c0...0-
quence was that he could not carry out li. announce-
ment, and the audience being disappojeted cu11,.1 him
" hm übug," bsaft be '' no go,'" and acveral 'Mier
offenaive names, win raby the I.laintillr &Mtge,' he lust
hi, reputation. The jury win ned a verdict fur
tile plaiutiO, damages £23 above the amount paid into
court.

F..vrItsOIRDINAIIT CHAINGt.—On Satunlay, at flow
street. Mrs. Barbera Catherine Wilson, who stoad re.
mantled on bail, upon a charge of intrnnairying with
Captain le Haute Wilaon, her former husband, Jona-
than being seill alive, appeared to answer the
idusee . . iation Mr. Gafford, for the dn " efece, id he should
In. prepared to prove that the ilefewl.olt WWI the victim
of • heartless commiracy. Sho had been indicted for
endeavoming to pass off A spurious child as her own,
in orderto deprive the heir-at-law of the estate to *4 bid,
lie would, without such child, b entitled. At the lust
moment they found they had Imola a mistake,•nd with'
drew the indictment, substituting the present prosecu-
tion for bigamy, by which they thonglit they could
accomplish their abject. Mr. (liffonl added :—The fact
I was that the defendant's first marriage with Mr. Gote-
' bed AAA invalid, and all the circumstances of the case
were fully known to Captain Wilson anal hie family.
At the thaw of that marriaye tlotolwd had a wile living,
whom he had married at rolonto, in Canada. After
seine evidence had been given, Mr. Currie said it ap-
peared to hint that this was • case in which, even if a
cooviction was obtained, not inure than la. fine would
be imposed. lie thought the hest coulee would be to
take hurvties, and let the case stand over till Captain
Wlllloll should come there to prosecute. This was not
like a case in which • woman had been ruined. The
case was then adjourned till the 14th of December,
the defendant being allowed to give bail for her appear-
ance.

CONVIT A NCR OF MANIA By It tILWAY—WCANCI
r. TIIR LONDON AND NoRTII WENTERN RAILWAY
COMPANY. -- This case came before the Lord Chief
Baron, and Barons Brennwell, Channel% and Wilde, on
Tecsday. It had previouvly ken tried before Mr.
Overend, Q.C., bitting as commissioner in the Court of
Common Pleas. The declaration alleged that the defen-
dants had contracted to carry the plaintiff's horses from
Edge-hill, near Liverpool, to Wolverhompton, and that
in consequence of negligence inn providing proper trucks
tine homes were innju.m.l. The defends, is ne•nd 1:25 into
court, and as to the rest pleaded never indebted. It
was admitted thet the plaintiff had delivered three
horse", with four others, belonging to a person named
Keating. who declared that the value of each home did
not exceed 1:10, and that in consideration of the cinarges
at which they were to be curried it would be at tine
owner's risk. The horses were placed in • truck, the
bottom of which proved defective, and the plaintiff's
horses were injured. If the company were to be held
liable in law for their full Value tine damages would Inc
LIZ, but if the plaintiff was to be bound by the
declared value, then tine £25 paid in the court was
sufficient. At the trial tine jury found for the plaintiff
for tine amount claimed. A rule was subsequently
obtained to net aside the verdict, and to enter it for the
defendant, or for • noneuit, and it now came on for
argument. —The Lord Chief Moon, in delivering
judgment, said that, without saying whether the agree-
molt that the homes should he carried at the owner's
risk was • rearnonable agreement, be was cleanly of
opinion that tine declaration of the value of tine hones
was not so mixed up with it ae to be void without it.
The declaration of the value was false, and had been
made expreesly with tine view of inducing the company
to carry tine or.eni at a lower charge. By tine rearm en,-
lion of the learned countaniwnioner this ennui t we:e called
upon to act as a jury, and when a person made a
declaration which IYAS false, he could not, am a juryman,
hind, or, as • judge, recommend • jury to find, Out
other value should be set than that which Inc had
himself net with the view of including others tin act
for his benefit. For these rea.ons tine rule would be
rued. absolute. Tim other learued judges concurred.
AN EXTRAORDINARY DELIVERY.— A well-dressed
*omen, named Elizabeth Barbara Loring, aged 36, a
native of Holland, was brought up on retuned, before
Mr. Kelfe, charged on • custour-Inouse informakion, with
smuggling five pountle of cigars, nine pounds of foreign
mainufacturcd tobacco, • quarter of a pound of tea, and
half • gallon of Hollasids gin,by which she hail incurred
• penalty of £loo.—The cigars, tobacco, and gin, were
concealed beneath her clothes, on the front and back of
her person, the inside of her stays, and about • espaci•
one erinoliue.—Mr. Salle eentenoml her to pay • fine
of 1:100, and in default to be imprieoued for six
months.

SUITORS IN PERSON.—The time' dull monotony of
legal arguments for the opinion of the Court sitting in
Hamm, was 'somewhat relieved on Thursday afternoon,
by the applioation of three female suitors in person.—
The fird was • little 'lent wornan, with some vague And
mystified ideas of suffering and wrong from the •nnoy-
*nee of her neighbours, sad pei jury by the Duke of
Brunswick She also complained of the conduct of one
of the metropolitan police magistrates, and appeared to
be excessively annoyed with a paragraph which appeared
some time buck in one of the morning papers, wherein
allusion was owls to the probability of her suffering
under sonic merotel infirmity. Sloe, however, was in-
formed that the Court 'mull not assist lice--The second
applicant was Mns. Cobbett, who again renewed her
application for a habeas corps., sind permission for her
husband to sue in forma pcsaptria. The Lord Chief
Justice informed her that she had made an aoplicrotion
on both points this term, that she had been listened to
attentively, her application well considered and decided
on, and that consequently she could not be heard again
with reference to them. This appeared to rouse Mrs.
Colobetes ire. She gave vent to her feelings with great
volutoility, and refused to desist until the Lord Chief
Justice insisted in a peremptory tone that she should do
so. He also informed her there was a limit beyond
which the Court could not allow her to go. She had
been patiently heard on • former occasion, and lie could
not allow of the tinie of the public being wasted by the
repetition of the 81,1111 C motions during the Mlle term—
no counsel would be allowed to do it. Mrs Cobbett re-
plied that as ale could not get justice there she must go
elsewhere, to Alija the Lord Chief Justice rejoined the
sooner the letter. Mrs. Cobbett, after repeated cow.
mailds from the Bench to desist, left the court denounc-
ing their lordal'ips' conduct, which aim characterised A.
• disgrace to the country.—The next and third applicant
was Miss Fray, who has become notorious from the
litigation she has been involved in, arising out of an
action which she brought against the Countess of Zet-
land for • wrongful dismissal, she being her ladyship's
maid, and one against Mrs. Potter, the housekeeper, for
slander. Her present application was to compel Mr.
Vowles, who was at one time her attorney, and against
whom she ',nought 1111 action for negligence, to complete
the judgment roll that she might have her costs taxed.
—The Lord Chief Justice said the Court bad always
thought she was entitled to some costs, and the delay
that bad °mynas' was, no dot-lit, to be attributed to the
wailt of the necessary information in tier affidavits, kr.
—The Court was willirg to assist her, and they granted
a rule nisi, calling upon Mr. Vowles to show cal., why
he did not complete the judgment roll as required by
the applicant.

THE BLACK BUGLER AND THE COLONEL:—The fol-
lowing story, showing how the colonel of the 2nd West
India Regiment was once foiled by a black bugler, is too
good to be lost to the public :—ln the year MI, when
the whole world was thinking and talking of the world's
fair in Hyde Park, the colonel was one day startled on
parade by the approach of his bugler to make the modest
request of a furlough of sufficient length to enable him
to go over to London and see the Exhibition. Cutrey
MU sternly ordered back to the ranks, with the alter-
native of the guard-room, and lie retired, niuttering,
however, that, furlough or no furlough, his journey to
London was a fixed fact. The nest mondug lie was
missing stroll-call, the fact being that be had engaged
himself as stoker in one of the mail steamers, and was
at that moment sailing pleasantly out of the harbour.
He came to London, saw the Exhibition, had his spree
out, and when he wan tired, or had spent all his motley,
he preseuted him-elf at the Horse Guards, and gave hini•
self up as • deserter. It was soine time before be could
gain belief for his singular tale, and had to play a
selectiou of the colonel's numerous bugle calls before lie
could prevail on the authorities to order I • into
custody. At last lie was duly taken priiioner, and
shipped for the West Indies, along with • detachment
going oat. When the ship had been some days at au
the officer in command, a young lieutenant, found great
difficulty in collecting the men at meal time, having no
bugler with his detachment. "On this hint" CuNey
slake," politely offering to relieve the officer of a
world of trouble, by ilaying daily the necessary calls.
His offer was accepted, and the seivice duly performed
during the remainder of the voyage. On the arrival of
the ship Cuffey was delivered up to his angry colonel,
who immediately ordered him to be taken into custody,
preparatoly to regimental cella-martial. Just, how-
ever, as the guard were takiiig him off, he called •
parley, and politely iiiforiued the colonel that lie could
not be tried as • deserter, inasmuch as, Laving been
doing duty since the commission of the act, he was now
as free as before he left the regiment. There was no
gainsaying this well-known point of military law, and
the colonel teas compelled to content himself with
simply ordering Coffey back to his duty, amidst the
broadest permissible grins on the countenances of his
ebony coturades.—Uuded Serrice Gazette.
THE PALM TRlE.—This tree, which grows in tropical
countries, is most important, on account of the many
uses to which its products are applied. From it is ob-
tained the cocoa nut, date, and other fruits. When fer-
mented, it yields wine; wax and oils of various kinds are
got from it, and its leaves are manufactured into cordage.
The centre of4:11e tree also yields :sego flour, which for
mummy year, put has been successfully applied by the
Messrs. Wothersnoon of Glasgow in iusinufacturing their
now celebrated Glenfield Pateut Starch, and which we
observe has for some yeses been solely and exclusively
used in Her ilejesty's Laundry, and has been pronounced
by the Queen's Laundress to he " the finest starch she
ever used." See lice testimonials on every packet.
A Stymy COLIGT•HIP.—IR • town not 20 miles how
Rye—we 'Aim, that is &Lott the distance to Hastings
—on the sth November a respectable tradesman entered
the shop of abi other in business, and after spending
the afternoon in a convivial and pleasant manlier, was
invited by the latter to take • cn of tea and to pirtake
of • Imiring, • coatom much forowed in there parts on
sth of November; whilst partakiog of tea, the invited
gue,t said to his frieud, "I think I shall marry your
aoris;ant," and then turning to the young lady, offered
to marry bee on the very next day; the lasly immediately
as+entett and both agreed to the contract, which wes
imusediitely formally drawn up and signed ; the ring
wan purchased the same synths', and an application
made to the proper authorities for a license. The lady
all this time looked upon the matter as a joke, but on
finding that the gentleman was really in earnest, alio
determined upon fulfilling her part of the engagement,
and on the folios Mg Saturday, after •eourtithip of three
*liar days, tha maims knot was tied.