The Express.
London, England, 1864-03-10 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
(THIS DAY.)

EQUITY COURT.
(Before Sir Johnly.)
:TON AND OTUCRO P. TSN AOSTRAIAAN AID MAITINN
NAVIGATION COMPANT (tditrrzo).
The court was crowded this worming with merchants,
vrsibers of the Stock Exchange, and column interested in
it was an applicetion for an ininnotion to is.
.tisin the directors of the Australian and Eastern Nevi.
oiton Company (limited), whose dealings are sow nadir-
_ sa iaveetigation by a committee of the Stock Ex-
.,:,_a.from applying to the Stock Exchange committee for
day is shares is the company, and from allotting
j..:;:muselves or their nominima any shame therein, and
daposing of any shares in the company.
%Ir. Robinson said he was requested by the Attorney-
t.erieral (who had been instructed to appear for the c00,,,nv
,,,nv ). to uk for an adjournment of the case until Tuesday.
NI:. Selwyn, Q.C., on the part of the plaintiff, mid he
ho objection to the Mina red.
The Master of the Rolls co the tem to stead over.
COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE.
(Beton the Judge Ordinary.)
TRuNYITT V. TRU/MITT AND A.
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spinks and Dr. Tristram for the petitioner; Dr.
i.„he. C., and Dr. Wambey for the respondent ; the
~,,pondent did not spriest.
In september, 1854, r. Francis Trueiat, a solicitor in
al on, married Jane Berridge. At first they went to live
ilAlcot-terrace, Primrose-hill, but afterwards at
and at Rutland-via,, Muswell.hill,
1113i38 for some years was a very happy one, and there
leer two little girls born of it. Opposite Rutland.
,::a there resided a family named Reed, in which there
young man named Henry. He did not appear to have
occupation in England, but be west from time to time
tin his rotors from MN of his voyages lad year he
i.c:a,ue very intimate with Mrs. Trnefitt. It was alleged
that they were in the habit of signalling to each other from
respective windows, and of walking oat together.
r. Tiaetitt was in the habit of going to his Wines" by the
,:,:c.hus every morning, and as his wife always made a
t, :cc of being home before him, he bad no reason to sus-
j.ct her of say impropriety of conduct. At length, how-
he received information which caused him to write
her at her brother's, at Wigston, where she bad gone to
with her sister-in-law during her confinement. This was
The respondent immediately returned with Mr.
:,01 Mrs. Berridge. and there was a scene" between the
The petitioner, who was said to have been:very violent,
.;..Ned her with having been too familiar with Henry
but for a long time she denied that she had been
of any impropriety. The petitioner told her that it
sae would confess, though he would net live with her
;4•.,,t). he would forgive her and would see that she did not
w.tt. lie then asked her where it had taken place,
.13,1 she replied "in the dining-room." There was
e,...lence to show that the respondents were
much in each others company—that they bad
been seen kissing and toying together , and that the co-
respondent had Leen alone with Mr• Trusfitt in the peti-
t: tier's house. Three letters were also put in from the
re,poodent to the petitioner, containing an admission that
rue ~-respondent had twice taken " that liberty" with her
but I,4loring forgiveness, and declaring that she could
a); !Ise if it was denied her. The petitioner claimed 2,0304
h'ilagell from the co-resposdent, who, it was proved,
sry:'l he entitled on the death of his mother, to • sum of
i.zuething under a thousand pounds.
For the respondent it was contended that the respondent
61 never in terms confessed that she had been guilty of
Liitery, and that the expressions in her letters only meant
that she had committed what was undoubtedly an indis-
creti 03 in a married woman—namely, kissing Reed—but en
indiscretion falling far short of the crime with which she
was charged. Mrs. Truestt had always, since her marriage,
been :a the habit of taking long walks, and there
L been n.thing whatever remarkable in her being coca-
siocaltv sett, to the company of the co-respondent, whose li
c.clici la not defending the suit, Dr. Deane observed, was
nornio:y .0 the extreme, but whose cowardice in running
away ought not in the least to prejudice Mrs. Truefitt. It
was el ,irged by the learned counsel that the petitioner's
se La.l been got up by Field, the detective, the daughter
f wh.se partner. a Miss Nicholls—a friend of the reopen.
called to prove the terms on which she had lived with
t:e petitioner—admitted that she bad herself been engaged
te Henri Reed. Miss Nicholls stated, however, that she
c•Josentol, at Mrs. Trusfitt's suggestion, to see him
o.