The Express.
London, England, 1867-02-11 00:00:00

IN KZ BARIUM'S BANN.

This matter was before the court on the 12th January
last, on an application by the official liquidator of the
company for an order directing a call to be made of 401.
per share on certain shareholders who had been placed by
the chief clerk on the list of contributories. On that
°occasion the court directed the matter to stand over till
to-day, in order to enable some of the contributories, who
disputed their liability to be placed on the list, to com-
plete their cases, and get them ripe for bearing. The
court also then intimated that if those cases were not
ready by this day the order for the call must be made. It
was estimated that the proposed call, if responded to,
would produce about 500,00 W. From that direction,
however, the parties had since appealed to the Lords
Justices, who, in turn, directed the matter to be men-
tioned to them again on Monday next, but expressed their
strong conviction that the call ought to be made, and to
be made forthwith. The dissentient shareholders had not
yet completed their cases ; but the matter was in due
course again brought before this court this morning.
Mr. Selwyn. Q.C., Mr. liaggallay, Q.C., Mr. Southgate,
Q.C., Mr. Jowl, Q.C., Mr. Roxburgh, Q.C., Mr. Cotton,
Q.C., Mr. Turner, Mr. Swanston, Mr. Woodhouse, Mr.
Bushe, and Mr. Oppenheim (of the commoh law bar) ap-
peared for the several parties.
Lord lbomilly said that even if he bad not felt
as he did on the former occasion when this matter
was before him, that the call ought to be made, he should
now he bound to direct it to be made. The dissentient
shareholders were not only not ready with their cases—
which he had thought a month would have enabled them
fully to prepare—but the Court of Appeal had expressed
so strong an opinion as to the propriety of the call that
all discretion was taken away from him in the matter.
There must, therefore, be an order for a call of 401. per
share ; and the money must be paid into court on or before
the Ist April next. All questions as to the costs, except
those of the official liquidator, must be reserved for
further consideration, but the official liquidator must be
allowed his costs ont of the company's Mate.

COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE.
Fria 9.
(Before the Judge Ordinary.)
coon nay. COON 1325.

Mr. Barrow was counsel for the petitioner, the wife of a
baker at Orindon, tiomersetshire, who prayed for a judicial
separation, on the ground of cruelty. The mar-
riage was in November, 1864, and for a short
time it promised favourably enough ; but at length
the respondent began, as was alleged, to give way to fits
of passion. in which he committed acts of extraordinary
brutality. This was, however, denied, and Dr. fipinks,Q.C.,
now appeared on behalf of the respondent to support his
plea.
In her evidence the petitioner gave a dismal account of
the treatment she had received at the hands of her hus-
band. Once when she had asked him to come to breakfast
he had surlily replied that he would come when it suited
him ; and on her remonstrating he had thrown her down and
given her a kick which had broken the terminal bone of
her spine. On another occasion be had hurled • pot of
boiling water at her, and she had narrowly escaped lleing
severely scalded. He had also savagely bitten her, and been
guilty of numerous other acts of violence. The vritnera was
severely cross-eiuunined ; but Dr. King, of limile.row,
having proved that she had really sustained a fracture of
the os comigia, Dr. Spinka abandoned the defence.
Sir J. Wide then pronounced a judicial separation ; and
the defendant, on his quitting Westminster-hall, was
made the subject of a slight popular demonstration, from
which, however, he freed himself by hastily calling a cab
and driving off.