The Express.
London, England, 1864-11-18 00:00:00

COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE.

Nov. 17.
(Before the Lord Ordinary.)

COD=GTON T. CODHINOTON AND ANDZB3ol.—ancLu.
JUST a

After our report left yesterday,
Louise Guillaume (examined by interpretation), said—ln
the winter of 1n60.1 1 wee cook in the service of Mr. and
Mrs. Watson, and I went with them to Malta. I moollect one
evening Mrs. Codrington being expected to tea. I opened
the door for her when she came. She came late. When
I opened the door I saw there was • gentleman with her.
I had seen him many times before, but I did not know his
name. He was a captain—a naval one, I suppose. It was
the gentleman in this photograph with his hat off. Se
did not come in with Mrs. Codrington, but he waited at
the door for her. I have seen her several times in the pub-
lic walks with him. When she went away she went with
the same gentlemen. She had stayed a long tune, and had had
• conversation with Mrs. Watson in her room. I had heard
Mrs. Codrington crying iu Mrs. Watson's room.
Creel-examined—l told nobody about this till I was asked
about two months ago whether I knew anything about it.
I was at that time in • situation at Nice.
Frsncoise Guillaume—l am mister of the last witness. I
was also in the service of Mr. and Mrs. Watson at Malta.
Admiral and Mrs. Codrington often came to the house. Mrs.
Codrington generally came in an evening drew One night
she came in a morning dress, and after tea she bad • long
conversation with Mrs. Watson in her room. The 'emote
in the kitchen heard her crying.
Cross-exanneed—l am now living with an English family
at Menton. I came to Ragland about a fortnight ago, and
I have been staying at an hotel. I have not seen Mr. or
Mrs. Watson, or any of the family, since then. Admiral
Codrisgton cams very often to Mn. Watson's, and some-
times stayed a couple of hours. Mrs. Codrington some-
times came with him, but sometimes he came alone. He
sometimes sent Mrs. Watson a horse with • side-mddle in
order that she might ride.
Re-examined—When Admiral Codrington came by him-
self, Mr. Watson was nearly always at home.
The Queen's Advocate stated that he did not suggest any
thing against Mrs. Watson.
Mr. Sovill said that since the court last met notice had
been served on the other side that evidence would be ten-
dered of an act of adultery with Colonel Anderson not in-
chided in the particulars already furnished.
Mr. Price objected on the part of 'Colonel Anderson to
the admission of the evidence.

Sir J. I'. Wilde said that though the notice had been
given on the tat of November he could not think that
sufficient time had been afforded the respondents to meet the
charge, considering that the alleged adultery was statedto
have taken place in Malta. If therefore the evidence was
insisted on, there must be another adjournment.
Mr. Boyd] coder the circumstances would forbear to posse
this additional evidence.

A witness was recalled to identify the portrait pointed
out by the witness Louise Guillaume se that of Lieutennt
Mildmay ; and this was the can for the petitioner.
The Queen's Advocate then addressed the court for the
respondent. He regretted the delay which had taken place ;
but he felt sure the jury would agree with his lordship
that it had been wider the circumstances absolutely un-
avoidable. Be thought they would concur with him in
thinking that such unprecedented language had never been
heard as that of Mrs. Watson, who was one of the butt
uteri and contrivers of the suit. She, the chief wittier,
refused to state even to the petitioner's counsel whet she '
had to depose to. All that she said was., " Put me in the
box and then I will tell what I know." It was not pressing
too hard upon that lady to say that a more extraordinary
coarse had never been taken by a poem who
believed that she held in bee hands the social ruin or salva-
tion of her most intimate friend. The respoodad had been
brought up at Florence, and she had not been formed upon
our precise English model. She was a creature of impulse—
s person of free, careless, and even reckless manure She
wee, in short, one the most guileless and deceitler persons
that were ever placed in inch a position ; and no doubt
a great deal of her present distress had arisen from her
want of regard for what people might think of her. Nobody,
' it would be shown, was better aware of that than Admiral
Codrington himself ; and if the jury also found that, not-
' withstanding Mrs. Watson's categorical diaclaimer, she had
really stated that she was a person of such extravagance of
speech—so addicted to the use of superlatives—so
mach in the habit of relating in a semational style
matters which were really of the most ordinary
character—if the jury found that, they would acquit '
the respondent, not only because Mrs.
evidence would be shaken to its very foundation ; but be-
cause se entirely new character would be put upon the acts
of the respondent, and because they would not be disposed
to pus a severer censure upon her than her husband would
have done if he had himself been placed in the box. Refe-
rence had been made by Mr. Royal to the counter pleas of
the respondent ; but the learned gentleman had passed over
that part of the case on velvet. He knew that Mies Faith-
full could not then be produced for the defence ; but one '
effect of the edjournment had been to enable that lady to
be subrxenaed, and the jury would now hear her evideue,
whatever it might turn out to be. The law which
forbade huabands and wives to be examined in cases of
this tied was one that be hoped would soon be
amended; but it operated with tenfold absurdity and
cruelty in • case where • lady's charade. was to be
destroyed on the strength of a convemation which she was
said to have had with her intimate friend, and which she
had herself no means of denying, modifying, or explaining
away. In this cue the whole evidence was that of Mrs.
Watson, and the jury woulddo well to distrust the evidence
of a person who knew that she could not be contradicted,
especially as her own conduct towards the baspondent had
conclusively shown that her story could not possibly be
true. Again, the jury would have to consider whether the
admiral's conduct had itself been blameless. In the first
place, there was the evidence token at Malta of Captain
Walter Strickland. who said that once while in a gondola
with the petitioner he asked the witness how many children
he had. Witness replied, " Two." The petitioner said,
"That is quite enough. I also have two, ad I
take each precautions se to ensure me against having
any more." That evidence was unexpectedly corroborated
by a witnessexamined by the petitioner himself. Mr.
Thos. Russell Picktboree, • surgeon in the navy, who, on
croft-examination, said he told the admire! that Mrs. Cod-
rington had complained to him that he (petitioner) had
forcibly removed her from his room, and had hurt her in so
doing. The admiral smiling said that the story was absurd,
and that what had really taken place was this :—One night,
after they had been to • party, the respondent, excited
with dancing, had come into his room and leant over his
bed; whereupon, as she would not go away, be had re-
moved her from the room." If the petitioner had so mis-
conducted himself as • husband, was he not the sort of man
that would be very indifferent about his wife going into
society, and at the same time very credulous as to any
stories he might hear reflecting upon his honour The
learned civilian then ridiculed the evidence which had been
given to prove adultery with Colonel Anderson in a gondola,
and pronounced it to be at once infamous and absurd.
The court than adjourned.

THE ALLEGED FEDERAL RECRUITING IN LAN-
COOlinth AND LONDON.—The case of the " etnigranto,"
who in such numbers had been induced to leave Ashton,
Loudon, and other places, on the representation that they
would be profitably employed at "glass works" in New
York, was the geoeral theme of discussion in Liverpool
yesterday, and Megan. Fletcher, Hull, and Stone, solicitors,
were collecting evidence for magisterial investigation,but were
unable to complete a tatisfactory ...sae for magisterial inter-
' ferenos. The collector of customs at Liverpool sent two officers
on board the Great Western on Wednesday, and ordered the
captain not to quit the river. The captain of the Greet
Western called at the police-office yesterday arid asked them
to remove 150 of the passeagera, in order that he might
sail off to New York ; but he was informed that the
police could Dot interfere. On Wednesday night a number
of the men were provided with food and shelter at the
Liverpool workhouse, and yesterday Mr. Hull supplied
them with provisions. Two of the foreigners, who came
from London, left the Great Western on Wednesday after
they heard what bad occurred. Both thew men wart
that they were offered communions in the Federal army.
From inquiries made later yesterday our Liverpool corre-
spondeots learn that in consequence of a new phase which
the case had assumed the municipal authorities had de.
termined to take the matter up again, and
that in all probability a public inquiry would take
place at the police court to-day. Our correspondents were
informed of the result of the visit of Detective-officer Car-
lyle (Liverpool) and Superintendent Dalgleish (Ashton) to
the Great Western yesterday. They went on board with
Captain Cunningham at the latter's earnest request, and
found about coo militants on board, the majority German
and Irish, and of this number about 200 were those who
, still remained of the suspected „recruits," The facts were
' fully explained by the captain (in the presence of the po-
lice) to the men. and each of the MO was asked personally
whether he preferred to go whore or to proceed to New
York. The vessel remains in the river, her departure being
prohibited. Messrs. Gilson and Cm, of Liverpool, have re-
quested our correspondents to state that they are not the
passenger scents of the Great Western.
LINCOI-N'S-INN. —The undermentioned gentle-
men .ere yesterday called to the degree of barrister-at-law
by the Hos. Society of Lincoln s-inn, viz. :—Messrs.
William Henry Campbell, 8.A., Oxford John Menne%
Et. A., London; Robert Melville, M.A.. Oxford; Lawford
rate Leo. M.A.. Cambridge; John Moulton, 8.A., Oxford;
Rowland Dowdier Vaughan Williams, M.A., Oxford ; John
Armstrong, Oxford ; William Arthur Hicks, B.A. Oxford ;
Edward George Clarke ; Richard Ward, ILA-. Cambridge ;
John Gray Warner, LLB., Cambridge; George Tuthill
. Borne'', -SLA. Cambridge ; George Winter Boroford ;
Horace Wateoi ; Lawrence Craven, M.A., Cambridge;
John Edward Jerkins, and George Cirdale, 8.A., Oxford.
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