The Sun.
London, England, 1855-12-03 00:00:00

Witness was to show him into the drawing-room. Sir
H. Seale was a middle-aged man. When the gen.
tleman called he asked if Mrs. Hawker had ar.
rived. Mrs. Hawker was in her bed-rown at the
time ; witness showed him into the lower room. Mrs.
Hawker met him on the stairs. She said, "Do come
up, and see what beautiful apartments I have." He
went no stairs. He remained in the house till ten or
hair-past la the evening. He arrived about four o'clock.
Sir Henry called almost every day. The dressing-room
was kept locked on the passage side, and my
servant seas forbidden to go into it. There
was a doer that communicated with the upper
drawing-room and dressing-room. She did not knew
if Sir Henry's clothes were kept there. Ske had seen a
cabinet box in the room with Sir Henry's name on it.
Sir Henry dined almost daily with Mrs. Hawker, and
remained until 10 o'clock, and sometimes 11 and past 12
o'clock
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Mrs Hawker's
bedroom door, and in the bedroom she had seen him
several times, and had heard him in the bed-room when
she had not seen him, the bed-room door being shut.
She had seen him in the bed-room mornings and
evenings after the door of the house had been closed.
Witness went into the lower drawing-room where she
saw the defendant lying on the sofa asleep. Mrs. Hawker
bad gone up to her bed-room. On one occasion she
saw Mrs. Hawker and the defendant quarrel. She or.
dered dinner and went out, leaving Dr. Sing in the
house, and did not return until nine or ten o'clock in
the evening. Sir Henry also went away, and returned
between six and seven o'clock. Seven o'clock wee
the usual dinner hour. Mrs. Hawker had
not returned, and he waited dinner for some time,
and then left. Mrs. Hawker's servant bad also left the
house, returned, and left again. When Mrs. Hawker
returned, Sarah Keen had not returned. She afterwards
came in and was sent out, when she and Sir Henry
came back together. A fly came up to the door, and
she believed it brought him. He remained that evening
about an hour. Witness had seen Sir Henry leave the
house one morning between nine and ten o'clock.
He had been at the house the previous evening
so ,late as eleven or twelve o'clock, in the lower
drawing-room with Mrs. Hawker. He went away in
a fly. Sir Henry was in the habit of bringing and send.
' ing sundry parcels, hampers, game, and such like. She
had seen a small portmanteau brought. Other hampers
frequently came to the house. Sarah Keen used to take
up the breakfast, but witness had seen frequently two
cups and saucers on the tray, with an abundance of eat-
ables. (Laughter.) Sometimes she took but one up,
and then came down and say her lady wanted another.
The blinds of the house were always kept
down—from morning till night—the same when Sir
Henry was there or not. Sometimes when Sir Henry
was not there, the drawing-room blind was drawn up
a little. When Sir Henry has called at the house he
has been told Mrs. Hawker was in her bedroom, ge
said, Oh, I'll go up to her, and had gone up and knocked
at the door and gone in.
Cross-examined—Witness had no:employment, and
since she had left Plymouth she had been residing at
Piumstead, near Woolwich, for amusement. She had
spoken to her own servant about what had occurred be-
tween Mrs. Hawker and Sir Henry. It was natural
she should ; the house was taken at 3/. 10s. per
week. Had anything been unpleasant, Mr.,
Hawker could have been got rid of. Sir Henry came
before Mr. Hawker, and saw the lodgings. The South
Devon Militia, she believed, was quartered the whole of
the time at Plymouth and Mount Wise. Sir Henry
dined and had luncheon almost every day. It was rather
extraordinary, but she had let the house, and was paid hes.
rent. It occurred to her something was going on im.
proper, but she did not know Sir Henry was a married
man. She generally remained up until after Mrs. Hawker
retired to see all was right. Witness answered the door
occasionally, but Mrs. Hawker wished her own servant
to do it. She could not say if the name, Sir Henry's
dressing-room, was given to it before she knew his
name. Mrs. Hawker called it so. She did not
go into the room from curiosity. She did not listen at
the door, nor put her ear or eye at the key-hole. Wit-
ness heard him in Mre. Hawker's room several times
when she bad been going to her bed-room at 11, half-past
11, and 12 o'clock at night. Shenever troubled herself to
see who went in and out of the house. She did not conctra
herself much about what was going on, and she thought
Sir Henry was a widower, and did not consider there
was so much harm in it as if he had been a married man.
(Laughter.) She knew Mrs. Hawker was living sin
parate from her husband. She never remonstrated with
either, nor told Mrs. Hawker to leave the house. Witness
and her servant, also residing at Piumstead, went to
Plymouth to identify the defendant. At the request of
Mr. Bulteel it was arranged a County Court officer,
named Ambrose, should take them to Maker for that
purpose.

The case was not concluded when we west to pren.

FRENCH AND ENGLISH ALLIANCE.

NAVAL AND MILITARY COMMANDS.
It is understood that the late visit of the Duke of
Cambridge to Paris was principally in the nature of a
military mission. Numerous communications have re-
cently passed between the two Governments on the
subject of the naval and military commands. Our ally
urges very Icrcibly the necessity of instituting an us-
disided command of the military forces in the Crimea,
and, on the ground of the immense preponderance of
the French army, proposes that a distinguished French
officer should be appointed generalissimo. The Emperor
on this condition is quite prepared to transfer the French
fleets in the Black Sea and the Baltic to the common/.
of British Admirals. Of the practicability of carrying
out this delicate proposal, it is premature to pretend to
offer any remark ; but it must be said that the honour-
able spirit in which it is submitted to the British Go.
vernment entitles it to the most serious and favourable
consideration.—Morning A drertiser.