The Sun.
London, England, 1864-11-23 00:00:00

passed between the various parties, contending that

was impossible that two ladies could have written such
letters after so gross an outrage had been committed.)
He thought, therefore, they might dismiss Miss Faithfull
and that part of the charge. In 1858 the Admiral and Mrs
Codrington proceeded to Malta, and evidence had been
adduced that Admiral Codrington treated his wife in the
kindest possible manner, as bad been proved by Dr. Peck-
thorne, the medical officer there, Emily Miller, who was 10
years in the service of the Codringtons as nurse, and many
other witnesses. But what was the course of life Mrs

Codrington pursued ? The admiral held a high official
position, and being obliged to rise early in the morning he
was anxious to go home early at night. When they went
to the opera, dinner parties, and similar places, they went
home together ; but when she went to balls the admiral
could never get her away, and was obliged to leave without
her. Dr. Pickthorne and others remonstrated with her on
the subject on family considerations, and on the score of
her health, but all remonstrances were unavailing. And
what was the state of the admiral's household ? In the
morning he collected his household together, and where
was Mrs. Codrington P In bed, Never a t family prayers,
and systematically attending to her duties. For her own
self-indulgence she neglected her family by staying out to
three or four o'clock in the morning, with whom would be
shown in the sequel. If she did not come home with the
admiral with whom did she come? Why, with Col. Ander•
son and Lieut. Mildmay. Whenever she went home with
either of these gentlemen the gondola got out of trim, but
the waterman declared that the boat never got out of trim
except when Mrs Codrington was accompanied by one or
other of those gentlemen. The gondola was a large heavy
boat, rowed by four men, and not a little craft that would
soon be put out of trim. The witness Duck had been
sneered at, but he held a respectable position as butler to
a banker, and resided in the banking-house, a positioa
which he could not be likely to obtain without a very high
character. Besides this, witness after witness spoke to the
same facts, and it was absurd io suppose that they were all
to be disbelieved. On arriving at home Lieut. Mildmay would
go in the house, stay an hour or two, and sometimes the ser-
vants never saw him go out at ail. Therefore they formed a
pretty clear idea of what Mrs Codiington's habits were. The
first charge of adultery in the order of time was with
Lieut. Mildmay, and it would have been supposed that it
these statements ware untrue, or were to bo explained,
Lieut. Mildmay would have appeared before the com-
mission to which he was invited. Why was he not here
under the peremptory orders of the Horse Guards to clear
Mrs Codrington. He could not believe that Lieutenant

Mildmay, unless he were lost to all sense of honour, could
not have come at all haz9.rds, if he were innocent, to vindi-
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cate the character of Mrs Codrington and his own. Ad.

verting to Mrs Watson's evidence, he remarked upon that
portion of it in which she spoke of the unfortunate at•
tachment Mrs Codrington had formed for Lieutenani
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Mildmay, and her efforts to bring her to a better mind,
Foul charges had been made by Mrs Codrington against
Mrs Watson that she.had passed whole days with tho admiral,

although the queen's Advocate had since stated that it was
never intended to impute immorality to Mrs Watson, but the
statement had been placed upon record, and what inference
were the jury to draw from such an allegation. The fact of
such an allegation being planed upon the record could only
boar one interpretation, and he had felt bound, painful as
the trial had been, to place Mrs Watson in the witness-box,
in order that she might solemnly deny so gross a charge.
The statement that Admiral Codrington was unduly
familiar with Mrs Watson was as untrue as that

he had attempted the virtue of Miss Faithfull.
Something had been said of the manner of Mrs
Watson in tho witness-box, but the jury would not be
surprised at some indignation being exhibited
by a lady against whom so foul an insinuation had been

launched. He justified Mrs Watson's evidence, contending
that Mrs Watson never expressed her own opinion that

Mrs Codrington was more suffering than sinning, but merely
said that Mrs Smith, Mrs Codrington's mother, wauld find
it some solace to her in her closing moment, to believe
that her erring daughter was more suffering than sinning.

Mrs Watson thruughout snmed to have acted with the
most Christian kindness towards Mrs Codrington in con-

',sealing her folly, her frailties, and her wickedness, and it
was Mrs Uodrington who had turned round to inflict a

sting in the most vital part of a woman's character.
(The learned gentleman had not concluded his address
when we went to press.)

SHIPPING-THIS DAY,

LONDON, Nov. 23.—Wind this day at noon—South-
Easterly ; moderato breeze and fine weather, but rather
cloudy.
PonTsmounr, Nov. 22.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Cold-
stream, from Lisbon• Sailed—Her Majesty's ship Geyser,
for Plymouth.
OFF DovEn, Nov. 21.—Arrived—Cella, screw steamer,
from New York.

PLYMOUTH, Nov. 22.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Polly

flea' London for Mauritius—Queen Bee, front London fur
Adelaide.

CARDIFF, Nov. 21.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrived—Henry
Brown, from Quebec—Blue Jacket, and Itcindeer, from
Bilboa,

PILL, Nov. 21.—Wind S,W., light.—Sailed--Reindeer,
for St John's, Newfoundland.
PLIMOUTH, Nov. 23.—Wind W.—Arrived—Alexandria,
from Bremen, with loss of bulwarks, staneheonr, and other
damage.

BRISTOL, Nov. 21.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Creecencia,
'tutu Liverpool foa Ha vannah.

(BY ELECTUIC TELEGRAPH.
Plymouth, Wednesday Morning.

The brigantine Richmond, of Liverpool, with sugar from
Cardenas, August 28, put into the Sound last night in a
disabled state,

(BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH,)
GRAVESEND, Wednesday Morning.
Arrived, Nov. 22—Spirit of the Ocean, from Pugwa.sh
—Catherine, from Rio Janeiro—John and Ann, from
Boulogne.

DEAL, Wednesday Morning.
Anchored—Moskwa, for uardiff—Mindort, for Vancou-
ver's Island—both from London.

SINGULAR CATASTROPIIE.—A few days ago a
butcher, going his rounds near Stuttgardt at an early
hour in the morning, perceived the smoke and reflection of
a fire in the fields. On approaching the spot he found a
man burned to death under the charred fragments of a heavy
waggon. Of the four horses, three were dead and roasted,
the fourth, all but unscathed, standing quietly by. It
would seem that the deceased man had been driving a load
of hay along the highway at night. Coming near the spot
where his master's fields continence, a horse, or some of the
horses, getting restive, wanted to leave the road and take
their accustomed way across the country. Before he could
prevent them they had dragged the waggon into the ditch,
overturned it, and buried the man, who must hive been
walking at his side, under the hay. Ono of his legs and
arms were broken, the lantern he carried in his hand
smashed, and the hay set on fire. There he lay, unable to
crawl from underneath the oppressive weight, and was
slowly roasted.
SHERMAN'S ALLEGED ADVANCE UPON CHARLES,
TON.—The Manchester Examiner, under date of the 10th
November, publishes the following telegram :—" General
Sherman has left Atlanta, with 40,000 men and forty-five
days' rations, for Savannah and Charleston. Atlanta has
been burned, and the fortifications destroyeVl