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

LAW INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

COURT OF DIVORCE.
(Before the Judge Ordinary and a Special Jury.
CODRINGTON Y. CODRINOTON AND ANDERSON.

This case was resumed this morning. It will be remem-
bered that on Saturday the case for the respondent closed,
after which, the Queen's Advocate summed up the evidence
for the respondent, and Mr Price, Q.C., addressed the jury
on behalf of Colonel Anderson, the co-respondent.
Mr Bovill, Q C., this morning addressed the jury on the
whole case. He said that four months bad elapsed since
this painful investigation commenced, and he congratulated
them that they were all well and able to give their best atten-
tion to the case, and on the approaching termination of their
labours. No one could regret that much time had been
devoted to the case, for every particle of evidence had now
been sifted, end had received every possible attention. It
would have been sad indeed if every opportunity had not
been given for thoroughly siting every piece of evidence
that could by any possibility have been adduced far the
defence. He thought it would be shown by an analysis of
the evidence that it must lead irresistibly to one conclusion
on the part of the jury, namely, that Admiral Codrington
had completely proved his case, He regretted that the
Queen's Advocate should have considered it necessary to
attack the character of every witness who had been called
for the petitioner. If cases of this kind could only
bo supported by such attacks of private character, he
scarcely knew where evidence was to be obtained, With
regard to Mrs Watson, he contended that the allegations
made against her by the Queen's Advocate were entirely
without foundation. She was in no senso the concoctor of
charges against Mrs Codrington. She said nothing about
Col. Anderson, and it was not until after the petition had
been filed that the name of Lieut. Mildmay came upon the
scene. When information of Mrs Codrington's misconduct
with Lieutenant Mildway came to light an application was
made to make him a co-respondent, but it was opposed by
the Q reen's Advocate, and the matter was not further
pressed, He urged the impossibility of the charge that
Admiral Codrington attempted to take possession of the
person of Miss Faithfull, after the lapse of seven years, and
came to the conclusion that it was a mistake on the part of
Mr Few, who thought he was authorised by Miss Faitbfull
to put that allegation on the record. Miss Faithfull had
stated that she knew scarcely anything of the matter, that
all she knew of it was that Mrs Codrington had told
her so, and that she supposed she was only to confirm
the fact that Mrs Codrington had told her so,
It was wonderful that Mr Few, as a sensible man, could
have believed such a story, while nu one complained of it
until the commencement of these proceedings. The whole
story was a concoction of Mrs Codrington's, and Miss Faith-
full had shown there was no foundation, and that she had
unwisely placed reliance in Mrs Codrington's representa-
tions. (The learned counsel read several letters which
passed between the various parties, contending tha

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 Faithful]

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 had been proved by Dr. Peck-
thorns, 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 wont 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 ? In bed, Never at 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
eoon 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 position
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 to 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 all. Therefore they formed a
pretty clear idea of what Mrs Codrinzton's habits wore. The
first charge of adultery in the order of time was with
Lieut. Mildmay, and it would have been supposed that if
these statements were untrue, or were to be explained,

Lieut. Mildrnay would have appeared before the com-
mitsron to which he was invited. Why was he not here
under the peremptory orders of the Horse Guards to clear
Mrs Codrington. Ho could not believe that Lieutenant

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

verting to Mrs Watson's evidence, he remarked upon the
portion of it in which she spoke of the unfortunate at.
tachment Mrs Codrington had formed for Lieutenan

Mildmay, and her effurto to bring her to a better mind.
Foul charges had been made by Mrs Codrington against
Mrs Watson that shehad passed whole days with the 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 faot of
such an allegation being placed upon the record could only
bear 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 the 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 Codiington was more suffering than sinning, but merely

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

Mrs Watson thruughout seemed to have acted with the
most Christian kindness towards Mrs Codrington in con-
cealing her folly, her frailties, and her wickedness, and it
was Mrs Codrington 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 ; moderate breeze and fine weather, but rather
cloudy.
PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 22.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Cold-
stream, from Lisbon. Sailed—Her Majesty's ship Geyser,
for Plymouth.

OFF DOVER, Nov. 21.—Arrived—Ce11a, screw steamer;
from New York.

PLYMOUTH, Nov. 22.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Polly
from London for Maaritiva—Queen Bee, from London fur
Adelaide.

CARDIFF, Nov. 21,—Wind W.S.W.—Arrived—Henry
Brown, from Qubec—Blue Jacket, and Itch:Weer, from
Bilboa,

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

BnisToL, Nov. 21.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Crescencia,
:roni Liverpool foa flavannah.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Plymouth, Wednesday Morning.
The brigantine Richmond, of Liverpool, with sugar from
Cardenas, August 28, put into the Souna last night in a
disabled state,

(BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPIL)
GRAVESEND, Wednesday Morning.
Arrived, Nov. 22—Spirit of the Ocean, from Pugwakh
—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 hear Stuttgardt at an early
hour in the morning, percoivad the smoke and reflection of
a Are 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 commence, a horse, or some of the
horses, getting restive, wanted to leave the road and take
their accustomed way across the ccuntry. Before he could
prevent them they had dragged the waggon into the ditch,
overturned it, and buried the man, who must have been
walking at his side, under the hay. One 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 ilTanehestcr 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. Aqantu has
been burned, and the fertineationa destrojeJi'l