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

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MATCH.
Queen of Trumps beat Antidote.
LONONOR HALL STEEPLE,—NiI Desperandam gets the
stakes.

LAW INTELLIGENCE—(This day.)

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

The Queen's Advocate resumed his address to the jury
on behalf of the respondent. He said—The four charges
against Colonel Anderson were of such a gross and impro-
bable kind that many of them were quite sufficient, in his
opinion, to refute themselves; yet it would be necessary to
refute it by evidence which he thought would be sufficient
to dispel the calumnies heaped upon Mrs Codrington with
such hatred and malignity. The jury, he thought, would
never dream of convicting the respondent upon such evi-
dence as that of Duck and Roe, because he felt certain that
persons nurtured with the slightest tincture of good breeding
would entirely disbelieve such remarkable proceedings as
they spoke to. It was impossible to call before the jury the
remora who could do it in the most direct manner; yet he
was happy to inform them that ho should be able to call
before them a gentleman, Lieutenant Galway, who would
prove by the most incontrovertible evidence that the evi-
dence of Policeman Duck was altogether a vile fabrication.
There were, in addition to the charges against Colonel
Anderson, three charges against Lieut. Mildmay, and here
again this indefatigable 'witness Duck was again the chief
witness. It was in evidence and beyond a doubt, that
the greatest enmity existed in the mind of Duck against
his mistress, because she had reported him to the Admiral
on two occasions—once, because he refused, at her request,
to take off his hat whilst the host was passing, after which
he never for three months was allowed to do the slightest
thing for Mrs Codrington. The other circumstance was
that she again reported Duck to the Admiral fur his farui-

liarities with a Maltese girl (Teresa), and the Admiral was
so incensed against Duck that he threatened to have him
sent on board the Hibernia and flogged. Although at this
time it was evident that he had the utmost hatred and
detestation for his mistress, having, according to his own
evidence, the honour of Mrs Codrington in his hands, ho
quietly allows all this to take place and never says a word
about the alleged familiarities with Colonel Anderson and
Lieutenant Mildmay. "Why, he believed the jury would
at once disbelieve the assertions of such a man—a man who
now comes forward and never seems satisfied without he
could charge Mrs Codrington with adultery in the open
street, in a boat, or on a landing place• It might be
in such places that Duck would gratify his sensual
propensities, but to imagine any person with the
slightest degree of education and propriety would be guilty
of such a proceeding was too much for human nature to
believe. There was also a charge made by a person named
Mrs Nicholas, viz , that Mrs Codrington committed adultery
with Lieut. Mildmay at the Hospice at St. Bernard ; and
what did the accusation amount to when it becomes to be
sifted to the bottom? Mrs Nicholas says on one occasion
Mrs Codrington was absent from her bedroom some ten or
twenty minutes, therefore she must have gone to the
apartments of Lieut. Mildmay. Ho could, he was glad to
inform the jury, dispose of this charge in the most s tis-
factory way, because ho should call before thorn the
very lady to whoso room Mrs Codrington went on that
occasion referred to. That lady was a Miss Day, now
Mrs Robinson. She would state that Mrs Codrington came
to her on that evening and remained tor about a quarter of
an hour gossipping vei.h her, and then returned to her
room; and yet Mrs Nicholas, in her evidence, says that
Miss Day was not of the party. He felt satisfied the jury
knew how to deal with such reckless evidence. Tho ac-
quaintance of the Watsons with the Codringtons nom-
menced in July, 1861, and, in a very short time after, Mrs
Watson states that she became acquainted with the whole
of the secrets of the Admiral's married life. What
could have led to such a sudden and peculiar mark
of confidence on the part of the Admiral he was at a loss
to discover. This evidence of the witness against her former
friend was of the most bitter description, and her account
of the "confessions," as she called them, was most extra-
ordinary. He need not remind the jury of this lady's
demeanour in the witness-box. Whenever questions bearing
a favourable construction for Mrs Codrington were put to
her she became exhausted and overcome. She wrought her
evidence up to a sensation point, and then she quietly asked
whether she need go further. How different her bearing
when she was re-examined by his learned friend Mr Bovill;
then the was full of venom and vigour, and answered his
questions without the slightest hesitation. As sensible
men, would they be satisfied with such evidence ?
It was marked throughout with the vilest cant and disgust-
ing hypocrisy such that in all his experience he had never
witnessed before in any court of justice. But the climax
of evil was not arrived at when this estimable lady stated
that Mrs Codrington told her that she had committed
adultery with Lieut. Mildmay in the open street. What
was the conduct of this estimable person after such a com-
munication. Did she Peak off all connection with the
person guilty of such an outrageous proceeding• Did she
more than keep up the cold oonventualities which society
required. No I Why this person—this abandoned woman
—who had, as it was alleged, committed so great a ,crime
—this woman was the first person that Mrs Watson wrote
to after the death of her mother, asking for comfort and
consolation—writing to her in the warmest ,terms, and
concluding her letter as her affectionate friend. Tho learned
gentleman then proceeded to refer to the other allegations
in the petition—viz., the charges of adultery alleged to have
been constituted in London on the 10th and 21st of July,
1863, and the 2d and 11th of July of the same year. He
said the conduct of Admiral Codrington and Col. Anderson
showed that he was too honourable a man to believe him
guilty of the charges imputed against him, but that he
(Admiral Codrington) was instigated to bring forward this
proceeding by the unceasing enmity of Mrs Watson.
The learned advocate was proceeding with his observa-
tions when we went to press,