The Sun.
London, England, 1864-08-01 00:00:00

METROPOLITAN CATTLE.

There was a large supply of foreign stock on sale here
to-day, but the quality of the beasts and sheep was very
inferior, about two-thirds of the former being stores, The
demand was inactive, at about previous rates.
The arrivals of beasts fresh up from our own grazing
districts were seasonably good, and in lair average con-
dition. From Ireland and Scotland the receipts were
trifling. Prime Scots, Crosses, Devons, and Herefords,
moved off steadily, at full prices, the top figure being
ss. for 8 lbs. Otherwise, the beef trade was in a sluggish
state en former terms.
From Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, and Northampton-
shire, we received about 2,000 short-horns and crosses ;
from Norfolk and Suffolk 500 Scots and crosses ; from
Scotland 16 Scots and crosses; from Ireland 62 oxen, and
from other quarters 700 various breeds.

We were tolerably well, but not to say heavily, supplied
with sheep. Most breeds came to hand in middling con-
dition. Prime downs and half-breeds changed hands
steadily, at extreme quotations, but all other breeds were
inactive at late rates. The top price for Downs was .ss. 4d.
for 8 lbs.

The show of lambs was only moderato. On the whole
the lamb trade was steady, at full currencies, viz., from 6s.
to 7s. per 8 lbs.

Prime small calves were in request, at full quotations.
Inferior calves were inactive, but not cheaper.

We have to report a heavy sale for pigs, at last week's
prices. The supply was moderato.

Per Sibs. to sink the offal.

e. d. s. d. 1 e. d. e. d
Crse. &inf. beasts 3 4 3 8 I Primeers-wool d 0.4 6 4 N
Second quality do. 3 10 4 2 Pme.S'thdowndo.s 0 5 4
Prime large oxen 4 4 4 8 Large crse. calves 4 0 4 8
Prime Scots, &c. 4 10 5 01Prime small do 4 10 5 0
Crse. & inf. sheep 3 6 3 10 Large hogs 3 6 4 0
Second quality do. 4 0 4 4 ISmall porkers 4 2 4 6
Lambs....6s Od to 7s 01.
Suckling calves, 16s to 225; and quarter-old store pigs,
20s to 26s each.
TOTAL SUPPLY. FOREIGN SUPPLY.
Beasts ...
Shee and lambs
Sheep and lambs.... 27,120 I Calve
S 343
Calves 368 , Pigs; 9O
Pigs 3lOl

The total imports of foreign stock into London, last week,
amounted to 14,014 head. In the corresponding week in
1863,we received 13,191—in 1862,13,074—in 1861, 13,191
—in 1860, 13,481—in 1859, 11,626—in 1858, 9,653 head.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.---July 30

COURT OF DIVORCE.
(Before a Special Jury.)
CODRINGTON V. ComuNoToN AND ANDERSON.
Mr Bovill, Q.C., Mr Serjeant Ballantine, and Dr Spinks
appeared for the petitioner ; the Queen's Advocate, Mr
Hawkins, Q.C., and Mr. Inderwick for the respondent;
Mr Price, Q C., and Mr Swabey for the co-respondent.
The 'hearing of this ease was resumed on Saturday by
the examination of
John Crocker, a cab driver, who had watched Mrs Cod•
rington, by direction of the Rev Mr Watson. He said—l
saw the lady riding about London and Hampton-court. On
one occasion in November, ]863, I saw her leave Taviton-
street and a gentleman joined. He was about 40 years of
age, which agreed with the description given of- Colonel
Anderson. He did not know for a fact that it was that
person.
Cross-examined by Mr Hawkins, Q.C.—I left Hampton
Court on the 11th of July. Between that time and the 16th
I was to watch Mrs Codringtcn. I did so whenever I had
an opportunity of seeing her. I did not have interviews
with Lady Boucher, Mrs Watson, and Admiral Codrington
day by day. Mrs Codringtcn went out frequently, and I
followed her. She could not go anywhere but what I fol-
lowed her, She did not know 1 was watching her. I
nearly always gave my reports to Lady Boucher.
Sometimes I gave a report to Mrs Watson. To Admiral
Codrington I have given a number of reports. I
left off on the 25th of July last, because I did not think I
was wanted any longer. I watched at Hampton-Court and
Eccleston-square, and then the lady came to London. She
then went to Sunderland House, Surbiton. I was not at
Wimbledon to watch her. I returned to what I considered
a distasteful business. I returned to it because my feelings
were appealed to. (Laughter.) Before I commenced my
watching I saw Lady Boucher. I cannot recollect whether
Mrs Watson was present. I watched Mrs Codrington from
the 4th to the 11th of September. I then gave it up because
it was an unpleasant piece of business. Upon my oath I
did not leave because I could discover nothing. Nothing
whatever was discovered during the time, which made it all
the more unpleasant to watch. (Laughter.) On the 31st
of October I received a letter from Admiral Codrington,
and I went to see him on the following day at half-past
8 o'clock (Sunday). I did not know Col. Anderson, but
Admiral Codrington had told me he was in town. I was to
watch him. I saw him with Admiral Codrington afterwards.
The admiral shook hands with him, and they appeared to be
on good terms. There was nothing like quarrelling. They
shook hands at parting. I watched the house that day near
Eccleston-square until 3 in the afternoon, when I saw Mrs
Codrington come out. She drove to the east end of Eaton-
square, where she got out of the cab, but I lost view of her.
This occurred in consequence of her getting out of her cab
before I got out of the one I was in. I thought she might
have gone to church, so I remained till the service was over,
but I did not see her again. 1 was to be succeeded by a man
earned Topp, but I did not know him. I went on duty the
following day because he did not come. On the Monday I
saw her leave Eccleston-square, but I don't know whether
the admiral was then residing there. I watched her to a
house in Taviton-street. I cannot give a description of the
gentleman I saw get into the cab. I could not even see his
face. He was a tall man about 6 feet in height. That's all
I can say about it. I followed the cab to the Grosvenor
Hotel. I was but a short distance from the door when I
saw Mrs Codrington's cab stopped. I cant say that a gentle-
man entered this cab. I know I followed a cab in which I
supposed Mrs Codrington was, but it passed the admiral's
house in Eccleston-square. I thought I was wrong. Mrs
IVatson, when she engaged me to watch, did not give me
directions how to set to work. All she said was that it was
an honourable occupation. I know of Mrs Codrington's
desk being taken from Eccleston-square. I was outside
the house when the desk was brought by the lawyer's
clerk. I took it to a house in Chester•square. I saw it
again in the house about an hour after. Admiral Codring-
ton, Mrs Watson, Lady Boucher, and I were present.
I don't know whose house it was. The desk was forcibly
broken open in the parlour. I had my share in this trans-
action, but I suppose I had got hardened to a distateful
work. (Laughter.) I took the papers out, and they were
looked over by all. 'I he desk and papers were afterwards
taken to the lawyer's office.
Re-examined—On one occasion I watched Mrs Cod-
rington from Hampton Court to London. On arriving in
town she entered a cab, which stopped at Simpson's, in
the Strand. A message was tent in, and the cab then
drove to Half Moon-street, Piccadilly, and to Spanish•
place, Manchester-square. I saw her on another occa-
sion enter Ford's Hotel in Manchester-street, Man-
chester-square, and after remaining there for two
or three hours she left, unaccompanied by any person, and
left London by train for Moulsey, where she was residing.
By the Queen's Advocate—lt is quite possible Mrs Cod-
rington might have only stopped.
Frank Stubb, porter at 43, Pall Mall, said—ln October
or November of last year Col. Anderson was stopping there.
A lady has called upon the colonel several times, but she
never entered the house. I recollect on ono occasion a
cab calling, in which there was a lady. Col. Anderson gest
in and it drove off. It was the same lady that used to call,
It was about this time that Col. Anderson left the hotel, as
it was said he was going to get married.
By the Queen's Advocate—I cannot say positively
whether it was either October, November, or December.
I am sure it was before he went away to get married.
William Topp—l am employed by solicitors to make pri-
vate inquiries. I knew Mrs Codrington. On the 2cl of
Nee-ember I saw her come home alone, on foot. I can't say
from what direction she came, as she came from behind the
eeettion I teed taken nee When she got in the gas was
turned off.
By the. Queen's Advocate—l am what you would call an
amateur detective. Ws charge 9s. a day, I can't toll how
I first became acquainted with her. I suppose somebody
told me it was her. I asked a gill who sells fruit in the
street, who the lady was, and she told me. I had a carte
de visite given me of the lady. I watched Mrs Codrington
for 20 or 30 days and nights. I commenced in November.
The circumstances that were to intimate to me that I might
give up watching for the night was that the gas in the hall
of the Admiral's house should be put out when the lady
arrived home. Mr Birch told me the Admiral had arranged
that as a signal.
Mr John Anderson, second cousin of Colonel Anderson—.
I know the lady the Colonel has married. The ceremony
took place at St. Germans, East-Lothian, in the August of
last year. The writing on the small piece of paper, viz.,
"Yours truly, D. A.," to the beat of my belief is in the
handwriting of the Colonel. Colonel Anderson is now at
Malta with his regiment,
Mr Bovill here put in the diary of Mrs Codrington, found
in the desk when it was opened in Chester-square. Several
the letters were read which related to visit of "D. A."
and other engagements.
A carte de visite of MN Codrington was also handed in,
and Topp, in answer to questions, admitted that he had
never seen Mrs Codrington in the dress she was represented,
but he knew it was her portrait, as she was a remarkably
fine woman, and there could be no mistake about it.
(Laughter.) General Codrington also identified the por-
trait as that of Mrs Codrington, who, he said, was a person
of lively and sprightly disposition. Her manners were not
that of a foreigner rather than that of an Englishwoman,
although she had long resided in Florence. She was free,
ladylike, and agreeable. Strutt, the porter at 48, Pall-
Mall, also identified the portrait as that of the lady who
used to call on Col. Anderson while he resided at the hotel.
Mrs Watson—I went to Malta in January, 1861, with my
husband. We became intimate with the Codringtons. I
did not meet Mrs Codrington till August of that year. I
never took any meal with the Admiral alone. I never went
to the Admiralty House alone when Mrs Codrington was
away. At an entertainment given to the Princess of Lein-
ingen I received the guests, owing to the absence of Mrs
Codrington. I never went on board the admiral's ship
Asoph alone. Mrs Codrington seldom slept on board, but
1 the admiral was recommended to do E 0 for his health. There
1 has been nothing improper between myself and the admiral)

At Valetta, Mrs. Codrington and I became intimate in
nursing a sick friend. She said, speaking of Mildmay,
that he had an unfortunate attachment for her. I warned
her, but I had no idea of guilt. I was alarmed when one
day she said, " Take no notice, lam going oat." She
was in a loose dressing gown. I said, "She couldn't do it,"
She said, "He is frantic; I must see him." I said, "You
won't go alone, I will go with you." She said, " I will
give it up. I misunderstood her. She merely wished to
speak to him." I said, "I could no t permit so unwise an
action in a friend ;" and she did not go out. Another tirae
she said they had been preparing a screen for a bszaar, and
had been sitting up todo it—Mildmay,the Admiral, and Miss
Horn. The Admiral had been tired and had gone to bed. In an
hour they all retired, Mildmay leaving the house as she had
supposed. When she was ready for repose, she had re-
membered leaving something in the office. She had gone
in, and to her horror found Mildmay still there, his head
between his hands on the table. She lied said to bim,
" Why aro you not gone ?" He had said he was miserable.
She tries to soothe him, but ineffectually. She had then
said to him, " Wait a minute, I will got my dressing-
gown," and she ley down on the sofa in the office. He
had attempted to use violence to her, but she had resisted,
and bit him on the cheek. On a third occasion she
told me that she had found Mildmay in her room one
night. She had asked him to leave tho room, but use-
lessly, and he stayed till early morning. I said—
" Did you escape insult ?" She said—" How can you
talk such nonsense ? I woke in his arms." My
impression was that the seal of infamy was not yet
set. At a subsequent period she made another communica-
tion to me. That communication has never yet passed my
lips, as she made me give her an unconscious promise not
to repeat it. Now she has subicoaaed mo to this court, I
am released from my promise, and I am bound to speak the
truth. Oa Nov. 13, 1861, Mrs Codrington carat; to our
house. We expected her at 7; she was an hour and a half
late. She went into my bed room, and sent a message to
say she wished to speak to me. Mr Watson, as I was not
well, asked her to come down. After tea I saw her alone.
She immediately burst into a fit of weeping. She said Mr
Mildmay had walked with her up a lane near our house, and
that the deed was committed, When she was in my room
she said, " You won't speak of what I tell you." Previously
I had implored her to forbid him the house, which she
did. She locked up his presents, and I hoped for reforma •
Lion. The admiral at this time seemed dissatisfied. A
coldness arose between me and Mrs Codrington, and I
asked her the reason, She said she was jealous of my in-
fluence with the children. I said this was absurd, as, Lefore
going to Naples she had especially committed them to my
care. I looked at her, and at last I said, "De you think
I have told the admiral my confidence?" She said, " I
think you have." I referred the question to the admiral,
and he at once denied everything of the kind. There was
a scene of a very painful character which passed between
myself, the admiral, and his wife. She accused me in
his presence of an undue intimacy with him. We were
both very indignant. The Admiral went away, and
at last she knelt at my feet and said, " Forgive
me, forgive me ; I don't believe anything of the kind.
This scene had been preceded by some report of a similar
tenor, which had reached me through a friend. I said I
would forgive her if she would give me a written denial of
the whole. She told the Admiral of her repentance, and of
her disbelief of the reporfs about us. I was not satisfied
with the expression "improper intimacy" in her first
written apology, and she wrote another. They were written
July 11, 1862. I only wish to show these letters to the
one friend who mentioned to ma the report, and I told Mrs
Codrington I would return them afterwards to her. I did
so. After the confidence made in me, I did not like the tone
of her remarks. I could not keep longer in communication
with her, though at first I thought she was penitent.
This was in Dec., 1861. Of course, in society outward
appearances was observed between us.
Here the court rose.

TAT TERSALL'S --This Evening,

ST LEGER..
2to 1 agst Blair Athol (offered)
7 to 2 agst General Peel (tak( n)
7 to 1 agst Scottish Chief (offered)
200 even on General Peal and Blair Athol agst the field (t)
DERBY.

20 to 1 agst Longdown (;tliken)
20 to 1 agst Ostregor (taken)
25 to 1 agst A 1 (taken)
40 to 1 agst Joker (taken)
BRIG lITON STAKES.—DoIIar scratched Aug. 1, at 9 a.m.
First Flight was struck out of his York engagements,
July 30, at 3 20 p.m., and cut of Doncaster engagements,
Aug. 1, at 1 45 p.w.

r ARRIVALS AT BRIGHTON.
Imogene filly, Spain, Attache, Orphene. Fiancee, Bertha,
Le Mondrian, Provisor, Jeaunfttee, Magnum Bonum,
Sardinia, Claxton, Wings of Wind, Czirina, Chestetfi,ld,
Molly Carew, Starbeam, Lady Warwick, 'Popsy, Ace of
hearts, Dollar, Fanny, Reindeer, Simple Maid, Dublin.
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