The Sun.
London, England, 1840-02-27 00:00:00

WEDSESDAV.

_Henry Corderoy was indicted for feloniously shooting at
Hannah, his wife, at the parish of St. Mary, in the borou'h
of Reading, on tae sth day of June last, with intent to
marder her ; there were other counts laying the intent-to
be to wound her, to maim her, and to do her same grievous
bodily harm.
Mr. R. Dredge proved a plan of the prisoner's house
and premises.
Jane Frankley—l am the prisoner's daughter. On the
evening of the Sib of June last, I was sitting in my father's
sitting-room, about fi‘e o'clock, with my two skters. My
mother said to my father that some one should see a letter
before, they went to bed ; they were in the bakehouse,
which is behind the parlour. The prisoner came into the
parlour-and bolted the door between it and the bakehouse,
leaving my mother in the bakehouse. He took the key of
the bt ireau, unlocked it, and took a pistol out ; we, being
frightt tned, ran out through the shop into Peg's-green-
lane ; in the shop we met my mother coming in from the
lane. She had came round into the street and so to the
shop.. I bad before heard quarrels between my father and
moth.er respecting a Mrs. Cox, from whom the letter came.
My mother was jealous of Mrs. Cox. Once before, very
long -ago, I saw my father hold a pistol to my mother, not
in a threatening manner, he was only looking at it. I had
at th at time heard them talking, but not quarrelling.
Cr oss- examined—l was married since my father has been
in pr ison.
Cl are Corderoy, another daughter of the prisoner,
state d that her mother, on the occasion in question, said,
in re Terence to Mrs. Cox's letter, that she would go to a
lawyer and have a stop put to it. The prisoner appeared
to b.: in a passion. In other respects her testimony was
the same as her sister's. _ _

linnnah Corderoy—l am the prisoner's wife. la the
ev(!ning of the sth of June last I went from the sitting-
room into the bakehouse. My husband was in the bake-
ho use. No quarrel occurred between me and my husband.
I .iid not mention about a letter to him. (The Learned
Ji .dge here cautioned the witness to speak the truth.)
Mky husband mentioned it to me ; be asked me for the
le ter. I said I did not choose to let him have it till I had
shown it to somebody else. He then went into the sitting-
r nom. I could not get into the sitting-room that way, and
I went round the street into the shop. From the shop I
went to the sitting-reom ; my husband ¶vas there. I saw
not hing in his hand; the pistol was let off; I was wounded
in the eye, and fell down.
Cross-examined—l was on the door-sill when the pistol
we nt off, in the act of entering the room. Tuo garden-
do or was partly open.
By the JUDGE—The door to the garden opens inwards.
Sonic other less material evidence having been given,
Mr. CARRINGTON addressed the Jury on behalf of the
prisoner, contending that the probability of the case from
the whole of the evidence was, that the prisoner only in-
tended to frighten his wife, as ho alleged at the time, and
th.t.t she came into the parlour accidentally at the moment
he fired off the pistol, and so came across the line of the
shot, and that from the plan it appeared that the prisoner
could not see his wife till she had actually entered the par-
lour. and that she was struck when on the threshold.

Mr. Walker, a surgeon, stated that Mrs. Corderoy
must have been facing the prisoner when she received the
shot ; that the ball had never been found, and that possi-
blv it was now in her head.
-Mr. Baron GURNEY summed up the evidence, and left it
to the Jury to say whether the intention of the prisoner was
-to murder his wife, or to do her some grievous bodily harm ;
.or whether he only intended to frighten her, and struck her
by accident.
The Jury, after fire minutes' consideration, returned
their verdict, finding the prisoner " Guilty of shooting Witti
intent to maim, but not with the intent to murder," and
The Learned JUDGE sentenced him to be transported for
life.

FOREIGN ORDERS.

TO THE EDITOR OF 7'HE SUN.

SlR,—There is no law existing to debar any individual
the gratification of accepting from a foreign power an order
—only a printed regulation lying: at the Foreign OEce—
which is shown to any ambassador, on applic...tion for the
permission to invest A. or B. with such decoration by the
command of his Sovereign. This regulation was done by
his Majesty George IV,, at the latter part of his reign.
The ambassador thus applying for civil services rendered,
has the only alternative to return the diploma and decoration.
back to his Government. There are three or four in
Bath who have been thus deprived of such honourable
tokens after years of civil services rendered a foreign poten
tate. So that unless an Englishman has been in the•
service, military or naval, he is precluded sustaining the
honour sometimes hardly earned I The parties or indimi-
duals so placed would have no objection to pay a fee of
101. on the Gazetting, a proof of the diploma, &c.
You will much oblige by calling the attention of the
Government to this arbitrary regulation.
I am, Sir,
A CONSTANT READER.
Bath, Feb. 19, 1530.