Witness.--"I don't well know who it was; but about ten minutes after Mr. Roberts went across, I saw some one come up the dark walk--I was shutting the dining-room window-shutters at the time--and he went in by the door of the green-house." "Then is there away through the green-house or conservatory in the house?" asked the counsel. "Yes; it leads into the hall on the left hand side," replied the witness. Counsel.--"Now we must hear more of the person. Who was it?" Sir ---- turned and looked towards the dock. Chandos was sitting with his arms upon the bar, and his eyes buried on them. "I do not know--I cannot swear," replied the witness. Counsel.--"Was it Mr. Tracy?" Witness.--"No; it was a taller man than he." "Was it General Tracy?" "No; not so stout by a good deal." Counsel.--"In a word: was it the prisoner at the bar?" Witness.--"No; he is a good deal taller than the gentleman I saw." Counsel.--"Was it a gentleman, then; or any of the servants?" Witness.--"It looked like a gentleman's figure; but it was growing dark, and he walked on very quick indeed. I could not clearly see who it was." Counsel.--"I have done with you;" and he sat down with a look of satisfaction. There was a murmur amongst the bar. The case for the prosecution seemed breaking down. It was a result not at all expected, and the cross-examination by the junior, who was a very young member of the profession, but blessed with several eminent solicitors for relations, was looked upon as highly creditable. None of the barristers were for a moment deceived. They all clearly saw and understood that several of the witnesses had been perplexed and confounded; and nothing had shaken their conviction of the guilt of Chandos Winslow till the admission made by the last witness, that some one had been seen entering the house of Mr. Tracy, in a hurried manner, and by a private and somewhat obscure entrance, some ten minutes or quarter-of-an-hour after the murdered man had passed across the lawn. It was, in truth, the first fact for the defence; and legal acumen instantly detected that this was a verity of great importance. None of the lawyers present, however, were ignorant of the great impression which the admissions extracted from other witnesses might make upon a jury, if followed up by any available line of defence; and they, therefore, as I have said, looked upon the case as breaking down, under a pressure of doubts, all of which must be favourable to the prisoner. There has seldom been a trial, however, in which the opinions of the most acute and sensible men varied so often, under the different aspects which the evidence gave to it at different times. Through the examination of the next witness the same feeling prevailed, namely, that satisfactory proof would fail. The person who succeeded Burwash in the witness-box was Henry Haldemand, the constable of Northferry, who, after stating his rank, condition, and degree, went on as follows:--