The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-02-28 00:00:00

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THE STOURBRIDGE OBSERVER.

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o in.tlon us to 'Afton Orono*, the soot of Mt and Mrs.
W ....Moot Hlbbort, ort.e, f/...ssor hod •141t..0. 'nal as to
ahich Ito, detendant loose tr P. haat mot "his condo
li *tram Talbot," b there: at rs Washington 111011. frt had
.toted *hat Kerr never met *Warn Tolbo, there Ist ell.
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f)d ping hf becouse ft 11. a Ists.ro-ge vie., Lot ass
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of klermonrbey, in 1213, and enrrendered .
VIII. in 1538. In the year 1551 the Lord Mayor and
citizens of London, having parchaned of Edward VI.
tke mentor of Itimlthwark, thelncling thin hosnitrl,-rw.
paired and enlarged it, and admittoi iota It NO poor,
sick, and helpless eljeota It was Incorporated by the
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...it, but bad no recollection of any other members if
-.e family being there, but of some remarkable incidents
which happened there on the occasion, especially en
accident by whch hie uncle, Sir Elward Doughty, iteariy„.
loot his lift, and indeed he denied the ,ccurrence, told
declared that Sir Edward was there at the time, and
did rot remember Ma aunts and cousins being there.
The Lord Chief Justice then proceeded to the wow
eramluation of Co de mutant as to Roger's life la Igo
p•ep,ratory t his edtering the gray. Jkle noticed alt- I
.. the alubject, as ho
gb hit cworritelon he'dre hue rtamlitatton, wholYeatelet:oa
tnaL I,44ll4tbirpagkrsieiedAllaleitl,t,h't.try*
lite-w he was to lave a nomMlamlon au: lent to ex*asnat.lohn,
bud that Cel.wel GreenWeod helped hint in his examtuatt
whith Coloni Greenwood denied, arid that his preparation
for exaMination took p11e.4 In land., instead of which it Wag:.
at Tlchborne. The L•trd Chief Justice noticed the defend•
ant's answers as the subject. of ht. tullitary ,tudws, as that
be was ts u,:ht "cosi landmarks of E11111.14(1, which he ex-
latued Gaut :—"lit, landmarks of Xngland 1,10111100, the
formation of England at different pint., which every officer
Is bound to learn, I believe, before •be col pass.' •nd,
he added that h• "posed in the landmarks of England."
What he meant odd the Lo•ti Chief Justice, It is dthicult to
Imagine, unless, Indeed, he had heard et • book rolled
the I.andmarko of Eng, i•A Motory then attain, while the
arm. (ha. had neen " helped " I. his studies
by Colonel Greene/NA, wen had lkblar Ixdoed Roger at all—
though aI ic-el hoe. wood had gone with Rog•r So land.
brat, not to help him, but merely to accompeny him—he
had known nothing of the clergyman who really had
.• coached "hint, Could itgrr lid.borne hare so forgotten
and Mistaken these circumstances? Again, the defendant
had not remembered Roger's failure in ids exorit a tun at
Smolbunt, and his rent•ed stud., for examination could
R gee Itchboroe have forgotten all this f Again tlerer.d-
ant had stated that he had ptssed mu rasmination ulti-
mately. whereas Etuter had never "passed' at all, nut had
only obtained a cettlficate of shill lent mathematical know-
ledge to entitle hint to his conanisaion•

HUNDRED AND SIGH IT-FIFTY{ DAY.
On Teesside)] the Lori cow Justice continued his Wiser.-
ti is on the croweiandeatlon ul the eelendaet as to toe
hiclderits of Roeer Claiborne's life from th. time of his
leaving Sehyburet. He attached some impoetace to the
fact of the delete lent not recodeettng a fareseli vleit Roeer
paid to hle maternal grandfather, Mr. Ssymour, @homy ho-
lore he dted, at the house of his motile ln-'aw at Bah 8
far from having any recollection of it, tra defendant Mel
dented the Wilt, and, Moved , supposed Mr. SesMour ,
died at Knoyle ; IVA reeolDction of Mr.
tleyinottes mother-In-M., whom Roger knew very well.
The jury, said the Lord Cnief Justice, would hare to ..-
.der whether It was likely emit a visit to • d leg relative
would ever be effeeed freni a man's memory. Then,
Swain, the defendant bad no recollecti•dr of Knorr,.
Mr. Seymones twee where It gee num for stars t,i pas his
vacations, especially in the 'hooting season. The .'seendant
did notrecegulee • view id the hon., nor did he remember
seontleg there, end, lodee•I. denial ii, and declared that he
never had • day's shooting there in his life, sad tat no re-
membrance of the incidents of Roger'. life there. Yet
alter the Wel, end alter his crotsexamtnatien on the sub-
ject, when the defendant in 1972 saw inc of the old ser-
vant, of the fandy, he knew all about the pieces, and even
Was. the coin°. of the dogs with which Roger hod shot.
The Lord Cnief Juitioe then came to the crow-examination
of the defendant as to It qt.*s military life, lie observed
that the delendent hal said be had no knowleatee of
Lord Fleecy Somerset, who gave Roger his ooninolaton. Was
Ii pewits e Oat Roger coed here I. rgotten that nobleman?
The Lord Chief Justice pointed out that the defendant's
SOWlldrli were uti•ny wrong as ti all the cite:errata on
which attended Roger's 'AWN; /ea regiment in Duello
Thtui the Mediae,. had Said that he joined Captain
Foeter's troop, whereas there was no " Captain " F atter
then (a. Foster was only • Uoutecabl), and Roger
first jolued Major Jocelyn's troop, and atter ealas
that of Captain Polhill Turner, whom the defendant
had not recognised when he saw Lim. Then the
defendant ha I said that the Lord Lieutenant was G
in-
mender-it-Chief In Ireland, which certainly was only true
In • 'Wetly legal sense, and wen hardly such an anewer es
an cdl vr in the Army would be expected to make. Then
the e eland ant had made ware strange mistakes as to Roger'.
life in It:item. Again, the def,ndant seemed to have known
nethlng at all snout llowth Castle, where Rom had visited.
When or bet about the daughters of the Earl of Howth —the
ladles Si, Lawrence—who were well Mown to Roger, the
defendant said, " their name would be tiowth If c arse?"
aims... Roger knew well thong). Mat the family borne
r•as St Laurence, Other answers of the defendant es to
Roger's life in !related were strange—as for instance, that
, lie used to visit "at" Meath, there Doing no such place,
but only a county so celled. Ho of his answers as to persons
who were connetota uf Rorer, and with whom he had been
very Intimate influblie, especially Lady Churicarde, at
whose house be had met the best society. Roger himself
had written that he went Into the best society there,
and was every night at halls and parties—whereas toe
defendant hal ash' that he did not go much into society,
and cued I not mention the earner of any person he
visited there The quAtlon was, said the Led Chief Jet-
ties whether the answers of the defendant as to the life of
Reger in Do bile were such as might be expected from Roger
I hen, as to Roger'. lite to other parts of Ireland,
the defendant was entirely elrong es to the periods el his eta,
at different phew, when the papers obtained at the Horse
Guards did not ripply al indent lu,foemoti in aa to hts own
position et a particular time ; sou to snore patientar and pri-
vate matter,. Thus, as to the visit of Mr 11, pile s to Seger
aht,ut the deeds, fir the resettleineut of the famey property,
and the subsequent visit of his father, the aLswers of the
eetendabi were quite at variance with the facts. As to the
fint—• visit of anne Importance—the date was fired by
the letter., May, WO and both visite trot place in U.,50,
and the visit of the father, was after the visit of Hoek'. ;
twhereas t ue defendant put Hos visit of the father first, nod
put moth visits Id 1,51, and, what was more impertatt,
lie totally misstated the otject of Hopktee's visit, arid sup-
posed It bad to do with proposals for the ule of Upton ;
whereas it had nothing to do with that matter at all, bat
was only to get Roger's signature to deeds of resettlement
eiready agreed upon. It was not only want of recollection
which was to be observed In the defendant's orose-examius-
Von but statements of incidents which appeared never to
Lave occerred. Thus, Were wee • singular story of
military life told by the deferment with reference to Captain
P AMR Turner, a filch that °Meer dents°, and declare.' the
whole story • paw fabrication, and it was plan Moat there
wes no fouudellou for it at all. The Lied Chief Jurelee
went on to not: e a matter which he had arcade said
appeared in him ore of the m,nt vital importance, Daring
the life re Niger lechborne in Itelon I, which last d for
nearly three years—from October, 1849, to June 1, 141—
he wee engaged in constant corre.ponomme with his aunt,
Ledo bougnty, and that upon eubj,cts of the most delicate
two., erpoulaily with refeeences to his affection for his
cousin. These letters were nearly lto in uunther, they were
all to or Iron hie aunt, and none of Mum to hie collate
could such a correspondence spreading over three years of
his life ever have been forgo:ten I Yet the defendant,
when asked if he had ever writeen to his aunt or cousin
• durteg these three years, did not remember; no was not cer-
tain ; he theugLa it pes.ible he mtekt have written to both
of them, but he could not say. Gentlemen, sail the Lord
Chief Justice emphatically, its the whole mega In this cue
I o not know that there is anything more striking than
that And the retention is whether, as sensible, ratimme
men, you can believe Vat such • correspondence as
that could have been effaced from the memory of •
touching, al it did, his fondest affections and
his dearest aed post chest.e,i hopes and expectatioes.
The Lord Chief Jestica then went on to notice the Nue
mace of military matters shown by the defendant's ensuers
in crose-exanoluat.on*Yl, foe Instance, N. sopposing that
• troop was. squadron, whereas &squadron le composed of
two troops. Was it possible time • mau who had been
three years an °Meer is • regiment of canary could have
suede such • mistake? Again, the defenoant sold the regi-
ment was more O. 90 strong, whereas It was *lent 30,
th that be made it, strength Jut three times what it who
in fart Could a man who hod been an Alcor In the regi-
ment for tears have made such a blendr 1 the Lord Chief
.1 eater, .hen untitled t,is Ignorance of the booge read by Roger,
especially the works of French literaturieeof the very names
and nature of which the defenclaut was ignorant. a. actually
supposed Pierre Corneille—as Pierre sounded • little like
Pere—t,, have been "one of he ?Albert" Could Heger 'rich-
t... have made such • hlunder ? Even supposing he
Mould bare forgotten his French, could bobs,, ever fancied
- the great French dramattet, with whose works he was
fend:afar, to have been a Father of the Church? Agate,
rt +ger was fite.ll-4r with the works of ef tilers, whtc
"nosed in his letters, but the defendant knew
m thing of I.loMre, mud, being asked as to his play Le
Misanthrope, he did hot :4:07 what the word meant. But
shove all, the delendaLt wits tote's) :gnotent of the Fref.ce
language itself, with which it gee had beee to familia.
To acc ,lint for this the defeedent had sworn that he has
not allowed to write French after he went to Stouy hues%
hut the letter of It 'gee proved that this sena nuteue.
I for he wrote letters in French down to 1947. All his
relatives preved that he coutlimed to the lest to speak
French freenently, and his books and letters showed that
he read Free, h literature continually. In South America
he took a French valet and Lad • French valet whoa
he went on bard the Bella. Down to the lest It w
plain that he spoke Francis by preference, and that it
was real), hts "moth. tong." Could he have intallv
forgotten it In a few years: And what made the defend-
ant's Ignorance of Frenoir more remarkable was his retm-
tioe of such Spanish as he had acquired, Le said In Muth
AMetica. Why, how coact Roger fichberne have totally
forgotten his rn ther tongue, which he had when all his
life, and yet have retained a little Spanish he had happened
to pick up In • few menthe' trewillug in South America?
Why eh odd he twee kept his Spanish, and quite fere- Mei'
his French Under at y circurratamus, that a men should
totally, in ten or twelve years, forget his mother tongue, mid
lose all trace of it wrath he excipti nil hut th.der auce
cfrcumetances as these It seems extremely improbable,
and therefore the defeedeLt's told l aid ontiie fgrioraceo or
French was (meet the molt Important facts In the case. The
bird Chief justice the u went on to cetahlt r the deletident'i
statement, as to the disposith n of the fateehy property, of
which, he reminded the Joey, Roger had thewu a perfect
knowledge. In Australia, however, the defendant had stated
that he inherited an estate at liermitsee, in imteAshire,
whereas the family haui no such an Write and In the will he
made all the mimes of estates inserted were entirely false
and fictitious. The defendant, on his erst arrival in this
country, did not know, acoordtug to the evidence of Outwit,
. who made It pea will, and he soon afterwards went to
: ctore.commous to see it, and • copy was taken of it,
which no doubt he had read. But even then he Said laws.
. executed at Canterbury, where. It was in Loudon. Toe
dieds of metttement could be obtained Irons the records of
the snits which had beau instituted upon the new, of
Roger's death, and from this toe defendant hail Ids War,
view with Mr. Ropkter, the old family attorney, who
Led adopted him, and who, It must be supposed, had been
settee.: as to Ms knowledge of the eettlemente. But if
the dolandantime; thee displayed such knowledge he had cer-
tainly lost it afterwards, for an Ms cross-examination he ha 1
shown no'sucit knowledge, but tha moat egttre and utter iguon
Mee. Ind ed,befotv his examinaUon he had written loaf:1(nd
&het • Goateed by proving hie death had deprived his tether
and Mother of the Doughty estate," welch wee • downright
absurdity, for Roger's tether had died in pessession of the
*Metes, arid at the time this letter was written, lady Tich-
looms was In the re elpt ot £2,100 a year out of those
estates. It was h0pe...141e to conceive greeter Iguorance
no the Esti sot, except that which was show. In the cross.
eapelnation, in which the deleodant said the gesteral put-
pott of the will was to get rid of charges on the Tietteurne
estates (on whi ,11 there were no charges) and " form • reserve
11111.1 by eLtaillog his tether ! Ihe truth Co. that Roger'.
father was not month nod in the will, and no such will
as the defendant stated was possible, ea Roger's own in.
ts rest in the estate was et course subtequent to his father's,
which Roger could In no may Interfere whir. Then the
defetelent went on to talk of hie dispersing of the Tiohborne
estates by ht. will, whereat Rom r could hot so disp es ef
them, se they were entaPed ned,r the settlements. C mkt
B.eger Ilchbonie have fallen IMO such • stetn of confusion
on • ezeJec3 of which he bad such • pettect In if
Lot, main a Moo be 11. 'ger Ttchbothe whi es mind ens In
such a state of fgaorthc.s hod corifuslun about It? Tie
Lord Chief Juatiee teen came ho the suhlect of R vet
TicLl;orne's relations with hie c 'tufo Miss Dtughty, which
he said, the regarded as one of vital importance, and
crucial point in Cue egse. For he could not imagine that
such &phase in • man's life as a deep and t animate attach-
ment. which had met with disimpointmeot, could ever be
effaced be en? tapes of time from Me mind and memory.
After Roger hoe rare abroad he wrote to his aunt that he
was as much attached toner &sever nor was there skit. In
wlech he did not mention her sod make Bowe lequlry shout
her It was theref ere • crucial test of the defendant's Identity
whether he Lad in his mind arid memory the recollection of
that pauton and ell that It involved. Yet the defend-
ant In his answers on the sub:act showed • state of mind and
memory upon it utterly unlike what Itoiser Itch!, srne's must
have been, and he could not, indeed, stale anything definite
about It at all.

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ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-SIXEH DAY.

The Lord Chief Justice, on their lordships taking their
seats on Wednesday morning, end:— I may as well say at
Once that I find I require • day's rest, and therefore we shall
take a holiday to-morew (Toursday). At present, looking
to what I have to do, I thick I Can conclude all my obaerva-
Mons on the evidence f•ii Friday, and that two hours to Settle.
day will finish tim whole, Co that by midday on Saturday the
jury will be able to procted to conaider their verdict.
Ills Lordship then proceeded with his summing-up. He
call 0-1 attention to the fact that the defendant was maid. to
say in his crux -examination whethtr his attentions to hi
cousin Kate were ordinary or particular, but was It poealb!e
for • man under such Cl/Calllll‘llll.ll not to beahleao mcollect
It the breakiug off the engagement made a deep or any lei -
promion on him. The queatiou is whetutT the statement of
the defendant Is such a representation of the facts as
might h..vd been expected from It gee Tichborns.,. Now

It it culite dear that the.oelta.,dam in
_many_ trakaxt!. tits

made mai,y nolous mistakes about the engagement tie Is
aware that theme relatess stated, and that, they were put
an end to, hut how or when he apemen to ignore or to have
on'y a very contused Idea of It. He is quite aware of what
took place hi January and Feoruary, ISA but he supposes
teat his atteutiou. to Miss Duustety were discovered and
Put au end to in July or Ainuot, Instead of in January,
because he is always speaking Of the discovery of the
fact that he was payieg hi. addressee to his cousin by
her falser ant meteor, and the c mmunicatiou eat made
to him that It was displeasing to them, and he lines
It as happening In July , r August his idea being that
from the moment the discovery was made the thing was put
an end to, and his position to his c .ualn simply that of a
friend. Ile doe. not knew that alter the discovery had been
made, and after he had been told that he must no longer
pay his soder...es to his cousin, the positive prohibition
was recalled and converted Into a colleted/en consent.
Winn Roger Tichbortot was hr. eight back to fiche...sue
in February, it Is quite clear from the defen tar Vs
statement that fie lies no knowledge or recollection of
;he says he visited there, but not so often. The de-
fendant puts It, that when he says the discovery was In
July or August it was a mistate for Juana), from lailleg re.
cote c don. there is this further difficulty—that It the sate-
meet had reference ti J.uary he tidiest flehliorus soon
alter; but lilt has reference to July, Roger Tiolinrue never
visited Tichborue thee, se that in whichever way you look
at it he is at laud. Ihe attendant thlute it was Lady
Doughty's Interference that led to the abrupt termma-
%ton of his courtship with hI. cousin, evidently ignoring
the other intemeew wit i his uncle, at which the dis-
pleasure of ti e parents was communicated to him. Ile is
obvioualy unaware that the reletion of levers subsisted
between them after the discovery, and that the breach was
occasioned, uot by the discovery by the parents, out op
Roger's precipitate conduct In asking hie uncle to allow the
merelage to take place Immediately, instead of the proba-
tionary period which allowed Lady D iughty I, intervene and
put the relations of the young people un soldirtant rod cold a
footing that it god refused es acquiesce le such a mete of
thing., aria which threw him bank Into a state of mules° re-
serve. the derendant mattes the whole thing a heap of
coutusion. We know that Roger did not afterwards
correspond with Kate Doughty, hot he gave her those
papers of which the defendant had no knowledge. Room
asked leave to correspond with his cousin, but the plrents
objected to it, and he gave It up. the defendant says the
first time he saw his cousin aster the not- eme ,t was broken
It was In Tichborne village, on hie re urn from atutleg in
November or Deoeruber, 1662, when he say. she communi-
cated to him the fact that she was efraid she was In the
!away way. After whlcu, Laving told her that he could
net marry her, he told her that II .he remained single until
he came back—an indedulte period—he would marry her.
Cold cutuf in for the poor girl if the rest of the de-
fendants story be true, because at the' meeting she most
have Cumtunuicatod to hint what implied the most disastrous
and most calamitous state of things It le p dtaible to con-
ceive. Do you this it Mae the account elven by lie de-
Indent le such an account as corresponds with what y 3 u
know of the relations between ft 3ger I:clinorne and his
COUsill as to lead you to believe that he Is Reger 'flab erne.
I now come to the all-Impurtset subject of the seelea
packet, of which no mention was made by the defeudant
until after the remarkable weedier; that took place at
the "Grosvenor " hotel in June, lettd. ifs lordseip en-
sured the course adopted by Mr. Bulpitt In Inviting Mr.
(leotard to air e with him at the "Grosvenor," end his not
Selling hint till thee that the deleiehtut woul I call after
dhow, and hie having arrange d for the presence of two
friends with paper ano peucila to take note of th 3 conversa-
tion. Mr lio.ford mid the defeedant are at Issue whether
he knew the contents of the sealed packet. G ise rd laid the
defeudent admitted that he aid not, but the defendant said
lie decllued to Ovulea the contents bat ste nrangers. If the
defendant could have stated them at once when he was asked
tee question it would have gone a long way indeed towards
showing that he Is it rev I ichburue, especially the hut stated
them correctly. I should nave exeected a man under such
oircnmsta,,c'e to have have said, "Mr. Gisfor.l, you know re
well as I do that the contents of that packet ought not to be
made lumen to aoyoue Wades ourseive., Let toe gentlemen
retire end I will tell you the entente." Me Millen hos not
contradicted Mr. Goeford'e evidence of wins traerptred. If
the defeteintai counsel could have foresee. that Mr. Bulpitt
would carroberate Mr le Mord, I don't think he would
have teamed Mr. Balpitt'a piteous appeal not to
be put into the winless hoz, but, howeser, the learned
couusel was moderate, and called him. Mr. Buiplit
truss Ur. Gostord that the defendant acktiowledged his
luetitil.y to remember tne contents of the document. It is
an important fact to start wite that when first brought to
the delete ant's mind he knew nothing ehatever about the
staled packet, and although two persons were present
to take hetes of the coeversation, they have not been
called to contradict Mr. Bandit, The Interview at the
" Geosvenor " took piece in June, when Mr. G stead most
Incautiously and molt uelortunately lit out the fact
that the sealed packet bad been left with him. The next thing
was to know what had become it—if it could be pro.uced
sod Mr. Goeturti was called upon in Chancery to say what had
becOrte of it, and Le said he had elettroeed it. rhai
examination took place on the Ist of August, and the
Lent day, the dud of August, the delendis,.l, two months
after he had denied all k,,onledge of It at the "Grosvenor,"
crew up a mainlined of the conteets, in which he lin-
peened the character and honour of Roger Tichbone.
After a turther review, of some of the evidence connected
with this moot of tee case, his lordship said, that here the
j,ry had a double duty, a twice sacred rimy, to perform.
it was not merely a eideetieu between the prosecution and
the defendant, but tne accused had become the accuser,
Mid iu a matter In which the bOnear, pusitiou, and hap/A-
nent rift woman were concerned. rek y rend, therefore, eater
lido the lequiry with the recollections of fatben husbands,
brothers, mason., and kuowlug what a womb ies houour was
Alma what it was worth, when is had become Implicated
luctelentally In an Inquiry of this sort, or nitrated in any other
form, they were bond Injustice to glee their molt careful at-
tention to the evidence, In order to see whether the charge was
false or true. The Lord chief Justice then gava the version of
the smiled packet as uveosed to by Mr. Goateed and Lady
Radcliffe respecting the building of • church or chapel at
Tice b. rue, and that swore to by the defendant, Involving the
induction, and closely examined the defendant's evideuce re-
lating to the nide:Mon. and contrasted it with the positive
and emphatic denial of Lady Radcliffe, and the dates of
Roger Ticneorneea proceedings during the month, of June,
Jcly, and August, 1t052, the period fixed epee by the defendant.
I. was rte. from the correspondence tint Roger was not
at Tichbortie in July or August, h 354, but with his real.
ment at Canterbury Having read the evidence, acid
p. toted out aiscrepancias and incoesistncirs, his lordship
said A photograph was produced which was said to repre-
sent the grotto, and certainly it gives the idea of a
place covered In by trees where two lovers might have
found • place of shelter if they had been desirous
of finding use. I cannot give you perronsi nv.dence of
the nature of the place. hot I only wish one or more
of your body had seen it, Ana had been able to
describe it to ihe others Obe thing Is certain about it,
teat kers Is nothing to prevent suy one walking Into It.
ts Lordship went on to say If time and place did not offer
uosuperane difficulties to me truth of this part of the
case the preeablittes tild. igee wished to marry iii,comfit, and he loved her too dearly to act so Monty
towards her as the:defendant wishes you to believe.
It Is for you to say whether you believe R..ger
seduced his cousin. T3e question put to Father Lefevre
by the leerued counsel for the defendant whether Roger
confided to him that he had seduced his certain met with
• reply that i.e Ride expected. Instead of taking refuge In
tin excuse that what is said lathe confesidond could riot be
discleted, Father L hone, who saw the snare and the object
for which 11w.. put, said that whilst he could net reveal chat
was sal to him, he was 501 prevented from saying what was
not, and answered the question by saying it was never mn-
Weed. the defendant has made ti,ree Wettest statements
in Ms documents', proofs on the snri ol of toe contents
of the sealed plead, and a singular incone'stency cent
between them; and his lordship then, at coneldersede, Inc eth,
merited out •Mu the defendeees Ignerance of Be g power
over Uet o. In fact, In one et the ea-Imelda Gosford, or
Meant Doughty's agent, was to take the daughter out ef
the lathe, a b u e and place her in one of his h- tie,a, and
in another he imposed a trust upon G eford wilh,,ut the
slightest power of carrying It out. Taking ;he whee
of these thimts Into consideration, and looking to It as a
whole from the beginning to the end, do you believe that
Roger Itehborne seauced 11. cousin, and that he would
have had the heart to seek enj syment in foreign leads, aud
leave her behind In ruin, disgrace ami <lmpair I On t•o oe-
casions when Mecums/sines Justified lithe defendant emit ed
all mention of • sealed packet. Did Lady Radcliffe fall to
her cr.oein, or Is this disgraceful and deted the scandal re •
sorted to for the purpose of carrying out a great and ark
iniquitous fraud I

The Court adjourned until ten o'clock on Friday
morning.

The Standard gives the following description of
"Outside the Curt,' on Tuesisy

With a fine days sight to be mem whether of Importance
or slot, le pretty sure to attract a Ism covirnatton

Archbishop Melchera, of Cologne, was condemned
on iiaturday to pay a two 0 400 thalers, or undergo four
months bondwoman", for appointing priuts in two cues
without compliance with the May glotatea. For anotner
atrollar e fiance committed recently, since it. Ent proseco
tin against the .Irchnishop was inathuted, ha was urde red
to pay a flue hi 1,1)(a) tholan, or undergo tea mouths' im•
prt•oamest.

carious. Ywiterdayb asassehiase at Westmineter, tu the
Itchdonie ease, wa• tut oridenee oi tids. I e dull, we. THE MEETING OF PARLIAMENT.
vestidor ~I Monday hat passed off, and given plasm to what
resemaisd ala anti. ul todt ber a .y. Every ooe who had sir. Disraeli bag hared ths following clrculae to his Bar-
tupportuntity of atpriog tat to,h advaritaor of It, and poyhaw ;--
s- -- sere well hli with 'width vv., ken_ the . ' 2, Whitehall Gardens, Web. 23, 1874.
rather dull 4: , ....u.vcrauo.: 1 were
1
Pot CI lath: d
1.::Pa.....t"10
umiSh:4lo—.ll.hnnsorsiait
ute""yptrth,"msthuindl YN:lani.it:liccltle,,:: th":"Rtownisiral,
I lie. hi. ii• nth ii],
/ ' I, , . ~' el leh t jpeni " will ibe sew .-7 v.
.
, dll reel.. • sed ..ar the or to** you thf ul Al/event, . .- -
- in fp.
was wet, surrounded by spectators, but outsh e a. re rovere----
were many lees than. • hundred persona, of whom some 20
or BO were reigact.ble fathom, who were enjdying their
as well as their leisure. At five minutel to ten
the Claimant drove no, sod, all:thane fmo. his carrigg -. in the Court of itschequer the canoe of " Fellsughtt
rc.nneivelthe itmo
sindneobslu,l,esh
O en at,,,
rin,w ht,i,t1,,,,
olh ttsL.P.t
ste..la's ..
. a sesottl p,.vir hm be,. hosed.Ete,
111g,2 .4 a repent' uof thee larger painter, vhtithherhee^7firle' Mr. Dav, QC , Mr. Morgan Howard, and Mr Erskine
Pollock ware cow ml for the plaintiff : Mr. Serjeant Purl
f manes to Us before th- itsimaysnovnivitt of Mr. Ilawklas and Mr. Reginald Brower appeared for the defeupant
reply. When the p Moe were m arched from Id der the norm
shWg s4sugal,l4 um ml, ate, 20 fw, ayes"' sat to histown . 'Fhb wiles very repiaelgatileXame. 7be plisiniiff, who
appfilund place, one -tlitr lof r aim* yard te.med pretty toll eues tinder Lord C•rispbelni Act, i* the wit tw of an
, •
.if sieputdic,,it 1 aassa“gat sal woolizapisls., gut so the arriareseoentrement maker. It apireared that odthel
voila. rose tan time in four there r was not much time for 'Situ of Auguet her husband was walking along Union-
1...L1 Psserr'ef to stern the P.mbe' Tb° P .I" "1"11" street. on his way to his work, and as he pa-end No.
wow, which kzep She public Inside tt e gate., cr else comord 16 all tif a sudden a terrific gas err loeion occurred in
Omni to crow ever to mt. Margaret's garden, and...ell not
allow Mum to loner on the pvh.sy alOngside Palace yard, the bonne, and he staggered. a4aMait the railings,
have fbe effect of keening thst csaiewxy sod the mad tint, recovering himself imfliadTEV-IV, and rushed
entirely clear, and though the i dalmaut's cirriage attracta into the bowie and rescued an old women who wale in
many anxious eyes witniu lie gate.. and several per- it, When he got home he said to hie wife that if the
sone follow it for a leer step. when it stars, the old ~,0000 felt al bad as he did ahe moot be bad indeed.
w knoledge t r
rest tee lis h•-m hat all then holds Pala. -yard
from noski are prisoner. ~,,, —Rm., it d
appear ii,
iR. . bad to worse. He we* mid-
iir 1.13 minuongera trg ... , , . . ,
snythMt like • run mfi
after she convey
ce. undies erily arisen with black Yo nit, and went raving mad.
Ifelatitr. there was yesterday a large mowd about the Ha raved about expliei ins, and died on the 18th of
doors or W,stntnater Hall, and a continuous &utile line December, leaving a widow an three children. The
in
filar a gtneeert.os thencet .tothe,.p
n gams, s . -Mere w moreover, • defendant was • contractor Cie repairing the road in
on the path by sv miu'im't'' • Uniornetrert, and by reaeon of the.aeslbience of sonic
ga, ,en : out what they w«re there for it 11. olftiClat ICI COll
islys. ler when the l' almaitt'a carriage...drove oat of the 4...%_t his work people the gas pipes were damaged, and
g tia.irangla not a per.on among the,, =Offal to catch a sue gas @soaping, earth warn torown in upon the pipes,
glimpse, to Rive a cheer, or to makes tern. 'the large crowd, and, although there was no communication by gee
which had Men watch', g about the hail for the departure ol piping with the hcinse, the gal, either by moans of a
the I. &truant, were not at all tierniiniagatire When he walked
out of court to his brougham ; bat, as oa II 4.1.7. • lel drain or by Nome other Illealle, got into the home, and
a fire being lighted the explosion occurred. At the Con.
m.eered,
then whildnore gdo
e the remain !lir were content Ili view. Tile
Ouenin of the plaintiff's case,
carrla..e out of Palade-yard t meats Ahlon-
street as unnothod as • hocks ey coach, and the Claimant Mr. Serj-ant Parry objected there was no evidence
had no need to bow after he had pressed hes,,nd the iron to go to the jury. Even assuming there was negligence
gates. Toe puolic knowledge of tali other jot.. .termed to on the tort of the defendant's servants, there was no
the case appears to i e hut limited, If we may judge from the penional injury inflicted upon the plaintiff by the no.
silence with which they are received by the Vanua ail align plosion, btit mere fright or shock proouced on hie
which they pass y
away tow dMr. Sergeant Parry yesterdayd walked
syt dem by then idee, and that would not be actionable,
yiliatlar., Parlismentatreet, nu •bserso , behre
the Court uaa then. The Court r. to at lour, and Lora it, being too. minute. Supposing for the negligence of
Chelmsford, who haa been in court every day chute which it is alleged the defeudant'ii aervanM had been
the eummites-up commemed, nonitered thruugh the crowd guilty they had been indicted for mansleughter of the
I. the same directiou. as though he had never bent a Lord deceased, could each an Indictment have been Sue-
Chancellor. Mr Justice Aiello., before the crowd had die. toiood on too „woo, adduced? No .00b action 0,,
perseo, went t rth from the judges'
the F d imdoorway Ulm • forbotte d
th .
e present had ever been bneught b-fore. There was
gentleman, and ail oy followeniedlately, mingle
with reporters, the three ofhcial eborthaud writers, and • cane some years ago in which • plaintiff brought an
the solicitors, ooth for penmen:l.ll and defence. Theo csms action tor injury to his health oricardoned by the de-
Mr. Juan. Lush, and, after • short interval, the 1,4 d Chief fennant publishing a libel of him, and it was held that
ye,eice aunt Mr c ,ckburn. Still the orowd hurls &bent, hut such an thjory was too remote, the direct con in ermines
not even the naming trihnte of a recognition of faces which 44 • libel lining damage to reputation, and nen injury
photography has Mule familiar to the whole world oecaped
the lips of there before whom they passed. An Ito thls to
.health, The direct consequences of an explosion of
irds• style the 1861 h day of the great Thitly errid rate. and this kind would be physical injury, whereas here only
toe 18. h of the Cold Justic.e's autamingdip, was brought to a mental shock had been sustained.
a close. Th.. Lord Chief Baron raid there was a manifest

ota..thal

di:dr:et-I-on between injury to health caused by a libel
and injury to health canard by an expl,wion, notwith-
standing in the latter case there (nicht be no apparent
external physical irj try. 1 he neural resent of •
great explosion was to dieplace with violence • great
Italy of air, anti that of itself might occasion revere
injury without leaving external mars.. In many cases
ot railway acident people sustained what was termed
a shock to the nervous system, which frequently re-
sulted fatally, although no external injury was I.er-
ceptible. He thought the question of injury was one
for the jury.
A consultation hereupon was held between the
counsel on either aide, nrl by agreement a verdict
was entered for the plaintiff for £lso—£loo of which
was apportioned to the widow and £5O to the children.

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