The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-01-31 00:00:00

Our NOlthri tornspoubtut.

We deem it right to state that we do not at an Umss
entity ourselves with oirr fierrespeadent's epiniass.l
I have wilaweesed • great any sensatlons 4.esy
time, and Wei, any that adonis t e
London pu was neve ater th en, t
10 Saturday m g, they an . f
h
to find
yley
large tya te
the announcement " Immediate Dissolution of Parlia-
ment—lmportant Manifesto of Mr. Gladstone !" I
wee in London when the new@ arrived, in the last days
of April, 1865, of the assassination of President
Lincoln; I we. in the City on the 15th of July, 1870,
and saw the excitement consequeut upon the.intelll-
- of the declaration of Was by France againet
Prussia; I witnessed also the intimaty of the feeling
when the people heard of the "weeder of the w'
Emperor Napoleon and his army of 80,000 me
at Sedan. After all, howeveil, these were foreign
matters. But the runexpected dissolution of Par-
liament at • time when the people were preparing
to watch the proceedings of its last session, and after
the Leader of the Opposition had even called his imp-
porters together for the .day of meeting, was an event
which would not oily interest the dweller in every
metropolitan borough, but the inhabitant of every
enfrancidsed constituency in the three kingdoroa It
11111111 intelligence of • character which would reverberate
from the Land's End to the Orkneys, from The
Womb to the Isles of Arran. No wonder, then, that
the clubs of 1)1,11 Mall were in a nutter of agitation all
day, for the newe was quite as great • imprimis to
Liberals as to Conservatives, and both sides had all
their work to do in providing constituencies with suit-
able candidates.
The Parliament whose existence has thns suddenly
been terminated has lived rather more than five years
It was called at the jostsuice of Mr. Diersele tend mot
at Westminster 00th. 10th of December, 1868. It has
enjoyed a more than average duration, for as a yule the
Parliament' of Queen Victoria have run for about four
years each. The loagest of the present reign followed
the shortest. The House of Commons electeteln April,
1857, lasted less than two yeas, while It. immediate
itucoessor, which assembled in June, 1859, continued
six years and two months. Generally speakieg, a
Parliament which has passed its fourth year Is not
inclined for much heavy work, and is mostly content .
to discharge the ordinary duties of administrative
routine. In it. declining year. it is not disposed to
undertake the discussion of great measures.
Parliament-street I. hasteaffig to pat on its beet ap.
possums, in time for the meeting of the new Legis-
lature. Along the wart side of that thoroughfare the
demolitions in front of the new Government offices will
have been completed within a few days, but the
foundations of these old houses will not all have been
removed; consequently the roadway and pavement
cannot yet be laid down. When the boarding whcch
now excludes these works from public view can be
token away, Parliament street, for about one-half its
kagth, will be one of the finest thoroughfares in Lon-
don. Meanwhile thens are complaints, not only loud
but deep as well.. concerning the Temple Bar end of
the Strand. Years ago, during the Premiership of
Lord Palmerston, an Act was o`dained for the con-
struction of new law courts, or what le termed the
Carey-street site, between the Strand and Chanevry-
lane. In the Spring of 1868 the whole area
was cleared for tee foundation., and *ace then
nothing whatever has ever helm attempted. The
place is a vast wilderness, enclosed with a hideous
boarding covered with advertisements of all deserip-
tiona There was an understanding that the !mildew
were to be comas:teed with the new year, but the
desert still remains a solitary place in tbe very heart of
the capital. The interest upon the money originally
given for the ground, and the enormous parish rates
which the Government have to pay in order to counter-
balance the loss caused by the sweeping away of scores
of habitetione, amount to more than £40,000 a year,
thus in six years representiag a loss to the country of a
quartette( a million sterling. Meanwhile the existing
law courte remain 111. lighted, badly-ventilated, and
wholly deficient in the necessary accommodation. No
one proposes their reconstruction became all look for-
ward to the possession of new law courts, and for the
same reason no improvement involving any expense in
carried out. It is a remarkable fact that while mon
of the large towns in England have provided them.
selves with proper buildings for the ahninietratim of
justice, London in this respect is no better off than it
was at the beginning of the century.
The wonderful success of the Brighton Aquarium
bee induced many in London to contemplate the estab-
lishment of a similar institution in our midst. Some
time ago a meeting was held to consider the advisa-
bility of forming one at the Coloseeum, but that has
been abandoned in preference to a propeeti to erect one
nor near Victeria-street, Westminster. Seeing that
Hastings, Margate, Ramsgate, and Yarmouth are pre-
paring to follow the example of Brighton, and that it isnot
likely to be long before Manchester and Glaegos will
each power an aquarium, it is not surprising that the
London scheme has been taken up with a degree of
spirit which promises substantial remits.
There is an old and learned institution in London
called the Linmem Society, the charter of which
prohibited paid offices being held by Fellows, ouch an
office being that of librarian. The Council of the
Society, however, lately came to a resolution to repea
this enactment, and a general meeting of members has
just been held, at which 44 voted to confirm the action
of the council, and 21 against it. The rules require a
majority of two-thirds for an alteration of this kind
and thin, it will be teen, was only just secured on the
present occasion.

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Professor Tyndall!' masterly lectures on scientific
subjects at the Royal Institution always attract !Men.
lion, and many of the highest and most distinguished
persons are of ten to be seen there, Intently listening
to the learned professor's wonderfully lucid expositions.
Dr. Tyndall's energies an. not, however, confined to
the Royal Institution. In coejunctioa with the
Trinity Board, he has lately been devotnig his great
energies to the perfection of a syetern of fog signals
which, when heard upon rock.bonnd coasts, shall warn
the mariner of his danger. Whistles of all descrip-
tions, and horns blown by steam as well as by air, are
now being tested ; and as the learned Profeseor is de-
voting all his scientific knowledge to this important
work, we may Boon look for results of ths highest
value in the navigatien of our shone.
The deputatiou which waited upon the Lord Chan-
cellor some days ago, and urged the ueceesity for eon-
etructing a new Patent Museum is. Lon lon brought
before public notice a matter which bad not, up to
that time, received the attention it deserved.
If the nation possessed a commodious structure
iv which models of patents might be not only deposited,
but inspected as we'd; such a place would be of ba-
mem interest to a considerable proportion of the
population. At present, those who wish to see such
models are uncertain whether togs to the Paterit Office
In Southampton Buildings or to that ic South Ken-
sington, and as they cannot well afford the time for
voyages of exploration between Chancery Lane and
the South-west of London, they generalty prefer to
take no action in the matter. One great reason why
there should be such a building is the rapid accumula-
tion of fees from the granting of pateats which is con-
tinually going on. Up to within the lest year or so
the remuneration of the Attorney and Solicitor-General
consisted almoit entirely of the Patent Office fees. But
since these learned gentlemen have been paid by salary
the patent fees have gone into the National Exchequer,
and now amount to the respectable sum of £80,0.!0.
Here, then, is a fund for a museum which would pay
for its own construction, and would certainly pay for
Its maintenance when built. Mr. Muudella reminds
the Lord Chancellor that the Patents Mueeum at
Washington was one of the most splendid structures in
that city ; but in London we ehoulil be initialed with
one of moderate proportions. An excellent place for
it would be on the Thames Embankment, which when
properly utilised for the relief of the traffic between
eaat and west by the exialtier of the new street through
Northumberland House, will be one of the finest and
Important thoroughfares in London.
At the balf-yearly meeting of the Metropolitan Rail-
way Company, which was held a few days ago, the
Chairman mentioned the astonishing fact that since
the opening of the line eleven years ago, It had carried
tile milliens of passengers without the loss of a single
life. This extraordinary number Las been conveyed
neer a railway eddy live miles in length! Indeed the
line is mole like one continuous station underneath
the streets of London, than an ordinary railway. Con-
sidering the vast crowds which daily travel upon it, a
natural conclusion would he that it was a paying
speculation. Yet it returns to Its shareholders a
dividend of only 2 per cent. One reason for this lithe
enormous cost of its original construction. Every
mile cost a million sterling, and this would of course
account for a large amount in interest upon caeital ex-
pended. A temporary cause of the small dividend was
an accident a few months ago, which cost the Company
between £B,OOO and £9,000 in compensation to the
injured persons. This reduced the dividend by one
half per cent; in other words it would have been 2A
instead of 2 had it not been for this misfortune. It war
Incidentally Incidentally stated that the new section from Moorgate-
street to the Great Eastern terminus at Biehopagate
would be soon finished, and that before long the
completion of the defile around London would be an
accemplithed fact. That is to say, a paesencer will be
enabled to get in at any etatio the Metropolltan
ine, take an entire journey round awl come
back to the same point again without change of carriage.
Yet with all our network of underground communica-
on, there is no perceptible diminution in the traffic of

London,

the etreete.
neither enbte
In existence.

11 apparently as great as though
lines nor river steamboats wore

• THE TfGHBORNE TRIAL
10nr
than the wing, condmireil LI
gu 'D. listlD MIT IXIMPEDAY.
At the sitting of the Court on Monday morning,
Mr. Ken ealy raid he wished to call their lordships' attentkon
to a most improper paragraph in the Weatern Ma, winch I
WU evidently inserted for the purpose of tojuriug the de-
fendant.
The Lord Chief Justice: We will listen with the greatest
attention, but let Me first say that on referring to pro-
ceedings the other day at the police-court, 1 dud observations
were made upon the conduct of this Curl which ire per-
fectly •c•odalOne.
Mr. Kenealy ; Lam not imairerable for it, norAs frry cent.
The Lord (Thief :intim,: Don't unaerstand gra um lit„lhit
l*btastllegrite reli ck gklnenpt any ofs a connected witli the
!iefence. lam only adverting to it as a most insolent piece
of audacity on the part of the gentleman who made the
ob mmmmm Mons. Ile had bettor take care what he does. He
1.1 an officer of the Court, and we shall know how to deal with
him.
Mr. Kenealy The tint part of the paragraph which rattan
to Mr. Whalley, Mr. Onsfow, and your lordships, I shall not
read. The latter part states that at • certain meeting of the
couniel for the promo:Mon it was decided that, should the
Jury disagree noon their verdict, the Government will
summon afresh jury arid proaecute the defendant upon one
count of the Indictment only—viz, that relating to Lady
Radcliffe and it, cmitents of the staled packet. "ills
conildently asserted In Westminster Hall, continues the
paragraph, "that the jury have agreed, but have been re-
quested to abstain irom stopping the case by reason of many
points read-red."
Mr. Hawkins: I can only gay, on the part of the prosecu-
tion, that they are not aware of any such consultation.
(Ltughter )
The Lord Chief Rutter", having looked at the paragraph,
said it was very wrong, but was utterly cullemidiole and

7,lJastice Mellor : Itip supremely ridiculous.
The Lord Chief Justice It la exceedingly Improper, bat
hardly worth notice.
Mr. fleeting It should be understood that there ls no
truth In its° farm the prosecution is c. ncerned
The Foreman: Nor so farce the j try are concerned.
Mr Hawkins then proceeded with his address. He ana-
lysed the evidence to show that Roter Ttchborne had never
been In tletiplila, where the defendant had lived for a con-
siderable time, and formed many acydatritances, and con-
tended that the defendant had evinced in his examination
and cross-examination as complete ignorance of Roger's life

I. .South Amerlea u It wss p-oes.Siblet-o ioneelve. in rZference
to the embarkation of Roger on board the Bella and rho evl•
duce of Captain Oates on the subject, Mr. Ilswkius said
there was not the slightest foundation for the gron imputa-
tion directed melon Mr. Colchester Tolleson° for invlog
g lying some app liitinent to Captain UAW in connection with
the Board of Trade.

.....
Ihe Lord Chief Justice said b. had received a letter from
Mr. Chichester Fortenue stating that when he gave emplof -
ment to Captain Oates as Cu occasional amasser in nautical
m Vets, be did not emu know that he was a witness in this

Mr. llawkirs said It was a scsndalout imputation, and Mr.
Chichester Fortrscue had no means or detain Wrote(
except such protection SIA he could get (rem their lordships
thrumelyee or the good common-nose di the Jury. He had
nothing whatever to do with the c.ee, let it Cal wickedly
and or Mily suggested that he gay. a place to a man in ostler
to twin, him Xi remain to this c.,uutry and give evidence
for the prosecuzi,e.

The Lord Chief Jl,stice : Mr. Chichester Fortescue asked
Try opinion and isovlce as to whether he should take any
notice of the imputation, but 1 thought kta character stood
too high to be affected by It.
Mr Hawkins 1 am glad to hear your lordship say that,
because A more unloaded imputat.ou never was made.
Mr. Justice Lath: lii. only one of a great number of Im-
putations which I are been thrown broadest.
Mr. Hawkins : Yes. Mr. Childers has also been attacked,
Indeed, no ote has escaped 1 thick lam institisd In say.
leg that, with your knowledge of the high honour of Mr.
Chieher,er Tonere., I. can afford to treat the Imputation
oracle upon 111111 with the utmost COL wmpt.

On the application of Mr. Hawn., the court agreed to
adjeurn at three o'clock to enable himself and other mem-
bers of the her to be pretext at the "farewell" oh Mr.
Baron Martin in the Eizhequer.
After remarking on Ems of the evidenee In reference to
the the learned counsel continued :—From the hour
of the Beeces wreck you have nothing bat an lovented story
—a perjured tele of the life which term' Dated with that
nail calamtty. With that tale i must next proceed to
deal, and first of all with the defendant's testimony
touching the catastrophe Melt After commuting on
the descriptims g.ven, all differing, Mr. Hawn. 5111
The defendant's acceunt of hie suesitsteuce when in the
boat was ludicrous. One boat hal the provisions and
another had the reaps and charts, arid they kept up a klud of
nauticei picnic, pulling up bight and morning to receive
their provisions from the other boat. And in describing the
ship that ptcked him up he said she was a large three-matted
vessel with yards on all three of her mast., sit! although be
was three mouths aboard he did not ask where the ship
hailed from or the exact nan,e nt the captain. It was im-
possible to suppose that if an o,prey picked up three skip.
wrecke.l men there was no entry made in her log. ('ax
any one suppose that an Intelligent, educated passenger,
who was pieced up and saved, would not have been /eked to
give the particulers of his shipwreck, and that after it would
be recorded and signed by him? The defendant's story about
the ship creek and his being saved is so outrageously ab-
surd that his own counsel had to abandon It as "recklessly
absurd and Incredibte." "You most not need his oath," stale
hle couesel. " And I agree with blue" said Mr. Hawkins, " ex-
cept for the purpole of convicting him of perjury." He made
statements at tendons; o 1 dmbt tiny are hopelessly, rid en
, lonely absurd. Bit they are not the less false, aidhe Is not
1 the less euilty of perjury in niche them. The crew divided
into two boars with the provisions in one of them Was it ne-
cessary to expose the hopeless absurdity of the story ? The
distress, the delirium, the rescue, the anxiety. It was
all a made-up story. Bet take it .5 it stood. E gilt men be-
sides himself picked opal sea, toe vessel with a crew of only
twenty men, all of them aware of the wreck cud the rescue !
Was it possible that for twenty years there should be uo
trace of such an event, none of the crew or passenger. of
either vessel ever heard of, no communication from any one
of the eight or nine lien raved from the wreck, not even a
letter from one of the crew written if tee the wreck, not a
trace of any such letter, not a trace of the t Matence of any
of these men for twenty yen?
Mr. Justice Lash: Some of the men had families.
lie, Moan: Yes, and there was never any Communi-
cation with any of them. Then there were the whole of the
crew of the o,prey, as well as those of the Gala-28 perilous
—of fleece! whom any trace had ever been t card for 20
years. Was snch &story credible? Eight or nine men picked
coin the ripen ocean after a week, and after two slays' en •
pone to the sun, and one of them delirious—such a story
weuld certainly have been heard of, and would have
excited great sympathy. And yet novel heard of for 23
ears ! It wee a story utterly unsupported and uncon-
firmed. It was not confirmed by a single statement
even of the defendant hinell prior to his sitting up his
&dm. He himself was silent about it until lsee, when he
started this impudent claim. There was ab.olutely no con.
floatation of his story even in any previous determent by him.
sell. !created entirely on the unsupportee oath of the de-
fendant until the day In Octeb:r last when Jean Lule, after
three months' careful seclusion, was broueht forward to tell
his perjured tale, and thereby to render the story, If possible,
even more incredible than it was before. If it could
have been supposed that the defendant was not fully cop-
Meant of Loin's perjured tale, it would not have so seriously
prepeticed his carte. But, tooting at the circumstances at-
tending upon their meeting and mutusl recognition, when
the defendant pretended to know his name as " Lula," he
could not avoid coming to the conclusion that the defend-
ant, to say the least, knew that the tale was perjured. What
was the tale? He described himself ass Dane, and he said
that in 1862 he j 'hind the Oepeey, a vent originally, be
said. Swedish, and called the llelzleiies. Ile said he was
in the vessel in 1553, and three early in January, 1e54, it
was at New York, and then loaded • cargo at Staten
I-land there. And he gave such details and particulars—
as far hack as the 7th of July—that lithe story were true
its truth must have been discoverable. He pulesned to
glee the names et her owner, her brokers, her captain, end
her stevedore—the brokers being, he said, Felicia and Co.,
her captain Bennett, and her stevedore Thompson ; and he
*lien went on to state that the vessel sailed on her
veyage to Melbourne, and about 400 miles c 3 Rio come
upda a boat in widen oily the heads of two men were
seen, but that there were four more lying down them-
tittle, end among them the defendant. The captain, he
said, took their names. The defendant was to hie own
cabin ; the voyage lasted three menthe, and the ship
errived at Melbourne (only in July, 1814, about the end of
. . . . . . . . . .

the tir—d WSJ:. During that infer.;a7,-ha—e-;l71, he tad to
wash the defendant all over, nut the defendant, be said,
complained of his crooked huger. In washing him he said
he saw the "brown mera," an inch long. Ile employed
himself, said Late, in phking oakum (how could Lute know
ens thin about picking unborn?) end in reading the Garden
of the Soul. "Ha never Olned with the captain; he had
hts meals in MY cabin. He always called me Lute. lila
c.,nversatlm was In French cud Spanish. He was de-
lirious while on board. Ho said his narne WWI It.acere.
I always believed he was a runaway bankrupt. He said the
rats had eaten throush the timbers, and made the I.ak
which caused the wreck." But from the account riven fly
the defendant himself it was manifest that the deferment
must have known that Lute or be nalist have been telling a

deliberate falsehood Nay, more, he must have cr;.o'wii.
Lille was perjured, or eh n he pretended to mu:vitae Lute
he could morer have seen him, fur In 1651 Lisle was In hull,
so that the defeudat t never could have seen him. Lute
laid Bennett woe the captain; the defendant said it
wise Owen, or Lewis Oweu, or Own Lewis. This thip
C mid 11,4 have loaded a: Share Island. The defendant
swore there were eight or nine pusseucers on board;
buM mid there were none,
tilt
had been the other
way, and bole had said there were womencora and the de-
to, star t had said there were none, his counsel might have
said be was delirious, but he swore he henl known and
tAlked to the paesongen. Aosin, Lute swore he picked up
the boat at a distance from Hie which was utterly impos.
; for, by the entry at Lloyd's and the evidence, Imp-
peered that the fragments of wreck found were about 160
miles from the si.cire 11. w did the little boat, a ith ship-
wrecked sailors, exhamted by fatigue, go • distance of
250 mires from that spot withlo two or three dale The
whole story Sal entirely a fabrication It was entirely
at variance with the defendant's to many respects. The
defenoant swore that several of the men Were rowing,
and th.t he himself was baling out the water from the
boat when it was picked up. Late add he only saw the
heeds of two men, who appeared to be paddling, and that
there Were four other men lying down, Mending the defend-
arr. What had bee, In, of the other three men to
whin, the defendant teat sworn? He had sworn there
were nine men picked up. In that he could not have been
mistaken: and, therefore, he must have kneell that if his
story was true that of Lute was a lie. Si as to not dining
with the c sptain ; in that also the story Was incondstent
with the defendant's Agai i there was nothing in the de.

fekae-rWalt-o-r.); about picklll4 of oakum ;;re Garden of
the Sold. Lila as!, the name of the captain was Deane';;
the defendant said it was Lewis or Owen. Lille said the d. -
fondant passed as Rogers the defendant said he was only
known as Roger Tichborne. Lute said the defendant was
supposed to be a runaway bankrupt; the defendant swore
he was known on board ni a youqg English gen:leman, and
treated as such. These discrepancies were dee truct Ire of both
stories, and showed that both were pure Inventions Then,
alto the lauding at Melbourne, Made:end/slit swore he went
alone; Lids said that he auithe dsf ant, with two of the
Bella men and two of the Osprey men, went on shore
Ira the Bella best (whereas the defendant swore he was left
bads) ,), and that the names of the two men of the Bella
were Jarvis en] Lewis. the de'endant must have known
this was false, for the list of the &Ike.; crew ens extant,
and the ostlers had proved that there were no such men I
am -lig them.
Mr. Justice Lush : We have the dictal list of the crow, and
no such names.

_
Mr. Hawkins: No sects names. Moreover, the defendant
In 1807 caused a letter to be written, which Is in evidence,
aud in which he profesmd to give the names of the men who
were saved, and the names of Jarvis and Lewis were not
among them. The letter mentioned Shears, Peebles, and
others, but neither Jarvis nor Lewis.
The Coact again adjourned.

The Court met at the usual hour on Tueeday morn.
lug for the 161 th day.
lir. Hawkins, returning to the defendant'. and Luie's Story
about the Oeprey and their arrival and adventures in Aus-
tralia, pointed out that there wss not a einale try ce of that
Count, r of any peraon connected with her whore name had
been given by them, although Mr. Jenne bad gone on the
part of Cue defence to the c,iony to make inentries on the
sullect, Lute's tale WAS SO extraordinary as to «suite the
greatest suspicion, and if these conducting the defence
h.eUeved In its truth It was remarkable that be ohnold have
been kept shut up and included In the h one of a billditt,kor
mall he was put In the box.
The lord Chief Justice The worst part of his ttatement
—aud it rd—ts noon others—le that he was told the pilot
and some Bailors from the Bela and Osprey were ready to
support him, but they would oct let him see thole men.
kir. Hawkins : Yes ; Captain known and Janes were
mentioned,

—Ti;OT.o7.-1 Chief Justico: If LuLi Iltoll be bare from to

beginning to the end, as the defendant's oonnsel has on in
servedly admitted, the pilot and senors, who. It was eatd,
wore to support him, must have been fictitious, sod most
bare been mentioned tosivehim more confidence or courage in
making his statement. I Mei hope for the credit of the
persons concerned, that some contradiction woidd have
No given on the subject. L. wilted for 11, but it was hot
EriM. ,
that y ea
kr
Mfr. Cooper Wyld : Thera hemother Interpretation.tim d Chief Justice : I did not ulo you, orolik,-
for xplanation. I takeklii: greatest that
no au ut the pilot end s . • •
. Cooper Welt: I °lily what is in my brief.
The Led Chief Justize: I don't morello you would know-
iugly bare put forward what was fictitious.
id.r. C opor Wyld : Certainly not,
The Loud Chief Justice : Of course you whit not.
air. Hawkins then proceeded with his edam,.
-

Y°4;boat

The Lord Cold t Jostle°, addresaing Mr. Cooper Wyld, mid
I was rather body jut now In Interrupting ion If you
hove any observation to make, pray make It by all means
You say Hie capable of tome other construction. If that be
Iss, what is It
egflacipAraytll-;ntLmart tave been It trtre invention in
dttliataertaiL 'to thattlet'lleir wadoutt'halTedbanemyr
perfectly eatisfactory I. my Wu I. All I meant ‘,lll that I
was dleappoluted and distresred that neither on the part of
Mr. li,-nealy nor anybody elm was pus:tire denial given to
toe statement.

Mr. C )oper Wild ; our lordship la not mere distressed
than I am that no denial was given.
Mr Hawkins sugg.eyd that Lute was kept back to the last
moment i.e the hope that, his story le,lng incapable of con-
firmation, no evidence could be obtained to contradict it,
and having adverted tr the jubilant way In which his evidence
was received en the part of the defence, said that Lute
himself made the most solemn asseveratleys of its truth.

The Litti Chief Justice He sail, "As lam a guild man
be ore bird, I speak the truth."
Mr. Hawkics, saying that Mr. Kenealy epoke cf Lai* es
having been marvellmely sent by Providence to rescue a
man from the perils by whin he was surrounded, observed
that it was marvellously providential that t cc vanity Oi the
ot site had led to his photographs being ethidted In the
shop window., as It had brought forward evidence to stamp
him es • deliberate perjurer. He Vies attributed to the im-
prndeut boldness atm hasty challeege of Mr. Kenealy, the
course adopted by the Crown in callus • itn,sses to prove
that Lute was the convict whom they suspected him hi be
The L ,rd Cain f Juetice t I don't know whether it was im-
prudence or ill-temper, but he Is reepoutible for that being
alsclosed
Ihe Ic4rned counsel continued: With regard to the wreck
of the Bella, he reminded the j try that toe defendant mild
the ceptain end mate and some sailors got Into the long.boet,
and ho and eight or nine sailors lute • second boat; and that
they kept together rowing fur thirty-six hour., when they
separated and did not satin meet. According to Captain
ilopkics, of the schooner Kent, he fell ILI with a long.
boat marked Bella, with the keel upwards, a chest
of drawers and • water cask floating together, and on ar-
riving at Rio a few days afterwards he reported the cir-
cumstance and expressed the opinion that the vessel heel
come in n with another, and that alto bad
gone down with rat on boerd It WIN rptite clear, thetefore,
that the defendant's stets ell out must be false, as it wee Im-
possible that the chest of -newer, and water-cask, whlct it
wog proved belonged to the Bella, could have been found
close to the long boat if the latter had been rowed away
from the wreck for thirty Fix hours. The fact mentioned
by Captain llopkir s, who was unable to take the long-boat
on board in c heequenco of lie size, afforded urgent reed
irresistible testimony that not a soul on board the Baia
W9M saved.

a a.
Mr. Justhe Lush Aud the British !Ombra' at Rio
despste led a schooner to the spot where the aitic'es were
found, a she returned without any trace of the Bs .l or
men. . .

Mr. How Irina laid he marvelled under there circumstances
at the unparalleled audacity of Captain &roan In sweart g
that when he firat heard In Rio of the loss of the Belle, it
occurred to him that Roger Tichb -Tine had been pickel up
by the Now Bedford Osprey; and further, ti a, the general
re p.-rt after the Kent arrived was that the ahlp had been lost
but no one with her; and that one boat's crew had been
picked up and taken to Bahia aunt another picked up and
landed at Melbourne,
Tee Lord Chief Justice How Could it pozeth'y have been
known at that time that the men had been picked up at sea
and taken to those places Toe captain of the Keel had not
teen any vent! that had picked them up, and according to
Captain Brown'. version, the long-boat must hove gone
backward.
Mr. Hawkins said it wee not only marvellous that Captien
Brown should have sworn to what was a pore notion, but that
the defendant -Mould have permitted each evidence to have
been offered. After making Dome further observations on Cap.
tan Brown'sevidence, the learned couldul proceeded to ridi-
cule the hypothesis of Mr. Banality that a young man like
Roger Tichborne, with £2....,000 a year, had remained In Aue-
tralks without communicating with hie friends irom feelings of
remorse and with the object of et j eying health—glortous
health—under the broad canopy of heaven in the bush.

The Lord Chia' Justice said he gave another etas n—that
he had been inspired by the rourativ, a of the adventurolle
spirits to the o,,preq tee join in their life in Anetraila.
Mr. Hawkins: Waat was £e5,000 a year is this country,
with bealth—gUarlous health—to keeping • bittcher's shop
in Wagga•Waega ? tughter.) Common experience shows
that with £25,000 a year a man may pick up any desirable
spot in the world, met health wheresoever health fete be ob-
tained, end even Set up an amateur slaughter-house, I
(Laughter. )
The Lora Chief Justice ; le is right to say that these sub-
lime theories were riot started by the defendant, and that he
Is therefore net responsible for them. (Laughter.)
Mr. Justice Lush; Nor is he responsible for the withered
leaf. (Laughter.)
Ihe learned counsel then proceeded to compare the per-
sonal appearance of Roger Tichborne, as proved by ev,dence,
with that of the defendant. and said that the witnesses on
both sides who knew Roger Tichborne negatived his having
a detective thumb. Tete defies:dent has one, and Mr. Dols
and Mr. Haden any it is to be produced artificially. Miss
Brains was not questioned about it. dir William Ferguenon
doubted if it could have been done, but Mr. Holt raid he
actually produced it on his own thumb. They all agreed that
It was net a defect that exited at birth. If Roger rich-
borne had it plenty of witnesses could have been carted who
knew him went., prove it. loan only attribute Its suggestion
to the fact of an accident In taking the phot agraph at San-
tiago, aud it was not until 1871 that the defendant first put
It forward. The narks of venesection on Roger's arose an]
. feet do not exist in the defendant The defect lent has
!en it the slightest trace of an Issue or a aeten in hit
! arm, but mark. have bees manufactured of a seton
' without the ladureted Orin. I puss over altogether the
teetimony of Dr. Wilson upon a subject on which be was
examined, and to discuss which the coast was cleared.
There ls not a trace that such • thing existed In Roger
Tiehborne Then as to the brown mark upon the defendant,
which he described as three inches long, and Mr. Bereerd
Holt said was five—certainly a mark of considerable size.
Yet Lely lichborne wrote back to the defendant teat she
had never seen or heard of it, and no whilesae had spoken
of such a mark on Roger except I. lie and Captain Brown
There was, however, some evidence that when Orton
was a child there wee a red mark on his side. There
was no evidence of the existence of such a mark on
Roeer Tiebborne. No person would be so likely to know
of it ax his mother, and she never knew ill it. Then as to
the "tattoo marks," as to which she defendant's counsel
had declared he would blow the case into ten thousand
Ira, meats, no part of the case had been more clearly
proved—end proved, too, by the cooduet of the defence
Melt It was plain that if Roger was tattooed there was
en end of the case, for it was admitted that the defendant
had no such marks. What, than, was the evidence at
to the tattoo merits 1 In 1811 Mr. Scott, the In-
&Marian at Stonyhunt, Val shown the marks—a cross,
an mach de and a heart. He asked Roger who made
them, min he said a "sailor in Brittany." Then there was
hoe I. Bellow, why stated that he became intimate with
Roger, and that he tattooed "R. C T." en his arm, there
being then the cross, the heart, and the anchor. It was done
wiih needles and Indian Ink. "On the same occation," he
added, "Roger tattooed my arm in the same way," and he
exhibited the marks. When the defendang came over to this
country Lord Bellew naturally enough spoke of the matter.
it had been falsely suggested that the euggestiou of tattoo
marks was a mere afterthought got up during the last trial,
hot that was a wicked Nigel:woe, for Dr. Lipscomb, the de.
fendane'e witnesses at the former Wel, had been crost-exa-
' mined about It early lu the course of the trial, before the
Clalment was calle.l ; set upon this false foundation the
eroalest possible imputation had been made against Lord
Bellew, who had no interest whatever In the case.
Tae Lord Chief Janice observed that the suegestion of
the defendant', counsel was wrong. It was seld that novae
cold hove got up such a story without bribery, mut that,
therefore, he must have been bribed.
Mr. Hawkins: Yes ; and I do say that a more wicked
sngeestion never was made. There was no pretence: of a
feundatiou for It. I,e th s cent widen elicited from I.erd
Bellew as to an incident i.e his peat lite had to connexion
vrith the case nor with his veracity or credibility as a wife
nets. Mr. Serjonnt Ballautlne knew of the matter at the last
triel, hut, like a gentleman as well as an able and experienced
anivocete, he declined to go tut* a matter so ensirely lerele-
want. Wrist would bee snae of witnesses if none could go
Into the box without having every incident in their past lives
dragged out and paraded before Om public? The Bar were
Ltrusted with great powers for the interest of jaatice and of
truth, but if they aboard these powers and converted the
witness-box into a place of torture, they would become a
public nulitence, and they eaglet to be deprived of these
powers which they ao grossly abused. hut, thaak God, these
powers were rarely se saluted. and their abuse in We instaece
had only elicited weltruerited censure.
The Court again adjourned.

On Wednesday Mr. Hawkins continued his analysis of the
evidence for the prosecution on the question of the tatted
marks, which ho contended was overwhelming ; and as to
the suggestion on the part of the defence that it was an
atter-thought. first mentioned in IS7I, he said Mrs. Green-
wood, as early es March. 1817, told Mrs. Guildford Onslow—
perhapa imprudently—that Roger Tschborne had tattoo
111,11ka on his arm ; but she did not mention what they repre-
sented, end if that ware not true, Mrs. Guildford Guslow
might have been called. Long before the defendant came to
England it was Wilma that an impostor would be foisted
upon the family, and It was deemed prudent not to challenge
him about the marks until he was in the witness-bon, as he
might have made them on his arm, as he produced marks
on Ma emotes when be heard from Moore that Roger was
bled in those parts. The leaned couLsel animadverted upon
the sweeping charge of perjury which be brought against all
the sttneuee for the Crown.

The Lord Chief Justice : No; the turned counsel for the
defence sold It was In.powilbla to charge the many respectable
persons who came forward with saying they saw tattoo
roftrk. on Roger wirn they had not seen them and he sug•
gest d that be was in the habit of painting emolems on his
arm for the purpose of shocking the sea sibllity of persons to
whom he exposed them. When it was said that they were
seal on various occasions when he was toksn unawares, he
mug .cited it was done a day or two before for the same
jormar purpose, and had remained. 113 did not lay the
niter sow had been guilsy of perjure.
A juryman He charged Lord tie.l3w with perjury.
Mr. Hawkins : And Mr. Gosford also. lie laid they were
engaged together in a green e.spiritcy.
The Lord Chief J entice: As Lord &Few positively stated
that he time, l tattooed Roger Tichborne, his accusation
against him amounts to that. A more Careful advocate
would, perhaps, have suggested that Lord 11311ew hod n 1.-
taker, Roger for another person; but he writ deiuoorateiy
to the point, and said he had peijured hi melt and been
bribed.

Mr. Ilawhina : And I venture Co think that the defendant
himself was almost struck dumb by the °old suggestion of
his ‘vvii c unsel—vir , that the marks were made by Roger
with a blue pencil or pigment of some kind—he could not
sly which. It was doubtless a suggestioo that took its
origin solely in the fertile brain of his cones,-I. I don't give
him credit for it excep; no wanted to excite a smile, and it
is too ridiculous to be listened to for a moment If he
wanted to know hos the snacks were Ml.le, he bad but to
touch his Bent on the shoulder and say, 'Sir Boger, where
did you get the paint, ana what w u it t" and he nuosid
have got sir Itoges's answer. (I sughtsr ) Sneaking of the
absurdity of putting forward sucn a tneory against the
sworn testimony of a large number of tulle, and gentletuer,
he said if lime, had Indulged in such o whimsical fancy over
a settee of years, some ono must have Fume n it, and yet out
of two hundred and fifty witutuses called by too defendant
not one had ever men Roger mark his arm with a pencil or
pigment, not even Bogle.
A Juryman: I think Mr. Kenealy was in earnest, because
be challenged us all to get blue pencils and make expert-
merits for oursi-ives.

Mr. Hawkins : Dtd you succor d In making any markt ?
Tee Jarman: No ; and I wore out tee pencil.

Mr. II sw hth, The pencil was worn out in vain endeavour,.
(Loushter ) The lean ed connect then deslt with the
Peitindrelgn forgeries, and availed himself of tho allegation
acalust the Crown in !egad to them to open up the whole
story. and to connect the defendant blown If with a tielh
base, and whhed attempt to brihs Mr. fettindreigh,
the clerk of NT, Mobilise's, the for the young heir,
awl MIS Pettimireish with the &lees of pro:ming all the
tot ,rniallen which was obtained in his office, and which It
was cs.entlal to keep "inset until the defendant wea under
crofts- :nomination. In the mnrse of hit obeervations he
eroded toe etatement of the delendont that Mr. Polinss
sold he would have u,thinu to do with the matter ; that as a
solicitor it was more than he Oared do, and that he (the de-
fendant) could do as he pleased.
T • Lord Chief Je•tlee I don't see much difference,
morally or profeeslenaliy, between an attorney tnt Ong a
thing which would bring him within toe penalties of a WI.-
t'on of the honour of his profession and toying t 3 his client,
"I Cannot do it, but you Can.' They era both eqttally