The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1871-07-25
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mas eStanllSDcu nlu1SSH Ill MI oii HtahS'o',
at Bromptop, with garden around it, and
il Is asserted that he and his wife pass alt
the intervals of the court sittings In stale
of hesstly in,oxication. Dclirium trcmens
Is dccia, cd 10 hc OF almost daily occurrence
in thr family. There arc rumorS also about
the cy,d, ic, which is TO come against Inc
ri,;moni. Il IS asserted that his mother is
70 come forward and cl;im him as her dar-
ling Wrapping hutcher-hoy, and his sweet
heart is TO bring evidence Of her bctrothal
with him before he went to foreign
parts. IL is even r,mnred that evidence
will be brought forward to show rrobabill-
ties that this man murdered the real Roger,
aud SO in part became possessed of his pa
pers. &c; and, indeed, there docs seem TO
hc some charge OF crime awaiting him
should he be successful in this suit. In
short the popular imagination i fairly fired.
think, moreover, that | can detect II sort
Of division on the question regulated ny
rank. | never heard Of workinoman or
small tradcSinan who is not for the claim
ant, nor of IN ariStocrat who is not bitterly
against him. Whatcyer the man may have
been bv birth. he is identified with the
lower classes by his having labored and by
dropping his h'S, and his sublime Ignorance;
and those GLASSES inStinctlIrir champion
him. When he leaves court he Is generally
cleered by the crowd outside, and always
bows to them magniflrenty.
To yct into the cuurl-ro"r Is one OF the
lsborS of Hercules. TO some present it Is
ANYTHING but a place "t a.nu,cment. lisa
dark shadow that r, : : upon the fine face OF
Lady Tichhorne, tie guardian Of the little
boy who is home hrppy With his toys,
hlisStully unconscious that the battle be-
tween life of poverty or Of aflluencc Is
being fought for him. Stately. tall. hand
some. her eyes rest With fixed gaze upon
the jury rs if she wolliN, with her lercrl>h
ewes, hrin. out on each face y>il,ly the ten
dencv Of conviction hidden beneath il. just
hcyond her sit two who have an even
| heavier stake ut issue. Mrs. Radcliffe
iNatc Doughty, whom the claimant
solcmnly Swcars hc scduccd before
leaving the country. sits ON Tic third
bench from the front, her husband
the other, while at home her mother, aged
seventv.siX. sinks daily under the terrible
pressure OF this cruel charge against her
| daughter. MIR. Radcliffe is u tine-looking
man, with regular features and long, red
dish-gray beard; he is almost pallid, rs the
| eyes of all in the courtroom so surely scan
| the woman ut his side. And she, the mo-
| thcr Of eight children, sits there with paper
and pencil. carefully taking notes of all that
is SAID and done. She is tinc-lookinS wo-
man. and evidently has been beautiful. Her
face is ruddy, aud full of life, and a miSStcp
in early life on her part is not luconcelr-
able. Her husband is SO careful and con-
stant in his minute attentions to her that ii
is almost pathetic. 1t is like the Stcadtast,
proud faith of Sir Leicester DedlOck. that
his lady must needs lie above his suspicion
ut least. The servants of the Radcliffe
| household at KenSington are said to have
| been so enraged against the sOs.diSant Sill
| Roger tor his charges against the chastity OF
| their mistress that they petitioned for the
privilege Of making an attempt ut lynchln2
| Gim. Then there are certain my SterlouS char.
acter> attending the trial daily, from the first
word to the last, OF whom no one seems to
know anything. See that old man with
the young girl 10y his side. They have
never lost one word of this trial
rhcy come, they 90, and nobody here
| has found out who they are. They
| have orders to come, however, from the
Judge, and must have some interest III the
case. Ihe old man aud the young Sirl
| were, as Little Nell and her grandfather, III
aristocratc though simple dress. | thought
| they looked upon the claimant with some.
what eager and friendly glances, rs il hop.
| ing that, with new adjustment, some old
! expectation Of theirs might be inltii'cd. But
| The great object of interest is the claim ,nt.
| BceithlrSs Is the hush when h" Is an
| nollNrcd. Have you seen the elephant move
| into the ring Of Il circus: VI can YOU i'm.
aginc Il small island beginning TO move
sihcr of these will suggest the jour
| ncv of the mass of flesh calling it.
self Sir Roger &. Tichborne from the
| door to the covered seat assigned TO him.
At the beginning he had TO stand up us
| witnesses generally 90. but his legs finally
| refused to support the burden imposed
upon them. and 50 he now sits. E>op tells
Ut fog which amhit'ously tried to be.
come an OK, hut failed; here is Il case
which suggests that one frog at least has
succeeded. His checks hang down with
latness; his paunch expands like the curve
ot the sphere, yet lie has rather small
hands, which he takes care to keep IN
| sight his eye is dull. and he seems per-
petudlly OH the point Of falling asleep.
Nothing can hc more droll than TO witness
| tue cncOunier between such Il man anu the
quick, eager intelligence s,f his cross-cXam-
| inrr, NJ. Colerdgc, Solicitor General. | i'm
convinced that the lltttr finds 1t difficult TO
| suppress explosions OF laughter. At his
subtle questions the clcphantinc witness
| rolls his eyes up, revealing their utter va
cancy, and nine times in ten replies, I"
don't know" or - can't tremcmOrr." am
satisfied that If Mr.. Coleridge were to ask
him whether he put OH his boots tnat morn-
| ing, the claimant would say, 81 don't
| know" Mr.. Sergeant Ballantync, home
! lv, stronu-licaded man. with some genius in
| him, sits by with Il merry twinkle In his
| eye at the immense pumping The solicitor
| General has to do to get 4 thimJlciul OF ln-
tclli.cnce out Of his Q5allanty client.
Sometimes the claimant seems to wake up
| and strike back with fury. Once he
| hat hn had thn Sliuht-
est doubt that all those people who
were opposing him knew very well who be
was. $50 you believe they are all commit
ting perjury at this moment :" "Certalnly
do" How the eyes OF the long rows of
fair ladies flashed ut This ! But the furious
ollnccs were as shafts on the hide of Il rhl-
nocer0s. Once the remorsclesS Solicitor
WAS examining him concerning some books
which had been owned by the bona y1ide
Titchborne before he went abroad. The
claimant not only did not know anything
at all of the contents Of these volumes,
but hc knew nothing about the great
est authors. One of the books was a
Life of Bunyan::.,, Can you tel me
tell me what kind of man he WAS? Was he
Il general, prize fighter, . bishop, Il mas.
ter OF fox hounds?" "Well, L should say
he i a very different man from what you
are" So far from being nettled when the
witness hits back in this way, the Solicitor
General seems rather pleased than other
wise at such CLEANS OF vitality; and, in
deed, it is wonderful that he should be SO
good-natured to the hardest case barrister
ever had to deal with, when it is considered
that ne has to sit in the House Of Commons
nearly all night, and gets no sleep save what
he can snatch between two or three O'Clock
In the night and nine in the morning.
And yet it Is certain that the demeanor
and the very ignorance and stupidity OF The