The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1872-10-02
THE TICHBORNEC LAIMANT-HIs
COMING TRIAL.

Justin Mccarthy in the New York Even.
ing Mail.1
we have somewhat new kind of
peripatetic agitation going on in London,
OF which the central figure is the famous
and fat claimant to the Tichborne baron
etcy. This man is to DO tried next No
vember on charge Of perjury and forg-
cry, and, as the Government is to spend
something like 100000 in the prosecution,
the claimsnts friends appeal to the gen.
eral public to furnish funds for the
defence. Having obtained good
deal of money through adver.
tisements in the newspapers, they then
took to holding public meetings in the
provincial towns, and now they have
transferred the campaign to London itself.
This week they have held two great
meetings in music hall in Oxford street,
charging prices Of admission varying from
twenty-five cents to 81. was present at
the first meeting, and the room was
densely crowded. The huge claimant has
| still contrived to retain some devoted
friends and partisans. Chief among them
are Lord Rivers, Mr.. Guilford Onslow 10
member Of parliament and an heir pre-
sumptive to an earldom) and Mr.. Whal-
ley, the well-known no-popery member of
parliament, whose name, l dare
say, 10 we'll known even across
the Atlantic; and ought
to add that Mr.. Whalley has under
taken, If needs be, to cross the Atlantic
and stump the States in person on be-
half of his friend. Now, Whalley is q
weak.headed, absurd sort Of man, at
whose no-popery crotchets the house has
never done laughing. But Guilford On
slow Is an able and sensible man, gentle
man Of undoubted position, and one whom
one would think no vulgar Australian
butcher and horse-thief could possibly
pass of upon as q poor aristocrat. Yet
Onslow Is devoted to the claimant and
| speaks at the meetings day after day
stumps England, in fact, on his behalf.
Mr.. Onslow was close friend of
the mother Of Sir Roger Tichborne, who,
you will remember, died in the full convc-
ton that this claimant was her son. Well,
you are tired, of course, Of the Tichborne
case, and don't mean to give you any Of
it. But there was to me, for long time,
something inexplicable about the faith
which three men seemed to have in the
claimant. have no theory on the mat
ter myself, except this, that the fat claim
ant, whoever he is or is not, is a gentle
man. l say this, despite his occasional
mistakes in grammar. Mr.. Onslow ex-
plains this by saying (whst every one
sdmits) that the young Tichborne, as a
boy, hardly knew any English,
being the son of French woman, and
brought up in France; that he finished
his education in England under her
rudest tutelsge in Australia, and that thus
he got his mispronunciation and his bad
grammar. But he certainly has all the
ease, the quiet self-possession and the dig
nihed courtesy of q well-bred English
gentleman. Despite his mountain of fat
there Is even certain grace in his manner.
All this ofcourse would not prove him to be
the rightful heir, but 1t would seem to dis.
psrage the theory of the other side that he
IS the Wrapping butcher who went out to
the Australian bush. He Is not an ill
looking man the photographers gave no
idea Whatever of his expression, for they
make him only q heavy, st-faced stupid
fellow. The man-whoever he is-had
wonderful eyes, somewhat lsnguid and
sleepy, until their owner grows little ami
mated, when they CLEAN with q strange
depth in them. His expression is grave
and even melancholy. His articulation
Is defective, and he appears to have some
difficulty in breathing; but he addresses
his meetings in the most perfect self-pos-
session and with that peculiar and imper-
turbable composure which in England 10
held to DO indispensable TO good breeding
HIS colossal arms are terminated by small
and well-shaped hands lone Of the wit
nesses, on his behalf, deposed that shs
Identified him by his hands, those Of
Roger Tichborne being like the
hands OF fair and plumn
womsn), and he wears the dsintiest kid
gloves. saw the claimant tor the frat
time the other day, and ! confess that he
puzzled me-. ! had expected TO see a
vulgar and sinister-looking rufiian, and I
saw the sort Of person / have tried to de-
scribe TO you. At all events, begin to
| understand how manv lilo Io,d n;,a,.