The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-03-07

who believed Bossuet to be one Of the early
fathers, and did not know whether John
Bunyan was q bishop, q prize fighter or a
horse jockey.
Now comes the extraordinary part of the
story. The assumed Sir Roger returned to
England. Some of those who had known the
wanderer regarded him as an impostor; others
who served in the carbineers, who had been in
his personal service, who had made boots and
clothing for him, who had ministered to his
bodily wants and comforts, affirmed that be
was the real Sir Roger. A husband and wife,
related to the Baronct, were divided in
their opinion, the husband regarding him as an
The immediate relatives of the Baronet,
the young lady his cousin, whom
he had sought in marriage, no
longer young, but a matronly, well-ma-
tured Mrs. Radcliffe-insisted that he was an
impostor. But if the woman he loved dis
owned him, the woman who bore him took
him to her arms as her long-los son. Lady
Tichborne, who would never believe that Sir
Roger had been drowned, but who continued
to seek him over the world and to pray for his
remained with him until her death. He follow
ed her body to the grave as chief mourner.
1t was said that grief and yeats of waiting had
affected Lady Tichborne's mind that she was
incapable of judgment, and that she accepted
this adventurer in the hunger of maternal love
at time when age and sorrow had dimmed
her reason. In time public opinion
was attracted to the singular claimant His
story was canvassed in all circles. And, as
is 80 often the case, one class, the mobiles and
gentry, denounced him as an impostor, while
the other classes felt that he was an OPP
pressed, outraged man. and that there was no
Justice in England unless Sir Roger could
come to his own. The vagabond was poor,
of course; but his partisans furnished him
with money. Bonds were executed to be paid
out of the revenues of the Tichborne estates,
when the law took its course, and these were
purchased by his friends and those who
believed his story and felt that English
justice demanded his reinstatement in
the baronetcy So in time it came to
trial. The leaders of the English Bar
were arrayed against each other, the Attorney
General, Sir John Coleridge, leading the case
for the defence Mr.. Ballantyne for the claim
ant. The trial has been going on, with few
intervals. since May. During the proceeding
the claimant went upon the stand and told his
own story. For several weeks he was cross
examined by the Attorney General in what GER
tainly was the most extraordinary examination
known in any trial. All the resources Of legal
skill, handled by the leader of the English bar,
were exhausted in this controversy. When
this was concluded it was felt that while Sir
John Coleridge might have shaken the case he
had not destroyed it. II Tichborne was an i'm
poster he was certainly most remarkable
impostor, for he had submitted to an ordeal
that would have tried the most profound and
intellect. He held to his story,
and the trial went on until the defence pre-
scented its case and advanced part of the
evidence. The result of the evidence has
been to convince the jury that the claimant is
an impostor, to throw him out of Court and to
send him to Newgate as an alleged perjurer,
awaiting bail in fifty thousand pounds.
This is a sudden and dramatic close of the
case, if it really ends here. We do not see how
ever, that it is the end. The claimant was sus-
tanned by extraordinary evidence, and there is
no doubt that there is large party in England
who regard him as the real Baronet, as a man
deprived of his rights by an aristocracy which
does not care to admit butcher. q vagabond
and horse thief to share precedence with
and baronets. But the common
English mind has heard of the Marquis of
Hastings and the Duke of Newcastle, and even
of His Gracious Majesty George w., and
it sees in this stolid, ungainly, ignorant
Tichborne quite as much nobility as in
any of them. The severity of the Courts &C.
ton-his committal to Newgate under bail which
makes his release impossible-will excite SYM
patty. Somehow there is an impression that
the Court has been unfair towards him,
and that in no event has he had abundant and
even-handed justice. What the details of the
last few days proceedings will develop we
do not know; but it would not surprise us to
find the Newgate prisoner the cause of as
much excitement as was known in the
days of the Monmouth who was believed
to have been the legitimate son of Charles
H., and who, but for his own foolish, feeble
vanity, might have risen by the credulity Of
the common people to the English throne.
Reception of the Japanese Embassy by
the House of Representatives.
The attractive feature in the House of
Representatives yesterday was the reception
of the Japanese Embassy by the House of
Representatives. As state show it could
not of course approach in point Of splendor a
similar demonstration in. one of the great
European capitals; but the absence of display
in the surroundings was amply compensated
for by the simple dignity of the Speaker, the
excellent bearing of Mr.. Banks, of Massachu-