Year: 1871

rare treat In addition to its usual May ussiPa', ~
as Exeter Hall meetings. exhibitions balls ana tho DerJ
and Oaks aces We the midst OF one OF inc most
reuarhabIe oases OF the century. 1t IL known as the


chborne case and good several sensation ho'o
knocked into one with the additional exceneht Vi nav
ing the principal characters walking aoont aons "S ~
the flesh The trial is in the Court OF Common r' "
the prize at stake the Tchborne and Doughty estates
I'm the County Of Hants, and elsewhere sao W oo o
aas0Oo a year. Not one element dear to the romance


i,or ond reader ia wanting The estates are said to
have been in tho TchbOne family since the deatn Oh
some old Saxon Ealderman Thegn 2Oyears peioro o
conouest There Ia an old legend connected with the
Tchborne dole good any In Scotts novels III tno
time OF Henry H. dying Lady T1chDorne pre'aeo oh
her Lord TO dedicate the perpetual sustenance OF the


oor o mucb OF the demesne lands she could manage
to GET around The stanch old soul got out OF bed ana
crawed he could walk around % acres close 10 he
Hail. to the great disgust OF her spouse Inc hae vi


the Crayls" still hangs about the spot. There Is
prophesy that whenever the Tchborne dole shouiu DO
withheld there would be sons In the family then
seven daughters afterward great ills would fail on
the house oddly enough uness the prophesy has been
invented since 1867 the end Of last century the dole
became great nuisance and was suppressed ana there
have been seven sons and seven daughters IN 'ho t"o
next generations, and now comes our story


In 1so the next heir the Baronetcy and estates was
one Roger Tichborne, slight young man, feet or9
inches in hight sovenly and queer in his habits who





Gated at ALL almost entirely in France He spoke French
auently but English badly and with foreign accent
In that year he Joined the Carbneers crack cavalry
CORDS the officers OF which to have played many
practical Jokes on him. However, he remained Ia inc
regiment for four years. and became lieutenant; Dut
being OF a rowing disposition, he left the army IN $780,
and started his travels He went hrstto South Amer
lea with body servant one Moore whom he left keep
ing shop at Buenos Ayres while he himself wandered
over the Cordleras, into Chill. and elsewhere ht last
he returned Moore at Buenos Ares and embarked on
the ship Bella, bound for New-York, which was never
heard Of again. and it supposed that she had iouh-
dered at sea- and that all board had perished There
upon Rogers younger brother Alfred put on decent
mourning and became heir apparent and, dying IN due
course left his eldest boy still an infant OF years or
theresbouts, to succeed to the family honors.


Old Lady Tichborne however mother OF Roger and
Alfred had fixed idea that her Grant son would turn
up again some day During her husbands life this fancy
of hers was severely snubbed by him indeed when she
brought a begging sailor in day, who said he bad
heard in the Pacific or somewhere else, that boats
crew from the Bella had been saved, tho old Baronet
seems to have used language Incompatible with the
equal rights Of women. However the old gentleman
died. and Lady TchborDe began advertising for the lost
Roger in The Times, and offering a1oOO for trustworthy
news OF him. In due she received certain sadly
ungrammatical letters from Australia informing her
that Roger alive, and gaining his living there as
journeyman butcher and upon the remittance OF S4Oo
was ready 10 return to England and claim his own The
old lady sent out remittances but without waiting for
these Roger Qayng aside his butchers smock and knife
and his OF Tom Castro" which he had borrowed
from a rowdy Of his acquaintance in Chilli came home,
was received with open by the dowager Lady Itch
borne, and spread sore dismay in the family The
trustees the infant heir wholly refused to recognize
him, and the lawyers, with cheerful minds at once en-
tered upon the grand campaign over the 1ichborne
estates which has, after four years, been brought to


final the present trial. As yet the evidence for
the claimant Roger has not been concluded His story
is that the boat in which he left the ship picked up
by a vessel which landed him at Melbourne; that two
days after the landing he joined squatter and went
with him up country 10 tend his stock that he married
beneath him, content with his rough hfe and never
thought of throwing off his disguise till he saw his
mothers advertisements met old black servant of
the family, Boyle by name in Australia. The story is
strange enough but he is backed by an amount or
testimony which he be not the real Roger is perfectly
astounding. The old lady lived more than year with
him after his return, and has left affidavit swearing
positively that he is her lost The old family solicitor
is the opinion 1t is true that he disappeared
thin, shambling slip OF youth and reappears burly
Of Is stone but half dozen OF his brother officers
have sworn that he is their old comrade, judging from
his and popularity OF his eyebrows and the
upper part of his face, and from his recollection of
number Of minute facts connected with his
regimenta life. Ladies' who knew and danced with him,
at Dublin and elsewhere, recognize him. The servant
Moore who was at first the other sde and was sent
down to expose the pretender, has gone over, and
declares that but Roger or the devil could
have told him some OF the things which this has
told him. He was reminded Of talk about tomahawk
on the night before he embarked on the Bella, and OF
queer shOrthared dog at the same time OF which he
Moore, had never spoken TO any other human being
The regimental tailor produces his measures, and
declares that allowing for the increase OF size, they fit
the to quarter of an inch. Medical evidence will
be forthcoming TO certify that certain peculiar marks Of
the lost Roger found the present claimant. In
short unless he himself breaks down completely on his
examination the case will be very strong
when is handed to Sir John Coerdge to produce
the counter evidence for the infant Of Alfred and his
trustees.


Common rumor tells us that that evidence will be Of
the most conclusive kind. That another mother and
sister Of the claimant will be produced who will
that this is Sir Roger Tchborne but their son
and brother Tom Castro the butcher with whom they
have lived from his youth up The utter improbabilty
Of Rogers story is not thought much Of here for within
the last few years we have had several instances OF
young Engllshmen OF the highest position voluntarily
throwing 1t up. Lord Aberdeen was drowned only two
years ago while serving a common sailor in mer
chantman and it quite by chance that the clue to
his identity obtained Lord Ocha, the eldest son
OF the Earl Of Loveiace worked for time
gineer in ordinary shop, living with his fellowwork
perfectly equal terms in fact believe not
OF them had the least idea that he not born in their
own rank Of life Both these young n0bemen unlucky
dead, but they only remarkable instances OF
stripe In upper classes. There Is certain sort OF
who gets first bored then restve then savage, with
our highly organized and luxurious life, aud breaks off
from II abruptly in one way or another The best of
them feel that they cannot be true in the elaborate
surroundings to which they born. The worst
merely dive under to get away from decent restraints
against which they chafe.


Next to the Tchborne trial. the great event of the
week has been the discussion and vote upon the Permis
sye Pr0hibory Liquor bill" in the House OF Commons.
This bill with an outandsh name is the battlehorse OF
the total absainers in this country. Its supporters
hitherto have been almost exclusively the members OF