NEWS BY THE MAIL.

Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2779, 13 January 1872, Page 2

NEWS BY THE MAIL.

THE TICHBORNE CASE. The first witness of any importance examined at the adjourned inquiry were W. T. Liardet, mail agent at Port Philip in 1854, and his son, who recollected the arrival of the Osprey at Sandridge in that year, with the crew of the shipwrecked vessel, and N. T. Lockhart, a flax-spinner, who remembered the steamer Comet taking to Melbourne in 1854 tbc crew of a shipwrecked vessel, who had been brought to Sandridge. John Moore, servant to Roger Tichborne was the next witness. He said he bad no doubt the claimant was his old master. George Biugley, a resident in Santiago, deposed that in 1868 a person called on him : and be identified him as Roger Tichborne who had put up in that city in 1853. Then followed the evidence of a number of officers in the Carbiniers, in which regiment Roger Tichborne served in 1848-49, and they all recognised the claimant as their late comrade. The most important yet given is that of Andrew Bayle, who swears distinctly to the identity by the claimant with the real Sir Roger Tichborne. In connection with this remarkable case, Lady Clifford Constable writes to says that it is perfectly true that Roger Tichborne was a friend of her late husband, and visited him many years ago at h:s residence at Burton Constable ; but it was a mistake to identify her late husband who died on the 22nd of December last, with his son, the present Sir Talbot Clifford Constable, who, as correctly stated in the article referred to, gave evidence in support of the claimant. Lady Clifford Constable adds that, on the occasion of the recent visit of the claimant to Burton Constable, her late husband, Sir Cliffi-rtl Constable, declined to receive or to see him, not being satisfied that he was identical with the Roger Tichborne who formerly visited at Barton Constable. MISCELANEOUS, The. trial of Bazaine on ihe charge of surrendering Metz will soon take place. The commission appointed to hear the case is mainly composed of officers unfriendly to the late Empire, and, in case Bazaine is convicted, his sentence, it is believed, will be severe. It is reported that M. Charles Lefevre, a French gentlemen, has just come into a fortune of over half a million sterling, left him by a cousin whom he never saw in his life. The gentleman in question died in America, whither he had emigrated many years since with the sum of LSOO, which M. Lefevre’s father lent him when all his other relatives turned their backs upon him. The medical faculty of Edinburgh had given notice to the lady students that they would not be examined, although they had paid the examination fees. On being threatened with an action, the faculty, through its dean, withdrew the prohibition. The case of the ladies was brought before the Senatus of the University on October 21, when opinions in their favor from the Lord Advocate and Mr Patrick Fraser were submitted. Aft°r a long discussion, it was decided that no further difficulties should be placed in the way of the ladies as regards either martriculatiou or preliminary examination. Mr Hamilton Fulton, thinking that a tunnel could not be made under the Channel, proposes to construct a bridge to extend from Dover to Calais, The roadway of the bridge, he says, would only be sufficiently elevated above the surface of the high water of spring tides to prevent the waves from reaching the super-structure, and so reduce the cost of the structure to a minimum amount. In order as much as possible to prevent any unreasonable interference with the navigation, be proposes one or more opening bridges in every [mile. The span of these opening portions would be of sufficient length to allow the largest vessel to pass through with facility. With the great facilities of construction which would be afforded by the existence, as a rule, of good chalk foundations, the use of cement-concrete, and iron, he jelieves the erection of the bridges could be carried out at a comparatively moderate outlay, and with reasonable expedition. The I) ishman states that that the Fenians preperly so-called, had no hand or part in the late raid of “O’Neill and his reckless followers ” on Canada. It adds, however, “We should not by any means have objected had the project succeeded, as it would have somewhat embarrassed our amiable rulers.” The Irishman says it has no wish to see its countrymen engage in such desperate enterprises, unless some substantial advantage is to be gained for their cause as against England, which is not to be expected from isolated raids, and it hopes to hear that but few Irishmen were' engaged in “this latest folly.” Upwards of two millions of people, it is stated, left Ireland in the ten years, 1861 to 1871, of whom about a million aud a quarter, or 624 per cent., left in the first decade, and and more than three-quarters of a miliion, or 37A per cent., within the last ten years. This gives an average annual emigration over the wffiole twenty years of luo,ooo souls.