TICHBORNIA.

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 927, 14 June 1877, Page 3

TICHBORNIA.

A Tichborne demonstration took place in Hyde-park on Easter Monday. About a thousand persons escorted Dr Kencaly from his residence in Tavistock square to Trafalgar square, a drum and fife band leading. Near Nelson's Monument they were joined by contingents, -with banners, &c., from other parts of London, and forming into a procession six deep they marched along Pall Mall to Apsleyhouso gate. One section had a banner on which were the words " Cockburn's fools and fanatics." The total number in the procession is estimated to have been between 14,000 and 15,000. The Doctor and some others made speeches on behalf of the " unfortunate nobleman " at Dartmoor, who it was said had been spirited away from that convict establishment to some other unknown place of confinement. This has since been contradicted. He is there still.

Mr John Do Morgan, who is preparing for the grand demonstration to the House of Commons next Tuesday, has had the assurance to inform a meeting at Skipton, in Yorkshire, that the Earls of Northbrook and Malmsbury were firmly convinced tlxat the claimant was the real Sir Soger. They have both given an einphatic denial to the statement, Lord Malmsbury adding, " I consider him a vile impostor, well deserving the punishment he is undergoing." Another sympathiser, Mr G-eorgc Lenmngdon, recently wrote some verses about the case, and sent them to Sir Thos. Eiddulph for presentation to the Queen. They were re turned by Sir Thomas, and were then transmitted to the Home Office, and Mr Cross intimating that it was not his business to present verses to Her Majesty forwarded them again to Sir Thomas Bicldulph to do what he pleased with. Mr Lenningdon is not satisfied.

" L'Affaire Coverley," a drama brought out in Paris on the Tichborne trial, has been produced at the Duke's Theatre here in Holborn, under the title of " The Two Mothers." The plot is by no means in thorough accordance with the history of the case, and is of course highly sensational. The real Roger is murdered at sea by the man who subsequently claims the inheritance, and the latter for a time seems likely to secure it. Eventually, however, he comes to grief by being run over and killed by a railway engine, a fate which he has intended for his principal opponents. They, of course, are saved. _____