THE TICHBORNE CASE.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 153, 9 February 1872, Page 3

THE TICHBORNE CASE.

- The Tieliborne case is pursuing if?

weary-course. The interest is ' . again. Sergeant Ballantyne threatens to put halt' Hampshire into the box. * The evidence is mostly .jot* one type. The-claimant is-identified by his walk, r ,fkce; and the twitching of his eyebrows. 1

Incidents*in lirs life are I'em.ci! - tiered, in whi'elv the opposing v-coiinsel say hecould Be'p^sfedr; ':A consider- i able .impression, was produced r by Liar- | (father, Bingley, and Lohgland; Osprey ? s visit in 1054, And the landing from .tbe>shfp-qof-'- the- wrecked. sailors Baigerie, the arch ael ogist and ;< genealo - gist, has been under a harassiugexami-nati-.n,, which lasted ten .days. All the London papers. give verbati:n reports of the, trial. The evidence of the ident ty is;accumulating. The -failure o! the claimant's funds was hinted at in the course of a dialogue between the 'Solicitor-General and Sergeant Ballantyne, when the question of> ]the continuance of shorthand . notes came up. Sergeant Ballantyne said his client could not afford the expense. The At-torney-General retorted that that was very well, when the claimant could afford five counsel, and the plaintiff kepi his carriage ; and expressed an opinion that the refusal was made with an„object. This brought to his feet Sergeant Ballantyne, "who would not allow the ! taunts, however high the quarter from which they came." What follows* is thus reported:— " The Lord Chief Justice : The plaintiff himself is a bankrupt, and it is not suggested that lie has the means of carrying on the suit himself; but."it is perfectly manifest to. everybody that this trial cannot have been carried, on for fifty two or fifty-three days without great expense, and somebody nuist be bearing that. - expense ; because

' T.n wrers liave more sober sense Tlunr argue at their own expense.' "Mr. Giftard: Your lordship does not know the facts, or you would not have made that observation. "Mr. Sergeant Ballantyne: Your lordship assumes that which ou£ht not to be assumed. It is utterly unjust, and ought not to have been convey«>d. "The Lord Chief Justice* I beg your pardon;: What is-unjust? " Mr. Sergeant Bailant vne : I mean that after counsel have undertaken this case under such circumstances, they feel that it . would be f disgraceful' tu abaudon it because tnonuy cannot be found to carry it on. (Suppressed applause.)

" The Lord Chief Justice : If that it* the ease, so be it; but I could not have the least notion that there was anything of that kind. All I can say is, if counsel are carrying on this case to their own disadvantage, and have done so for some time pastj that it is very much to their credit; and if the solicitors have done the same thing it is to their credit also. > <

" The Attorney-General: It mustnot be supposed that if that statement is true on the one sultv it does not . apply to the other. I don't think we oa rit to stand.he ens trumpeters of our- w i proceedings.. If gentlemen engage m a case, whether it is a gain or a loss they imust s?a?id bv it. v

" i\l r Sergeant Ballantyne : "We arc agreed upon that; it is what I should have • expected from the AttorneyGeneral." ; ; This little scene is a noveltv in; an English Court of .Justice: The ' Arcorrespondent! says, amongsthe on difs, that three women are in possession of the defence; each of whom is ready to swear that the claimant is her son. If he should turn out to be an imposter, it will be eveir more wonderful than that he should: bei the real Sir Roger; r l her Attorney-General, whose conduct of the defendant's case has been the subject of much criticism< lias lately given way to Mr. Hawkins, whose : formula. " JJidrtitiiiot strike you as odd' is getting as much a bye-word as Sir John Coleridge's " Would it not: surprise you to hear ?" . . Apropos of this, let me repeat aof Lord Westbury, who is supposed to be not on the most friendly terms with the: Attorney " What do oyou think of Coleridge's management of the ease ?" said some one the other day to the exChancellor. " I think that it has disclosed an imposter,"? "answered( the other. :