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Thames Advertiser, Volume VII, Issue 1802, 1 May 1874, Page 3

The following are a few particulars as'to tho Tichborne trial: —Po the jury has been pail £2,600; to the printers, nearly £4,000. The prosecuting counsel—five in all—have swal> lowed over £14,0 JO. The defendant's counsel are paid miserably compared with the prosecution. The exact animnt is not known. Sime of the witnesses for the prosecution received very large fees—one, £1,000; another, £700; and a third, £500. They came fro u Australia aud Chili, and their evidence was deemed necessary. Altogether the " little bill" on one side alone, when it comes to be added up, must reach close on £150,000.

The Sm Francisco Ghronick announces that the " wicko lest mm" of that city has come to an untimely ond. This lamented gendeunu, it seems, kept the Bull Run Saloon ia Pacificstreet, which has long beea known as the inist notorious denron the Barbary coast, lie was known by the name of Ned Allen, and was famous in the records of crime in tinny places. His saloon iu Pacific-street was the resort of the lowest kind of tULvea and cut-throats, aud in it sailors and soldiers were robbed of their last penny without pity or remorse. The.hideous noises and dmnkeu reve'ry of the gueits who frequented Mr Allen's hospitable home mado the place " a synonym for all that is low and vile." Prom its doirs poor drunken wretches were cast into the street after they lad been fleeced of all they possessed, anl frequently. Mr Allen himself nude charges against lits victims : to get rid of them. On the night of the Ist December, the " Ball Run" was filled as usual with a drunken crowd of men 'and woman. Allen had just successfully robbed a long-shore man aud "gave treat' 1 all round in the exuberance of his spirits, is he was scr'.ping into the till the money of his victim, t'lree men appearel at the door aud calmly surveyed the scene. Allen walked quietly towards them from beluud the bar,."in nu inoffensive,' gentlemanly m inner/ Within the door of the Bull's Run is a large green screen ; the three men stood just iuside the door, partly hidden by the screon. Allen stepped up to them and invited them to enter, at tho saoie. sayiug that he did ' not want his door blockec.'.Two of the men came inside the screen, but tho third remained hidden from view, and, as Allen approached him, drew a dagger or sword and stabbed him just below the heart. Allen Sirucd quickly round, walked to the bar without a word, and fell down dead. It is supposed that he made direct for the bar in order to get' a pistol. At all events he was too late, for the. murderer oseaped—and the' wickedojfc man in San Francisco, 1 uaavenged, had passed away for ever I Possibly some one almost as wicked will be found to take his place V, the Bull's Run, but iu the meantime his death seems to have created quite a void.

In a real-proporty oaso before a French judge, at an oarly period of the Revolution, the defoudant, whose title was contested,' proved that the estate had been in his family fjr mora 'than 200 years. "Wo I," said the judge, "it is now full time for anothor. family to' have Jurn," ■-"■" ■,■,.-■'■'.