After seventy days of evidence, the case of the claimant
to the Tichborne estates has at length been completely placed before the Court, and men are, for the first time, beginning to count on living to see the close of the trial. Sir J. D. Coleridge will make his opening speech for the defence on Monday, the 15th January. Mr. Ballantine has elected to produce no evidence in relation to the asserted connec- tion of the claimant with the Orton family, preferring only to deal in the way of cross-examination with any positive evidence that the Attorney-General may produce on the opposite side. The barristers on both sides were in an unusually good humour on Thursday, when the claimant's case came to an end, and absolutely indulged in mutual compliments. Certainly, the inspiration of the Psalmist's saying, "I know that all things come to an end," was never more in danger of being called in question ; but the end of half has raised people's hopes of the ultimate end of the whole.
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