The Claimant is to remain in prison. The plea raised
for him, that he had been sentenced to two terms of imprisonment for one perjury, was argued out last week, and disposed of by the Court of Appeal. The main contention, that Orton, having perjured himself in the very beginning of his ease, must be held to have been only continuing that perjury in subsequent state- ments, even if made in different Courts, was not only rejected, but ridiculed. Could a man, asked the Court, by perjury obtain a vested interest in perjury, so that having perjured himself once, he had a right to perjure himself again P In that question lies the whole case and its answer, and the late Attorney-General was blamed for having even allowed it to be brought forward. Argument is lost upon a sincere Tichbornite, but it is, perhaps, as well in every such case, where numbers of the common people seem to be lost in a legal fog, that justice should be even over-careful, and everything be heard. It is much that the misguided friends of the "nobleman in Dartmoor" should be only asking for law.
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