18 NOVEMBER 1871, Page 2

The evidence given this week in the Tichborne case has

been, on the whole, slightly favourable to the claimant. That is to say, certain witnesses, among whom is one of undoubted character, the Rev. Father Meyrick, formerly of Stonyhurst, who knew the lad Tichborne there, declare their belief that the claimant is Sir Roger. The tone of the evidence seems to have raised the price of the celebrated Tichborno bonds, which, according to the Birmingham Post, are selling in that city at 250. They were issued at 165, bear 5 per cent. interest, and are chargeable on the claimant's estates, supposing him ever to get them, at par. The Post says they have been sold as low as 10s., but that must have been an isolated case, as the kind of people who buy such chances usually prefer to see them through. Serjoant Ballantine, who was recently inclined to com- press the case, now says he shall call all his witnesses, and has no idea when he shall have done.