1 JULY 1871, Page 3

Mr. Bernal Osborne has given notice that on Monday he

will ask the Home Secretary if the ends of justice are not likely to be promoted by passing a Bill enabling the Chief Justice of the Common Pleas (Hr. Justice Bovill) to sit through the long vacation for the trial of the Tichborne case, and the Times sup- ports the suggestion, though the judge, the jury, and the barristers on both sides agree in the horror they express at the sug- gestion, and are conspiring to adjourn from next Friday till the 7th November. It is hardly possible that the chain of the evidence can be taken up afresh four months hence without grave injury to the cause of justice. And it is dangerous to the pith of the country, when we begin to make holidays the first essential of life.