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The Tichborne case reopened on Monday with the speech of

the Attorney-General, Sir J. D. Coleridge, for the defence, which has been continued throughout the week, and had reached, up to last night, even in the somewhat compressed narrative of the Times, the gigantic length of sixty-six feet of

print,—eleven fathom. It has been, however, a very able speech, which has quite redeemed Sir J. D. Coleridge's reputa- tion at the Bar, somewhat endangered, as it was, by his ineffective cross-examination of the claimant, though he, perhaps, indulges too much in the figure of speech so important in dealing with juries,—repetition,—considering that the jury in this case has shown at least as much knowledge and judgment as the Bar, and a good deal more than the Bench.

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