The trial of the Claimant approaches its crisis. On Tuesday,
the reading of the evidence in the former trial having been con- cluded, the Crown proceeded to call witnesses to prove that the person named in Australia and elsewhere "Castro, otherwise Sir R. Tichborne," is in reality Arthur Orton. It was already known that the original Castro of Melipilla had arrived, and daily attended the Court. Abbe Toursel, Chaplain at the Chapel of the French Embassy, in King Street., was the first witness examined. He deposed to his belief that the Claimant is not Roger Tichborne ; but as he admitted he had only seen Roger Tichborne once, his evidence did not very much further the case of the Crown. It was, however, followed by very important South-American aud Australian testimony, directed to prove the identity of the defendant with Orton,—by Donna Clara Hayley, the wife of an Irish physician at Melipilla, in whose house Arthur Orton had lived for three months; by Mrs. Mina Jury, whose brother married one of Orton's sisters, and who had known him in Australia, where she has been resident since 1848; and by Mr. William Hopwood, a farmer from Gippsland, well acquainted with Orton in the years 1855-64. These three witnesses positively deposed to the identity of the defendant with Orton. Dr. Kenealy cross-examined them rather with a view to show they were interested witnesses, than that they might be mistaken in their identification. The exami- nation of Mr. Gibbes, the Australian solicitor, who first took up the Claimant's case, was then commenced, and occupied part of Wednesday and the whole of Thursday, and he, though a Crown witness, said, as the Chief Justice declared, "many things in favour of the defence." The movement of the trial becomes suddenly much more rapid.
