We have given some account of the extraordinary proceedings in
the case of " Lyon versus Home" before Vice-Chancellor Giffard, and have observed on them at greater length hi another column. As the trial is still going on, we will only say here that Mr. Henry Matthews' cross-examination of Mrs. Lyon has been a very artistic performance, and certainly tends to show that Mrs. Lyon was by no means a helpless woman unable to understand her own mind and look after her own affairs. Mr. Matthews brought out her natural shrewdness and acuteness of perception clearly enough. The cross-examination of Mr. Home had not commenced yester- day, and certainly ought to be even more amusing. Mr. Home's answer assigns a very intelligible and ordinary reason for the money which Mrs. Lyon settled on him, but he seems anxious at the same time in no way to repudiate his preternatural and thaumaturgic reputation. That he certainly made use of his supposed faculty at the commencement of his acquaintance with Mrs. Lyon seems admitted, and it will not be easy for him to avoid very unpleasant questions on the subject,—the answers to which can scarcely improve his position as a hierophant in case the mammon of unrighteousuess of which he has made friends fail him.
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