The Judges of the Queen's Bench decided this day week
that we are to be saved from the calamity of a new trial in the Tich- borne Case, though they did not deliver their reasons fully on that occasion, but reserved them for more careful and terse enunciation. Had it been otherwise, the only expedient for preserving the sanity of the race would have been a short Act of Parliament either to protect us against the Tichborne case, or to provide some machinery for its going on, like the precession of the Equinoxes, or the undulation of light, and other similar pro- cesses, with a becoming modesty, i.e., without inflicting itself on human attention and filling up the columns of newspapers. We might as well have minute daily reports of the revolution of the earth on its axis, as have Melipilla and Wagga-Wagga and Wap- ping and the ' Bella' and the Osprey' all over again. It is said that some minds, even as it is, have been unhinged by dwelling too morbidly on the vicious circle of the Orton logic, and have come to regard the Claimant (though in penal servi- tude) as the Absolute and the Unconditioned, or as Hegel's ' pure Being' and 'pure Nothing,' which the Hegelian logic identifies.
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