31 JANUARY 1874, Page 2

Mr. Hawkins on Wednesday finished his speech for the prosecution

in the Tichborne case,—a wonderfully condensed piece of reasoning, which seems to have elicited the applause of the whole Bar, though with the exception of the burst of brilliant invective at the end, it has been less read than some of Dr. Kenealy's flights. On Thursday morning the Chief Justice com- menced his summing-up, of which we can as yet only be permitted to say that it is most original, and has the curious effect of being a new narrative of the same facts. It will be read even among this electioneering hubbub, though on Saturday morning Sir A. Cockburn must have regarded the Premier with a feeling to which not even a, Tory pen could do justice,—the feeling, say, of a poet reciting his own poem just as all the children in the house begin to squall.