The Tichborne trial, which has so weighed upon newspaper readers
for the last nine months, came to an end on Saturday. The Lord Chief Justice finished his charge, which, though it bore with frightful severity on the defendant, was still all literally true, and was avowedly accepted in its entirety by his colleagues on the Bench. Mr. Justice Mellor only added a few words on the neces- sity of muzzling the Press, because, being so able, it would influ- ence the jury,—thatis to say, held it right to silence asuperior jury, lest it should enlighten an inferior one ; and Mr. 'Justice Lush arguedthat it was not the duty of the Bench "to neutralise evidence merely because it was strong." The jury, after an absence of only half-an-hour, gave_a verdict of guilty on each indictment, —that is, for perjury in the Common Pleas and perjury in the Court of Chancery. In reply tea question from the Judge, they declared that the defendant was not Roger Tichborne, that be was Arthur Orton, and that Roger had not seduced his cousin, adding a strong disapproval of the conduct of defendant's counsel." The senior Puitne then pronounced sentence of fourteen years' penal- servit ttide,"and Orton, who had been closely watched all the morning, was carried away to Newtate. He .was not produced as a wit- ness at the examination -of Jean Luie on Thursday, but the latter was fully -committed to take' his trial for perjury and bigamy.
