The Tichborne case was resumed on Tuesday at the Mid-
Alesex Sessions House, and all the old interest in it and the old irritabilities in connection with it at once revived. The claimant's funds appear to be giving way, as Mr. Ballantine had to decline on his behalf to take his share of the expense of short-hand writers' notes, and Chief Justice Bovill had consequently to resume taking judge's notes, which a good deal lengthens the process of hearing. On the first day of the second hearing there was a breeze between the Judge and Attorney-General (Sir J. Coleridge) as to the length of the cross-examination ; and on the second day a still stiffer quarrel, as to the correctness of the description given by the Attorney-General of the note-book kept by Moore (the servant who waited upon Roger Tichborne on the Pauline, the ship in which he went out to South America), which the Judge contended was calculated to produce a false impression on the jury,—the jury agreeing with him. Even those who -crowd the small Court to hear the case seem to do it under the spell of an irresistible destiny, for it is said that they watch the clock eagerly for the breaking-up of the Court. In fact, the only creatures whose spirits and temper are genuinely improved by the resumption of the case are the Echo boys, who brightened up on Tuesday for the first time after the dejection of the long vaca- tion, and the dismal threat of the London School Board to sweep them into school.
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