Dr. Kenealy made his long-threatened speech on the Tich- borne
trial yesterday week, and took three hours about it, to the grief of the House and the strangers, who attended in great force, but found the Member for Stoke exceedingly dull. He thought he had made a point by insisting that the Claimant was a perfect gentleman, which shows odd notions in Dr. Kenealy of perfect gentlemanliness. He insisted on old Lady Tichborne's shrewdness and precautions against deception. He made much of Lord Coleridge's suspensive use of the Pit- tendreigh forgeries after the solicitor, Mr. Dobinson, had given them up ; he quoted rumours that Lord Coleridge had expressed a disbelief in the Claimant being Arthur Orton, —which rumours were immediately contradicted by a Member of the House, Mr. S. Morley, in whose presence it was asserted that Lord Coleridge had so expressed himself ;—further, Dr. Kenealy reiterated all the drawing-room stories by which it appeared that Sir A. Cockburn had prejudged the ease; he dwelt on Australian affidavits as to the identity of the Claimant and Tichborne obtained since the trial ended; and concluded a tiresome and weak speech by declaring that discipline in the Army and pro- bably order in civil society might be disturbed if the House refused inquiry into the misconduct of the prosecution and the Judges in the Tichborne case.
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