Mr. Bright then gave a most lucid and admirably graphic
popular ,sisurni of the evidence which proves to demonstration that the Claimant and Sir Roger Tichborne were totally different persons, remarking on the occupations of the Jury who gave the verdict against him to show that they were no creatures of the Jesuits or any other specific influence, and directing atten- tion to the deliberate election of Mr. Serjeant Ballantine, the Claimant's counsel, to take a nonsuit in the first trial. Dr. Kenealy's motion was rejected by 433 votes to 1, its single supporter being Major O'Gorman (MY. for Waterford City), the tellers, of course, being Dr. Kenealy and Mr. Whalley. So ended Dr. Kenealy's long-threatened motion, with a fiasco which may possibly convince the electors of Stoke-upon-Trent, even if they had not already discovered the fact, that they have found a mare's nest. But perhaps that impression had begun to dawn upon them before Major O'Gorman gave his solitary vote. Cer- tainly one of Dr. Kenealy's constituents, a miner, when asked lately if he had voted for Dr. Kenealy, replied dolefully, "Yes, Sir ; but I misdoubt, somehow, that I did right. Meat has gone up a halfpenny a pound since we elected him."
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