The claimant to the Tichborne estates has been admitted to
bail, and lb is Quite possible may never be tried. The Attorney General seems disposed tel make an enormous business of the trial, talks of bringing witnesses over from Auntralia and Chili, thinks the trial may last for months, and will, if he does not take care, have Mr. Lowe or the House of Commons itself upon his back. Surely he could trust to the common-sense of a jury without spending a hundred thousand pounds on a single prosecution. With the Treasury as paymaster, half-a-dozen juniors with repu- tations to make, a man like his opponent to convict, and all England looking on, the prosecution will cost more than Lord klatherley will save by overworking every kind of judge. The trial cannot commence till November, by which time a new Attorney-General will be entitled to plead that he wants a year or two to read through the evidence.
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