3 JANUARY 1874, Page 11

The reporters all allege that the 'lichborne trial approaches its

completion. Dr. Kenealy, having Mr. Wyld to help him—a barrister apparently possessed with the idea that something ought to be said for one's client—is sticking close to evidence, and may finish by this day week. If he does, and Mr. Hawkins takes only ten days, and the Chief Justice only ten, and the Puisnes only a day each, and the Jury say a fortnight, then we may by March expect a verdict, and know in the next budget whether any millionaire has been kind enough to die, and so balance the expenses of the trial, which has already lasted longer than that of Warren Hastings, the longest upon record. Let us hope Sir Alfred Tichborne will never do anything considerable. The world has heard enough of that family for two centuries at least.