NEWS BY THE MAIL

Evening Star, Issue 2797, 3 February 1872, Page 2

NEWS BY THE MAIL

THE QUEEN'S HEALTH. Dr Norman M'Leod’s observations on this subject were “ I have had the honor, in the providence of God, of ministering to Her Majesty in public and private for the last thirteen or fourteen years. I have seen her in every variety of circumstances, from tie highest prosperity and happiness which any married woman, not to speak of a Queen could enjoy, aud also in the depth of her distress. I declare most solemnly I have never in the greatest privacy, and in the most intimate communion that a subject or a clergyman can have, heard one word offered, or one sentiment expressed, which did not do the highest honor to Her Majesty both as a Queen aud as a woman. I have never seen—no, not the remotest trace—of any moral or mental weakness, but I have seen in every instance down to the last moment remarkable evidence of moral and mental strength and capacity. . . I have never seen her in better spirits and stronger in mind than she is at present.” THE PBINCE OF WALES, A grave anxiety has fallen upon the nation. Phe Prince of Wales has been alarmingly ill of typhoid fever, and we are still in suspense as to the issue. During the first fortnight of November, His Eoyal Highness was much out shooting and riding iu the neighborhood of Sandringham, and it was understood that he had taken poH touring a drjve home one evening when Jisated after the day’s exercise, and not sufficiently wrapped up. The only premonitory symptom of a disordered constitution had been a slight whitlow, but about the 13th of the month the feverishness oame on, which preceded a serious attack. His Royal High* ness was at first attended by Mr Clayton and Dr Lowe, of King’s Lynn, but they quickly summoned Dr Gull from London, and the Queen sent Sir William Jenner from Balmoral, than whom no man is batter qualified to combat with the fever, for his investigations have mainly contributed to the knowledge of the disease now possessed by the medical profession. The Queen herseft hastened her return southward to Windsor and has gone to visit her son at Sandriog’. ham. The Duke of Edinburgh is also there, and the Princess Louis of Hesse the Princess Alice of former days, who was with her good father the Prince Consort in his last illness, the remembrance of which from its similarity, has made ns the mote fearful in the present case, THE TICHBOENE CASE. The Tichborne case is pursuing its weary course The interest is flagging again. Sergeant Ballaptyne threatens to put hajf Hampshire into t'pe box. The evidence is mostly of one type. The claimant is identified by his walk, face, and the twitching of his eyebrows. Incidents in his early life are remembered, in which the opposing counsel say he could be posted. A considerable impression was produced by Liardets (father and son), Lockhart, Steer. Bingley, and Longland, who proved the Osprey’s visit in 1854, and the landing from the ship of the wrecked sailors. Baigsne, the archm’ogiat and genealogist, has been under a harrasing examination, which has lasted ten days. All the London papers give verbatim reports of the trial. The evidence of the identity is accumulating. The failure of the claimant* funds was hinted at in the course of a dig. Iqgue between |be Solicitor-General and SeK geant Ballantyne, when the question of tl« continuance of shorthand notes came up, Sergeant Ballantyne said his client Qoald m % afford the expense. The Attorney-General retorted that that was very well, when the claimant could afford five counsel, and the plaintiff kept his carriage; and expressed an opinion that the refusal was made with an object. This brought to his feet Sergeant Ballantyne, “who would nqt sl|ow the taunts, however high the quarter from which they camp.” What follows is thus reported “The Lord Chief Justice.—The plaintiff himself is a bankrupt, and it is not suggested that he has the means of carrying on the suit himself ; but it is perfectly mam. feat to everybody that this trial cannot have been carried on for 52 or 33 days without great expense, and somebody must be hearing that expense } because “Lawyers have more sober sense Than argue at their own expense.” “ Mr Giffard, —Your lordship does not know the facts, or you would not have made that observation, “ Mr Sergeant Ballantine.—Your lordship assumes that which ought not to be assumed. It is utterly unjust, aud ought not to have been conveyed! 1 . » “ The Lord Chief Justice.—l beg your pardon. What is unjust ? “Mr Sergeant Ballantine.—l mean that after counsel have undertaken this case under such circumstances they feel that it would be disgraceful to abandon it becauee money cannot be found to carry it on. (Suppressed applanse.} *

“The Lord Chief Justice, —If that is the case, so be it; hut T could not have the least notion that there was anything of that kind All I can say is that if counsel a e eirrvin" on this case to their own disadvantage, and have done bo for some time pa-t, that is v-tv much to their crcc.it , and if the solicito-s hove done the same thing it is to their credit also. . . , “ The Attorney-General.—lt must not be ■nimos-d that if that statement is true on the one side it does not a .ply to the other I don’t think we ought to stand hcie trumpeter’s o c our own proceedings. It gentlemen engage in a case whether it if a gam or a loss, they must stand by it. “Mr Sergeant Ballantme.— V\ eare agreed upon that ; it is what 1 should have expected from the Attornoy-Gcnm a . P This little scene is a novelty in an English Court of Justice The pondent says, among ' M j J® women are in possession of the cletence, eacn of whom is ready to swear that the claimant is her son. If he should turn out to be an impostor, it will be even more wonderful than that he should be the real >- ir l '°g e r. Tlie Attorney-General, whose conduct of the defendant’s case has been the subject of much criticism, has lately given way to Mr tawkins, whose formula- 14 Did it not strike you S odd ?” is getting as much a by-word as Sir John Coleridge’s “Would it not surprise vou to hear?” Apropos of this, let me repeat a mot of Lord Westbury, who is« supposed to be not on the most friemßy' erms with the Attorney-General. "hat do you think of Coleridge’s management of the ease?” said some one the other day to the exChancellor. “ I think that it has disclosed an impostor,” apswer-ed the other. MISCELLANEOUS. Mr Barry Sullivan’s success at Liverpool is unprecedented. Ten of Sir Joseph Hawley’s blood stock gold at Tatersall’s for 7,270 guineas. The Times says a more strange story of a shipwreck was never told than that of the Rangoon. The news of the assassination of Bishop Patteson and Mr Aitkin was received with pro'bund regret. John Manley, the Australian infant comedian, engaged at Dmry-lane, in the Ohiistmas pantomime. The Times states that Baron Lesseps is endeavoring to arrange a combined pm chase of the Suez Canal by the great powers. Ihe Sublime Porte and the Khedive of Egypt disapprove of the project.