with that of the man whom he claimed to be, for Roger Tichborne had, undoubtedly, travelled in Chili; and, according at least to the tramping sailors’ story, embodied in the Dowager’s advertisement, he had been carried thence to Australia.  The importance attached by his supporters to these apparent tokens of identity sufficiently explains the Claimant’s explicitness on these points.  Melipilla is a long way off; and Boisdale is still further.  It may have been supposed that witnesses could not be brought from so far; but vast interests were at stake, and the defendant in the Chancery suit speedily applied for Commissions to go out to South America and Australia to collect information regarding the Claimant’s past history.  The proposition was strenuously opposed as vexatious, and designed merely to create delay, but the Court granted the application.  Then the Claimant asked for an adjournment, on the ground that he intended to go out and confront the Melipilla folks, including his intimate friend Don Thomas Castro, before the Commission; and also to accompany it to Australia.  The postponement was granted, a large sum was raised to defray his expenses, and he finally started with the Commission, accompanied by counsel and solicitors, bound for Valparaiso and Melipilla, and finally for Victoria and New South Wales.  When the vessel, however, arrived at Rio. the Claimant went ashore, declaring that he preferred to go thence to Melipilla overland.  But he never presented himself at that place, and finally the Commission proceeded to examine witnesses and to record their testimony, which thus became part of the evidence in the suit.  The Claimant had, in fact, re-embarked at Rio for England, having abandoned the whole project; for which strange conduct he made various and conflicting excuses.  Even before he had started, circumstances had occurred which had induced some of his supporters to express doubts whether he would ever go to Melipilla.  When the Commission had become inevitable, the Claimant had written a letter to his “esteemed friend, Don Tomas Castro,” reminding him of past acquaintance in 1853, sending kind remembrances to a number of friends, and altogether mentioning at least sixteen persons with Spanish names whom he had known there.  The purpose of the letter was to inform Don Tomas that he had returned to England, was claiming “magnificent lands,” and in brief to prepare his old acquaintances to befriend him there.  This letter was answered by Castro through his son Pedro, with numerous good wishes and much gossip about Melipilla, and what had become of the old circle.  But to the astonishment and dismay of the Claimant’s attorney, Mr. Holmes, Pedro Castro reminded his old correspondent, that when among them he had gone by the name of Arthur Orton.  A Melipilla lady named Ahumada then sent a portion of a lock of hair which the Claimant acknowledged as his own hair, and thanked her for.  But this lady declared that she had cut the lock from the head