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Show L.OSUOX tsOClH.TY." By tho lat mail from London, to 'he 6.h inst.. we learn that the claim-int claim-int in ihe Tichboine ca.-e, now being tried in L'tudon, has made some of the most astounding dUclosures, It will . oe remembered that Mrs liadcliffo,nf c Miss Kate Doughty, a cou.in of Sir Charles Boger Tiebborne, is .one of the Mrongeet opponents of the olaiunint, and has maintained throughout the trial, with unreleniing firmness, that the claimant is an impostor. It will also be ruuiciubrted thai previuusio riirRogm 's iroing ou his oruise be was engaged in marriage to his cousin. Miss Doughty. Again, it will be brought to mind that ihe engagement was broken off on account ac-count ot the opposition of her father, and that bifore he left he made a will tfitb sealed instructions, and left the whole in a sealed packet with a lawyer named Gotsford, non the principal counsel for the opposition. Upon the opening of this suit the claimant demanded de-manded the packet, but Gotstbrd refused re-fused to deliver it, and it has been the n:ain point of the opposition to net lnm to disclose tho contents of that packet, which up to that tune had re maiued sealed. The claimant, on all iccusions, however, has evaded the m-wer, and has requested not to be torced to dUclo.-o its contents. This eluetuncu on his part has led tho op position to believe that he was not able to do so, ho being an impostor, uid they have been more persistant in their demands that he should tell them what was written by Sir Roger, then in the hands of Gotsford. Ou Monday, therefore, this demand was auuiu made. Still he declined, and said ho would not do so until so irdered by tho Lord Chief Justice. , tie was ordered, and then he made the astounding disc'osure that in 1852 hc -educed Miss Doughty, that the in--truoi ions contained in that package weie ihut in case she proved ;o be enceinte, us idie had Iud him to believe -ho was, Gou-ford was to take her to Scotland until after her confinement, .md then was to give her the use of a certain cottage, to show her every attention at-tention unul his return, or, until her muniaue, when, by the provision of ins wol, in ca-e of his death, or in ease of her marriage bvfore bis return, she was 10 havo theonttaue and some tlur property, which ho de-enbeo; md if he relumed be to re her niurriiige, he agreed to marry her. If a bomb shell had fallen in the court ufur h u nshed the revelation, a greater sensation sen-sation could not have been produced Here saL the a' istocratic Mrs. Kadeliffe nith her hu-diand, and to clinch the matter and bt ill more embatrass her, thu fuliuiior general Baid to the caimanl : Do you mean to swear before the judge and jury time you had eeduced jour cmsin Kate? A. I most solemnly to my GoJ sw- ar that I had. Q This lady (pointing to Mrs. RadoiitT-) ? A That lady. The court room was crowded to suffocation, suf-focation, and in less than fifteen minutes min-utes after the disclosure was made.it was alt over London. The London Times in commenting on it, says : "It is impossible to convey the faintest1 idea of the effect of the disclosure on Ljndon society." Ex, |