We are no less eager than our brethern in New Zealand for the day of reckoning. The latest news tells of some successes. — i News.' The Leeds Mercury speaks of the collapse of the claim of the Tichborne baronetcy and estates. The Australian "Sir Roger," according to this paper, has disappeared from England, " and the information which has been received of his movements does not encourage the belief that he intends to return to this country or to resume his efforts to support his claim in a court of law." The story which is now told is that a brother of the would-be baronet's, who has been left during " Sir Roger's" absence from England without a sufficient amount of hush-money to secure his silence, has turned traitor and revealed the whole plot. Tub Asot,o-Fbb> t eh Railway Bridge. — Mr Henry Stead, honorary secretary of this undertaking, writes with reference to our recent article on communication with France " M. Boutet.has not abandoned his bridge project, which has met with tho high ap proval of tho Emperor of the French. In addition to his Majesty's approval, the system invented by M. ISoutet has been pronounced feasible, and suitable for the purpose intended Ivy several of the highest engineering autho ri ties in Paris ; and it is somewhat significant that, out of the number of those persons who have subscribed and paid £4000 for the erection of a large model (now in progress at Calais.) there are no less than twentyfrve engineers. Tho word " buttresses " used in j our article might imply solid masonry, which probably might meet the fate described but it should be borne in mind that the pier, on which the arches are to be supported will be skeleton frames, composed of cylinders of iron braced together in a suitable manner and offering little or no resistance to the action of the wind and sea. In addition to this, calculations have been made, and each pier will be of such weight and strength as to render the structure capable of resisting thirtysix times the force of the heaviest gales, and an idea may be formed of the size of the pier by the rough statement, that the erec tion when completed, will have dimensions something like those of Sfc. Paul's Cathedral. 