New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-03-31
COURT SCENES.
SOME or THE COUNSEL ONE soLIcIfoR
AND SEVERAL CLIENTS.

X ,hrpe he any other OF the coun-
al hex;de Sir CHARLES Russell and the
Aftornes 4Gcueral who have made a mark IN TINS
are several OF mark otherwise
II ia Mr. Asquith His cross-exafninanor OF mi
Macdonald struck the popular iancy ana was sP,
vowed by the profession He 10 yoNpg NAL
think Yoslsshirsmans with much Of the shreWa.
neas which natives Of that horsedeahns anu Z
bcrss-racina county are supposed to possess. ne
was 3 Bslliol scholar and afterward Fellow OF
DR.. Jo1ett's great college; hrs been some Twelve
years at the bar and sits in Parliament Tor East
fife Whether ia the House or in court be Is u
cool hand youth does not always imply tmidity
and Dir. Asquith's bayish face is not wanting ~
oonfdencc. Nobody In court looks SO young
tg;e sctaal age Is thirty-sx or thjrty-seven Need
less 70 soy that few men ut the English BAR are
heard OF so carly as that lie. is the man 10
whom Sir Charles turns oftenest; it is, perhaps
btr. Asquifh who, in the energetic phrase Oh the
bar, devils for him. He is always ready wih
. reference, quotation, paper, anything thas
must be had On the spur Of the moment aha
when letters or documents are 70 be read oue IN
court, il IS Mr. Asquith who reads them. such ID
the advantage Of not being @ Q. like Mr.
Lockwood or Mr., Reid
Mr. Lockwood and Mr. Reid, being Mr.. AS
oufth's seniors, ought 10 have been mentioned
first, but once outside the court it is hope per
msssibIe "a revolt against the stiffness OF legal
etiarctte Nor have much to say about Mr.
Reid except that he Is always called Bob Bed,
IA Scotchman, an NJ. p. Home-Rule LIB
eral and a successful lawyer. All that
nj eIrt be said hof twenty. other men.
II am Sc much at loss how 70 make
AIx. Rsid interesting to you. good lawyer and geoa
fellcw as he is, that go on TO Mr. Lockwood an
ethsr q. q. and d. r. and Homo Rule Liberal
His fret claim to notice is outside his PROFESSION
He draws, and his sketches Of people and scenes
Ia court during the trial must be some hundreds
III number They are caricatures, sr. if not always
caricat1res, seize the comic or humorous or pleas
sns side Of the subieet Many dreary day has
been enlivened by the handing about of these
j vRoducts of Mr.. Lochwoods ready pencil Neither
solicitors nor clients seem to objects perhaps the
prejudice which would forbid lawyer to be any
ching but lawyer is decsying, as 50 many other
preiudicss, and not pejudices only, are ia this
country 5ecaying j think it should be said that
he is q member Of Brooirs's To be member OF
Broelrss Mr. Chasnberiain's Wing temple lis In
ENGLAND muck the same thing as il in Boston you
Ind an ancestor IN the MAyfower, and had attend
ID divfnss sexvice IN the Old South Church. for
nsny geperations But not even the dull decorum
d Brools's hes subdned the dow Of Mr.. Lock-
woods Spirits. He has tongue as well as
pencil and his genial, broad, strongly marked, ir-
xeguhr face is record Of innumerable Jokes OF his
eWn which be has made, and of other peoples
which he has enjoyed II is . face well known to
s thpse who 90 to first nights: known In society
plsos Yet none Of Oh these things, not art, nor
The theatre, nor mother wit nor liking for the
& company Of bis fellow men and women, has kept
him down at the bar. His practice is large his
Reputation great, and he hss q way Of conducting
-, Tn
fsan6us case, Of which said so much at the time
Inst Win say no more now, heard Mr.. Lock-
xood cross examine the chief witness, and thought
ii q 1ns performance; sdroit acute, perhdious in
the coed crossexamining sense. for his amiable
sQcd nasuse in putting treaeherous question
might deceive Major LIE Caron himself.
6dr Honry James, who sits by the side Of Sir
H3chard Webster has taken but Iittle share IN the
eon1uck Of this cause in court and, ii all reports
be true, has put but little heart into it Rumor
says that the Attorney General wished TO retire
before The Commission opened, and lave the whole
matter IN Sir Henry Jannes's hands. Sir Henry
thsreupon said that II the Attorney General went
30 would 60 TOO. This would have left Mr.. Walter
in the hands Of Mr.. Murphy, @. O., barrister Of
good standing and capacity In the ordinary bust
ness of the courts, but not 1t all the man for
great state trial So they both stayed on, and
both bitterly regret IT. Sir Henry Is anybodys
equal at the bar, whether as lawyer or advocate;
cool. harmed. logical impressive, with great pow
sss Of work and of statement; in all ways strong
man. Yen cannot look ct his strong face and
doubt it or doubt his selfFeliance in emergencies
Mr.. Murphy belongs to another order; Mr. Soanes
fancy. selected him. Mr. Atkinson, an Irish bar
rister. might interest you, were there time. An
expr ssion Of scuteness presides over his wellcut
fhcs, the lines Of which are visible through a
closely srsrnined brown beard, and he has some Of
that Irish humor which occurs IN these melancholy
days 50 seldom.
Fsw names have been heard oftcner. In this
inquiry than Dir. Soames, yet few men were
less fitted BY natuse and habit to become public
characters He Is another Of Lord Salisbury's
bIsck men. A logged, Flooding kind of man;
With hopeiessN perpkxed, confused face: stub