The record-union., 1898-12-09
his daughter was in progress his royal

his daughter was in progress his royal
highness was observed in weeping.
Mr. Gladstone during the delivery of
one of his great orations concerning the
Bulgarian atrocities was so carried
away by his feelings that tears coursed
down his cheeks and the flow OF his
eloquence was arrested for few min
utes, so that he might recover his COM
posure. The Grand Old Mans great
rival, Lord Salisbury, too has been
known to play the woman" The
tragic death of the Earl Of Iddesleigh
will not easily fade from ones memory.
When Lord Salisbury knew that his old
old friend the Earl had expired, after
ascending the stairs at the Foreign Of
flee, he was so overcome that for a
time he sobbed bitterly.
Thirty years ago the Earl of Halls
bury then plain Hardinge Giffard) was
defending x-Goyernor Eyre concerning g
the massacres that had occurred in ia
maica. Having depicted Eyre pro-
tecting the people from outrages, Mr..
Glffard asked passionately whether for
so doing his client was to be done to
death by persecution. Good God" he
exclaimed, 'is this justice?" and wound
up his apostrophe by bursting into
tears Then the court adjourned for
luncheon.
When the present Lord Chief Justice
was known to fame as Sir Charles Rus
sell he on many occasions by the stir
ring force of his eloquence made Judges
weep and bathed juries in salt tears.
He has himself, too, more than once
been so enthusiastic in his clients be-
half that the f1ooodgates of his eyes
have been opened. At the historical
trial known as the Parnell Commission
so moved was he during the delivery of
his great speech in defense of Mr..
Parnell that he wept for some mo-
ments. while many of the onlookers had
damp eyelids.
Professor Herkomer, r. A., tells in
one of his lectures that his well-known
picture. Chelsea Pensioners in Church" !"
was painted against the advice of all his
friends but he completed it and sent it
to the Royal Academy. What expecta-
tion what anxieties and fears were in
that act How he waited! Two let
ters, respectively by Leighton and Rich
mond, r. A., brought news that the
judges on seeing the work clapped their
HdLuS. I1SlhOIiSI. dt the eiiiiC was al
a sick bed, and as he read he fell on
his knees and wept.
When that brave man DR.. Jameson
realized at the battle which put the
climax to his famous raid that he had
failed in his mission and was compelled
to surrender, he burst into tears and
cried for some time like a child But
it was not through fear for his own
safety, but owing to the thought that
his failure might place his countrymen
in jeopardy.
Rossini on being asked how he liked
Paganini's playing, said he had only
wept three times in his life: First, on
the failure of his earliest opera; Sec
ondly, when in a boat with some
friends a turkey stuffed with trllffies,
which had been provided for their din
ner, fell overheard and was lost; third
ly, on hearing for the first time Pag-
anini's divine performance on MS be-
loved violin.
Lord Eldon when Attorney General,
was in the habit of closing his speeches
with some remarks justifying his own
character. At the trial of Horne
Tooke, speaking of his own reputation,
he said: 1t is the little inheritance I
have to leave my children, and. by
Gods help, will leave it unimpaired. y.
Here he shed tears. and. to the aston
lshment OF those present Milford, the
solicitor General. began to weep Just
look at Milford said a bystander to
Horne Tooke-"what on earth is he cry