The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-11-06

year, as a liberal candidate for the
Irish city of Dundalk. He was elect
ed and held the seat till 1885, when,
at the general election of that year. he
was returned on the home rule plat
form as a member for South Hackney,
one of the most important political di-
visions of the great constituency of
London.
In the house of commons, Russell
proved as signal success as lie did
at the bar. Mr.. Gladstone was one
of the first to gauge his powers as a
debater, and many fine opportunities
for distinction were afforded the elo-
duent queens counsel in the important
debates that so frequently marked the
Gladstonian administration of 1S80-'S5
Though he was not member of the
Irish nationalist party, he was in full
accord with Parnell and his colleagues
on the questions of land law reform
and home rule, and Invaluable were the
services he rendered his countrymen
in the house and the cause they so
strongly fought for in those stirring
times.
When Gladstone found himself again
in Office il 1856, he gave the portfolio of
attorney general for England to Chas.
Russell The promotion carried with
it a knighthood In 1898 he was given
a G.. c. M. G. Grand Cross of st. Mi
chael aDG st. George in reward for his
distinguished. services as counsel for
Great Britain in the UnitedsiS tales fish
cries arbitration conference at Paris.
During the dozen or fifteen years pre-
ceding his appointment as chief justice,
there was scarcely an important cause
tried in British court in which Rus
sell vas not engaged. He was a noted
patron of the turf, and his knowledge
of horse racing stood him in good stead
when he was counsel for the Earl of
Durham, in the celebrated ChetWynd
libel case. He was counsel for Lady
Campbell in her sensational suit for d.
vorce from her husband, LORD conn
Campbell, a case which involved a good
share of Relgravia in a veritable mo-
srass oil scandal. The famous Mrs. May
brick had Russell lead her defense
when she was tried in Liverpool for the
murder of her husband, by poisoning:
Put in her case, not all the arts ana
elouuence with which her advocate
was gifted could save her from con-
vlction. AS is well known, the accused
woman, who filled a prominent socldf
nosition in Liverpool was convicted OF
he heinous crime charged against her,
and. amid a most painful scene she was
sentenced to be hanged. Within lew
da.vs. OF her execution, the sentence was
aonrn11ted to penal servitude for life,
and the wretched woman mas IAN III
prison ever since.
RusselPs career at the bar had a most
appropriate ending in his appearance
az leading counsel for Charles stewart
Parnell in the historic trial before a
special commission of three judges, ap-
pointed by parliament to inquire into
the truth of the repeated allegations
made by the London Times that Mr..
Parnell was, at least. morally connected
with that atrocious double assassina-
ton, popularity known as the Phoenix
park murders. The utter smashing to
pieces of the Times and its corps of
conspirators in that trial, will go down
in the annals of the English law courts
as one of the most wonderful and com
.plete triufnphs ever achieved by a
single lawyer. Mcdonald, the business
manager of the Times, with his army of
aides. and their painfully reared fabric
of plot and perjury, cut a sorry specta-
Gle before the world by the time Par
nell's brilliant defender had got through
with them. Pigott, the chief forger and
perjurer, absconded to Madrid, where
he committed suicide in a hotel, while
the detectives were trying to break
open the door The Times Newspaper
Company suffered a pecuniary loss
which it has not recovered from to this
day, while the prestige of the paper it.
self was damaged beyond repair.
Russell's closing argument for Par
nell was sublime in it's completeness.
The address ranged through the whole
history Of the movement of which Par
nell was the leader, and the recital Of
the narrative particularly the history
of the Times conspiracy, created pro-