New-York tribune., 1900-08-11
LORD RUsSELL's CAREER

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Epson on Tuesday next
LORD RUSSELLS CAREER.
TIE Right Hon Lord RuzsaU 80 L-u,o-,-,.
Lord Chief Justice Of England. G. c NJ
& c. and IL D. was born in Newry. Ireland,
on November 10. 1872 and was the son Of Ar
thur Russell He was originally intended for
the bar. and was educated at CastIeknock Col
lege and Trinity College. Dublin He began
practice at Belfast but soon went to England
and IN 1883 was called TO the bar at Lincolns $
Inn In 1872 he became Queens Counsel and
was elected bencher Of Lincolns Inn. Success
1o lawyer in London comes through solicitors
and Charles Russell is said to have been dis
covered by Sir George Lewis. one Of the clever
est of London solicitors. who recognized in him
The qualities that made him highly successful
IN winning cases before jurtes Though at first
ne had 10 exc OUT his income by Parliamentary
reporting and other outside work. partly jour
naistic. he rose surely. if not rapidly. TO the
hiehest places at the English bar His earliest
practice was in the northern circuit. with Liver
pool as its centre, and he was leader here
Tor long time before the law courts Of Lon
don acknowledged his supremacy
In 1914 Russell. always a Liberal in politics
attempted TO gain a seat in Parliament for
Dundalk but unsuccessfuIIy 1t was not until
le>o that he appeared in active politics. when
he succeeded in gaining the seat for DundaIk
which he retained until 1885. In that year he
was elected for South Hackney. In 1886 he was
appointed Attorney-General by Mr. Gladstone
and was knighted. Again IN 1892. under Glad
stones administration, he was appointed Attor-
ney-General. contrary to custom giving IN his
private practice, estimated TO be worth S15OOOO
year, 70 accept the office In 1893 he was
II ade counsel for the English Government in the
behrlng Sea case before the Arbitration Trt-
bunal in Paris, for his services being created
knight Of the Grand Cross OF St Michael and
St George In 1894, on the death Of Lord
Bowen he was appointed Lord Of Appeals in
Ordinary, and a life peerage was conferred upon
him. and when Lord Colerfdge died in the same
year. he was appointed TO succeed him as Lord
Chief Justice, being the first Roman Catholic
70 hold that Office for more than three f1llratres
years. --r
COUNSEL IN FAMOUS CASES.
Lord Russell was connected with many Of the
most celebrated English law cases for thirty
Fears or more; there was the case Of the Queen
against Yates in the matter Of Lord LonsdaIe
and The World" Of London: Fortescue against
Garmoyle in which what are said to be the
biggest dana ges-t10 G0O-ever given in an
English breach Of promise case were awarded.
the defence Of Mrs Maybrick charged
with poisoning her husband: Mcdonnell
the Colin Campbell divorce case the YeI-
verton case, his first brief Of great i'm
portance: the Chamberlain BarnweH case. the
noted Belt case against Lawes. in which all the
leadlng artists Of the Royal Academy were
called 10 the stand, the Wyndham lunacy petit
ton. the exposure Of the card sharper calling
himself Lambri Pacha; and. perhaps most ia
nous of all, his defence Of the Irish party in
the Parneu Special Commission and the ex-
d.
that 10 other lawyer OF recent times won such
enormous individual prestige from a single case
as accrued him from this. His six days
argument before that forum in which" as the
Earl Of Rosebery said, Sir Charles almost pre-
sided" was spoken Of by Sir James Hannen
the presiding judge, as a great speech. worthy
Of a great occasion" and Mr.. Gladstone de-
clared that his efforts had won him an i'm
mortal name"
Lord Russell was regarded as one Of the fore
most orators Of Great Britain, as well as one
Of its first leading jurists and his Irish blood
was attributed his happy combination of dec
lamatiOn and gesture Of eloQuence and act
ing. OF forceful logic and graceful vivacity.
These qualities gave him success. not only in
court but in Parliament and a a campaign
orator. in which capacity he did much useful
work for the Liberal party A correspondent.
describing his methods in cross-examina-
ton. speaks thus about him:
! remember well, during the Parnell COmmis-
sion, when he was cross-examining hostile wit
nesses whom the inept British Attorney-GeneraI,
Sir Richard Webster had fustered and puzzled
and worried OF their wits how he would
rise, adjust his pince-nez. eye the witness care
fully over the pinch Of snuff he was taking. flick
mis- dark handkerchief toward the box, and say
suddenly Now, thin. Mickey what is this all
z bOut2'' There was always the delicate sugges-
ton Of brogue in his talk with these witnesses;
tust a sufficient aroma Of il 10 inspire confidence
IN them. restore what seemed 10 them their self
possessions and lure them softly into Veri-
IA bic bog Of admissions and revelations.
STRONG LIBERAL TENDENCIES.
50 strong were his Liberal convictions that he
declined 70 accept an hereditary barony. declar-