The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1900-09-08
publication Of tittle-tattle, and cited
with half a humorous, half-severe

frown an instance of his own expert
ence in this respect. An American
newspaper had stated that it was his
peculiar misfortune, as president of
the British divorce court, to have to
pronounce a judicial separation be-
tween himself and wife, Il have new
er been president Of the divorce court,
and have never been divorced" was
how his lordship wound up the story,
amid laughter more than usually bois-
ferrous. 1t was easy to see how it had
occurred, but it was impossible not to
laugh at the result.
Lord Russell of Killowen in America
came into contact with many mem,
bers of the bar, including Mr.. Evarts.
1t was while walking with Mr.. Evarts
one day along the banks of a stream
that Lord Russell was shown the
point at which Washington had
thrown q dollar right across. The
water was wide, and Lord Russell
looked doubtful. "You know a dollar
went further in those days than it
does now" the American lawyer
blandly insinuated. "Ah," said Lord
Russell, quite equal to the occasion,
land it must have been easy enough
to Washington, who threw q sover-
e1gn over across the Atlantic.'
His long and brilliant career as an
advocate was with happy good for
tune linked by one herculean labor
with his almost equal fame as poll
tician. He undertook to lead the de-
fence of Mr.. Parnell and the Irish M.
P.'s before the Parnell commission of
1883, and nobly he acquitted himself.
The smash of Pigott at that fatal
tribunal will long be remembered. Sir
Richard Webster, on Feb. 81, had
barely sat down in examining Pigott
In chief when Sir Charles Russell was
on his feet bolt upright. Mr.. John
Macdonald tells the tale. He had a
clean sheet of paper in his hand.
rake that"-holding it out rapidly,
and he asked Pigott to write down a
few words from his dictation. It was
dramatic opening. Gle has him." a
Darrlster whispered, turning round to
the present writer. The audience saw
that Sir Charles Russell was coming
TO the point at once, and in the silence
one might hear a pin drop.
mat was the fatal secret for Pigott:
ne wrote the word "hesitency," which
was misspelt as in the famous parnen
letter. Next day the ruthless cross
examiner reached that point, and i'm
paled the wretched tool of the Tory
party upon it. Pigott had 10 adn,;,
that he had also misspelt the word in
JUST that way in letter of June.
1851. lie shuhied and wriggled, but
the keen thrust had searched ont h,s
MS secret. On Feb. 2G the court and
the world were startled with the it'd.
lngs-Pigott had escaped. Where was
lie? Sir Charles rose then in his
wrath, with his extended right arm
Whatever you may d." he declared
TO the dlsmayed ranks of "Pigottism
ana crime" 1--WE shall search this mat-
ter to the bottom, for we deliberatelv
say that behind Houston and Pirott
there is foul conspiracy" He we'll
1uiniled that pledge, and in his great
phlllppic, which lasted from April 70
April II, 1889, he indicated his conn.
try and his party from the aspersions
case upon them. Ireland owes him
inuch 1or that great, that almost titan,
&c struggle that he maintained ON her
oehaiI-'the old sod' that he stin
loved. e'ii
elr Charles speech for the defenco
occupied six days in delivery ma
ueale with the whole history Of Eno-
nsh government in Ireland. Ana
"ileh the closing words were soid-"1
lave spoken, not merely as an odro
e'.'e' nave spoken for the land of INV
pifth; but l feel, l profoundly f,o1
.lat have been speaking too, for ona
- .ne best interests of England Of
,nat country where many years of NV
iaooflous life have been possod ana
., nele ! nave received kindness, con.
siueiation and regard, which shou1d
NC siad to make some effort to ran, ~,
Sir Charles fell back into his sao+
covered his face with his hands an
1t Is said, wept. '
AZ the bar Sir Charles Russell wos
ny 1ar the greatest cross-exominer ~
MS tlme. He was slow and deliharato
- eioss-eNamination. For a quarter
VI IN hour the clear and rather swoot
voice may ask questions in monoto
.ous Tone" an admiring critic wrote
turing his closing days at tho bor
ana then will come crisp and sborn
poser-something 'deucedly owt.
"afu TO answer. you know If 20.
n''nos you Of the gentle purrinp of
nc cat and then the pounce on tbo
.oo-confldent mouse One could bo,r
:. una watch it for hours, that won
uer1ul cross-eXamination. Tho ouo,
'lon' the pinch of snuff with tho do,,
cute snake of the lawn-ruflled hama
iese the fragments should scottor 49,
nice adjustment of the morsel to tho
-4os'fn' Then the hirt of the great
common bandanna, a dab Of oo,o.
'niohs the black robes and somhro