nounced that he would give a digest of about fourteen hundred words to the public press, and no reporter would be admitted without his promise not to take additional notes for publication. He said that he proposed to publish his lectures, and as he had copyrighted them, he naturally desired to get any benefit there might be from their sale. Despite this, one reporter smuggled in a stenographer, and his paper printed the full report the next day. In repeating this lecture General Harrison, in a prelude, said: "Some of our newspaper friends have greatly exercised themselves over the question, What shall we do with our ex-Presidents? It is a question that has never troubled me much, and I have never felt called upon before to offer this solution, which will be perfect, so far as I am concerned-do not steal what belongs to them. That will answer all the requirements in my case."

Would Admit That He is a Great Lawyer.

During a lull in an Indiana court, one of the lawyers made the assertion that General Harrison was the greatest lawyer this country has produced. The judge smiled and said, "I think, Brother Blank, you would have hard work to prove that." "I don't have to prove it,” replied the lawyer, "Harrison would admit it."

SIR HENRY HAWKINS, ENGLAND.

(1816

-)

Judge of the High Court of Justice (Queen's Bench Division). Born at Hitchin, England, in 1816. He was educated at Bedford Schools, entered the Middle Temple, and was a diligent pleader before his call to the bar in 1843. He acquired a large practice within two years after coming to the profession. Took silk in 1858, after which he was engaged in nearly every case that came before the higher courts. He was junior counsel in 1848 to Sir Frederick Thesiger in the Burdett Coutts case, successfully prosecuting Richard Dunn, who had for years pestered Miss Coutts with professions of love. He was with Sergeant Byles in the defense of Sir John Dean Paul; defended Pollard for defrauding Prince Louis Napoleon; was counsel for Mr. W. H. Smith, First Lord of the Treasury, whose seat was contested by the Liberals of Westminster, and seated his client; was with Edwin James in the successful defense of Simon Bernard for participating in the plot of Orsini; assisted the late Lord Chief Justice Bovill in the great

Roupell forgery cases; led the defense in the famous convent case of Saurin v. Starr, being matched against Lord Coleridge; was with Coleridge in the first Tichborne trial, and made his reputation as the foremost cross-examiner in the world in his examination of Baignet and Carter; skilfully led the protracted and remarkable prosecution of the claimant for perjury; appeared in 1874 for the petitioner in the Frederick legitimacy suit, and won against a strong and numerous array of opposing counsel; and successfully established the will of Lord St. Leonards (Sir Edward Sugden) both in probate and on appeal, by secondary evidence.

He is reputed to have taken more money away with him from the bar than any man of his generation. He is the great judge of England in trying penal cases, and is said to be the terror of the criminal classes. He loves the turf, and was for years standing counsel for the Jockey Club. He is keen and unique in exposition; is endowed with a variety of mental gifts, and is very expeditious as a judge.

Patience Competition.

"Sir Henry was presiding over a long, tedious and uninteresting trial, and was listening, apparently with absorbed attention, to a long, tedious, and uninteresting speech from a counsel learned in the law. Presently he made a pencil memorandum, folded it, and sent it by the usher to the Queen's Counsel in question. This gentleman, on unfolding the paper, found these words: 'Patience Competition. Gold medal, Sir Henry Hawkins. Honorable mention, Job.' His peroration was wound up with as little delay as possible."-"Sketch."

"Go to the Devil"-Went to the Judge.

"An action was recently brought before Mr. Justice Hawkins to recover the value of two casks of herrings furnished many years before. 'Why such long delay?' asked the judge. 'Why,' said the plaintiff, 'I again and again, whenever I could find him, asked for payment, until at last he told me to go to the devil, upon which I thought it was high time for me to come to your lordship.'"-Apl. 1889, Green Bag.

His Management of a Witness.

"Mr. Justice Hawkins practices frequently on the bench that great gift of cross-examination which was his leading characteristic when at the bar. Over and over again, when the most eminent counsel are browbeating a hostile witness before him without

the slightest success, the judge will put a few quiet questions, stroking his nose with a quill the while, which secure from the witness the admissions denied to a less adroit style of interrogation. I remember being present at a trial which took place not very long ago before Mr. Justice Hawkins. It was essential for one side to prove that a certain person had been drunk at a given time. The man in question had been spending the afternoon and evening in a public house, drinking with a number of friends. Every one of the man's companions testified to their friend's complete sobriety; no effort of counsel could attach the slightest stain of intemperance to the hardheaded boon companion. As the last witness was leaving the box, the judge inquired: 'Had your friend spent the whole afternoon and evening at the bar? 'Yes, my Lord,' was the answer. 'Did you notice any change in his complexion? Witness: 'It was, perhaps, a little redder than usual.' The judge: 'Was his manner at all excited? Witness: 'Yes, I dare say he was, perhaps, rather excited.' The judge smiled at the jury, who in common with every one, were convulsed with laughter, and at the close of the trial found a verdict involving the gentleman whose sobriety was at stake with the odor of intemperance."Nov., 1891, Green Bag.