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Show Eloquence Not Appreciated. One of the new baronets, Sir Char'.f Mathews, is said to be the only nit" ber of the English bar who ever tea! aged to draw tears from the Judge fore whom he was pleading. His olu rival in many criminal cases, Mr. C.F. Gill, K. C, never achieved this feat although a supreme master of harrowing methods formerly folio" by counsel. Mr. Gill was once call upon by the judge at Lewes assizes!' defend a navvy charged with k"115 his wife. "His eloquence," relates s eye-witness, "had such an effect uP03 the Jury that seven of them burst lo tears. At this moment the prtw1' nudged a warder sitting by him c said, 'who's that bloke?' 'Why,' 8s;1 tho warder, 'he's the finest mouthp!eC9 on the circuit ; you're very luy f have got him.' 'Dismal beggar 1' the prisoner." Manchester Guards |