Show JURIST HAD LOST HIS TEMPER unpardonably harsh retort made at the dinner table poet essayist politician and man ot of the world the fiield of all oppressed causes and of oc all persecuted caen lo 10 lord rd had bad warmed both hands beffie the iha file of life 1 I am going over to the majo majority lity lie said when he was very ill in the year before his bis death and you yon know I 1 have always pi efee ened i ed the minority I 1 lave given in the cornhill Corti hill bill my father s account of the way in which sir alexander cockburn the lord chief justice attempted at af a dinner party to browbeat lord houghton who had spoken in defense of the notorious plaintiff at that time prosecuting his claim to the Tich Ti cliborn born palates suddenly writes my faher cockburn cocab Cock buin nn cut him short by saying J 1 I would have thought this impossible po sibe from any one with the very meanest intellect houghton II paused apparently overwhelmed and then replied but surely that was very rudo rude upon which cockburn Cock buin glaring fixedly at him medely added q 1 I meant it 11 to be so I 1 think thin that it was lord houghton who in allusion to this incident said that nobody ought to invite Cock cockburn buin to dinner without having a fl atie he engine at hand II 11 C lehmann in chambers journal |