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AN OLD-TIME BARRISTER.
ANECDOTES OF Chisholm anSTEV.
FORMERLY ATTORNEY GENERAL OF
HONGKONG.
For the past few weeks there has appeared in the Advocate of India a series of interesting articles on Bombay in the early seventies. The latest instalment contains several anecdotes concerning a strange Anglo-Indian personality of those times a barrister named Chisholm Anstey,
Anstey was a man who þy reason of his re. imarkable eloquence, his unrivalled legal know. ledge and his phenomenal success with juries, commanded by far the largest practice at the Bar in those days. But these qualities were more than outweighed by a perverse and jealous temper, an intolerance of all constituted authority which amounted almost to fanaticism and a curious and unquenchable facility for personal attacks on opponents which frequently led to serious rebukes from the Bench. One result of Anstey's peculiar methods of advocacy as well as his uncertain temper was that he had few friends. He lived a lonely and cheer less life, surrounded by his books and his cats, in the little bungalow on Chumbaltaa Hill Anstey was born in Tasmania but was educat. ed at Home, like another Australian, John
in
Lang, a well-known barrister and journalist Upper India fifty years ago, who had Anstey's 1308 best qualities without their disadvantages. After passing the Bar, Anstey entered Parlia ment as member for one of Daniel O'Connell' Boroughs, and was for some time an ardent follower and imitator of the Irish Liberator ASSOCIATION OF YORKSHIREMEN IN | In this guise he figures in Puuck in the For
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ties. Palmerston made him Attorney-General of Hongkong and Serjeant Ballantine, in his ed his appointment by breaking the heads of a autobiography, describes how Anstey celebrat
couple of policemen, and thereby gening into serious trouble from which the Serjeant ex- tricated him. Anstey soon had differences with the Colonial authorities at Hongkong, and after being one of the victims of an attempt made by a Chinese baker io poison European mem. bers of the Settlement, he came to India and began practice at the Calcutta Bar. Bombay, however, soon claimed him, and he remained
bere till his death.
When the writer knew him, though he had aged considerably, and was somewhat broken in health, he still preserved his wonderful men ory, which enabled him to quate cases and rulings verbatim without referring to law books. His eloquence had lost none of its fira: his control over the reasoning powers of a special or common jury was as great as it ever had been and his frigid insolence towards Counsel His appearance and Court was unsubdued. was not graceful or commanding. Of medium| height, grey-bearded and be-spectacled, his ordinary garb was an ancient flannel sait, sur mounted by a much tattered barrister's robe,
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a most venomous attack on the Judge, and bis partiality towards the police, alluding to the Commissioner as "That man Sowier,” for he would never pronounce his name correctly. In his charge to the jury, Justice Green, after re pudiating the accusations levelled against him. self, took the extraordinary counsel of relating appointed in it. No claims are made for it an incident in Anstey's corner, which was cer- except those which are amply Justified by ex- ainly not calculated to prejudice the jury in perience. In commending it to the afflicted favour of his clients. Some years previously we simply point to its record. It has done great Anstey had acted as a Judge of the High things, and it is certain to continue the excel- Court, and the severity of the sentence helent work. There is-we may honestly affirm had passed on certain Parsee speculators no medicine which can be used with greater implicated in the share mania transactions and more reasonable faith and confidence. It which had convulsed Bombay, had aroused nourishes and keeps up the strength during the indignation of their co-religionists. A those periods when the appetite fails and food mass ineeding was held, at which it was cannot be digested. To gunnd against imita- resolved to petition the Governor, Sir Bartletions and substitutions, nur "trade mark " is Frere, against Anstay's confirmation as Judge. put on every battle of "Wampole's"!Prepara The Governor yielded, and Anstey returned to tion," and without it none is genuine. It is the Bar. This story was recited at full length palatable as honey and contains the nutritive by the ludge in his charge, and be proceeded and curative properties of Pure Cod Liver, Oil, to observe that he would have hidden his head extracted by us from fresh cod livers, com in shame had such accusations been made bined with the Compound Syrup of Hypophos- against him as were contained in the petition to the Governor regarding Anstey, and that it phites and the Extracts of Malt and Wild as unseemly for a person with such implica. Cherry, Taken before meals it creates an impartiality, &c., &c. tions attached to him to question anyone's appetite, aids digestion, renews vital power, drives out disease germs, makes the bload rich, red and fall of constructive elements, and gives back to the pleasures and labours of the world many who had abandoned hope. Dr. S. H. McCoy, of Canada, saya: " testify with pleasure to its unlimited usefulness as a tissue builder. Its curative powers can always be A. CHAZALON & Co. is beneficial from the first dose and represents relied upon. It makes a new era in medicine, effective medical treatment of the twentieth Century. "You can trust it as the Ivy does the against imitations. At all chemists here and Oak." One bottle convinces. Watch carefully
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Anstey never appeared in Court again, and was dead a few weeks later; even his end is said to have been accelerated by his obstinate disregard of the injunctions of his medical attendant. His funeral at Sewrce was attended by a large number of Parsees, as well as Hindus and Mabomedang, and it was a remarkable demonstration of oriental segard for one whe the life and customs of the East. Anstey had often made contemptuous observations on library was sold after his death, and a set of Waverly novels purchased at the sale was found to contain a number of annotations in Parsee, had them printed in a pamphlet which his handwriting. The purchaser, who was a sold very rapidly and has long been out of print. These marginal notes were very char acteristic and betrayed Anstey's perjudice to- wards Scotsmen, whom he accused, among ather things, of an invincible dislike to cold
water.
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WHY COSSACKS ARE MERCILESS.
CHARGING A FROLIC OF WAR.
The processions which started to converge on the Winter Palace at St. Petersburg one Sun. Bat it was Cossacks they encountered, clans day hoped to meet only disaffected soldiers men of the south who knew nothing of the wrongs of labour, and who fan yet their bereditary feud against the Bor-Russians.
The prevalent notion that the word Cossack means only a mounted soldier of a particular type is a wrong one. A Cossack, to speak exactly, is a member of the nomad tribes of Central, Eastern, and Southern Russia, and is always a Tartar, often a Mohammedan. The Cossack sotnins which serve the Ctar do 10 si survival of the old semi-feudal system, under which certain rights in land and cattle were preserved to the tribes in ne- turn for military service against the turbulent Khans of the Caucasus and other enemies across the Urals At the present day they are furnished to the army by tix voiskas, or military districts, each of which is required to arm, mount, and equip its levy of men, and which made them a disquieting f ctor in any mixed force, is diminished, they remain totally distinct from the Russians of the regular army, half savages yet, with a fierce distrust for their countrymen of the north. with the Orient and loose codes of life and Their Tartar blood, linking them directly morality, is the foundation of all their distinctive qualities. In appearance, they are dark, hairy men of middle height, with coarse skin and wide, full lips; but it is chiefly in the contour of the squat nose and in the narrow, tilted eyes
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cummerband generally tailed to bis heels. A medicine bottle, usually reposed in one of his pockers, and bis addresses to Judges or Juries were occasionally interrupted, while he shook up the contents and swallowed a dose. He also carried in another pocket a canvas bag for the retention of his fees, into which he would complacently stuff currency notes and cheques brought to him with briefs during Court hours
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and after this date Interest at the rate by subservient solicitor's clerks. If the fee that one marks the Cossack. They have that marked on a brief was considered insufficient, elusive suggestion of cat-like cunning and | back it would be flung at the head of the limb of | keeness which in the property of most Eastera the law who tendered it. Some years previously peoples, from the Jew to the Chinaman; and in one of his cases he had made a most defiant in practice-in the Russo-Turkish war, in the JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,
Franco-Russian campaign, and in innumerable personal attack on the solicitor instructing the obscure affairs in the corners of Asia-they General Managers,
other side, with the result that he was boy-have proved themselves again and again as Hongkong, "ith January, 1905, [2 cotted and could obtain no briefs. Cliente, brave as they are ruthless, as strong in the
however, were so insistent on obtaining his fighting line advocacy, that he got permission from the High Court to accept briefs direct from sultors
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On
another occasion, when returning from Eng. land after a short holiday, he was met at Aden by some native litigants who were anxious to secure "Anstey Sahib before their oppon. cots.
A few illustrations of his methods of con- ducting cases will be interesting, as nothing WILL
OPEN FOR THE SPRING approaching it is observable at the Bombay SESSION on WEDNESDAY, March 1st. Bar nowaday, and it is doubtful if a return to Classes every night from 6.30 to 0.30 in the it would be tolerated. On one occasion he following subjects: English Beginners was engaged in an Admiralty suit, the plaint Intermediate, and Advanced). Mandarin,, Arithmetic, Grammar, Bankkeeping, Commer
in which he had been drawn by the counsel on icial Correspondence, Shorthand, and TYPE the other side. Anstey, in opening his case
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Hongkong, 23rd February, 1999,
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
they are terrible at pillage and horse and a sword were any man's justification murder. They belong yet to the days when a for going to war with his neighbour, and in the traditions and folk-lore of Russia tales of the Cossacks and their raids and adventures hold a first place.
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