Mainly About People.

Bush Advocate, Volume VII, Issue 476, 2 June 1891, Page 3

Mainly About People.

Mr d'Eyncourt, who in point of service was the oldest stipendiary iv London, having been appointed a . police magistrate in 1852, has been presented with a silver inkstand by the A and B divisions of police on his retirement. It is of silver, with a suitable inscription, and surmounted by a policeman's helmet in silver. The presentation was made by two inspectors, one from each division, and Mr d'Eyncourt expressed himself as highly gratified with the handsome ;gift and the kindness which prompted "it. I Mr Henry Fielding Dickens, whose skilful conduct of the case for the defence in the Faversham poisoning case earned for him the warm congratulations of Justice Hawkins on Saturday, is a s«m of the novelist, and is regarded as. one of the " coming men" at thenar. His resemblance to his father is very remarkable. He wears no beard, but he has tho same small, sharp features, keen eyes and nervous mouth, ancl, as becomes a Dickens, he has a fine appreciation of the humorous side of things. For the purposes of his case, Mr Dickens has been for some time past making a study of poisons. He had read in many portly tomes and stuffed himself almost to repletion with details about the properties of fatal drugs known to the Pharmacopaeia. But there is an ort in forgetting, and Mr Dickens frankly confessed that he expected to forget all his knowledge on. the subject by "the day after tomorrow " He said that he once went with his father on a vist to Cockburn then Attorney-General, afterwards Lord Chief Justice. Cockburn had been prosecuting Palmer, the famous poisoner, and told Dickens that while the case was on he knew as much about strychnine as any doctor in England— but within a fortnight the whole ®f that knowledge had evaporated.