The Sun.
London, England, 1864-11-09 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 9, 1864.

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According to the German journals the news of I
the signature of the treaty of peace has been coldly received
in the Duchies, owing to the fact that the populations are
dissatisfied with the evident indisposition of the Great Ger-
man
Powers, especially Prussia, to solve the question of
succession in conformity with the national wish. The in-
habitants of the Duchies are still uneasy on account of the
anoexionist tendencies of the Prussian feudal party, and
they think, it is said, that the best meane of putting a term
to these projects would be to proclaim the Prince of Augus-
tenburg the only candidate recognised by them.
BOAR HUNTING.—The Phare de la Loire gives
an account of a singular boar hunt which took place
on Monday last, off Pornichet (Lire-Inferieure). As MM.
Masselin and Dubae, opticians, from Nantes, were gather-
ing oysters from the rocks near Pornichet, their atten-
tion was attracted by the shouts of some women and
children who were picking up shellfish on the beach, and
on looking round they 'saw a large wild boar running
across the sands towards a range of black rocks, which it
seemed to take for bushes. The animal plunged into
the water and swam to the rocks, where it was seen to
lay down to rest. The two gentlemen, who happened to
have guns loaded with shot for waterfowl, hastened to
Pornichet, and put off in a boat with four other persons
to chase the boar. On reaching the rocks they found
that the rising tide had compelled the animal to leave ; but
after rowing about for nearly an hour, they saw the boar
swimmikg towards the shore. They soonovertook, and M.
Dubas killed it with two shots fired at a distance of about
10 paces.
DEAN SWIFT AND THE ALMANAC MAKER.—One
John Partridge published a prophetic almanac, which had
a large sale. It was not perhaps more absurdly audacious
than our modern Francis Moore and Zadkiers publications.
It so stirred Swift's bile that he sent a letter to the papers,
subscribed Is sac Bickerstaff, the Modern Merlin, in which
he foretold the death of Partridge, naming the day and
hour when that sad event would take place. Poor Par-

tridge was terribly annoyed : the prediction seemed likely,
as sometimes happens, to fulfil itself. He however sur
vived the day upon which Isaao Bickerstaff, as interpreter
of the stars, had foretold that he would die. He announced
that important fact in the belief that it would put his per.
secutor to shame. Not at all ; far from that. The cnly no-
tice taken by Swift of the almanac maker's assertion that he
was alive aed well was the publication of a monody on his
death. The assertion of his being alive was clolly ignored.
Vainly did the persecuted Part' id ge write again to the news-
papers, " Blessed he God, John Partridge is still living and in
health, and they are knaves who report otherwise." Strange
to say, the Stationers' Company believed Isaac Bickerstaff,
and prohibited the publication of Partridge's almanac—for
as much as that person was defunct. In his extremity Par-
tridge engaged the facile pen of Dr Yalden, who wrote a
pamphlet which set forth the pros and cons of the argument,
very elaborately summing up the case by:a hesitating opinion
that John Partridge was still in his flesh. The doctor was a
wag and a friend of Swift's. John Partridge was never able
to successfully prove his own identity, and at last he ap-
pears to have been himself somewhat doubtful of it.—Rus-
, sal's .Eccentric Pcrsonagcs.

Banquet to K Berryer.

Last night the Bar of England entertained the
distinguished French advocate, M. Berryer, at a
banquet in the Middle Temple Hall. The occasion
was one which will long be remembered in the
annals of the English bar. The noble old hall re-
quired no decoration to make it one of the most pic-
turesque as well as the most appropriate places in
which such a gathering could have been held. It is
needless to say that it was crowded in every part.
The Attorney General (Sir Raundell Palmer)
occupied the chair. On his right were M. Berryer,
L )rd Chief Justice of the Queob'a Bench, Lord
Kingsdown, Mr Walpole, Q.C., M P., Vice Chan-
cellor Stuart, the Solicitor General, the Lord Advo-
cate, Mr Rolfe, Q C., M.P., Mr It. Phillitnore, Q.C.
Oa the left of the chairman were Lord Brougham,
M. Desmarest, the Chancellor of the Exchequer,
Lord Justice Knight Bruce, Sir Fitzroy Kelly,
Q C., M.P., Vice Chancellor Wood, Baron Martin,
Baron Channel!, Sir Edward Ryan, and Mr Justice
Blackburn. There were also seated at the cross
table Sir E. Wilmot, Mr T. Chambers, Common
Sergeant ; Dr Deane, Mr Locke, Q C., Mr Kars-
lake, Q.C., and Mr Ingham, Q,C., M.P.
Among the general company were Mr Macmahon, M.P.,
Mr Wm. Ewart, M.P., the H-on. S. Wortley, Mr Peacocks,
M.P., Sir Hugh Calais, Q.C., M.P., Mr Roebuck, M.P.,
Ur Baron Pigott, Mr Baron Bramwell, Mr E. James, Q.C,,
Mr W. Alexander, Q.C., Mr Russell Gurney, Q.C., Re-
corder of London, Mr Kenyon Parker, Q.C., Mr Matins,
Q.C., M,P., Mr Walter Chambers, Q.C., Mr Bacon, Q.C.,
Mr Phinn, Q.C., Sir B, Peacock, Mr Knowles, Q.C., Mr
Justice Mellor, Mr M, Smitb, Q.C., M.P., Mr Merewether,
Q.C., Mr S. Warren, Q.C., Mr Powell, Q.C., Mr Ander-
son, Q.C., Dr Twiss, Mr Metcalfe, Mr H. Giffard, Mr
Coleridge. Q.C., Mr D. Keane, Q.C., Mr Digby Seymour,
Q.C., M,P., Mr Sergeant Parry, Mr Sergeant Hayes, Mr
Sergeant Ballantine, Mr Helps, the Hon. George Denman,
Q.C., M.P., Mr Sergeant Petersdorff, Mr Aspinall,
Mr Hindmarsh, Q.C., Mr Peter Erle, Q C., Treasurer of
the Middle Temple, Sir Joshua Rowe, Mr E. F. Moore,
Mr Hawkins, Q C., Mr Mellish, Q.C., Mr Barstow, Q C.,
Mr Bazalgette, Q.C., Mr T. W. Greene, Q C., Mr Forsyih,
Q C., Mr Field, Q.C., Mr G. W. Collins, Mr C. G.Wother-
spoon, Mr W. Downing Bruce, Mr F. Calvert, Q.C., Mr
Justice l3ylcs, Mr Charles Austin, Q.C., Mr Montagu
Chambers, Q.C., Mr Huggins, &c.
When M. Berryer entered the hall he was loudly
cheered.
The choir of the Temple Church sang grace from
the "Lauds Spirituali" before the banquet, and
grace also afterwards.
On the conclusion of the banquet full honour was
done to the usual loyal toasts of "The Queen" and

"The Prince and Princess of Wales, and the res,
of the Royal Family."
Tee CHAIRMAN next rose and said—Gentlemen,
I now propose that we should show our respect to
the great nation to which our distinguished guests
belong, and our estimate of the value we attach to
our friendly alliance with that nation, by drinking
the health of their sovereign, "The Emperor of the
French.".
The toast was drunk with loud cheers.
The CHAIRMAN rose and said—My lords and
gentlemen, I have now to ask you that we should
do ourselves the honour of drinking the health
of the illustrious citizen and distinguished states-
man, the great orator, the unrivalled advocate
whom we have the honour of seeing amongst
us this day. (Cheers.) I am sure that the assembly
which surrounds him is far more elcquent in his
said
dao
itunr lydt
hule t
world,
he ri .n
k I venture
anstosote
mbt esbl
eyxhaai
sgmtghetirhsaat ti
hasni gu
neverti
fh i
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praise than any words that I or anyone else among
uss
csao
yet been brought together on such an occasion.
(Cheers.) Not only in this splendid and stately hall,
crowded by the members of the bit. of England eager
to obtain admission to the festivity ; but we arc titan
surrounded by guests whom we have been prcud to
ask to join us in doing honour to him and his col-
leagues on the occasion. Those guests are the flowers
of our bench of judges, and of venerable and famous
men who in former days have sat upon that bench.
(Cheers.) These are men whose names will be re-
nowned to the end of time, yet perhaps they will
not think it other wise than an addition to their
honour to be associated with us this day. (Cheers.)
It would be vain for me to attempt to do justice
either to the merits of M. Berryer, or to the feelings
and motives which have induced you to invite him
amongst us. But I feel at least that 1 express some
part of the sentiments which animate your hearts
when I say that you have invited here because you
see in him one who, by extraordinary perseverance
and virtues, and by a long and brilliant career, has
adorned, ennobled, and dignified the profession of
which we are all members. (Cheers.) And while we
are delighted to recognise
in him conspicuous
and singular individual and personal merit, we are
also proud that merit so conspicuous justifies us in
taking this opportunity of showing our sense of the
universal brotherhood which ought to prevail, and
which we believe does prevail, between the bar of
England and the bar of France, and I trust the bar
of all the rest of the civilised world, (Cheers.) We
rejoice, gentlemen, in the science of a great and
misunderstand and under-estimate; but a
noble calling,--a calling which vulgar minds fre-
quentlycalling upon which depend in no small degree the
rights and liberties both of individuals and nations.
(Cheers.) To elicit truth by intellectual struggle and
conflict; to supply just weights and balances to the
scale of justice, by laying before justice all the con-
siderations on every side of every question that
ought to weigh ; to stand forward for the weak, the
miserable, the degraded even, and the guilty; and
on just occasions, when
public liberties are in ques-
tion, to assert the came right, privilege, and duty
of the free, undaunted, open speaking of the truth
—(cbeers)—that is the right, that is the duty, that
is the privilege of our profession. (Continued cheers.)
It has been our inestimable benefit in times past.
s cihta rdgi
sec thhaar
gt
eduty aigt aoi
an
g, h t
to be in other coup-
if need were, we should be able to
We believe that,
and we rejoice when we
seed
coun-
tries. (Hear, hear.) There are three great and in-
estimable blessings, every one of which we in this
country enjoy, and we should be glad to see all
enjoy in the rest of the world; but I venture to say
that wherever any one of the three is found there
public liberty cannot be extinguished. And what
are these three things ? A free Press, a flee Par-
liament, and a free Bar. (Great cheering.) Now,
I must say I believe that in the world there is no
country the bar of which has deserved greater hon-
our than that of France—(cheers)—and I am sure
that I shall carry your assent with me when I add
that at no period in the brilliant history of that
nation has there been at the head of that bar a
more honest, a more virtuous, a more eloquent, or
more persevering advocate than our illustrious
guest. (Cheers.) His name is connected in a way
which time will never dissever with the history
of his country. At an age when most of those whom
I see around me were beginning their legal studies,
this great man had begun the great public career
which to this day he continues to fulfil. The son
of a father scarcely less distinguished than himself,
he was the advocate of Marshal Ney in the time
of the ascendancy of those principles of which my
illustrious friend has ever been the faithful advo-
cate. (Cheers.) But the ascendancy of those prin•
ciples did not prevent him from opposing to the
utmost the exorbitant and excessive abuse of power.
Nut only on that great historical occasion, but in the
defence of numbers of other distinguished men in-
volved in like misfortune, did M. Berryer stand
forward. And it is well known to you that whilst
his own political principles were in the ascendant
his voice was ever raised for moderation and for jus-
tice to those whose fortunes were then on the de-
cline. (Hear, hear.) We have nothicg to do with
the various vicissitudes in the political fortunes of
except on this occasion to ad-
that great country,
mire the constancy and nobleness of the man who
under all circumstanies bore himself so well. After
the
wards, when his prociples wer no longer in
ascendant, he did not retire calmly from the service
of his country; his voice was still raised bravely,

yet without any possibility of accusing him of being

the advocate of disorder, on the Bide of liberty, and
against the prevailing powers; and still, when
called upon at the bar, he was found to be equally
the willing and the fearless advocate of any unfor-
tunate men in any station of life. 'Why, it is almost
a volume of history itself to say that this distin-
guished man was the advocate of Lammenais, of
Chateaubriand, and of the present Emperor of the
French. (Cheers.) These nen, and many more,
whatever their opinions might have been—when
they needed a word to be spoken for them—to
whom did they go ? They went to M. Berryer,
and when the wheel of fortune turned round again
we find him the same man, never refusing his ser-
vices to his country in any way he considered them
us. ful. Still he lifted up his voice as the advocate
of freedom, of writing, and tree speech, as in the
famous trial of Count de Montalembert, (Cheers.)
At an advanced age he is sustaining not only the
dignity, but the power, the influence, and the brit.
liancy of his younger days. (Hear, hear.) But I
feel that I have detained you too long from that
which is much more desirable than to hear his eulo.
gium fully expressed by me—the honour of first
drinking his health, of wishing him a cordial wel-
come, and then hearing from his own lips au
example of that unrivalled eloquence for which he
is famed. (Cheers.)
The toast having been drunk with much enthu.
siasm,

Mr. BERRYER said—Vous me croirez quand je vous dirai
que je suis profondement emu a !'aspect de cette imposante
et presque fruternelle reception. (Cheers.) Je me vois
aocueilli au milieu de la grande et libre Angleterre, voua ne
voua etonnerez pas qu'il our ait de trouble dans ma maniiTe
d'exprimer meg remerciments. Hier Monsieur L'Attorney
General, je vans lelicitais et je felicitaia ce grand et noble
pays de voir l'Attorney General (spectacle rare pour nous)
d eployer un zele aussi eclaire que sage pour seconder lea asso-
ciations qui ont pour objet de perfectionner la loi. (Cheers.)
Aujourd'hui, comma avocet, je me suns emu de vous voir
parler, comme chef du barreau, au nom des avocets. Grand
et beau spectacle qui me rappelle que telle etait la coutume
demon pays quand les Procureurs Generaus et lea
avocets generaux s'appelaient eux memes generaux des
avocets. En me parlant au nom du barreau Anglais,
vous daignez me complimenter sur les travaux de ma
vie. J'avoue que je me sena humilie de ces compli-
ments; je me rappelle ce qua furent les avocets Anglais,
ceux qui m'ont honore de leur amitie ; ce que fut Lord
Lyndhurst qui nous pleurons tous—(cheers)—et cet autre
grand homme qui a voulu m'initier a toutes les grandee
chases do co pays—ce noble propagateur do tous
les progtes, de toutes lea institutions liberales memo
dans cette libre Angleterre, ce grand homme que
Jo salue, Lord Brougham! (Loud cheers.) Aprea
50 ens de travaux j'ai rtiu do mea confreres de France
un temoignage de fraternelle sympathie. Mais la j'etais
au milieu des miens. J'etais soutenu par cinquante
annees de relations amicales. Encore une foie, j' Leis aupr es
des miens ; mais pros de vous je ne saurais dire ce que je sens.
Si, vous laissez-moi dire ce que j'eprouve en ce moment;
it me suable que c'est la voix de la posterite que j'entends
tomber de vos ;ewes. (Cheers.) Il y a une penses plus
leconde pour l'avenir, qu'un hommage rendu a un seul
homme. Il y a l'allianco des barreaux des deux nations les
plus civilsees du monde. J'ai assiste a toutes les tours de
justice de vutre pays, a toutes les eeliberations judiciares,
j'ai ete frappe de la situation qu'on y fait au barreau. lien
ne pouvait plus me toucher quo ces entretiena tamiliers
entre le juge et l'avocat. Cela prouve ace dernier l'atten-
tion, qui lui eat accordee, et j'y vois une guarantie pour le
sentiment d'independance qui doit appartenir a cette noble
profession. Jo tais des vccox ardents pour quo l'alliance
des deux barreaux vienne ase cementer. (Cheers.) Nous ne
p o u
dons
°cue pays;s en Francemais anvooui rs de
°cuea: 0
ur es uni
nounon s quom ett
ries
el
no i
caoinut omr
nication, les une avec lea autres, et de Ca communications
naitra, je l'espere, I'union des intelligences. Le barreau
Francais n'a pas, comma le barreau Anglais, fourni des
homilies a toutes les situations do la vie politique. Au
milieu de nos evolutions, lea hounnes qui so respectent
n'ont pas voulu accf pter d'emplois. Le barreau est reste
l'aeile tie crux qui, troistes dans leurs convictions, n'ont pas
voulu flechir. Oa comte pArmi eux les Utilities les plus
eminents. (Cheers) N plss6 lons lo libre cabanas ;
tuais ii no faut pas gull so borne a I'Lhango des soieries et
des cotonnades; it taut qui ce suit le libre echange des ides.
(Cheers.) Vous pourrtz trouver chrz n 'us beaucoup do
choses bonnes a prendre. Nous reneantrons chez vous des
ierivains instruits, ; uno presse puissance quo nous
no counaissons pas. Jo vote pour rallianco des deux bar-
reaux et j prie won cul:e.;uo de seconder men vote. (Laud
cheers.)

(TRANSLITION
M. BERRYER, who on rising► was again received
with loud and long-continued cheering, replied as
follows;—Messieurs—I can scarcely speak; and

you will doubtless believe me when I tell you
that I am profoundly moved at this fraternal

reception, and at the aspect of this gather-
ing, in the midst of which I find myself in
generous England. The embarrassment I expe-
rience will hardlysuffer me to express appropriately
the sentiments I feel. Yesterday, Mr Attorney-Ge-

neral, I congratulated you, and I again to-day con

gratulate you on your noble country, on the
spectacle it presents, of a man who is at the same
time the counsel for the Crown and for the nation
—a combination which would appear strange in
my country, but which conduces to the perfecting
of social laws. It is a great spectacle, messieurs.

Equally great is my emotion when I see united in
the same person solicitude for the independence of
the bar and for the independence of the nation.

Great and noble indeed is the spectacle, and

carries me back with sadness to what is taking
place in my own country. However, it has not
always been so with us, and sixty years ago the
avocats generaux were there called les generaux des
avocats. I❑ the name of the English bar, in the
name of this great Society, you deign to compliment
the labours of my life. But what associations rise
up to my mind at the mention of the English bar,
where shine Erskine, Eldon, Romilly, and that
illustrious man in whom we all glory, and who has
honoured me with his friendship, Lord Lyndhurst,
who has left as many tokens of his greatness as
affectionate regrets; and that other great man near
me, who has so kindly desired to associate you with
this touching reception—this advocate so illustrious,
so eminent, this statesman so distinguished, this
orator so eloquent, and, above all, this excellent
man, who has devoted the greater part of his life
to the advancement of the liberty and the liberal
institutions of a free country. I admire in him the

union of all these qualities:You have been so good

as to recall fifty years of laborious toil, and you give
me a touching testimony of honourable sympathy.
It is a great day for me, and I can scarcely compre-
hend this good fortune. If I were in the midst of
my colleagues, supported by the associations of fifty
years of friendly intercourse, I might fancy I
merited these praises. But here, in this new world
near you whom I have never, or, at least, barely
visited, lam astounded at this warm reception. I
am speaking, however, of myself as if I were the
sole object of this solemnity ; I forget our ohief,
our honourable Wormier, who represents the
French bar. There is, I imagine, in the present
meeting a higher, greater, and more pregnant
thought—it is an appeal to the bars of the two
countries. I have passed but a short time with you,
messieurs, too short a time indeed ; but during
the three days I have teen here I have been
present at the sittings of the Chancery, Appeal, and
Exchequer Courts, and that presided over by the
Chief Justice, and in the proceedings of the judicial
investigations I was struck with the position of the
bar, with that perfect independence which was al-
lowed it, and with the familiar conversations which
were exchanged between the judge and the counsel
—conversations which prevent needless words and
sopeifluous objections in the discharge of immediate
justice. What majesty lies in this simplicity ! But
I see in it something more—l sec in it a powerful
guarantee for the administration of justice. We can
only gain, the one and the other, by the exchange
of our private ideas, and for that reason I express
my most earnest hope that this alliance of the two
bars may be cemented. Ido not say that we could
offer you the spectacle which you have given us here,
for such meetings would not be tolerated 'with us;
but we will not fail to take advantage of English
liberty for the benefit of the two nations,for the ex-
change of generous ideas. It is not a question
simply of the protection of private interests, it affects
still more the interests of the people. I aspire to