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

LONDON, WEDNESDAY, NOV. 9, 1864.

The magnificent Banquet given to M. BERRTER
fast evening by the BAr of England in the noble old
hal), of the Middle Temple constitutes a demonstra-

tion in its character wholly without precedent. It
is a new and a very striking indication of the cor•
diality of the amicable relations now happily sub

exiting en permanence between ourselves and our
Gallic neighbours. And the especial value of it as
a deninnstration lies in the fact that the enthusiasm

by which it was signaliled, was an enthusiasm in
no one particular " got up," but was in the fullest

o.:nse of the word spontaneous. M. BERRYER as
the greatest Advocate at the French- Bit., as
one of the most gifted Advocates of any
Bar in civilised Europe, was welcomed
yesterday by the assembled representatives of
his professional brethren in this country, as it has
never• been the lot of any Advocate to be received—
even in his own country ! The foremost practising
lawyer in the land, the Attorney-General, Sir
BOUNDELL PALMER, appropriately occupied the
chair at the centre of the dais, and presided with
all becoming dignity, tact, and eloquence over the

proceedings. With M. BERRYER, as the guest of
the evening, upon his right hand, and with the

venerable NESTOR of the English Bar, the exdChan-
cellor, Lord BROUGHAM, upon his left hand, the
Chairman was seduce enough, before those proceed-
ings commenced, of finding them, from first to last,

fraught with a very peculiar and, at moments,
even a really affecting interest. Among the speakers
the fact was sufficiently notable that there were
inaluded threo of the greatest Orators in Christen-
dom—M. BERRYER, Lard BROUGHAM, and Mr
GLADSTONE. For the purposes of OrPtorical display,

i: is notorious, of coarse, that mere after dinner
orations afford the very poorest opportunities, even
if they can strictly be said to afford any opportunity
at ail. DEMOSTHENES and 11:ILLY would find it
almost impracticable to justify their reputation in
tie exchange of complimentary tributes of respect
and admiration. Yet so far as this diffi.
culty could be overcome by such consummate
mestere of their art as BERRYER, BROUGHAM,
and GLADSTONE, it was certainly overcome
I.et evening. One exceptionally iadiacreot allusion,
it is true—an allusion uttered (of course !) by the last
mentioned of these three great orators, uttered by
him in the midst of a harangue, otherwise, in every
respect, eminently, we had almost said pre-eminently,
worthy of him—threatened to mar the harmony of
the proceedings. Rtference being here made to the
virulent, we might even venture to add, the malig6
rant allusion made, in the worst possible taste—an
allusion dragged in, as we may express it, by the
neck and shoulders apropos des buttes, as our French
friends have it, or, as we say, to Nothing—Mr
GLADSTONE'S bitter and venomous allusion—(in a
speect, remember especially intended, like all
the other speeches of the night, to be espe-
cially gratifying to the Great L?gitimist
Advocate, M. BEURYER!)—Mr GLADSTONE'S
scornful and vindictive allusion to the last es..
purience, in the Sou'h of Italy, of a: Lngitimist
Government under a BOURBON dynasty. Why
any such reference should have been made by Mr.
GLADSTONE, or anybody else, then and there
upon the occasion of a Banquet being given to
M. BERRYER by the Bar of England, surpasses
oar comprehension. The fact is, however—and
last night was proof positive of it as
a fact that, upon the subj,:ct of the
late Government of Niples, the Chancellor
Exchequer is under a sort of craze. Upon that
matter, certainly, his judgment is warped and dis-
torted. He views it darkly and fiercely with the
scorufal eye of a partiz in. His language in regard
to it, is the language only of exaggeration. The