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

BANK OF BRITISH NORTH. AMERICA.
Incorporated by Royal Charter.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That a GeneTal Meeting
of the Proprietors of the Bank of British North America
will be he d on TUESDAY, the 6th day of December next,
at the Office of the Corporation, 7, St. Helen's-place, Bishop-
gate-street, at One o'clock precisely, to receive a Report
from the Directors.
And, at the conclusion of the business of that Meeting, an
EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL IV EET ING will be held
for the purpose of electing a Director to supply the vacancy
caused by the retirement of Oliver Farrer, Esq.
By order of the Court.
C. M'NAB, Secretary.
7, St. Helen's-place, London, Nov. 8, 1864.

Banquet to M. Berryer,

yet without any possibility of accusing him of being
the advocate of disori ler, on the side of liberty, and
against the prevaili. ig powers; and still, when
called upon at the b sr, he was found to ba equally,
the willing and the fearless advocate of emy unfor-
tunate men in any rstation of life. Why, it is almost
a volume of history ittielf to say that this distin-
guished man was the advocate of Lammenais, of
ht have been—when
Chateaubriand, and of the present Emperor of the
wFrench.hatev e r
th
etheir
(Cheers.)
opinions Theseig
mmen, and many more,
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 ?ound again
we find him the same man, never refusing his ser-
vices to his country in any way he ccnsidered them
useful. Still he lifted up his voice. as.the advocate
of freedom, of writing, and free speech, as in the
famous trial of Count de Moutalembert. (Cheers.)
At an advanced age he is sustaining not only the
dignity, but the power, the influence, and the bril-
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 an
example of that unrivalled eloquence for which he
is famed. (Cheers.)
The toast having been drunk with much entbu.
siasm,

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 coul3 have been held. It is
needless to say that it was crowded in every part.
The Attorney General (Sir Roundell Palmer)
occupied the chair. On his right were M. Berryer,
Lord Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench, Lord

THE MADRAS IRRIGATION AND CANAL
COM ['ANY.
Notice is h reby given, that the Eleventh Ordina•y Gene-
ral Meeting of the Shareholders of the Madras Irri?;atlon
and Canal Company will be held at the London Tavern,
Bishapsgate-street, in the City of London, on Monday, the
28th day of November instant, at one o'clock precisely.
The Transfer Books of the Company will be closed from
the 18th to the 2qh inst., both days inclusive.
By ord r of the Board of Directors.
JOHN WEST WOOD, Secretary.
27, Cannon-street, E.C., London, Nov. 2, 1861.

Kiegedown, Mr Walpole, Q.C., M.P., Vice Chan•
cellor Stuart, the Solicitor General, the Lord Advo-
cate, Mr Rolfe, Q C., M.P.,Mr R. Phillimore, Q.C.
On the left of the chairman sacra Lord Brougham,
M. Desmarest, the Chancellor of the Exchequer,

THE EAST INDIA IRRIGATION AND
CANAL COMPANY.
Notice is hereby given, that the SE VEN ORDINARY
GENERAL MEETING of the Shareholders of the East
India Irrigation and Canal Company will be held at the
LONDON TAVERN, Bishopsgate-street, in the city ot Lon-
don, on WEDNESDAY, the 30th day of November instant,
at One o'clock precisely.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Compsny will be CLOSED
from the 13th to the 30th inst., both days inclusive.
By order of the BJard of Directors,
JOHN WESTWOOD, Secretary.
27, Cannon-street, E.C., London, Nov. 2, 1861.

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 Hon. S. Wortley, Mr Peacocke,
M.P., Sir Hugh Cairns, Q C., M.P., Mr Roebuck, M.P.,
Mr 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 Malins,
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. Smith, Q.C., M.P., Mr Merewether,
Q.C., Mr S. Werren, 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 Peteradorff, Mr Aspinall, Q,C.,
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 Bytes, Mr Charles Austin, Q.C., Mr Montagu
Chambers, Q.C., Mr Huggins, Q.C., 80.
When M. Berryer entered the hall he was loudly
cheered.

ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's.inn.road,
in the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern Rail-
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The Committee earnestly solicit the ASSISTANCE of the
benevolent, as the premises of this Hospital are capable of
containing several hundred more beds, had the Committee
the requisite funds to maintain them.
Contributions are received by the Treasurer, Edward Mas-
terman, Esq., Nicholas-lane; and at the Hospital.
STANFORD S. bIIITII, Sec.

Mr. BEItRYEIL said—Vous me croirez quand jo vous dirai
que je suis profondement emu a !'aspect de oette imposante
et prefique fraternelle reception. (Cheers,) Je me veil;
accueilli au milieu de la grand° et libre Angleterre, vous ne
vous etonnerez pas qu'il our ait de trouble dans ma maniere
d'exprimer rues remerciments. Hier Monsieur !'Attorney
General, je vous felicitais et je felicitais ce grand et noble
pays de voir !'Attorney General (spectacle rare pour nous)
deployer un zele aussi eclairs que sage pour seconder lea asso-
ciations qui ont pour objet de perfectionner la loi. (Cheers.)
Aujourd'hai, comme avocet, je me sew emu de vous voir
parler, comme chef du barreau, au nom des avocats. Grand
et beau spectacle qui me rappelle que telle etait la coutume
do mon pays quand les Procureurs Generaux et les
avocats generaux s'appelaient ens memes genetaux des
avocats. En me parlant au nom du barreau Anglais,
vous daignez me complimenter ear les travaux de ma
vie. J'avoue que je me sena humilie de ces compli-
ments ; je me rappelle ce quo furent les avocats Anglais,
ceux qui m'ont honors de leur amitie ; ce quo fut Lord
Lyndhurst qui none plenrons tous—(cheers)--et cot autre
grand homme qui a voulu m'initier a toutes les grandee
choses de ce pays—ce noble propagateur de tons
les progres, de toutes lee institutions liberales memo
dans cette libre Angleterre, ce grand homme que
je seine, Lord Brougham 1 (Loud cheers.) Apres
50 ans de travanx j'ai rein do mes confreres do 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 fois, j'e Leis aupr es
des miens ; mais pres de vous je ne saurais dire ce quo je sena.
Si, vous laissez-moi dire ce que j'eprouve en ce moment;
it me tremble quo c'est la vois de Is posterite que j'entends
tomber de vos three. (Cheers.) II y a une pensee plus
teconde pour l'avonir, qu'on hommage rendu a un seul
homme. Il y a l'alliance des barreaux des deux nations los
plus civilsees du monde. J'ai assists a toutes lea °ours de
justice de votre pays, a toutes lee deliberations judiciares,
j'ai ete frappe de la situation qu'on y fait au barreau. Rien
ne pouvait plus me toucher que ces entretiens familiers
entre le jugs et l'avocat. Cela prouve ace dernier !'atten-
tion, qui lui est accordee, et j'y vois une guarantie pour le
sentiment d'independance qui doit appartenir a cette noble
profession. Je tais des voeux ardents pour que l'alliance
des deux barreaux vienne ase cementer. (Cheers.) Nous ne
pouvons en France avoir de ces reunions que la loi autorise
dans ce pays; mais nous pouvons nous mettre en commu-
nication, les uns avec les autres, et do cas communications
naitra, je l'espere, !'union des intelligences. Le barreau
Francais n'a pas, comme le barreau Anglais, fourni des
hommes a toutes lee situations de la vie politique. Au
milieu de nos revolutions, lea hommes qui se respectent
n'ont pas voulu accepter d'emplois. Le barreau est rests
l'asile de cola qui, froisEes dans leurs convictions, n'ont pas
voulu flechir. Oa comae parmi eux lee hommes lea plus
eminents. (Cheers) Nous posseions lo libre echange ;
mais it ne faut pas qu'il se borne a Pechange des soieries et
des cotonnades ; it faut qui ce soit le libre echange des id ees
(Cheers.) Vous pourrcz trouver chez noes beaucoup de
choses bonnes a prendre. Nous rencontrons chez vous des
eorivains instruits, eJlsitei; une press° puissance quo nous
no connaissons pas. Je veto pour l'alliance des deux bar-
reaux et je prie mon collezue de seconder mon vote, (Loud
cheers.)

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The choir of the Temple Church sang grace from
the " Laudi Spiritueli" 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 rest
of the Royal Family."

The 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 Emperor of the
Fthreenheeha.l,tlh of their sovereign,

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
praise than any words that I or anyone else among
us could utter. I venture to tell him that in this
country, I think I should not be exaggerating if I
said in the world, such an assembly as this has never
yet been brought together on such an occasion.
(Cheers.) Not only iu this splendid and stately hall,
crowded by the members of the bar of England eager
to obtain admission to the festivity ; but we are also
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.
time., ,
(Cheers.)
tothe e s
end oef men These
whoseyet perhapsnames w
theybe
re-
nownedwill
not think it otherwise than an addition to their
e a
rt
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honour to be associated with us this day. (Cheers.)

(TRANSLATION

M. BERRYER, who on rising was again received
with loud and long-continued cheering, replied as
follows ;—Messieurs—l 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 hardly suffer 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, bat 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 it
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. In 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. Bat here, in this new world
near you whom I have never, or, at least, barely
visited, I am astounded at this warm reception. I
am speaking, however, of myself as if I were the
sole object of this solemnity; I forget our chief,
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 been 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

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 I 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
rejoice,
England and the bar of France, and I trust the bar
of all the rest of the civilised world. (Cheers.) We
calling upon which depend
noble calling—a
rights and liberties
calling which vulgar minds fre-
quently misunderstand and
gentlemen, in the science of a great and
every
conflict; to supply jue iunnedoe r
s-
me s
at under-estimate; adteegc
degree
t thea
(Cheers.) To elicit truth by intellectual struggle and
both of individuals and nations.
scale of justice, by laying before justice all the con-
siderations on question
gu i lty ; that
and
weights and balances to the
theeig h ;
degradedto staani ddeavf forward w,
oughtmiserable,
aaervndedrfyotbrethe weak, the
on just occasions, When public liberties are in quee.
tion, to assert the same right, privilege, and duty
of the free, undaunted, open speaking of the truth
--(cheers)—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.
We believe that, if need were, we should be able to
discharge that duty again, and we rejoice when we
see it discharged as itought
to be in other coun-
tries. (Hear, hear.) There are three great and in.
estimable blessingsi every one of which we in this
country enjoy, and we should be glad to see all
enjoy in th© 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 free 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.
Not only on that great historical occasion, bet in the
defence of numbers of other distinguished mea 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 nothing 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 circumstances bore himself so well. After.
wards, when his principles were no longer in the
ascendant, he did not retire calmly from the service
of his country; his voice wall still raised bravely,

—conversations which prevent needless words and

superfluous objections in the discharge of immediate
justice. What majesty lies in this simplicity ! But
. .

I see in it something more—l see in it a powerful
guarantee for the administration of justice. We can
only gain, the ono 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

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see the exchange of our respective ideas; we shall
profit by the excellence of your institutions; we
shall derive from them a good example. The French
bar has noi, been called, like yours, to furnish the
State with leading men. With us, in the course of
ab uninterrupted series of revolutions, men who had
any self-respect refused to engage in the manage-
ment of public affairs ; and those who had embarked
on the stormy sea of politics have taken refuge in a
port from their troubles, and have. re-entered our
profession as the noblest of retreats. Yes, let the
exchange of communications between the English
and French bars be perpetuated; let it extend even
to all the bars of civilised nations; let not free trade
be confined to commerce; let it be extended to ideas,
and we shall be charmed to receive those of Eng►
land. Draw us to yourselves ; welcome us; you
have numerous and talented writers and a powerful
press, which we, alas, know not. May free trade
reach even journalism. Messieurs, I drink to the
alliance of the two bars of England and France.
The learned orator's speech was frequently interrupted
with loud and prolonged cheering.
The CHAIRMAN next gave the health of M.
Desmarest and the French bar.
M. DESMAREST, in responding to the toast, said—Je awls
emu quand je me love pour repondre au toast si bon et si
affectu,eux porte au barreau de Paris. L'union entre lea deux
barreaux a std is 'eve demon intelligence. Quand on con-
sid ere les chosen du monde—me ate apt es un banquet awsi
splendide—(a laugh)—il eat impossible de ineconnaitre qu'il
ya au monde deux influences, la force et la justice. (Cheers.),
Jo no veux pas dire de mal de la force; quant a la justice
c'est ici qu'il sied d'en dire du bien, devant votre gloire
present et devant votre gloire anc!enne permettez-moi
d'ajouter en presence de ces deux porta- etendards du droit
et de la justice, Lord Brougham et M. Berryer. (Loud
cheers,) Il exists une grande similitude dans leur mac-
teres. Tous deux ills out porte bien haute la gloire intellec-
tuelle; tons deux ills ont brills dans les asse:nblees publiques;
toils deux, enfin, sont membres de l'Academie Fran caise.
(Cheers.) J'avoue quo je semis trouble si je n'avais
apporter ici que le tribut de ma seule reconnaissance. Ma's
aussitat que j'ai etc informs de votre gracieuse invitation,
j'ai profits de ces reunions legales autorisees en France
pour dire a nos avocets l'honneur qui m'etait fait. Tons,
jeunes et vieux, m'ont repondu, " Allez en Angleterre."
(Loud cheers. Je n'ai ,pas en le temps de consulter les
membres de notre berretta de province, male tons m'aur
aient tenu le memo langage. Je vois la grand image
du monde judiciare de France donnant la main au
monde judiciare d'Angleterre, degre preliminaire pour
amener entre nous une alliance plus intime, selon la
belle idea de celui qui devrait etre notre 13.tonnier
perpetuel et qui est toujours notre bhtonnier moral.
Messieurs—permettez moi de dire mes cher confreres—
(loud cheering)—vous nous avez donne hexemple, soycz
certain qu'il sera suivi. Un de vos hommes d'e tat

I'illustre Chancelier de l'Echiquier disait dans une circon-
stance recente avec cette incomparable eloquence qui
rappelle les beaux jours de l'antiquite, qua, dans le temps
oil nous vivons les progres de la civilisation devrait accom-
plir par des moyens plus dour que dans les temps passes.
Ces paroles qui concilient bien des difficultes ont trouve de
l'tlcho en France. Jo signe avec vouse un traite d'alliance
qui servira ala conquete pacifiquo du progres, (Loud
cheers.)
M. GOUNOD also returned thanks.

The CHAIUMIN then rose and said—Gentlemen, there
are other distinguished and, I may say, illustrious guests
who have honoured us to-day with their company, as well
as those who have come from the sister country—France.
Distinguished guests, to whom I now refer, have wished to
join us in the honour we desire to pay to M. Berryer and
his eminent companions. But it is impossible not to feel
that we, the members of the bar of England, have been
privileged to be the hosts on this occasion—and we are
greatly honoured and indebted to the presence of numerous
judges whom I see around us—(cheers)—to the numerous
and distinguished persons whose rank is even senior to that
of the judges, and of the rest of the guests who have
honoured us to-day with their company. (Hear, hear.) I
might, perhaps, have been called upon to endeavour, in a
few words, to express the feelings of all of us towards the

venerable Nestor of the English bench—(hear, hear)—of
that remarkable man, of his various knowledge of his un•
rivallei eloquence, of his achievements in the Legislature,
of his individual industry in the promotion of the improve-
ment of the law, both at the bar and when he sat on the
highest seat of the judges on the bench ; but, gentlemen,
I feel that I have been anticipated in that which I might

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naturally wish to say, both by M, Berryer, and by M. Des-

marest. They have spoken of him in the most beautiful,
touching, and graceful manner. I dare not venture t) add
to what they have so much better stated. I will, therefore,
simply ask you now to drink th,:‘, health of the guests who
have honoured us with their presence, coupling with the
toast the name of Lord Brougham. (Cheers) ,
Lord BROUGHAM, in returning thanks, said—Sir, you

coning power, tho knowledg ,t b a, , the
energy, and the indopenden.:3obitittiathisp4,
try. (Cheers.) We are hap • of
paying the tribute of our resp• . o u Intt-sV•I/4 so
eminently deserves it. We rejoicalaceecaly and that;
this celebration has afforded us the opportunity Or welcom.
ing the most eminent member as well as official head of
the profession, of which we are all members, in the neigh-
bouring country : and allow mo to say, that of all thozo in-
tellectual qualities and attainments which distinguish our
fellow-advocates as eminent and illustrious man, whom we
have this day met to honour, there is, in my mind, one vir-
tue and quality essentially the crowning and particular
quality of their advocate, that of having conducted the
functions of his great profession with unsullied and untar-
nished honour in defending his political clients. My noble
friend, Lord Brougham, whose words are words of wisdom,
said that an advocate should be fearless as well as carry out
the interests of his client ; but I couple it with this quali-
fication, that is, that the aims he wields are to be the arms
of the warrior, and not ,of the assassin. It is his duty to
strive to achieve and accomplish the interests of his client
per fas, but not per nefas; to do the business of his client
to the utmost of his power; to seek to reconcile the interest
which he is bound to maintain and the duty which it is
incumbent upon him to discharge with the entire and im-
mutable interests of truth and justice. (Cheers.) Mons.
Berryer, in all the great causes he has been stalled upon to
conduct—in all the great interests he has had to uphold--
in these cases the advocate Berryer has never forgotten the
gentleman and man of honour, and I respect him as much
for that as for the eminent talents which has cast so much
lustre on his name, and upon the profession of which he is
such a distinguished ornament. In my name, and in the
name of my brethren, I beg to thank you. most cordially,
and most sincerely, for the opportunity you have afforded
us of doing that which has been so gratifying to our feel-
ings, namely, doing honour to M. Berryer and his com-
panions. (Cheers)

have my hearty thanks for the great kindness with which
you have proposed, and you gentlemen have received,
the toast of my health. It is only the respect which I
never fail to receive among that profession of which•l
have the honour to be a member. On all occasions I

meet with the greatest respect, and what is even more
valuable, the greatest affection of that noble profession to
which we both belong. Oa. the present occasion your atten-
tion is called to other guests, and more especially to that
illustrious man who sits near me—M. Berryer. To whom
should I compare him ? Not certainly to any of the advo-
cates of ancient and classical times, but to one very superior
to them all—to our own Erskine—(cheers)—the first advo-

cate who ever appeared in the world, and I put M. Berryer
on a level with him. (Hear, hear.) I have carefully at-
tended to tho careers of both these great men, and I find
that both Lord Erskine and M. Bezryer possess that great

The UHAIRMAN then rose and said—There is one more
toast, which the presence amongst us of other illustrious
and eloquent guests on this occasion has rendered necessary.
It is a toast which on all occasions Englishmen are glad to
drink—l mean the toast of the two Houses of Parliament
—(cheers)—the Lords and Commons of England, with
which I beg to couple the name of one of our most honour-
able and learned judges—l mean Lord liingsdown—(cheers)
—and one of our most illustrious statesmen,whose presence
on this occasion I suppose we owe to the unhappy accident
of his also being constructively a judge—(a laugh)—l mean
Mr Gladstone, (Loud cheers.)
Lord KINGSDOWN briefly returned thanks for the House
of Lords.

Mr GLADSTONE, who was received with cheers again
and again renewed, said—Sir Roundell Palmer, I have to
thank yon for having been kind enough to state to this
great assembly the title under which it is my privilege to
address you; but I will venture to ask one favour of those
to whom I have now been called upon to speak, and that
is that they will not exercise any portion of their legal
ingenuity in the invidious endeavour to discover flaws in
that title. (A laugh.) For my own part, be it as a judge
or be it as a layman—and I am afraid the latter is the
title to which I have the better claim—l rejoice in hav-
ing been permitted to share with you, almost perhaps
alone to share with you, in rendering the tribute of British
admiration to the guests whom you entertain to-day. I
am glad to speak in behalf of the House Of Commons.
Rare indeed are the oceasions when it is in the power of an
individual member of that assembly, without pretension, to
make himself the organ of its sentiments; but I am well
assured that this is one of these few occasions, and that if
the House of Commons had it in its power to speak by a
single voice, that voice would be one of thorough and pro-
found !sympathy with the enthusiasm that pervades this as-
sembly. (Cheers.) lam not hero to speak of the House of
Commons, because that house is in England a household
word, It is so inseparably associated with all our traditions,
with all our feelings, and with all our hopes, that if it were
possible to tear away the House of Commons from the con-
stitution of England, England would cease to be what she
is. (Cheers.) But it has been well stated—and it represents
the lively sympathy which runs through the whole chain of
free institutions, that those who pursue in this country the
business of legislation for the complicated concerns of a
great empire—those whose lot it may be, however unworthy,
to be charged with the special responsibilities of govern-
ment—the longer they live, the longer their experience
grows, the more deeply do they become convinced of the
inestimable value of the independent honesty of a free and
fearless bar, in order to secure and sustain the liberties of
the people. (Cheers.) I have been told to-night—and told
in terms of eloquence that cannot be matched—what have
been the recent achievements of the members of your illus-
trious profession on behalf of liberty. Even under the mild
and temperate sway of the House of Brunswick, the want of
the bar has been felt, and that want, whenever it has been
felt, has been supplied. We might go I urther back; we
might go to the remote, to the worst, to tho darkest times ;
we might go to the refga of James 11., and the trial of the
seven bishops; we might go to the reign of Charles I. and
the trial of Hampden ; and whenever it has been a question
of examining, of searching, of vindicating, and a establish-
ing the hbertiesof Eagbeal, there the b tr has honestly, has
steadily, been in the foremost rank. (Cheers.) Perhaps,
Mr Attorney General, I may be permitted to recur to the
impression upon an individual mind. I have known, as a'l
in this country have known, that the bar too is inseparable
from the national life and the perfect security of our institu.
duns; but never, as long as I looked at England alone, did I
understand the true secret of its value, It was my fate some
15 years ago to be witness of oriel oppressions in a country

in Southern Europe, in a country where the executive power
did not merely break the law, but supplanted and set wide
the law, and established instead a system of arbitrary will.
But, to my astonishment, I found that the audacity of
tyranny itself, which had put down Chambers, which had
put down municipalities, which had extinguished the press,
could not put down one thing—and that was that it could
not silence the bar. (Great cheering.) I heard in courts of
justice, under the bayonets of the soldiers—for those courts
bristled with the bayonets of soldiers—in the teeth of power,
in contempt of corruption, in defiance of violence and arbi-
trary rule, lawyers rise in their places to defend the cause
of the accused against the domineering power of Govern-
ment, and with a freedom and force and fearless honesty of
purpose that could not have been surpassed in our happy
England, that could hardly have been surpassed by M.
Berryer himself. (Cheers.) He well knows, no man better,

faculty of conducting causes with perfect skill and with
matchless eloquence ; they had both that quality in per-
fection, and, in equal proportion, indomitable courage,
(Cheers.) As to Lord Erskine, however pressed, there was
none ho feared, neither the Court nor the King (hear, hear),
but he did his duty to his client in spite of all the power
held out to intimidate, and in spite of all the opposition
even in those courts in which he practised, and of which he
was the ornament and pride. And the same great qualities
I have constantly observed in M, Berryer—that which is
the first of all the duties of an advocate—to reckon every-
thing subordinate to the interests of his client—(hear, hear)
—to have no purpose except to serve his cause effectively,
to make no deviation, no digression to please either jury or
judge, or the populace, or the crown, but to do his duty,
looking only to the success of his client. (Cheers.) It has
been said that the administration of justice in this country
possesses a great advantage over that of many other nations,
and that depends partly, no doubt, in the first place, upon
the purity of our judges; but, in the next place, on the skill,
the prudence, the discretion, and the courage of the advo-
cates. (Cheers.) I can see no worse fate before the country
than its losing the purity of its administration of justice--
nothing more tending to this than anything trenching
on the independence of the bar, or which may weaken
that courage of the advocate of which such an illustrious
example is now among us. (Hear, hear.) Of the orators
in the French Senate, our esteemed guest, M. Berryer, is
one of the most distinguished ; but it is his crowning glory
that in every instance in which ho has been engaged as an
advocate, he has put down, with the force of his learning,
his eloquence, and his courage, all attempts to injure or
oppress his follow•citizens. (Cheers.) I have detained
you too long—(cries of " No, no")—but I could not, having
been called upon, sit down without offering to you the ex-
pression of my sentiments. (Cheers.)
The Noble Lord immediately rosb again, and said—The
Attorney-General, in talking of the great honour which
M. Desmarest has held at the French bar, was understood
to have stated that it was a thing which we might envy in
this country, having nothing of the kind. He meant, in-
deed, only England and Ireland ; in Scotland it is other-
wise. We have there a battonier, with this difference, that
he is battonier daring behaviour. Sometimes
the Government have thought that behaviour less a bless-
ing to have than it might be, and have deprived him of the
office ; bet the legal principle in Scotland is that he holds
the office for life unless some accident of that kind should
intervene. (Cheers and laughter.)
The CMAIRMAN then rose and said—l will now invite
you to drink another health, which I am sure will give you
equal pleasure with those that have preceded—l mean the
health of the distinguished judges who have this day
honoured us with their company. (Cheers.) It is impos-
sible for me to say a word either of their merits, or of the
sense which we entertain of the honour which they have
done us. I will ask you simply to drink their healths, as-
sociating with the toast the health of their eminent chief—
the Lord Chief Jnstice. (Cheers.)
The toast was duly honoured.
Lord Chief Justice COCKBURN said—Mr.Attorney
General, my lords, and gentlemen,—l wish, on behalf of
-f
the judges, to return our cordial thanks for the honour
which has been done us. I am sure I express the common
sentiment of all those who have been enabled to avail
themselves of your gracious invitation, when I say that they
have felt the highest gratification at having this opportu-
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it is so worthily represented.
We who have had to pursue the study of jurisprudence
with a view to its administration know how much the
noble science of which we are members is indebted to the
great and illustrious jurist of France whose labours have
shed so much light and lustre on that great profession. %%e
who have watched the celebrated trials which in my time
have occupied the tribunals of France have been able to
observe and appreciate the vast 4ttaiumento, the great rea-

that we are not met here to enter into and discuss the merits
of particular schools of political opinion. We are here for
more purposes than one, and one of those purposes I confi-
dently believe is to render and add another to the many tes-
timonies that recent history has afforded of the growth of a
cordial union of heart and sentiment between the two gre at
nations of England and France. (Cheers.) We are here also
to render a more special homage to an objeot more narrowly
defined. As there are ties which bind together the classes of
the samecountry, so there are electriocurrents which passing
the boundaries of political distinctions, establish sympathies
which run through the world. Those sympathies are deep
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look upon you from without; but I echo back at least the
sounds of favour, of applause, of confidence, of admiration,
which have been rendered to N. Berryer personally for the
great achievements of his life. But yet, great as that life
has been, not to that life only for what it has been and is in
itself, but to that life because it is a symbol of something
greater still—namely, of the indestructible principles which
are involved in the very constitution of a free and indepen-
dent bar—namely, of the high obligations to speak, under
all circumstances, the voice of truth, and to follow truth,
through whatever difficulty and danger—to have faith in
the moral forces which my eloquent friend near me has so
well defined over the rival principle of violence; and in
the belief that in the wise counsels of Providence from day
to day, as the world grows older, we may hope to have by
sure, if by slow degrees, the domination of that moral force
progressively widened and enlarged, and to see the rival
power of mere brute and barbarous violence gradually as.
sert less and less an effective action upon the oonduct of
mankind. (Loud cheers.)
The remaining toasts were" The Committee." responded
to by Sir Fitzroy Kelly, and " The Chairman." proposed
by Justice Knight Bruce, and graoefuLly replied to by the
Attorney-General.
The banquet was furnished by Messrs Ring and Brymer.

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