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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 not been called, like yours, to furnish the
State with leading men. With us, in the course of
an uninterrupted series of revolutions, men who had
any self-respect refused t) 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 reentered our
profession as the noblest of retreats. Yes, let the
exchange of communications betv:cen the English
and French bars be perp,tuod ; let it exter.d even
to all the bars of civilised nations; let no. 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.
DESBUREST, in responding to the toast, said—Je suis
emu quand je me love pour repondre au toast si bon et si
affectueux porte au barreau do Paris. L'union entre les deux
barreaux a etc le rove demon intelligence. Quand on con-
Blare les chosen du monde—mere apt es un banquet auesi
splend ide—(a laugh)—il est impossible de meconnaitre qu'il
ya au monde deux influences, la force et la j ustice. (Cheers.),
Je ne 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 ancfenne ; permettcz-moi
d'ajouter en presence de ces deux porte.etendards du droit
et de Ia justice, Lord Brougham et M. Berryer. (Loud
cheers.) II exiate une grange simi'itude dans leur carac-
teres. Tous deux its out porte Lien haute la gloire intellec-
tuella ; tous deux ils ont brille dans les asse.nblees publiques ;
tons deux, enfin, soot membres de l'Academie Francaise.
(Cheers.) J'avoue quo je serais trouble si je n'avais a
apporter ici que le tribut de ma seule reconnaissance. Mais
aussitot que j'ai etc informs de votre gracieuse invitation,
j'ai profile de ces reunions legales autorisees en France
pour dire 5. nos avocats l'honneur qui m'etait fait. Tous,
jeunes et vieux, m'ont repondu, " Allez en Angleterre."
(Loud cheers. Je n'ai , pas eu le temps de consulter les
membres de notre barreau de province, mais tous m'aur
aient tenu le memo langage. Je vois la grand image
dee monde judiciare de France donnant la maia au
monde judiciare d'Angleterre, degre preliminaire pour
amener entre nous uno alliance plus intime, salon Ia
belle idee de celui qui devrait etre notre Latonnier
perpetuel et qui eat toujours notre bLonnier moral.
Messieurs—permett(z moi de dire men cher confreres—
(loud cheering)—vous nous avez donne ],example, soycz
certain qu'il sera suivi. Un de vas hommes d'e tat
l'illustre Chancelier de l'Echiquier disait dans uno circon-
stance recent° avec cette incomparable eloquence qui
rappelle les beaux jours de l'antiquite, que, dans le temps
ott nous vivons lea progres de la civilisation devrait accpm-
plir par des moyens plus doux que dans les temps passes.
Ces paroles qui concilient Lien des diffieultes out trouve de
l'echo en France. Jo signe avec vouse un traits dalliance
qui servira ala conque Le pacifique du progres. (Loud
cheers.)
M. GOUNOD also returned thanks.

Boning power, the knowledge, the learningae conge,,
energy, and the independence of the bar oflEat great cot,
try. (Cheers.) We are happy to have this opportunity of
paying the tribute of our respect to a profession which so
eminently deserves it. We rejoice exceedingly to find that
this celebration has afforded us the opportunity of welcomes
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 toe to say, that of all those in-
tellectual qualities and attainments which distinguish our
fellow-advocates as eminent and illustrious man, whom vee
have this day met to honour, there is, in my mind, one vir-
tue ard 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 at the Le wields are to be the aims
of the warrior, and no t of the assassin. It is his duty to
strive to achieve and accomplish the interests of his client
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in these cases the advocate Berryer has never forgotten the
gentleman and man of honour, and I respect hint as mu :di.
fur that as fur 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 DI. Berryer and his com-
panions. (Cheers)
The tiIIAIMIA.N 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'Engli;huieziare 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 Kingsdown—(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.

The CHAIRMAN 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—(hexer, hear)—of
that remarkable man, of his various knowledge of his uu•
rivalled eh quence, of his achievements in the Legislature,
of his indivi•'lual industry in the promotion of the improve-
ment of the law, both at the bar and when ho sat on the
highest seat of the judges on the bench ; but, gentlemee,
I feel that I have been anticipated in that which I might
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 touch better state.i. I *ill, therefore,
simply ask you now to drink the health of the guests who
have honoured 119 with their presence, coupling with the
toast the name of Lord Brougham. (Cheers )
Lord BROUGEIAM, in returning thanks, said—Sir, you
have my hearty thanks for the great kindness wiih 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 I
have the honour to be a member. On all occasions I
meet with the greatest respect, and what is even enoro
valuable, the greatest affection of that noble profession to
which we both belong. On 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 the careers of both these great men, and I find
that both Lord Erskine and M. Berryer possess that great
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 he 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

Mr GLADSTONE, who was received with cheers again
and again renewed, said—Sir Roundell Palmer, I have to
thank you 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 cf 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 ehare 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 occasions 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.) I am not here 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 wero
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
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 further back; we
might go to the remote, to the worst, to the darkest times;
we might go to the reign of James 11., end the trial of the
seven bi,hops ; we might go to the reign of Charles I. and
the trial of liamplen ; and whenever it has been a question
of examining, of searching, of vindicating, and 6f tstabli:l-
- the liberiies of E I, 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
upon are individual mind. I have known, as all
in this country have known, that the bar too is inseparable
from the national life and the perfect security of our itistitu-

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 ; Out, 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 he 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 rose 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 during life, f o 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 ; but the legal winciple in Scotland is that ho holds
the office for life unless some accident of that kind should
intervene. (Cheers and laughter.)
The CHAIRMAN 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 mo 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
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-
nity, through your kindness, of exhibiting their admiration
and respect for the bar of France, and the illustrious guests
by whom, on this occasion, 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 cif which wo 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. We
who have watched the celebrated trials which in my time
have occupied the tribunals of France have been able to
obscrve and appreciate the vast attainments, the great rea-

tions; but never, as long as I looked at England alone, did
understand the true secret of its value, It was my fate SOIO9
t 5 years ago t,) be witness of c 1,1,1 oppressions in a country
is Suuthein Europe, in a county where the executive power
did not merely break the law, but supplanted and set aside
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 dom;neeting 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,
that we are not met here to enter into and discuss the merits
of particular schools of political opinion. We are here fur
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 recant 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 object more narrowly
defined. As there are ties which bind together the classes of
thesamecuuntry, so there are electric currents which passing
the boundaries of political distinctions, establish sympathies
which run through the world. Those sympathies are deep
in the heart of our illustrious guest and of his distinguished
companions, and those sympathies throb with equal truth
and power within the breast of every member of this great
assembly. I am permitted—and a high privilege it is•—to
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 M. Berryer personally for tho
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, wo 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 mel e brute and barbarous violence gradually as-.
sert less and less an effective action upon the conduct 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 gracefully replied to by the
Attorney-General.
The banquet was furnished by Messrs Ring and Brynaer.

THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY• LANE,-
Managers, Messrs. E. Falconer and F. B. Chatterton.
THIS EVENING, a new and original Farce, by Edmund
Falconer, entitled THE O'FLAHERTY S. Mr. Edmund
Falconer; Messrs. G. Belmore, Barrett. Fitzjames, &c.; Miss
.Hudspeth, Miss E. Falconer, Mrs. H. Vandenhoff, Ste.
After which, Shaksoere's Tragedy of MACBETH. Mr.
Phelps ; Messrs. Creswick, R. Itoxby, G. Belmore, A Rayner,
G. F. Neville, Edmund Phelps, J. Neville, Bartleman, ,te ;
Misses Rebecca Isaacs, Emma Heywood, and Miss Lielen
Fau:it,
Doors open at ha f-past Six —Commence at Seven.

HEATRE ROYAL, HAY MARKET.-
Lessee. M,. Buckstone.
THIS EVENING, THE SUN AiND THE WIND.
After which, THE STRANGER. Messrs. Howe, Chip-
pendale, Farren, Compton, Rovers, G,rdon, Braid, &C. ;
3lesdarnes Beatrice, lieeley, Fitzwiliiam, Moore, &c.
Followed ty ON THE SLY. Messrs. Buckstone, Rogers,
Gordon, &c. ;Mesdames Snowdon, litzwilliam, &c.
And OUR MARY ANNE. 3liss H. Lindley, Mr Clarke.
To commence at 7.

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.
tinder the sole management of Mr. Fechter.
THIS EVENING, THE KING'S BUT TERFLY. Fan-
fan, t. e King's Butterfly, Mr. l• echter. Messrs. ily. er,Wid-
clicomb, Ch ile M'lntyre, Garden, Raymond, Moraian,i,
C ifford, Collett; Misses Carlot a Le:lercq, M. ilenrade, E.
,avenue, and B. Lavenue.
Preceded, at 7, by NURS'EY CHICKWEED. Messrs. H.
Widdicomb, Garden, Moreland, Collett ; Miss Lavenue,Mts.
Lee.
Doors open at half-past 6 ; commence at 7.
The Box-office open daily from Elovn till Five.

ING'S BUTTERFLY.-LYCEUM
THEAT RE.—Fanfan, the King's Butterfly, Mr.
'E,LITER.—The most t ueeessial Drama produced for
years.

OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.-
Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Geo. 'Vining.
THIS EVENING, BORN TO GOOD LUCK. I addy
O'Rafferty, Mr. Dominick Murray.
After which, THE STREETS OF LONDON. Messrs.
Vining, J. W. Ray, D. Fi her. D. Murray, J. Nelson,
Forreter. 11. Mellon; Mrs. Henry Marston, Miss Emma
tarnett, and Miss Fanny Gwynn?.

THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPIII.-
Sole Pronriator and Ma.naaor. 111 r. B. Webster.
THIS EVENING, A SHEEP IN WOLF'S CLOTHING.
31r. J. Clarke, Mr. Stuart, and Mrs. Stirling.
- After which, THE COLLEEN BA.WN. Myles (with
songs), Mr. John Collins. Messrs. Billington, lt. Phillips,
tephenson, Eburne, C. J. Smith, R. Romer; Miss Woolar,
Miss 11. Simm4, Mrs. BLlington, and Mrs. H. Lewis.
To conclude with DOING BNNTING. Messrs. J. Clarke
stephenson ; Mrs. II Lewis and Miss A. Seaman.
Commence at 7.

ROYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.
Manager, Mr. Benjamin Webster.
EMINENT TALENT AND COMEDY DRAMA.
This Popular Theatre is now Open.
THIS EVENING, a new Musical Drama, entitled THE
BARONET ABROAD ANI) THE RUSTIC PRIMA
LONNA : Mr. Flank Matthexs ; Miss Constance Rothn.
After whih, at a quarter t) Eight, a new and original
Comedy Drama, in three acts, by .1. ealgrave
tied Si'. RILLA ; or, SIEP BY STE t'. Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Mathews.
To conclude with Mr. Maddison Morton's New Comedy
Farce of WuOD,OCK'S LITTLE GAME. Mr. Charles
Mathews, Mrs. Frank Matthews.

ROYAL STRAND THEATRE.
Sole Lessee and Manageress. Mrs. Swanborough.
Ttiii EVENING, DELICATE GROUND. Messrs Par-
belle and Belford; Miss Palmer.
Followed by, at Eight, MIL KY WHITE. Messrs. Craven,
Stoyle, James ; Mesdames Swanbor :ugh and Manders.
To conclude with MAZEPPA. Mesdames Raynham,
Simpson. &C.

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_IL Containing the Latest SPORTING INTELLIGEItE
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men, there, are fiends—the prison cells are dangeons
—the handcuffs, chains and slavery—every Bour-
bon Turnkey is a Jonathan Wild—the unhappy
ex-King FRANCIS 11. is a sort of a combination of a
CALIGULA and a Duke VALENTINO. We are tired
to death of it. Surely having long since written
(as he has) a ponderous pamphlet upon the subject,
setting forth all his views, in terms the most extra-
vagant, and with a colouring the most exaggerated,
Mr GLADSTONE might at last consent just to leave it
alone. The Bourbon Government at Naples is over
and done with—the banners of VICTOR EMMANUEL
float over the palaces of FRANCIS ll.,—the whol.e
thing as it was is long ago past and gone. At
the very least, Mr. GLADSTONE might have con-
sintcd to abstain from reviving this dreary old
tale that has yearsand years back so palled upon us
by repetition, when he had to talk—if he could only
somehow have contrived to do so for once ( just by
way of a change)—only agreeably—is he ought to
have done, for example, last evening in the presence
and hearing of a venerable legitimist as illustrious by
reason of his years, his gifts, his virtues, and his
achievements as M. BERRYER. Otherwise than
momentarily by this one incident nothing whatever
occurred last evening to mar the harmony of the
proceedings—proceedings as delightful (we are
certain of this) to the hosts, one and all without
exception, as to each one among their distinguished
guests, from the illustrious Guest of the Evening
downwards—proceedings, moreover, that cannot
but be long looked back to with equal gratification
by our French neighbours and by ourselves.

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, NOV. 9, 1861.

It must be a great relief to an orator when he can
occasionally depart from the routine of politics and
discourse upon those subjects that are congenial to
the taste of the thoughtful and refined. The
hackneyed phrases and stereotyped ideas can then
be a xchanged for the free flight of fancy, and the
full flow of eloquence. Mr. GLADSTONE was able
to enjoy this rare opportunity of what the French
call delassement, on Monday evening,when he made
his address at the closing of the North London
Industrial Exhibition. The right hon. gentleman
evidently entered fully into the spirit of his subject
and the impressive character of his harangue suited
alike the scene before him, and the opportunity
that called it forth. Perhaps it is upon occasions
like this that the masterly style of his eloquence is
displayed to full advantage, and the force of his
rhetoric attains the height that is doe. The occa•
sional acerbity of expression and the momentary
irritation of manner that sometimes mar the effect
of his speeches when in his place in the House, are
necessarily banished from a scene like that of
Monday, when he meets his fellow-men to dis-
course upon subjects that carry one away in
thought from the discords and strife that embitter
existence, and develop the highest sentiments and
sympathies of humanity. It is very interesting at
all times to dwell upon such a theme as this Exhi-
bition, and it is instructive and important to con-
sider the evidence thus afforded of the elevation of
the character and condition of our working classes.
Such a thing was unheard of in generations back,
and it is pleasant to speculate upon the vest
changes wrought by the spread of education and
the culture of the mind. Despite many drawbacks
and obstacles, the ameliorating process has gone
on, and it is not tco much to say that this Eshibi-
•ion, closed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer on
Monday, has been a landmark by the wayside, to
which others may p Ant as a record to succeeding
times of the skill and prowess of our own. Apart
from the technical off sirs of such an arrangement,
it is encouraging and elevating for our workmen
and artisans to meet thus, face to face, with the
great intellects of the day—with the mighty men
in the fields of intellect whose nemes were but
known to their forefathers, but whom they can
mingle with on more equal terms—fellow-labourers
in the work of human progress, alike awaiting the
full fruition of their toil in the harvest that shall
be reaplql in ' the infinitude of hereafter.
Mr GLADSTONE properly pronounced the scene
before him to be " emphatically the festival
triumph of labour." Such it was, essentially and
entirely one of those bright spots which greet the
traveller by the wayside in the fresh beauty of un-
sullied nature, or gladden the heart of the pilgrim
in the desert with the sight of trees and the sound
of water. Tne right hon. gentleman made an ap-
propriate allusion when he said that their Minister
of Finance appeared before them with the glory of
a surplus in hand. It is in every way satisfactory
that:the success of this Exhibition should have been
so undisputed, for it silences the cavils of doubters,
and extinguishes the objections of those who
attempt to put down such undertakings. In every
sense of the word the doubts of the hesitating have
been exchanged for conviction, and the experience
of time has proved the force and truth of those
who undertake to prepare and to arraign the whole
thing. Very true and very encouraging were the
words of Mr. GLADSTONE on the importance and
dignity of labour. He said that on this " busy
teeming earth" there was no place for the idle
man, and fully carried out his high and ;holy
meaning in this impressive passage, " Labour is
the universal lot of man, and those who
endeavour to escape from it, and to con-
vert into a period of mere enjoyment that
term of existence which has been given us for
exertion and for discipline aro recreants to their
own destiny, and to the law under which they live."
Such is true philosophy and wise teaching; the
motto Laborare eat orare can never be too fre-
quently or forcibly impressed upon the mind, and
those who regard work in its true light will recog.
vise that, if its first infliction was to be the doom
of sinful man, yet by its characteristics and capa-
bilities, it enabled the fallen nature, in a manner,
to rise again, anti seek the perfection of its final
state. It is an especial advantage for those who
are immersed in toil and traffic to have some other
objects of interest above and beyond those which
chain them down to their daily routine, and it is in
this light that such a thing as this Exhibition must
be regarded as a benefit and a blessing to the care.
worn and weary labourer in the great highways of
this workaday world. It raises his mind, elevates
his ideas, and ennobles his existence, putting into
his head and heart the stirring principles of pros
gress and the refining notions of culterJ ; while it
gives to honest toil an honour:Ye position in the
sight of man, and sheds on his path the light re-
flected from above, that beams upon these who
have done their duty in that state of life uato
which it has pleased GOD to call them.
:Zr. GLADSTONE did not exaggerate the importance
of these elevated cccupations, when he said that
" it was only a mind that drew its fire from heaven
that could find amusement in productions of such
a nature after the exhausting effects of daily toil.'
It has also been of great importance that this
Exhibition has afforded an example to others of
what they ca❑ do, and thus been of signal benefit
in many respects. As Mr. GLADSTONE observed,
this sign of social progress may well teach " self-
reliance" to those immediately concerned, and also
to others ; this is alone an acquisition of immense
value, because nothing good or great can be'achieved
or attained in its absence, and it i 5 the mainspring
of all excellent and enduring works. Very different
from the paltry ,"feelitig of vanity or the empty

The mognifieent liz.,ncinet given to M. BERRYER
List evening by the Bar of England in the noble old

bail of the Middle Temple constitutes a demonstra-
tion is 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

&sting en permanence between ourselves and our

Gll lic neighbours. And the especial value of it as

a demonstration lies in the fact that the enthusiasm

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

5-nse of the word spontaneous. M. BERRYER as
the greatest Advocate at the French Bir, as
one of the most gifted Advocates of any
Bar in civilised Europe, was welcomed

esterday 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 I The foremost practising
lawyer in the land, the Attorney-General, Sir

ROUNDELL 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 u

the evening, upon his right hand, and with the

venerable NESTOR of the English Bar, the ex Chan-
cellar, Lard BROUGHAM, upon his left hand, the

Ch 'Airman was secure enough, before those proceed,

ings commenced, of finding them, from first to last

fraught with a very peculiar and, at moments,
even a really affeming interest. Among the speakers
the fact was sufficiently notable that there were
included three of the greatest Orators in Christen-
dom—M. BEREXER, Lard BROITGILAM, and Mr
GLADSTONE. For the purposes of oratorical display,
is notorious, of course, that mere after dinner
orations afford the very poorest opportunities, even
if they can strictly be said to afford any opportunity
At all. DEMOSTHENES and TULLY would find it
almost impracticable to justify their reputation in
the exchange of complimentary tributes of respect

and admiration. Yet so far as this diffi.
cuity could be overcome by such consummate
masters of their art as BERRTER, BROUGHAM,
and GLA.DSTONE, it was certainly overcome
Lat evening. Oae exceptionally indiscreet allusion,

it is true—en 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. B“.ference being here made to the
virulent, we might evLm venture to add, the malig.
rant allusion made, in the worst possible taste—an
allusion dragged in, as we may express it, by the
neck and shoulders apropos des bones, as our French
friends have it, or, as we say, to No hing—l`slr
GLaDSTONE'S bitter and venomous allusion—(in a
speca., remember ! especially intended, like all
tlme other speeches of the night, to be es,e-
eiary gratifs-ing, to the Great Legitlual'ist
AdvocAte, M. B ERRYER !)—Mr GLADSTON E'S
ornfui and vindictive allusion to the last ex-
prienec, in the South of Italy, of a Legitimist
Government under a BOURBON dynasty. Why
any su3h 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
our comprehension. ,The fact is, however—and
last night was proof positive of it as
a fact that, upon the subject of the
late Government of N Ties, the C',,,ane2llor
Exchcqu2r 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
scornful eye of a partizan. His language in regard
to it, is the language only of exaggeration, The

sentiment of conceit is the quality which sustains
a man in difficulty and supports him in danger, by
pointing out the morrow that may bring changes.
Mr. GLADSTONE rightly divined the spirit
of the undertaking before him when he said
that it proved the resources of the working-
classes, and showed them that besides the
long vista opened into the future they
might learn for the present something useful
and impressive. He pointed out what the labour-
ing classes had to learn in various aspects, " it has
had to learn how to bear the reverses of fortune, and
how that lesson has been learnt the recent history
of Lancashire will tell to our posterity." Loud
cheers greetsd this allusion to that noble episode in
the history of our working classes of which the sons
of toil may well be proud, carrying out as it has
done the effects of a principle prevailing which the
world in its losses and gains could neither give nor
take away, and touchingly illustrating the sublime
idea--

"They also serve who only stand and wait."

`Zr GLADSTONE, in fulfilling his task of closing the
Exhibition, declared that it was not dead or de.
parted, but gave the promise of rising in brighter
array. Such an undertaking is not likely to be
finished soon, its spirit will pervade other workers
to aim at the same or still higher ends, and it may
be believed, in the impressive words of Mr GLAD+
STONE, that " it will help to confirm in the minds
of the labouring community the eful lesson which
they have already learnt, and will likewise prove
to be an effective means of leading them onward in
tLe path not of illusory and unsubstantial, but of
true and real progress, and healthful and Christian
civilisation."

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

AMERICA.

ARRIVAL OF THE DAMASCUS.
( Via Greencastle.)
NEW YORK, OCT. 28, Evening.

Vague rumours are current of important move-
ments around Richmond.

The Confederates are reported to be in strong
force, and to be reorganising in the Shenandoah
Valley. Their cavalry occupy Fisher's Hill, their
main force being at Newmarket. SLeridan is at
Cedar Creek.

Price's army is reported routed, dispersed, and
driven below Fort Scott, closely pursued by the
Federal cavalry. The Federala have captured
Generals Marmaduke ani Caleb, and a large num-
ber of Prices prisoners and several guns. Five
hundred of Price's troops have crossed the Hannibal
and St. Joseph Railroad, moving northwards.
Beauregard has issued an address granting an
amnesty to absent soldiers returning within 30
days. He says he joins the army full of hope and
confidence in the struggle to strike a blow which
shall bring success to the Southern army, and
triumph to the cause of peace and to the country.
Resolutions passed by the Southern Governments
declare their firm, unalterable purpose to maintain
the rights of self-government, establish their inde-
pendence, and uphold the State rights and sove-
reignty, or perish in the attempt.
The Indiana Democratic and State Committee
have issued a manifesto stating that the Rep'iblican
party committed stupendous and systematic frauds
in the late election.
The military authorities have arrested the Demo-
cratic soldiers' electioneering. agents in Baltimore
and Washington, and closed their cffices, on a charge
of falsely signing and forging the names of officers
and soldiers entitled to vote. At the examination
before the military committee one agent pleaded

voting.

guilty.
The Democrat press assert that the charges are
manufactured by the Administration, the agent
having pleaded guilty, in the interest of the Go-
vernment. They also state that it is part of Lin-
coln's way of managing the campaign to elect
himself.
Windell Phillips has made a speech, asserting
that he was not willing to trust Lincoln with the
future of the country. He admitted that Lincoln
was the only candidate in the field, but he must do
the peaple's will.
The Canadian Conference has been adjourned.
The steamer Hope has been captured, and the
Flor:ne destroyed.
The Canada has arrived out.
NEW YORK, OCT. 29 (Morning.)
On Thursday Gen. Grant made a reconnaissance
in force on the left with Hancock's and Warren's
corps. The Confederates attacked Hancock, who
repulsed their assault. Finding the Confederates
strongly entrenched at all points, both corps with-
drew to a position a little in advance of their for-
mer lines. Butler made a simultaneous reconnais-
sance on the right without finding any point un..
guarded. There were casualties on both sides. On
the right Grant captured 900 prisoners. The Con-
federate General Dering is reported killed.
A despatch from Sherman, dated Friday, ',.indi-
cates that Hood wes threatening another demon-
stration against the TennEssee Railroad at Chatta-
nooga.

It is rumoured at Louisville that the Confederates
have captured Paducah, Kentucky.
A resolution has been intrc,duced in the Alabama
Legislature declaring that, if the Democratic party
be successful, Alabama will be willing to negotiate
on the basis of the Chicago platform if other South.
ern States concur.

NEW YORK, OCT. 28.

SPAIN.

FRANCE.

4.1 per Cents 9l 95
Do. end month —
3 per Ceuts
Do. end mouth 65 5
i'ti edit Mobilier B9O
Do, end month 593 75
Bank Shares 3!-;95
Credit Fancier 1165
Roman .. 74

The news from Missouri is still vague and contra.
dictory. The same despatches which renew the
rumours of the defeat of Price, with considerable
loss in men and artillery, end of his retreat south•
ward, contain reports of the advance of a large
Confederate force northward of the Hannibal and
St, Joseph Riilwap

General Grant has agreed to a proposition from
General Lee permitting the furnishing of extra sup-
plies and clothing to the prisoners of war upon
either side by their friends or their respective Go-
vernments. The agreement allows the Confederates
to ship from abroad the supplies for their prisoners.
OCT. 29.

Simultaneous reconnaissances by Grant and But•
ler against Lee's right and left on the 27th disco.
prepared egains'
•TatetraedikstuhpeonConfederates fully
Grant was dLiven back with considerable lose.

Stanton reports Hood threatening the invasion o

Tennessee.

Governor Bramlett, of Kentucky, has issued El
proclamation declaring that he will tolerate no mili-
tary interference in the approaching elections, and
directing the sheriffs to arrest the offenders if any
be attempted.
Additional testimony has been adduced of the
forgery of soldiers' names by the York State agents.
General Dix announces that the military will pro.
tect the purity of the polls against the intentions of
rebel agents. Canada has sent refugee deserters to
vote at the Presidential election.

NEW YORK, OCT. 29 (Evening).
Grant's whole army is said to have been engaged
in a reconnaissance before Richmond with a view to
bring on a general engagement,
The Court of Appeals has refused an injunction
against the Maryland anti-slavery constitution,
which has been
proclaimed by the Governor of that
State.

The City of Washington takes out 800,000 dols

,n specie.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEW YORK, OCT. 29 (Evening).

Money easy—gold 1201 prem. Exchange on
London, 240. Stocks advancing—New York Cen-
tral., 121 ; 127; Erie, 97k;
United States
5 dol 200; Bonds, 107 k. Cotton slightly firmer;
Middling Upland, 125. Flour, wheat, and corn
advancing. Prov Lions good inquiry. Coffee ad-
vancing, Sugar, good inquiry. Molasses steady.
Petroleum, crude, 45; rEfined do., 66.

ARRIVAL OF THE CITY OF WASHINGTON.
(Via Crookhaven).
NEW YORK, Nov. 1 (Morning).
The report of Sheeman's evacuation of Atlanta
has been denied. Forrest is threatening Paducah
and Columbus.
Gold is excited, and is now quoted 1371 per oen..
premium.

NEW YORK, OCT. 31 (Evening.)
( Via Crookhaven.)
General Grant has resumed his old position.
Hood has attacked Decatur, but was repulsed
and crossed the Tennessee.
Rumours are current that Sherman has evacuated

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Atlanta.
It is reported that the Confederates will arm
300,000 negroes for the spring campaign.
The New York and Kentucky State authorities

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING-, INOVEMBER 9, 1861.

have forbidden military interference with the

COMMERCIAL 1N FELLIG ENCE.
NEW YORK, OCT. 31 (Evening.)

Gold, 127 per cent. premium.
Exchange on London, 247.
Stocks advancing. New York Centrals, 123/ ;
Illinois, 130 ; Erie, 99 ; 5.20 Bonds, 108.
Middling Upland, 125. Breadstuffs advancing.
Petroleum Crude, 49. ; Refined, 66.

SAFE TY OF THE SAXONIA.
SOUTHAMPTON, Nov. 9.

A telegram received here from Falmouth, dated
eight o'clock last night, says that the steamer Saxon
nia is stemming slowly up Channel, with machinery
disabled. She is expected to reach this port this
evening. The Bavaria has been detained to take
on her mails, passengers, 8:1., to Hamburg.

NEW AUSTRIAN LOAN.
VIENNA, Nov. 9.

A new State loan for 25,000,000 florins, bearing
5 per cent. interest, was officially.announced this
morning.
The issue price is fixed at 87.

MADRID, Nov. 8 (Evening).

Senor Bravo Murillo has published a pamphlet
against the holders of the certificates of the Passive
Debt, who,• he says, have no right to provoke
solemn deckrations and promises on the part of the
Government, es the Chambers have always rejected
their exaggerated demands.
The Correcliond6ncia asserts that the Government
will shortly introduce a new and more liberal press
law.

PARIS, Nov. 9.

The .3Tonitcur of this morning publishes the re-
port of Rear-Admiral Juates upon the expedition
in the Straits of Simonosaki.

The diplomatic convention regulating the sugar
legislation was signed yesterday at Paris by the
representatives of England, France, Belgium, and
Holland. _ _

BounsE, Nov. B.—The market has been rather
more buoyant, and quotations have improved.
Threes, for the Acmunt,lafter having been done at
fin, are now at 64f. 95f. A fair amount of busi.
news done in Mobilier at 890 f. Railway Market
quirt, but firm. Tho market cloud as follows :

Italian Loan 6l 45
Do. end month 64 85
Ditto Threes ..

New Mexican 49 25
Russian
tkustrian
Spanieh Threes 45
Horne Debt

Deferrel

Cash.
Orleans B4O
Northern
Lyons and NeditGrranean 870 870
Southern 590 585

Account.

Western
Eastern .. „ 470 .. 472 50
Sardinian .. —4. 317 50 .. 317 50
Austrian
LON' bard
North of Spain
Saragossa 463 75 .. 453
Ditto to Barcelona

The Franco-Italian Convention,

TURIN, Nov. 6.
The committee charged to examine the Govern
meat Bill for the transfer of the Italian capital to
Florence has brought in its r: port. The following
are the most striking passages :
"If Italy has solemnly announced to Europe a
national programme, from which her honour will
not permit her to desist in any case and in any part,
it must, however, not be forgotten that this pro-
gramme has never been tcoepted by France, and
that, upon the contrary, it constitutes, at least for
the moment, a principle and point of departure
diverging from French conventions and views of
policy.
" Granting this, it is evident that the Government
of the King, in requesting the Imperial Government
to enter into negotiations, could in no way depart
from this programme nor invite discussion upon
that ground. To have acted thus would not have
led to any result, and would have broken off the
negotiations before they were fairly commenced.
"Those, therefore, who seek in the convention
immediate and positive satisfaction given to the
national aspirations of Italy with regard to Rome
seek what cannot be found there.
" But, as we could not ask France to place herself
as to negotiations at our point of view, France was
no better entitled to demand that Italy should adopt
her point of view by renouncing the national pro-
gramme. Universal disavowal and severe condemn-
nation would not have been tardy to strike the
Government which should have accepted such a
position even for a moment.
" It is in taking account of this diversity of posi•
tions and views that your committee has under-
taken the examination of the treaty; determined to
reject it without the least hesitation in case they
should find in it an insult to the sentiments of the
nation, and any modification whatever of the pro-
gramme which the King, the Parliament, and the
country are all agreed in the desire to maintain in-
tact ; determined equally to recommend it to your
approbation in case, without inflicting injury upon
these unalterable and inalienable bases, it should
appear acceptable and praiseworthy in other re-
spects. We are now happy to tell you the reasons
which have caused us to adopt the latter part.
",The obligations imposed upon Italy by the con-
vention are too clearly expressed and too exactly
defined to authorise with any foundation the con-
clusion, or even the suspicion, that holy thereby
renounces her aspirations towards Rome.
" No, we do not renounce Rome ; we do not
renounce going there in future, We simply re-
nounce going there in force. But this renuncia-
tion is in uo way a contradiction of our national
programme; it is, upon the contrary, in perfect
harmony with the memorable order of the day of
March 27, 1861, which happily summed up and
stated our programme, and with all the subsequent
declarations of the Chamber. It is true that by
virtue of the convention this programme, which
was only a voluntary and spontaneous resolution on
our part, acquires the force and character and
obligation entered into by contract and of an in-
ternational engagement; bat this diversity of form
in no degree alters the substance of the thing,
for the reasons which traced out for us this line
of conduct beloged to so superior an order that the
necessity arising out of them was not less imperious
than that resulting from the convention we have
under examination.
"In the opinion of your committee the temporal
power will only be irrevocably overthrown and des
stroyed by its impotence, and Italy is as much and
more interested in this fatal experience as its most
ardent adversaries seem to be. Your committee
perceives that it would be superfluous to persist in
demonstration that the treaty makes no attack upon
the bases of the national right. It is enough if they
limit themselves to calling the attention of the
Chamber and of the country to the diplomatic do-
cuments which have been laid before us at the same
time as the convention, and in which the same thesis
is constantly supported and defended with rare
talent and indefatigable energy. But if the con-
vention of the loth September was not intended to
satisfy either the French programme or the Italian
programme upon the subject of the question of
Roma, what then is its meaning.
" Your committee' still think that this meeting is
clearly apparent from the convention itself. It has
had in view and for object to cause the cessation of
the French occupation of Rome, and to regulate
the consequences of that fact. It was precisely in
confining, the subject of the negotiations within
these limits that an agreement has been possible
between the two Governments upon the basis of a
principle of common policy—we mean the principle
of nonintervention.
" We thick it (luny supetfluous to st%teio detail