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

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

BANK OF BRITISH NOR al. AMERICA.
Incorporated by Royal Charter.
NOTICE IS HERE GIVEN, That a General Meeting
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The Transfer Books of the Company will be clos:d from
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By ord r of the Board of Directors.
JOHN W EST WOOD, Secietary.
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THE EAST INDIA IRRIGATION AND
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According to the German journals the news of
the signature of the treaty of peace has been coldly received
in the Duchies, owing to the fact that the populations are
dissatisfied with the evident indisposition of the Great Ger-
man Powers, especially Prussia, to solve the question of
succession in conformity with the national wish. The in-
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annexionist tendencies of the Prussian feudal party, and
they think, it is said, that the best meane of putting a term
to these projects would be to proclaim the Prince of Augus-
tenburg the only candidate recognised by them.

BOAR HUNTING.--The Phare de la Loire gives
an account of a singular boar hunt which took place
on Monday last, off Pornichet (Lire-Inferieure). As MM.
Masselin and Dubas, opticians, from Nantes, were gather-,
ing oysters from the rocks near Pornichet, their atten-
tion was attracted by the shouts of some women and
children who were picking up shellfish on the beach, and
on looking round they saw a large wild boar running
across the sands towards a range of black rocks, which it
seemed to take for bushes. The animal plunged into
the water and swam to the rocks, where it was seen to
lay down to rest. The two gentlemen, who happened to
have guns loaded with shot for waterfowl, hastened to
Pornichet, and put off in a boat with four other persons
to chase the boar. On reaching the rocks they found
that the rising tide had compelled the animal to leave ; but
after rowing about for nearly an hour, they saw the boar
swimmikg towards the shore. They soonovertook, and M.
Dubas killed it with two shots fired at a distance of about
10 paces.

DEAN SWIFT AND THE ALMANAC MAKER.—One
John Partridge published a prophetic almanac, which had
a large sale. It was not perhaps more absurdly audacious
than our modern Francis Moore and Zadkiel's publications.
It so stirred Swift's bile that he sent a letter to the papers,
subscribed Isaac Bickerstaff, the Modern Merlin, in which
he foretold the death of Partridge, naming the day and
hour when that sad event would take place. Poor Par-
tridge was terribly annoyed : the prediction seemed likely,
as sometimes happens, to fulfil itself. Ho however sur
vived the day upon which Isaac Bickerstaff, as interpreter
of the stars, had foretold that he would die. He announced
that important fact in the belief that it would put his per.
secutor to shame. Not at all ; far from that. The cnly no-
tice taken by Swift of the almanac maker's assertion that he
was alive and well was the publication of a monody on his
death. The assertion of his being alive was coolly ignored.
Vainly did the persecuted Part' idge write again to the news-
papers, " Blessed be God, John Partridge is still living and in
health, and they are knaves who report otherwise." Strange
to say, the Stationers' Company believed Isaac Bickerstaff,
and prohibited the publication of Partridge's almanac—for
as much as that person was defunct. In his extremity Par-
tridge engaged the facile pen of Dr Yalden, who wrote a
pamphlet which set forth the pros and cons of the argument,
very elaborately summing up the case by:a hesitating opinion
that John Partridge was still in his flesh. The doctor was a
wag and a friend of Swift's. John Partridge was never able
to successfully prove his own identity, and at last he ap-
pears to have been himself somewhat doubtful of it —Bus-
se4's Eccoltric l'o•sonages.

Banquet to M. Berryer,

Last night the Bar of England entertained the
distinguished French advocate, M. Berryer, at a
binquet in the Middle Temple Hall. The occasion
was one which will long be remembered in the
annals of the English bar. The noble old hall re-
quired no decoration to make it one of the most pic-
turesque as well as the most appropriate places in
which such a gathering could have been held. It is
needless to say that it was crowded in every part.
.The Attorney General (Sir Roundell Palmer)
occupied the chair. On his right were M. Berryer,
Llrd Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench, Lord
Kiegsdown, 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. Phillitnore, Q.C.
On the left of the chairman were Lord Brougham,
M. Desmarest, the Chancellor of the Exchequer,
Lord Justice Knight Bruce, Sir Fitzroy Kelly,
Q.C., M.P., Vice Chancellor Wood, Baron Martin,
Baron Channell, Sir Edward Ryan, am' 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 Inghani, 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 Cain's, Q.C44.L.P., Mr Roebuck, M.P.,
Ur Baron Pigott, Mr Baron Bramwell, Mr E. James, Q.C.,
Mr W. Alexander, Q.C., Mr Russell Gurney, Q.C., Re-
corder of London, Mr Kenyon Parker, Q.C., Mr 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. Warren, Q.C., Mr Powell, Q.C., Mr Ander-
son, Q.C., Dr Twiss, Mr Metcalfe, Mr H. Giffard, Mr
Coleridge, Q.C., Mr a Keane, Q.C., Mr Digby Seymour,
Q,C., M.P., Mr Sergeant Parry, Mr Sergeant Hayes, Mr
Sergeant Ballantine, Mr Helps, the Hon. George Denman,
Q,C., M.P., Mr Sergeant Petersdorff, Mr Aspinall, 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 Byles, Mr Charles Austin, Q.C., Mr Montagu
Chambers, Q.C., Mr Huggins, Q.C., &c.
When M. Berryer entered the hall he was loudly
cheered.

The choir of the Temple Church sang grace from
the " Laudi Spirituali" before the banquet, and
grace also afterwards.
Oa 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 nest rose and said—Gentlemen,
I now propose that we should show our respect to
the great nation to which our distinguished guests
belong, and our estimate of the value we attach to
our friendly alliance with that nation, by drinking
the health of their sovereign, " The Emperor of the
Frehcb."..

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 hove 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 au occasion.
(Cheers.) Not only in this splendid and stately hal►,
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
abir to join us in doing honour to him and his col-

leagues on the occasion. Those guests are the rbwers
of our bench of judges, and of venerable and famous
men who in former days have sat upon that bench.
(Cheers.) These are men whose names will be re-
nowned to the end of time, yet perhaps they will
not think it otherwise than an addition to their
honour to be associated with us this day. (Cheers.)
It would be vain for me to attempt to do justice
either to the merits of M. Berry er, 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
singular individual and personal merit, we are
also proud that merit so conspicuous justifies us in
taking this opportunity of showing our sense of the
universal brotherhood which ought to prevail, and
which we believe does prevail, between the bar of
England and the bar of France, and I trust the bar
of all the rest of the civilised world, (Cheers.) We
rejoice, gentlemen, in the science of a great and

noble fre-
quentlycalling—
misunderstand and u
calling upon a calling which vulgar minds
nder-estimate; but a
dependstruggle
ee
and.
(Cheers.) To elicitwhic
rights and liberties both
htrdhet
conflict; to supply •
Y .105* weights and balances to the
scale of justice, by I •
laying before justice all the con-
siderations on • intellectual in
n
s
every side of every question that,
ought to weigh ; to stand forward for the weak, the
miserable, the degraded
even, and the guilty ; and
on just occasions, when public . •
liberties are in ques-
tion, to assert the 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
needwere, we should be able to
discharge that duty ag •
ain, and we rejoice when we
see it discharged as it ought to be in other coun-
tries. (Hear, hear.) There are three great and in.
estimable blessings, every one of which we in this
country enjoy, and we should be glad to see all
enjoy in the rest of the World ; but I venture to say
that wherever any one of the three is found there
public liberty cannot be extinguished. And what
are these three things ? A free Press, a 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 advodate 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, but in the
defence of numbers of other distinguished men in-
volved in like misfortune, did M. Berryer stand
forward. And it is well known to you that whilst
his own political principles were in the ascendant
his voice was ever raised for moderation and for jus-
tice to those whose fortunes were then on the de-
cline. (Hear, hear.) We have nothing to do with
the various vicissitudes in the political fortunes of
that great country, except on this occasion to ad-
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 was still raised bravely,

yet without any possibility of accusing him of being
the advocate of disorder, on the side of liberty, and
against the prevailing powers; and still, when
called upon at the bar, he was found to be equally
the willing and the fearless advocate of any unfor-
tunate men in any station of life. Why, it is almost
a volume of history itself to say that this distin-
guished man was the advocate of Lammenais, of
Chateaubriand, and of the present Emperor of the
French. (Cheers.) These men, and many more,
whatever their opinions might have been—when
they needed a word to be spoken for them—to
whom did they go ? They went to M. Berryer,
and when the wheel of fortune turned round avin
we find him the slme man, never refusing his ser-
vices to his country in any way he considered them
useful. Still be lit ted up his, voice as the advocate
of freedom, of writing, and tree speech, as in the
famous trial of Count de Montalembert. (Cheers.)
At an advanced age he is sustaining not only the
dignity, but the power, the influence, and the 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 enthu.
shim,

Mr. BERRYER said—Vous me croirez quand je vous dirai
que je Buts. profondement emu a ',aspect de oette imposante
et preique fraternelle reception. (Cheers.) Je me vois
accueillt au milieu de la grande et libre Angleterre, vous ne
vous etonnerez pas qu'il our sit de trouble dans ma maniere
a'exprimer mes remerciments. Hier Monsieur l'Attorney
General, je vous felicitais et je felicitais ce grand et noble
pays de voir l'Attorney General (spectacle rare pour nous)
deployerun zele aussi eclaire que sage pour seconder les asso-
ciations qui out pour objet de perfectionner la loi. (Cheers.)
Aujourd'hui, comme avocet, je me sens 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
demon pays quand les Procureurs Generaux et les
avocats generaux s'appelaient eux memes generaux des
avocats. En me parlant au nom du barreau Anglais,
vous daignez me complimenter sur les travaux de ma
vie. J'avoue que je me seas humilie de ces compli-
ments; je me rappelle ce que furent les avocats Anglais,
ceux (pa m'ont honore de leur amide; ce que fut Lord
Lyndhurst qui nous pleurons tous—(cheers)—et cet autre
grand homme qui a voulu m'initier a routes les grander
choses de ce pays—ce noble propagateur de tous
les progree, de toutes lee institutions liberales memo
dans cette libro Angleterre, ce grand hommo quo
je salue, Lord Brougham I (Loud cheers.) Apres
50 ans de travaux j'ai !Ica de mes confreres do France
un temoignage de fraternelle sympathie. Mais la j'etais
au milieu des miens. J'etais soutenu par cinquante
anuees de relations amicales. Encore une fois, j' e tale aupr es
des miens ; mais pros de vans je ne saurais dire ce que je sens.
Si, vous laissez-moi dire ca quo j'eprouve en ce moment;
it me semble quo c'est la voix de Is posterite quo j'entends
tomber de vos levree. (Cheers) II y a une pensea plus
leconde pour l'avenir, qu'un hommage rendu a un seal
homme. Il y a l'allianco des barreaux des deux nations les
Plus civilsees du monde. J'ai assiste a toutes les cours de
justice de vutre pays, a toutes los deliberations judiciares,
j'ai ete frappe de la situation qu'on y fait au barreau. Rion
no pouvait plus me toucher que ces entretiens familiers
entre le juge et l'avocat. Cela prouve ace dernier l'atten-
tion, qui lvi Est accordee, ct j'y vois une guarantie pour le
sentiment d'independance qui doit appartenir a cette noble
profession. Jo Pais des vceux 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 co pays; mais nous pouvons nous mettro en commu-
nication, les uns avec les autres, et de cis communications
naitra, je l'espere, I'union des intelligences. Le barreau
Francais n'a pas, comma le barreau Anglais, fourni des
hommes a toutes lea situations do la vie politique. Au
milieu do nos i evolutions, les hommes qui se respectent
n'ont gas voulu accepter d'emplois. Le barreau est reste
l'asile de ceux qui, froiFE es dens leurs couvictions, L'ont vie
voulu flt.mhir. On comte parmi eux lea homtnes les plu3
eminents. (Cheers) N 2113 posse lons le libre e.,:hanv ;
Imais it no Taut pas q.t'il so borne a l'e.:hange des soicries et
des colonnades; it lout qui ce suit lo libre eicliange des id eics.
(Cheers.) Vous pourrtz trouver chez n ais beaucoup de
choses bonnes A prendre. Nous rencantrons chez vous des
icrivains instruits, Cilairel; une presse puissant° quo nous
no connaissons pas. Jo vote pour l'allianco des deux bar-
reaux et jo prie mon colleue do seconder mon vote., (Loud
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, but which conduces to the perfecting
of social laws. It is a great spectacle, messieurs.
Equally great is my emotion when I see united iu
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 ego 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, Romiily, 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 advocateso 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 int3reourse, I might fancy I
merited these praises. But here, in this new world
near you whom I have never, or, at least, barely
visited, lam astounded at this warm reception. I
am speaking, however, of myself as if I were the
sole object of this solemnity; I forget our 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 Caancery, 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 11-
lowed it, and with the familiar conversations which
were exchanged between the judge and the counsel
—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 one and the other, by the exchange
of our private ideas, and for that reason I express
my most earnest hope that this alliance of the two
bars may be cemented. Ido not say that we could
offer you the spectacle which you have given us here,
for such meetings would not be tolerated with us;
but we will not fail to take advantage of English
liberty for the benefit of the two nations,for the ex.
change of generous ideas. It is not a question
simply of the protection of private interests, it affects
Estill more the interests of the people. I aspire to