The Sun.
London, England, 1862-07-08 00:00:00

LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 8, 186 2.

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and stores to Calcutta, Bombay, and Madras :—The
screw steamer Mauritius, 300 horse power ; the
Sydenham, the Newcastle, the Adamant, the War-
rior Queen, the St. Lawrence, the Clyde,theEloisa,
the Baby Castle, the Conflict, and the Middlesex.
The above vessels will embark the artillery at Wool-
wich, and the remainder of the reinforcements at
Gravesend. The Agra, one of the vessels chartered
by the Government to convey troops to Kurrachee,
has since been inspected and condemned.
The following appointments were made yester-
day at the Admiralty :—Lieut. G. G. Duff, to the
Resistance, for gunnery duties; T. B Jordan and
J. Rankin, acting Second Class Assist.-Engineers,
to the Cumberland, as supernumeraries; and W.
G. Paige, acting Second Class Assist.-Engineer, to
the Asia, as supernumerary.

yesterday in the lihooting by Hogg, Ist Peebles,
and M. Gibbon, 14th Edinburgh.
The Oxford and Cambridge Match, although not
so exciting as that of the Lords and Commons or
that of the Puol lc Schools on Saturday, was not
without a considerable amount of general interest.
There was no prize, the competition being for the
palm of victory. Each university sent eight men
to support its honour, and each man had three shots
at 200, 500, and 600 yards respectively. A
few ladies were present, and owing to this fact,
and the rough, uncourteous conduct of a person
wearing the Queen's uniform, said to be a Cap-
tain Drake, of the Royal Engineers, we
are unable to give any details of the con-
test. The person referred to, seeing some re-
presentatives of the press standing at a little dis-
tance from the firing parties, and imagining pos-
sibly that they might in some incomprehensible
way obstruct the view of the score of ladies and half
a score of gentlemen who were accommodated with
seats inside the ropes, without one word of previous
request, told a policeman to " Turn those reporters
out." Notwithstanding their protest against this
treatment, they were obliged to betake themselves
to positions beyond the ropes, and by so doing lost
all opportunity of accurately recording the results
of an interesting contest.
The following is the official return :
Oxford, at 200 yards, 128; Cambridge, do., 150.
Oxford, at 500 yards, 93 ; Cambridge, do., 120.
Oxford, at 600 yards, 309 ; Cambridge, do., 373.
Thus there was a majority of 64, hits and points
included, in favour of Cambridge.
The competition for the first series of extra prizes,
which has been running on since Thursday, con-
cluded to-day with the following results, according
to the official returns :

600 Yards.—Nosworthy, Ist Oxford; and Salt,
2d Derby; 18 each. Barker, Ist Lincoln ; Fraser,
7th Inverness ; Starkie, Queen's Westminster ;
Cooper, 16th Middlesex ; and Dillon, School of
Musketry ; 16 each.

800 Yards.—Richard, Jersey Militia; Smith,
Victoria Rifles ; and Halford, 31st Leicester ; 19
each. Dillon, School of Musketry; Rogers, and
Parker, 22d Middlesex; 18 each. Heaton, 3d Man-
chester ; Simons, 2d Middlesex; Smith, Edinburgh ;
Ross, Cambridge University; and Walker, School
of Musketry; 17 each.
Ties will be shot off to-day.
The Rifle Oaks opened yesterday, the entrance
fee being a guinea. It will run on again to-day, and
at the conclusion the amount of the entries will be
divided among the three best shots; the highest
score taking one -half, the second best three-fifths of
the other half, and the third best shot the two re-
maining fifths.

The Association Cup contest was resumed yester-
day, and some good scores were made ; among these
Lord Bury made five bull's-eyes, at 500 yards, but
unfortunately his lordship had previously made a
bad score at the short range of 200 yards, so that
he stood no chance of obtaining the prize.
For the Lord Vernon's Prize, Mr. Turner, Isl
Stafford, using a Turner rifle, made 7 bull's-eyes
successively, or a total score of 28, at 500 yards, a
most extraordinary feat.
The other contests of the day require no comment
in their present stages.
The new features of to-day's programme will be
the second stage of the Queen's Prize—in which the
shooting will be by the 40 best shots of the first
stage, at 800, 900, and 1,000 yards ; and the second
series of extra prizes.

fix on the head of the Government, M. Decazes,
who was forced to resign. M. Pasquier then became
the real head of the Government, and for two ;years
withstood the assaults of the Republicans or liberal
Royalists, who had for leaders some of the ablest
and honestest men of the day, as well as the reac-
tionists, headed by the Donnadieus, Labourdon-
nayes, and Castelbajacs, who tried to force into
power Villele and Cubiere. M. Pasquier made head
against these attacks with courage; he spoke with
wonderful facility and effect, and his polished
manners and admirable temper, which never once
betrayed him even under the greatest provocation,
carried him safely through that stormy period.
Wearied out by the hostility he encountered not
only in Parliament, but in his own Court and in
his own family, Louis XVIII. sought to propitiate
the ultra-Royalists by withdrawing his obnoxious
Minister, and giving his post to M. de Villele, and,
as a mark of his esteem and gratitude, he conferred
on his outgoing Minister, who had served him faith-
fully and honestly, the dignity of Peer of France.
M. Pasquier continued to oppose in the Upper
Chamber the violent policy which he had opposed
while Minister, and which he clearly saw was
alienating from the Bourbon dynasty the attach-
ment of the nation. He gave his support to the
Moderate minority of Martignac.
M. Pasquier was among the first to adhere to the
Monarchy which issued from the Revolution of
July. Louis Philippe named him President of the
Chamber of Peers. As such he directed the trials
which came before it as Supreme Court, and by
general consent acquitted himself greatly to his
credit on those difficult occasions. He presided,
too, at the trial of Prince Louis Napoleon (now
Emperor of the French) and his associates for the
Boulogne attempt. After hearing the explanation
by the Prince in justification of his conduct, he said
that his explanation was anything but favourable
to his cause ; that it would have been much better
had he dismissed the illusions which had on two
occasions placed him in a painful position, and
which might have enabled him to judge of the feel-
ings of the country and of the nation to which he
appealed.

In 1837 Louis Philippe restored the office of
Chancellor of France for the purpose of conferring
it on M. Pasquier, and in 1844 he gave him the
title of Duke.

With the Revolution of February, 1848, ended
the public career of Duke Pasquier. He never for
a moment, however, ceased to feel deep interest in
the affairs of his country, of whose condition in
what regards free institutions he cherished no very
cheering hopes. He loved to talk of the times when
liberty of speech and liberty of the press suffered
only such restraints as would now be hailed as a
deliverance, and he loved to dwell on the men who,
whatever may have been their faults, are still held
in respect and honour by all who are themselves en-
titled to be so. He was one of the last surviving
links which connect us with the period preceding
the tremendous revolution which uprooted every in-
stitution, strewed the country with ruins, and con-
vulsed all Europe ; and the effects of which, for
good or for evil, are still felt, and will long be felt.
He heard the first muttering of the storm, and saw
it sweep away everything, sacred and profane, in its
desolating career. He witnessed the early triumphs
of the extraordinory man who restored order to dis-
tracted France after defeating her enemies in the
field. He beheld the glories of the first Empire,
its crushing despotism, and its merited fall, after
having placed continental Europe at its feet.
He saw the family of the King, whose scaffold he
had also beheld on the Place Louis XV., restored
twice to the throne of their ancestors, and again
overthrown for faults which he strove, among the
foremost, to prevent. Baron Pasquier occupied a
distinguished place under the younger branch till
it, too, was swept away_ He saw the republic once
more forced on the country against its wishes and
sympathies, and its easy overthrow by the prince
upon whom he had once sat in judgment. Such
mighty events are seldom witnessed in one lifetime,
and few who ever saw them as an actor, or merely
a spectator, have passed out of the world with a
purer reputation than Duke Pasquier. Profoundly
versed in administrative science; imbued with the
grand old traditions of the French magistracy, he
was, as I have already observed, all his life tolerant
in politics, liberally conservative, as well as the
constant supporter of constitutional authority, and
the political trials at which he presided were, by
the admission even of his adversaries, conducted by
him with moderation anfl dignity. To the last he
remained faithful to his early principles and attach-
ments. Hardly ever quitting his house for years
past, he held an exceptional position in society.
His salons were the favourite resort of the most
eminent in politics and letters, and no one will pro-
bably ever see their like in Paris again. He pre-
sided there as elsewhere, and to the last days of his
life, with the authority due to his character and his
age, and with a dignified urbanity which in him
was perfectly natural. He saw his end approach
with firmness, serenity, and Christian resignation.
He spoke calmly, and without ostentation, after ex-
pressing his regret at separating from those he
loved. He often expressed his regret at not wit-
nessing the solution of the great questions which
had occupied him during an existence far beyond
the term usually accorded to man, and of incessant
activity. He glided out of life calmly and gently,
and with hardly any suffering.

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He leaves as the inheritor of his title and his
fortune his grand-nephew and adopted son, the
Marquis d'Audiffret Pasquier, having had no issue
by his marriage with Madlle. de St. Renan, widow
of the Marquis de Rochefort.
Duke Pasquier was elected member of the
French Academy in 1842, and, besides his other
honours, received from Louis XVIII. the Grand
Collar of the Order of the Holy Ghost.