The Sun.
London, England, 1860-12-08 00:00:00

BANK OF ENGLAND.

An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth Victoria,
cap. 32, for the week ending on Wednesday, the sth day
of Dec., 1860 :

ISSUE DEPARTMENT.

Notes issued ......X27,405,1751

Government Debt £11,015,100
Other Securities .. 3,459,900
Gold Coin & Bullion 12,419,043
Silver Bullion .... 511,132

7,405,175;

£27,405,175

Proprietors' Capi-
tal £14.553,000
Rest
Public Deposits (in-
cluding Exche-
quer, Savings'
Banks, Commis-
inissioners of Na-
tional Debt, and
Dividend Ac-

rEPARTMENT.
Government Secu-
rities (including
Dead Weight A-
nnuity)
Other Securities
Notes
Gold and Silver
Coin 735,491

counts) 6,617,485
Other Deposits 12,47 ,318
Seven Day and
other Bills

716,518

£37,528,185
M.l

07,623,185
[ARSHALL, Chief Cashier.

Dated Dec. 6,1880.

AVERAGE PRICE OF SUGAR.

The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, com-
puted from Returns made in the week ending the 4th day
of Dec., 1860, exclusive of the duties of Customs paid or
payable thereon on the importation thereof into Great
Britain :

Muscovado, the produce of the British pos-
sessions in America

THE RAILWAY ACCIDENT AT LEIGH.

Yesterday the inquest on the body of Richard Higginson,
engine driver on the Bolton, Leigh, and Kenyon branch of
the London and North-Western Railway, was resumed at
the White Horse Hotel, Leigh. It will be remembered
that the platelayers took up three rails without stationing
signal men at the required distances, and that in conse-
quence a very heavy goods train, comprising 57 waggons
with two engines, descended a steep incline and ran off the
line, the men not having closed the opening in time.
Richard Higginson, aged 42, was killed on the spot, and
two other men were seriously injured. Some slight esti-
mate may be formed of the fearful havoc made by the acci-
dent when we state that it took a large staff of the com-
pany's servants, from Crewe and other depots, with their
powerful machinery, from Monday eveiing till the follow-
ing Friday to clear the wreck and restore the permanent
way, and that during that time the whole of the passenger
and goods traffic was entirely suspended.

The Coroner stated that he had received a certificate
from Dr. Bickersteth, a medical gentleman in Liverpool,
stating that John Elliott, the driver of the first engine, was
unable to attend to give evidence that day. Mr. George
A. Evans, surgeon, of Leigh, deposed that on the afternoon
of the 26th ult. he went to the scene of the accident, and
found deceased fast in the wreck. Assisted in rescuing him
from the debris, but two or three hours elapsed before he
could be disentangled. The witness then minutely described
the injuries of the deceased, and said they were amply suffi-
cient to account for death, and had, in his opinion, been
produced by the upsetting of the train. James Clarkson, ax
assistant of Hindley, the foreman of the platelayers, con-
firmed most of the evidence of the other platelayers. Ho
stated that Hindley commenced taking out the rails imme-
diately aftor the signalmen were despatched, not waiting
until they had got the required distance. They had talked
over the fact of the passenger train having no signal behind,
and therefore concluded that there was no danger of any
other train following from Atherton. This point having been
alluded to by several witnesses, Mr. Norris explained that it
was not necessary to place a signal behind a train to denote
that another was shortly following, unless special trains.
This goods train was an ordinary one. The other witnesses
were re-examined, but nothing material was elicited. The
platelayers adhered to their statements that the signal was
500 or 600 yards up the line when the train approached,
whilst the guard and others only made the distance 150 to
200 yards. The fact that the rails were taken up without a
signalman being at the required distance was never contro-
verted. Hindley received an excellent character from Mr.
Norris and one of the jurors ; the latter, however, saying
he was too quiet for a foreman. The Coroner—This is all
the evidence to be produced, and it will no doubt have
occurred to your minds that the question to be considered is
whether or not Ilindley, the foreman has acted according to
the rules. It is admitted that the signalman had not got to
the 1,000 yards before he began to take out those rails.
These bye-laws are made under the authority of an act of
Parliament, and I may venture to say that Hindley has
been guilty of an unlawful act. My direction to you is this
—to consider whether he has been guilty of a breach of
these rules, which are lawfully made.
After an absence of about 20 minutes, the jury unani-
mously returned a verdict of manslaughter against Samuel
Hindley, foreman of the platelayers, and he was formally
committed fur trial at the next Liverpool assizes. The
Coroner said that he was willing to take bail.

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A very numerous and influential meeting of the
clergy and laity of the rural deanery of Amersham
was held at Prestwood, Buckinghamshire, on the
4th inst., to consider the present aspect of the church-
rate question, and the course expedient to adopt
with regard to it. The Rural Dean (the Rev. T.
E vetts) was called to the chair. After some discus-
sion,
The Right Hon. B. DISRAELI said that in this
practical country great issues were generally tried
on collateral points, and now it was generally
announced and accepted that the discussion of the
question of church rates involved that of a National
Church. It was, therefore, of the last importance
that Churchmen should not make a mistake in this
matter. He would view the question now only
secularly, and, even in that limited sense, he shrank
from realising what would be the consequences to
the country of the termination of the connection
between Church and State. The political and social
relations of the National Church to England must
be considered. As for the political, the termination,
of the alliance must break up our parochial consti-
tution. Our political constitution was built on
our parochial constitution. The parish was one of
the strongest securities for local government; and
on local government political liberty mainly de-
pended. As for the social relations of the Church
with the community, they were so comprehen-
sive and so complicated, so vast and various,
that the most farseeing could not calculate the
consequences of the projected change. It was not
4,11f4.4..,tM-949ation of the people that was con-
cerned; it was even their physical condition. He
would almost say, that if, by some convulsion of
nature, some important district of the country, one
on which the food and industry of the community
mainly depended, were suddenly swept from our
surface, the change would not be greater than
would arise by the withdrawal of the influence of
the Church from our society. The fact was, the
Church of England was a part of England—a point
of view not sufficiently contemplated by those who
speculated on changes in its character and position.
It might be asked how it happened that, when so
much was at stake, the movement for abolition of
church-rates bad been so active and progressive of
late years. He attributed it to the want of union
and organization among Churchmen. When
Churchmen were united, the Church was never
endangered. This was shown in the years that
elapsed from 1831 to 1841. During that period
England was in a state of semi-revolution, Ireland
of semi-rebellion ; the Church of England was the
chosen arena for the fierce struggle of parties,
and Governments absolutely were formed on the
principle of appropriating its property to secular
purposes. But the Church baffled all these attempts,
because Churchmen were united and organized.
Why were they not united and organized now ?
There had been no union and organization among
Churchmen since 1841. He would state what he
deemed to be the causes of this condition. He had
been asked to speak frankly; he would do so with-
out reserve. He attributed this want of union and
organization to two causes—first, to the disruption
of political parties ; secondly, to disputes among
the clergy themselves. Were these permanent
causes ? This was not the first time by many
instances that political connections had been broken
up in this country; but there was an irresistible
tendency is our public life that parties, both in and
out of Parliament, should reflect opinion, and not
pet sonal interests and feelings; aid time, therefore,
inevitably adjusted, as it was now adjusting, the
balance properly. With respect to the controversies
among the clergy themselves, as distinguished
from the Church generally, he thought that upon
this head there was exaggeration, and greater
misconception. It was impossible, and, were it pos-
sible, it was perhaps not to be desired, that in a
National Church of a free country like England
there should not be discrepancy of opinion among
the clergy on matters of ritual, and even, in some
degree, of doctrine. It had always been so. Where
there is opinion, and especially religious opinion,
them will be periods of excess. We lived in one
of these periods. They were periods of trial, but
not necessarily of danger; and those who too readily
augured from them the worst consequences showed
an ignorance alike of Inman nature and the history
of their own country. They should remember that,
before this, a cardinal's hat had been offered to an
Anglican archbishop; while there was also a time
when a Socinian prelate had sat on the episcopal
bench ; but the Church of England had survived
these temptations and experiments. The great
body of the community had always rallied round
that via media, which had been eulogised and vin-
dicated by the most eminent of our divines—by
Hooker, by Taylor, by Barrow ; the period of excess
had passed away, and the influence of the Church
had remained, only greater and more beneficial.
Between the temple and the tabernacle there was
the Church. But then the question arose, suppose
Churchmen were again united and organised, as he
hoped they might be, on what course should they
agree with regard to church rates ? They could
not conceal from themselves that on this subject
there were two opinions among their friends. Some
were for compromise. What did compromise mean?
Did it mean improvement ? If so, he was for com-
promise. It might be expedient that the church
rate, levied in a district, should be applied to the
church of that district; that when the rate was
levied, the purposes to which it should be applied
should be more precisely defined ; that the means
of obtaining the rate, when voted, should be more
prompt and effective; that there should be no
particular charge called church rate, but a gene-
ral parochial rate, from which the necessary ex-
penses for the fabric and service of the church
should be deducted by the wardens under certain
limitations. All these might be improvements, but
all these were mere matters of detail ; and what
was the use of attempting to legislate on matters
of detail, when the principle was not only con-
tested, but even rejected in a branch of the
Legislature ? But some of their friends would go
further than this. They would exempt the
Dissenter from the charge. That was not corn-
promise;
that was surrender; it was acknowledg-
ing that the Church of England was no longer a
National Church. But it was conceding more even
than that. There was a public charge of which all
the circumstances were of a popular character. It
was ancient; it was for a general, not to say a
common purpose; it was levied by public vote. If
in a country where the majority decide everything
the minority were, on the ground of a conscientious
scruple, to be exempted from a public payment, on
what principle could your society be held together ?
Landowners might have a conscientious scruple
against paying the public creditor; peace societies
might have a conscientious scruple against paying
war taxes. What the Dissenter demands is, in
fact, an oligarchical privilege, and the principle, if
conceded and pursued, may lead to general con-
fusion. But there was one more objection urged
by their friends against levying the church-rate ;
that it was impracticable. Was it impracticable ?
In the vast majority of parishes it was raised with
facility. But then it was urged that the parishes
which refuse were the parishes of the large towns,
and that their aggregate population was scarcely
inferior to that vast majority of parishes in which
it was raised. But this immense population were
not Dissenters. They were not the votaries of
rival creeds and establishments. They were
ignorant, or indifferent, or more unfortunate.
Were we, then, to maintain that the Church was
to retire from the duty of contending with this
unsympathising or unbelieving mass ? The greatest
triumphs of the Church had been accomplished in
great towns. If the influence of the Church was
limited in great towns, it was not because its
means were ineffective, but because they were insuf-
ficient. When they considered the nature of the
religious principle, he would be a bold man who
would maintain that in their teeming seats of
industry there might not be destined for the Church
a triumphant future., Who could foresee the history
of the'next quarter of a century ? It would not
probably be as tranquil as the last. What if it
were a period of great religious confusion and ex-
citement ? The country would cling to a Church
which combined toleration with orthodoxy, and
united divine instruction with human sympathies.
Is it wise, then, publicly to announce by legislation
that the Church of England relinquishes the charac-
ter of a National Church ? On these grounds, he
could not recommend the present meeting to sare-
tion the principle of exemption. He felt deeply the
responsibility of giving such advice; he k ' he
was opposing the recommendation of the ia
Committee,s
of the house of Lords in 1859, and of what was
then, at least, the unanimous opinion of the Bench
of Bishops. He need not say that for the
maturity
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ity of
Lords he felt a profound respect.
judgment and)in calmness of inquiryhethought
of
the labours of the great committees the Lords
were superior to those of the Commons, in acute-
ness of investigation they were not inferior ; but in
the interpretation of public opinion he thought, and
it was perhaps in the necessity of things, that the
Commons had the advantage. He thought that the
Lords' Committee had been precipitate in their
course in the matter of church-rates ; he thought

that they had mistaken public) humour for public
opinion. He was sustained in the difficult and
painful course he Was taking by the recollection of
what occurred in the spring and at the last meeting
of the clergy and laity of this deanery. Then the
second reading of Sir John Trelawny's Bill had been
carried by a much reduced majority, and the advo-
cates of what is fallaciously styled compromise were
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only a happy casualty. He thought it was the break
of dawn. did his utmost to dissuade his friends
from relinquishing the con test, and uktimately, on his
sole responsibility, opposed the third reading of Sir
John's Trelawny's bill. The whole country was
agitated on that occasion by the opponents of the
Church to regain the lost ground. Instead of
that, the majority against church-rates, which had
sat like an incubus on the Church for twenty
years, .virtually disappeared. They owed to
that division their present commanding position.
It was in their power, if they chose, it to close this
controversy for ever, not by a feeble concession,
but by a bold assertion of public right. They
sent 5,000 petitions in favour of that public right
to the House of Commons last session. Let them
send this session 15,000. Every parish should have
its petition. They must not be merely signed by
the incumbent and the churchwardens, as they
were in some instances, or by ratepayers merely, as
in many cases, but by as many persons as they
could obtain. It was the cause of all. There was
no greater mistake than to suppose petitions pro-
duced' little effect on the House of Commons. They
produced great effect. The number of petitions,
the number and nature of their signatures, the
classes from which they proceed, are alb weighed
and canvassed. There is a report every week sent
by a select committee to every member of Parlia-
ment on these heads. The clergy never exten-
sively move in this manner without exercising
great authority. They could not petition too much.
They should not wait for the attack. They should
send in their petitions as soon as Parliament meets,
on a broad issue, in favour of maintaining the
union between Church and State, and, incidentally,
in favour of church-rates. They should also en-
courage and establish Church unions in every part
of England. They should habituate the laity to
act with the clergy in all matters of public monied ,
to the Church. There was a third course also to
take, and here would particularly address himself
to his clerical friends. The laity, through that
excellent body, the " Committee of Laymen," had
done their duty in that respect. He had always
discouraged the clergy from entering into mere
party politics ; but now, he told them frankly,
that if they wanted to succeed, they must bring
their influence to bear on the members of the
House of Commons. The question of church-rates
had, fortunately, not yet fallen into the catalogue
of party politics. More than one member of the
present Cabinet recorded at least his vote in their
favour. The clergy must make members of Parlia-
ment understand, that though this was not e
party, it was a political question, and a
political question on which, in their minds,
there ought not to be, and there could
not be, any mistake. He could assure them, from
his own knowledge, that there were many mem-
bers of Parliament who, on this question gave care-
less votes, and thought by so doing they were
giving some vague liberal satisfaction without pre-
paring any future inconvenience for themselves.
Let their clerical friends, Whig or Tory, Conserva-
tive or Liberal, make these gentlemen understand
that in their opinion, in the union of Church and
State depend in a large measure, the happiness, the
greatness, and the liberty •of England.
The right hon. gentleman, who was listened to
with profound attention, sat down amid general
applause, and, after discussion,
Mr. LOWNDES CHESIIAM moved three resolu-
tions, embodying the recommendations of Mr. Dis-
raeli, which were adopted nenzine contradicente.

COPTRIGIIT TREATY BETWEEN

ENGLAND AND SARDINIA.

TURIN, DEC. 2.
Sir James Hudson, her Majesty's Minister at the
Court of Turin, and the Cavaliere Constantine
Nigro, acting in behalf of the Sardinian Govern-
ment, have been busy about a treaty of international
copyright between Great Britain and this country,
which is almost concluded, and will shortly be
published.
The Convention contains 15 articles. By the first
article it is stipulated that the authors of literary
or artistical works, whose copyright or right of
proprietorship or authorship is now guaranteed, or
may hereafter be guaranteed, in one of the two
States, will be empowered to exercise the right in
the dominions of the other State during the same
lapse of time and within the same limits which
would by this other State be conferred upon the
authors of works of the same kind therein pub-
lished, so that the reproduction or piracy (con •
trajazione) of any literary or artistical work what-
ever, published in one of the two States, will be
dealt with in the other State in the same manner
as this latter State would deal with the reproduc-
tion or piracy of a work of the same kind therein
published ; and the authors in either State shall
have, before the courts and tribunals of the other
State, the same right of action, and will enjoy the
same guarantee, with respect to any unauthorised
reproduction and piracy of their works, which the
law allows, or may hereafter allow, to the authors
of the latter named State.

The same article defines the expressions " literal
and artistical works" as embracing " books, drama-
tic works, musical compositions, drawings, paint-
ings, sculptures, engravings, lithographs, and all
other production of literature and the fine arts."

The right of action may be exercised by lawyers
employed by the authors, translators, composers,
&c., as proxies. _

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executionhe
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Art. 11. extends the copyright to translation.
Nevertheless this article only protects the translator
so far as his own translation is concerned, but does
not confer the exclusive right of translation upon
the first translator of any work whatever, except
in the case and within the limits prescribed in the
ensuing article.
Art. 111. The right of translation of his own
work is reserved to the author in both States for
the space of five years from the date of publication
of the translation of his own work by himself
authorised, during which time this translation
will enjoy the privilege of protection against all
other unauthorised translation, provided the follow-
ing conditions be complied with :—The original
work must be registered and deposited in one of the
two States within three months from its first pub-
lication in the other State. The author must sig-
nify in the title-page of his work his intention to
reserve the right of translation. The authorised
translation must be published partly within the
year and wholly within three years from the date
of the registration and deposit of the originalwork.
The translation must be duly registered and depo-
sited as per Article VIII. For works published in
numbers it will be sufficient if the reserve of trans-
lationh is claimed in the first number ; but as tot
of
period of five years allowing an exclusive rightas
al
translation, each number will be considereed_a
ra.
separate work, and the same formalities. of rwftihtfor
tion and deposit will have to be complied
each number, per-
Art.
of
Art. IV. extends the same rul
aalslotowetdhe, aliittshvebeyeCrtwueretns
of musical compositions. But the
can only be claimed
translation of a dramatic worktranslation be published
provided the authorisedhe
formance of dramatic works, and
registration and deposit
within three months oft
Imitations
and adaptations are
reservation of
which will not apply to articles
airmeittaotisoenttalendallquestions
of the original.
newspapers and other periodical works
:s not prohibited, unless. the authors explicitly
' he forbid such reproduction, an
discussing political matters.
Art. VI. forbids the introduction and sale of
Art. V. The reproduction and translationpiracy.
Art. VII. Any violation of the above articles will
pd ierca exception,l articlestae rdew fromthiraikotsw.te
be punished by the sequestration and destruction of
the pirated publications, and, besides, each State
will appiy to the offenders the penalties which its
own laws prescribe in cases of the reproduction of
pimp's, of national works.

. ....._
At t. VIII. The rights accruing to authors, trans-
lators, &c., from the prpsent Convention cannot be
exercised unless the following formalities of regis-
tration be complied with :—Works published in
the States of Sardinia must be registered (entered
at Stationers-hall, in London, and works pubusl.2l,_
in the States of her Britannic Majesty in ._l_ I'_!.
registered at the Home-office in Turin. Copies ut
band
all printed works, books, maps, prints OW'
music, of the best edition and in the best condition,
must be deposited in Turin at the Ho
The delivery
office, and
in London at the British Museum
and registration must take place the one State
publication in
within three months after the first

The Palais de Justice was
yesterday morning
thrown into consternation hy.the news tha.t one of
the most eminent magistrates of Paris, M. Pctinsot,
President of the Fourth Chamber of the Imp."rial
Court, had been found murdered in a carriage On
the Strasburg Railway. President Poinsot 'WO
coming from Champagne, where he has an estates
and whether he had gone to receive his rents, but
no money was found on him, and his purse and.
watch had disappeared, which leads to the belief'
that robbery was the motive of the crime. He bad
got into a first-class carriage at Troyes, and in a
compartment which was then empty. It was on a
clerk opening the door at five o'clock in the mom-.
ing at Paris, to take the tickets from the travellers,4
that the body of M. Poinsot was found, lying in a
pool of blood at the bottom of the carriage. The
Judicial authorities were immediately informed of
the dreadful occurrence, and the Procureur-
General, the Procureur-Imperial, and the Prefect
of Police repaired to the Strasburg terminus to
institute a preliminary inquiry. As up to the
station before arriving at Noisy-le-See there bad
been several passengers in the carriage, an.4only
the deceased and another after that point lb a up-
posed that the crime must have been sksiamitted at
a short distance before arriving at the last-named,
station. A lady, who was in an adjoining carriag:e,,
heard some cries when near Noisy. It is also sani•
that traces were discovered not far from that places
indicating that the murderer had jumped from the'
carriage while the train, which only slackens itst
speed to take in the letter-bags, and does not com-
pletely stop, was still in motion. M. Poinsot was
about 55 years of age, and a very powerful man,
which leads to the belief that he was killed While
asleep. The body was conveyed to his residence .in
the rue d'lsly. It appears from subsequent inqu,l-
ries that it was to a place called Chaource, at about:
seam) leagues from Troyes, in the department of
the Aube, that M. Poinsot went on Saturday last,
anyesterday morning (Thurs-
day), he left Chaource the evening before for
Troyes, to take the train kern I;Mulhausen ,
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which starts from that town at .half-past ten.
athaesPhaisladisudte required him to be in attendance
Justicd
Whether the assassin afterwards entered. the. car-
riage on paying his place at one of the statono, or
whether he was already in a second or third class
vehicle of the train, and got into M. Poinsot's Oslm-
partment on seeing that gentleman asleep, is mot
known ; but that the crime was committed between'
the stations of Nogent-sur-Marne and Noisy-le-Sec,
which are at no great distance from Paris (the for-
mer 101 miles, the latter 4k), is tolerably certain,
inasmuch as some persona in a third class carriage
saw, as already stated, a man jump from the train,
fall as he did so, and though apparently hurt, get
quickly over the fence at the side of the railway,
and hurry off. The wife of a keeper of the line,
who was watching a level crossing, also saw him,.
The impression of these people was that, not having
any ticket, he got out of the train before it reached
a station. A singular circumstance afterwards
came to light—namely, that, on leaving the com-
partment in which his victim was lying, he closed
the door after him. The unfortunate gentleman
had not his throat cut, as at first rumoured in
Paris, but the Gazette des Tribunaux states that
Dr. Tardien, who examined the body, pronounced
that death had been caused instantaneously by a
blow which fractured the skull. The Droit, how-
ever, declares that the deceased was shot. It
affirms that the assassin must first have fired at
the heart of the deceased, as a ball was found
lodged in his clothes near it, after pene-
trating his great-coat, coat, waistcoat, shirt, and
flannel waistcoat, and causing a contusion on the
body. The man then fired a second time, and
the ball penetrated above the right eye, remaining,'
in the head : a third shot was fired just above the
left eye, and the ball also penetrated the head.
Next, the assassin, with a hammer or a life pre-
server, or some such instrument, dealt his victim
dreadful blows in the head, completely smashin,iz
the forehead and the skull; with such fury indeed
did he strike him, that all the brain was scattered.
about, adhering to his clothes and to the seats and
sides of the carriage. That M. Poinsot was killed
by the first shot as he was asleep, the Droit consi-
ders clear, from the fact that his features were per-
fectly placid. What probably caused the man to
commit the crime was a leather bag which M.
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provements, a number of paid bills, and a book
in
called the Parfait Jardinier. In addition to the
wofatv
would appear that, after being
killed, as he was
reclining in a corner of the vehicle with his back
to the locomotive, M. Poinsot either fell or was'
dragged to the floor. Although, as has beans
stated, the victim was heard to cry, strange to
say, no report of the pistols were heard. On one of
the seats of the compartment were found 18 sous
scattered about, and on the floor a common
wooden snuff-box, used only by poor people, and
a neck wrapper ; the two latter articles must have.
belonged to the murderer ; but no firearm or
other instrument employed in the perpetration of
the crime was found. Of course the police are,
making most active searches to discover the•
criminal. The way in which the crime became
known at the Palais de Justice was somewhat
singular. Although a case of considerable import-
ance was to come on before the court over which
M. Poinsot presided, he had not appeared at 11
o'clock, the hour fixed for the commencement of
business, and as he was remarkable for exactitude,
a messenger was sent to his house to ask if ho
were ill. The man brought back the dreadful
answer that he had been murdered in a railway
carriage. It is needless to say that this news,
which spread with the rapidity of wildfire through
the palace, caused profound consternation. Not
only did the court to which M. Poinsot belonged
understood theg
the Imperial Court suspended their sittings. The
following tribute to the high ability and worth
of the deceased appears in the Iffoniteur, from the
pen of M. Flandin, one of the judges of the same
court :—" I have sat for three years with M.
immediately adjourn, but the other.
Poinsot, and during my whole career I have never
met with a magistrate who had a higher feeling
of attached to the important functions
of his duties, and who better
of judging others. M. Poinsot united to profound
legal knowledge and consummate .
experience that
sagacity of mind which made •
the same time the difficulty him perceive at
and the solution ;
and, in spite of the advanta
neces-
sity which often arises • ges and the sad
Sovereign Court, of in Paris, even in the
always yield to the judging quickly, he did not
impressions of the court. If
the affair presented the slightest difficulty! or
raised any doubts or hesitations in the minds
of his colleagues, he had it deliberated on,
and frequently retained the examination of it
tor •
himself'. It was only by indefatigable labour,
which his sense of duty rendered pleasing to him,
that he could accomplish the immensity of his
task ; and he was sometimes heard to say that
when, not being able to obtain any sleep in con-
sequence of a disease of the heart under which he
was labouring, he passed the night in an arm-chair,
he had sought relief from his sufferings by repe-
rusing all the documents of a cause, in order the
better to satisfy his mind on the affair. President
Poinsot, notwithstanding thejustauthority which,
without intending to offend any one, I will say ho
all his colleagues, loved and
exercird over
pro-
moted discussion. He
supported
it with a mind
convinced, but he never felt angry when he had
not succeeded in making others share in his opinions.
This was a proof of real superiority."
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