The Sun.
London, England, 1866-11-08 00:00:00

FRANCE.

BOURSE, Nov. 7.—Two o'clock.—French Threes
are doing at 68fr. 80c., showing no change in a
weak and uncertain market, but numerous sales are
taking place of Italian Fives, which are offered at
55fr. 40c., and while Credit Mobilier are quoted lfr.
25c. lower, at 580 fr., Spanish Mobilier 2fr. 50c.
lower, at 296 fr. 25c., Comptoir d'Escompte Shares
have risen llfr. 25c., having reached 968 fr. The.
Divers coupons have been detached to-day—such
as 251 r. on Lyons, 20fr. on Eastern, 201. on Lom-
bard, and llfr. on Credit Industrial Shares. Rail-
way Shares are firm—Lyons, 923 fr. 75c. (ex coup.),
or lfr. 25c. higher ; Northern, 2fr. 50c. higher, at
1,170 fr. ; Orleans, Ifr. 25c. lower, at 870 f. ; Lom-
bard, 403 fr. 75c. (ex coup.) ; Eastern, 528 fr. 75c.
(ex coup.)
Three o'clock.—The market has closed with the
following quotations :

11 per Cents 96 95 Bank Shares 3600
Do. end month ltalian Loan 55 55
3 per Cents.
Do. end month 6B 77i Mexican Loan —
Credit Molnlier ... 580 Do. Bonds —
Do. end month ... 578 75 Spanish Threes
Credit Foncier Home Debt —
Do. end month 1365 Deferred

The Late Sir James Lewis Knight Bruce,
D.C.L., F.It.S., F.S.A.

(From the Times.)
The Right Hon. Sir James L. Knight Bruce,
whose resignation of the high office of Lord Justice
of Appeal in Chancery was announced by us only a
fortnight ago, died yesterday afternoon at the
Priory, Roehampton, at the age of 75. Born in
1791, a younger son of Mr. John Knight, a gentle-
man of independent property in Devonshire, by
Margaret, the only child and heiress of Mr. William
Bruce, a member of the family of Bruce of Kennet,
formerly High Sheriff of Glamorganshire, in which
county he possessed a considerable property, the
late Sir J. Knight Bruce, then Mr. Knight, was, in
1812, admitted a student of Lincoln's-inn, and in
1817 called to the bar. After attending the Welsh
circuit for a short time he exchanged the Common
Law for the Equity Bar, where his great talents and
industry soon secured a large practice. In 1829 he
was appointed a King's Counsel, and in 1831 was
returned to Parliament for Bishop's Castle—a
borough whose very name is probably known to but
few of the present generation, and known only to
them as having been condemned to disfranchise-
ment by one of the schedules to the Reform Bill. In
1834 he received the degree of D.C.L., honoris
causa," from the University of Oxford.
A Conservative in politics, he was one of the
Counsel heard at the bar of the House of Lords in
1835 against the Corporation Reform Act, Sir C.
Wetherell being his leader. In 1837, the year in
which he assumed the additional surname of Bruce
by Royal licence, he closed his Parliamentary career
by an unsuccessful struggle for the representation
of the borough of Cambridge ; and in 1841, at the
age of 50, was
,raised to the bench as Vice-Chan-
cellor. Ten years later, in 1851, on the creation of
the Court of Appeal, Lord Cranworth and Sir J.
K. Bruce were selected as the first Lords Justices.
In the followingyear, upon Lord Cranworth's eleva-
tion to the Woolsack, Sir George Turner was ap-
pointed as his colleague, and Sir J. Knight Bruce
became senior Lord Justice, a position :he only re-
signed a fortnight before his death. By the legal
profession among whom his life was passed, and espe-
cially by the senior members, who have conducted
or argued cases before him for the last quarter of a
century, the death of Sir Knight Bruce is regarded
not only as the the loss of an upright and consci-
entious Judge, but as the removal of one who, unit-
ing an intimate acquaintance with the present to a
long experience of the former system of equity juris-
prudence, was as profound a lawyer as ever adorned
the Bench. His language was lucid and terse, his
style strictly classical, his manner courteous and
dignified, his virtues, public and private, numerous,
and his foibles few. Of his indefatigable energy and
capacity for work no better instance can be given than
his having, just before the long vacation in 1850, the
most pressing period of the legal year, performed the
work of three Courts during the illness of the two
other Vice-Chancellors, with so much discrimination,
ability, and good temper—to use Mr. Foss's words
—that a public expression of respectful admiration
was elicited from the whole Bar in an address from
the Attorney-General.
The following extract from an article in the Guar-
dian is attributed to a great dignity at the Bar,
than whom no one is better entitled to pronounce
an opinion :

" But though his great penetration and quickness and his
wonderful aptitude and talent for business, made him, in his
best days, an admirable Judge, so far as concerned the in-
terests of the uuitors, yet his habit,which very much increased
on him of late years, of deciding the case on hand with a few
short words, without examining and stating at length the
reasons for his judgment and the law which bore on it,
have prevented him perhaps from taking that great and dis-
tinguished position as Judge of which he was so eminently
capable. Of the numerous judgments delivered by him,those
which will hereafter be referred to as settling or elucidating
the law are few and far between ; and their number is by no
means such as we should have anticipated from his groat
general reputation and undoubted learning; and capacity,
Yet there are some few judgments of his which will be re-
membered, not only for their sparkling cleverness and
power, but as examples of legal reasoning, and as settle-
ments of vexed and intricate legal questions. Sometimes,
too, there was a certain irrepressible humour about even his
gravest judgments, which was eminently characteristic of
his general mode of getting through the otherwise dull and
prosaic transactions of the court in which he sat. Thus, in
the Burgess's anchovy case,' in which two brothers Bur-
gess, sons of the original inventor of tho sauce, were the
litigants, and in which the brother who succeeded to the
business and the sauce complained that the brother who
had not inherited it was nevertheless vending Burgess's
sauce, the Lord Justice, deciding against the complainant,
commenced as follows:—' the Queen's subjects are en-
titled to manufacture pickles and sauces, and not the less
so that their fathers have done it before them. All the
Queen's subjects are entitled to use their own names, and
not the less so that their fathers have done it before them.'
The conclusion followed, of course. The late Lord Justice,
too, though not what would now be called a High Church-
man, upheld, more strictly than any one on the bench, the
principle that a judge cannot recognise judicially as that
Christianity which is legally and ipso facto part and parcel
of the constitution, any other form of the Christian religion
than that established by law. In ono case some years ago
he went so far as to order a case to stand over that proof
might be given that certain flagrant departures from right,
proved in the cause, and urged as the grounds for the re-
moval of a dissenting minister, were inconsistent with the
principle of the sect in question. And in the well-known
case of the Agapemone, his lordship, then Vice-Chancellor,
laid it down, not perhaps without reason, that it would be
as proper for the Court to intrust its ward to a camp of
gipsies' as to the so-called 'religious body' with which ho
was then dealing."

The following is an extract from the opening of
his judgment in " Barrow v. Barrow,"—a good
specimen of his wit, humour, and felicity of expres-
sion :

" These and two other suits are the fruits of an alliance
between a solicitor and a widow who, for the first 60 days
of their married life—namely, from the 30th July to the
28th September, 1830, lived, as well as quarrelled, toge-
ther, but at the end of that period parted, exchanging a
state of conflict which, though continual, Was merely do-
mestic, for the more conspicuous, snore disciplined, and
more effectual warfare of Lincoln's-inu and Doctors'-
commons."

To this extract others might be added from his
judgments in " Thomas v. Roberts" (the Agape-
mone case), in " Plower v. M'Donough," and many
well-known cases ; but we prefer to close this me-
moir with a quotation from his own characteristic
and pathetic words on taking his seat in court after
the death of Vice-Chancellor Shadwell, leaving our
readers to apply the description, so far as it may be
applicable, to the late Sir J. Knight Bruce :
"A Judge distinguished for his great knowledge of the
law he administered—distinguished for his various acquire-
ments swift to hear,' 'slow to wrath,' pure and blameless
in his life, an example of courtesy, gentleness, and amenity,
who never uttered a word intended to give pain, nor har-
boured one unkind thought or one acrimonious feeling.
But he is gone. Flere et mentinase relictunt est."

Sir J. Knight Bruce married Eliza, the daughter of
Mr. Thos. Newte, by whom he had several chil-
dren. His eldest son, Horace Lewis, died in 1848,
leaving an only son, John Wyndham, now of the 15th
Hussars. His second son, Lewis Bruce, survives him.
His youngest son, Geo. Hamilton Wyndham, was in
the 3d Light Dragoons, and was killed in the Sikh
War at the battle of Ferozeshah. Of his daughters,
one married Mr. F. S. D. Tyssen ; the other is the
widow of Mr. John Geo. Phillimore, formerly M.P.
for Leominster. The late Sir J. Knight Bruce was the
youngest of three brothers, of whom the eldest, Mr.
John Bruce Pryce, of Duffryn, Glamorganshire, is
the sole survivor. The second brother, the Rev.
William Bruce Knight, was Dean of Llaudaff, and
died in 1845. his nephew, Mr. Bruce I'ryce's
second son, the Right Hon. 11. A. Bruce, M.P., was
Vice-President of the Committee of Council on
Education . under the late Ministry. His great
nephew, Mr. A. C. Bruce, of the Equity Bar, was
a candidate in the Conservative interest for the
Sandwich borough at the late general election, but
retired before the nomination.

The Marquis de Lavalette, who has been on a
short visit to the Count do Mahanlt, loft on Tuesday even-
ing on his return to Paris.

The Earl and Countess De Grey have arrived at
Nocton Park, Lincolnshire, from Studley Royal, near
Ripon. The Countess of Ripon is staying at Nocton.
The marriage of the Earl of Rosslyn and the Hon.
Mrs. Maynard will be solemnised to-day at St. George's,
Hanover-square.
The Countess Poulett has arrived in Hanover-
square for a tour of visits.

Count and Countess Konigsmark have left Far-
ranee'o3 for Paris.

Lord and Lady Algernon St. Maur and Mrs.
and ALiss Sloane Stanley have left the St. George's Hotel.

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WINDSOR CASTLE, Wednesday.

The Queen walked and drove in the grounds
yesterday afternoon, and went out this morning,
accompanied by her Royal Highness Princess
Louise.

Her Royal Highness Princess Christian, attended
by Lady Susan Melville, went out driving.
Princess Beatrice rode in the Home Park.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duke of Edinburgh
and Prince Christian went shooting, attended by
Lord Alfred Paget and Lieut. Haig.

The Count and Countess of Paris visited the
Queen and royal family to-day and remained to
luncheon. Count Gleichen also visited her
Majesty. •

The Earl and Countess of Derby and Mr. Engle-
hart left the Castle yesterday.

Miss Burdett Coutts and the Colonial
Bishoprics.
_ _

In the course of the judgment delivered by the
Master of the Rolls in the cause of Colenso v.
Gladstone, his lordship stated that Miss Burdett
Coutts contributed a large portion of the funds for
endowing the Bishopric of Natal. This is a misap-
prehension, Miss Coutts took no part whatever in
founding that see, the merit of vi hick we believe to
be chiefly due to the munificence of a brother and
sister. Neither has that lady had the remotest con-
nexion with the controversies which have been car-
ried on respecting Natal. Miss Coutts is, however,
the sole foundress of three other colonial bishop-
rics, namely, Adelaide, Cape Town, and British
Columbia.