en are in the hands of an
all-ruling Power.

Tidings of his death spread with great rapidity, and universal regret
was displayed by the people. Shops were closed, the flags of the ships
in the river and on the public buildings were lowered, and many went
immediately into mourning. The funeral took place the ensuing week; the
body was laid in the mausoleum of the family, at Drayton, near Tamworth,
the whole population of the district manifesting every token of respect
and sorrow of which the occasion allowed.

On Thursday, July the 4th, the following occurrences, in the house of
commons, marked at once the estimation in which Sir Robert was held by
public men, and his own singular and unostentatious character. Lord
John Russell introduced to the house the circumstance of the honourable
baronet's decease, and said:--"It is impossible not to lament that
hereafter this house will be no longer guided by that long and large
experience of public affairs, by that profound knowledge, by those
rhetorical powers, by that copious yet exact memory, with which this
house was wont to be enlightened, instructed, and guided. It is not
for me, or for this house to speak of the career of Sir Robert Peel. It
never happened to me to be in political connexion with him; but so late
as that last debate to which I have referred, I took occasion to thank
him for that fair and frank support which he had given to the present
government. Sir Robert Peel, sir, in that speech which preceded the one
which I addressed to the house, and in which he opposed the policy of
the government, spoke with such temper and such forbearance towards
all those who might hold an opposite opinion to his, that it must be a
satisfaction to those remaining that his last act should have been one
of such candour and kindness towards those all around him. Sir, there
can, I think, be no doubt that, however history may deal with the wisdom
of the course he pursued, that it will be admitted that on two great
occasion" when he held power, undisturbed and apparently with every sign
of security, and when he proposed measures to this house which shook,
and, after a time, subverted his party, he did so from those motives of
deep love for his country which ever distinguished him." Having slightly
adverted to the course of the late right honourable baronet on the
corn-laws, the noble lord concluded by observing, "That if it should
appear to the family and friends of the late Sir Robe