urn), on their part, had to acknowledge the intentions,
both of her majesty and her parliament, in wishing to confer on his
late lamented friend that, the greatest honour that could be paid to
a subject--a proposition which they were compelled respectfully, but
thankfully, to decline. He (Mr. Goulburn) only entreated the house
to add to that mark of respect which they had paid to the ability and
public services of his lamented friend the further mark of respect to
his simplicity of character, and give effect to his desire as to the way
in which he wished his funeral obsequies to be conducted. The entry
of the adjournment of the house immediately after its meeting on the
previous day, out of respect to the memory of the deceased statesman,
was an honour which would live for ever in the journals of that house,
and an honour which was never before paid to a subject.

It was subsequently intended to make Lady Peel a peeress in her own
right, but she declined the honour, her late husband having enjoined
that none of his family should accept any honour or reward from his
country.

When the tidings of Sir Robert's decease reached other countries, much
sympathy was expressed; the French assembly, and also the Congress of
the United States, having in the most marked manner paid tributes
of respect to his memory. M. Guizot, the favourite minister of Louis
Philippe of France, wrote a memoir of Sir Robert, which displays much
talent, but over praises the subject of the memoir, without doing
justice, nevertheless, to his policy. The opinions and measures of
the great statesman will long be a subject of discussion, not only in
England, but in other nations. The following estimate of his political
principles and career by Count Cavour, the eminent Sardinian statesman,
a man intellectually superior to Sir Robert, is probably the truest and
best of the many which has appeared. It was uttered in a speech during a
sitting of the Sardinian senate, in the year 1857, when sufficient
time had elapsed for foreign statesmen, at all events, to form a fair
judgment of the man, unbiassed by the interests of their respective
states. Count Cavour had been taunted with having expressed himself in
very high terms of Sir Robert's commercial and financial policy, while
he at the same time refused, in many respects, to accept him as an
exemplar. He, consequently, addressed to the senate the following
remarkable speech:--"I entertain the highest admirati