The Express.
London, England, 1858-06-17 00:00:00

SIR WILLIAM PEEL.

Mr. Russell, of the Times, writing from Camp
Jellalabad on the 27th of April, thus describes the feeling
with which the news of Sir W. Peel's death wee received by
the army :—" The electric telegraph has carried Its brief an-
nouncement of the sad news we heard this morning to Rag-
land some days before the letter I am now writing can reach
you. But Icm add no details to that brief statement of the
event which must came such grief to every English heart.
The death of Sir William Peel at any time would be a
national loss. Despite the theory that there is no such thing
as a necessary man, I believe that at this particular juncture
his death is a national calamity, and it is one for which I
see no reparation. Rim gallant comrades in the noble pro-
(melon which was the joy of his life will be the readiest to
admit that the foremost naval officer of the day liar is
the grave which contain' his body. In the march from
Lucknow to Cawnpore he was carried down in a dooly or
litter, as ha was unable to ride owing to his wound, but he
could limp about, and, just ere we entered Cawnpore, be was
able to walk a little, when we halted, without the aid of his
stick. Morning alter morning, as our litters were laid down
beside each other, be talked to me of the various news which
cams to us from home, and I well remember the light which
was in him eye as he said, epeal of the division on the
Conspiracy Bill, ' I am delighted at it, not from any sym-
pathy with those rascally amamins who flock to England, or
from any feeling against France or the Emperor, whose
orders I wear, but because my instinct tells me, se
Its instinct told the house, that it was the right
thing for an English parliament to do, reason
or no reason. We must never take a step in that direnion,
even if one came from the dead to tell us to do so.' It was,
probably, in that litter he contracted the fearful malady
which cost him his life ,• for, if lam not misinformed, It WY
obtained by him from the hospital at Lsoknew, where several
ewes of small-pox occurred before"we left. On the day after
his snivel at Cawnpere he was seized with sickness, vomit-
ing, and feverishness, from which he recovered, but the
symptoms of smallpox were soon exhibited, and when I
mentioned the news that he had it to Dr. Clifford, who had
been one of his attendants, the latter said he hand it would
go hard with Sir William, owing to Lis irritability of con-
Minden, and to the debility arising from his wound. It
was one day's march from Futteghur that I hoard of
his Illness, and on my mini I telegraphed to the Rev. Mr.
Moore, the chaplain at Cawnpore, to know how be yea.
Next day I received the reply, ' Sir William is doing me
favourably as amid be expected in a ease of bed acedlosat
small-pox.' This morning, on the line of march, vs heard
Ls was no more—it flew from mouth to mouth. Sir Colin
Campbell showed the grief which was felt by every officer is
the force. Over and over again, all this mourning, Peel
deed! What a lase to us. It will be long ere the meek*
see two such as Add= Rope and Peel '.' mingled with ex-
pressions of regret and sorrow."

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