The Express.
London, England, 1850-07-03 00:00:00

DEATH OF SIR ROBERT PEEL

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

The Imre met this day at 13 o'clock.
M. RUMS rest, amidst profound silemee, and end, Si,,
I hap I. addressing the house I may he excused
for expensing the deep regret which I mm son
nary member of We house must feel at the
lase which we have lately maned by the death of Sir Robert
Peel. (Hear, hear.) I eannit allude to the nada' and
eerier of that right howourable gentleana, mere parties-
lady of latter yean, when events of importune have taken
plume mainly owing to the part which he took, without ex-
pends' a high opines of the men who weld ensign
perm, dim everythiny, to perform an act which he
believed the imperial intevests of the country required. It
is needles, sir, fee me to do anything moo than express •
hope that U the house shall 411011114111 with me is the entiment
el deep Repot which I hen attempted to express, they
will she mew wish me Is doing that which is the best
mesas by "deb we eau show our respect for our great de
parted member, gamely, the adjourament of the house, and
the aisepneeeillas with say business to day. (Beer, bear.)
It is immeghle he auto say (eontinned the he. geatlemen,
with evidentemetion) what I have not power to einem ; but
I feel m namely the loss which the r It hen, getaleassa's
death eteasioned, that I have sly, Sir, tau* to
submit to the home whether they will cower la • rase
halm of et of remote to kis mean/ y. Whoa
I eetsplaee the many 'amide's which 1111 made,
and the hang of fattiest in him which Itu been
manifested is this metropolis, and which has, I
am ours, exteeled throughout the whole country, I hope I
may be excused, even it there should be no precedent lam
met aware that there is any pneedeat; bat upon nth an
occenee, m seldom, U ever, tautly to menu, at beet I. my
time, I hops the home will smear in the motion which I
sew male, that, out of respect to the late right hon. page-
man, they should sow adjourn till to morrow. (Rear, bear.)
Mr. OLADSTONII—Sir, as the hon. gentleman, from
motives which I sea sure all will appreciate—(bee, bearj—
hal submitted this notice to the house, sad, as I
see no other person present who has ever been
enatteMed by office with the lamented gestleman—[Here
Ile. Gladstone became deeply affected, and had great diffi-
culty is proceeding]--of whose loss we intend to math
our nese— (hear, hem.) I beg leave, Sir, to
second the 1101i211 which the hon. gentleman has
made. I mm perfectly sure that it will be •
subject of grief to the noble lord at the head of the go-
vernment that, is onsegeenee probably of the introduction
of this subject a few moments earlier than might have been
expected, Its has been deprived of the satisfaction of bearing
his part in tt.is, the earliest, but not the last, tribute
of raspiest which will be paid to the memory of one whom I
may now name—Sir Robert Peel. Sir, the subject intro-
duced by the haa. gentleman, he will f iv* ins for saying,
is one that does not at this menace bear discussion. (Rear.)
lam quite sun that every heart is too full to
allow us to enter so early upon the consideration of the ex-
:est of that calamity with which the country D3l been visited
in this, I will say, premature death ; for, though he has
died full of years. and full of honours, yet it is •
death which in human eyes it premature, because we
had fondly hoped that, in whatever position he
night be placed, by the weight of his ability, by the
splendour of his talents, by the purity of his virtues, he
might still be seared to render the most essential services.
Sir, I will now quote those most touching and most feeling
lime, which were appled by one of the greatest poets of ti ion
country to the memory of • man even greater then Sir
Robert Peel :

" Now le the stately column broke,
The beacon light is quenched in smoke.
The trumpet's silver sound is still,
The warder silent on the hill."
Sir, I will say nothing more. In saying this I have, per-
haps, said too much. It might have been better
if I had simply confined myself to the seconding
of the motion of the how. gentleman. I was in hopes that
if the question were protracted for a few moment', others
would enter the house who would be mere worthy to die-
erase this duty. It is not so; and lam sure that
the tribute cf respect which we now offer will be all the
more valuable, and all the more readily received, from the
silence which Is felt, and which arises not from the want of
excessive feeling. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. HAPlER,—Perhar. as I hive a motion on the paper
for today, I may be permitted to uprise, in few words, hew
willingly I waive everything in order to unite in testify-
iug, in any manner that I can, my sorrow and regret
for the loss which the country his sustained. It is a
very carious circumstance that a large portion of the
legislative measures which 1 was about to submit
to the house had been supplied to the house by the l•gislative
wisdoms of that great man who has jut been gathered to his
fathers ; and the impulse and encouragement given to that
legislation, in connection with the records which be has la: t
relating to the criminal jurisdiction of this country, constitute
memorials of enlightened wisdoms w hick entitle bins to the

gratitude, and claim for him the hontig;:a;lleraZsOf
' the community. (Hear, hear.) When the news of his
death reached me this morass, I was struck with the
thought how short a period ago he stood in that spot—
[pointing to the spot near the table from which Sir Robert
NM generally addressed the house], in the vigour and ma
tardy of intellectual power, chastened but not impaired by
years ; and I could not bat think what shadows we all
an, and that the life of the wisest and strongest
amongst us is but a flickering flame. I gladly waive all
matters connected with the subject of whist' I have given
notice to smear in this, the only tribute which we can pay.
Sir R. INOLlS.—Perhaps my right hon. friend was
right when he suggested that silence was more eloquent
Than any words on the occasion of such a lose es this house,
this country, sad I may almost say the whole European
community—(hear, best) bas just sustained. At
the same time, as the silence which followed my right hon.
friend's Milton has been broken, with equal feeling
sad truth by my bon. and learned friend the mentor
for the Cnivenity of Dahlia, perhaps I may be per-
mitted to bear my humble but hearty testimony to the
glissader of the friend whom we have now lost. (Hear,
hear.) I trust that his memory may be brought
to our hears sad our minds without the least
reference to those political questions which have
unhappily divided us, and to which some passing alio-jou
was made in the iatroductory address. (Hear, hear.) It
is not necessary to call upon the house to for-
bear at lath a period from any topic which
might disturb the unanimity of feeling and sentiment
wbich I trust pervades, not only this house, bat the country.
(Hear, hear.) It is with cordial feelings and cordial res•
i pect, and not n any other sense, that I rue at once to bear
my testimony, and, as one who has set for some time in this
house, to state my belief that there n was a man
who made greater semifinal from a sense of public daty than
Sir Robert Peel. (Hear, hear.) Power he willingly semi-
lead, and I believe he would have secriiked everything
except that which he regarded as paramount to everything
elm—the good of his country. (Hear, hear.) Thee, who
differed from him on political subjects will, I am sun, nano
in one cordial feeling of respect—i may my grateful respect
—for the memory of a man who really did more to distin-
guish Ude home among the deliberative bodies of the world
than perhaps any other individual who ever sat in it.
(Hear, hear.) Sir I cordially concur in the proposition,
which was addressed to and received by the house with so
much feeling, that on account of oar sense of the lose we
have sastained, the house should proceed as farther with
the business oldie day.
Sir W. SOMERVILLE (who was the only member of
the government present) said—As no notice has bees given
of en thulium to mom this adjournment, sad as it aeci-
destiny happens that so member of Her Majesty's cabinet is
at present ia the hem, probably I may be p-rmitted to say
that had the case been otherwise some one of greater lei.
p.rtance than myself would have ;ism to express the deep
feeling of regret on the part of the goverment at the
lose which the country has sustained in the death of that
*missal statamas whose loss we now ders. (Hear.)
I shall my so more ea the present sems It woold
hardly bosom so humble a member of this house to say
more than that I deeply participate in the general feelings
of this boom, and I am quite sum that if the noble lord at
the heed of the government had been in kis pha—
sed that be is not is, I am sure, attributable only to the fact
that he did not expect that this motion Lee the light boo.
gentlemen wail understood to say] would ems on so early
—I em quite sure, were he in his plass, he would be ready
to *sprees the disport sympathy and the greatest
respect, and the most sincere madame, sad hie entire m-
amma is the motion of the has. gentleman opposite, that
out of respect for the right hen. gentleman who has just
passed from amongst us, this house should net proceed to
say thither business.
The SPEAKER having put this question, that the home
do now adjourn.
Sir W. SOMERVILLE again roes and said he had jest
been informed that the noble lord the first minister of the
croon was supposed to he in the country, the noble lord
having left tows last sight.
The beam the. adjourned.
adalesesse is the house darts' the delivery of the above
was probably the most affecting one ever witnessed
in parliament. Mr. RIMS sad Mr. Gladstone especially
spoke under the intimate of the deepest feelings, and the
utteeasee of the letter woe frequetly choked by emotion.

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