The Sun.
London, England, 1852-07-26 00:00:00

A TTE.RSALL'S.--THIS .EVE,NING.
Scz O'cLocs.

Nothitig doing.

FRANCE.
The ceremony f' 1
• the grand gallery" which is intended to connect the
Tuileries with the P 1.
-"t-...n0 of the Louvre, parallel to
0.. laying the• foundation stone of
the rue de Rivoli,
o'clock yeS;erday morning, The 'principal persons
was - performed at half-past nine
who -acted L. in the. 1
-- - solemnity were M. Casablanca,
Minister of State, the
departtnent of the Seine, the •members of the Muni"
cipal Commission, the mayors of the arrondisements,
and other`' public fuhctionaries. Some - general
Prefects of Poliee•and of the
efficers of the army viere also present in full Some_
' The..elergyof the; Church .of St. Germain d'Auxer-
and Pronounced a solemn benediction on the stone on
‘iro,hisichpe:hfeorfmuteudretbbeuilding religious'part of the ceremony,
was placed in the centre of the'cleep trench dug for
'the fottndation, and nettily opposite the Palais Royal.
'Two tents 'were erected,• with
is to be raised. The stone
. fauteuils benches and
tables for the persons•invited to the ceremony ; andi :detachment of gendarmerie mobile kept the ground,
and prevented the palisades raised on both sides of the
cop pe r of th p resent date were placed in etchex,
trench frotnieeing'encunabered. Coins of
8,04, silver,
and
which iihiti encloeased in the stone, and the other fonds
te-Etcb are usual .on such occasions were on through..
Suitable addresses were delivered by the functionaries
preeeet- The. ate of the weather no doubt kept
away enemy perions,Att the rain had fallen very heavily
at intervals a censiderable part of the day:
:zs during
titu t ionnel announces that a convention
eaasTithtbeeereCl'v°lna concluded between the Governments of
Holland and. Belgium, for the junction of the rail-
the
wayConstis Of both
tutionnel countries. " The great 'artery, 7 says
• • . .
:‘, Which begins at the port
of Antwerp, will be' ex-
tended to Rotterdam, and there communicate with the
Dutch- railways. One,
may- already foresee the import-
unceof bitch an operation, which will re-establish between
the two countries „ termer Commercial relations it for' some leers .by political events. We al
,learn from a perfectly authentic source that the Bava-
so
rian Geverement has offered a indemnity ef 1,400,000
fl,,rin) to the administration oft he Palatinate Railway,
on condition that it will complete within a short delay
the works Of the' Ludwigshafen and Wiasemburg Rail-
road. It is in that direction the Straiburg line is to be
prolonged,' 'on the of France, toward, the frontier."

G.ERMA'N Y.
The projected English railroad through the northern
Turkish European provinces excites much attention
in Vienna, and is pronounced by the Wanderer to
be a matter even more important than the Egyptian
Railway. it appears that six English engineers
have already examined the country between. Con-
stantinople and Belgrade; and in a letter from the
latter city -to Agrarn, a hope is expressed that the
Servian Government• <will = also construct a line from
Alexinac (probably Alexinitza, near Nissa, on the
western frontier of Bulgaria) to Belgrade. Four
English vessels, laden with wrought and sheet.iron,
are said to.be on their way from the Main to Vienna.
The cargoes, shipped at Liverpool, come by way of
Rotterdam and. M4-ence to Bamberg; then along
the Ludwig• Main Canal to Kehlheirn, and thence
duwn-the Danube,
'The King of Greece is expected at Trieste on the
2311 or 24th.

_
INAUGURATION OF 'TILE STATUE OF
_THE LATE SIR'EOBERT_PEEL.
A ceremony peculiarly interesting in its character took
.place,,,at Tatnworth on Friday—the inauguration of a
_statue, to the memory of 0ne,..0f the greatest of Ong..
land's statesmen in the town which he had for so long a
period represented, and. near which he for the greater
part of hislite resided._ ,We have no time to dwell upon
the details of a ceremony which'brought to witness it all
the gentry*orn the surrounding district, large numbers
`of persons;, from, the neighbouring manufacturing town
of .Birmingham, which the mayor and corpora.
Moo, 'several members of the family of the late Sir,
Robert Peel, and other persons of distinctisu took part.
Suffice it to say that in front of the old Town-hall at
Temworth, on a massive granite pedestal, there now
stands a majestic statue of the second Sir Robert Peel—
of Aim .for Whom -a ilation mourned.
st%(tit, sshich is in brecze is a very strikin
ascs--erf-s),* litAirrotrz-e;..trattfr 11-4Ver'r
inehes; the attitude. is guocf,.- triftvitalmeulbri'Y
feature Which eharecterised.Sir Robert is viell developed.
of
The artist is M. flis.tthea, mho bas cerwinly
done the fullest justice to the groat work entrusted to
him.,.

like

~,
.
,
At two o'clock in the afternoon; the final ceremony of
_
inauguration took place in the open air, opposite to the
' statue. On the platform were Sir Charles Clarke, the
. . mayor and corporation of liamworth, sir Robert Peel,
Mr. Fred. Peel, M.P., Captain Townshend, ALE' CJIP,
' lain-Peel, C. H. Bracebridge, 'RN ,of Atherstom-ha
ii
and a number of ocher persons of distinction in the neigh-
bourhood.
Sir- CHARLES ,CLARHE stepped forward and said—
Ladies aria gentlemaaa the occasion which u
brings
together this day must ba looked upon as one of a mourn.
tut character; but the blow having' been struck, tt___, who'
7r
0.
duty-to submit,' not to
.question the
will of Eire
orders, and who expects to be obeyed. Many
of
"u the
not unaware of what took place here after the death °f be
late Sir R6bert Peel; to such as are not I may perhaps :
be permitted to say that as sOOn as
posaible after ins,
telligence reached us of the death of our
good frieud stop,.
such
were taken with a view-to carryout same designi au as would enable us in. a - Suiteble manner .to °lib,
) - our-respect for the' 'memory -of the great spirit
~w _ ,
' had been'snatcbed from us.' number
doetenr!,
A certain Warn r
met in the Town-hall, and the result was t;'. peel's
MintitiOn :'0 erect a 'monument
_to Sir Robert well
memory. ' The . question that • next presented
thing was, what, that monument should be; the first
as ,
that sugOated - itself vvas a Column—the .nfly Lam
statue; now, it :e.Ppeared to the canmittee that en ._e _e.
was best suited to petPotaate events, but that
,a,
(sitetteur.
was the best memorial "of in indieidtiaL and we next_
mined on- a statue accordingly. .- Well, then, theio the
question that presented itself for .consideratiellit
r In the
place of erection. Hint's Hill, a short-distavaehe
Statue
town, wag' a favourite site with Some, as the that the
Might he' seen from a distance; others wished
ose
who
statue should always be in the presence Of, to iepon.
respected,, and 'loved the man; 'and this feeling Lrket-
derated, and the statue was erected here,
in from
place of Tamworth, opposite to that To --..rmeci, not
•
ohm
whiph liiselopienee had so often run and
his good sense
only the hearts 'of his hearers, but ,by ~ i words
enchained their understandings.—(Hear, hearyti„ for a
occupy bu'a a small spa Ce—they are bore, they
Adkins,
brief time;.and their echoes as briefly 'die away of the
remain —.the a sincerity, test of a public man's .
creatures ~
amount of good or evil he effects for his fall
Isself for our
--(Cheers.) The next question that presented.
1 ved for the
consideration was the material. to be. elnP °be statue a-
stattie• if this had been an Italian clime, °l.vws
~ been "2"
roofed' edifice; Carrara marble would ma
reasons.
ployed; but in this case there were substantialwe wished':
why a more durable material should be weir
such a that the statue should, be in the open air, of
ma-
terial as to stand the wear of the boisterou:_eavAiered
!YPe of those boisterous elements which b-- 6 Of
i leen • then.
In Plo Ziluse of Commons; ',Where the e'' v./ears withi
late Sir Robert
:Peel shone ferth for-se
Inal3obtatned such'
such distinguished lustre, and where b_e_o-
- reibTved then.
world vvide—such lasting reputation) -
eelwein- capable ofT
on what is called a bronzy statue, en „ci thelitinShine,
standing 411. weathera-7-the rainstorm` a
whose repot alika typical of, himiwhose character ,oand.wa73-elike the
tion had withstood-every shock, and''''' a the House of
glory: of .his county —the
,orname;flolibot'-(Cbeera
eommona—and the friend of his Lie'', hory.comptititioni
The..llortßaronet next described the
.6f. .-
the monu-
Which had taken place fur the exeon
the:& celebratedpunt inl: this towa;. into it enters second best,
Settees, to whom was awarded3C,lL- statats design, the glory of executing tLtethe comm#l°e, upon-,.
'volved, after mature deliberation, IV!
Ili .eiltatinuod ST;
Me-Noble. Well, ladies, and gin"leierec. k
becstatida ; let
Charles) the work is executeg7tl. instantly reinoved.-
him be eXposed, (The covering waded,a almost life-like
from the statue,and in
it was pres--
„adarful likenesS, end
the late Sir Robert Peel. It is a 1"---zed on Sir it silently,
f'or several minutes the audience ga Sir •',Charles
and, as might ',be ..seeta, sorrowfully.)lar, .
i of the site,
Clarke went onto describe the P 1
seemedeeu to the rePortera,
the face (-i being- turned, as it 6 blow had ,been struck.
N.W. by N. Firai,(66.4iiii), th
d called upon him for '
which laid Sir -Robert- Peel<low, an
that debt`Which world was then to.
the w`' all must lilY ytaiing; and hy the,
him nothieg—he had beeio° 1' -was represented: his
statue th 4. first of four nesiwer,!.smsernbly in which he
back was turned on 'the great c-o.,,spieuons a part, the:,
Played for so Many years sea that ne Las build alhorne
,li°tlan of Cornmens; let us hope statue was the church!
in heavem On- the richt
a of
'deft, in: the. distance,'
in which he worsbipne-; on
'itch he built; and Which
was-the tirtgoificent nalag„wwhilit; tastfy, his fee's wasi,
he lived not loft to inhabit`; he was born---tO : that
to the district; where he fAther. VMS honestly and:;
coutity where tho wealth o, oeLi.s;) In anneirisieu, sit,
honourably Cheers:) tathe Mayor of ITatn-(:
Chaileti Marke finally real reel.. Ha charged him to
worth the of Sir Robertciabouiand a friend' in diffial;
protect it las he would a neiZiceeiding;-61.110rd, and from
cu4Ya iteasked this from 7eherged Mein to prOeCt thei
the town or Taniwcrthi 1.1.t4t peel. aim ertidite scholar,
statue of the great Sig,lie"'im, tato able and_ atnhitiouso
as has accOmplished gentletim-ltgari, the town twprote I'
Member of Parliament' —°
c-. 4. 45 -
.„,,,,,i ea 0, g 0 , .eb a religious
theAtatuet of Sir.Robeit "-',4leduSc ~,,tIMA to whicki
man; of oil() tb,oriii_.4. bli a.",ti t; 13, her
att h d
been ae e ,
and to whom he e.MheY "'I-

and he had little doubt, ,he
predated and
that the -' arP. the-trust, and pledged himself to see
So flourishes and faderisfiddm:
d His wait: --....
be fully ap •
came into effect.--(Cheers.)
ts:'sentences,
kindly
Lttifelitiyi6)
6,e:wee:E.:,
..i
aclei
len:file:gen
tarei
dea. :
:rr
ps
ict
e,:e:
i,hrtagr;;:_.itsb..i.,-t heifsacealroeti
key
nht.ei
Ihmapgeawainnyc,
eayh.
::,avri r.i. g;: tei
Ir'rriwatz.y.
e:dodesu:titudodol
The-MAy,
it (W. Knight, La•l in ' e
Woe" ladies—partook Co private exeelie
some 300 persons—the Letter
mr._uh:—partook of an elegant
ia cendlusioh .. noes of the late SRobert Peel; end,
la said.— - • , Si.-
dejewter,
proportfon
served up by
Sir Charles Clarke a dee, of the King's Arras 140 tel;
Sir C. CraunE oviloat presided.
With kindly allusions to ill been Sir Robert's Physician),
Peel, gars the toast ~ Tht•hl: memory," life of Sir Robert
in solemn silence, •-To which was drunk
The'Alkiron, of Te.sl*OnT . ' '
good health of Sir Itobe ___ II next gave a toast, "The
rt Peel
_tanilly:„ s and the members -of his
Sir ROBERT PEEL briefly
Inowledged the g an ri with great feeling ac.
.compliment thus paid t 11-
in
promising to convey the expression o is family; and
t to his mother, Lad -of that. eompli-
Pen - -13
,that he ktew she`would be deeply -as a read, he said
the moment, she might be otereo affected, and that for
tification at, the kiodneas evinneFelne in her sense of gra.
must, indeed, all
-who bore the. on eccaiion, as
-possessed any claimk.gt kina,....., name this Peel and who
-tisfactiou at seeing the araiTre*;r•needti 0.4.1, eessed his ea_
mar-
ket p l ace —4 spot irrevocably use& t 1:1 '
withamw!ort'n
t
public Career arc p cal renown.—(A i
a e his father's
Hon. Barnet pposed " The beahh- „.. „PP _3118v.) The
of otr-u • c i”rk 93
Sir CIIAELEs acknowledged the compliment C.—
e.
and proposed .-d the health f the briefly,
brie
_Mayor of Tatz.woith
which his Worship as lly acknowledged, '
Mr. FREDERICK PEEL, Aix.,
whowasreceived
meleaffectieestely cordial manner, in a most in a
ifeeling, and thoughtful speech, gave te.. il,eloquent,
artist employed in executing the statne:airr.tLeioef the
_pressing his complete sense of the difficulties an artist
must always encounter in the endeavour to catch - the
,:oul and the spirit of the original in conveying by the
aid of the pencil and the chisel the subject to canvas or
to marble. He spoke feelingly of his illustrious father's
fidelity to popular institutions, and of - his sympathy
with and for the prosperity of the humbler classes in
this country, and expressed his satisfaction that not only
here but throughout the country, his labours, his princi-
ples,
les sod his public conduct were fully appreciated.
Mr. C. As BRACEBRIDGE aftenTarda addressed the
assembly, Chiefly in praise of the excellence of the statue;
,:and after Mr. Noble and Mr. Hanwell had respectively
returned thanks for their heaths being drank, the com-
pany dispersed.
They dispersed_ to even a pleasanter scene. Sir Ro-
bert Peel had kindly thrown open' his grounds and
his house and fine gallery of pictures- to -the - -public,
whither the people flocked to view and adnairg the
fine taste of the -late Sir . Robert in, gettieg toge-
thir -se fine a collection of his most celebrated contem-
poraries. '
Bat no time is left to us to speak of Dreyton Manor
in the cool evening the
or its contents;people reveren-
tially wended their way to Drayton,BaSeett; where Sir
Robert lies • buried, and tearfully they looked on his
tomb. His school and form-fellow's grave. at Eucknall
Torkerd, oi. Eraine's in the'remote county of Linlith-
gow, are now no more drearily si'uated than is' that
of the great Sir Robert Peel. But he is renum-
bered, and his Memory will, be cherished by English.
assailed him and his
men when those,*ho a policy are
. . . ,
forgotten.

MARSHAL EXCELMANS.
The deplorable accident which has terminated the life
of Marshal Excelmans depraves the French army of al-
most the last of that illustrious generation of soldiers
who won their first laurels under the eyes of the Em-
peror Napoleon, and held the ra.ullthoafte general
onertahers maylinthe
divisions of the Imperial army. y
have had to say or to unsay on the events which have
restored a member of the Bonaparte family to supreme
power in France, General. Excelmans had a right to act
upon his well known
and. undeviating fidelity to the
Imperial cease.
He was the officer who first rallied his
division after the battle of Waterloo, and it was he who
marched upon Paris, and checked the advance of the
Prussians by the brilliant skirmish at Versailles, which
was the last incident of the war. During the Restora-
tion no man was more suspected or perstoutecl than Ex-
celmans. Ho was tried on one occasion by court-martin!,
on suspicion of keeping up a treasonable carrespondence
with Murat, who was still King of Naples at that
time, this charge being only supportedby a letter of
civility which was seized by the, French police in the
private papers of Lord Oxford, es he was passing
through France. He was subsequently banished from
France altogether, without trial, end resided for some
time in the Grand Duchy of Nassau. Even after he had
permission to return to :his native country, cud was
raised to the dignity of a Beer of France by Louis Phi-
lippe, he did not hold the high military appointments or
receive the first ;military honours to which lie was emi-
Sena Trefitittecl—by -the length and, brilliancy, of hie ser-
eaneaa., It remained fill* thte nephew of the Emperor to
confer the' staff of a Marshal of France on thheveassrablee
but vigorous survivor of the Imperial armies; and ac-
cordingly the first nomination to this high honour which
Louis Napoleon had it in his power to bestow was very
properly given to General .Excelmans. His commission
as a General of Division bo'e date the Bth of Sept., 1812;
and General Harispe is his only surviving senior officer
of that rank in the whole army.
Marshal Excelmans was born on the 13th of Novem—
ber, 1775, at Bar-le-Due, in that martial province of
France which Louis Napoleon has just traversed. He:
joined the army very young, and distinguisheninoself-
in the 3d battalion of the Meuse under the orders of Ge-
neral Oudinot in 1799. Shortly afterwards he was at-.
tached to the person of Murat as his aide-de-camp, and
their intimacy continued almost uninterruptedly until
the close of Joachim Murat's adventurous and ill-starred
career. At the opening of the campaign of Austerlitz
be displayed extraordinary bravery at the affair of
Wertingen, previous to the capitulation of Ulm. The
Austrians were at dinner in a hamlet in advance of
Wertingen when the advance of the French was an-
nounced. They sprang on their horses and rallied their
men, whose fire checked the advance of the enemy. At
this moment Excelmans, than a mere captain of
Dragoon 2, galloped up; and his share in the honours
of that day is thus recorded by the historian of
the Empire:—“He dismounted, with 200 Dragoons
who had volunteered, ,and, dashing
,forward with their
carbines in hand, they cleared the spot of those who oc-
cupied it. - Fresh detachments of Dragoons came up in'
the meantime; tha,AuStrians were pressed closer and
c;oaer; they were followed into Wertingen by the.
French, who passed through the towp, and found them--
selves before a rising ground, with nine Austrian batta-
lions formed into one square, not extended, hut close,:
and deep, end with artillery and cavalry on the wings.
The gallant Exeelmens, without, a moment's delay,
charged the square, and in the shock had his horse
killed under him. Colonel Meaupetit was killed by his
side. Notwithotanding the vigour, of the attack, the
compact mass remained unbroken. At length Murat
made his appearance with his masses of cavalry, and
Lannes with the Grenadiers of Oudinot. Murat
charged the enemy with his. squadrons; and Lannes
led his Greasidiers on the border of a wood in the
distance to cut off the retreat of the. Austrians.
2,000 prisoners; several pieces of cannon, and
some flags were captured. Lannes and Murat, who bad-
seen Excelmans actually on the point of the enemy's
bayonets, commissioned him to convey to Napoleon the
news of the first success obtained, and the flags taken'
from the enemy. The Emperor received at Donauwirth
the young and brilliant officer, promoted him in the
L gion ot,Honour, and delivered to him the insignia in
the presence of the whole of the staff,. in order to give
greater distinction to the first recompense merited in
this war.”.

He foughOis way to the rank of General of Brigade-
on the field of EYlin; and shdrtly Afterwards was sent
with Murat to-,Spain, where he was employed in the°,
nefarious plot a... Bayonne, and conveyed- the Royat
Family ot-Waiii -Cit.*: ibrtheir do-minions; not without.
some difficulty in covering""-their-"ignominious retreat-,
Had he not been takikprisoner s.hOrtly afterle,rds, and
detained for' ' thrie years in _ England, .General Ex-:j
celtnans iyouldlprobibly have' risen -earlier to thaz,
highest rank. it, ram army.- But he Was, exchanged
in 1811, pOtt enough to serve in the campaign of": Rua-;
sin, and obtained the rank of Lieutenant-!-Oeneral, !FIB we;
have said, in September, 1812, on the. 4y-after the',
battle of !Moscow.
.In this capacity he served with-
ability in_the campaigns of ,Saxony and Silesia in the.
following years; especially distinguishing himself in the
campaign" 1814, daring o,ol_ he was placed at the
head of the cavalry LI the..lmperial Guard. Re also.
commanded tlys,2l.dtfiatPtLefean at
lrYw
. :,-..at.100, and,`
a 9 Napoleon attached the greiteetitnportanee to the tact,
and intelligence, as well as bravery,, 4: those
officers"
whom he especially-seketed far that arm, a higher cora-.
,pliinent could not have been.psiid to the abilities of Ge-:-
neral Eaeelmans. After the loss of the battle he was'
almost the only officer in command of the ,scattered
legions of France who appears ':to have retained his
judgment'and to have-done his duty. He mare* to-
wards Paris to support the resistance of the &lofts!, iff
any was niaderbut, finding:that the war was 0vi5r,•130;
retired taielermont-Ftrrs;lt and sent-in his'-submission
. • -,',)
to the King.
His active lifer may thus be said to havetertninated
before he buss 40
years of age, and anothei'g_fmetati°lll
of men smog up to wear the 'favours of the 'Gone and
.
thwiacnotp-a of- the 'army. But the election of Lou's
NapOleonjoundilira still in a vigorous old ege. lie 713,4,
appointed Chancellor of the Legion of goe"refYpa-!
Prince inlAugust, 1849; and on . the .2d and 3de _ooo_
cemberUst, whenthe ok
linettT;oeurilig tol
--am Ps El =ides
811dte'sYitilal
verde were lined with troops to crush vri,l',,,
of Dance,
force the resistance of Paris and the
Marshal Excelmans was actively engaged ILL : 1
the Government the support of the
He waeLs aman one of ,the be,"o3o,4__fot-be weal
lowed in the train of Napoleoglviternt tat ors, ands
aril'. theme who fol.
without inordinate ambition. wi'tantio to_ ,_-_llis'llOarest
without avarice. He was fotrilitsimpossibla to rate his(
iti'.lsolitething pe•-•
domestic it onnexions, and 1-t ixot with.ages; or to Watch(
taltwar-bisatemform,-Oighil.Ybot .feeogOi4lClZtlat Vamp
his resolute countenaneee,:lut. ,hate
geua°abrupt termination of such a
of Leoldier and:a
culiarly melancholy in the