The Sun.
London, England, 1852-11-20 00:00:00

eupiad foot of ground, and that you .passed_ through a
living sea of faces all turned to look upon that great
aPeotacle—when you saw every house every window,
every house-top, loaded with persons anxious to pay their
last tribute of respect to the memory of England's greatest
eon---when you saw those persons (those, at least, in the
streets) remaining with entire and unflinching patience
for many hours in a position in which movement was
scarcely possible, amd 'yet that hardly. a single accident
occurred to the most feeble wainan or child among the
vast assemblage—when through the whole of that route
not only was a perfect desorum preserved, and a perfect
and ready assistance given to the efforts of the police
and military, but that there was no unseemly eagerness
to witness the magnificent spectacle, no light or thought-
less applause of its splendour; but the people of England,
in the awful silence of those vast crowds, testified in the
most emphatic manner the sense in which every man
among them felt the
_public loss that England had sus-
tained. My lords, I know not how you looked upon
this great manifestation of public feeling, and of public
good sense and order; but I know this, that as I passed
along those lines it was with pride and satisfaction I felt
that I was a fellow-countryman of those who knew so
well how to regulate and control themselves. And I
°odd not help entertaining a hope that those foreign
visitors who have done us and themselves the honour
of assisting at this great ceremonial might, on this occa-
sion as well as on the occasion of the Ist of May, 1851,
bear witness back to their own countries how safely, and
to what an extent, a people may be relied upon over
whom the strongest hold of their government was their
own reverence and respect for the free institutions of their
country and the principles of popular self-government,
controlled and modified by a constitutional monarchy.
(Hear, hear.) My lords, when we pass from this long
line of procession and enter into that magnificent struc-
ture, I think few who were present to their latest mo-
ment will forget the scene which they witnessed there—
few will forget the effect when, through the length and
breadth of that vast cathedral, the pealing anthem swelled,
not with the note of praise, but with the note of sorrow
—few will forget the effect when, in ready acquiescence
to the request publicly communicated within that sacred
edifice, sixteen thousand voices joined simultaneously in
the response to the common prayer of every Christian
man. And, my lords (the noble earl continued, with
evident emotion, and in faltering and subdued tones),
when the close of that impressive ceremony approached—
when, amidst the solemn and mournful music, slowly, and
inch by inch, the coffin that bore the illustrious departed
descended into its last long resting place, I, my lords,
was 'near enough to see the countenances of many
veteran companiqns of his labours and his .triumphs,
and was near enough to hear the suppressed sobs, and
to witness the hardly checked tear which would not have
disgraced the cheek of England's bravest son, as they
looked down for the last time upon all that was mortal
of otir mighty hero. Honour, my lords, to the people
who so well knew how to reverence their illustrious
dead—honour to those friendly nations who, renewing
their old companionship in his triumphs and his glories,
joined in paying the tribute of their respect to him
whose renown was not English, nor European, but
world-wide, and associated their own countries for the
last time with the glories and the triumphs of the Duke
of Wellington. (Hear, hear.) And, my lords, honour,
let me say, also, to that great and friendly nation, our
relations with whom in times long gone by, and never I
trust to return, very naturally incapacitated them from
participating in the national rejoings with which we of-
tentimes celebrated his military fame, but who, be it
borne in mind; didnot refuse to join in the public mourn-
ing over the departed hero, but generosity forgot for a
time their old national recollections, and, by the pre-
sence of their representative, testified their respect and
veneration for his memory. (Hear, hear.) If they
thought of him as a foe at all, it was only as one who
had been, in the discharge of his public duty,
"A foeman worthy of their steel."

And they would have remembered, with something of
pride, that never were his military talents or abilities
more highly tested and more severely tried, than when
opposed in the field to the valour of their troops, and to
the science and skill of -their commanders. (Hear.) My
lordi, we have all paid the last tribute to our illustrious
chief—we have consigned him to the grave ; but in so
oonsigninglim, I trust many of us will not forget that,
in burying him who was our greatest hero, we
have perhaps buried the man who amongst us had the
greatest horror of the miseries of war that every effort
and every energy of his- mind in the field, in the camp,
and in the senate, was directed to the attainment of vic-
tory, or triumph, or glory, only because they constituted
the means of securing to his country and to the world
the blessings of a lasting peace. (Hear, hear.) My
lords, I trust that in. solemnly interring him, we have
not taken leave of or buried our recollections of the
principles which he supported and advocated. I am
sure, my lords' that I am speaking in the spirit of him
whose loss we all deplore when I say that I look—and I
am sure that your lordships will look upbn—war in itself
as the greatest curse with which a country can be
afflicted, and upon unnecessary war as the greatest crime
of which a statesman can be guilty. I am sure, my lords,
that the great and paramount object of this country is
the maintenance of a firm and honourable peace ; but I
am no less convinced of the necessity, upon that princi-
ple, which it was his constant duty to inculcate upon
successive governments, in order to maintain the security
and the permanence of peace—the necessity that every
nation should have within itself those means of self-de-
fence and of self-dependence which would not provoke
aggression by their weakness, more especially if to that
weediness is added the possession of unbounded wealth.
(Hear, hear.) I trust that we shall bear this in mind,
not in words only, but by actions and our policy ; and
that, setting aside all political and party considerations,
we shall all concur in this opinion—that in order to be
peaceful England must be powerful ; but that if England
ought to be powerful, she ought to be so only that she
may be the more secure of peace. (Cheers.) The noble
earl then concluded by moving the adjournment of the
house.

The motion was agreed to, and their lordships ad.
journed.

HOrSE OF COMMONS-(YESTERDAY).

The SPEAKER took the chair, when several additional
members were sworn in.
PETITIONS.

Mr. DUNCAN presented a petition from Dundee,
praying the abolition of Religious Tests.
Mr. WALTER presented a petition against the return
of Sir John Mactaggart for Wigton Burghs.
Mr CRAVEN BERKELEY presented a petition from
a solicitor named Williams, residing at Cheltenham,
complaining of the manner in which Bills are printed
when they are passed. The hon. member moved that
the petition be referred to the printing committee of the
liouer of Commons, which was agreed to.
THE TURKISH LOAN.

•
Pr. LAYARD seeing the the Under-Secretary
for Foreign Affairs, in his place, he wished to ask him
a queition of some interest- to the commercial world,
and of which he had given him notice. The Sublime
Porte had, through the Turkish Minister in Paris, re-
pudiated or refused to ratify the advances which had
been made by British capitalists to the Turkish Loan.
Now, he did not wish to make any remark that was cal-
culated to encourage English capitalists to engage in
speculating upon foreign loans. , (Order.) He wished
to ask the noble lord this question, had any information
been received by the Government on the subject of the
repayment of the loan,, and if any had, would the noble
lorclhave any objection to lay it on the table ? (Hear,
hear.).
Lord STANLEY said the government had received
some information on the subject, and they had watched
therwhole progress of the affair with much interest and
attention. (Hear, hear.) He thought, however, that
the, house would agree with him, that it was not expe-
dient at present to lay the papers before the house, as
they related to a transaction which could not be said to
have yet terminated. (Hear, hear.) But he could state
in few words a general outline of the case. It was
wall known that the Turkish Minister who was charged
with the negotiation of the loan in question, deviated
from the instructions of his own Government; and, in
consequence of that deviation, the act of the Minister
was disavowed by the Porte, and the loan was refused
tio be raltified. At the same time, however, the Porte
intimated that to deposits would be returned with in-
terest, and from all the information he had received, he
had every reason to believe that the matter would be
eventually satisfactory disposed of. (Hear.)
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