The Sun.
London, England, 1837-01-13 00:00:00

SIR ROBERT PEEL.

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(From the Times Correspondent.)
GLASGOW, TUESDAY MORNING,
HALF-PAST TO'CLOCK,
Sir Robert Peel arrived at Blythswood-house yesterday
afternoon, having spent part of Saturday with Sir James
Graham, at Netherby, and the whole of Sunday with Mr.
Henry Monteith, at Carstairs, the gentleman who is to
officiate as Chairman at the grand banquet on Friday next.
The Right Hon. Baronet had been invited to a public
breakfast at Lanark, but, declining that honour, in conse-
quence of the pressure of other engagements, Provost Bu-
chanan waited upon him, and stated that the Municipal
Council had unanimously voted him the freedom of that
burgh, and that yesterday was appointed for the purpose
publicly presenting it. On his arrival Sir Robert proceeded
to the Assembly Rooms, where he met a very numerous
and respectable body of persons—many of them known to
have entertained and acted upon political feelings very
different from his own. His appearance among them was
cheered in the most cordial and enthusiastic manner. The
Provost congratulated him upon his arrival in Scotland,
warmly welcomed him to the town, presented the free-
dom of the burgh, and proposed his health, which was
heartily responded to by every demonstration of respect and
enthusiasm.
Sir R. PEEL, in acknowledging the compliment said—
" However accustomed I may be to address public as-
semblies, I can with sincerity assure you' that this demon-
stration of your respect and good opinion, is so unexpected,
that I am disabled altogether from adequately expressing
the feelings to which it has given rise. I know not whe-
ther the compliment
.you have paid me with so much enthu-
siasm implies, an entire concurrence with the political prin-
ciples which I hold, and by which I mean to adhere—
(Loud cheers)—or whether it implies only on the part of
many of you, claiming the right which I claim, of forming
your own judgment of public matters, an acknowledgment
of the motives by which I have been actuated in
main-
taining opinions to which you do not subscribe.—(Re-
newed cheers.) In either case it is very gratifying to me,
and I return you for it my warmest acknowledgments.—
(Loud cheers.) The deep obligation which I owe to that
branch of the manufactiires of this country which forms the
chief stimulus to the industry of this place and neighbour-
hood—an obligation which lam proud to acknowledge at
all times and udder all circumstances—would alone have
established some kind of connection with Lanark, and en-
titled me to feel an interest in its prosperity. The munici-
pal body of this burgh has supplied an additional bond of
communion by the freedom conferred on me this day.—
(Loud and continued cheering.) You have drunk my
health as the youngest member of the Corporation.—
(Cheers.) I trust that time will improve our good fellow-
ship—(Loud cheers)—and that when next we meet in
Lanark I shall have done nothing in my maturer age to
make you repent of the act of this day." [The Right Hon.
Baronet retired amidst renewed applause, loud and long
continued].
The following address was afterwards presented to the
Right Hon. Baronet by the members of the Presbytery of
Lanark :
" ADDRESS OF THE PRESBYTERY OF LANARK TO THE RIGHT
HON. SIR ROBERT PEEL, BART.
" We, undersigned, Ministers of the church of Scotland,
and members of the Presbytery of Lanark, beg leave to con-
gratulate you on your arrival in Scotland, and ourselves on
the opportunity we now enjoy of seeing and meeting with
one whose name is known and respected wherever religion
and literature are understood and valued.
" We hail your election to a most honourable office in
one of the universities of our native land as a proof of that
better spirit which is arising amongst us, and as an indica-
tion of the return of our country men to those sound, pa-
triotic, and religious views, for which you have, through
life, been distinguished ; and while we wish you much com-
fort and honour in the discharge of its duties, we cannot
help expressing the hope that the union which has so
long subsisted between these Universities and the Esta-
blished Church will thereby be only more confirmed and
strengthened.
" Well awere of your anxiety to support, and reform
where necessary, the institutions of our beloved land in
Church and State, we cannot allow the opportunity we en-
joy to pass without, in the name of our congregations, and
in oar own names, reminding you of the destitute state to
which a great portion of our people is reduced by the want
of accommodation in our churches, owing to the immense
increase of our population since Government acknowledged
Our church as a part of the establishment of the country,
and soliciting your powerful aid in support of our claims,
which are already before the rulers of the land.
" Wishing you all the happiness which your private vir-
tues and public conduct ought, in all circumstances, to se-
cure, and that when all the honours of this world have
passed away, you may obtain a place in the kingdom that is
above, we are, with every sentiment of esteem and respect,
" War. MENZIES, Minister of Lanark.
" GEO. MUNRO, Minister of Carstairs.
" JAMES WALKER, Minister of Carnwath.
" JOHN WYLIE, Minister of Carluke.
" Ar.xx. STEWART, Minister of Douglas.
" Af Lanark, Jan. 9, 1837."
Sir R. FEEL, in reply, spoke to the following effect :
" Any assurance of respect and confidence on the part of
Ministers of the Church of Scotland is at all times peculi-
arly gratifying,to me. It has been my lot to be placed in
positions in public life which afforded me opportunities of
frequent and extensive intercourse with the Ministers of the
national establishment in Scotland, and having exercised
for several years that part of the patronage of the Church
vested in the Crown, I have had the means of duly esti-
mating the high respectability of the Ministers of the
Church, and the pure motives by which they are actuated
in the performance of their professional duties. I trust the
course I have uniformly taken in protecting the rights of
the Church of Scotland, will be a better guarantee than
any declarations I can now make of firm attachment to her
interests and an anxious desire to promote her welfare—
considering her to be the great bulwark of civil and religious
liberty, and the most effective safeguard against the spirit of
infidelity and immorality."
So much for Lanark, so lately Whig-Radical to the core,
witki ultra-Reformers in its Town-council, now converted
into a body of most respectable and right-thinking Conser-
vatives. A pretty comfortable prospect for Mr. W. D.
Gillon. . _

A. Vast number of addresses from various classes of per-
sensin Glasgow and its vicinity are in readiness and waiting
to be presented to the Right Hon. Baronet. The most
important of which are from the Trades' House, represent-
ing s‘ibstantially the skill, the enterprise, and the resources
of this! great western, manufacturing, and commercial me-
tropolis of Scotland ; from the Presbytery of Glasgow, the
Educational Society, the operatives of Glasgow, the Con-
servatives of Paisley, &c. It is not, however, expected that
Sir Robert will receive them till Thursday, when we be-
lieve_ they will presented to him in the common-hall be-
longing to the University.
The Right Hon. Baronet, we are happy to add, is in the
most excellent health and high spirits.
It cannot fail to be recollected that the Town-Council
of Glasgow have bestowed upon Sir R. Peel the honour of
their disapprobation by negativing the proposition for giving
him the freedom of that city. The rejection of this motion,
however it might gratify the feelings of a majority of the
.19Wn-Council, has excited in a very large proportion of the
inhabitants no other sentiments than those of unmixed dis-
gust, and the operatives (upwards of 3,000 in number) who
have already signed the address to the Right Hon. Ba-
ronetp entered, within these few days, into a subscription *to
orttitase for him the privilege of being a merchant burgess
save i_city, which they intend to preterit in a splendid
fencer uf7o.. Ththat a few
e subscribers are so numerous,
the freedom m each suffices to defray the whole cost both of
ts:Exv,asctieve,shvg
. and the box. A classification of the working Con-
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ho have signed the address, and subscribed to the
that as not been made ; but there is one fact relating to
140 or subjectir worth mentioning. There are in Glasgow about
_ . .JO of that class of operatives engaged in the business
of printing who are called compositors.
of printmaster
_. liberality
are Radicals• A few of the
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f . , and with that sort of fairness and
aistentl or whi
. eh Liberals are distinguished, they con-
be brow refused to let te address or the subscription list
foreglit to th •
operat. ;
any of their premises it was therefore not laid be-
Neverthelesst Ives engaged in their employment.
then, f •
, fair playArnaatlY as 80 compositors have signed. If,
have been prodtvA been allowed, written evidence could
that a large mai4tn of that which now no one can doubt,
what are • called georf the compositors a class in which
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least as in any othet :Pinions prevail as extensively at
actually Conservatives.
THE NEW I‘l,-----__—_-___--____—_________
TI-ILY MAGAZINE MOURIST.—EDITED ty T AND HU-
New Monthly has taken allti°l3"E Hoax, ESQ.—" The
Number appears under th:iitnense stride. The present
prince of huniourists and goodirfat,nediate direction of that
the best painters of life end. nieallcnvs, who is also one of
Under such auspices we have 00 nfnes—Theodore Hook.
that the reading and mirth.loving public—the pun-bunters
lack the entertainment which they sand fun-hunters—will
In-
deed, we expect a monthly banquet opfetily desire. In-
order, from the exertions of Mr. Hook,:, most luxuriant
, 10. is now fairly
put upon his metal as a periodicalist.
In this Number he
has recommenced the Gurney PaPers, arid tv selves much amusement from the contiuuatioeu p
of these omise our-
ca-
pital Sketches.—Edinburg,h Evening Post.
lit There were upwards of 200 fashionahles at the en-
tertainment given by the Duke and Duchess of St. Alban's,
at Brighton, on Friday evening. In the course of the
evening the Duke of St. Alban's, in the dress of a Scottish
Chieftain, delivered a comic recitation, the production of
Horatio Smith, the author of ‘‘ Brambetye House," which
afforded considerable amusement.