The Sun.
London, England, 1856-12-31 00:00:00

RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS.

LONDON AND SOUTH-EASTEM RAlLWAY.—Traffic Vl-
tava for the week ending Dec. 27,1853 £18,609 8 9
Corresponding week last year 18,036 5 7

Increase in 1856
LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH COAST RAILWAY.—
Traffic return for the week ending Dec. 27,
1856 £12,752 2 9
Corresponding week last year 11,073 15 10
Total of the half-year to this date, 1856 129,738 18 11
Total of the half-year to this date, 1855 402,423 16 9
GREAT LUXEMBOURG RAlLWAY.—Traffic return for the
week ending Dec. 28, 1856 £697 14 9

M. Ziegler, historical painter, has just expired in Paris,
Amongst other works, the deceased painted the altar-
piece of the Madeleine.
THE QUEEN AND SIR R. PEEL.—PeeI requested that
the principal offices in the Royal household might be
placed at his disposal. It was not, as it would appear,
with Sir Robert, but with the Duke of Wellington himself,
that the idea of making this request first originated. The
young Queen was shocked at it ; it was, the Whigs told
her, an exorbitant pretension, utterly unauthorised by
precedent. It was added that the great ladies of the
Conservative party had spoken of it as of a triumph over
the Queen, and had said that when they composed her
Court they would be better able to restrain her within
constitutional limits than the Whigs had been. Im-
pertinence is sometimes a useful weapon, but more
frequently it is a dangerous pleasure. On the day
after Sir Robert had made 'his demand, he received
from the Queen the following note :—" The Queen
having considered the proposal made to her yes-
terday by Sir Robert Peel to remove the ladies of her
bed-chamber; cannot consent to adopt a course which
she conceives to be contrary to usage, and which is
repugnant to her feelings." Sir Robert replied in a
long and respectful letter, sensible and constitutionally
true, but rather heavy and as devoid of elegance as of
complaisance. He was evidently better suited to a Par-
liament than to a Court. The negotiation was broken
off, and furnished a subject of debate in both houses.
Ths Conservatives, Wellington and Peel, Maintained
their ..round ; the Whigs vindicated the Queen's refusal,
and declared 6 themselves ready to accept the resP
onsibi-
, lity of it. They at once returned to office, and Sir
R.
Peel, on his side, resumed, for two years more
IS posi-
tion as the ruling spirit of the Opposition.—Uuzzot's Me-
ntoirs of Sir Robert Peel.
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