The Sun.
London, England, 1850-07-15 00:00:00

" TO SIR ROBERT PEEL, BART.

" Sir,—We beg to address you with feelings of sincere
respect and sympathy.
" The affliction with which it has pleased Almighty
God to visit you is so overwhelming that we are at a
loss to express our sense of it. We shrink from intru-
ding upon privat,3 sorrow, and yet we experience some
relief to our elves in assuring you of our profound

sympathy with Lady Peel, 3'ourich; and all the Elem.
berg of 3 our affl:cted family.
"It is beyond our power to estimate the loss to Tam.
worth and the neighbourhood occasioned by this mos

mournful event. Rot only do we bear our full share in
the calamity which has befallen the nation in the
removal of a most exalted statesman from the councils
of our beloved Monarch—not only do we mingle our
grief with science, literature, and art, over the grave of
their most generous patron, but there M added to our
share in the common deprivation the loss of a represen-
t tive in the ::'enate, whose cure for our interests was
only equAled by his diligence in his Parliamentary
duties ; and to this we must add the still greater loss of
one from among us whom long-tried experience had
taught us all, both rich and poor, to love and respect in
the closer relations k f neighbour and friend.
"In so great a trial as that which has now befallen
you, we know that human consolation must be unavail-
ing, hut we venture to offer you this tribute of our re-
peet ful sympathy, both as a means of evincing our hearty
attachment to yourself and your family, and as some
alleviation of our common sorrow. _ _ _

" Above all, we heartily pray that He who ht.th dealt
the blow may administer the balm, and enable you to de-
rive comfort from la fleeting upon the honourable and
patriotic public career and the private worth and distin-
guishing excellences which won general respect and
admiration for your illustrious parent.
" Signed on behalf of a public meeting of the inhabi-
tants of the borough of Tamworth and the neigh-
b.;urhood, this sth day of July, 1850.
"JOHN BUTLER, Mayor e.f Tamworth."
To this address Sir Robert Peel replied as fol-
lows
" Gentlemen,—Bowed down under the heavy ufiliction
with which it pleased Almighty God to visit so sud-
denly my family and myself, we gratefully acknowledge
all expressions of sympathy, especially when so feelingly
coupled, as in the present instance, with assuraoces of
respect and admiration fer the memory of that great
and good man, our father; and while such expressionp,
almost universal throughout the country, cannot alleviate
the mental aufferings of our dear mother and ourselves,
they tend at least to animate us with a consciousness
that his services have met with that appreciation from
his fellaw-countrymen which it was his pride to
aspire to.
"In truth, gentlamen, in the father we lament you
have lost not only a z aloes representative in the House
of Commons, but a friend and neighbour; for while it
was his delight, when relaxation from Parliamentary
duties afforded him the opportunity, to cultivate the so-
ciety- and frit ndsbip of those whose acquaintance and
esocm—tilroost, indeed, from childhood, it had been his
good fortune to enjoy, he had ever at heart what be ap-
prehended wou:d most contribute to the prosperity of
Tam worth and the neighburhood, and to the interests
ethic!: in Parliament had so long been confided to his
charge,
"In my own nano, oentleinen, and in that of my fa-
mily, I bstg to thank Sou matt sincerely for the sery
kind cxpie,sioes made use of in this address of condo-
le-tea which you now present me on behalf of a meeting
of the inhabitants of Tamworth and the neighbourhood;
and I pray you to convey my earnest acknowledgments
to those whom you here represent, assuring you that,
with the same desire to continuo those friendly rilations
which so long existed between yourselves, gentlemen,
and my late father, it will ever be my constant endea-
vour to render myself in public estimation nut un•
worthy of his great name."

The following address of condolence from the Town
Council of Huli wes forwarded on Saturday to Mr. F.
Peel, M.P., by the Right Hon. M. T. Baihe3, M.P. for
that borough:—
" At a special meeting of the Town Council of the
Borough of Kingston-upon-Hull, July 11, 1850 :
Rcbolted,—That this Council, representing the opi-
nions of ail classes of the inhabitants of Hull, desires to
express its dei-p sorrow for the loss which the British
empire has sustained by the sudden death of that emineat
statesman the Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel, who for the
long period t,f forty years devoted his great talents, his
hign persuasive eloquence, his untiring industry, and his
woneei fal administrative capacity, to the advane e:new, of
the prosperity of his native country in the House of
Commons.
" That, as a tribute of respect to the memory of the
deceased statesman, and of sympathy for the inestimable
loss which has been sustained by the family of oue not
less distinguished for the purity of his private than for
the patriotism of his public life, this council begs to be
allowed to convey to Lady Peel, and to the other mem-
bers of the deceased Right Honourable Baronet's fa-
mily, this most sincere expression of the general sorrow
with which the Town Council and the whole people of
Hull have received the intelligence of a bereavement
in which (reverently submitting to the wisdom and
power of God) they recognise a great and irreparable
loss to this country and to the civilized world."
(Signed) " THOMAS THOMPSON, Town Clerk."

THE SURGICAL TREATMENT OF

SIR R. FEEL.

Last week it was our painful duty to describe the
injuries received by the late universally lamented Sir
Robert Peel at the time of his fatal accident, as far as
they were ascertained by his professional attendants.
After reading the authentic statement which we were
enabled to publish, there could be but one opinion as
to the extraordinary and unusual nature of those in-
juries. We believe that the lesions caused by the
accident present a case in surgery without a precedent.
Dissatisfaction has been expressed in some quarters
because a decisive examination of the patient was not
insisted upon within a few hours after the accident,
so that the extent of the injuries might have been
ascertained. Remarks, too, have been Made respect-
ing the slight amount of medical and surgical treat-
ment resorted to by his medical advisers. * These
observations could only be made from misapprehen-
sion respecting the powers of endurance, and the
constitutional peculiarities of the great statesman
whose loss is so profoundly deplored. We believe
his two principal attendants— Sir Benjamin Brodie
an .l Mr. Hodgson, than whom the world could not
produce more able and judicious surgeons—enter-
tained from the first but little hopes of his recovery.
Their apprehensions were based on a long and inti-
mate knowledge of the physical organization and ner-
vous temperament of the patient. Mr. Hodgson, we
know, had attended Sir Robert Peel, at Tamworth,
for upwards of thirty years, and Sir Benjamin Brodie
had also enjoyed a long professional intercourse with
him. It will be remembered that after the fatal acci-
dent Sir Robert Peel fainted several times before he
reached his hcu e in Whitehall-gardens, and again
upon his seeing Lady Peel. His estcessive sensibility
to pain had always been most romarkable. Like
Cicero, Demosthenes, and other renowned orators, his
nervous system was so finely and delicately wrought
as to render him singularly impati ant and sensitive
under suffering. It is probable that a more striking
example of this physical and mental peculiarity was
never witnessed: Oaly three weeks before his death,
he was visiting the Zoological Gardens in the Regent's-
perk, with one of his daughters, when a small
monkey jumped suddenly upon his hand; he im-
mediately fainted, and remained much affected by
the incident during two or three hours. On
another occasion his thumb was injured by
being squeezed through the shutting of a door, and
the pain, though not more than is oc mmon in such
cases, caused him to faint several times in succession.
With such a condition of the nervosis and
systems, we need not wonder that serious results
should have been apprehended on the late unfortunide
occasion. It is not surprising that Sir Robert Peel
should have been unable to bear the ordinary
bandages, or that a minute manipulation of the injured
parts was not thought advisable. The question is
suggested, whether the result would have been diffe-
rent if the sufferer had been treated like an ordinary
patient in a public hospital ? But to this a second
question may be added. If a thorough surgical ex-
amination had been insisted upon, it is quite possible,
nay, even probable, that Sir Robert Peel might have
died under the operation ; or, if he bad not died, that
the gravest complications might have arisen from the
suffering and distress caused by the- necessary mani-
pulations. Of these dangers Sir Benjamin Brodie
and Mr. Hodgson must have been thoroughly con-
scious, and we are inclined to give of tr full and entire
concurrence to the judicious caution. they observed.
With one of the most valuable lives 'in the kingdom
under their hands, they were not justeified in incurring
such additional risk and danger. It would have been
and held as aare sure,disgrace.
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would be the opinion of all surgeonslilie .ofjudgment, and
experience.—Lancet.

7.7"-Zw
ECCLESIASTICAL APPOINTMENTS —The Rey. Thos.
Jackson, D D., is appointed Bishop of Lyttelton, New Zea-
land. The Rev. Francis Falford, D.D is appointed Bishop
of Montreal.

By an error committed on the lk e of telegraph
from Bayonne, in anntuncing the death of Sir Robert Peel,
the name of Palmella was substituted for that of the Hon.
Baronet. The Madrid journals have, in. cc o- sequence of this
error, been making long commentaries on the consequences
which may result to Portugal from the clef .th of the tJuke of
Palmella.