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sion which the more distant view creates. A portion
of it is very old, while other parts show signs of
modern renovation ; but within and without, the
whole building is a simple, small, and primitive look-
ing place of worship. It is surrounde i by one of
those old-fashioned churchyards in which erive-
stows appear to have brea flung down or stink on
and promiscuously, without any ref,rence to
the persons beneath them. The ietsrior is
a plain apartment with a slightly-arched
ceiling, the materials of which, and the side watiF,
are if common plaster, whitewashed at. some former
perky), but now rather in need of a repetition of that
operation. At the west end there is a small gallery,
capable of containing twenty or thirty and in
.the body of the church there is the usual are ogement
of pews, only that they are made of ordinary wood,
in the plaimst manner, and that there appeais to be
no distinction between those set apart for the lord of
the manor and those occupied by his tenants. A
glance at the.modesty of everything which meets the
eye satisfies one of the simple tastes of the congrega-
tion which here collects on the appoint-d day to en-
gage in acts of devotion. -There is a large window
at the east end of the building, but it does not con-
tain a single piece of stained glass. A few plain
marble slabs, bearing upon them short inscriptions,
are let into the side walls, the most conspicuous of
these being one which bears the following simple
inscription :
"In a vault beneath this church aro deposied the re-
mains of Sir Robert Peel, Bart., of Drayton Manor, and
of Lady Peel his wife, daughter of William Yates' EN,
of Bury, Lancashire. Sir Robert was born 25th of April,
1750, and died 3d May, 1830. Lady Peel was born sth
March, 1766, and died 28th December, 1803. . .

" Their children have rai,ed this monument to the
memory of their beloved parents as a token of gratitude."
Besides the tablets on its walls there are also four
escutcheons displayed there, conspicuous among
which is the coat-of-arms of the Peelfamily. Yes-
terday the altar, the pulpit, and the pews usually oc-
cupied by Sir Robert's household were hung with
black cloth. The family vault is entered by an aper-
ture within the porch. No other alteration appeared
to have been made i❑ the place, which now contains
all that remains to us of the great statesman of pro-
gress. Such is the humble resting-place for his
ashes which Sir Robert Peel deliberately preferred to
Westminster Abbey, with its rich Gothic mbellish-
ments and its splendid sepulchral associations. Shortly
before threw o'clock the funeral procession arrived at
the entrance of the sacred edifice in the following
order :

Two Mutes.
The Bishop of Gibraltar.
Two Clergymen.
Two Clergymen.
Sir Benjamin Brodie.
Two Mutes.
Board of Plumes.
Mr. Mark Cooke. Mr. Mathews.
Two Undertakers.
Two Undertakers.

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Mr. G. Peel. Mr. F. Peel
Mr. A. Peel. Mr. W. Peel.
The Very llev. the Dean of Lord Villiers.

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..T.7L 1?. royal ravy, Hi .i frurth 6.3 n, • la Fl7,yi Peel, is
an officers in the ...icot.ch Fusilier Guards. his fifth
son, Arthur ViTelleAey Peel, is still, we believe, at
college. His eldest daughter is married to Viscount
Villiers, son of the Earl of Jcrsey ; and one daughter,
Eliza, remains unmarried. The mother of these
child: en, as already skated, is the daughter of the late
General Sir John Floyd, Bart., who was second is
command at the taking of Seringapatam, and whose
son, the present baronet, is a colonel, who has seen
much service in the Peninsula, Waterloo, and sub-
sequently ;
William- Yates Peel, married, in 1819, Lady Jana
Eiiza More, sister of th, Earl of 11Luntcashell, and
since deceased ;

Edmund, mt:rried in 1812 to Emily, daughter of
John Svtinfhn, Eq, SA info', in Staffordshire;
Elermor and Anne, who died young ;
John, mimed' in 1824 another daughter of John
Swinfen, ;
Jonaihan, inarritd in 1824 to Lady Alicia Jane
K.-rink-4, daughter of the Earl of Cassia.; ;
Barrie', -married in 1824 to Robert Henley E 'en,
son of Lord , now Dowver•Lady Henley;
Aryl, 14-:wrerxe, rrnirried in 1822 to Lady Jane
sister of the Duke of itichniond, since
dt-c.•fts,.d.

lest his fir; t. lady, Sir R Jbert Peel mzrried,
sect,: ds, 0c:01-er 18, 1805, Ali!s Susannah Clarke, a
of the rector or his parish at Bury, the late
Sir William Henry Clark:, Bart. This lady
d.e:l September ID, 18'24, in her seventy-second year,
leaving no isinr.
We insert an abstract of the will of the first Sir
Rubel t Peel, not to gratify idle curiosity, but to show
how great are the priy,,?s to be gained by energy, en-
terprise, and intelligence, in a commercial country.
After entailing Drayton-park and the other large
estates in StiATordshire and Warwickshire, it proceeds
to recite sums, to tl,e amount of nearly a quarter of
a million, previously advanced to, or settled upon, his
several children (na including 9,000/. per annum
settled on his eldest son), and then bequeatbes about
600,000/. more, making the portions of his five
younger sons 106,0001. each, and those of his
daughters 53,0001. each. He leaves to a chapel
erected by bin, at Fazeley, in Staffordshire, 1,0001.
(ater wards revoked because he had endowed it with
hinds), and 6,0001. to a school, established by him in
the said village ; to the Infirmary and Lunatic Asy-
lum in Manchester, and the Lying-in-Hospital in
Salford, 100/. each. The will is dated July 27, 1820.
By a codicil of Feb. 11, 1825, the portions of his
younger sons are increased to 135,0001.; and of the
residue, which is said to have exceeded half a mil-

lion, four-ninths ~sere bequeathed to the late baronet,
and one-ninth to each of his five younger sons. The
pt•rsonal property was -sworn at what is technically
called " upper value," which means that it exceeded
900,0001., and was the first instance of the scale of
duties extending to such a sum. The probate stamp
was 15,000/., and the legacy duties amounted to about
10,0001. more.

BURY, L ANC A S IRE,—TIIESDAY.
This town, the birth-place of the late Sir Robert Pie),
presented this day a more striking and serious aspect
than is generally the case on Sundays even; the shops
being closed and business suspended for several hours
in the middle of the day. The bells rang muffled peals,
and, altoother, more deep and general regret was up-,
parent than has, p, rhaps, with the solitary exception of
the occasion of the death of the Princess Charlotte, been
ever before known. A public rat sting will be held in
the Town-hull to-morrow, in compliance with a
requisition to the magistrates, which received, In
ore day, the signatures ( I eighty of the most respectable
inhabitants of the town and neighbourhood, including
the rector, the returning officer, the churchwardens, and
the clergy, both Protestant and Catholic, of Bury and
the neighkurhood, and men of all shades of political
opinion.

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