The Sun.
London, England, 1850-07-10 00:00:00

on horseback.

Principal Tenants
two and two,
on horseback.

on horseback.

Mr. Hare, on foot. Mr. Twells, on foot.
1. Mourning Coach Page on foot.
Attendant. containing the Attendant.
BiThop of Gibraihr.
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2. Mourning Coach
Attendant containing the incumbents of Attendant.
Tamworth, Drayton, Nuneaton, Fazeley.
3. Mourning Coach

drawn by two horns, Page.
Attendant. containing Attendant.
Sir Be: j mein Brodie,
Mr. Hodgson.
4. Mournmg Coach.
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Attendant. Four I'all-Bearers,

Attendant.

5. Mourning Coach.
Attendant. Four Pall-Bearers. Attendant.
Mute on horseback. Mate on horseback.
Page. Man with rage.
Mute on horseback. plumes. Mute on horseback.
Five Under- HEARSE Five Under-
Bearers. drawn by four horses. Bearers.
Mr. West, on foot. Mr. Adams, on foot.
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6. Mourning Coach and Four.
Sir Robert Peel, Bart.,

Page on foot. Frederick Peel, E.g., M.P. Page on foot.
Captain William Peel, R.N.
7. Mourning Coach and Four.
Arthur Peel, lit,q.,
Page on foot. Captain John Peel, Scotch Page en foot.
Fusilier Guards.
Lord Villiers.
8. Mourning Coach and Four.
The Very Rev. toe Dean of Worcester.
Page on foot. Colonel Peel, M.P. Page on foot.
Lawrence Peel, Esq.
9. Mourning Coach and Four.
The Right Hcn. G. R. Dawson.
The Very Rev. the Dean of York.
Page. Sir John Floyd. Page.
Captain Peel, 6th Enniskillen Dragoons,
Son of the Right Hon. William Yates Peel.
10. Mourning Coach and Four.
Captain Edward Peel, 10th Hussars,
Son of Edmund Peel, Esq.
Robert Peel, Esq , so❑ of the Dean of Worcester.
Page. Archibald- Peel, Esq., Page.
Son of Colonel Peel, M.P.,
Captain Charles Lennox Peel,
Son of Lawrence Peel, Esq.
11. Mourning Coach and Four.
Robert Peel Dawson, Esq ,
Page. Lord Harley, Page.
Sir Hume Campbell,
General Yates.
12. Mourning Coach, containing the House Steward
and Butler.
The Corporation of Tamworth,
in five carriages.
The late Sir R. Peel's Private Carriage.
Mr. Rhoades, jun. Mr. Rhoades, sen.
The tenantry and the corporation of Tamworth
did not join the procession until it had made some
little progress on its way. Conspicuous in the
cortege was the hearse, with its waving plumes and
the panels on which the heraldic bearings of the de-
ceased were emblazoned. Nor did the motto, " In-
dustria," inscribed on the family escutcheon, fail to
attract universal notice, vividly as it recalled the ca-
reer of the departed statesman, his unwearied appli-
lion to business, and his untiring activity of mind.
As the procession passed on its way, the spec-
tators exhibited every mark of respect for the
memory of the deceased, and of sympathy for his
family.

The road which leads from the manor-house to
the parish church of Drayton Bassett is a rather cir-
cuitous one, but there is a short cut across the park,
of which a large portion of the assemblage availed
themselves in order to witness, if possible, the close of
the funeral rites, and at least to see the pro-
cession enter the sacred edifice. At this period
of the day it again rained heavily, but the people
were not to be deterred from their purpose, and
long be f)re the mournful cavalcade had reached
Drayton ar:thett, several thousands had collected
there. The patish church is one of those quiet old
country structures built in remote and pious times,
when the pliaiLtion of the rural districts being
7nDl), the number of Sabbath-v,,ershippers collected
in the house of God was al.io small. Looking err. ~s
the park, is square tower and low-pitched roof may
be seen rnod-!,tly nestled among the trees, as if em-
blematic of Christian humility. A nearer examina-
, tion of the church does not detract from the impres-

• 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 surrounded by oae of
those old-fashioned churchyards in which grave-
stones appear to have been flung down or stuck en
and promiscuously, without any reference to
the persons beneath .them. The interior is
a plain apartment with a slightly-arched
ceiling, the materials of which, and the side walls,
are of common plaster, whitewashed at some former
period, 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 Triple, and in
the body of the church there is the usuali arrangement
of pews, only that they are made of ordinary wood,
in the plainest manner, and that there appears 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 appointed 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 aide walls, the most conspicuous of
these being one which bears the following simple
inscription :
• "In a vault beneath thia church aro deposited the re-
mains .of Sir Robert Peel, Bart., of Drayton Manor, and
of Lady• Peel his wife, daughter of William Yates,
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 raised 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 Peel family. , 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 en aper-
ture within the porch. No other alteration appeared
to have been made in the place, which now contains
all that remains to us of the great statesman of pro-
gress. Such is the humble resting-place fur his
ashes which Sir Robert Peel deliberately preferred to
Westminster Abbey, with its rich Gothic embellish-
ments and itssplendid sepulchral associations. Shortly
before three 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 Rev. the Dean of Lord Villiers.
Worcester.
Mr. Lawrence Peel. Colonel Peel.
The Very Rev. the Dean of The Right Hon. G. R. Dais.
York. son.
Captain Peel, son of Right
Hon. W. Y. Peel.
Mr. R. Peel, son of Dean of Captain E. Peel, son of Ed-

Sir J. Floyd .

Worcester. rimnd Peel.
Captain Charles Lenox Peel. Archibald Peel, son of Colo-
nel Peel.
The Lord Harley. Robert Pe•tl Dawson.
General Yates. Sir Home Campbell.
The Corporation of Tamworth,
Two and two.

Mr. Rhoades, jun. Mr. Rhoades, sen.
The pall-bearers were—Sir J4wes Graham, Lord
Aberdeen, Lord Hardinge, Sir Francis Lawley, Mr.
Goulburn, Mr. B. Dauson, Sir George Clerk, and
Mr. Hobhouse.

The procession having entered the church, the
coffin was placed on a stand in the aisle, and the board
of plumes laid upon it. The Bishop of Gibraltar then
began, in a very solemn manner, and amidst the most
reverential silence, to read the funeral service of the
Church. At last—the proper moment fcr doing so
having arrived—the coffin was re moved from its stand
in the centre of the aide, and slowly lowered into the
vault, and the Bishop, moving forward to the mouth
of the vault, read the affecting and beautiful lan-
guage of the Church in a voice which at many points
became broken with emotion. The members of Sir
Robert's family, leaving their seats, gathered round
the grave of their illustrious relative, and amidst
many a tear, which those who shed them endeavoured
in vain to check or hide, the solemn words were pro-
nounced, " Ashes to ashes, dust to dust." When the
reading of the service was concluded the sons of the
deceased advanced to the mouth of the vault, and each
in his turn took a last farewell.
Thus terminated the funeral of Sir Robert Peel.
Those who have been always accustomed to regard
him in the light of a public man will attribute to
general considerations tho decision which induced
him to prefer a quiet resting-place in the parish
church of Drayton Bassett to the honours wide which
Parliament and the Crown were anxious to celebrate
his obsequies ; but, perhaps, other motives had a
share in influencing his conduct. Sir Robert was
passionately fond of a country life, and withdrew to
Tamworth after the fatigues of his Parliamentary
cervices with ail the keen enjoyment of youth.
He not only liked the country fur the pleasures it
afforded, but for the business occupations which it
also supplied. Tae pressure of public duties, great
as it must have been, was not allowed to betray him
into negligence of his private affairs, and the same
industrious, investigating, and cautious spirit which
he brought with him to the concerns of the nation
he carried into the management of his estates. His
principal property extends westward from the Manor-
house, which is almost on its verge, but he has left
detached estateis:all:round the neighbourhood, be..
sides that at Blackburn, in Lancashire. The inhe-
ritance which he has left to his children is a splen-
did one, but one which still remains to be filled up
to the scale ore which the purchases originally made
were calculated. Wealth, however, he has not alone
bequeathed to them—he has left them his great
name and reputation to uphold, and his private
virtues and patriotism, if not to :rival, at least to
imitate.

Among the personal frientls of the late Sir Robert
Peel present at the interment yesterday, we observed
Mr. Sidney Herbert. It is almost needless to say
that at Tamworth during the entire day business was
comp'etely suspended, the shop doors and windows
being closed, and the inhabitants in mourning. The
banner of the Townseods waved half-mast high from
the castle, and every mark of respect was exhibited by
the town's people to the memory of their deceased
representative. It has, we hear, been determined to
offer the vacant seat for the borough to his heir, the
third Sir Robert Peel.

There is nothing yet thfinitively known as to the
Lea or disposition of the deceased's personal property,
which it is generally supposed will prove equal to
that of his fattier. In reference to the first Sir Ro-
bert Peel, his children, and his wealth, it may not be
irrelevant to add a few data. When increasing
age induced the former wealthy baronet to retire from
public life, at the general election in 1820,he resigned
the borough of Tamworth to his eldest son. He
passed the rest of his life tranquilly at Drayton
Minor, watching with interest the progress in life of
his numerous descendants; indeed, so patriarchal was
his family that on the anniversary of his seventy-
eighth birthday, in 1828, he presented a silver medal
to each of fifty children and grand•children. To-
wards his necessitous neighbours and dependants he
was a most generous patron • in consequence of his
munificence many of those who were in his confiden-
tial employment have risen to be the proprietors of
large commercial and manufacturing establishments.
In this respect his conduct is honourably contrasted with
that of Ark wright, who is said to have been meanly
jealous of the prosperity of every one with whom he
was connected. He died May 3, 1830, leaving isssse,
by his first wife, six sons and five daughters. His
' family consisted of—
Mary, married in 1816 to the Right Hon. George
Robert Dawson, of Castle Dawson, in the county of
Londonderry, Ireland, for many years M.P. for
Derry, filled several subordinate offices under his
brother's Government, and is now deputy chairman
of Excise;
Elizabeth, married in 1805 to the Very Rev. Wil-
liam Cockburn, Dean cl*York, and since decease:] ;
R.Thert, the late hatohet, married in 1820. Ills
eldest seri, the present batonet, Sir Robert Peel, now
twenty-eight, has lencche6n connected with theiSwi‘s
Embassy. His second son, Frederick, after cota-n-
Mg considerable classical eminence at Trinity Cal-
h beene returnedhas givin ffaoV114(.100-.
linefrcs'tCer'tobPri:iirglel;
of future cycOltqice by some sensible speeches
rnh:ln\lawtebleyre
~n colonial and bankrOCcy questions. II s third son,
William' having di,tingu6hed himself as a milship-
man in the late disturbances in the Chinese waters,
is now, at the age of five-wad-twenty, a captain in