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me personally to know that whatever little differences of
opitnon there may have beets between us, there has sub-
sisted no p trsonel hostility on either side. lam confi-
dent there has been none on mine.—(Hear, hear.) I
have never been one of those who attributed unworthy
motives for a course of conduct which I deeply lenient.
I believe that in that step which reduced me to
the paitirul necessity of differing from Sir Robert
Peel's Administration_l believe that in that step
he was acts sled by a sincere and conscientions
desire to attain that which he thought was for the
country's good; and mistaken as I think he was in that
view, I am confident th it on that occasion, as on all
other occasions, that was the leading principle of his ,
public life. I believe that to the promotion of what he
c misidered to be the welfare and interest of the country
he was prep tred to make every sacrifice—(Hear)—and
that indeed in some cases he did make sacrifices so ex.
tensive that I hardly know whether that great and para-
mount object of his country's good was suffilient to ex-
act such sacriicee f.om any public men. But this is not
tie time to speak of dttf •renc,s or disa;reements. A
great man, a gr., at st ttestra,, his passed sway from
among us by a sudden and ioscrut ible dispensation of
Providence. He has left ie the other LI ruse—he his let
among his corn peers e has It ft in his country, a great
void. 'We are cleprivei of the services of a great, a
powerfu!, and a laborious intellect—,f his untl nehing
diligauce—his unsparing epplicati.m of all his bast
talents—of his strength, his health, and all his great,
powers, to the s =rviee of his country. This, my Lee's,
is a moment at which all political considerations must
coast', and at which the most solemn feelings must im
press themselves on your Lordships' minds of the vani y
of all haman hopes and of all human ambition—of the
in. t tbility of tlause things on which the destinies of na-
tions d pond, and ut which it is not unfitting to reeve n.
kr that we are in the hands of one who "rules the de.,
tinies of men for ever and ever."—(flea-, hear.) Ia n
sure that in these views I shall be joined by every m m-
ner of your Lordship,' Rouse—l am sure that I shall
be joined in them by the country at large—l am sure
that I shall be joined in them by universal Eerope.
I believe that we all participate in a feeling
of the? regret for the sudden bereavement
which his family has sustained, and the great
toss which has been inflicted on this country
by the sudden removal of one who in private life was
universally admitted to have been strictly irreproachable
and possessed of every virtue; and to whom, whatever
may have been the differences of our political views, no
man will deny the praise of having been an able, a zeal-
ous, and a conscientious.servant of his country.—(Hear.)
Lord BROUGHAM said—l hope I may be permitted,
with my Noble Friend who last addressed your Lord-
ships, to linger for a moment on a point on which no
difference of opinion can prevail among us. It was my,
fortune during the last 40 years to have been very gene-
rally opposed to the late Sir Robert Peel on those great
questions which agitated this country throughout that
period; and I have live 1 to acknowledge cheerfully
and conscientiously to acknowledge, the splendid merits
of that eminent individual, and to be convinced that even
on those points on which we most widely differed he
acted from the purest and most conscientious motives.
In the last stage of his public life, chequered
as it was, and chequered as I told your Lordship
that it would be, by events of a kind most painful to an
amiable, a generous, and an honourable mind, when,
from purely public-spirited views, he adopted acourse dis-
pleasing to those with whom he bad so long been con-
nected, I said, and I now repeat it, that he had only to
turn from the storm without to the sunshine of an ap-
proving conscience within. Whether he was right, or
whether he was wrong, upon that occasion, lam sure
that the course which he followed was that which he
believed the interests of his country demanded, while, in
pursuing that course, he male sacrifices compared with
which all the other sacrifices I have ever known to have
been made by a public man to a sense of duty sink into
absolute nothingness.—(Hear, hear.) He is now gone
to reap the just rewards of his merits and his patriotism;
and I believe we may not inappropriately apply to him
the words of the great Roman orator:—
" Omnibus, qui l atrium conserveriut, adjuvarint,
auxerint, certain ease in ccelo definitum locum, übi beati
sevo sempiterno frauntur, nihil est enim ills principi
Deo, qui omnem Inane mundum reget, quod q'sidem in
terris fiat, acceptius, qua n concilia, ccwusque hominum,
jure sociati, (lux civitates appellantur: harum rectoret et
conservatores hints proteeti, hue revertuntur."
The Noble and Learned Lord was then about to address
the House on the subject of the proposei exhibition in
Hyde-park, when
The Duke of WELLINGTON, with eyes suffused
with tears, and a voice tremulous with emotion, pro •
ceeded to address their Lordships to the following effect:
—My Lords, I rise to express the satisfaction with
which I heard the language just used both by those
who had throughout the whole of their political lives
been opposed to the late Sir Robert Peel, and by
those who had acted with him until within a recent
period. Your Lordships have borne your testi-
mony to the high and honourable character
of the late Sir Robert Peel. I was long con-
nected with him in public life, and in conducting her
Majesty's councils ; and I had also the honour of en-
joying his private friendship. My Lords, during the
whole course of my acquaintance with him, I never
knew a man animated by a more earnest love of truth, a
stronger sense of justice, or a more invariable desire to
promote the public service.—(Hear, hear.), In the
whole course of my communications with him I have
never known an instance in which he did not show the
strongest at:aehment to truth ; and I never, in the
whole course of my transactions with him, saw de
smallest reason to suspect that he stated anything
that was not eensistent with the fist. I could not
snow this opportunity to pass by without thus stating
what I believe to have been the most character-
istic feature in his charact r, and without expressing
:ny satisfaction at hearing the sentiments uttered by
Noble Lords around me, and at finding the impressien
made on your Lordships by the announcement of this
loss.—(Hear, hear.)
The Duke of CLEVELAND said he happened to
have entered the University of Oxford a few months
after the lat t Sir R. Peel. He had ever since had the
advantage of enjoying his friendship, and he had enter-
tsined the most extreme regard for the Right lion.
Baronet, while he looked upon him as one of the greatest
ornaments of this country, and as one of the most emi-
nent and successful of our statesmen.
THE PROPOSED EXHIBIFIOT OF WORKS OF
INDUSTRY IN HYDE-PARK.

Lord CAMPBELL presented a petition from a gen-
tleman of the name of Eiger, an architect, complaining
of the great depreciation of property which had taken
place in the neighbourhood of Knightsbridge, in conse-
quence of the proposal to hold in the adjoining portion
of Hyde-park the exhibition of the works of industry of
all nations in the year 1851. The Noble and Learned
Lord elso read a letter from Mr. Justice Cresawell,
stating the great annoyance to which the adoption of
that proposal would expose the residents in that dis-
riot.
Lord BROUGHAM then rose and said, he had re-
eeived remonstrances couched in the strongest language
against that pro )oaal from 80 most respectable persons
residing at Knightsbridge. The private individuals re-
siding in that neighbourhood had constructed, at their
own expense, Richmond Gate, a very beautiful structure;
and that gate would he ore of the principal pecans of
access to the exhibition. lie had never met any person
who was not connected with the board or with the com-
mission who had hesitated a moment in expressing the
strongest indignation and astonishment at the attempt
which was now about being made to destroy public pro-
perty, and t) invade and infringe upon the sacred rights
of private individuals.—(liear.) He would ask what
right had those persons who were going to build, what
he was about terming a great Tower of Babel—(Laugh-
ter)—but what he might designate an Egyptian Pyramid
—(Laughter)—wh At right, he would ask, had they to do
so? They would cut up the roads in ,the neighbour.
hood of the proposed building in such a manner as would
make it impossible for the inhabitants to reside com-
fortably under the shelter of their own roof;.
\deny hundreds of thousands of tons of materials were
to be drawn about there ; and they were told that no
less than 400 large carts would be erepl,yed daily, and
'or some portions of the day 100 of these would be en-
tering the gates at the rate of one every minute and a
half. The inhabitants called upon their Lordships to
protect them from these nuisances. And all this was to
take place in addition to the ordinary traffic. The erec-
don of an immense steam-engine, too, was a matter of
course. But that, they were told, would consume its own
smoke. It would be very soon found, he feared, as in a
great many similar instances, that its own smoke would
be only partly consume:. But what would be the
conseq maces of having such countless congregations of
multitudes o; suspicious characters, to the Belgrave, the
Kensington, and the surrounding districts. He looked
at that part of the question with serious alarm. The
Government was responsible for the public peace. He
was told that in a financial point of view there were
great difficulties. He would ask whether it was intended
to let the speculators rely on their own resources, or
whether a grant of public money was to be given to
aid them ? He had no doubt the public money would,
in the end, be required for that purpose. dhn aFbroauntcleB,
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_ath and plaster, as that was, this was to be built
of brick and morter, and was to be, moreover, sur-
mounted with a great cupola or dome, which, he would
venture to say, would cost ten times more than might
be calculated. He spoke in an assembly of builders.—
sr, and laughter.) Their Lordships must all of
them have been, at some time or other, engaged in
building operations, and could appreciate the expenses
attenda
ut upon such, especially it there was much super-
intendence on their parts going on during the built-lie*
Lie had on one occasion built a house, and a Noble
Friend of his having asked how much it cost, and having
been told, expressed his astonishment that it should
have cost so little. He hal said that from the time it
was commenced until he went to hang up his hat in it
(t ty.e a common phrase) he has. never gone near it.—
—(Llughtcr.) " (Ya," said his friend, "that must have
been the reason that it cost s) little,for had you
visited it, you might have been making little alterations
here and there that would have made it more expen-
sive." So it would be in the present instance.
The expenses of that building, ho considered, would be
enormous. lie would ask whether the superintendents
of police had been examined as to the consequences of
collecting together such vast masses of persons as were
likely to be drawn there from various causes and motives.
They were told that there were no less than from 70,000
to 80,000 persons in this metropolis without any visible
means of subsistence; and if were added to these the
vast numbers of persons unemployed, the vast numbers
of idlers from London, Westminster, Surrey, as far
down as Deptford and Greenwich, and all to be attracted
to Hyde-park to see Lords and ladies, and royalties, and
remarkable personages; and supposing all these indi-
viduals collected round the greal building in Hyde-park,