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

on horseback.

Mr. Hare, on foot. Mr. Twells, on foot.
1. Mourning Coach Page on foot.
Attendant. containing the Attendant.
of Gibraltar.

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 Benjamin Brodie,
Mr. Hodgson.
4. Mourning Coach.

Attendant. Four Pall- Bearers. Attendant.
5. Mourning Coach.
Attendant. Four Pall-Bearers. Attendant.
Mute on horseback. Mete on horseback.
Page. Man with Page.
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. D.kurning Coach and Four.
Sir Robert Peel, Bart ,
Page on foot. Frederick Peel, E q., M.P. Page on foot.
Captain William Peel, R.N.
7. Mourning Coach and Four.
Arthur Peel, Eeq.,
Page on foot. Captain John Peel, Scotch Page on foot.

Fusilier Guards.
Lord Villiers.
8. Mourning Coach and Four.
The Very Rev. the Dean of Worcester.
Page on foot. Colonel Peel, M.P. Page on foot.
Lawrence Peel, Esq.
C. Mourning Coach and Four.
The Right Hon. 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 , son of the Dean of Worcester.
Page. Archibald Peel, Esq., rage.
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 male 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-
don 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.

'Tie 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 (nter 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 before the mournful cavalcade had reached
Drayton Bassett, several thousands had collected
there. The parish church is one of those quiet old
country structures built in remote and pious times,
when the population of the rural districts being
small, the number of Sabhath-worshippers collected
in the house of God was also small. Looking across
the park, its square tower and low-pitched roof may
be seen modestly nestled among the trees, as if em-
blematic of Christian humility. A nearer examina-
tion of the church does not detract from the impres-

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sion which the more distant view creates. A portion
of it is very old, while other parts show signs cf
modern renovation ; but within and without, the
whole building is a simple, small, and primitive look-
ing place of worship. It is surrounded by one 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 wane,
are cf 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 people, and in
the body of the church there is the usual arrangement
of pews, only that they aro made of ordinary woos,
in the plainest manner, and that there appears to he
no distinction between those set apart for the lord of
the m tnor 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 tbe 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 ride walls, the most conspicuous of
these being one which bears the following simple
inscription :
"In a vault beneath this church are deposi el the re-
mains of Sir Robert Peel, Part., of Drae ton 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 .Pei was born Sib
March, 1766, and died 28th Dccember, 1803.
"Their children have raised this monumnt to the
memory of their beloved parents as a token of gratitude."
Besides the tablets on its walls there are also f ner
escutcheons displayed there, conspicuous among
which is the coat-of-arms of the Peel fiinily. 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 in 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 embellish-
ments and its splendid sepulchral associations. Shortly
before tbrea 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. A. Peel.

Mr. F. Peel
Mr. W. Peel.

The Very Rev. the Dean cf Lord Villiers.
Worcester.
Mr. Lawrence Peel. Colonel Peel.
The Very Rev. the Dean of The Right Hon. G. R. Dew.
York. son.
Captain Peel, son of Right
Hen. W. Y. Peel.
Mr. R. Peel, son of Dean of Captain E. Peel, son of Ed-
Worcester. mend Peel.

Sir J. Floyd

Captain Charles Lenox Peel. Archibald Peel, son of Colo-
nel Peel.
The Lord Ha,iley. Robert Peel Dawson.
General Yates. Sir Hume Campbell.
The Corporation of Tamworth,
Two and two.

Mr. Rhoades, jun. Mr. Rhoades, sen.
The pall-bearers were—Sir James Graham, Lord
Aberdeen, Lord Hardinge, Sir Francis Lawley, Mr.
Goulburn, Mr. B. Denison, 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 for doing so
having arrived—the coffin was removed from its stand
in the centre of the aisle, 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 mernix.ri 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 Peal.
Those who have been always accustomed to regard
him in the light of a public man will attribute to
general considerations the decision which induced
him to prefer a quiet resting-place in the parish
church of Drayton Bassett to the honours with which
Parliament and the Crown were anxious to celebrate
his obzequies ; 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
services with all the keen enjoyment of youth.
He not only liked the country for the pleasures it
afforded, but for the business occupations which it
also supplied. Toe pressure of publie 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 estate. His
principal property extends westward from the Manor-
house, which is almost on its very, but he has left
detached estates all round the neighbourhood, pc-
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 on 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, it' not to
_rival, at least to
imitate.

Among the personal friends of the late Sir Robert
Peel present at the interment yesterday, we observed
Mr, Sidney Herbert. It is almost needless to say
that at Tamwprtla during the entire day buSiness was
comp'etely suspended, the shop doors and windows
being closed, and the habitants in mourning. The
banner of the ,Townsends 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 bear, been determined to
offer the vacant seat for the borough to his heir, the
third Sir Robert

There is nothing yet definitively known as to the
bulk or disposltion of the deceased's personal property,
whidh it is generally supposed will prove equal to
that'of his father.. In reference to the first Sir Ro-
bert Peel, his children, and his wealth, it may not be
irrelevant to tadd a few data. When increasing
age Induced the'foitner 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
Manor, watching with interest the progress in life of
his numerous descendants; indeed, so patriarchal was
his ftimily that on the anniversary of his seventy-
eighth birthday, in 1828, he presented a silver medal
to each of fig children and grand•childrer. To-
wardi his necissitems neighbours and dependants he
was,s most geperous 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.
lii this respect histonduct is honourably contrasted with
that hf Arkwright, 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 issue,
byliis first wiTersi* sons and five daughters. His
family consiste;el of
Mary, married in 1816 to the Right Hon. George
Itabert Dawson,.of Castle Dawson, in the county of
Londonderry,. lieland, for many years M.P. for
DerrY, filled several subordinate offices under his
brother's Government, and is now deputy chairman
of Eicise; 1
Elizabeth, riatried.in 1805 to the Very Rev. Wil-
li:din Cockburn,lll ean of York, and since deceased_ ;is
Robert, the 'tate-baronet, married in 1820.1,ee niolw
eldest son, the' present baronet, Sir Rdobert
the
elswiss
twenty-Eight, has long been connecte with
after obtain-
Embassy. Ins settood son,
Frederick,nence at Trinity Col-
ing.COnsidera
. returned for Leo-
14ge,,Cambrid beenZliAla"Sinielyerni
Minster to Pa.littment, where 112 has given fair pro-
mise of future' excellence by some sensible speeches
on colonial and bankruptcy questions. His third eon,
William, having distinguished himself as a midship-
man in the late disturbances in the Chinese waters,
is now, at the age of five-and-twenty, a captain in