The Sun.
London, England, 1850-07-16 00:00:00

Edwards, IL

Egerton, W. T.
Evans, Sir De Lacy
Evans, John

Evelyn, %Wham J.
Fagan, William
FeHowes, E.
Fitzroy, lion. H.
Floyer, John

Forbes, W.
Fox, S. W. L.

Fox, W. J,

Frewen, C. H.

MINORITY—NOES, 122.
Anson, Colonel Graham, Sir James Moffatt, George
Armstrong, Sir A. Grenfell, C.tPascoe 3folesworth, gir W.
Mille, H. J. Grenfell, Charles W. Morison, Sir W.
Baines, M. T. Grey, Sir George Mostyn, E. M.
Baring, Sir F. Grey, Ralph Wm. Mowatt, Francis
Barnard, Edward G. Hamilton, Lord C. O'Connell, M. J.
Bass, M. T. Hardeastle, J. A. Ogle, S. C.
Beckett, W. Harris, Richard Ord, William
Bellew, R. M. Thistle, Archibald Owen, Sir John
Berkeley, Admiral Hatenell, John Paget, Lord Clarence
Birch, Sir T. Hawes, Benjamin Palmerston, Vis.
Blackstone, W. Herbert, Sydney Parker, John
Bouverie, E. P. Heyworth, L. Powlett, Lord W.
Boyle, Colonel Hobhouse, Sir J. Pusey, I'.
Bright, John Hobhouse, T. B. Rawdon, Colonel
Brockman. E. D. Iloward, Lord E. Rice, E. R.
Brotherton, Joseph Howard,C.W.G. Rich, Henry
Brown, William Howard, J. K. Robartes, T. J.
Buxton, Sir E. Howard, E. G. Roche, E. B.
Carter, J. B. Howard, P. II Romilly, Colonel
Caulfeild, J. M. Hume, Joseph Russell, Lord John
Cavendish, C. C. II umphery, Ald. Seymour, Lord
Cobden, Richard Hutt, William Shell, R. L.
Colebrooke, Sir T. Kildare. Marquis Slaney, Robert A.
Cowper, W. F. Labouchere, Henry Smith, John Abel
Craig, Sir W. G. Lascelles, W. S. Smith, M. Tucker
Dawson, T. V. Lemon, Sir C. Smith, John B.
Dick, Quintin Lennard, T. B. Somerville, Sir W.
Dundas, Admiral Lewis, Sir T. Spearman, 11. J.
Dundas, Sir David Lewis, G. C. Sutton, II M
Ebrington, Lord Littleton, E. R. Thornely, ThomaS
Ellice, Edward Lockhart, A. E. Towneley, John
Elliot, J. E. Mackinnon, W. A. Townley. It. G.
Enfield, Lord 3l`Gregor, John Tuthell, Heary
Fergus, John M`Taggart, Sir J. Villiers, Charles
Ferguson, Sir R.' Mangles, R. D. Wilson, James
Fitzpatrick, J. W. Watheson, Alex. Wood, Sir Charles
Forester, G. C. Matheson, James Wyvill, Marmaduke
Forster, Matthew Maule, Fox
Fortescue, J. W. Melgund, Viscount
French, F. Milner, W. M.
Goulburn, Henry Mitchell, T. A.

TELLEES.
Hill, Lord Marcus

Ilayter, W. G.

ECCLESIASTICAL COMMISSION BILL.
(IN THE COMMITTEE.)

Clause (And be it Enacted, That, except as hereinafter
mentione4, no dean, canon-residentiary, or minor canon,
hereafter to be appointed in any cathedral or collegiate
church, shall be allowed to hold with his canonry, or minor
canonry, any benefice with cure of souls, except the same be
within the city or place in which the cathedral or collegiate
church is situated), brought up and read a first time:—
Motion made, and Question put, "That the Clause be now
read a second time." The Committee divided :
MINORITY—AYES, 84.
Aglionby, 11. A. Greene, Thomas Pennant, Hon. Col.
Arkwright, G. Grogan, Edward Portal, Melville
Bass, M. T. Guernsey, Lord Pusey, Philip
Blackall, S. W. Hall, Sir B. Renton,-J. C.
Boldero, H. George Henry, Alexander Repton, G. W. J.
Booth, Sir R. G. Hervey, Lord A. Salwey. Colonel
Broadwood, 11. Hildyard, It. C. Scott, Francis
Brockman, E. D. Hood, Sir Alexander Sibthorp, Colonel
Burghley, Lord Hope, A. Simeon, John
Buxton, Sir E. Johnstone, Sir J. Smyth, John G.
Chatterton, Colonel Jolliffe, Sir W. G. Smythe, George
Clay, James Jones, Captain Sotheron, T. H. S.
Clerk, Sir G. Legh, G. C. Spooner, Richard
Cocks, T. S. Lennard, T. B. Stafford, Augustus
Codrington, Sir W. Lennox, Lord A. Stuart, Lord Dudley
Cole, H. A. Lushington, C. Stuart, H.
Decides, W. Manners, Lord J. Thicknesse, R. A.
Denison, Edmund Matheson, Colonel " Thompson. Aid.
Dick, Quintin Miles, Philip W. S. Vane, Lord H.
Disraeli, B. Monsell, William Vesey, T.
Dodd, U. Mailings, J. R. Vyse, R. H.
Egerton, W. T. Mundy, William Waddington, 11. S.
Floyer, John Muntz, G. F. Walmeley, Sir J.
Forbes, William Newport, Viscount Wegg-Prosser, F.
Galway, Viscount Pakington, Sir J. Williams, John
Gladstone, W. E. Palmer, Robert Wortley. S.
Goddard, A. L. Palmer, Bounden TELLERS.
Goulburn, Henry Patten, J. W. Herbert, Sidney
Greene, John Pechell, Sir G. Wood, W. P.

MAJORITY—NOES, 101.
Baines, M. T. Graham, Sir James Norreys, Sir D.
Baring, Sir F. T. Grenfell, C. Pascoe O'Connell, Maurice
Barnard, E. G. Grey, Sir G. Ogle, S. C.
Bellew, R. M. Grosvenor, Lord R. Paget,-.Lord A.
Berkeley, Admiral Hallyburton, Lord Paget, Lord C.
Berkeley, Henry F.
Blackstone, W. S. Hastie, Alexander Parker, John
Bouverie, E. P. Ilatchell, John Pigott, Francis
Boyle, Colone. Hawes, B. Pllkingten, James
Brand, Thomas Harris, Richard Palmerston, Viscount
Headlam, T. E. Rawdon, Colonel
Bright, John Heald, James Ricardo, Osman
Brocklehurst, J. Henley, J. W. Rice, E. R.
Brotherton, Joseph Heywood, James Rich, Henry
Brown, W. Hobhouse, Sir John Robartes, T. J. A.
Carter, J. B. Hobhouse, T. B. Hominy, Colonel
Cavendish, C. C. Hodges,',T. L. Russell, Lord J.
Cholmelty, Sir M. Howard, C. W. Russell, F. C. 11.
Cobden, Richard Howard, J. K. Sandars, George
Colebrooke, Sir T. Hutchins, E. J. Seymour, Lord
Cowper, W. F. Hutt, William Smith, Vernon
Craig, Sir W. G. Jermyn, Earl Smith, M. Tucker
Douglas, Sir C. E. Kershaw, James Smith, J. B.
Drummond, Henry King, P. J. Somerville, Sir W.
Duncan, George Labouchere, Henry Spearman, 11. J.
Dundas, Admiral Lascelles, W. S. Strickland, Sir G.
Dundas, Sir David Lewis, G. C. Thompson, Colonel
Dunne, Colonel Locke, Joseph Thornely, Thomas
Ebrington, Viscount 3l'Cullagh, W. T. Watkins, Colonel
Ellis, John Marshall, J. G. Westhead, J. P.
Elliot, John E. Matheson, J. Willoughby, Sir H.
E wart, William Maule, Fox Wilson, James
Ferguson, Sir R.
Foley, J. H. Morris, David
Fordyce, A. D. 3f ostyn, E.
Forster,-.:31. Newdegate, N.
Freestun, Colonel Melgund, Viscount Wood, Sir Charles
Nichol], John

TELLERS.
Hill, Lord Marcus
Hayter, W. G.

THE TEA. MADE, JULY 15.—The deliveries of
tea from the London warehouses were last week 585,3831b5.
The consumption continues good, and the market healthy.

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I LORD ASHLEY'S POSTAL
ARRANGEMENTS.

From the Leader Weekly Newspaper.)
Sir,—Quite enough, has been written and said on this
subject t i convince any unprejudiced mind of the in-
justice of Lord Ashley's interference with people in the
cauntry obtaining their papers through the medium of
the Post-office. But the way in which a str all portion
of the press and a few news-agents are endeavouring to
support his Lordship in carrying out his one-sided views
deserves sane notice and reprobatior. A report appears
in the columns of the Mornin7 Herald of an intsrview
with Lord John Russell, containing. probably, a greater
q isntity of nonsense and untruth than ever before ap-
peared in a column and a half of that paper. We are
gravely told by the Herald tL at the deputation represented
a large and influential body of proprietors, printers,
publishers, and venders of London weekly papers.
Let us test this assertion by their own report. We
find representatives from Bell's Messenger, the
Britannii. Patriot, Banner, Record, and Christian
'limes. Now, four of the above six papers are avowedly
religious papers, and not published on Saturday or Sun-
day, therefore not hkcly to be affected by the new postal
arrangements—utterly incompetent to judge of the effect
produced on Sattiri'ay papers; unjustly interfering iu a
measure likely to affect the interest of the proprietors e f
papers published on Saturday; unnecessarily and obtru-
sively tendering information to Lord John on a subject
that from their position they are not likely to be well
informed on, and unnecessarily mixing themselves up in I
a question they have no interest in; and have therefore
nu pretension to be called the representatives of Satur-
day and Sunday l apers. Bell's Messenger has long since
ceased to publish on a Sunday, for reasons best known to
the conductors of that journal. So that the Messenger
and the Britannia are the only papers that were repre-
sented by this influential deputation out of forty papers
publishing Saturday cr Sunday editions, and, oddly
enough, toe gentle Man who represented the Brilamia
had not a ward to say on the subject, the whole weight
resting oa the shoulders of Mr. Lee, whose strength is
so great as to enable him to sustain the representation
of the Herald, Standard, St. James's Chronicle, and
Bell's Messenger; so we find him stating to the Marquis
of Clanricarde, who appears to have received a visit
from some of the same gentlemen that occupied Lord
John Russell's time the other morning. The only
printers who chivalrously stepped forward on this occa-
sion were Messrs. Tyler and Reed, printers of the
beforenamed Banner and Patriot. The influential
publishers probably consisted of the gentlemen whose
names grace the imprints of the respective papers, as-
sisted by Mr. Freemen. The news agents were misre-
presented by Mr. Smith, whose religious scruples will
not allow him longer to suffer the Post-office to deliver
papers on a Sunday, though his men and horses are
busily employed every Sunday morning in conveying
Sunday editions of London newspapers to the different
lines of railway for the purpose of bring conveyed in
parcels to be delivered by the country agents, men and
boys, who have been working all the week. Mr. Gilbert,
who appears to have been specially retained by the Seb-
baterians for the purpose of getting up a demonstra.
Lien in their favour, appears from the report to have
given utterance to some original and not very clear
notions of his own. Take an example or two. Mr.
Gilbert " assured Lord John that the cessation of print-
ing, publishing, and selling of newspapers on Sunday
would be a social bent fit." What does the pro-
prietor of the Herald say to this, whose staff of
compositors and editors work on the Sunday to produce
Monday's paper? Perhaps the Herald will explain what
Mr. Gilbert means in this sentence. Again, Mr. Gilbert
says, " if the papers hitherto distributed late on S.Aur-
day afternoons and Sunday mornings were to be sold on
Friday afternoons and Saturday mornings, the sale
would be greatly facilitated and increased, and
their One of morality much improved." Per-
haps Mr. Gilbert is ingenious enough to inform
us by what process the Saturday evening
papers are to be published on Friday afternoon or Sa-
turday morning, aad can also show, by some process of
reasoning', how the tone of morality of any newspaper is
affected by being published on Friday in prefercrce to
Saturday or Sunday. Is the Observer, which is published
on Sunday, less moral than Lloyd's Aewspaper, which
publishes on Friday?
Again, Mr. Gilbert tells us, " that his own experience
convinces him that the London newspaper interest en-
tirely misunderstands its own interest." In all humility
we must differ from this gentleman, and believe the
newspaper proprietors quite as capable of looking after
their own interest as Mr. Gilbert.

However, these are trifling matters compared to the
imposition Mr. Gilbert attempted to practise on Lord
John. He said—" The newspaper agents who trans-
mitted the papers by post to all parts of the kingdom
were, with one exception, entirely in favour of the change
which had taken place in the Post-office arrangements."
Now the Herald reports Mr. Gilbert to have used these
words to,Lord John on the 9th of July, although he was
present at a meeting of news-agents, called by him, elf,
on July the 4th, at which the following amendment was
carried, in spite of the opposition of Mr. Gilbert and his
party _

- "gr. Wild suggested several difficulties, and moved
an amendment to the effect, That the closing of the
Post-office on Sunday for the delivery of newspapers ard
letters is arbitrary and unjust, and that this meeting
considers such a proceeding opposed to the feelings of a
large mass of the people, and pledges itself ti make
every lawrul exertion to get such order rescinded.'
llow much is it to be regretted that Lord John Rus-
sell had not been furnished with a report of the meeting
at which the above resolution was carried.
I refrain from expressing my opinion on the short-
ness of Mr. Gilbert's memory, or the unscrupulous
coney pursued by those ptrsons nho are endeavouring
to assist Lord Ashley in preventing Englishmen re tr.:-
ing newspapers on a Sunday.—l am Sir, yours, &e.,
July 11,1850. A LONDON NEVIS-AGENT.

PURITANICAL INCREASE OF
SUNDAY LABOUR.

(From the Leader.)
Really the public must make a push to rescue the
weekly day of rest from the immense increase of la-
bour entailed upon numbers by Lord Ashley's ill
contrived and hopeless attempt', with the connivance
of Ministers, at converting it into a Puritanical
Sabbath. On every side we are met with com-
plaints at the interruption occasioned by the call for
unpractised hands to do the work of the Post-ofliee in
carrying letters and papers.
In the metropolis, persons connected with Sunday
schools have observed a remarkable falling-off in the
attendance of the boys during the last two or three
Sundays ; the boys having been enticed away by the
wages they can earn in delivering newspapers. A
company for conveying "parcels" throughout the
kingdom receives a new impulse to its activity.
In Manchester, one of the largest newsvendors
advertises that he has engaged a staff of boys "equal
in number to the men employed by the Post a,fliee,"
for the delivery of newspapers on Sunday morning.
In Liverpool, Messrs. Willmer and Smith announce
that they have organized a distribution of newspapers,
by their own messengers, on Sunday morning. "Be-
sides foot-runners they will have sixty mounted
messengers, and, considering the extent of their busi-
ness and the wide range of town and country they
propose to supply, such a staff is by no means too
large." Another newsagent complains that the
change has forced him to become " a Sunday trader,"
which-he never was before. He says he must either
surrender a large part of his business or hire several
messengers to deliver papers to his subscribers on the
holy day.
These are only samples of what is taking place in
every large town.
Nor is this the whole of the evil. Those artisans
and mechanics' who were in the habit of receiving
their London papers by post, on the morning of the
only day in the week when they have leisure to read
them, must now either pay for the delivery or go to
the newsagents for them. As the latter course is ge-
nerally preferred, the result is said to be an increase
of drinking, since the travellers are very apt, when
they meet together at the newsvendor's, to adjourn to
some public-house and discuss the news of the week—
not drily.
The newsagents also justly complain, and the
newspaper proprietors have a still greater right to
complain,
that Government, having imposed a penny
stamp upon each paper, in consideration of i's
being sent postage free, has no right to refuse the
performance of its contract. If it persists in doing
so, the
penny' stamp should be abolished on all news-
papers sent on Sunday. Under the present system,
instead of sending the papers by post, as they were
wont, to Bristol, Birmingham, Manchester, Liver-
pool, and other large towns, the newsagents send
them by the mail train; a very costly process. Now,
were Ministers disposed to act fairly towards the
weekly newspapers, they ought to allow all those
which are thus sent by parcel to be printed on un-
stamped sheets. Unless they do this they are guilty
of taking money under false pretences.
It will be seen that the increased labour is not
limited to the news trade or parcel carriers—ser-
vants and all who receive communications are called
upon to take extra trouble at awkward times. And
the evil will increase—unless the new plan he
abandoned.

[ A DVERTIS EMENT.]—A Person, 75 Yours Old,
cured of a Bad Leg by Holloway's Ointment and PiVs.—Mrs.
Larendon, of No. 2, Richardson's-buildings, Goswell-street,
ever since giving birth to twins, 34 years ago, had suffered
with dreadful wounds in her leg, and which several medical
men, both in France and England, had been unable to cure.
Her sufferings were intense, and oftentimes she was dur;ng long
periods wholly confined to her bed. Ultimately, by the advice
of her friends, she made trial of Holloway's ointment and pills,
and these celebrated remedies have completely healed her
wounds, and she can walk about with the greatest comfort
Sold by all vendors of medicines, and at Professor Holloway's
Establishment, 244, Strand, London.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
LISBON, JULY 9.--lhe royal yacht, Victoria and
Albeit, has arrived !fere. Lord Fitzclarence and his
distinguished party are all well, and have much en-
joyed their voyage out. The yacht has made the most
wonderful passage on record (the quickest ever made
by a steamer from England occupied seventy-eight
hours). The Victoria and Albert has made it in
sixty-five hours. The distance she ran is about 760.
mile-. The current was against her crossing the Bay
of Biscay, by which she lost thirty-nine miles; con-
sequently she averaged a mean speed per hour of 12
knots 2 fms. for sixty-five consecutive hours, an
achievement never before accomplished by any steamer,
and altogether unparalleled.
The yacht brought out a copy of Lord Palmer-
ston's interesting speech on his defence, and delivered
it at the residence of the British Minister at Lisbon
in sixty-six hours from England !
The Stromboli steam-sloop, Commander Lord A.
Beauclerk, stood no chance of keeping company with
the Victoria and Albert; she arrived in the Tagus
29 hours after the royal yacht.
Commodore Martin's squadron are all here, looking
remarkably well, and in most superb order.
The Victoria and Albert will shortly proceed on her
voyage, and may be expected back at Portsmouth the
latter end of this month.

Retribution will leave Woolwich for Greenhi he
on Thursday morning, and thence proceed to Por's.
mouth.

Princess Alice is to come round from Dt ver
on the 25th instant, to be fitted with new boilers at
Woolwich.

Inflexible was commissioned on Satu-dvy arter-
n-on by Commander Peelle Hart lib kJ at Wool-
wich.

Polyphemus arrived at Wro-Awich from Portsmouth
on Sunday evening, in charge of M'. Macdonald,
master-attendant.

PLYMOUTH, MONDAY.—Her Majesty's steam-sloop
Vixen, 6, Commander R. Jenner, came in from the
West Indies on Saturday evening, and proceeded to
Barn Pool. In the early part of the year she was
engaged conveying the Governor of Barbadoes on
his annual visit of inspection to the 'Windward
Islands. She arrived at La Guayra on the Btb, and
left the 28th of May; called at Port Royal on the
14, and sail( d therefrom on the Bth of June ;
reached Havannah on the 13th, and left the 14th
of June.

The shipping on the station are healthy, but on
shore fever has visited the Bri►ish islands severely.
Vice-Admiral the Earl of Dundonald, in the Wel-
lebley, 72, Capt. G. Goldsmith, is supposed to be at
Halifax; the principal part of the squadron are in the
northern latitudes.
At Grenada, on the 4th of March, the Alarm, '26,
Captain G. Ramsey, and a Dutch corvette, name
unknown.

At Port Royal, on the Bth of June, the Imaum,
72, Commander T. Bennett ; c xpected daily, the
Trincomalee, 24, Capt. R. L. Warren, and was to
proceed to England.
The schooner Bermuda; 3, Lieutenant• Commander
A. D. Jolly, after a 48 hours' chase, had captured a
s3hooner off the Isle of Pines, with 280 slaves on
board. She secured the prize by firing into her a
great number of shots, some of which eventually
disabled her foretopsail-yard and jibboom.
June 21, the Vixen spoke the barque James Shep-
pard, from Jamaica to England ; and July 9, ex-
changed colours with the Ida.

Since her commission, on the 11th of May, 1847,
the Vixen has been constantly moved about in active
employment. Her engines (Seward's direct) and
boilers, although so much employed, have not re-
quired repair, and are still efficient. She sails well,
making by log 11 knots wind abeam and quarterly,
and close-hauled 8i- knots ; but on the latter part of
the passage home she sprang her foretopmast badly,
and, like other steamers, not heir.. b allowed spare
spars, was obliged to come in here for coal.
Her crew are very healthy; during three years
four deaths only have occurred, of which three took
place at the Nicargua expedition, where two were
drowned and one shot.

The Vixen has orders for Portsmouth, and sailed
at 7 o'clock this morning, but she is, we believe, to
be paid off at Woolwich.

Th' three-masted screw-steamer Hellespont, Cap-
tain William Watts, put in here last evening. She
left Constantinople June 22, Smyrna 25, Malta 30,
and Gibraltar 7th instant. The Mediterranean fleet
was at Malta. The steam-yacht Victoria and Albert,
Captain Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence ; the steam-fri-
gate Stromboli, Captain Lord A. Beauclerk ; and the
Janus, were at Gibraltar.

Spoke, July 3, screw-steamer Astrologer, lat. 37
18 N., long. 5 40 E., steering E. by S. ; sth,
schooner City of Julian, 70m. E. of Gibraltar ; 6th,
schooner Liffey, off Gibraltar; 11th, schooner
Torch, off Cape Finisterre, steering S.S.W. ; Penin-
sular and Oriental steam-ship Jupiter, 40m. N.E. of
Cape Finisterre, outward bound ; 60 miles W.S.W.
of the Eddystone, barque Louisa Munro, steering to
the eastward.

The Hellespont lands mails here ; she has a full
cargo of valuable goods for London and Liverpool.
After coaling at Millbay-pier, she proceeds up the
Channel.

PRIVY COUNCIL.
The Queen held a Privy Council at one o'clock
yesterday afternoon at Buckingham Palace. It was
attended by his Royal Highness Prince Albert, the
Lord President, the Lord Privy Seal, the First Lord
of the Treasury, the Secretaries of State for the Home,
Foreign, and Colonial DepartmentF, the President of
the Board of Control, the Lord Steward, the Lord
Chamberlain, the Master of the Horse, and the Groom
of the Stole to the Prince.

Lord Langdale and the Hon. Baron Rolfe, two of
the Commissioners of the Great Seal, attended the
Court, and Lord Langdale had an audience and de-
livered up the Great Seal to the Queen.
At the Privy Council her Majesty in Council was
pleased to deliver the Great Seal to the Right Hon.
Sir Thomas Wilde, whereupon the oath of Lord High
Chancellor of Great Britain was, by the Queen's
command, administered to him, and the Lord Chan-
cellor took his place at the board accordingly.
The Hon. William Bathurst was the Clerk of the
Council in Waiting.
The Queen gave audience to the Marquis of Lans-
downe.

The Court was a'tended by the Treasurer of the
Household, the Vice-Chamberlain, the Controller of
the Household, Vitcount Combermere, Gold Stick
in Waiting, Lord Camoys, Lord in Waiting, and,
Colonel Berkeley Drummond, Groom in Waiting.

THE LATE SIR ROBERT PEEL.

GREAT MEETING.AT THE MANSION-HOUSE.
A public meeting of merchants, bankers, and citizens
of London, was held at two o'clock yesterday in the
Egyptian-hall, Mansion-house, for the purpose of pro •
moting a subscription to erect a suitable testimonial to
the memory of the late Sir Robert Peel.
The Right Honourable the Lord Mayor occupied the
chair.
Some time before two o'clock, the hour of meeting, the
hall was partially occupied by a respectable assemblage,
and as the proceedings commenced the auditors had in-
creased until the apartment was pretty well filled.
Among the gentlemen on, and is the vicinity of 'he
pla:form, besides the Lord Mayor, we noticed Mr.
Cardwell, M.P., Mr. Monsell, M.P., Mr. E. G. G.
Howard, M.P., Mr. Henry Drummond, M.P.,
Sir J. W. Hogg. M.P., Mr. Hums, M.P., Sir
RyaE. N. Buxton, M.P, Mr. lb Mangles, M.P., Capt.
Shepherd, Chairman of the East India Company, Mr.
Masterman, M.P., Sir Peter Laurie, Sir John Henry
Pelly, Chairman of the Hudson's Bay Company, Sir
Moses Montefiore, Alderman Salomons, Baron G.-111-
amid, Mr. David Williams Wire, Mr. Under-Sheriff

Millard, and many others.
The LORD MAYon, said he took the chair on this
occasion from a sincere wish to do honour to the memory

of the late Sir Robert Peel.—(Cheers.) They were
met together to-day to promote a public subscription
with a view to erect a suitable testimonial to perretuate

the memory of that eminent statescea,n; and, having
stated the object of the meeting, he (the Lord Mayor)
would cont.int himself with leaving the matter in the
hands of the gentlemen around him, satisfied that they
would deal with it in a way worthy of its importan?..z.—

(Cheers.)
Sir PETER LAURIE rose to move the first revelation,
and in doing so said the history of Sir Robert Peel was
written in the annals of his country for the last 40 years,
and he (Sir Peter Laurie) could not pass a higher eulo-
gium on the deeeaaed statesman. The object of the
gentlemen around him in calling the meeting this day
was to allow the public an opportunity of subscribing
what sums they pleased tow arde a testimonial to perpetuate
the memory of the great man whose loss they had been
so suddenly called to deplore. In seeking to carry out
that object, it was their desire that there should be but
one feeling among, the citizens of London, and that was
unanimity; and he hoped that the testimonial, whatever
it might be which they might determine upon, should
express and perpetuate the feelings, not merely of
the cit;z:ns of London, but of tee whole country.—
(L Aid cheers.) The Hsaourable Gentleman concluded
by moving the following resolutien:—" That this meet-
ing desires to give exprsraion to the profound and uni-
versal regret which pervades all ranks cf the people at
the irreparable loss which this country has sustained in
the decease of the Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel, and ferle
that in seeking to perpauate the record of his public
services it commands the sympathies and enjoys the
cordial ce-operation of all."
Captain Sriarranetre the Chairrniin of the East India
Coital any, in seconding the resolution, said it would not
be necessary for him to detain the mcetirg for any
length cf time in endsavouring to recommend it to their
favourable re gard. He felt it might savour of presump-
tion were he to at'empt to pass any laboured eulogiuna
on the merits of the distinguished and lamented
statesman whose loss they all se deeply de-
plored. They were all aware that before the grave
hid &a:el over his honoured remains but one universal
feeling ef deep s)napathy and regrst fur tbo loss which
the c .tititry had sustained pervaded all cle)see of the
people throughout the length and breadth of the land.
That feeling emtended t 3 all ranks of society, thorn the
Sovereign on the throne to the humbleit, artiz in.—
( Hear, hear.) if therefore so strong and universal
a feeling prevailed at this early pried, what
might thej anticipate when time shall have ercerciard its
so'tening influence over the f ,clings arising from p diti-
cal differences of opinion? —(lieer.) Under chafe circum-
stances he (Capt. Shepherd) should Le justly chargeable
with presumption were he to attempt to bring for-
ward arguments drawn from the politic-el principles of that
great man, and much more with respect to any feelings
or opinions he (Capt. Shepherd) iniget have in reference
to them. Ho would advert but to one important feature
in the character of that important statesman, to which
the Duke of Wellington had borne his testimony in the
House of Lords, namely, his (Sir Robert Peel's) uniform
and uncompromising adherence to the principles and
convictions ef truth.—(fle sr, hear.) Let the meeting
pause for one moment to consider tie importance of
that distinguishing quality. While ad earthly
honours sank into utter insignificance, they n ere
told he was guil d through lite by the princi-
ples of truth. He had new gone to render his account to
Him who was truth itself, and who judged the motives
and actions of men by the unvarying principles of truth.
—(Cheers.) The name of Sir Robert Peel he (Captain
Shepherd) bAieve3 would be revered throughout the
whole civilized world, and the tenger it was known the
more it would be veaerated by generations yet
to come.—(Continued cheers.) He felt it was
unnecessary to at'empt further is dwell upon this im-
portant question. He felt that the sentiments that must
pervade the meeting were of too sacred a character to be
disturbed fir one moment by political or party feelings;
and ho had therefore the pleasure and the nie'ancholy
gratification to second the resolution proposed by Sir
Peter Laurie.—(Cheers.)
Just as the Lord Mayor was about to put the resolu-
tion to the meeting, a well-dres ed elderly person stepped
forward to the platform front the body of the hall, and
asked permission of the Lord Mayor to propose an
amendment to the resolution. He was invited upon the
platform, and to give his name, which he did by handing
a card to Mr. D. W. Wire. The name, however, del
not publicly transpire, near anything else respecting him,
than that he was a resident at Nottingham.
The LORD MAYOR inquired if he was a citizen of
London ? to which he renplie Middh sse tat
h he was "
a a
so said Cockney
born and had property He l he
was a member of one of the companies in London.
The LORD MAYOR intimated to him that ha could only
allow gentlemen to address the meeting who were
citizens of London; but requested to see the amendment
he wished to propose.
This request having been complied with, Mr. D. W.
WIRE read the document to the meeting, which was to
the following effect—" That this meeting does at the
same time with anguish and regret look upon the past
policy of the departed statesmen, in so far as he sup-
porte.l Lord John Russell by voting for the admission
of slave grown sugar into this country, which admission
has terribly increased the trade of man stealers.—
(Laughter and loud cries of " Oh, oh " and " Shame,"
drowned the remainder of this so-called amendment.)
The LORD MAYOR again intimated to the stranger that
he could not allow him to address the meeting, or put
such an amendment, and the proceedings were resumed.
The first resolution was then put and carried with ac-
clamation,
Sir JoUN HENRY PELLY, chairman of the Hudson's
Bay Compe ny, and one of the elder brethren of the Trinity
House, moved the next resolution: —" That a Committee
be tormed, with power to add to their number, nt collect
subscriptions, and to consider the best means cf carry-
ing out the objects of the meeting; and that the Lord
Mayor. Sir James Duke, Bart., M.P., and Baron Roths-
child, M.P., be requested to act as treasurers."
Sir JAMES WEin Hone, M.P., seconded the resolu-
tion. He said—My Lord Mayor and gentlemen, this
resolution has heel put into my hands with a request
that I would second it. Oa ordinary occasions it may be
incumbent on any individual who offers a suggestion to
such an assembly as the present to attempt to support
it by arguments, and to reason in its favour ; but
I feel such on attempt would now be worse than use-
less. I feel that I am only the form and medium of
conveying the sentiments and wishes which I am confi
dent are passing in the hearts and minds of all whom I
have now the honour to address. The striking charac-
teristic of Sir Robert Peel was devotion. I might use
the word self-dedication—(Hear, hear)—to the service
of his country.—(Cheers.) To him that country owes a
debt which it can only repay by recording its great
sense of his services.—(Hear hear.) He sought no other
reward while living; he di_claimed every other wish
after he was gone.—(Cheers.) Sir Robert Peel com-
menced his political life in a period of war -,- but
throughout his long and glorious career, whether
in or out of office, be was eminently the minis-
ter ef peace. (Hear, hear.) All his etlorts
were devoted to the improvement of the institutions and
the development of the resources of the country, and
to its advance in those pursuits to which war was fatal.
Ills labours were transcendant and incessant, and the
relinquishment of office scarcely tended to relieve him
from their weight ; for whenever Sir Robert Peel
took his seat in the great council of the nation
his voice was the most influential in that
assembly and thrcught the whole country—(Cheers.)
An amount' of labour which, not less from its con-
tinuity than from its extent, was sufficient to have over-
whelmed most men, was encountered by him cheerfully
and voluntarily. To him, personally, office could have
been but a burden ; his position, his fortune, and his sta-
tion rendered it to him a matter of indifference, save as it
afforded him the means more efficiently of rendering
service to his country. To that great object all his
strength of mind, all,his great and varied acquirements,
all his aspirations, all his thoughts, and all his heart,
were unreservedly and unceasingly given. In the ful-
ness of his mental powers, when his last accents of wis-
dom and consel yet hung upon our ears, it pleased the
Almighty suddenly to withdraw him from us; but his
memory is hallowed in oar breasts, and the voices of men
of every party, every creed, every class, and every occu-
pation unite in pronouncing him one of the best and
wisest, the most disinterested and the most distinguished
statesman that ever guided the political helm of the
cnuat,-7(Loud cheers.) It was England's blessing
shier* stitch a statesman in times of trial and transition,
( -.11 helloes it--will be England's glory to record her
Ne_ Aga of his, setaticss.—(Renewed cheers.) The lion.
iirounet slid otceinelaultrtd dby seconding the resolution, which
s. r
- greAusit, NitP., supported the resolution. He had
7-10,040. there /;e-day to offer his tribute of respect to
' "tfier,4parted /statesman. For forty years he had been
VI . 1141 'plise rver 61 !sii public conduct, and often had he op-
ectlaina, an lsid often supported his measures, and he
Note, eriias perfectly qualified to offer an
.in nt testimony ; and he was bound to
kay he had rever seen his eq tel—SO com-
prehensive in his views, and temperate and
disinterested in all his proceedings.—(Loud cheers.)
Seeing that his measures were intended for, and were
attended wick, public usefuir ess, it was with peculiar sor-
row that he maike i the void which ho had left, and as
they had since his death perceived how disinterested
for himself and his family he really was he
touxbt the public were doubly bound to come forward