The Sun.
London, England, 1850-07-13 00:00:00

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.

BRISTOL, JULY 12.
STOCK Exctuagoa.—The market was firm to-day, and
the principal business done was in Great Western and Taff
Vale lines. Tha only s i
alterationn prices we ave to notice
are—Great Western, LBA—Taff Vale, 133 have to notice
are—Great Western, 8%—Taff Vale, 133—Ditto, New
Quarters, % p.

LIVERPOOL. JULY 12.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The share market was dull to-day
at the quotations. The transactions were as follow :—Lan-
cashire and Yorkshire, Consol., 36% Ditto, Fifths, 94 dis.
—Ditto, Preference, 12 1,, —London and North-Western, New
Quarters, 5,,j p.—Midland, 31Ditto, Erevvash Valley, 57%
—North Union (A), 237—Shrewsbury and Chester, Pre-
ference. guaranteed 8 per cent., 12 A— York, Newcastle, and
Berwick (Original N. and B. ), 14 13-16—Dublin and Bel-
fast Junction, 324, die.
MANCETESTER, JULY 12.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The share market was dull to-day,
the amount of business being small, and chiefly confined to
local lines, without any material alteration in prices The
transactions were as follow : Lancashire and Yorkshire,
Ditto, 321. (late Extension), 9 n. dis —Ditto (West Riding
Union), 7 1-16 dis.—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire,
15%—Ditto, Preference, 81A, dis.
BIRMINGHAM, JULY 12.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—Business in this share market still
continues inactive, but generally prices remain unaltered.
YORK, JULY 11.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The transactions to-day were as
follow :—Sheffield, Rotherham, and Goole, N. Div., guaran-
teed 5 per cent., 18—York and Newcastle Extension, 91A.

THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON.—A report was cir-
culated yestmlay in the City that the Duke of Welling-
ton was seriously ill. We are happy to say, however, that
the Duke was in his place in the House of Peers last night,
looking exceedingly well, and that he took an active part in
the proceedings of the House.

[ADVERTISEMENT.]—A Liver Complaint of a most
hopeless nature cured by Holloway's Pills.—Mr. Thomas
Clark, of Lake George, New South Wales, was seriously afflicted
for years with a liver complaint. His medical attendants,
after trying all their skill, candidly gave their opinion that
his case was hopeless. In this situation, and when expecting
that every day woul 1 terminate his earthly career, a friend
recommended him to try Holloway's Pills, assuring him that
he knew a person who was cured by them of that complaint.
He adopted the advice and found a speedy relief from taking
them, and in a short time he was. perfectly restored to health.
—Sold by all vendors of medicines and at Professor Hollo-
way's Establishment, 244, Strand, London.
THE DIRECT EXETER RAlLWAY.—Yesterday the
Master in Chancery Brougham granted his certificate to
enable the directors charged in this concern to proceed with
their case upon appeal, refusing for the present to disallow
the facts put in against the directors, or to grant payment of
costs. Mr. Bagshawe, on behalf of Mr. Sharp and the four-
teen other directors, offered to pay the only proved debt
against the company of 71. 25., and contended that the official
manager had no locus standi to entitle him, under the Aet,
to bring any charge against the directors. His Honour over-
ruled this, and gave a certificate of the facts.
GOVERNMENT SCHOOL OF DESIGN.--Last night
Mr. Wornum delivered a highly instructive and interesting
lecture, in the lecture room of the Government School of
Design, Somerset-house, on the ornamental arts of the eras of
Palladio, Louis XIV., and Modern Munich. The room WAS
crowded by an attentive audience, who evinced throughout
; the lecture the deep interest they took in it.

THE LATE SIR ROBERT PEEL.
List evening a meeting was held in the gardens of
the Belvidere Hotel, Bentonville, of the subscribers to
the monument proposed to be erected by the working men
of England to the memory of the late Sir Robert Peel.
In the absence of Mr. J. Hnme, M.P., wit') was to
have presided on the occasion, the chair was taken by
Sir Joshwi Walmsley, M.P. The meeting was com-
posed almost exclusively of mechanics and working men,
in very numerous assemblage, who testified by earnest
and repeated bursts of feeling their admiration of the
services and their regret for the loss of the late lamented

statesman.
The CHAIRMAN, having apologised for the absence of
Mr. Hume, said that he had consented to take the place
of that gentleman for the purpose of expressing his
anxiety to do justice to the memory of that great de-
rested statesman, whom it was the desire of every
Englishman to honour—numerous acts of whose life had
made his name distinguished not only among English-
men, but among all the nations of the Garth.
(He ir, hear.) Amongst the measures brotight
forward by the late Sir Robert Peel, almost all if which
deserved the approbation and gratitude of his country,
tbe7e was one which more than any, other merited their
best acknowledgments alluded to the repeal
of the t ixes on the food of the people. (Loud
cheers.) They must think well of this great act—(Ap-
plause, veld cries of " We du")—which required for its
ace .mplishment a nerve and a f irtitude such as few pos-
sessed, and which obliged the distinguished man who
carried it out to tear himself from friends and associates
with whom he was c annected, and the political party
with which he was united for a long series of years, and
to take an adverse policy, which he saw to be absolutely
necessary for the interests of the great mass of the peo-
ple.—(llear, hear.) He would not dwell further on
the political events of the life of Sir R. Peel, but ho
would congratulate them on the feeling which seemed to
pervade the whole country, the desire that was manifested
from north to south and from east to west of raising some
testimonial to departed worth.—(Hear.) It was exceed-
ingly gratifying to know that this was not a movement
which was confined to the friends and political supporters
of the late Sir R. Peel, but that it was a great, extensive,
and national movement.—(Hear.) That day it was
proposed by the First Minister of the Crown to give a
public monument, emanating from the House of Corns
mons, to the memory of the departed statesman; but
that would not be the greatest memorial which the
nation could bestow. The pence of the great mass of
the people would form a prouder monument to his
worth; and he (Sir J. Walmsley) sincerely trusted that
they would send in their pence, not by hundreds, or by
hundreds of thousands, but by millions, and that the
result would be such as to present to other public men an
inducement to exert themselves as that great man had
done in advancing the interests of the working classes of
the people.--(Loud cheers.)
The Hon. Secretary, Mr. DOWNES, then read letters
from several noblemen and gentlemen, apologising for
their absence from the meeting and expressing their
willingness to become patrons or subscribers to the
fund. Amongst other names were those of Lord John
Russell, M.P., the Earl of Aberdeen, Lord Dunferm-
line, the Marquis of Donegal, Lord Cornwallis, Sir J.
Graham, Mr. E. Gladstone, Sir J. Duke, Mr. T. Dun-
combe, M.P., Mr. Cubist, M.P., &c.
Mr. G. THOMPSON, M.P., said he had come to the
meeting without premeditation or preparation, but he
felt rejoiced to find himself among those who, sinking the
recollection of those odious lines of demarcation that too
often separate men by name between whom there was no
essential difference of principles, bad come there to pay
a generous and well-deserved tribute to the memory of a
devoted and exalted statesman.—(Hear, hear, and ap-
plause.) Within the last two days there had been laid
in the tomb, by the side of his father, without pomp,
without parade, ostentation, or vain glory, a man who,
he hesitated not to say, had accomplished, during the
brief period of his life, as large an amount of good for
the people of this country and the world as ever was
effected by any man who aspired to be a benefactor of
mankind.—(Applause.) On that subject there was no
difference of opinion.—(Hear, hear.) To that great and
good man—good because privately virtuous, and great
because publicly useful—to that good man, now resting
in the chambers of death, might be applied the lines of
one of the best of English poets—
" So sleep the good who sink to rest,
By all their country's wishes blest!
When Spring with dewy fingers cold,
Returns to dress their hallooed mould,
She there shall deck a sweeter sod,
Than Fancy's feet have ever trod:
By fairy bands their knell is rung,
By forms unseen their dirge is sung.
There Honour comes a pilgrim grey,
To bless the turf that wraps their clay;
And Freedom shall awhile repair,
To dwell a weeping hermit there."
There were two spectacles which to his (Mr. Thomp-
son's) mind were equally noble. The first was that of a
man abandoning ease and those inclinations which a
cultivated taste may have given him for the purpose
of devoting himself to the great object of advancing
the real and permanent interests of the nation to
which he belonged. We had had many such men,
who had spurned ease when they might have enjoyed
it, who had net used their fortunes in self-indulgence
as they might have done, or revelled in those pleesures
which their wealth commanded, but had consecrated
their powers to the pe-severing endeavours to ad-
vance the prosperity of the people amongst whom they
lived. Sir R short Peel was a man who exhibited this
noble spectacle.—(Hear, hear.) He had tastes, refined
tastes, which he did not fail to graify, but never at the
cost of neglecting his public duties. He loved retire•
went and the society of those who were gif ed and great
like himself, but he never, through the period of forty-
one ye irs, exhibited a propensity to grati'y those tastes,
or indulge in those enjoyments, at the sacrifice of the
duties of his public station.—(Hear, hear.) Ho (air.
Tnooapson) was not there as the apologist of all the
acts of Sir Robert Peel— (Hear, hear)—or for tho pur•
pose of eulogising his conduct at every stage of his long
political career; but if he committed errors, now that
they were standing upon his ashes, and had no object
to gain by his disperagament, and could not be accused
of doing him injustice, let them look at the circumstances
in which be was placed.—(Hear, hear.) Granted that
he erred—that ho chose a wrong side of politics in his
early life—that he attache I himself to bad associates—
that he might have done bettor if he had joined the
Whigs in 1810—yet let them not forget what was
his parentage, who were his youthful associates, what
were the objects of ambition presented to him; and
his natural predilections as to the means by which he
could seiza upon those objects of political aspiration.—
(Hear.) 13ut in proportion as they censured those errors,
in the same proportion were they bound to give him
credit for quitting those paths, for shaking himself loose
from the trammels which confined him, and nobly re-
solving to be guided by no other princip'e than that of
the public good.—(Loud applause.) [The Chairman
here suggested to the speaker that he should avoid
making allusions to party politics.] lie (Mr. Thomp-
son) thought he was avoiding politics. He was drawing
them away from questions of party politics, and fixing
their attention upon those characteristics of Sir Robert
Peel which deserved the admiration of every political
creed.—(Hear.) Take him for all in all, Sir R then
Peel had not left a man behind him worthy to fill his
place. He was a master, not an apprentice
he
was a proficient, not a bungler.—(Applause.) Point to
any one of the measures he ever introduced—like a
statue of Phidias, it was perfect in itself, and any man
who took up his apprentice chisel to improve it, only
succeeded in marring it. He never introduced his mea-
sures without having fully matured them, or providing
machinery to oarry them out, and without enforcing
them wise arguments irresistibly operating in their fa-
vour. Unlike the measures of other statesmen, which,
when laid on the table, were like carrion which obscene
birds fixed on and tore to pieces, those of Sir Robert
Peel were either to be received or rejected as they were
—common men did not dare to call in question the wis-
dom which originated, or the talent wnich elaborated
them.—(Hear, hear.) His (Mr. Thompson's) friend in
the chair hal alluded to that great measure of Sir
Robert Peel's for the liberation of the commerce of this
country from those unnatural and injurious restrictions
with which it had been previously fettered. Our chil-
dren and our children's children have yet to learn the
real worth of that measure. When the genius of history
should take up her pen in after times to inscribe the
names of those who have done most to unfetter industry
and to take off the dead weight from the springs of en-
terprise, she would place near the bead of that illustrious
list the name of Sir Robert Peel.—(Applause.) But they
must not separate that measure from the circum-
stances under which it was brought forward, and
the sacrifices—he might almost say the sufferings—
which it entailed on the great man who originated
it. Sir Robert Peel, being of a reserved manner,
though of courteous demeanour, was not in the habit of
making known to those about him the state of his mind;
but having alienated a great party—having originated
feelings of almost hate, where feelings of professed
friendship previously existed—having converted into
open foes those who had been his warmest supporters—
and having found himself excluded from office by an act
which ought to have recommended him to his Queen as
her best and most faithful adviser, he must have suf-
fared to a degree which no man can adequately con-
ceive but one who like himself had climbed the ladder
of political favour, and who then, by some noble but
unappreciated act, had been cast to the bottom, and
found himself trampled on by men who were not worthy
to loose the latchet of his shoe.—(Loud cheers.)
He (Mr. Tbompsom) had said that there were
two noble spectacles—ono was that of a great
man with distinguished talents devoting himself
to the service of his country. The other noble spectacle
was this—when a nation, after having beheld the career
of a man like Sir Robert Peel, and having participated
in the advantages of his acts, came forward to raise a
contribution to his name, and subscribe to a monument
to his virtues.—(Applause.) He (Mr. Thompson)
doubted not but that millions, hearing of what they had
done that night, would be prompt to follow their example,
and pour in a tribute of admiration to the public services
and private worth of Sir Robert Peel. Mr. Thompson
thou concluded, amidst loud applense, by moving the
following resolution:—
" That this meeting is of opinion the British nation
has sustained a great loss in the premature death of the
lauts,elaiiSieinremdß.oo;bert Peel, and desires to offer to the afflicted
laetily of the departed statesman an expression of their
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