The Sun.
London, England, 1850-07-05 00:00:00

HOUSE OF LORDS, July 4.

Their Lordships' assembled at Five o'clock.
Tne Earl of LONSDALE presented a petition against
,he Metropolitan Interments
JUDGMENTS (IRELAND) BILL.

This Bill was read a thii.d atria) and passed.
POLICE IMPROVEMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL.
This Bill was read a third time and passed.
COURT OF SESSION (SCOTLAND) BILL.
This Bill was read a third time and passed.
SIR ROBERT PEEL.

The Marquis of LANSDOW'NE, after laying on the
table certain papers relating to the subject of education.
said, I will now, with the permission of your Lordships,
take the liberty of asking the attention of your Lord-
ships for a few moments to a subject which I am sure is
present to the minds of all of us.—(Hear, hear.) I
have to request your Lordships' attentio❑ while I
for a few moments diverge from the usual course of
your Lordships' proceedings.—(Hear, hear.) It is quite

true that if we look around this House we do not per-
ceive any loss that we have recently suffered, there is no
important personage absent from his place here, there i
no great blank in this place. But wo are all aware of, and
we all deeply deplore, a great and a lamentable loss which
has occurred in another Assembly with which we are
connected with many and most intimate ties—(llear,
hear)—ties and relations both political and per-
sonal so numerous that we may be said to breathe
the same atmosphere. To that Assembly there
has befallen a great calamity, a great personal loss
which has been deeply felt by that Assembly.—(hear.)
And extraordinary, indeed, would it be if the deep voice of
sorrow which has been heard throughout that Assembly
did not find any echo here.—(Hear, hear.) This is not
the time to sit in judgment on the political conduct
or the public actions of any great statesman who
has at the present moment been suddenly withdrawn
from us.—(Hear, hear.) Posterity alone can judge of
these, and to that judgment they will be submitted, and
those who sit in judgment on them will be be:ter
qualified, from their distance from the scene of action,
to contemplate them calmly and without prejudice. But.
my Lords, we are called upon to pay our tribute of
respect to the memory of a great public man, who
has been suddenly called from us, and to whose
unwearied labours in the public service we have all of
us been witnesses. We are called upon to add our ex-
pression of sympathy to that public expression of
sympathy which, unasked, unsolicited, unthought of,
emanating from all classes of society, has been attending
—I wish I could add cheering—the dying moments
of the public statesman.—(Hear, hear.) That feeling,
unmixed by any thought of political opinion, is
I am sure entertained by your Lordships
no less deeply than by every other class
of the community.—(Hear, hear.) I can only say that
it has been my fortune, in consequence of my
prolonged life, to assist at the commencement
and at the development of the career of him whom I
must now unfortunately call the late Sir Robert Peel. I
wituessed his first exertions, I witnessed the whole of that
career that has prematurely ended for more than forty
years, and I can bear witness that that career has
been distinguished by an unmitigated zeal, exclusively
devoted to public objects, and by a life devoted to the
service of the state.--(llear, hear.) And I am sure
that your Lordships will join with me in an
expression of sympathy and condolence which I believe
is felt by all the people of this country.—(Hear, hear.)
Lord STANLEY then rose and said—Great as un-
doubtedly is the public loss which has been sustained,
and deep and universal as is the sympathy which has
been manifested by the whole country at the calamity
which has just befallen us. I hal n t anticipated that in
this Howe, of which Sir R. Peel was not a member, the
Noble Marquis would have felt it necessary to have
called for any public expression of fooling, or even have
adverted, as ho has done, to that lamentable occurrence.
But as the Noble Marquis has adverted to the case, I
must not deprive nape f of the melancholy gratification
of stating how fully and entirely I participate and sym-
pathise in those sentitiaents which bay,i been so feelingly
expressed by the Noble Marquis.—(Hear, hear.) The
Noble Marquis has truly said that this is no time to cri-
ticise the public acts of a FuMic man, snatched from hi:.
country in the prime of life, and at a period when it might
reasonably have been expected that m any years yet re-
mained to him for devoting to the public service those
great abilities that unfl.nchin„e zeal, that unwearied
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