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

Worcester.
Mr. Lawrence Peel. Colonel Peel.
The Very Rev. the Dean of The Right Hon. G. R. Daw.

York.
Captain Peel, son of Right
Hnn. W . Y. Peel.
Mr. R. Peel, son of Dean of Captain E. Peel, son of Ed-
Worcestcr. round Peel. _ _ _

son.
Sir J. Floyd.

Captain Charles Lenox Peel. Archibald Peel, son of Colo-
nel Peel.
The Lord Harley. 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 remaved 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 ofthe Church in a voice which at many points
became broken with emotion. The members 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 Peel
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 obsequies ; 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. Tee pressure of public 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 estates. His
principal property extends westward from the Manor-
house, which is almost on its verge, but he has left
detached estates all round the neighbourhood, be-
sides that at Blackburn, in Lancash're. 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, if 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 Tatnworth during the entire day business was
completely suspended, the shop doors and windows
being closed, and the inhabitants in mourring. 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 hear, been determined to
offer the vacant seat for the borough to his heir, the
third Sir Robert Peel.
There is nothing yet di..finitively known as to the
hulk or disposition of the deceased's personal property.
which 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 add a few data. When increasing
age induced the former wealthy baronet to retire from
public life, at the general election in l 820,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 family that on the anniversary of his seventy-
eighth birthday, in 1828, be presented a silver medal
to each of fifty children and grand. children. To-
wards his necessitous neighbours and dependants he
was a most generous patron-; in consequence of his
munificence many of those who were in his confider,-
tial employment have risen to be the proprietors of
large commercial and manufacturing establishment..
In this respect his conduct ishonourably contrasted with
that of Arkwright, who is said to have been meanly
jealous of the prosperity of every one with whom he
was connected. He died Ma} 3, 1830, leaving issue,
by his first wife, six sons and five daughters. His
family consisted of—
Mary, married in 1816 to the Right Hon. George
Robert Dawson, of Castle Dawson, in the county of
Londonderry, Ireland, for many years M.P. for
Derry, filled several subordinate offices under his
brother's Government, and is now deputy chairman
of Excize;
Elizabeth, married in 1805 to the Very Rev. Wil-
liam Cockburn, Dean of York, and since deceased t.
Robert, the late baronet, married in 1820. Ills
eldest seri, the present baronet, Sir Robert
Peel, now
twenty-eight, has long been connected with the Swiss
Embassy. His second son, Frederick, after obtain-
ing considerable classical eminence at Trinity Col-
lege, Cambridge, has lately been returned for Leo-
minster to Pat liamen:, where he has given fair pro-
filist' of future by some sensible sreches
em colonial end hankrup`cy questions. II s third son,
-Willism, having himself as a midship-
man in tne late disturb:owes in the Chinese waters,
is now, at the aBe of five-stud-Lwenty, a captain in