The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-05-24
EDITORS CORRESPONDENCE.
From our New York correspondent.I

From our New York correspondent
NEW YoRK, May %, ls45.
Enclosed, send you my ususal Liverpool letter,
which did not come to hand till yesterday too late
for the mail, although we had the steamers news
the day before in our morning papers. Private let
tiers coming out by the steamers are always greatly
behind the newspaper news. cannot conceive OF
any sound reason for such untoward delay.
The commercial details in this letter will no doubt
be found interesting to your agricultural readers
the South and West they embrace the articles OF
cotton, tobacco, and American provisions, &c. The
author Of the letter s gentleman of great respectn-
bility and intelligence and whose important position
as merchant Of the first standing in Liverpool
bles him to obtain the latest information His state
ments may be relied upon as exceedingly accurate.
As the present premier Of England, if notthe most
eloquent may certainly be considered one among the
most prominent statesmen Of the age, however much
we may differ from his notions about Oregon, &c,
the following brief notice Of him may not prove I'M
interesting to many of your readers.
Sir Robert Peel was born February 5th, 1898,
and is consequently in his 58h year. In 1920 he
married Julia, daughter Of Gen. Sir John Floyed,
Bart, by whom he has several children. Sir Robert
Pees father was calico printer and being the first
to bring into the ant Of printing calico by means
of copper rollers, and otherwise improving the art,
he accumulated, it is said, the largest fortune ever
acquired by one man. He married, in 1888, Ellen,
daughter Of William Yates, ESQ.,, of Bury. At his
Robert the present premier; 3D. William Yates late
member for Tamworth; Sd, Edmond, late represen-
tatiye for New Castleunderyne; 4th, John, in holy
orders; 5h, Jonathan, member Of Parliament for
Huntingdon; 9th, Lawrence, brother-inaw to the
Duke Of Richmond. lst daughter, Mary, married
son ID, Elizabeth, married 10 the Very Reverend
Cockburn, late dean of York cathedral.
Sir Robert Peel commenced his grammar school
at Harrow, near London, the early school Of many
distinguished men, and finished at one of the uuiver-
stiles. AaNe sa@tsiN essa .f
He first entered the British Parliament as member
for Oxford in 1915 and continued to represent that
learned constituency ill 1928 when his altered opin-
ion regarding the expediency Of repeating the laws
in force against the Roman Catholics CAUSED him TO
he displaced by Sir Robert Harry Inglis. He then
obtained a seat for Westbury, and subsequently for
Tamworth. In 1892, having previously acted as
chief Secretary for Ireland, he succeeded Lord
Sidmonth as secretary of State for the Home de-
partment He retired with his 1.-THE Tory) party
in 1880, and remained out of Office until called Gin
l834) to preside over the councils Of the sovereign
first Lord of the Treasury, and Chancellor Of the
Exchequer His ministry, however, endured but for
brief period, he resignng his important trust -four
months after its having been confded TO him. He
continued TO represent Tamworth, when, in the
spring Of I64l, the wing ministry, headed by Lord
John Russell, were defeated on the Irish franchise
bill of Lord Morpeth, and on motion TO reduce the
duties on the importation OF corn, &c, introduced
by Lord John himself Sir Roberts party regsined
power on the election that followed the dissolution
Of Parliament, upon the strength Of which he was
called by the Queen to his present elevated post
He still retains his seat for Tamworth. His private
country residence is at Drayton Manor, where he
not long since received royal visit from the Queen
and Prince Albert. His residence in London is at
whitehall Gardens, in the neighborhood Of White
hall, Westminster bridge and Parliament house,
Westminster Abbey, &c---a part Of London which
has been the theatre Of many remarkable events.
From the palace of Whitehall, designed and con,
structed by lingo Jones, near by, was dragged
Charles the first to execution, being conducted "
scaffold through one of its windows. Near by also
il Old Palace ward and Westminster hail. in that yard,
SIR Walter Raleigh was bcheaded by James the
first of England and the sixth Of Scotland, a weak
and bigo,ied monarch. Near BY, and in the same