Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1846-06-05

arm. aud commences in a bland manner, 'Sir.'l
For the first three minutes Ice will utter a few
sentences, pTciaCing and finishing '
each ole with an awful Sir Then ne will
place his RICH, hand in his ,est,and 30 to work
ni earnest. No mottcr how excited he may
orcone he waits at regular intervals for APP
piause, and II he Were 10 speak in an assembly
where there We're an 'ironical cheers to- spur
MN on his mettlc, or no hear, hear and
loud cheering TO encourage him, ! believe he
would break down.
lie will occasionally exhibit a little petu-
lenoe wheu interrupted by the sneers ol the
opposition, but he never suffers his temper TO
bctmy hin in 10 a folly. The severst rebuke
he ever administered To any man, was To o.
Connell, who had just been elected Lord MAY
or OF Dublin, aud came down 10 tho house
wearing his robes OF office, i'm bravado. o.
Connel had always been very civil in his at
,acks uPon Feel, bat that night he INDUCED
IN one oi his violent scurrilous attacks. Sir
Robert lostal III -seli-commsad and appeared per
iectiy maddcned, as lac rose 10 reply. lie
thanked heaven THAI lac was not cursed with
the praise oil q mau, whose trade was traduc-
uon, whose lille was calumny-and whose vi
tupcration was the brst proof of a ministers
rectitude. We believe that Twas about the
only ume.tlat Peel was called To oulcr.
lie can be- sarcastic when he pleases, but
sarcasm rs not his forte. When the last Wing
Ministry was ia It's dying struggles. and a few
measures were brought iorwarla as inducement.
Tor the cooperation ot the Tories. he lamcnted
IN pathetic terms the hard fate OF the chancel-
Tor oi the ESChcquer, who was angling with
tempting bates for fishes that were not nun
cry and refused To be caught, and called upon
the nation To admire a spectacle which the
ancient poet had declared worthy of the gods.
"a so"d man struggling against hopeless adj.
v~ersity."
Sir Rotert Peel does not confnc himself tc
politics, but dabblcs d little i'm every thing
There Is no better or more liberal patron oi
et's or literature, and his collections of paint.
ingsan stdtuary are second To few. As an
Asncu'turst, he surpasses all his ncighbors,
I ahd no year passes without his carving away
5 some oil the principal prizes atthe cattle shows.
! lie used TO attend the meetings in person.
I dine with the gentry after the business of the
T DAY, and make a speech that could not be sur
? passed. Tor tile practical knowledge il display
5 cd. by any one of the native clod -hoppers.
lie has the best ponds and the finest fish
IN The country, the best horses, the finest
sporting dogs, the finest preserves, and is him
/, sili The best shot within miles oil his resi-
;nce. lie will forgive a man for any crime
pIt destroying his game; a nan may steal a
sheep with less impunity than he may shoot
a pheasant or gin a hare. These are sacred,
aud every October he will retire 10 the coun-
Try, taking with Prince George of Cambridge.
and some twenty more of the cockney nobili-
~, TO relieve the turmoils OF office and politi- /,
cal wranSling with a iortnights 'battau' shoot
ing.
Sir Robert Is immensely rich, though not a
large landed proprietor. His estate does not
comprise more than three thousand acres of
land. The bulk of his money is in the funds.
His family are all rich, he has five or six broth
ers, all living; each has a family of eight or
twelve children. He maker il a rule never
TO give any situation undcr government 10 a
relative; a few years back, he gave an office ;
10 his nephew, Col. Peel, but be did not suffer
HIM to enjoy 1t more than two months. lie
has established two annual p~rizcSat Cambridge
at his " expense, both of which were won,
the first year, by his own son. his fourth child,
and the most promising member of his iami-
ly.