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No . 15 . SATURDAY , JULY 6 , 1850 , Price 6 d .
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Death has struck the severest blow that it could inflict on England : it has deprived the country of its greatest living statesman , Robert Peel . Suddenly , without warning , in the midst of power , almost in the midst of Parliament , it has seized upon the most powerful man in the Senate , and in a mortal paroxysm of agony has made him a terrible example of vicissitude . The first rumours of the disaster , on Sunday , were met by dismay and incredulity . Peel was too thoroughly mixed up with the active living present , too completely associated with the future , for the mind to accept the idea of his irrevocable extinction . Yet it was done ; and in a manner more painful than surprising . In the leisure of a Saturday afternoon the busy statesman was taking his ride of recreation and health ; he fell from his horse ; the unrelinquished rein drew back the horse upon him , and in the crush he sustained fatal injuries . He was hurried home , suffering so severely that they could not carry him further than the dining-room ; and increasing agony forbade that searching examination of his hurts which might have prevented the fatal termination . For the three remaining days he appears to have been conscious to little more than pain . He knew his friends , indeed , and bade them farewell . How the accident happened is a matter of doubt . At first the horse was suspected as a newlypurchased , and , perhaps , mischievous animal ; but suspicions on that head have been refuted . Another conjecture is , that before the accident the horseman ' s faculties had been clouded by something in the nature of a fit ; and the observation of a gentleman who passed him just before the accident lends probability to the conjecture : Sir Robert sat with his head stooping forward , as if he were dozing . It had been observed that his speech of Friday night was less animated than usual . It certainly was conceived in a solemn spirit , as though the speaker were released from transitory motives and speaking from the depths of his heart . Possibly some feeling of apprehension may have suggested that almost melanchol y vein : possibly also the exertion of that protracted night may have helped the disaster . The calamity must have been severely felt whenever it happened ; but there is a solace even in the severity of the regret . It must gratify the friends of the departed statesman , nay , it gratifies the public itself , to note the universal and strong expression of regret . There is not a class that has not testified its sorrow , almost with a personal feeling . In Parliament every sense of party division was instantly obliterated ; and at the next meeting an eloquent tribute of esteem was paid from every section of the House . The political consequences of the event must ne-[ Town Edition . ]
cessarily be considerable . Sir Robert Peel not only filled a conspicuous place , but he also exercised a practical influence far deeper and more extensive , on every side of the House , than any party would willingly admit . The mixed nature of that influence was of an extraordinary kind : in one sense he may be said to have been not only independent of all the separate parties that go by political nicknames , but also in many respects to have been their opponent . In his latter years he gave in to the sectional purposes of no party ; yet through his sympathy with any real influence , and his faculty for estimating actual power of any kind , he retained a strange degree of sympathy with all the principal parties . He sympathized with the Conservative tendencies of his quondam allies , the Tories ; with the administrative necessities and exofficio purposes of " the party in power ; " with many of the reforming objects of the Radicals . By this singular combination of functions and sympathies , in his own person , he was not only on occasion the most powerful opponent that any one party could encounter , but he was also , for some purposes , the most powerful patron whose aid either party could invoke ; and the purposes for which his aid was attainable usually were such as did most credit to their party . From these circumstances it happened that every party was open to his counsel even when it appeared to repudiate him ; no party really liked to brave him : even when some aspiring leader was heated to that pitch of audacity , the followers quailed , and hinted moderation . In a considerable degree , therefore , Peel exercised a moral veto upon the excesses of party , —he maintained an atmosphere of moderation , and by a negative jjrocess , all the measures of Parliament tended to a conformity with the spirit of his legislation . Whether he was in or out of office , the House of Commons was thoroughly embued with his spirit—was effectually " Peelized . " That is gone . The poor Ministers have lost their patron ; the Tory leaders are relieved of the great chief whose comparison was such an incubus on their energy ; the Radicals are deprived of their forcible appeal against Whig backslidings and inefficiencies . Each party must retreat upon itself ; and is at the same time left without its moderator : but the event has come so suddenly , that neither section is provided with a policy for the occasion ; and speculation as to the future is in some confusion . The popular man who could " throw himself upon the country" would now find an opening . It was understood , last week , that if the Ministers were beaten on the Palmerston question , they would not resign , as that would not afford a proper , occasion for their euthanasia and political resurrec- j tion ; but that they would choose some Irish measure—probably the Parliamentary Voters ( Ireland ) , Bill ; which would make a better " cry " in appealing to the country . For they had full y made up their minds to be beaten , and this week their
expectation hs is been confirmed . Their victor is Lord Desart , whe » has altered their Irish franchise from £ 8 to £ 15 . However , as they were not beaten in the Commo : as they may now think it quite ' constitutional " to disregard a defeat in the Lords . They seen l to be preparing for a pointblank retractation in the Post Office matter . Lord Ashley made them a dopt the Sunday suspension , and the newspaper p roprietors have made them adopt the Sunday resui nption ; at least Lord Clanricarde has half promisei i as much . They are also engaged in a contest abo . at the site for the Exposition of 1851 ; but as the c ifflcial intention is supported out of doors by publ ic opinion very distinctly manifested , it is scarcely j > ossible that they can yield to the organized resis t * ince got up by some " distinguished " and fastidious frequenters of the Park . If Ministers should su < jcumb , the case might be interesting , as establishing the standard of minimum power requisite to bear down a Whig Cabinet . " The Moun tain of Light , " the great Indian diamond , whose v 'alue it would puzzle Monsieur Daze to calculate , is added to Queen Victoria ' s possessions ; the " M iountain , " about as big as the upper half of an exti nguisher , and worth , in jewellers ' tariff , a gre * it deal more than any one would pay for it . Afte r an adventurous career among the changeful d ynasties of India , it finds its fitting asylum in tb ! e British treasury . It is of price and beauty to ro ate with the Royal jewels ; but , tested by the wiser ideas of modern times , it has no adequate saleat > le value . As " produce , " diamonds are not wort h much : they are splendid curiosities , fit for musei ims and royal pageants . Abroad , t he events are not of a very imposing nature . W > e do not learn that in Paris Louis Philippe ' s reviv ing health causes much political speculation . A i cood deal more attention is excited by the dinner \ vhich M . Emile de Girardin has given to the work ing printers of his establishment . Central I' lurope is the scene of the newest political activity / : the Princes are still at work striving to fetter th » 3 press ; and the Austrian Government has return * 3 d to its old efforts at instigating the Gallician J leasantry against their landlords ; for Austria , in favoured fields , is the greatest incendiary of E urope . We see , also , the report of an insurrectio : n in Bulgaria ; a province where the population , used to subjection , socially comfortable , and 1 ooking for material progress rather than political ei nancipation , has been very much averse rom disor der . We must suspect Russian machinations aj gainst Turkish ascendancy in this new revolution . On the other side of the Atlantic the Senate has been riva ! iling the British H ouse of Lords in its personal piquancies ; only that they have a more emphatic fashion among the Yankees . I he Broughan i and Bunsen affair , amusing as it was , is quite < mtdone by the verbal rencontre of Clay and Bent on . Mr . Webster has been guilty of a startling ; innovation , which we should have thought
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Leader (1850-1860), July 6, 1850, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1845/page/1/
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