eleven o'clock that night (the 2nd of July) he expired, blessing
with his latest breath the afflicted family, and friends who
surrounded his death-bed. After his death it was found that the
fifth rib on the left side was broken; a discovery which could
not be made sooner, as he was unable to bear the torture of a
minute examination. This was probably the mortal injury;
though, the family being disinclined to a post-mortem investigation,
the precise cause of death was not ascertained.

The death of no public man has ever excited more general and
unmingled sorrow, not only in the metropolis, but in every part
of the country. During his illness the public anxiety was
unbounded. The Queen, Prince Albert, and the most
distinguished individuals of every political party, were unceasing in
their inquiries; and the neighbourhood of his house was thronged
by multitudes, eager to catch every gleam of hope. When the
fatal result was known, the general feeling was strongly
manifested. During the following day, in the neighborhood of
Whitehall, every window was closed; and in the City the same
mark of respect was shown by a great number of mercantile
establishments, and a great part of the shipping in the river
hoisted flags half-mast high. We have recorded elsewhere the
tributes paid to his memory by both houses of parliament; and
many others, equally heartfelt, have been paid by corporate and
public bodies in all parts of the kingdom. Such testimonies
have not been confined to this country. At the opening of the
sitting of the French Assembly on the 5th, it was agreed, on the
proposition of M. Dupin, the president, to record on their minutes
a token of regret and esteem for a statesman "who, during the
whole course of his long and glorious career, has never
expressed any sentiments towards France but those of kind feeling
and justice, and whose language has always been that of
courtesy towards the government."

On the 9th, Sir R. Peel's remains were deposited, according to
his own desire, in the family vault of the parish church of
Drayton Bassett. His obsequies were plain and simple, befitting
the condition of a large landed proprietor, but nothing more.
He was followed to the tomb by a few chosen friends, and the
great mass of mourners consisted of the inhabitants of Tamworth
and the rural districts round. The present Sir Robert Peel
(who had arrived from Geneva the day before) was chief
mourner, accompanied by Capt. J. Peel, Mr. F. Peel, Mr. A.
Peel, Capt. W. Peel, R.N., the Dean of Worcester, Lord Villiers,
Mr. Lawrence Peel, Colonel Peel, the Dean of York, the Right
Hon. G. R. Dawson, Captain Peel, son of the Right Hon. W. Y.
Peel, Sir J. Floyd, Mr. R. Peel, son of the Dean of Worcester;
Captain E. Peel, son of Edmund Peel; Captain Charles Lenox
Peel, Archibald Peel, son of Colonel Peel; the Lord Harley,
Robert Peel Dawson, General Yates, Sir Hume Campbell, the
corporation of Tamworth two and two, and the two Messrs.
Rhoades. The pall-bearers were—Sir James Graham, Lord
Aberdeen, Lord Hardinge, Sir Francis Lawley, Mr. Goulburn,
Mr. B. Denison, Sir George Clerk, and Mr. Bonham. Arrived
at the church, the Bishop of Gibraltar read the funeral service,
and when it was concluded, the sons of the deceased advanced
to the mouth of the vault, and each in his turn took a last
farewell. At Tamworth, during the whole day of the funeral,
business was completely suspended, the shop doors and windows
closed, and the whole inhabitants in mourning. At Birmingham,
Manchester, Liverpool, Derby, Wolverhampton, Bristol, and
many other large towns, similar marks of respect were paid to
the memory of the departed.

Several monuments are to be raised to the illustrious statesman.
The House of Commons have addressed the Queen,
praying her sanction to a monument in Westminster Abbey.
A great meeting took place at the Mansion House on the 15th,
when the preliminary measures were taken for the erection of a
monument in the city. And a subscription has been set on
foot for a testimonial to be called "The Working-Man's
Monument," at first limited to a penny, but now unlimited in amount,
from a penny upwards. Mr. Cobden, in a letter to the
papers, has suggested that this monument shall bear, as an
inscription, the words with which Sir R. Peel closed his last
speech as minister: "It may be that I shall leave a name
sometimes remembered with expressions of goodwill in the
abode of those whose lot it is to labour and to earn their daily
bread by the sweat of their brow, when they shall recruit their
exhausted strength with abundant and untaxed food, the sweeter
because it is no longer leavened by a sense of injustice."

His Royal Highness the DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE died on the 8th.
He had had an attack of cramp in the stomach on the 18th of
June, but it had passed away and no further danger was
apprehended. He became rapidly debilitated, however, during some
days before his death, and expired somewhat suddenly and without
suffering. He was in his 77th year, having been born on
the 24th of February, 1774. He entered the army at an early
age, and in 1794 attained the rank of Colonel. In 1803 he was
made a General; in 1805 Colonel of the Coldstream Guards; and,
in 1813, a Field Marshal. In 1801 he obtained his Ducal rank.
In 1816, after the French had been expelled from Hanover, he
was appointed viceroy of that State till 1837 when, by the death
of William the Fourth, the succession opened to the Duke of
Cumberland—He married, in 1818 the Princess Augusta
Wilhelmina Louisa of Hesse Cassel, by whom he has left three
children, Prince George of Cambridge, the grand Duchess of
Mecklenburgh Strelitz, and the Princess Mary of Cambridge.—
The late Duke enjoyed the unqualified esteem and good-will of
the nation from the kindliness of his disposition, his active
benevolence, and blameless purity in every relation of life.

On Tuesday the 16th His Royal Highness's remains were
deposited in the parish church of Kew, with as little pomp and
parade as could possibly attend the funeral of a royal personage.

Captain OWEN STANLEY, R.N., son of the late Bishop of
Norwich, died on the 13th March off Sydney in New South Wales.
He was a distinguished officer, and was employed in surveying
the dangerous seas between Australia and the Indian Isles.

GEORGE CRANSTOUN LORD COREHOUSE, formerly one of the
Judges of the Court of Session in Scotland, died at Corehouse
on the 26th of June. He was called to the bar in 1793, and
raised to the bench in 1826. In consequence of a shock of
paralysis he resigned his office in 1839.

Mr. ROBERT DILLON BROWNE, Member of Parliament for the
county of Mayo, died on the 1st inst. in the 39th year of his age.

The Earl of DONOUGHMORE died at Palmerston-house near
Dublin on the 3rd. He distinguished himself by the part he
took, along with Sir Robert Wilson, in the liberation of General
Lavalette from the prison of the Conciergerie. He is succeeded
in his title and estates by his eldest son Lord Viscount Suirdale.

Lord PETRE died at his house in Mansfield Street on the 3rd,
in his 57th year. He is succeeded in his title and estates by the
Hon. W. Petre.

The Rev. W. KIRBY, the Entomologist, died at Barham, in
Suffolk, on the 4th, in his 91st year.

ALEXANDER MUNRO, Esq., died at Edinburgh on the 5th at
the age of 90. He was brother of Sir Thomas Munro, late
governor of Madras, and was Commissary-General of the
Indian army during the administration of the Marquis Wellesley.

The Right Hon. Lord DUNBOYNE died at the Chateau Elchingen,
Pas de Calais, on the 6th, in his 70th year.

General BOYER, ex-president of the Republic at Hayti, died at
Paris on the 9th.

Sir. ROBERT STEPHENSON, the celebrated Engineer, died at
Edinburgh on the 12th, at an advanced age.

Mrs. Glover, the celebrated actress, died on Tuesday the 16th,
in her 69th year. She had taken her farewell benefit on the
preceding Friday, and had played her favourite part of Mrs.
Malaprop. Probably the excitement of this trying scene on her
aged and enfeebled frame had the effect of hastening her death.
Her maiden name was Betterton, and she was a descendant of
the great actor of that name who flourished in the early part of
the last century.

COLONIES AND DEPENDENCIES

THERE is little to remark of the Colonial news of the month, but that the West Indians are making their
usual complaints, and (we rejoice to add) more than their usual exertions. It is pretty plain that they
see, though they have not the courage or candour as yet to confess, that their panacea must ultimately be
found in the steady application of skill and science to better and more ample cultivation. It is rather
curious (and a striking corroboration of this view) that the governor of St. Lucia should now express his
strong conviction of the necessity for some such measure applied to the West Indies generally as that of
the Irish Encumbered Estates Act.

The New Zealand Company has committed suicide. This act does not appear to create much concern, and
may probably be taken for a not unhealthy indication that it is better to keep quite separate the duty of
governing a colony and the hope of making a mercantile profit out of it. It is, at least, obvious that the
Colonial Office has now a clearer field for its exertions, than when this Company ran the race of government
along with it; and all who are interested in colonial affairs will have a right to demand that this greater
power be warily and discreetly exerted in Downing Street. There is now a better opportunity for a
colonial minister who thoroughly understands his duties, than has existed at any previous period of the
English history.