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Robert Peel, 1850. 'The country has lost its greatest statesman, under circumstances the most melancholy and deplorable. In the noon-time of his fame, in the ripe vigour of his intellect, and while...he stood upon the calm hill-top of a long and brilliant life, and looked complacently toward the serene evening of a day in which there was still much work that he could do, Sir Robert Peel has been snatched from his countrymen by a sudden and shocking death. His loss is regarded by millions as a national, and by many thousands as a private and personal calamity. It has administered a shock to the feelings of all classes of the people...and has read the world a deeply-impressive and most mournful lesson on the instability of human power and greatness, and on the transitory nature of all the blessings which men most enthusiastically .prize, and most ardently struggle for'. From "Illustrated London News", 1850.