All England is jusb no"w sympathising withMr Speaker in theterrib.o bereavement he has suffered through the o> » tn ° " wife. Every day since the neW See * V ° c opened a little ceremony has bee_ fc ' _ through before tho admission of tho pu| -> to St. Stephen's, whether to the Speaker so. Press Gallery. The Clerk, standing ac the bable.informs the House that " Mr Speaker is unavoidably prevented from taking the chair of the House this day." Whereupon Mr Courtney, in close proximity, fills the chair ab tho 'table where bho Speaker is ac customed to sit during prayers, thereafter fcakingtheehairas Deputy-Speakor. Mr foci s absence from his own Parliamentary duties have been duo to his indisposition, and the more serious, aud, unhappily, fatal illness of his wifo. lb is said that, the Speaker sent, in his r jsignabion to tho Prime Minister beforo Parliament met, bun Ford Salis bary would not accept ib, and begged of Mr Peel to recall ib and take up his work again, after the Christmas adjournment, which he consented to do. Bub it, is doubtful, in the faco of his loss and his shattered condition, whether Mr Peel will ever take tho chair '.n the Commons again. The utmost sympathy has been expressed for him in Parliament, and both leaders have combined to publicly record their sorrow thab a man so honoured and beloved by all his friends—so valued and respected on both sides of tho House, should havo been so heavily afflicted. During Mrs Peel's illness bhe Queen and Prince of Wales made almost daily inquiries as to her condition. Archdeacon Farrar spent soma bime ab the bedside of the dying lady, where was aho besides her husband and children, her brother, Mr J. S. Dugdalo, Q.C., M. P. Mrs Peel, who had been named Adelaide, after her sponsor, Q ueon Adelaide, was the daughter of Mr William Stratford. ugdale, of Merevale Hall, and Blyth Hall, Warwickshire, and for a while M.P. for Warwickshire. Sho was married to Mr Peel in 1802, and leaves seven children. It was only this year, in the Summer Session, thab Mrs Peel had devised a peries of after noon teas on the Terrace of tho Parliament Houses facing the river. 