The Sun.
London, England, 1840-04-20 00:00:00

IRELAND.

AGITATION. TUC REPEAL. CRY. - The aggregate
meeting which is to be called from every part of tne pro-
vi,,ce of Leinster, is postponed until after the interment
of Mr. Drummond. At a meeting held at the Corn Ex-
change last Saturday, Mr. O'Connell moved a resolution
adjourning the contemplated meeting till Monday. Some
gentlemen subsequently were admitted members of the
National Association. A letter from the Count de Salis
was read by the Secretary, and, on the motion of Mr.
O'Connell, who complimented this " young► gentleman of
large fortune and high rank," a vote of thanks to him
was adopted. The Honourable and Learned Gen-
tlema❑ then addressed the Assembly at considerable
length,. moving several resolutions connected with the
organization of the " National Association for Speedy
Justice to Ireland, or Repeal." Mr. O'Connell in the
course of his speech said—" I mean to propose the forma-
tion of Committees in order to work out the objects of the
National Association ; and I state at once that our object
is Repeal, and nothing else.—( Cheers.) That is our
object ; and, at the same time, we give to the Imperial
Parliarnen: and England the alternative of doing us jus-
tice.--(Cheers.) If they do us complete justice they de-
feat our object—if they do not, they strengthen every
honest man in his determination to join us in our rally for
Repeal. I confess lam convinced that the only substan-
tial justice that can be done for Ireland is by a domestic
Legislature; that if I heard it promised that justice would
be none to us by England, after what we have suffered
from her, and after the contempts with which she has
treated us, I would almost regret the alternative.—( Hear,
hear.) At the same time I mean to act fairly to the
Britisn Parliament. If they will at once concede us per-
fect equality they will disarm me of the power of procur-
ing► Repeal."

—On Friday there was a meeting of the Liberal Clubs
and of the National Trades Political Union, when arrange.
ments were made for the aggregate ineetlng to be held
to-day. Mr. O'Connell on this occasion delivered a high
eulogium on the late Mr. Drummond, and moved that
every possible compliment be paid to the remains of this
excellent statesman and friend of Ireland.

CONVICTION OF A BARRISTER FUR FELONY.—At the
Dublin Sessions, on Wednesday, Robert Harman, a bar-
rister, was found guilty of robbing the library of Trinity
4College of a large quantity of books, which he bad pawned.
There had been a great number of books stolen from the
University library, and the prisoner, being a Graduate, had
access to them; he appears to have given the attendants
papers and magazines to read while he secreted the books,
and then pawned them. Various pawnbrokers produced
the books, and identified the prisoner as the person pawn-
leg them. The prisoner, who trembled from head to foot,
and seemed cast down with shame, was sentenced tosix
months hard labour in Newgate.
COURT OF CHANCERY.--IN RE M‘GUIRE, A MINOR.
This case had been partly argued on Wednesday. The
minor, Hugh M'Guire, son of the late Constantine
M'Guire, the circumstances of whose melancholy death by
assassination, a few years back, at his residence in the
county Tipperary, may still be fresh in the public reeollee_
lion, is in the 20th year of his age. His mother, Baron
Richards, and Mr. Collum, a respectable solicitor, were
appointed guardians to the minor under the trusts of his
father's will, but the two latter declined to act as such, and
deemed it expedient, in consequence of some family litiga-
tion on the subject of the property, to make him a ward of
Chancery. The property of which he, on coming of age,
is, under his father's will, in expectancy, estimated at
7001. a year. His present allowance is 701 a year. A
marriage between the minor and Miss Margaret Hamilton,
of the Theatre Royal,—a young lady well known to, and
appreciated by, the citizens of Dublin as an agreeable and
accomplished vocalist, and now aged about 22 years—had
been, it appeared, celebrated on the 6th of J. nuary, 1839,
at the Haymarket, Smithfield, by a person named James
M'Guire, said to be a degraded clergyman.
The Chancellor, after hearing both sides at full length,
ordered Mrs. Hamilton into custody, and the priest Ma-
guire also.
Mr. Blake—No, my Lord; it is not a priest we have
here now, but a minister—a minister of the Protestant
church. In thoisdeal w ith. case it is a Protestant clergyman your
Lordship has t
Mr. Litton—Well, he is still a priest.
Mr. Blake—Ay, a Protestant priest.
His Lordship—Well, he is a clergyman,. at all events,
no matter of what church ; for I am sure
woadd be glad to get rid of him. But be heat any
church
of any persuasion Le may, I shall attach him,
a elergYman
His Lordship then directed attachments to issue accor-
i -
dely, and the Court rose.
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Earl and Countess Cowper will see compan♦
during• this week, at Pansanger, Herts.

LONDON:
MONDAY, APRIL 20, 1840.

The great charge made by Tories, Growlers, and
land-jobbers against the Ministers, on the subject
of New Zealand, is, that they would not claim the
whole of that country for Great Britain, and main-
tain our sovereignty over it against all comets. If
Ministers had deserved the censure of these three
classes of evil-speaking persons, we should have
concluded that no more noble eulogium was ever
pronounced on any set of men. What is it but to
say that they are not ambitious, that they are not
grasping, that they are not robbers on a grand
scale, as nations too frequently are ? What is it
but to ascribe to them the lofty virtues which we
' honour in a WASHINGTON ? But, as we have
proved, Ministers do not deserve the eulogium.
They have followed the beaten track ; they have
fallen into the evil ways of former grasping, un-
principled statesmen ; they have been compelled,
by Englishmen seizing a portion of the soil, and
by acknowledging, without much consideration,
that where Englishmen plant a colony, the Govern-
ment is to follow them and keep order and obe-
dience—to appropriate a portion of New Zealand,
and establish there the authority of the Government.
We formerly quoted a passage from Lord NOR-
MAN/31C
s instructions to Captain HOBSON, in
which he stated this fact, and stated that his con-
duct in refusing to appropriate New Zealand, was
consistent with the Report of a Committee of the
House of Commons and the stream of our laws.
If the Ministers, then, had rigidly
abstained from
Zealand, they would only
seizing any part of New
have carried the laws into execution,
have merited neither our praise nor the anticen sv‘u.roenoldf
the growlers and the jobbers. Attempts, however,
are made to invalidate the laws, and it is asserted
that the Legislature could not give up the right of
sovereignty which vests in the Crown. This claim
of the right of sovereignty seems to us, with all
deference to those who make it, one of the least
tenable that can be advanced, and for the people of
England the least useful.
Already England possesses the whole of the Aus-
tralian continent. To assume the sovereignty over
New Zealand would at once require, not merely
that
England should colonise some part of it, but
1-that she should maintain a force there to protect