The Sun.
London, England, 1840-04-18 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DEATH OF MR. DRUMMOND.
At seven o'clock in the afternoon of Thursday departed
this life, Thomas Drummond, Esq U d S etary fvr
er- ecr
Jr hind. •
tine hazard contradiction from no quarter in stating
that this announcement will be received with deep regret
by men of all parties and of all creeds in this country.l
For five anxious years, Mr. Drummond devoted him"'
with a singleness of purpose unequalled, and with
an
energy of will unsurpassed, to the duties of his station.;
From the moment he assumed office,
to the day °j
.i
his death (and we mark the words), Ireland wig
first, the constant, and the absorbing thought of his 5001
We
—the chief, we might add the only, object of his life'
We will venture to say that, now—now when the grav2
is about to close upon his remains—there is not an honestman amongst those who are the bitterest enemies of the
Government of which Mr. Drummond was a part, that
will not admit he has done good service in his office .—that
his conduct was directed by a strong sense of joie"
grity, and that his exertions, in many of the most if"
portant affairs, have been crowned with the most Collefi';
success. this
But he has fallen a victim to these exertions. Of
there is no question. His labour was incessant. Na
seemed to live only that he might perform the duty to
which he had devoted himself.
Upon his death-bed, when be knew that all was OVerijj
t. e
this life—when the just man, let us humbly hoPe, ai
made his peace with his Msker—he was asked wher ha
desired thst his remains should be deposited ? Let n• ";
in Ireland," he said. " I have lived for Ireland, I hove.
died in her service, and let me remain with her."
Mr. Drummond has left behind him three infant Ch---
ren, unconscious, poor things, of their irreparable loses
and a widow—God Almighty console and comfort her.
Mr. Drummond's remains will be interred, we under'
stand, at the cemetery of Mount Jerome. It will rem" ,
expressive of their regard and affection to the ro
for the people of Ireland to place a monument them.
expressive °
Irishmenh e sixteenth t
h e m centurysc
a man, of whom it may be justly said, is the lenci
tghuaangethoef
tin Evening Post.
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OP IRELAND FOR FULL Jita7.
Thatridy ehdefi.vcams mthoerepl

PROMPT JUSTICE, OR REPEAL.
(Continued from The Sun of yesterday.) , yr,
After the plan of the Association was read, "',
O'Connell proposed to the meeting certain rules, whic"
were severally put and agreed to.
Mr. Redmond, in seconding the rule which went to thei
exclusion from the Association of any person who sbal
violate the laws, said it gave him great pleasure to sehe
that Mr. O'Connell-harLgiven a specific time, after wbiet
if those equal rights to which they were entitled were
conceded, they had to pursue the great object of Kea
For himself, however, be would say that he enter
no hope of England doing equal justice to this countryti
He believed that while the Union existed no concessi°,d
amounting to complete and perfectustice to Ireland woo' t
be yielded. He would venture toj prophesy that, wit.b,°:
the Repeal of the Union, this country would be, ;e:
end of five years, ten times worse off than she %vs' °—
at the present moment —( Hear.)
Tue Chairman, Mr. O'Neil, requested, before putting
the question, to be permitted to offer a few observation
He was then, as they all weie aware, a very old man' not
in coming down to the meeting that dayi he did s°.
in tue hope of being of any service to it by anything he
could say or do—not with the hope of supporting by any
c 1
nunuLle powers of his the great champion of his "unto''
Mr. O'Connell ;—( Loudheetin,) no,
but he can":
thole to show that one of perha the oldest eitizeas°l
Dublin—one who was not only I-a
grandfather, but wo°
had recen ly become a
tather of the third or fourth generation new Came forward
great grandfather
o show to the young teen of Ireland what an old man coil'
ef•
do by his cxareple. Ater some further remarks, the qua
tiOti 41,4 S put by the venerable and patriotic chairman,
nd
passed amid (~,thus:astie applause. the Ass.o.
Mr. 0 CONNELL moved the adjournment of
Chair.
cicion till Saturday, when fthanks to the
a vote ,of
:non was passed and the meeting separated. also—that t!