The Sun.
London, England, 1840-10-05 00:00:00

TO REVISING BARRISTERS, AGENTS, OVER-

SEERS, &c.
This day is published, in 2 vols., price 11. 18s.
APRACTICAL TREATISE on the LAW
of ELECTIONS; with Directions for Candidates,
Electors, Agents, Returning Officers, Overseers, Claimants,
and Objectors; and an Appendix, containing the statutes for
England, Ireland, and Scotland, with notes ; the Boundary
Act ; and Forms of Indentures, Precepts, &c.
By ARCHIBALD JOHN STEPHENS, Barrister-at-law.

London : Shaw and Sons, 137 and 13S, Fetter-lane. •
REFORM AND CONSERVATIVE AGENTS—RE-
FORM ACT. —Forms for entering the particulars and grounds
of opposition, or support by A&ents before the Revising Bar-
risters. The whole shown in a tabular form at one view, price
ss. per quire (24 sheets).

Oven

Libel

:rals.

PARISHES.

St. John, Hampstead
Finchley
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served 5
Willesden

Total

objections.
made sust.
41 41
7 7

13' 13
3 ; 3

made tsust.
9 3
10 5

19 I 7
6 1 2

64

Herald.

Tories.

made su!
15 t:
6

44 1 17

" Accordingly a vast number olehiefs, with a mul-
titude of followers, crowded in from every quarter, and
at twelve this day they assembled under spacious tents,
decorated with flags, which had been previously erected
at Waitangi by the direction of Captain Nias, of this
ship.
" Preparatory to the meeting I bad appointed a levee
to be held at Mr. Basby's house at eleven o'clock, to
which I invited all the principal European inhabitants,
the members of the Church of Eit4arid and Catholic
missions, and all the officers of thier: It, and was highly
gratified to find that nearly every oillA either here or in
the neighbourhood, favoured me witblieir attendance.
" Soon after twelve I proceeded:4o the tent, sup-
ported by Captain Nias and hitt'ofrieers, Mr. Busby,
the late resident, the members of the Church Missionary
Society, the French Bishop, therotiers of the Govern-
ment, and all the principal EuropeasLinhabitants, &c.,
in procession, and took my seat nilit raised platform,
surrounded by the gentlemen, iti,thOdme order as they
had accompanied me. 'in theiitkisf the area, within
the tents, the chiefs seated themselves upon the ground,
leaving a space around them for the Europeans. The
whole spectacle produced a roost imposing effect.
" The business of the meeting then commenced by
my announcing to the chiefs the objects of my mission,
and the reasons that had induced her Majesty to ap-
point me. I explained to them in the fullest manner
,he effect that might be hoped to result from the watt-
;ure, and I assured them in the most fervent manner
_,hat they might rely implicitly on the good faith of her
Majesty's Government in the transaction. I then read
the treaty, a copy of which I have the honour to en-
close ; and in doing so I dwelt on each article, and
offered a few remarks explanatory of such passages as
they might be supposed not to understand. Mr. H. Wil-
liams, of the Church Missionary Society, did me the
favour to interpret, and repeated in the native tongue,
sentence by sentence, all I said.

" When I had finished reading the treaty, I invited
the chiefs to ask explanations on any point they did not
comprehend, and to make any observations or remarks
on it they pleased. Twenty or thirty chiefs addressed
the meeting, five or six of whom opposed me with great
violence, and at one period with such effect, and so cle-
verly, that I began to apprehend an unfavourable im-
pression would be produced. At this crisis the Ho
kianga chiefs, under Neni and Patawoni, made their
appearance, and nothing could have been more season-
ble. It was evident, from the nature of the opposition,
that some underhand influence had been at work. The
chiefs Revewah and Jakahra, who are followers of the
Catholic Bishop, were the principal opposers, and the
arguments were such as convinced me they had been
prompted. Revewah, while addressing me, turned to
the chiefs, and said,' Send the man away, do not sign
the paper ; if you do, you will be reduced to the condi-
tion of slaves, and be obliged to break stones for the
roads. Your land will be taken from you, and your dig-
nity as chiefs will be destroyed.'
" At the first pause Neni came forward, and spoke
with a degree of natural eloquence that surprised all
the Europeans, and evidently turned aside the tem-
porary feeling that had been created. He first ad-
dressed himself to his own countrymen. desiring
them to reflect on their own condition, to recollect
how much the character of New Zealanders had
been exalted by their intercourse with Europeans,
and how impossible it was for them to govern them-
selves without frequent wars and bloodshed ; and
he concluded his harangue by strenuously ad-
vising them to receive us, and to place confidence
in our promises. He then turned to me, and said,' You
must be our father—you must not allow us to become
slaves—you must preserve our customs, and never per-
mit our lands to be wrested from us.' One or two other
chiefs who were favourable followed him in the same
strain, and one reproached a noisy fellow, named Ki-
tigi, of the adverse party, with having spoken rudely to
me. Kitigi, stung by reo; Irk, sprang forward, and
violently by the hand, and I received the sa-
lute apparently with equal ardour. This occasioned
among the natives a general expression of applause, and
a loud cheer from the Europeans, in which the natives
joined, and thus the business of the meeting closed, fur-
ther consideration of the question being adjourned to
Friday, at eleven o'clock, leaving, as I said, one clear
day to reflect on my proposal.

" Feb. 6, 1840.

" At ten o'clock this morning it was announced to me
that the chiefs, being impatient of further delay, and per-
fectly satisfied with the proposals I had made them, were
desirous at once to sign the treaty, that they might return
to their homes. The further consideration of the ques-
tion had been adjourned from the sth to the 7th ; but
to have refused this request would probably have ren-
dered nugatory the whole proceeding, by the dispersion
of the tribes before they had attested their consent by
their signatures. I therefore assembled the officers of
the Government, and with Mr. Busby and the gentlemen
of the missionary body, 1 proceeded to the tents, where
the treaty was signed in due form by 46 head chiefs, in
presence of at least 500 of inferior degree.
.6 As the acquiescence of the chiefs, 26 of whom had
signed the declaration of independence, must be
deemed a full and clear recognition of the sovereign
rights of her Majesty over the northern parts of this
i,land, it will be announced by a salute of 21 guns,
which I have arranged with Captain Nias shall be fired
from this ship to-morrow.

" In the course of this proceeding I have courted the
utmost publicity, and I have forborne to adopt even the
customary measure of propitiating the consent of the
chiefs by presents or promises ; and not until the treaty
had been signed did I give them anything. To have
sent them home without some acknowledgment would
have been a violation of their customs, and would have
given offence ; I therefore distributed among them a
few articles of tiifling value before they separated.
" It is my intention next week to visit Hokianga, and
I hope to obtain the adherence of such of the chiefs of
that district as were not present at Waitangi.
(Signed) W. HOBSON.
" His Excellency Sir George Gipps, &c."

THE TREATY. ,
" Her Majesty Victoria, Queen of the United King-
dom of Great Britain and Ireland, regarding with her
Royal favour the native chiefs and tribes of New zna.
land, and anxious to protect their just rights and pro-
perty, and to secure to them the enjoyment of peace
part Majesty's f these
and good order, has deemed it necessary (in consequence
of the great number of her Majesty's subjects who have
already settled in New Zealand, and the rapid extension
of emigration both frum Europe and Australia, which
is still in progress) to constitute and appoint a func-
tionary properly authorised to treat with the aborigines
Zealand
the w
recognition
hole o
r yr o
o:n
he
os
sf v eNwreeignauthority
islands. Her Majesty, therefore, being desirous to es-
tablish a settled form of civil government, with a view
to avert the evil consequences which must result from
the absence of the necessary laws and institutions, alike
to the native population and to her subjects, has been
graciously pleased to emPower and to authorise me,
William Hobson, a Captain in her Majesty's Royal
Navy, Consul and Lieutenant-Governor over such
parts of New Zealand as may be, or hereafter shall be,
ceded to her Majesty, to invite the confederated and in-
dependent
chiefs of New Zealand to concur in the fol-
lowing articles and eo_—ndT_itio s ::.._
he chiefs of the confederation
Article the First
of the united tribes of New Zealand, and the separate
and independent chiefs who have not become members
of the confederation, cadp to her Majesty the Queen of
England, absolutely. andwithout reservation, all the
rights and powers of sovereignty, which the said confe-
deration or independent chiefs respctivcly exercise or
possess, or may be suppos t? or to possess,
over their respective to ;do
nexercise
rn es, as the sole sovereigns

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Majesty the
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possession,
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na.nde h forests,i
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thereof.oatn dN
other
undisturbed
possession of their lands a.tlnu estates
But the chiefs
3 collectively or
proprietors thereof thereof may be disposed
%elusive right of
-- her Majesty tithee . pre-emption over
NEWS FOR TIIE BAKERS.—It was the fortune
of a congregation of a certain pariah in Devonshire lately 'A' an it
such prices
.as may be agreed upon be-
- to 1. . t '
so l' ds as
to have for a preacher one of " th;,se rockers of ortho- Lena e' '
respective proprietors and -
of
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retain
it
tpheoeds stserasimsb,iso:
anl on
theirnt h
tweea the respeett persona appointed
graphy," who, as good Sir Nathaniel observeth, " drawtreat with them •
out the thread of their verbosity finer than the staple of ,hY her Majesty to ~_,_
co s in that behalf.
their argument, who pronounce calf caulf, half haul, dm,' " Article the ThirdEtwilit ._ n ideration thereof her
In the course of the tint this nice young man repeated Majesty the Queen ef . and extends to the natives
twice, to add emphasis to his words, the text, "Is there of New Zealand her loYal protection, and imparts to
no balm in Gilead ?" " I don't know vor my parte," ex- them all the rights and privileges of British subjects.
claimed an old woman, rising from among them, " I don't (Signed) " NV. HOBSON,'
know for my parte ors about the barm of Gilead, but I
know that 'tis cruel skate in Goodleigk l"—North Devon

This day the Revising Barrister will meet at the
Aliereorn Arms, Great Stanmore„

---_!he chief 3 of thefederation
of 7hNo ou:ittteld'etrreifbl sce
s'cf New Zealand, being assembled