The Express.
London, England, 1850-02-19 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS.—MONDaT, Pas. IS.
The LORD CRANCILLOR look kis ssat apse the Mochas&
at 6 o'slock.
ACTS OF PARLIAMENT ABBRIVIATION BILL.
Oa e►. whoa of Lard Baorowax this bill was road •
sicced date.
ORANOZ PROCESSIONS.—DOLLY'S BRAE.

Lesrarjahlii,Weiai;liaded To ti; gra the
task he had endertakea Is propene( what was grainiest
to a vete of rearre es two member either hone, and upon
other girl/mos who were serum of the crews Is Ireland,
ereatiased thus I hew I shall net be ecissidered se holding say
=doe bin is favour of the Orange isaitatioas or party ; but
I I. say that I believe than to be in the mar • loyal. in-
dustrious, upright, esorgette, and religious people. (Chill
I doeitineaa to say that there are set uses; theee—as in
babes wish whom religies sad loyalty ere not feelings
really implanted is the heart sad acteatum the rudite:it
=apampers, seder the cloak of which are covered
s aniasoeity and poUrbssl bitterness. (pre,
hear.) Bat I holier that is set their Wanner
r a pony, r a whole. la the begirning of July Iset
it was perfectly usdatestood, through the whole of Ire.
Md, that there were to be exterre den musatioas of the
Owego body. Os the 12th of Jaly, large prosesslons woes
to mark is diffuser parr of the rotary with the ban-
ners of the Merest lock , sad the emblem *Mb sesally
antempaay sash Inhermation was give* to her
Majesty's got. runt, mad they took nick marres es they
Nought fit to root the Miracle" of the rase. Two
etbpes-
diaey isagistratos were mut lows into the anglthenshoed of
Ballyward. It woo sadoestead that • would
peso through Dolly's Brae sad peered to greastessiaawellan„ sad
than tors off te my noble frised's park at refi
re ar, where it was uaderstood
he made foe their reception. (Big le=lll9"fris
to a nap psblished with Mr. Berwiek's report, sad is
sorbed the locality.) The old read Irma ;Maghoramay•
Dolly's Bras west is a straight dimities threatt=rp
questa= whisk might be welly guarded by sa
trot *Oast a begs masher of presses. The sew read.
Manse the old mi. mode detour ef abr. s
mashed Castiewellw, a arts, dinar* on the otheealA• of
• Brae. It bed hew held out that the Ormego proses
sew wild set be snowed to pass Dilly's Bras, sad with
W view of preventiog • collision, a small body of troops
maspied the pre of Dolly's Brae wrier to the arrival of
the proareera, sod they were sot easel too early, for soon
after their arrival shoot 400 or 800 nes, armed with palm,
'myths; 5,1155, to , awes is the grad with the tres-
tles of occupying the advantageoen pedies of the pass of
Dolly's Bre. They, however, dual thenselnes disap-
pointed, sad thsy the eneamped sad remained he • easel
dersble part of the day en a little ridge by the side of the
read in the immediate noisily of the troops. The pecca-
ries paned bon Btllyward, acoorapsaiod with banners and
awls sad, it burg a fir day is July, *somber of women
and peeped is perfect good order, directions
berg gives as as secoutt to ire • slot even in sport, or to
offer the slightest insult. Tres crdm were punctually
adhered to, sad notwithatandiog roc insults were offend to
then by the sarronading crowd, yet, by the our.
now of Ike samistrates, the military, and two
Roma 'rheas clergymen, the proration rased without
a Mile blow being given or a shot Arad. The
epodes Ors arose whether, having pared by this disputed
}shit of Dolly's Brae, the procession should, in rebirths
imiTellynore, again pass by the as road. What road they
should take, bowevea, was ant known until they were
on
the spot when the two roads diverged. In the marine
sore brow woes took place. The cavalry, not having
brought any forage with them, were sent • little distance to
obtain sole, ant did not return is time to take she load of
W procession, but followed it. The police and the rest of
the military remained on the ground, sad the body to which
he had before refired maintained thole position oleo. In
the 0n.... of the day they were visited to 7 two Roma oaths
lie clergymen Mr. Morgan and Mr. Mooney, the first of
whom brought, he did within very diaererly, • quantity of
bread and distriosted with the avowed intention of
keeping these people together on the ground. He also
administered his blessing to the crowd there assembled.
About an hour b fore the return of the Orange party, and
while it was doubtful what inane the procession would take
as its trues aa eztraordiaary movement took place on the
part of these people—he did sot know what to call them—
The Reel of CLARENDON—Ribboomen.
Lord STANLEY—On, Bina:lams li.gheransayo, lying
011 the left head of the new road, consureded both the old
sad new roads. The R Mesa body bad been at tint en-
camped near Dolly's Brae, os the other side of the old road,
bat about an hour before the return of the procession, they
suddenly, and with military order and .e—being
under the command of • porton who had be, a dis
clanged from the constabulary—changed their position to
the summit of Magheranisyo, which more effectually
commanded the sew road than the old one. The proces-
sion after having bees received in his noble friend's park
(where he hod had a meeting of the school children • few
days before, and the platform erected oa that occasion was
allowed to remain), his noble friend mar to than • speech,
whirl he thought it would be difficult to fled fault with.
They retur.ed by the road by which they had come in the
moraine, sad they went through the page of Dolly's Brae.
Mr. Morgan, the Roman catholic clergynan, announced his
intention of going with the procession, in order to protect
them, but be did not do so. Mr. Id coney, however, mom-
pried them. The Orange party bad just reseed a line
marked us the nap, and Mr. Mooney was returning to meet
the p Are sod troops to assure them that all was peace,
whoa • sorb or signal was let off, upon which two theta
me fired from the hill where tbe Ribbonmen were en-
camped, sad Mee that cams a tremendous volley on the
polies, Orangeman. and military. the principal attack ap-
pearing to be directed against the police. They were for
moment startled, but, recovering themselves, with gallantry
and forbearance, which reflected credit on Mr. Hill, by
whom they were led, they gathered in a bode of forty or forty-
five nen, charged the Ribboanten, and drove them from
their roiling. In the opinion of • military oilier preeent,
the police were not sufficient to clear the hill, had not some
of the Orangemen present co-operated with them, and, in
spits of being find at from behind • wall, and from
ruse ere-bearing houses, they succeeded, with the
police, in dispersing the rebel bead. " Rebel band "
was • tern which had been adored by Lieut. Perry, and
when eked why he used it, he said that he did
✓e
Magee they bad fired on her Majesty's troops. (Hear,
hear.) There occurred scenes which be agreed the commie.
sioser faithfully described, because they were borne nut by
the evidence, although his statement was in other respects
highly coloured, aid, in some instances, he quite misrepre-
sented the case. There entainly did follow from the Orris
party sear (drat atrocity, sod if the perpetrator of them
rand be discovered there would be so man mere anxious to
bring them to justice than the noble earl (Roden) by his
side. (Han, bear) Houses were fired, one innocent per-
son was borbaressly put to death, end the spirit of retails-
ti on was carried 011 03 a pester extent than could be jusufi.a.
Hie nob • friend opposite thought fit to institute a commis-
non to Investigate this transaction. It cat four or five days
at the end of July ad the beginning of August, and then
by adjournment on the 18th September, after which Mr.
Berwick made his report. Informations were filed against
certain parties, but at the Cutlewellan sessions they ware re-
fried to be entertained by the bench of magistrates of which
his noble friend was the chairman. Upon receiving the re-
port of the c namiseioner, his noble friend opposite thought it
his duty to recommend the Lord Chancellor, in consequence
of these proceedings, summarily to dismiss from the commis
sir of the pear his noble friend near him, as also Mr.
Francis Been and Mr. Wm. 8e,,., He was not about to
eater into the me of Mr. Wm. Beers, but would apply hir-
er( to the cases of his noble friend and Mr. Francis Beers.
The case which the government made out against
the latter gentleman was, that the procession was
formed and organised within his domain, and that he
marched with it. He did so, however, in his character of
• magi's's, with no badge or mark upon him, but merely
artchiag with the stipendiary emigrates at the head of
the polies. It was proved that on the occasion of going and
returns, he was smote` the most active of all the magis-
trates is pretesting a thstsrbenco, and in endeavouring to
prevent • collision. Or of the natures produced—a
wounded Rabboansa—testified to the fact, that in the heat of
the conflict his life had bent saved by Me Francis Beers.
(Heir, hear.) Ups arriving at his noble friend's perk,
where nose but Orangemen were prriont, Mr. Francis
peeing been an Orangeman for more than 20 years,
put oa an oraage ribbon, but be took it off
when he left the pork. (Hear, hen.) The charges
against his noble freed were, that he received
the procession (a his path, sad did sot advise them to return
by the as* reed, and se chairman of the bench of magis-
trates he refused to reserve the intormatioas tendered by the
WOW, aelicitor at the iastigatio• of Mr. Berwick, against
patties tor attesdimt the procession, not for committing any
hit of violesee, but merely for attending the lifoClolloll, u
berg per re sad aS Mi(o, an illegal procession altogether.
I Hear, hear.) He admitted the lam of the case, so far es
he tad stand them, sad hie answer was this. ft. am-
pl.ined that time facto Isemed no justification (or the step
wbash had bees Oakes by the goverment. Ho con-
tended that neither the magistrates who had bees
dismissed or the stipendiary magistrate did believe,
or had any reason to believe thst the pro.
cieseices was illegal, or that it was wandered so
by the geremeat. (Hear, hear) tip told" moment that
his noble Mend ressird the proomioa in hie park, be
believed that he was swag with then. doing so, not only
with the knowledge, but made/ the direct radios and
approval of the goverameat, and closely they were surer
the protonic.* sad mon N the military. (11. ar, hear.)
There woo 0124 Mint he loth, legality whack appeared to be
more dribthil tha• the legality of the prearion half,
namely, the legality nth* worries which his noble friend
had bans advised to brae, and the legality of the whole
pr.: reeding earned ea bare the aomenraiorr. He chanted
further, that the widows laid before the lord-bouteasat by
that camminioner did not tally, fairly, sod impartially
repreeeat the endear given. His charge was that the evi-
dence was garbled, sad the conclusioos trim filar,
hear.) Oa his own rafreifas he did not furnah
the whole of the evident,. Nothing should bre
ors omitted ; but he furnished the lord-lieutesaat with a
copy of the notes of endear taken betas bin, whisk " he
believed to costar' all the material evidence in the ease."
Lord Sterility the went on to show that Lard Rodeo
had for a long rases red es • pemeemsker. and endea-
voured to assuage the 'bream of Orange peaty feeling;
sad, moreover, that is the *piston or the goverment and
Me law advisers, gouetant processi ms bad more than one
hod • marred legality. Bridal's. of the high "'shorties
by whisk that opinion was estartained, sad of the frequent
occolisee whereon the governor had emitted to take any
notice of amiss gatherings, woo thee gran by his lordehip,
who afterwards °untainted ea the report drawn up by Mr.
Borer", denouncing that riper as embodying a 'ampler
and treudalent perversion of evidence. L ird Stanley then
contrasted the recent behaviour of the ministry towards

the Orangemen of Inland with the West reposed
In them, the often arma, aad beiedietioas
of their bravery sad loyalty lavished vim tomb by
W Wish& ot the Castle during the jpoliMal die
quifels at 1848. H. lordship thin
nessing were Ulenel, if they were he 1848 es
fas"r=teat dm bad Ma kens - why,
nisties tendered mist any of these
rommat so nodes is 1819 ? M
il,. Scott, a newel ma-
irrin the mat, of KM. I flit
iediegess Ia reentioa of all the infognatisa I mi
that boshreties were seemed very eztessively. I tol him
that the was tole held at Tallman, the set of
Earl Leda He wee la egentest egssesakedira with kb
milk Wed . Did heat Meg ine are Led Medea
the Armee that by reeerlea pinwale?* gash as
bed bees isenilled. he meld realer Masi, Sable to be
=lend is Sie reseedi
wreedd ng slam,
iSturzes.mblyythelfwasos
= I=l with all the ileaef the nee, not not
have Must whh enjels that be
reeehlng a resenies to Tarim, he Ind implicated
lamed( la the repaling el sa Merl unstably
'no verfrw infillnatesse ewe mars wee be-
ams as
how apreheaded then the pre-
emies. Re earn wee apprehended from 'sillies
meat ken Wee who were deeennised mlawfuliv to
ohs ant the V:. The neeedmies Weed brute!
Quads% e the dimes easiest Lard
he r esesseele Md
te bees far mere illigel Sae the preen-
whairneed the whale Ask. Re (Lord Stanley)
meld te ebew Mat set rely were the proceedings
before emmiedes Medasst mwsmastable, bet that
ma emblem, Shea beam bid legs sari, stated ia Mr.
Beewielie repeat. Igo. meld malesa Sew
of the poison whirr be deemed agestiel to peeve
that etemegast, sod be maid sad the follow-
, Sues a snipe omen Asst the IMMO *WI the report
et Xr. Baskit, and then the evidence span whisk it wait
headed. Mr. Berwick nye, " tlehteteastely, however,
liter the resoles bad ended, some etre/glees bon the
°11:
party sentedtted some acts of violates, and deed
shel: the main es their way hose, Ia the
heed of Mr. Moira% bees, the belle from twe wMsh
nen so des to that ratlesan that he ma of erase that
they were Med at None gad hie parishioners woe to gess-
game mask ansgrested." He (Lord finale/I meld now
reed the sidease of the Rev. Kr. Marra. That menseed
✓estless& stated " that is the ensile, while the resenies
wag retuning, and by the gun reed whisk It lad rim he
me stead* os his ewe sad that sins eftlfWlgl
who were ia the aelablem were giBte.lees *lb, that
the Oreagemes, begableg these ohne Oa liembess bed at
then beam fader; ead Manned the be. Is legged
their lordship, to einem that this bee wee stated
by Mr. Berwielt in an entirely floadowy way.
Thu report gelled that the lest shots wen fired
by the Orangemen, while is bet the Orangemem
did sot In until two shots had been, they seappeseik fired
at them by the esthetics. Mr. Berwick, la his report, else
sappremed the fact that Mr. W. Beers was the pangs who
terseastrated with the Oranpning. That we. woe= fa-
ttens of the stone bias running through the white report
drawn up by Mr. Comaisioner Berwick. la the eagle page
(5) of the report, there was another remarkable fact. It
we. known that Mr. Francis Been had coingeneicated
to the government his fears that a breach of
the lessee might arise from this procession, and
had warned them giving his reams for entertaining
that fear. The report stated, that on the atoning of the
procession, the police proceeded to the residence of Mr.
Francis Biers, where they found a large body of Orangemen
seeembled in arms. But what did Mr. W. Beers state ?
Why, that on proceeding to his brother's demesne, he
footed there a large body of men, but also several magis-
trates, sad a strong body of military and pollee, in order to
preserve the peace, and that no complaint was ands
that the Orange procession should have been permitted to
occupy Mr. W. Beira' avenue. The report, however, took
no
noises of the pres,ace of the military and police. Hs
(Lord fitanley) now had to deal with the question of the
return by the procession by the new rather then the old
road. Mr. Berwick stated in his report that " the magi-
strates assembled on the lull all agreed that it would be most
dangerous to allow the procession to come bark by the came
road, and it was arranged that Mr. Fiosasurice should pro.
teed to Lord Rodeo's, and request his lordship's interference
to induce them to return by some other way. The Rev. Mr.
Morgan, though still expresaiog his fears of a collision,
appears to have doubted the utility of such an arrangement,
as he said " that sines they had gone that road they might as
welt return by the same way." Thi• he explained to have
been said by him leader the supposition that if the
police and magistrates remaine. where they were
then posted the chances of a collision would be
less than if the Orange party were to proceed
by any whey road, where no su h protection to the
Boman catholic population could be afforded." Hie lordship
montintted, the Rev. Mr. Morgan had given so such
svideuee. The feet was tbi., Mr Morgan had stated tba.
"he did not advise that the procession should come back

the *use way that they had gone ; there was a great deal
of difference between thinking and airising. But he did
think at the time that it the procession were to return by
the ma road there wool 1 be great danger of the Orangemen
being attacked by the Ribbonmen." It was not true that all
the magistrate' were of that opinion. The feet that occurred
was this. The magistrates tent Mr. Fitsmsarice to Tollymore
to represent to Lord Roden the dente, of the procession re
turning by the same road. Lord Roden promised that he
would speak to Mr. W. Beers on the subject, ands." what
could be done. Mr. Beers recommended that the procession
should not return by a different route. And what were
that gentleman's reasons for giving this advice ? They
were the most satisfactory poesib:e to hove been given.
Mr. W. Beers stated that if the procession were
he Come back by the new road, and not by the
aM, he apprehended that a split would take place in the
priennidest, and that there would is consequence be infinitely
greater danger of a collision. This reason, said Lori
Stanley, was in itself sufficient to have guided the judgment
of Lord Roden in endeavouring to prevent the return of the
procession by any other route. (The noble lord then quoted
from the evidence of Capt. Darling and Mr. Ponsonby Hill
statements, in proof that the old road was decidedly the
safer of the two, inasmuch as though not so straight, it was
less exposed than the new one.) (Hear.) These reasons
(continued the noble lord), given by Mr. Hill, the stipen-
diary magistrate, and by Capt Darling, and which, no doubt,
influenced the leaders of the Orange procession in deternsin•
log to return by the old road, sere entirely omitted in Mr.
Berwick's report. H. would now mention another fact
which was omitted in Mr. Berwick's report. It had come
to his knowledge that a large body of Roman catholicwere
assembled is a chapel is the neighbourhood, and that the
priest, previous to administering his blessing, had sad's-
yawed to persuade tie auditors not to attack
the Orangemen. He (Lori Stanley) besged their lordships
to mark this circumstance. T, *or mused to answer him,

bey 11,111fo _
bat the priest administered his blessing notwithstanding.
Now he would beg to lay great strew upon this fact, for it
showed that there did exist the necessity of the Orangemen
keeping together in a body and not uplifting into several
small parties; and he mint say that he thought the evidence
of all the witnesses, both military sad civil, had sufficiently
and distinctly prevent that, of the two roads, the old r md was
the one most advisable to be chosen for their
return. But all the reasons for this proceeding of
the Orange procession by the old road were 'nuttily
omitted by Mr. Berwick in his report to the Lord Lieutenant.
The noble lord then alluded to another ratement in she
report, to the effect that Mr. W. Beers did not, in fact, make
the slightest attempt to induce the Orange party to go home
by the new road. It wee true, said the noble lord, that Mr.
Beers did not tender the leaders of the procession any sash
advice. How cou:d he under the circumstance, and he.
lining that it would endanger the public peace ? But Mr.
Been did advise the procession to abstain from all injury er
riotous proceeding, and to muffle insult and annoyance
rather than resent It. He (Lord Stanley) would now go
on to another very important misrrpresumtation of Mr. Be,.
wick. In page 8, Mr. Berwick stated 't that the two Roman
catholic clergyman appear to have exerted thiamine without
effect to induce this holy to return to their homes, meld a the
course of the day some bread was supplied to them by the
Rev. Mr. Morgan, to hinder them, as be alleged, free, gskti
into the publattonses and becoming intoxicated. Thielsedi
appears to have bean considerably theremed during the day
by the addition of a number of the innabitents of the hang.
dude neighbourhood, some of whom appear to have joined
them from curiosity, and some who east up their houses
and came there, as they alleged, for protection." The Roman
catholic priests did no nth thing, and he (Lord Btanley)would
read their evidence. Mr. Morgan rays' " I did advise them to
go away out of that in the muddle of the day, but I did not
tell them to home ;if I said formerly that I did tell theta
to go home I did not do it knowingly. Tee reason I did
not tall them to go Items was that I wee afraid, lest some
evil disposed pigeons might not do so, but inbuilt attack the
Orangemen. The, had no fear of an attack from the
O VP
This said the noble lord was the evidence of
a ear= eatkolie priest, on whidt Mr. Berwisk
thaeglit it kis duty to report that the Homan catholic
priests exerted themselves with effect to Induce the Itiblma
mem to return to their homes. He (Loyd Stanley) mut
allude to one or two more points. Mr. Hermitic stated in
hie report that while the procession was forming a shot was
Amid, bat from what patty he was unable to say. He (Lord
Manley) would not weary their lordship, by reading the
',Mew in detail on this enbjeet, but it appeared from that
eniidemie that when the procession had got to the ridge of
Me hill en its return a squib as a signal was fired. With re-
pad to the firing of that signal there were oa the one bend
earea or eight penes, who did not see it deed, bet
min hoard it sad who elated their impression, for the most
of them did not—that it came from the road.
eke rerther hand, there WOO the evidence of ikven
Intehi-
vat witnesses, two of whom declared that they saw the
swab fiend, and all of whom agreed in stating that they saw
theemshe of the squib, .cad that it was fitted from the hill,
sad that immediately afterwards two pendia came
leeward from behind Ike hill and fired upon the pro-
emial. These shots ware distinctly men to have
been fired from the hill, and they were immediately
afterward, followed by a whole volley. Yet, upon
that evidence, Mr. Commissioner Berwick considered it to be
peeved from which pa. ty the squib had originally been fired,
sad that the balance of the evidence proved that it was fired
from the road. Balance of evidence, indeed; why, it ay-
peared to him (Lad Stanley) that the balance we" all upon
0011 side. sad nose apse the other. (Laughter, and " Hear,
hear.") That wee to may, that whili to the evidence of three
ter I.oneesous who were on the ground at the time, and
in the proesmion, there was oprosea the evident
of Men or oilmen unexceptionable witnesses, Ili' pendia, magistrates and Brutish oaken, yet Mr.
Comeakedemer Berwick could only mine to the conga-
dos Wet the evident* appearod to warren the opinion that
any wen And by two of the Ilubbonama Mr. Boren*
might be en able advocate and an adroit tauseel, but God
ddend him (Lord Stanley) from ewer sprawls, baleen Mr.
Bawl* la his capacity as a Judg-. lie would mention
another of the fajrobabilities of Mr. Rerwick's report