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TWELFTH 01' JULY.

f from the Dublin Frerman's Journal of Friday, July MI
We are sorry to hart, that the commendable deference
to the declared wish of the Government, and the express
law of the land, which marked the conduct of the Orange-
men of the metropolis (with an exception or two, too trifling
and contemptible to call for serious notice), was not preva-
lent in the provincial seats of Orangcism. The subjoined
letter come► front a highly respectable quarter; and the ex-
tracts from country papers, which follow it, prove that the
feeling a: Enniskillen is not an isolated one :

ET:NM ILLEH, JCL', 12.
It would seem that Fermanagh is to be the last place in
Ireland that will cease to sound the war-whoop of party
discord. This morning, in contempt of the late Act of
parliament, the (Lange orgies were celebrated as usual. I
lAt so early an hour as three o'clock, a.m., several hundred
Orangemen walked in procession through the town of En-
niskillen, relating the air with riotous shouts, to the terror I
of the. Roman Catholic inhabitants ; a band of amateurs
playing all the classic airs and party tunes during their
tirogress. A triumphal arch was erected at the east end
of the town, festooned with wreaths of Orange lilies,
ribands, &c.; Orange flags were hoisted on the spires of
the church and market-house ; and what was more sur-
prising, persons holding employments under Government
signalised themselves most on this unlawful occasion.
On pt. John's day the Earl of Enniskillen, thought it
his duty, as Governor of the County, to preserve the peace,
by preventing the assembling of the Freemasons, and for
that purpose went from Florence-court to Irvinestown.
On the itth of July the Earl of Enniskillen temained
at home, and suffered the Roman Catholic inhabitants of
the town, whence lie takes his title, to be thus insulted,
and the statute-law of tho land to be transgressed with
impunity. if this be not favouritism, what is it? At
our late Sessions an Attorney (D. Auchenlcck, Esq.) told
the Assistant Barrister that the town of Enniskillen was in-
fested with Magistrates. On this day the Orange rabble
have no reason to complain of these Magistrates doing their
[From the Be(fltst Chronicle, July 13.1
Throughout the s hole of yesterday, this town and neigh-
bourhood were kept in a state of commotion, from the at-
tempts of a few of the very dregs of the community, tc
outrage the laws, brave the authority of the Magistracy,
and endanger the public .peace, by celebrating in public
procession the anniversary of the battle of the Boyne, and
this in opposition to the earnest recommendation of the
most respectable and influential of the Orange Body.
The morning was ushered in by the firing of gulls, sus-
pending wreaths of Orange flowers across the roads, in Bally-
macarret t, &c. and a very shabby muster of tatterred Orange
paraphernalia. To designate the individuals so employed
by the name of party, would be an abuse of the term. They
seemed the very tag-rag-and-bob-tail of an unprincipled
crew, ready for any deed of turmoil and mischief. How
they were intrusted by any Lodge, or any pawnbroker in
town, with the scanty emblems of faction and division
which they displayed, is a question of difficult solution.,
Early in the day notice having been communicated to our
very active Police Magistrate, Mr. Ferrar, of an Orange
procession being about to form in Smithfield, he, accom-
panied by a posse of peace-officers, repaired instantly to the
spot, and by every means of persuasion and threatening,
endeavoured to prevent the fulfilment of the unlawful
design ; but we are sorry to say he waa, in return, assailed'
by every species of contumely and abuse. The Magistrate
then very properly ordered a banner to be seized, which
was promptly accomplished; but we understand it was'
afterwards audaciously wrested from a constable by one
of the Orange gang. This effort to preserve the peace
having proved somewhat abortive,- a small number (we
believe the fragments of four lodges) marched off toward
Carrickfergus, and returned, the principal part of them,
in a state of beastly intoxication. They staggered about,
the streets, shouting the opprobrious epithets of party,
amid the taunts, jeers, kickings, and beatings of an
opposite crew, as idle and reckless as themselves. Sc-:
veral encounters, assuming, at times, a very threatening'
aspect, occurred from this period throughout the evening.
The streets and avenues surrounding Smithfield constiteted
the principal places of mischievous resort. Here stones
and brick-bats were kept flying bet Ween the contending
disorderlics, during which one man received a severe blow
from a stone on the bead; and it having been known that
an Orange lodge had assembled in the house of one
M`Clure, a publican, the opposing mob hastened thither,
and commenced an assault on the doors and windows of
the house, which they did not leave until they were shi-
vered to atoms. During the riot, a party of 'Orangemen
sallied from M'Clure's, armed with swords and other dan-
gerous weapons, and cut ant! abused all who were within
their reach. On the appearance of a number of the police,
supported by a strong party of military, the disturbance
immediately ceased, and several persona charged with being
principal offmders, of both parties, were taken into custody.
It has been stated that several shots were fired by the
Orange party, and that one man was desperstely wounded
by the wadding of the musket. Bad it not been t'or the
timely interference of the police and military, we are as-
sured the consequences might have heel' very serious.
'From the Carlo-. Meriting Post, July 14.1
At an early hour on Tuesday morning, Orange lilies
were seen sprouting from the leaves of au evergreen,
planted upon the parish church-top here. The association
of colours we admire of all things ; but the miracle by
which the sapling threw out the Otange flowers in the
night was the cause of wonder to all but the initiated.
However, there they were. The nosegay had no doubt
been moistened over-night by some drops of the Boyne
water, which freshened their tawney and aspiring glories
to the eves of some hundred spectators. These men had
come to obtain justice at our Assizes, owning the mastery of
the law of the land. But the symbol of party, and privi-
lege, and triumph, and degradation frowns upon them from
the church-top. Insulted and humiliated they stared
with indignation, but retired with disgust, as did several
worthy Protestants around us. Is the house of prayer, and
of charity, and of moral exhortation, to be thus made the
brazen bul wail( of intolerance ?
We ourselves were sickened at this display of bad taste;
and seriously alarmed at the consequences that might fol-
low, until these miserable flowers were plucked away. We
could name tile shirtless raggamutlins, the scum and lees
of the very motley gang that have thus endangered the
tranquillity of the town, by stirring up the natural irrita-
bility of our people, and we call upon the churchwardens
to sift out, detect, and punish the culprit delinquency of
the man whose key admitted tee daring ruttians through
the church to its roof.