The Sun.
London, England, 1849-12-06 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON.

ignotum pro magnifro" is an adage well understood
by the leaders. The very mystery and studied
vagueness will, they believe, attract the unreasoning
multitude. Another advantage will also be derived.
The hollowness and inadequacy of the measure
cannot be exposed, as would undoubtedly be
the case if any definitive propositions were
brought forward, and internal disprites and dissen-
sions will be avoided. The utter disunion and
want of coherence of the so-called party has been too
clearly exhibited by recent events—and it is only by
preserving a strict and unbroken silence as to its
ulterior objects that the heterogeneous and dis.
cordant elements can be held together. But will
any rational men, with the power of thinking and
judging for themselves, submit to be thus hood-
winked, and to follow in darkness the dictates of any
men or body of men ?
Mr. Disaa ELI brings forward his propositions boldly
and manfully. They can be fully examined and the
probable results anticipated. He can be "pinned
down," thereto, if he should exhibit any appearance
of vacillation or retrogression. But the would-be
aspirants to the leadership do no such thing; they
know that it is easier to pull down than to construct,
to criticise than to compose. They feel incompetent
to frame a statesmanlike project that can stand the
test of investigation. Hence the vague and empty
declamation that means nothing, and can lead to no
future amelioration of the condition of the agricul-
tural or of the labouring classes.

The world has at length been favoured with the
results of the Orange deliberations. The secrets of
the Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland have been
revealed to the uninitiated. The long-talked of
" report" has been let off through the columns .of a
weekly Contemporary, and such a tissue of dull and
unmitigated absurdity it has seldom been our mis-
fortune to wade through.
Our memory does not supply us with any instance
of a set of men wasting so much time and labour in
writing themselves down asses, and " a little more,"
as the worshipful members of the Grand Orange
Lodge of Ireland have done on this occasion.
" Dum vitant stulti vitia, in contraria currunt."

They sought to inculpate Lord CLARENDON—they

have eminently succeeded in acquitting him, and
convicting themselves. If ever a doubt rested on the
mind of any sane person unbitten by the mania of
Orangeism in reference to the flagrant and unblushing
charges made by the Irish Orangemen and their organs
against the Irish Viceroy, he need but read this stupid
report to see every one of those charges disproved
and utterly refuted by the evidence brought forward
to sustain them.

If a copy of this precious document should be for-
warded to his Excellency, we think Mr. CONNBLLAN
would be, in gratitude, bound in his own most cour-
teous style to thank the " right worshipfuls" for
making the amende honorable. We think he
should acknowledge his obligations to the
" Select Committee" for having removed every
shadow of doubt that in unthinking minds might

have been thrown on the fair fame of Lord CLAREN•
DON by the over-zealous organs of Orangeism. Never
was triumph more complete than the Viceroy's,
never was defeat more humiliating and degrading
than that of the Orangemen; failure we expected and
anticipated, but such damning proofs of the utter
falsehood of every count in the long bill of impeach-
ment we were not prepared for.
This wise emanation from the Irish Orange
" Council of Clarendon" commences with a sort of
apology for troubling the public with the secrets of
the lodge-room, by informing us that there are occa-
,ions on which the " Orange Society" departs from
its usual reserve, and enlightens the world with state-
ments usually communicated only to the happy
brethren of the " mystic tie." And that
" Such an occasion (they say) now demands the spe-
uial attention of the Grand Lodge. The proceedings of
our society have been misrepresented; its purposes and
principles have been defamed; its actions have been par.
and untruly described; and the very activities by
which it was made an instrument under God to avert from
our country the calamities o/ civil dissension, have met with
that recompense of calumny and invective with which
loyal (?) exertions hate been at various times ungrate-
ully rewarded." . . . . •
" These considerations, rendered more grave by cir-
cumstances of recent occurrence, vitally affecting the
character of the institution, made it imperative upon the
Grand Lodge at its present sitting, to appoint a committee
investig Won for the purpose of examining into and re-
porting upon certain transactions which took place be-
,ween the Government and members of the institution
in 1848, and into circumstances connected with the
vents of the present year, which still engage public

attention."

The most paltry pettifogger that ever attempted to
,flystify a bad cause at the " Old Bailey," never put
forward a more unmanly, uncandid, and sneaking
statement. All Orange-land was made to
ring with the foulest slander against the
Irish Government. The Lord• Lieutenant was
charged with secretly encouraging insulting
processions, which kept alive angry feelings, and fre-
quently led to conflict and bloodshed ; he was
charged with secretly organizing and arming an
exclusive faction, which has been the curse of Ire-
land ; he was charged with supplying the arms to
hose miscreants who did the deeds of murder at
Dolly's Brae. These charges were grumbled forth by
titled ninnies and insignificant squireens ; they were
preached by "surplice,' fanatics ;" they were brawled
out by the rabble. And now, when put to the proof,
these vile slanders are fined down by the " Select
Committee " into " certain transactions" between the
Gorernment and the Orangemen !
How mean, how dastardly, is this shrinking from
the real question. Their timidity, and mysticism,
and evasion would almost lead us to conclude that
they were affected by a consciousness that they were
about to commit an act of suicide in publishing their
own condemnation. A more full, clear, and satisfactory
refutation of every Orange slander against Lord
CLARENDON could not have been supplied than has
been so industriously furnished by this tiresome
"report." We should be almost disposed to doubt its
authenticity were it not for the medium through
which it reached the light, and some little internal
evidence of a willingness without the power to
wound, which is evidently current through its tedious
length ; yet this little angry feeling may but be
assumed, it may be but the cunning trick of some
secret enemy, who just put in this little grain of spice
while he was leading the dolts on to their own
destruction. We are not quite sure that some waggish
friend of his Excellency did not escape the vigilance
of the " tiler." We cannot well otherwise reconcile
it with the acts of men of ordinary understanding to
put in proof evidence which not only fails to prove
their case, but proves the direct contrary.
They have not only failed to show that Lord
CLARENDON, either by word or deed, recognized or
encouraged, organized or armed the Irish Orange-
men as a body, but we will show by their highest
authority, the Grand Master of the Orangemen, Lord
ENNISKILLEN, that Lord CLARENDON flatly refused to
do any such thing. The report states that—
"On the 21st (April, '4B) Colonel Phaire called on
the Earl of Enniskillen and Mr. Samuel Yates John-
stone (Grand Master and Deputy Grand Secretary for
Ireland), and informed them that the Government officers
were in communication with him relative to the organi-
zation of Dublin in case of an insurrection; that certain
houses were to have depots of arms, and that an officer
of the army would command each post; that the arrange-
ment of all these matters had been confided to Captain
J. T. Kennedy. Colonel Phaire also informed Lord
Enniskillen that the Orangemen had agreed to an ad-
dress, modified from the original one; but that they were
insisting on being recognized as Orangemen by name."
Early on the 22d, it appears Major TURNER met
Mr. DAVID STUART, the Grand Master of Dublin,
and endeavoured to induce him to prevent the adop-
tion and presentation of the address by the Dublin
Grand Lodge, as his Excellency's reply would "not
be satisfactory to the Orange body." The report
goes on to state that—
" About the same hour that Major Turner was en-
gaged in conversation with Mr. Stuart, Colonel Phaire
had an interview with Lord Enniskillen and the Deputy
Grand Secretary of Ireland. LORD ENNISKILLEN
STATED THAT HAVING HAD A CONVERSATION WITH
LORD CLARENDON, HE HAD NOT SUCCEEDED EITHER IN
PROCURING ARMS OR SECURING SUCH AN ANSWER TO
THE ADDRESS ♦S THE ORANGEMEN DESIRED."

Can anything be more clear and convincing than
this statement of Lord ENNISKILLEN ? Here we hare
these sages of Leitrim House proving to the world,
in plain, distinct, and positive terms, from the mouth
of their Grand Master, that Lord CLARENDON refused
either to supply with arms or recognise as a body
the Dublin Orangemen. So much for Lord CL.A.
RENDoN'S secret negotiations with the Dublin
Orangemen.
Let us now examine the proofs as to the charge

that his Excellency armed the heroes of Dolly's Brae.
It appears that in July, 1848, a deputation from the
" Belfast District Orange Lodge " repaired to Dublin
to offer their services and beg for arms ; and that after
several interviews with Sir E. BLAKENEY, in which
they manifested their malevolence against their
Roman Catholic fellow-subjects, the Gallant General
informed them

" That arms should be supplied from the Belfast bar-
racks, in case of an outbreak, by tberoflicer in command
there, and that certain companies of men should be placed
under experienced sergeants of the line for discipline."
A deputation from another district in Antrim
also waited on Sir E. BLAKENEY for the same
purpose,—

" The Gallant General asked them whether they
would object to act with loyal Roman Catholics, and the
answer was expressive of ignorance of the existence of
any such."

How disgusted must have been the chivalrous and
high minded soldier 2t this narrow bigotry ! Nobody
knew better than Sir E. BLAKENLY that the poor
Roman Catholic soldier exhibited no conditional
loyalty on the battle-field, that he shed his blood as
freely at Waterloo as if his ancestor fought with
WILLIAM on the banks of the Boyne.
But after all, the Ulster Orangemen got no arms
from the Government, for the report states that
" The necessity for carrying out this plan for an
Orange (?) armament in Belfast ceased to exist in conse-
quence of the events of Ballingarry, and the defeat of the
attempt at insurrection."

And thus these wiseacres have extinguished the
charge against Lord CLARENDON of arming the
northern Orangemen. Thus are they convicted from
their own lips. Thus have they clearly demonstrated
that Lord CLARENDON neither recognized, organized,
nor armed the Irish Orangemen. And now they
stand before the British Empire, before Europe, before
the World, a pitiable instance of the folly into which
evil passions will lead men, branded as disloyal
knaves and convicted slanderers.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the P.;aris journals of yesterday.
One of the amnestied insurgents of June, 1848,
who, on his landing at Havre exclaimed, in spite of
the remonstrances and advice of M. VICTOR FOUCRER,
" Five la Republique Democratique et Sociale," was
immediately arrested, placed again on board the
steamer, and re conducted to his prison at Brest.
Letters from Marseilles of the Ist inst. announce
that the India mail from London, detained in that
harbour in consequence of the accident which occurred
to the British steamer Medusa, had been transferred
to the French Levant packet Leonidas, which sailed
on that day for Malta.
The Assembly was engaged on Tuesday in dis-
cussing the proposition of M. BOUVET to reduce by
one-half the contingent of 80,000 men demanded by
the Minister Of War for the military service of 1850.
The debate was adjourned to yesterday, when the
proposition was rejected, and the contingent demanded
by the Minister voted.
The mission of M. DE PERSIONT to Berlin will last
three months.

Several merchant vessels were wrecked on the Ist
inst. near La Rochelle during a violent storm
which prevailed along the whole of the west coast oi
France.

The Journal d'Elbeuf says :—" At the market of
Newbourg on Wednesday, and at that of Elbeuf the
day after, the conversation turned principally on
measures taken by the authorities of the department
of the Ears to put down the propagation of Socialist
doctrines in the country districts. Among other
facts, it was stated that the mayor of one of the
principal communes in the canton of Amfreville had
been suspended by the Prefect for negligence in the
performance of his duty.
The Corsaire says—" A Socialist petition, havii:g
200,000 signatures, is, it is said, to be shortly pre-
sented to the Assembly by Citizen PIERRE LEROUX.
The Mountain wish it to be understood that these
200,000 signaturf s, collected in every direction, are
those of the workmen employed in building in Paris.
The object of the petition is to demand a sum of ten
millions from the State, in order to found a grand
association. It is said that M. TIIIERS intends to
speak against this manifestation."
It is said that M. DE RAYNEVAL will be appointed
Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court of St. Peters-
burgh.

The
Moniteur announces the appointment of Rear,
Admiral DUBOURDIEU to the command of the Brazil
and La Plata stations, in place of Rear-Admiral
LEPREDOUR, whose term of service has expired.
Rear-Admiral DELASEUX is to replace Admiral Du-
BOURDIEU as Naval Commandant at Algiers.
M. CHARLES DUPIN has completed his report in
the name of the Commission appointed to frame the
law prescribed by the Constitution for the regulation
of the Ministers and the definition of their functions.
The conclusions of the report are to the following
effect :

" To put an end to all uncertainty on the subject, and
to proceed in perfect conformity with the intentions of
the Assembly, the Commission unanimous!), decides that
the National Assembly may be consulted in the follow-
ing terms :—Ought the Committee, named in pursuance
of the vote of the Assembly for thking the proposition
into consideration, limit itself to declaring whether it
thinks it necessary to appoint a commission to frame a
project of law, the demand for which has been taken
into consideration ? Or ought it to regard the actual
commission, named after due examination by the stand-
ing committees, as competent to accomplish the objeat
intended by the proposition of M. Lancastel ?"
Mr. RICHARDSON, the African traveller, left Paris
yesterday for Marseilles, en route for Tunis.

- The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse, on
Wednesday, at 57f. 55c. ; the Five per Cents, at 91f.;
Orleans Railroad Shares, 750 f. ; Rouen, 3401.; Havre,
2351. ; Great Northern, 4471. 50c. ; Avignon, 2201,;
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and Strasburgh, 3601.; Tours and Nantes, 278 f. 75c.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE

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Bordeaux, 314 Paris and Itow.ri, 21% Sambre and
Meuse, 2%.

SPAIN.

Madrid journals of the 28th ult. have arrived.

The Government has made arrangements for the
return to Spain of the whole of the Roman Expedi-
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plexy on the 27th ult.
The Epotta contains the following...—
" The French press spoke a few days ago of the new
attempts made to re-establish diplomatic relations be-
tween Great Britain and Spain. We receive to-day the
following letter, dated the 20th, from tho Algesiras
correspondent, which would tend to accredit that Intel-
ligence It is believed at Gibraltar that her Majesty
Queen Victoria will visit the Penon next summer. I
may be able in a few days to ascertain the correctness
of that announcement, which has given rise to another,
namely—that her Majesty the Queen of Spain will come
to Andalusia at the same period, and that an interview
between the two gracious Sovereigns will take place at
Cadiz.' Our readers know that such an event is im-
possible, whilst official relations continue interrupted
between the two countries. In all cases we need not
,express the lively satisfaction we should experience at
their resumption.
MADRID BoLsA, Nov. 27.—The Three per Cents.
were done to-day at 28,1, and were 11.16 buyers,
13.16 sellers, after the close; Five per Cents., 11 9-16
buyers, 4 sellers; Coupons, 7 sellers; Passive Debt,
8 13-16 buyers, sellers. Exchange on London, 50 35.