The Sun.
London, England, 1849-12-26 00:00:00

LON_DON,

European Cabinets are felt to he concentrating, there
to enforce by the speedy presence of a suitable power
the policy adopted by the British Ambassador.
In the instance given, the events which at first threat-
ened the continent, and more especially the Ottoman
empire, with war, happily terminated to general
satisfaction. But, supposing that it had turned
out otherwise, a conjecture not requiring any very
enormous or preposterous stretch of the imagination,
the Russian fleet in the Black Sea might have readily
crossed the sea of Marmora, and appeared off the
Golden Horn long before Sir WILLIAM PARKER
could by any possibility have carried the ships undtT
his command through the channel of the
Dardanelles, and the great city of Con
stantinople would have been not under tht
protection of England, but wholly and completely al
the mercy of the AUTOCRAT, that avaricious potentate
whose lust of dominion seems to be directed irresis-

tibly to the capital of the enormous empire under th:
sway of the SULTAN'CALIPII. Thereupon the more
corrupt members of the Divan would have forsake!
their chivalrous Sovereign, and Sir STRATFORP
CANNING would have found himself in no position to
recommend measures of a resolute character. Tilt
ultimate effect of the whole movement might, in fact
have proved more calamitous than we well likt
to conjecture; and all such misfortunes wouk
only upon such a reasonable supposition have been
preventible by the employment of the screw-pro-
peller as a means of hastening the progress of out
vessels in the Mediterranean. What we have here
expressed can in no way be construed into so mucl
day-dreaming—it is merely the calculation of com-
mon sense, and such a calculation as is more
speedily convincing than the most logical argu
merit. Let the data, therefore, drawn from the ex
perimental voyage of the Renard into the seas wash
log the southern shores of Asia yield a new and
powerful inducement for the more general applica-
tion of the screw principle to the vessels employed
in our maritime service. Let the Admiralty, more-
over, recognise what is perceived by every one else,
that such an application would tend not less to be
productive of economy than of any other of the bene-
fits already enumerated.

When the sign manual of "ElmsKu.r.z.)," was
affixed to that tortuous and tedious document "The
Report of the Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland," a
manifesto intended to substantiate certain charges
against Lord CLARENDON, as well as to defend the
Orange institution against what they wen-
pleased to term slanders and misrepresentations,
we believe we clearly demonstrated how utterly the)
failed in casting the shadow of a stain upon the high
character of the Viceroy, either as a statesman,
gentleman, or an impartial administrator of the law.

We shall endeavour on the present occasion to
examine how far the Orange innocents have beeii
misrepresented, and whether their acts do not prove
them to be all their opponents charge them to be,
a disloyal, and unchristian, and an unconstitutional
body. The qualifications of an Orangeman, according
to their own report, are the embodiment of every
human perfection :

" An Orangeman should have a sincere love and
veneration for his Almighty Maker, a firm and steadfiw
faith in the Saviour of the world."

"He should cultivate truth and justice, brotherly kind-
ness and charity, devotion and piety, concord and unity,
loyalty and obedience to the laws. His disposition
should be gentle and compassionate, his behaviour kind
and courteous; he should love the society of the
good and avoid the company of the evil. He
should honour and diligently read the Holy Scrip
tures, and make them the rule of his faith
and practice; he should lore, uphold, and defend the Pro-
testant religion, and sincerely desire and endeavour to
propagate its doctrines and precepts; he should strenuously
oppose and protest against the errors and dangerous doc-
trines of the Church of Rome, he should by all lawful
means resist the ascendancy of that Church, its encroach-
ments, and the extension of its power, but he should
abstain from all uncharitable words, actions, or .feelings
to.eards his Roman Catholic brethren, Etc., &c."

Now we feel convinced the history of Irish
Orangeism will demonstrate by undeniable facts, that
if any unfortunate man possessing a tithe of these
almost angelic qualifications, ever entered the Orange
order, and became initiated in its occult absurdities,
that his individual virtues were either totally effaced
by the unholy contact, or were merged and rendered
nugatory in that, confederacy of evil passions ; or,
again, if the practice of these Christian virtues, so
speciously and pompously set forth in the Orange
report, be obligatory on the Orangeman under the aw
ful sanction of an oath, it places the wretched Orange-
man in a still more fearful position, for both by word
and deed, we can show that this obligation has been
most flagrantly violated, and that if he has sworn to
observe towards his Roman Catholic countrymen a
forbearance from "all uncharitable words, actions, or
feelings," he has, with his other crimes, put perjury
on his soul.

The report admits that the Orange institution is
an exolusive body, opposed to the Roman Catholics.
Now, in the name of common sense, we would
ask, is it consistent with " kindness and charity,
devotion and piety, concord and unity," to establish
an exclusive order, offensive to seven-eighths of their
fellow-countrymen ? Is it in accordance with " dis
positions gentle and compassionate," with " behaviour
kind and courteous," to parade with weapons of
destruction in their hands, in insulting processions
which they know are calculated to lead to breaches of
the peace, if not to bloodshed and murder ? Was it
the spirit of peace, and love, and charity that led
them through the steep pass of Dolly's Brae on
the 12th of July, when they might have
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they sought the conflict on that day of blood, and
exhibited Orange gentleness and compassion by com-
mitting acts at which humanity shudders ?
Is it no breach of the mild code of Orange craft to
slay the innocent child ?—to burn the feeble old
woman ? to drag the unoffending man from
his house, and butcher him in the very pre-
sence of his family ?—to batter in the skull of the
poor idiot ? Has the gentle craft over which ENNIS-
KILLEN presides no penalty for crimes like these ?
Oh I no, they were but Papists. Is there one word
in this long report of promise to aid the authorities in
bringing these wretches to justice ? Is there even
an expression of sorrow for such atrocities ? or con-
demnation of the ruffian homicides ? Have they
been expelled the gentle order? No, these wretches
have been addressed in the words of encouragement
and congratulation as " brave Orangemen."
It is boasted that every Orange lodge opens with a
prayer. Rusts, the murderer, read prayers while he
was planning the destruction of his victims. The
Orangemen, in large numbers, in 1824, paraded the
streets of Coleraine, each with a Bible in his hand,
shouting "To Hell with the Pope." This is a taste
of Orange piety and prayer. Now, let us
see what claims they have to that loyalty and
obedience to the laws of which they so
much boast. In 1822 these loyal and gentle beings,
in the public theatre, attempted to assassinate the
Marquis of WELLESLEY, the then representative of
Royalty in Ireland, and escaped the punishment due
to their crime through the instrumentality of Orange
officials. This traitorous act was publicly condemned
by every good and loyal subject in the country,
without exception, save only the loyal Orangemen.
In 1823 the Grand Lodge of Dublin issued a
proclamation against decorating the statue of King
WILLIAM, in College-green, as it might tend to en-
danger the lives and properties of his MAJESTY'S
subjects. In 1824 Orange processions were made in
vinlation of the Government orders, and a Dissenting
clergyman lost his life in Downpatrick in consequence.
In 1826 several innocent persons were shot in Mount
Mellick in an Orange row. In 1827 the processions
went on in spite of proclamations. In 1828 the
Cirstngernen of Dublin assembled in College-green,
armed with daggers and bludgeons, smashed houses,
and proceeded through the streets to the terror and
annoyance of the peaceful inhabitants shouting " To
hell with the Pope," and maltreating all who would
not join in the unchristian and bigotted yell. In
1829 the disloyalty of the Orangemen was openly
exhibited on several occasions. At Aughnacloy a
loyal Orangeman was arrested for shouting " D—
the king," and was liberated by the local magis-
trate, who was himself an Orangeman. In Armagh,
in the same year, the Orangemen wrecked houses
and levelled the Roman Catholic Chapel, shouting
" D— the King " as fervently as "To Hell with
the Pope."

We believe we have cited facts sufficient to prove
the quality of the ChristiAn meekness And num-