The Sun.
London, England, 1849-10-16 00:00:00

SUN, LONDON,

shed the blood of their fellow men, for no earthly
reason but because they chose to worship their GOD
'heir fathers had done, according to the dictates of
as ,_
their co:4CienCe•
The Rom,,,u Catholics, despairing of getting any
redress or pro!Rotion against these flagrant abuses
and aggressions, seeing that the fountains of law were
corrupted, that the Bench and the jury-box were
alike tainted with the leprosy of Orangeism, were
driven, in self-defence, to follow the baneful
example of their enemies, and in 1812 formed the
Ribbon Society—a society which in many parts of
Ireland has gone far to rival its Orange parent in
wickedness and crime. These two vile confederacies
must be crushed by the strong arm of the law, parent
and child must be put under ban, Orangeism and
Ribbonism must be extirpated from the land, and
the man who belongs to either branded as the enemy
of Ireland.
In 1835 some charges against Orangeism were
investigated by a Committee of the House of Com-
mons, and in the report we find these remarks on the

system :
" The obvious teniency and effect of the Orange
institution is to keep up an exclusive association in civil
and military society, exciting one portion of the
people against the other—to increase the rancour
and animosity too often unfortunately existing between
persons of different persuasions, to make the Protestant
the enemy of. the Catholic and the Catholic the enemy
of the Protestant, by processions on particular
days, attended with the insignia of the Society; to
excite to breaches of the peace and bloodshed; to raise
up other secret societies among the Catholics, in their
own defence, and for their own protec-
tion against the insults of the Orangemen;
to interrupt the course of justice and to interfere with
the discipline of the army, thus rendering its services
injurious instead of useful, when required on occasions
where Catholics and Protestants may he parties.
All these evils have been proved by the evidence
before the House in regard to Ireland. Where the
system has long existed on an extended scale, rendered
more prejudicial to the best interests of society by the
patronage and protection of so many wealthy members,
high in office and in rank, taking an active part in the
proceedings of these lodges."
In 1815 Judge FLETCHER, one of the best and
most able judges then in Ireland, took occasion to
declare from the bench—
" That the Orange lodges were the source of great
evils in Ireland, that they fermented much of the dis-
order which existed—that the effect of their proceed-
ings was to rake up embittering recollections, and in-
flict wounds upon the feelings of others—that they had
produced the most mischievous effects in the north of
Ireland, and had tended to keep the country in the de-
graded state in which it then was—that they prevented
the due administration of justice, and poisoned its very
fountains—that magistrates, under their influence,
had in many instances violated their duty—and that, in
his opinion, until they were put down, and their arms
taken from them, it was in vain to expect peace in the
north of Ireland."
In these wise and honest senticreats of the Learned
Judge we fully concur, and we earnestly trust speedy
and energetic steps will be taken by the Irish Go-
vernment to carry them into full, wholesome, and
efficient effect, and thus give that poor prostrate and
famine-stricken land some chance of amelioration
by the establishment of peace, law, and order.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris papers of Sunday and
Monday.
The report of M. LITERS on the Roman expedition
is the subject of comment in all of them. It is con-
sidered as "the outward and visible sign" of the abdi-
cation, on the part of the Orleanists, of all their
pretensions, and of a complete surrender on the part
of the THIERS party to the Parti Pretre. M. TRIERS
never yet embraced any party that he did not betray,
and he has now betrayed, the PRESIDENT of the
Republic and M. ODILLON BARROT, as he formerly
betrayed King Lows PHILIPPE and M. GuizoT.
The Journal des Debats expresses its surprise at the
absence from the report of all allusion to the PRESI-
DENT'S letter ; and the National concludes its com-
ments on the subject in the following words :—" One
last act of apostacy was wanting in the life of M.
Tnisas. He has just accomplished it on the altar of
Catholicism, with his Lead upon the knees of the
clergy and his feet in the blood of our soldiers."
The Patrie declares that the Ministry will oppose
the adoption of the course recommended by M.
TRIERS in his report.
M. MOLE has had several interviews with the Rus-
sian Minister of late, and it is said that intrigues are
on foot for the deposition of the PRESIDENT, the dis-
solution of the Assembly, and the immediate restora-
tion of the Count DE CDAIABORD as " absolute King,"
to be effected by the arms of Russia, should her gold
not prove irresistible.
The Akbar of Algiers, of the 7th, announces the
death of the Cherif Bou CIF, who had of late called
himself Bou Maza. It appears that on the 3d this
chief and another, having under him a fraction of the
Zouaouas, concerted measures together near a village
of Beni-Hannoun, and there descended into the plain
towards the country of the Cherfa and Beni-Manou.
But the movement INcame known at Aumale, and
the Governor of that place, led on by Lieutenant
BEAUPRETE, went out to oppose their progress. lhe
inva ling party were repulsed, and Bou Cir, attempt-
ing to cover the retreat with some horsemen, was
killed, and his flag taken by the French. His body
was after the encounter found on the spot where the
resistance had been most stubborn.