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

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 AS 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 CL
ARENDON refused
either to supply with arms or recognise as a body
the Dublin Orangemen. So much for Lord CIA-
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 the officer in command
there, and that certain companies of men should be placed
under experienced sergeants of the line for dixipline."
A deputation from another district in Antrim
also waited on Sir E. BLAKENEY for the same

purpose,—
" The Gallant Gereral 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 at this narrow bigotry ! Nobody
knew better than Sir E. BLAYEINEY 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 (2) 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 CLARBNDON 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 Paris journals of yesterd
One of the amnestied insurgents of June, 1848,
who, on his landing at Havre exclaimed, in spite of
the remonstrances and advice of M. Vicron FOUCLIER,
" Vive 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, bad 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 I. 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 PERSIGNY 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 o
France.

The Journal Elbeuf sa3 s :—" 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 Eure 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, having
200,000 signatures, is, it is said, to be shortly pre-
senteel to the Assembly by Citizen PIERRE LEROUX.
The Mountain wiAt it to be understood that these
200,000 signatures, 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 N. TRIERS 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.
N. 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 unanimously decides that
the National Assembly may be consulted in the follow-
ing terms :—Ought tha Committee, named in pursuance
of the vote of the Assembly for taking 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 clue examination by the stand-
ing committees, as competent to accomplish the objeot
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. 55e. ; the Five per Cents. at 91f.;
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