The Sun.
London, England, 1860-11-23 00:00:00

that the Orangemen wished to justify the ridicule
heaped, by CHARLES DICKENS and others, on
societies for enlightening the natives of Bhorioboola
Gha and other distant lands, while their efforts were
so much needed at home. Certainly they afforded
unmistakable evidence that no foreign parts needed
the Gospel more than themselves. For, if we look
to the sacred volume which contains the first
records of our faith, we are reminded at once of
two public meetings—at one of which, a mob of
unconverted Jews cried out that the Apostle PAUL
was unfit to live, precisely because he said he was
commissioned to carry the Gospel to foreign parts
—while, at the other, a theatre-full of frantic
idolators cried out for a couple of hours " Great is
Diana of the Ephesians !"—and, as if Belfast
Orangemen should not want good heathen example,
we are informed of these poor fanatics that, " some
cried one thing and some another, for the assembly
was confused, and the most part knew not wherefore
they were come together." We think our readers
will agree that the primitive rows about " propa-
gating the Gospel in foreign parts" were most
worthily re-enacted by the Orange mob of Belfast.

The chief facts of the case seem to be these. The
Bishop of DOWN, who according to the custom of
the soeiety referred to, was to take the chair at its
annual meeting at Belfast, had grievously offended
the Orangemen. In the exercise of his episcopal
discretion he had forbidden a clerical Orange de-
magogue, as we suppose him to be, from the fact of
the Bishop's interference, to preach in the
parish church of Belfast, at an Orange anniver-
sary. The Vicar, Dr. MILLER, disregarded the
Bishop's prohibition, and allowed him to preach,
and the Bishop consequently took legal proceedings,
which are still pending, in vindication of his autho-
rity. What occurred at this meeting proved plainly
enough, that the Bishop might have the best of rea-
sons for keeping the forbidden clergyman from the
pulpits of Belfast, for whatever his prudence might
have been, the materials on which he was to ope-
rate were inflammable enough. The meeting con-
sisted largely of what appeared to be working men
and women; and when the Bishop, with a good
staff of clergymen appeared on th• platform, a
scene followed which beggars all description.
Groans, hisses, Kentish fire, shouts and noises of
all kinds alternated with attempts to get order
by persons, it would seem, of different parties;
but it was utterly impossible to get even a hearing
Here is a little specimen of Belfast Orangeism in
connection with " propagating the Gospel in
foreign parts" :
" A VOICE—Down with the Bishop I (Tremendous
groans.)

" Another VOlCE—Don't dare to go in that chair ;
you'd disgrace it. (Hisses and groans.) Order, order.'
(Kentish fire.) Put the Pope out of him.' (Kentish
fire.) He is a Puseyite.' To h-1 with the Pope
(Groans.)
" The Bishop took the chair.
" A VOICE—Put him out; out with him. 'No Puseyite.'
No surrender.' Throw him out of this.' (Tremendous
cheering and Kentish fire.) ' Three cheers for Dr. Miller."
(Cheers.) Groans for tho Puseyite.' (Tremendous groans.)
"Dr. MILLER here rose on his feet simultaneously with
the bishop.
"A VOICE—Hear Dr. MILLER.
"Another Vorcl—You'll boat him, MILLER, my boy.
(Cheers and Kentish fire.)
" The Bishop hero looked round him, and faced the
raging storm. Nearly the whole audience got on their feet,
and groaned and hissed. This lasted fully five minutes.
"Rev. Mr. SEAVER—This is disgraceful. I never
thought such a scene as this could occur. (Groans and
Kentish fire.)

" Bisnor —I call upon Dr. MILLER to open the proceed.

ings

'• A VoxcE—There will be no proceedings opened ti
youleave that. (Cheers.)

"The Bisitor —To open the proceedings by prayer.
(Groans.)

"A shout—Will you go out of that at once? No more
of your gammon. (Kentish fire.)
" Here the groaning continued for about two minutes.
"The Bninor (as understood)—You just needed one
more exhibition to ruin you, and you have got it.
"A VOICE—What is that ho says? 'What are you say-
ing ? (Shouting and groaning.)

After a long time spent in this manner, some
gentlemen on the platform attempted, vainly
however, to gain a hearing. We are told that—

" The Bishop, during the time the whole scene of this
scandalous insult was progressing, looked steadily upon
the raging mass of faces, apparently deeply moved.
" A VOlCE—Three groans for Judas. Three cheers for
Dr. Miller."

Very soon after, the account proceeds thus :

" Here considerable shuffling took place at the corner of
the platform. Several ladies appeared to be greatly
frightened. The audience rose en masse to their feet, and
the groaning and abusive language used towards the
Bishop wore absolutely frightful.

" The Bishop rose, as if to say something. His brother
and several ladies went towards him, and implored him
to leave, which he did, in their company, after a last look
at the savage scene before him. Four-fifths of the clergy-
men on the platform accompanied the bishop down the
back stairs to the back-door, and left with him. The mem-
bers of the deputation, the Rev. Mr. Downing, and the
Rev. Mr. Moeran, remained behind.

" Their object being accomplished, in a scene which
baffles description—the head of the Church to which they
profess to belong having succumbed to their fury—a long
round of Kentish fire, intermingled with such epithets as
' The Pope is gone,' The Puseyite is chased,' Down
with him,' Away with him,' brought this part of the per-
formance to a close, by a man shouting, ' They're a parcel
of scandalous ruffians ; they're well away.' (Dreadful
cheering.)"

Peace, of its kind, was now restored. The mob
had triumphed. Their favourite, Dr. MILLER, took
the chair. The deputation from the parent so-
ciety very properly left. The devout Dr. sum-
moned them to calm their minds by prayer !! !
He talked very devoutly of the " glorious WIL-
LIAM ;" vindicated the meeting from what might
seem like bad feeling ; and concluded with—the
Doxology !

Such is the last display—no, the latest, we mean—
would that it were the last—of Orangeism. To
compare it with the old interruptions of public
meetings by Chartists is to dishonour the latter.
They sometimes did take possession of places where
religion was the object of the meeting, but on these
occasions they always behaved with decorum. It
has been left for Orangemen, to cherish a temper
which men meeting even for a religious object could
not control, and to maltreat in the most disgraceful
manner one of the Heads of the Church to which
the ruffians profess to belong. The condemnation
of the doings of the scum of London gathered from
three millions of people at St. George's-in-the-East,
has been loud enough, even from those who censured
severely the doings of the offending clergyman;
but nothing that we heard of them could surpass
in vulgarity, frenzy, and outrage of all propriety,
the conduct of these men towards their spiritual
head, and at what was, in every reasonable sense, a
religious meeting. Hitherto this hateful combina-
tion against social peace and order, with its parallel
combination in the Romish Church in Ireland, have
defied all the efforts of law and of high influence, to
repress them. They must, we suppose, be endured
for a time as local ulcers to be healed only by gra-
dually infusing sounder health into the Irish body
politic.

The Empress is expected to return to France on
the 10th of next month. The Emperor goes to
Compiegne on Monday.
His Excellency the Greek Minister, who has been
indisposed for some days past, is, we are glad to learn, much
better.

THE DUKE OF NORFOLK.—The noble duke lies
at Arundel Castle (says the lrest Sussex Gazette) in about
the same state. Fortunately he undergoes but little bodily
suffering ; still the medical men give no hopes whatever of
his recovery. A gnawing disease seems to be battling with
a strong constitution. His Grace is too ill to see any of his
relations.
Paris was a sharp frost on Tuesday night in
and its environs The basins in the public gardens
were frozen over.