The Sun.
London, England, 1860-09-21 00:00:00

ASIR TAMES GRAHAM AT CARLISLE.

TILE PRINCE'S VISIT TO UPPER

CANADA.

(From the Special Correspondent of the Times.)
COBOUIW, SEPT. 7, 6 A.M.
The telegrams which I received from Belleville
before I left Kingston yesterday were quite correct
as to the Orangemen having again succeeded in
driving the Prince from that landing. A number
of them travelled over night, and were waiting at
Belleville with their banners, bands, and other in-
signia. If anything were wanting to show the
animus of this miserable persecution it was this step.
The Orangemen of Kingston have, according to
their notions, a right to do what they like in their
own town, and, of course, having that place com-
pletely under their own control, might dictate
whatever offensive ceremonies they pleased, as to
the manner in which their guest was to be received.
But when they had insisted on their own petty
affront and carried it to an extent that drove the
Prince away, they might surely have remained con-
tent with this most inhospitable and disloyal vic-
tory, and left other towns to decide for themselves
whether they would allow their Royal guest to
land or keep him wandering in a steamboat rejected
from the very cities to which he had been invited.
But there has been an avariciousness of insult about
the Kingston demagogues that was not to be sa-
tiated with merely expelling the Prince from that
dilapidated township. It is not every day that men
like Mr. Flannigan or Mr. Robinson have oppor-
tunities of compelling Royalty to bow before their
opposition and turn back from their own town to
avoid their insults. It is not likely that they will
soon again have an opportunity of insulting another
Prince of Wales, so Messrs. Flannigan and Robin-
son have made the most of the opportunity.
The former undertook to go down with Orange
banners to Cobourg, while the latter started at once
for Belleville, the place where his Royal Highness
intended to land yesterday morning. To do the
people of Belleville mere justice they had abandoned
all idea of forcing an Orange procession on the
Prince, and the Orange arches which had been I
erected had been denuded of their partisan symbols.
The chief authorities implored the Orangemen not
to assemble as Orangemen, and the ladies signed a
petition to the County and Grand Masters of the
Ledges to the same effect, and that the Prince might
be allowed to land. The Belleville. Orangemen did
relent, and no procession would have been formed
but for the arrival of the men from Kingston. The
importation of these firebrands soon decided the
matter, and their vulgar declamation about giving
the Prince a lesson was, unfortunately, listened to
by many of the Belleville deputy grand masters.
The result was that an Orange procession was
formed on the very spot where the Prince was to
land, though I am assured that more than nine-
tenths of it was entirely composed of Kingston
men and supplied with Kingston banners. The
Prince's steamer came, his Royal Highness saw the
old " No Surrender" and other Orange flags, and,
without making any stay at all, the vessel turned
round at once and went away to Cobourg. For all
any at Belleville knew, the Royal party might have
been short of provisions on board, and, in fact, this
would actually have been the case but for the care
of Mr. Rose, who privately sent a quantity on board
before the vessel left Kingston. But I almost be-
lieve the party might have been half starved before
Messrs. Flannigan and Robinson would have furled
a single banner or abated one jot of their persever-
ing insolence. Before leaving Kingston the Duke
of Newcastle addressed a letter to the Mayor of the
town, a copy of which I enclose. I may explain,
in reference to its concluding paragraph, that the
Mayor and Corporation were invited to present
their addresses on board the steamer while at
Kingston, but they declined. By some this refusal
is stated to have been due to fear of molestation
from the Orangemen if they consented to such an
indignity. I am, however, sorry to say that, from
all I have heard, I believe it arose from no other
cause than that of strong sympathy with the pro-
cessionists. The Mayor, Mr. Strange, is himself
a conspicuous member of the Orange party, while
his brother is second only to Mr. Flannigan in the
part he has taken to keep up this unfortunate
movement. The letter of the Duke of Newcastle
was as follows :

" Off Kingston, Sept. 5.
" Sir,—lt is with the utmost regret that I now find my-
self compelled to take the extreme course contemplated as
possible in my letter to Sir Edmund Head of the 30th of
August, which was immediately communicated to you by
his Excellency, and to advise the Prince of Wales to proceed
on his way without landing in the city of Kingston.
" When we arrived yesterday we found an arch covered
with Orange decorations, and an organised body of many
hundreds wearing all the insignia of their order, with nume-
rous flags, a band, and every accompaniment which charac-
terises such processions. I could hardly bring myself to
believe that after seeing you and the other gentlemen who
accompanied you on board the steamboat, and fully explain-
ing to you the motives which actuated my advice to the
Prince, the objections I took to these party displays on such
an occasion, and the necessary, consequences which must
ensue, the Orangemen would be so misguided in their own
conduct and act so offensively to the whole of their fellow
citizens—Protestant and Roman Catholic—as to persevere
in their intention of preventing the Prfnce from accepting
the hospitality of your city.
" I have been disappointed. The Prince has consented to
wait 24 hours to give the Orangemen time to reconsider
their resolve. They adhere to it, and it is my duty, there-
fore, to advise the Prince to pursue his journey.
" What is the sacrifice I asked the Orangemen to make ?
Merely to abstain from displaying in the presence of a
young Prince of 19 years of age, the heir to a sceptre which
rules over millions of every form of Christianity, symbols
of religious and political organisation whick are notoriously
offensive to the members of another creed, and which in one
portion of the Empire have repeatedly produced, not only
discord and heartburning, but riot and bloodshed.
" I never doubted the loyalty of the persons compos-
ing the Orange body. I based my appeal to them on the
ground of that loyalty and of their good feeling. I did not
ask them to sacrifice a principle, but to furl a flag and ab-
stain from an article of dress. I wished the Prince to see
them, but not to give countenance to a society which has
been disapproved in the mother country by the Sovereign
and Legislature of Great Britain. lam told that they re-
present this act of mine as a slight to the Protestant reli-
gion. Until they can prove that the great mass of English-
men who are not Orangemen are also not Protestants, it is
quite unnecessary for me to repudiate so unfounded and
absurd a charge.
" I am well aware that such party processions are not
illegal in this country as they are in Ireland. This is a
conclusive answer, if I asked you, as mayor, to exercise
your:authority ; but it is no answer to my remonstrance. I
made it, not as Secretary for the Colonies, called upon to
enforce a law, but as a Minister of the Queen attending the
Prince of Wales, by command of her Majesty, in an official
visit to this colony at the invitation of its Legislature; and
I ask you in what position would the Prince be placed by
my sanction if he were now to pass through such a scene as
was prepared for him (which happens not to be forbidden
by the Colonial Legislature), and next year visit the north
of Ireland, where he could not be a party to such an exhi-
bition without violating the laws of his country ?
" His Royal Highness will continue the route which had
been prepared for him, but in any place where similar de-
monstrations are adhered to a similar course to that pur-
sued at Kingston will be taken.