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NUMBER or LotkaEs IN SCOLAND:

Your Committee has been desirous of ascertaining the
exact number of Orange Lodges and of Orangetilen now
existing In Scotland, but without success. Lieutenant-C(114
Fairman, in his evidence, (1863=8) stated the number of
lodges at some of the towns lie Visited, bet Withheld the
general return of Scotland, on a plea that lie had no Of=
rect register, A reference must, therefore, be had to the
teturti peepareti by Mr, Co the ttscstant deputy grand
secretary, from the entries of tne districts, and of the
lodges in each of the seven districts in Scotland, amounting
to 44 lodges, besides separate lodges too far distant to be
under the Deputit Cirtind Master of any of these districts.
tf t,ie evidence of Mr. Motherwell, the editor of the Glas-
gow Courier, is referred to (3324), the lodges in Glasgow
do not appear to be in a very flourishing state, as he, as dis-
trict master, has suspended some of them from communi-
cation with the Grand Lodge in London, for offences and
disobedience of various kinds ; and the Gordon Lodge,
which was to embrace a higher class of members, seems at
present at a low ebb.

TENDENCY OF ORANGEISSf IN SCOTLAND.

To show the tendency of Orange lodges in the West of
Scotland, the whole of Mr. Innes's evidence must be read.
Mr. Innes was deputed by the Lord Advocate of Scot-
land, the law officer of the Crown, to proceed to Airdrie,
Glasgow, and other places in the West part of Scot-
land, to inquire into the nature and extent of the
riots that had taken place in July last in several parts of
that country, and their causes ; he stated to the Committee
that the existence of Orange lodges had been the cause of
those riots, some of which had been attended with loss of
life, and the subsequent execution of the offenders ; and that
some of the late rioters were now waiting their trial. It
will be seen that the meeting and procession of the Orange-
men, at one time, led to the riot and breach of the peace,
that, at another time, the Catholics became the aggressors
having met and proceeded in great numbers with the deter-
mination of preventing any Orange procession which they
expected to take place ; and, on another occasion, the inha-
bitants of the town were brought forth to put down the riot
between those two parties, and to drive them from the town.
Your Committee observe, that those breaches of the peace,
alternating from one party to the other, are expected to
continue as long as that cause remains. Mr. Innes states,
on authority on which your Committee place confidence,
that the existence of the Orange lodges, their meetings,
proceesione, and proceedings, have roused an opposition on
the part of the Catholics to protect themselves from the in-
sults offered by the Orangemen ; and that secret societies
have been formed for that put pose, by which the members
cah be balled forth at any time when occasion shall require
their meeting ; that the Meeting of Catholics on the green
at Glasgow before they marched to Airdrie, where they ex-
pected the Orangemen to walk in procession, was assembled
by that trieane i find, from the proofs already mentioned,
although he has been unable to procure any copy of
the rules of those societies, he is satisfied that the de-
legates" of no less than twenty-four of these societies,
which he calls Riband Societies, having secret oaths and
signs, previously met together to arrange the meeting and
procession to Airdrie. The opinion of Mr. Innes, after all the
information he has become officially possessed of is, that it
will not be possible to restore the west of Scotland to tran-
quillity, and to prevent breaches of the peace occurring oc-
casionally, unless measures are taken to put down the
Orange Lodges and Ribandmen, and every other secret
society. Whether the existence of Orange Lodges has
produced the Riband Lodges, or the. Riband Lodges has
produced the Orange, appears to be of little consequence.
It is notorious that the Orange Lodges exist, under the
patronage of men high in rank in England, Ireland, and in
Scotland, and the countenance given, by all the orders of
the Orange Institution being issued by, and under, the
authority of such men as his Royal Highness the Duke of
Cumberland, as Imperial Grand Master, and of his Grace
the Duke of Gordon, as deputy grand master of Scotland,
will be found to have a greater effect on the poor and the
ignorant, of which the Orangemen there chiefly consist,
than might be expected. When we see an emissary dis-
patched for two successive years to force Orangeism in that
country, under the special and extraordinary commission of
the Duke of Cumberland, bearing his sign and seal, with
powers to propagate Orangeism, to form lodges, to dismiss
members, or to pardon offences of Orangemen how,
and when, he pleases, it appears time for Government
to interfere. When that emissary is entertained and coun-
tenanced for weeks as an inmate of Gordon Castle, the in-
fluence of the peer may he partly transferred to the emis-
sary in everything respecting Orange Lodges in that coun-
try- There are various ways of enlisting men in a cause ;
and when it is seen by the reports of the proceedings of
Grand Lodges, that such men as the Duke of Cumberland,
the Duke of Gorden, Lord Kenyon, Peers and Members

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of Parliament, are unitedo'B fttfttrt secret signs
pass-words, and seated in the same room wttii >x biter pen-
sioner of one shilling a day, or any Orangemen, what-
-0,6f his mate in society may be, allowance must be made
itiai Play be made by such persons, to
be able to call the Duke, or aiiy 6the Orineernan, his.
brother ; with perinission to apply whenever in difficulty EA,
distress, for the assistance of such wealthy and influential men.
As R proof of the baneful effects of the existence of
Orarigeisttt in Scotland, Mr Innes states one example
iill6re a lodge Of pitmen lately expelled from their body all
liie taibmit,* 'oho had proviously lived and worked to-
gether with them iti petite and harmony.
Your. Committee will only add, that the mischievous ef-
fects of Orange lodges shown, though on a sniall scale, in
Stiotland; may be expected wherever such a system is up-
held and prothoted typublic And influential members of
society : a reference to the evidence before the House of
the working of Orangeism in Ireland, on the broadest
scale; and after many years's continuance, will support that
opinion.

REMEDY.

Yost Cortittliftee) in looking for a corrective to those
et ils Which disturb society RI tiffichf and which threaten the
ttiti§t getiOus consequences to the con-it-unity of the United
Kingdom, if tillthilSd to continue, do not contemplate that
any new legislative enactrfietit le necessary, the powers of
the law being at present, in the opinioil of your Committee,
Auflicient to protect the country from all such asHOeintions,
bound together ad the Orrtnge lodges are, by a religious
sanction, to maintain, in secreey, §igus and pass-words by
which the fraternity may be known to mob other in every
part of the ivethi, It aaears only to be necessary to en-
force the existing laws agitifiNt all such offenders, whether
belonging to Orange lodges, to itihhtm lodges, or to any
other society having secret bonds of union.
Your Committee have been much pleased to receive a
copy of General arders issued by General Lord Hill, and
dated Horse Guards, 31st August, 1833, forbidding all
officers and men in the army from attending Orange lodges,
by whomsoever and wheresoever held, which order will put
an effectual stop to the spread of Orangeism in the army.
The following is a copy of the order :
" GENERAL ORDER.

" Horse Guards, Aug. 31, 1835.
" Lord Hill has reason to apprehend that the orders pro-
hibiting the introduction of Orange lodges into the army have
not been duly communicated to the non-commissioned officers
and privates, or, if communicated, that they have not been suf-
ficiently explained and understood.
" His Lordship now refers commanding officers of regiments
to the confidential circular letters of the Ist of July, 1822,
and 14th of November, 1829, upon the foregoing subject; and
declared that tiny officer, non-commissionelofficer, or soldier,
who shall hereafter Institute or countenance an Orange Lodge,
or any other meeting or society whatsoever, for party purposes,
in barracks, quarters, or camp, shall be brought to trial before
a General Court-Martial for disobedience of orders.
" His Lordship, moreover, peremptorily forbids the attend-
ance of either officer or soldier at Orange Lodges, by whom-
soever or wheresoever held.
" The present order is to be read to the troops periodically
on the Parade with the Articles of War.
" By command of the Hight Honourable General Lord
Hill, Commanding-in-Chief,
" JOHN MACDONALD, Adjutant-General."
Your Committee most anxiously desirous of seeing the
United Kingdom and the colonies of the empire freed from
the baneful and unchristian influence of the Orange so-
cieties, recommend the early attention of the House to that
important subject, with a view to the immediate removal
from Ace of all public servants who shall continue or be-
come members of any Orange Lodge, or' of any other as-
sociation bound together in a similar manner.

LETTERS OF THE DUKE OF CUMBERLAND.

Your Committee think it proper tonotiee that his Royal

Highness the Duke of Ctiml;erland, the imperial grand
master, in his letter of the 24th of August states, that
" owing to the acknowledged indiscretion and negligence
on the part of the deputy grand master, and a like indiscre-
tion and negligence on the part of other officers of the
Orange institution, many grants of Warrants, or renewals of
former grants hate, without the knowledge of his Royal
Highness, and contrary to his declared determination, been
Issued from time to time in contravention of the order of the
late illustrious Commander-in-chief, his Royal Highness the
Duke of York ;" and his Royal Highness the Duke of Cum-
berland " therefore declares, that all warrants held by per-
sons in his Majesty's service must henceforth be considered
null and void." Your Committee submit that these are
important admissions, and they further call the attention of
the House to the letter of his Royal Highness, dated sth
August last, addressed to the Chairman of the
Committee on Orange Lodges, in which he says,—
" He knows of no Orange Lodge in any regiment."
It is satisfactory to know that one result of the
inquiry by the Committee of this House has been, to
bring to his knowledge, and to convince his Royal High-
ness, that Orange Lodges did and do exist in many Regi-
ments of the Army ; and that he has presided, as Imperial
Grand Master, over an institution which has for many
years been acting in contravention of the orders of com-
manding officers of corps and of the Commander of the
Forces, Your Committee submit that it would have been
very easy for his Royal Highness to have published the do-
cument by which, and the time and place where, he issued
any order, or nzade any declaration, against Orange Lodges
lit the Army, instead of a general disclaimer ; as no such
decitirdlitittf verbal or written, has come to the knowledge
of your Committee in a manner to be relied upon ; whilst,
on the coatrary, the numerous facts stated in this Report,
and in the Appendix, and taken from official records of pro-
ceedings of the Grand Lodges, during the time the Duke
was present and conducting tiose proceedings, are in direct
opposition to such declaration.

ORDER OF THE COMMANDER Otr THE FORCES, WHETHER

CONFIDENTIAL OR NOT.

It has been alleged by some of the officers of the Orange
institution, that the orders of the Commander of the Forces
were merely a confidential recommendation, and not a ge-
neral order published from the Horse Guards. Your Com-
mittee arc desirous of removing that error, by referring to
the evidence of Major-General Sir J. Macdonald, the Ad-
jutant-General of the Army, who, on the Gth of August,
states, that the confidential circular letter of July, 1822,
Wki.s embodied in the edition printed that year of the Ge-
neral Regulations and Orders of the Army ; that it is the
duty (27) of the Colonel or Commander of every Regiment
to have one of those books ; and every regimental officer
(31) is directed to supply himself with a copy of it ; and
that every regimental orderly-room ought to have a copy
(31). Of the orders of the Duke of York no officer ought
to be ignorant.