The Sun.
London, England, 1835-08-31 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, AUGUST 31, 1535.

DUBLIN,

01_ Or, qrst, coaripeop, .6nit .
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At was the stan ri4- oast of the Orangemen; as long as tlie3
thought that Reform was mere children's play, that they weed
alone the Loyalists a tole epreuve of Ireland. No change of
law or government could shake their allegiance, which wii
" not at all conditional," like that which they condemned in the
Cathelics• fl..ut,s iheir orators and poets on all fitting ocea.
sloiboth §6,l,dstn. suit
4, Their loyalty was still the same,
Whether it won or lost the game ;
True as the dial to the sty-
Altbo' it be not shone upon."
' They had the assuranc to repettt these asset ions in the teeth
ofOtitihtiitt tie WO, abuntlan prods the Sedition§
nn `d ibstiboidinate spirit by WhiCh they were UP to the
very opening of this Parliaineht. sity the ;.rigilanbb and deci-
sion of the pi•eSeiti thhy hOiiilBl hoP;. to
elude .61- betiqwitivh by such professions, have been too much
ibr their patience. The disclosures made before the Orange
Committee have added to their desperation. There is no
longer any motive for keeping the bulldog chained up. There-
l'ore) they have let him loose, and removed the muzzle which
concealed his teeth, so as to leave him at liberty to bite or bay
as opportunity may allow,
The appearaneC of ti pamphlet published at Belfast under
thk titlb tit " ORANGEMEN TO ARMS, or d Voicefrom the North," '
and by its contents fully establishing its right to such a title,
has created a great sensation in all parts of Ireland: It will,
no doubt, have been noticed in Parliament before this letter
appears in The Sun. It may therefore be superfluous to call
your attention to it t nor shall I trouble you or your readers by
quoting largely from its pages. The following brief sample
is enough to declare the species of loyalty it breathes
" 1 tell both his illajcsty and his advisers that when they
contemplate the possibility of yoking Irish Protestants to the
triumphal car of the Scarlet Abomination,' and of dividing
the legal support of the Established Clergy with the petipiert
enemies, the priests, they are much mistaken : for sooner than
submit to such degradation, we will hoist the Orange banner
with the spirit-stirring inscription—
' For the Throne, the Altar, and the Constitution!'
Yes—l tell these cowardly experimentalists that if they be
determined to saddle tint eengelences with the feeogilition
of Popery, in the 19th century, they must prepare to do it at
the point of the bayonet.
" There was a time when no man, at least no Orangeman,
refused to respect the law. But we boldly declare that the
Government have no right to expect obedience from us, unless
they pay us the fair and legitimate price of our obedience,—
that is, our protection.
" Orangemen ! The day of vengeance is arrived. The day
of retribution draws nigh. * "' Of course I forbid you
to break the law, even though it were a law passed against
eating plum-pudding at Christmas ; hut I will remind you of
a fact, and place before you the example of the meekest of
men,' and leaving it to yourselves to say whether his example
is worthy of imitation or not. When Moses, the man of God,
beheld the children of Israel in the act of Idolatry, he dashed
the tables of the law to pieces l"
The gentlemen, whose press has produced this delectable
specimen of " still-the-same" loyalty, are James Stuart, Esq.,
L. L. D., a Barrister-at-law, and Mr. Gregg, a Justice of the
Peace for the counties of Down and Antrim, the joint proprie-
tors of the Guardian, a Church and State Journal, published
in Belfast. The former is so much regarded by his party, that
its magnates, including my Lord Londonderry, and his bright
son Castlereagh, Sir Robert Bateson, and many other names
of noted-loyalty, some time ago purchased an annuity of 50/.,
which they presented to the Learned Doctor, as a reward for
his bold advocacy of Conservative principles I The excuse of
these gentlemen is that they published the treason unknown to
themselves. In this year of blessed ignorance, such a defence
has been more than once set up and accepted. " Nescire
Paratus" seems to be the motto of the whole tribe from the
Grand Master down.

MUNICIPAL REFORM BILL.

(Abridged from the Leicester Chronicle.)
LEICESTER.

On Thursday evening last, a crowded meeting was held in
the New Hall, Wellington-street, (in consequence of a requi-
sition published on the same day), to take into consideration
the course proper to be pursued, with regard to the mutila-
tions of the Municipal Reform Bill in the House of Lords.
On the motion of Mr. J. COLTMAN, seconded by Mr. JoHN
RYLEY—

Gentlemen, I do not hesitate to say, that I think, before we
have done, ytni will agree with me that this Bill from the
Lcircls, Whieh I hold lii my bind, is one of the most impudent
in§ttliS.ei,er offered to a free people,--( Great cheering.) But
Wlll Shobtsnever will I")
e will stand by die tjti. !lit! Alinistry ;. I hope and
trust to God they will stand by tired cheering.)
, having been put by dal CitAttoins, was car-
The re!oluttow •
ried unattimontl, • --,Aution.
ditt:Eqi:4Si• 1 1M •ktt4
if VP fide wrm
ne people of Lt giark: t'to
InO4l I.iir,,OTe-h'on4o;.efts, assist
Ministers iv ho had so nobly done their dut:. -IPcNt (vtiVcir;•)
Mr. WILLIAM KENNEDY seconded the resolution, and a*:t!'e:.:
expatiating at some length upon the recent procceedings of
the Tory Peers, said—" I greatly mistake the temper of the
tines if these perhoto, who seem to glory in opposing the sen-
fimentg and Outragitig the feelings of their fellow-countrymen,
ere king disCoVer t nit they 59 urge their experi-
niend iquf 07eile,,i foci fatr.:( Ulcers.) It will be
asked, Who are these Peery, rind' tihat ore these Prelates,
that they should presume to interfere between to and the
attainment of sound local government ? '—( Cheers.) Is it not
notorious, that many of the two hundred aristocrats who
range themselves against us are beggars alike in character
and in fortune_( Great eheering)and that most of them are
more or less pensioned upon the taxes—( Cheers) —wrung
from the hard-working people of England, whom they
would exclude from the management of their own affairs?
But free-born Pinglishmen will not submit in silence to the in-
solent usurpations of your Neivcastles, your Winchilseas, your
Londonderrys, nor of your apostate Lyndhursts.—( Cheers. )
Let us hope that our :•epresentatives will not abate one jot or
tittle of our rightful demands--( Loud cheers)—that they will
form no compromise with the iniquity of a faction—that they
will fling back the, Corporation Bill, with its treacherous
anicntirtients—( Continued cheering)—to the quarter whence
it came, and then—should the Lords persist in perverse hosti-
lity to the interests of the country—then let them be admo-
nishod hi the words used by an undaunted and inffcxible pa-
triot of the time of Charles the First ( Pym), who, when ad-
dressing the peerage of that day, on behalf of the popular and
better branch of the Legislature, said—' The Commons will
be glad to have your help end concurrence for the saving of
the kingdom; but if tbey should fail of obtaining it, it should
them. from doing their duty."
The resoltitlOn wits then put and carried.
The Rev. E. HIGGINSON read the next resolution.
• Mr. Jous PECK seconded the resolution, which was put and
carried unanimously.
The petition to the House of Commons, calling upon them
to reject the Bill as =Witted by the Lords, hating been read
and seconded, was unanimatilly Adopted.
A vote of thanks having been mdl'ed to the Chairman, the
meeting separated.