The Sun.
London, England, 1835-09-12 00:00:00

PATRONAGE.

It appears by the correspondence that the institution
has been considered ,by. Orangemen a source of pa-
tronage, and there are various applications from the bre-
thren for the influence• and assistance of the dignitaries of
the Imperial Grand Lodge (which influence and assistance
appear frequently to have been used) to procure licenses
for public-houses, pensions in the artillery, and situations
in the police and in the docks ; :And these applications ap-
pear to have increased to such an c,xtent, that the deputy
grand, secretary intimates, in the glinted circular of
the proceedings of the Imperial Lodge, held on the
16th . April, 1833,. " That the duties of the deputy
grand secretary arc so irksome and onerous, as compels him
to notify, that his labours will not admit of the adn'.tiGnal
toils imposed by applications for patronage and placqs,
which are pouring in upon him daily. To so oppress►ve an
extent have such importunities. been carried, as to be suf-
ficient to engross the whole attention of one individual, to
read (far less to investigate the merits of) memoriOs and
petitions, with the prayers of which neither the Illustrious
Grand Master of the Empire, nor the Deputy Grand
Master, has the power of complying. The deputy grand
secretary has to , remind the brotherhood, that it never
was intended the institution' shoUld be rendered thus sub-
servient to the personal views and private ends of the inte-
rested."

NUMBER OF LODGES.
The Committee have found .considerable difficulty in
ascertaining the number of Orange Lodges bolding under
the Royal Orange Institution of Great Britain, as Lieute-
nant-Colonel Fairman, the deputy, Grand Secretary, de-
clared that he had no register of the lodges made up to
N present time : he stated that there were about 800
lodge: in activity, as he had kept no general register, but
had noted list of new warrants, granted, and of old
warrants reneweJ ,on separate slips of paper, which were
minutes of the Grand Lodge, and
at other times omitted ; ann
sometimes entered on ,41.',4
therefore, he could not give
t.
the exact number. Mr. Eustace wode, who had been,
for about ten years, deputy Grand see:,.tary previous to
Lieutenant-Colonel Fairman, stated that thj_re were, in his
time, about 300 lodgesin Great Britain and the ."*°l°ni:s ;
and he delivered in a printed list ,of 337 lodges, corr:7et9d
up to 1830, thirty of which, .as 'afterwards :stated
,in tut"
Report, were lodges held in the army and artillery. The
Committee directed Mr. Colwill, the deputy Assistant Se-
cretary to Lieutenant-Colonel Fairman, to make out a re-
gister of the existing lodges, 'as far as they appear to be now
entered in the books of the institution, amounting, as will he
seen by the account, to 381, belonging to 47 districts, be-
side's 93 warrants, unattached to any of these districts. It
appears by reference to the books of .the Secretary of the
Grand Lodge laid before the Committee, and from which
the' Assistant Se6-etary made out the li'st, that there are
47 districts, with a Deputy Grand Master appointed to
cach ; in the Ayr district there are 10 lodges entered on
the books ; in Bradford 18, in Cambridge 3, in Glasgow
12, in Liverpool 13, in Le.:Als 14, in Rochdale 12,
in Woolwich 9,87. c. The 93 lodges Unattached are in
the army, in the Colonies, and in detached and isolated
nliwz‘s.

'TIMBER OF 9i'ANGEMEN IN GREAT BRITAIN.
There is nO eorreot list of the number of Orangemen
)elontloing.or the Committee to the LOrk.4'3°.(lrnitg° Institution, and it is im-
2twible f
to form a correct opinion there-
on front the contradictory state..
Deputy Grand Secretary would not, or could not, state
of the Grand
any specific number. Mr, Cooper, a membe:
alrs of
Committee,. who had taken .an active part in the
the institution, stated that he had met in a lodge in Co.:.k"
spur-street.2oo Masters_ holding warrants ; that the num-
ber of Orangemen in London might be 40,000, and that
these, if
.any emergency should occur, m.g,lit be assembled
by the Grand Lodge ; that if all the, dormant Lodges were
called into activity, there ,might be . about. 120,000, to
140,00 a Orangemen. Other witnesses could give no esti-
mate, but your Committee can hardly believe, from all.the
evidence before them, that the numbers are so great as has
been stated by Mr. Cooper. .
Any number of brethren, not less than five, may meet
and. transact Orange business in any part of Great Bri-
tam, under the authority of a, Master's warrant, provided
that a Dignitary or Deputy Master or Committee-man be
amongst them. , .