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

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LONDON,
SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 12, 1835.

We have just received an extract from a private
letter from Paris, dated the 10th inst., three o'clock
afternoon, which states that another battle has been
fought between the Christinos and Cariists, in which
the latter suffered severe losses. 'We attach no credit
to this F.:t.,atement, as no such event was announced by
tek.:graph.

In The Sun of this day, will be found an abridg-
ment of the Report of the Select Committee of the
House of Commons, appointed to inquire into the
origin, nature, extent, and tendency of Orange Insti-
tutiOns in Great Britain and the, Colonies. A more
important document it has not been our duty to sub-
mit to public attention since the opening of the late
Session of Parliament. The impression which its
perusal must make on the minds of foreigners will
greatly detract from that character for loyalty—ad-
herence to principle—religion--and moral conduct
which pre-eminently distinguish the subjects of a
British Sovereign. It is painful to reflect upon
the degrading light in which this Report places the
general conduct of Englishmen. The Orange In.
stitution, in avowing its object to be the protection
of our Gracious KING against domestic foes, assumes
it as a fact that a King of England is not perfectly
safe in the spontaneous affections—d3es not derive
adequatt security from the voluntary attachment of
13;.5 people. The insolence of this gross libel upon
the loyalty of British subjects is without a parallel.
What Englishman 'will think of the conduct of his
Royal Highness of CUMBERLAND, who stands at the
head of an armed secret association, denounced by the
law, and opposed to the spirit of the British Consti-
tution, we will not take upon us to determine ; but the
Committee has thrown out hints from which we are
justified in inferring that Princes, not of the line of
York, may have calculated upon ascending the Throne
of these realms, even during the life-time of a more
legitimate claimant. We are not, we confess, in the
present state of the law of libel, disposed to lay great
stress upon this inference, however fairly drawn ; and
therefore we shall leave the Report to speak for
itself. Our sole object is the good of our country,
not a desire to attack the character or impugn the mo-
tives of any individual, however illustrious or lowly.
The language of the Committee is rather ambigu-
ous on this point,—probably, because a more direct
implication of the conduct of the Illustrious Personage
alluded to could not have been made, without imposing
u?on the House of Commons the disagreeable neces-
sity of moving a series of articles of impeachment to be
produced at the bar of the Upper House :

" The Committee further submit whether an institution pre-
sided over by the brother of his Majesty, having Peers and
Members of Parliament as office-bearers, having lodges ex-
tending to almost every part of the United Kingdom, and also
to the colonies, should be allowed to continue, particularly
when lodges are established in so large a portion of the army
at home and abroad, having the countenance of a field marshal
at their bead.

" The number of Orangemen in Ireland is 220,000, as stated
by the deputy grand secretary for that country, and these
chiefly with arms in their possession; and if the Orangemen
in Great Britain and the colonies amount only to half that
number, the House will judge how dangerous such an asso-
ciation, bound together by religious ceremony and sanction
almost equal to that of an oath, might become under possible
circumstances of the country. A great political body thus
organized in the ranks of the army and in every part of the
British empire is a formidable power at any time, and under
any circumstances; but when your Committee look to the
political conduct of the leaders of the Orange societies in
England and Ireland, and particularly to the language of the
late addresses to the public and in the correspondence with the
grand officers of the institution, and consider the possible use
that might be made of such an organized power, its suppres-
sion becomes imperatively necessary."
There can be no difficulty in understanding what is
here meant by " possible circumstances of the country,"
as necessary to the full developement of the mischiefs
of Orangeism. The death of his Most Gracious
MAJESTY, (whom God long preserve in health and
the full enjoyment of his faculties), is an event
to which the country would be justified in look-
ing forward with additional apprehension, pro-
vided Parliament neglects to crush this illegal combi-
nation. The power enjoyed by the Grand Master,
who may exercise it at his •sole disczetion,, without

check or responsibility or any land;is thus briefly
stbActi 't‘he Report :
" It must always be kept in mind, that the
out the members of all tr,Qfautie I.4clire; n'clana rests
with the Grand Maitei• ueputy, on the application of
tweve lir the grand committee ; that the same person
rand Master of Great Britain also, having the same powers,
which are stated to be uncontrolled and arbitrary, of bringing
together large bodies of armed and unarmed men, to make a
demonstration of physical force, which might prove highly
dangerous. It appears,_ by a paper indorsed by Lieut,- Colonel
Fairman, which he had teemed MI the nth June, 1884, from
Randal E. Plunkett; M.P. (gt.anct Master of county Meath,
deputy grand turtstet. in Ireland, and member of the Grand
Committtbt tlie London Orange Institution), the draft of an
adtittas to the members of the Carlton Club, to be printed and
circulated in the name of and by the Orange Institution. The
following is the first paragraph, and deserves the attention of
every man in the country The Orange Institution 'is the
only society peculiar to Great Britain and Ireland which
already includes individuals of every rank and grade, from the
nearest to the throne to the poorest peasant.' The ',trait was
modified ; among other alterations, the ' nearest to
the throne' was changed for tb‘: term t'he first male subject
in the realm :' the ad'l:ess was then widely circulated. Mr.
Plunkett, in a 1c.1.1.er of the sth July, 1834, to the deputy grand
secretary, says—' In the general tenor of the appeal I fully
nequiesee ; every word of it must find an echo in every loyal
breast.' He further adds—' That the physical strength of the
Orange Institution, as its last resort, should be explained by
a short address.' "

It would be a waste of words to offer any comment
upon such language as the above. The closing para-
graph is itself the key to all that goes before it.
We shall turn from this part of the Report, which
is to some extent personal, to the ulterior designs of
an " illustrious male subject," and content ourselves
with some observations on those parts only which give
the Committee's opinion of such illicit societies, and
especially of the Orange banditti of Great Britain and
the Colonies.

It will be seen from the Report that Orangeism has
rapidly spread, within the last six years in the Army,
in the inland districts of England and Scotland, and
in the Colonies. For this purpose the Imperial Grand
Lodge of London, under the auspices of his Royal
Highness of CUMBERLAND, sent missionaries with
full powers to pervert the allegiance of his MAJESTY'S
troops at home and in the Colonies---to fill with the seeds
of religious and political rancor the minds of poor un-
educated villagers, who never before had experienced the
poisoned influence of such do`etrines. rile Report cites
instances in which the Grand Orange Institution en-
couraged its members in the army to commit acts of
insubordinay:,,n, for which, were they not so powerfully
prote,-,ied by a Prince of the Blood, they would unques-
tionably have been brought to the Triangles, if not
shot. The case of M'KEE, of the 11th Regiment,
whose letter, dated from Sydney, is given in the Re-
port, will serve for ut example of this. This individual,
acting under the orders of Mr. CllETworni EUSTACE,
Grand Secretary of the Orange Society, evinced his
extra-devotional loyalty to his KING, by acting in di.
rect disobedience to the orders of his Commanding
Officer, which orders were issued by the Commander-
in-Chief, by command of the KING in person !
Henceforth all loyalty which sets martial and civil law
alike at defiance—which tramples upon the power of
Parliament, and beards the authority of the So vEREIG N
--may be appropriately denominated Orange loyalty.
The tendency of Orange Societies, and the effect
produced by them are so happily and appropriately
pointed out•in the Report, that we shall Niittilt 'our-
selves with a short quotation from the passage in
which such tendency and elfett are described. Stronger
language we could not use without appearing to mix
up personal feeli-,-,gs, with the grave consideration of a
questior, which seriously affects the peace, security, and
~.,vrifare of our Country. Let Englishmen read this
r extract with care—let them ponder upon the declara-
tion of facts which it contains—let them weigh and
examine it in all its different bearings, and then ask
themselves is not the suppression of such societies a
duty imperative upon the British Legislature ? Mark
well the opinions expressed by the Committee :
" The obvious tendency and effect of these Orange Lodges
is to keep isp an exclusive association in civil and-military so-
ciety, exciting one portion of the people against the other ; to
increase the rancour and animosity too often unfortunately ex-
isting between persons of different religious persuasions—to
make the Protestant the enemy of the Catholic, and the Catho-
lic the enemy of the Protestant--by processions on particular
days, attended with the insignia of the society, to excite to
breaches of the peace end to bloodshed—to raise up other secret
societies among the Catholics in their own defence, and for
their own protection against the insults of the Orangemen—to
interrupt the course of justice; to interfere with the discipline
of the army, and thus to render its services injurious instead of
useful, when required on occasions where Catholics and Pro-
testants may be parties. All these evils have been proved by
the evidence before Me House in regard to Ireland, where the
system has &fly existed on an extended scale, rendered more
pniudieitzl to the best interests of society, by the patronage and
protection of so many wealthy members, high in office and
rank, taking an active part in the proceedings of these lodges.
The Orange Lodges have also interfered in various poli-
tied subjects of the day, and made Orangeism a means of sup-
porting the views of a political party, to maintain, as they
avow, the Protestant ascendancy. The Orange Lodges have
addressed his Majesty, and individuals, on special occasions
of a political nature—have patronized and supported, by sub-
scriptions, votes of thanks, 6-c., parts of the public press which
advocated their opinions and views in politics—have inter-
fered in the course of justice, by subscriptions to defend and
protect parties of Orangemen, and to prosecute the magistrates
for interfering with them (as in the case of Liverpool in 1834,
when the mayor of Liverpool interrupted the Orange procession
on the 12th of July in that year)—and have also inteifered
, with the electivefranchise, by expelling members of their body,
as at Rochdale in 1835, for voting fo. r the liberal candidate."
Evils more enormous than those enumerated in the
above extract, as peculiarly belonging to Orangeism,
have never been imputed to any body of conspirators
or bandits that endangered the safety of a great nation.
The whole system is clearly one of hatred, intimida-
tion, violence, and blood. The most sacred ordi-
nances of religion are perverted to the blasphemous
purpose of initiating men into an infernal combina-
tion of religious and political firebrands, to serve
as tools in the hands of an irresponsible Chief,
who may employ them for whatever purposes he
pleases. It is lamentable to observe that such an in-
stitution
reckons among its members a large number of
clergymen of the Established Church—men whose sa-
cred profession is thus prostituted to purposes as much
opposed to the principles of true religion as falsehood
is to truth. In the Report will be found the name of a
Right Rev. Prelate who officiates as Grand Chaplain of
the order of law-breaking loyalists. Thirteen other
church dignitaries are glanced, at who officiate as De-
puty-Chaplains ; and it is further stated that several
clergymen hold warrants as Masters of Orange Lodges !
We trust after this we shall hear no more about the
machinations of Jesuits, and secret societies sanctioned
by the See of Rome. Our virtuously indignant
priesthood are no longer in the condition of wild asses
—they have at home something more substantial than
wind to browse upon. Orangeism is a beam which
they must remove out of their own eye, before
they can give instructions for the removal of
of a Mote seldom visible to any one save themselves.
We tell these Orange parsons that they arc rob- ,
hers who have feloniously broken into the Christian
fold—that they are deadly enemies of that Church,
King, and Constitution which they profess to vene-
rate—and that they are equally a disgrace to the re-
ligion and the priesthood of this country.
Without the adoption of extraordinary remedies,
the suppression of Orangeism in • the army, and
throughout the country, is morally impossible. Lord
HILL may issue what orders he pleases; but so long
as the Institution is openly presided over by a Field-
Marshal, a Prince of the Blood, and the " first male
subject in the realm," such orders will be contemned
or evaded, and the conspiracy go on extending every
day. The Committee suggests the legal prosecution
of the Grand Officers of the Orange Lodges, under
the provisions of the 39th, Geo. 111. ; but, with all
due respect for the opinion of the Committee, we
think that unless other moans for eradicating the evil

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY, SEPTEMbER 12, 188 b.

be adopted; it Will never be destroyed; should
there hot be lin Act of rafliAnient tia6d fed' the eat
PiiiPOse putting down the 'Orange Institution
in every part of Great Britain and Ireland ? The
Government showed no delicacy when the " Hearts
of Steel," " Peep o'Day Boys," " White Boys,"
" Irish Volunteers)" " llockites-," " Itilibontrien3" and
even the " Catholic Association,' wer6 to be Ott du*ii
and extinguished. Why, then, spare the cause uf the
existence of several of these-social pests—itself equally
lawless, violent, blood-thirsty, and anti-Christian ? Par-
liament must not have it presumed that it dreads the
frown of even a Royal Duke, or that the patronage
of the " first male ettbleet in the empire," gives a
moral and legal sanction to that which in itself is
essentially evil—a national curse.

If any proof were wanted that disingenuousness is a
prominent feature in Toryism, it would be supplied by
the conduct of those whose business it is, as the organs
of the faction, to delude the public. Misrepresentation
is the great weapon, wielded by the warriors of the Tory
pass. No matter how repugnant to every feeling of ho-
nour, and justice the use of such a weapon may be, it is
found to answer the ends of a low and selfish ambition,
and that is enough—scruples of conscience, in such
cases, there are none.

If the Tories had one spark of that candour and
frankness, which ate so often in the mouth, though
they have never vet found their way to the heart, of
their great manifesto-manufacturer, they would have
as readily admitted, as they ate thoroughly
in their own n'ti,xle, that it is :to them, and to them
alone, that the obstruction of the public business du-
ring the late 50.44011 at Parliament is to be imputed.
The Not that little or nothing has been done they do
not pretend to deny—it is too glaring even for their
powers of misrepresentation to distort t but they are
so lost to alisense of shame that they insinuate—some
of them indeed more than insinuate—that part of the
blame ought to fall upon their political opponents !
And how do they support this insinuation ? Have
they anything even plausible to advance in order to
make it go do down with their gulls ? No—this is
the amcunt of their nonsense: " If," say these impudent
impostors on public credulity, " you had not
turned out our Minister (meaning the manifesto-maker)
he would have given you such measures, both in quan-
tity and quality, as would have satisfied the country I"
Then comes an ostentatious parade of the titles of va-
rious Bills either brought in, or intended to be brought
in, by the late Government ; and we are desired to
hold up our hands in admiration of the " clap. trap
Administration I"

We are reminded of the Bill for the redress of the
Dissenters' grievances, which was so satisfactory that
it gave universal dissatisfaction to those for whose
benefit it was intended. We are not told, however,
that the Dissenters were so disgusted at the ini-
quitous proceedings of the Tory leaders, towards
the Country and towards the Government, which
they knew to be really friendly to their interests,
that they disdained to present even a single memorial
tt Men who had shewn themselves so destitute of
principle.
Next figures the measure for the Reform of the
English Church—one of the would-have-begins—which
would have multiplied the Churches of the dominant
sect at the public expense ; and akin to this was the
plan for abolishing Church rates in England, by making
them a charge on the nation at large !
We were also to have had a Municipal Reform
Bill ; the quality of which may be guessed from the
one which the Lords sent back to the Commons.
What would it have been had they had the original
concoction of it ?

But we need not proceed further. The public are
quite satisfied that a Session spent in doing such
work as this would have been something worse than
wasted.

The Monitcur of Thursday, which we have re-
ceived, together with the other Paris Papers of the
same date, promulgates the three laws passed by the
Chambers, as a consequence of the FIESCHI conspi-
racy. These laws relate severally to the press, juries,
and the regulation of secondary punishments. Their
provisions are sufficiently understood, to obviate the
necessity of detailing them in the present crowded state
of our columns.

The news from Spain is important. The QUEEN
has formally proclaimed the Juntas illegal, and de-
mands from her allies 10,000 troops to suppress them.
Ten times the number required would be inadequate
for such a purpose. The Federalists are now the
strongest party in Spain.

FRENCH FUNDS.—PARIS, SEPTEMBER 10.
Five per Cents., 1070 20c. 10c. Isc.
Four per Cents., 98f.
Three per Cents. 70f. G. c 70c. Gsc.
Bank Actions, 2,05•2 f. 50c.
Rente de Naples, 97f. 60c.
Roman Five per Cents., 102%',4.
Rente d'Espagne, Five per Cents., 30 20% 30!i 30.
Rente d'Espagne, Three per Cents., 20
Royal Spanish Loan, 31.
Rente Perpet. d'Espagne, Five per Cent., 31 30A 34%.
Belgian Loan, Five per Cents., 1033„(.
Haytian Loan, 350 f. 315 f.
EXCHANGE ON LONDON.
One month, paper, —1: —c. ; money, 251 4714 c.
Three months, paper, —f. —c. money, 25f. 35c.
—Cours Authentiaue.
BOHRSE, THREE O'CLOCK.—French stock is flat to-day.
The 3 per Cents. opened at 79f. 85c., and declined to 79f.
75c., sellers. This fall has taken place in consequence of
intelligence of the 4th from Madrid, to the effect that the
Queen has issued a proclamation against the Juntas. Spanish
securities are unsaleable for any sum of consequence, and as
such the quoted prices are only nominal.
QUARTER TO FOUR.—Five per Cents., 1071. 20c. ; Three
per Cents., 791. 70c. ; Five per Cents. Spanish, 3(4; Three
per Cents. Spanish, 191 ; Cortes, 30; Coupons, 16 ; Gueb.
hards, 32; Differes, 12+; New Loan, 35i ; Actives, ;
'Passives, 101; Ducats, 77 70 ; Romans, 102 k ; Pedros, —;
Belgians, 1031 ; Dutch, —' • Haytians, 3451. ; Miguels, —;
Brabant Bank, —; Belgian Bank, —.

German and Brussels papers have been received.
Their contents are not important.

By the London Packet Ship Samson arrived at
'Deal we have received New York and other American
Papers to the 21st of August. They contain some
accounts of the results of the late elections in several
of the States, for which we will endeavour to find room
in our columns of Monday.

We have received advices from the Mexican States
to the 23d of July, detailing the particulars of the re-
volutionary movement in Venezuela, with a copy of
the proclamation issued by the General-in-Chief, JOSE
ANTON! PAEZ, on the 15th of that month. We
find nothing in these documents, the substance of
which has not already appeared in The Sun.

IMPROVEMENT IN ROAD MAKING.—A few
weeks since, an announcement appeared in a literary journal,
that an experiment was being made in the neighbourhood of
the metropolis, of forming an repairing roads with lava from
the neighbourhood of volcanoes ; and it was hinted that this
article might soon form a considerable branch of import trade.
This assertion had not, however, any foundation in fact, un-
less it referred to some trials which were making with a new
patent composition for roads, which is now being made use
of in the Vauxhall-road, and which, the proprietor not in-
appropriately calls " bituminous lava." Its composition is
asphaltum, silcx, oxide of iron, and lime, and large furnaces
are in operation in the road where the ingredients are com-
bined, and from which the composition is poured in a semi-
fluid state on the ground, where it rapidly congeals. When
dry, this composition is very hard, and will bear the smartest
blow without injury ; and in an experiment which we wit-
nessed, a piece of granite was placed under. the wheel of a
heavily-laden waggon and crushed to pieces without affecting
it. A small part of the Brixton-road, near the Horns, at
Kennington,-where it has been used, has stood the test of se-
vere trial for nine months, and of the road at Mill-wall, Pop-
lar, for twelve months. Should it be found to bear the ex-
tremes of cold and the weather without injury, it will accom-
plish an important desideratum in road-making, from the ease
with which an uniformity of surface may be made and ob-
tained ; and although the original outlay is about the same,
it will require less expenditure to keep it in repair than a com-
mon road.