The Sun.
London, England, 1857-10-10 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, FRIDAY.

THE GOVERNMENT AND THE MAGISTRACY.

The Lord Chancellor's letter to the Marquis of
Londonderry has created quite a panic or surprise
in the Irish political market. The Northern Whig,
in whose columns the missive was first made public,
maintains that, since 1829, a heavier blow has not
been dealt against the ascendancy system in Ireland,
adding :

"All honour to Lord Carlisle, and to his (it is
really necessary to say, Protestant) Lord Chan-
cellor. Government after Government in Ireland
have admitted that Orangeism was their great
difficulty. Lord-Carlisle has_be_en__the_first_naali_.
to face the fact and grapple with the evil. He has
entered upon a serious struggle, and the vigour of
the act stamps him as a statesman. Ascendancy
Protestantism will be staggered. Hereby that
party is distinctly informed that the Viceroys
of the British Sovereign are altogether unconscious
of the blessings of loyal Orangeism ; and are
strangely persuaded that the love of order and the
frenzy for the interests of Great Britain are alto-
gether nuisances, perhaps sentimental, but slightly
seditious. Every Orangeman is hereby advertised,
by the first officials in Ireland, as a rioter or a pro-
moter of riots—as a bad subject, and consequently
a bad Christian. It is an overwhelming decree.
And let not the enthusiastically loyal persons who
will immediately begin to roar resistance to the
Viceroy coasolethemselves with the hope that they
can appeal to the Protestant passions and bigot sym-
pathies of English Toryism. We are most assur-
edly satisfied that the Whig leaders in the Ministry
have seized the opportunity of the Belfast riots to
inflict that political retribution long due on the most
debased, most artificial, and most mischievous party
in Europe—the party of Irish Orangeism ; and we
are not the less sure that the Tory leaders of Eng-
land will secretly applaud, and publicly, however
tacitly, assent to, the just sentence passed by Lord
Carlisle and his colleagues on a confederation which
has been the curse of our, country, which has set
man against man, and which has done its• pious
utmost to rob us of one-half the blesssings which
Providence has smiled upon our land. Every gen-
tleman who, in future, ambitions the hon.oure of the
magistracy must disown all connection with a die-
loyal, turbulent, and dangerous body called the
Orange Society. That is the prospective rule,
which may, by due degrees. secure Ulster an
impartial magistracy. But the Lord Chancellor's
letter will have a retrospective influence. 'No man
of proper feeling, disagreeing with the Government
respecting the character and tendency of the
Orange Society, and being an Orangeman, can hold
the commission of the peace. The wish of
the Government plainly is, that no magistrate
should be a member of an Orange lodge. Will any
Orangeman already an Ulster magistrate remain of
the bench ? We hope not ; the moral and political
duty of resignation of men like Lord Enniskillen
and Lord Dungannon is clear. But we dare say
Orange loyalty will reveal itself by disobedience and
defiance to the Queen's wishes and the Viceroy's
orders. So be it ; the country will soon learn to
know the difference between the legal magistrates
and other magistrates for the administration of the
law Who are distrusted by the Government. But
the blow has been struck. Orangeism is declared a
vulgarity. The, gentry will shun it. Its day is
over. What a comment is the Lord Chancellor's
letter en the enthusiastic and e'oquent boasts of the
Tory journals, that the Riots Commission inquiry
had demonstrated that the Roman Catholic mob
caused all the ruffianism ? Why is it that Lord Car-
lisle, whose speeches and writings are heartily Pro-
testant, passes by the mobs, both Protestant and
Catholic, and puts his finger on the magistracy 7"

THE FRAUDS ON THE BELFAST CUSTOMS.
No trace yet of the ingenious Mr. Moore, but
vigorous efforts, it seems, are being made to bring
to justice every person connected with the frauds.
"On Tuesday (says the Whig) Mr. Gardiner, a
gentleman holding a high position in connection
with the Customs in Dublin, arrived in Belfast un-
der instructions that he was to leave nomatter un-
touched which could explain the character of the
fraud and robbery. This gentleman immediately
put himself in communication with some of the local
•
magistracy, and opened a career of examination of
the most searching and determined character. Mr.
Gardiner held an interview on Tuesday with Mr.
Tracy, who, although at present on leave of absence
from official duties, takes a deep interest in this
case, and also met Dr. M‘Ghee. These gentlemen
took up the suggestion which we published on
Tuesday, and obliged the carman who conveyed
Moore to Lisburn to appear before them. This
person, we have been given to understand on the
hesst authority, gave some important information.
It would be injudicious, at the present stage of the
inquiry, to disclose all the facts to which this party
testifies. Enough it is to say that he has told some
things that at some future day may enliehten the
public. Now, the great question is as to the
whereabouts of Moore. We have made a very close
investigation among persons most likely to be well
informed on the subject, and the general impres-
sion is, that he has not left Great Britain and Ire-
land. This is the opinion of the ablest members of
the police force after having studied the case with
great carefulness, and we have reason to be-
lieve that Mr. Gardiner is of the same opinion.
This gentleman is conducting the case with sin-
gular caution and secresy, and, at present, the
leading point of the investigation is simply this
—whether a case can to got up which would
justify Mr. Gardiner advising the Customs' autho-
rities to direct a detective officer to proceed to the
'United States in search of Moore. With respect to
the whole of the transaction we have heard a mass
of statements, the majority of which we cannot
rely upon. But we have this before us, unmis-
takeably, that there has been an immense conni-
vance in. some leading circles in the transaction.
We have had it confessed to us by one gentleman,
that on the Thursday night prior to the informs-
• Lion received by the police he met Moore in Bam-
bridge's, and that there he told By
if you have touched a chest of my tea I'll make a
sacrifice of you !' Whether the chests of
tea belonging to this person, so full of commercial
morality, were dummied' or not, we have not
heard, but his suggestion was full of characteristic
import. But what is this in comparison with
Harbison's statement ? We must especially direct
the attention of Mr. Gardiner to the information
that Harbison can supply. The great point of his
knowledge is connected with Moore's counting-
Louse books, but there is as yet some secresy
maintained in- this part of the case. Mr. Harbison
states that in Moore's counting-house books the
purchasers of the teas are specifically named, but
that there are certain hieroglyphic characters
in them which he could easily reveal, and which
afford curious revelations. Here we have at
once a clue to the buyers of the teas which
Mr. Gardiner must follow •up. Strange
enoug-a, amid all the excitement , which • com-
mercial circles have manifested for the ap-
prehension of Moore, no reward has yet been
offered for his seizure. The Belfast police issued
on Tuesday the following notification :
"' [For Police officers' only.]—Description of
John James Moore, late of Belfast, in the county of
Antrim, tea merchant, charged with stealing 800
chests of tea from one of her Majesty's bonded
stores in this town, and for whose apprehension I
hold a warrant :—He is about 35 years old, 5 feet 7i
inches, well-formed, not corpulent, dark hair,
slightly bald on the head, thin sandy whiskers, red
oval face, hollow cheeks, high cheekbones, large
red nose ; holds his face down when 'walking ; has
rather a jaunty appearance ; wore' a 'black frock
coat and gray trousers when last seen. Police-
officers are requested to search for and apprehend.
said John James Moore, and communicate with
me.—Thomas Lindsay, chief constable, Police-
office, Belfast."

A NEW CROP OF SEDITIOUS PLACARDS IN NENA.GIt
The Nenggh. Guardian, received this morning, states
Viet a fresh batch of Svoy posters have appeared on the
wale of that town. Specimens are furnished :
Tipperary Men I !
Are you men If you have the spirit of Irishmen,
do not negl.,_ct Ireland's opportunity!
Up for the Green I
Hurrah for the Indian Revolution 1 !
The punctuation was in the original; the notes of ad-.
miration were made with perspicuity. In the vicinity
of the chapel, on the shutters of an unoccupied house,
was the follovvic g

Glorious News.
England defeated. God bless the Rebels of India.
liburrah for Free6ona.
Another placard, stuck on the pillars of a church,
called the 7th of October a Dal of Exultation for the
gallant SePoys.

LORD BROUGHA3eI3 SEPOY PROPIIROY.—A singular
anticipation of the possible entire revolt of the Indian
native army is recorded in Hansard's Commons Debates,
7th February 1828. Mr. Brougham,
.in his celebrated
-pooch on Law Reform, denounced among other abuses
in our judiciary system the delays and costliness of
Indian appeals decided in London by the former ill-con-
stituted Court of Privy Council. He contrasted the
evil with the then improved law n;urts of Ceylon, stat-
ing that one good effect had resulted in the latter colony
as the Ceylon people, previously reheldous, in 1816
aided the mother country in putting down and c-ushing
a military mutiny. Mr. Brougham further observed,
" So it will be in the Peninsula if you give your subjec's.
_a share in administering your laws, and an interest and
pride in supporting you. Should the day ever come
when disaffection may appeal to 70,000,000 against a
few thousand strangers, who have planted themselvea
upon the rains of the ancient dynasties, you will find
how much safer it is to have won their hearts, and uni-
vareally cemented their attachment by a common interest
in your system, than to rely upon 150,000 Sepoy',
dworde, of excellent temper but in doubtful bands."