The Sun.
London, England, 1845-07-04 00:00:00

" GREAT PROTESTANT COMMEMORATION."

DUBLIN, JULY 2.—What is termed " an open air soiree " took
place last evening in the Rotunda Gardens, to commemorate the
anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne.

About half.past six o'clock the Rev. R. H. M. Eyre, A.M.
took the chair.

The business of the evening was opened with prayer, and several
psalms were then sung by the company, atter which the Rev A.
J. Montgomery, formerly one of the chaplains of the Grand Orange
Lodge; Mr. H Smith, of Aonsbrook ; and the Rev. E. Prior,
addressed thc meeting in proposing and seconding resolutions re-
specting the Battle of the Boyne.
The Rev. T. D. Gregg introduced W. B. Ferrand, Esq., M.P.,
to the meeting. He was received with several rounds of the Kentish
fire and laud cheering.

Mr. FERRAND, M.P., then rose to address the meeting, and was
received with loud cheers. The Hon. Gentleman proceeeed to
say that he had great pleasure in coming forward to address a Dublin
Protestant audience,' for since he had last the honour of address-

ing them the foulest attempt was made by the Parliament to
crush the Protestant feeling in this country.—(Loud cheers.) But
such could not be done, beceuse the Protestants spoke the truth.
He had a right, as a free-born Englishman, to stand up for that
privilege, and he had stole' up in the House of Commons against
the worst blow that was ever aimed at the Constitution. In a letter
which he addressed to Sir James Graham he had ♦indicated the
same principles, and that letter was widely circulated—he had also
sent a copy to Sir • James himself—(Cheirs)—but that Minister
thought to crush them by a lying and infamous report,—(Loud
yelling and Kentish fire.) The Ministers were traitors to their re-

ligton, their country, their Sovereign, and their God. Several
rounds of the Kentish fire followed the conclusion of this sentence.
A Voice—Peel is an impostor.—(Cheers, and loud cries of
" Yes, he is.")

Another VOICE—PeeI is a common traitor.—(Cheers )
Mr. FEREAND— He Is the worst traitor that. ever lived.—(Kentish
fire and cheers.) Mr. Ferrand continued to say that Peel was the
Marotto of Conservatism, and he had betrayed the party whom he
was solemnly pledged to support, and the religion he was sworn to
maintain, and he (Mr. Ferrand) would prove that he was a traitor
to his country and his Sovereign.—(Cheers.)
A Voice—Peel is an infidel.—(Tremendous yelling and Kentish
fire.)

Another VOICE—We will put out the traitor.—(" Order.")
Mr. FERRAND then proceeded to prove that Sir Robert Peel was
a traitor. He had passed the Roman Catholic Bequests Act, a
heavier blow to the British Constitution than the grant to May-
nooth—by his own admission, a more revolutionary measure—and
thus, in express defiance of the Act of Parliament, making the
Roman Catholic prelates bishops and archbishops. Yes, in direct
opposition of the oath of supremacy and the Act of Settlement, he
had passed through the Lords and Commons his Romig), his
Popish Maynooth Bill.—(Hisses.) It only now waited for the
signature of her Majesty to become the law of the land—and he
Would repeat the assertion which he had made in the House of
Commons—the instant their gracious Sovereign attached her sig-
nature to that Bill, she signed away her right and title to the Bri-
tish throne.—(Loud cheers.)

The Rev. TRES!! AM GREGG briefly addressed the meeting, and
after a vote of thanks had been passed to Mr Ferrand, the meeting
formed into a procession, and marched round the gardens, the band
playing appropriate airs.

ARRIVAL OF MR. O'CONNELL.
About ten o'clock this forenoon Mr. O'Connell arrived in
Kingstown flown London, by the mail packet, and Proceeded to
the residence of his son, Mr. John O'Connell, M,P., near the
railway station.

DUBLIN STOCK EXCHANGE, JULY 2.
Government Funds—Three per Cent. Consols, 99 991—Three-
and.a Quarter per Cent. Stock, 101 h A—Bank Stock, 210.
Miscellaneous—Grand Canal Stock, 94.
Railways—Belfast and Ballymena, 5h A—Bandon and Bantry,
ll—Cork and Bandon, 7A 7—Cork and Waterford,li—Cerk
and Youghal, 2j—Cork and Passage, prem.—Dublin and Belfast
Junction, S 71—Dublin, Belfast, and Coleraine Junction, 21--
Dublin and Drogheda, Io9—Dundalk and Enniskillen, 3h__
Enniskillen and Sligo, 2l—Great Southern and Western, 23}._
Ditto, Extension, HA—The Midland and Great Western Railway,
and Royal Canal Company, 37, 4—Ditto, Extension to Sligo,
2i 3—lrish Great Western (Dublin to Galway), 3i A—Killarney
Junctions, 2A a—Limerick, Enniskillen, and Killaloe Junction,
4—Limerick and Ennis, 3—Lonuorderry and Enniskillen, 3h
—Waterford and Limerick, 7 71 —Watcrford and Kilkenny, 3
Wexford and Carlow, 21—Waterford, Wexford, and Dublin, I u 2.

It will be seen from the report of the Asturian
Mining Company, that several collieries have been opened
in the north of Spain, near Oviedo, which promise to be of
great service to that country. Should the mines, as anti-
cipated, turn out well, the people would find better employ-
ment than in quarrels with the Government about their
fueros cr the claims of the Carli st dynasty. A paper on these
mines was read at the recent meeting of the British Asso-
ciation held at Cambridt;e, to which we refer those who take
an itte...,st in the subject.
Tne Dusseldorf Gazette states that the health of
/the. Empress of Russia has become alarming. andlthat the Emperor
is again suffering from a disease of the liver,

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.
PROPRIETOR, MR. W. BATTY.
Immense and overflowing Audiences attend the re-production of the
Grand Military Spectacle of The Battle of Waterloo.
THIS EVENING
Will be performed THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO. Introducing
the Double Company of French and English Artistes. The Em-
peror Napoleon by Mr. Gomersal, who is engaged expressly for this
occasion.
New Scenes in the Circle, presenting the first talent of British and
Foreign Equestrians of the present day.
To conclude with the New Grand Pantomimic Spectacle of THE
GREEK RENEGADE.

ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.
COMBINATION OF ATTRACTIONS.
The Four Juvenile Minstrel Brothers and the Rock Harmonicon,
Every Day, from Nine till Dusk.
ROMANTIC GARDENS AND PROMENADE..
EXTENSIVE AND UNRIVALLED MENAGERIE.
COLOSSAL MODELLED REPRESENTATION OF EDINBURGH,
The Acme of Scenic Illusion.
The MINSTREL BROTHERS. from Four to Twelve Years of Age,
will perform Select Airs at intervals.
The ROCK HARMON ICON from Three till Eight.
knd on MONDAYS, TUESDAYS, WEDNESDAYS, and THURS-
DAYS, GRAM) CONCERTS !VETE and MAGNIFICENT
DISPLAY of FIREWORKS.
Admission, One Shilling.
Feeding the Carnivora at Half-past Five ; Pelicans and Polar Bears
at Six ; Concert at Half- 'ast Six! and Fireworks at Half-past Niue.

Tau MAILS.—SOUTHAMPTON, JULY 3.—The Ori-
ental Company's steam-ship the Duke of Cornwall left the docks
at three e.m. this day for Alexandria, with the East India and
China mails; also a full cargo of bale and other goods, and twelve
passengers. The Royal West India mail packet the Thames,
Captain Haste, left her moorings yesterday at three P.M. upon her
outward voyage, carrying the West India and South American
mails ; also twenty-six passengers, 677 bottles of quicksilver,
twenty boxes of silver (value 10,0000, four ditto of gold (value
4,0001.), and general cargo, The next Portugal mail will be due
on Sunday next, and the East India and China one by the Tagus is
expected at the Motherbank on the Tuesday following.
The commune of Schapfen, says the New Zurich
Gazette, is having cast at Aaran a church bell, weighing thirty.
two quintals (more than three tons), and which is to bear the fol-
lowing inscription--" In honour of the persons who died, or were
captured, whilst fighting against Jesuitism, in the year 1845."

The tax on dogs (says a Belgian journal) pro-
duced in 1844, in the City of Antwerp, the sum of 44,903 f.