The Sun.
London, England, 1845-08-15 00:00:00

IRELAND.

ORANGE SOCIETY-LORD HEYTESBURYS

LETTER.

DUBLIN, SATURDAY EVENING.—The following is the
letter of the Lord Lieutenant, announcing to Mr. Wat-
son the determination of the Government to remove
him from the office of dcpaty- lieutenant. This
letter may be considered as a warning to all lieu-
tenants, deputy-lieutenants, and magistrates, that any
participation on their part in the Orange Society will be
followed by dismissal. Although this letter has been kept
back by Mr. Watson, it has been studied by the Orange
leaders. and they have, in consequence, shrunk from the
course first proposed to be a•'.opted at the Orange mon-
ster meeting in Enniskillen on Tuesday next. The writ
to supersede Mr. Watson from the commission of the
peace in the counties of Antrim and Down was for-
warded by the northern mail this evening :
" Dublin Castle, 31st July, 1845.

_
" Sir,—l am directed by the Lord Lieutenant to ac-
knowledge the receipt of your letter of the 23d instant,
stating —in answer to that which inquired of you, as a
deputy-lieutenant of the county of Antrim, whether
you joined in the resolutions of the Lisburn Orangemen,
or signed them as chairman ?.--‘ that you signed the
resolutions alluded to as chairman, and not as deputy-
lieutenant.'
" rlis Excellency has received this answer with deep

regret.
" It must be in your recollection that the subject of
Orange societies has anxiously engaged the attention of
the Crown and the Legislature.
" On the 25th of February, 1836, his late Majesty
King William the Fourth, in reply to an address of the
House of Commons, praying his Majesty to discourage
Orange lodges, expressed himstlf to the following
effect :--
" .1 willingly assent to the prayer of my faithful
Commons, that I will be pleased to take such measures
as may seem to me advisable for the effectual discourage-
ment of Orange lodges, and generally of all political so-
cieties excluding persons of a different religious faith,
using secret signs and symbols, and acting by means of
associated branches. It is my firm intention to dis-
courage all such societies in my domimions ; and I rely
with confidence on the fidelity of my loyal subjects to
support me in this determination.'
" The intentions of his Majesty, as thus expressed,
were without delay adopted and enforced by the Legis-

!attire.
" In an Act of the same session (6 and 7 William IV.,
cap. 38), on a subject not necessarily involving the
question, opportunity was taken of inserting provisions
(sections 8,9) which opposed the strongest practical im-
pediments to the assembling of societies constituted as
Orange lodges are described to be ; and a subsequent
Act, specially directed to the purpose (2 and 3 Victoria,
cap. 74), put an end to their legal existence.
" The subject was again brought under the notice of
Parliament in the past session, when this Act 1111.3 re-
newed by the 7th and Bth Victoria, cap. 78 ; and a Bill
is now passing through Parliament for its further con-
tinuance. _ _

" Tale law beimg thus unequivocal, and the sense of
the Legislature thus deliberately pronounced, you have
nevertheless thought fit, while bearing the commision of
the peace and the OLT of deputy-lieutenant for the
county of Antrim, to attend and act as chairman of a meet-
ing at which certain resolutions were passed, en titled reso-
lutions of the Lisburn Orangemen, and of which the fol-
lowing passage forms a part t---‘ Resolved, that we deem
it essential to take immediate steps to re-organise the
Orange Institution in this county, and that the county
secretary be forthwith requested to convene a county
meeting.'
" hits Excellency cannot reconcile your concurrence in
such a resoletion, and your acting as chairman at such a
meeting, with the duties incumbent on you as a justice
of the peace or as a deputy-lieutenant.
"As a magistrate, you should carefully guard and
warn the people against breach of the law, should they
appear likely to violate it. You have incited them to
re-organise societies which the law prohibits.
" As a deputy-lieutenant, you should be an aid to the
lieutenant of your county in all lawful measures tending
to preserve its peace. You have encouraged assemblies,
the result of which, in an adjoining county, has been a
formidable affray, attended with loss of life.
"In allowing the Act to expire which prohibited flirty
processions in Ireland, her Majesty reposed a willing
confidence in the loyalty and good sense of her Irish
subjects. That confidence has not, in the main, been
disappointed. Successful exertions have been made by
many of the most enlightened, patriotic, and influential
of the magistracy and gentry toe ards the prevention of
armed displays tending to excite breach of the peace, to
alarm the peaceable, and to perpetuate discord ; and the
country has had the advantage of owing their discon-
tinuance, not to the penalties of an Act of Parliament,
but to the laudable discretion and loyalty of the people.
" Among those who have thus merited the approba-
tion of her Majesty, and the gratitude of their country,
you have not been found. On the contrary, Sou are
among the few of your station who have concurred in
advising the renewal of an illegal association, whose
proceedings have heretofore given occasion to frequent
and sanguinary conflicts between different classes of her
Majesty's subjects, of the lamentable character of that
which has recently occurred in the city of Armagh.
" Under these circumstances his Excellency feels
bound to deprive you, as far as in him lies, of an influ-
ence and authority derivable from the offices you have
hitherto held under the Crown ; and a letter has been
addressed to the lieutenant of the county of Antrim,
intimating your removal from the office of deputy-
lieutenant.

" The Lord Chancellor has your conduct under his
consideration with reference to your commission of the
peace.
" It is not without feelings of extreme regret that his
Excellency has arrived at the decision now announced

to you.
" lie has been informed that you have attained to an
advanced age, possessed of the respect and esteem of
those by whom you are surrounded.
" It is painful to his Excellency to place a mark of dis-
approbation where it seemed so unlikely to be called for ;
it is equally painful to him to deprive a gentleman of a
trust which he has long enjoyed, and of which he has
been hitherto considered entirely deserving.
" But in proportion to the station and rank in which
you are placed, and to the esteem with which your
general conduct has invested you, must be the effect
produced by your precepts and example in the county
where you hold an office of trust under the Crown; and
his Excellency feels bound in your instance to demon-
strate to the public that it is his firm determination to
be influenced by no other considerations, in the exercise
of the functions with which he is invested, than those
which relate to the maintenance of the law and the pro-
motion of the public welfare in that part of her Majesty's
dominions in which the supreme authority has been com-
mitted to his charge.—l have the honour to be, Sir,
your most obedient servant,
(Signed) E. LUCAS.
" James Watson, Esq."

THE ARMY.

DunniN, Auc. 10.—Brevet Lieut.-Colonel Vander-
meulen shortly succeeds to the command of the ;3:1, by
the appointment of Colonel Love to the Adjutant-
Generalcy of Ireland, at present filled by Colonel T. E.
Napier.
The 66th Regiment, un,3er Lient.-Colonel Goldie,
arrived at Gibraltar from Cork on the 22d July, in the
Resistance troop ship.
Captain Lord Charles Kerr is transferred from the
extr,, to the ordinary staff of Aides-de-camp to thu Lord-
utenant's establishment.
CORK, AUG. 9, DUEL PREVENTED. —A reneon t re took
place on Thursday evening between two gent lemen, w hich
it was feared would have terminated in a hostile meet-
ing. The facts of the case, as we have heard, are as
follows :—The parties alluded to are Mr. Silver Charles
Oliver, of Sun-lodge, and Mr. Edmund Burke, of Prospect.
The latter was riding home to his residence from this
city on the evening named, and when about rounding
the corner of Ship-street, leading to the Glanmire-road,
he observed three ladies passing towards the Packet-
office. Mr. Burke instantly pulled up his horse to
allow the ladies to cros,, and before he had time to
move on, Mr. Oliver, with another gentleman, drove up
in his gig. The gig calue in contact with Mr. Burke's
horse, and struck him on the quarter. Mr Burke's
horse rushed forward into Ship-street, and an
altercation ensued between the gentlemen of such a
nature that it induced a gentleman present, uncon-
nected with either, to report the circumstances to the
Mayor, when informations that a duel was apprehended
were sworn. A warrant was immediately handed to
head-constable Condon. We were informed that, on
Thursday night Mr. Oliver was arrested at his residence
by the active head-constable above-named, brought to
Cork, and made to enter into the necessary recognizances
before the Mayor, to keep the peace. Yesterday
morning, about half pa-t five o'clock, Mr. Burke was
also arrested, and on being taken before his Worship he
entered into similar recognizances.
THE IRISH NAVAL SQUADRON.—Her Majesty's ship
Tartarus, Captain Wolfe, has returned to Carrigaholt
bav, to resume her survey. The Stromboli, Captain
Fi,her, R.N., has returned to her moorings at Tarbert,
in the Shannon. The experimental squadron, consisting
of eight large ships of the line,
is expected to arrive at
Cork about the 16th inst.
The Marquis of Conyngham, in
the Flower of
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and
pulled to
over i,anchornhis agtigTtaorbeiriti,fru(s)hn,
where
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he visited Colonel Vandeleur, and thence proceeded
to Kilkee, where he remained two hours—the first
came
visit to his large hereditary estate on the western
coast of Clare—and next afternoon had the pleasure of
enjoying the beau
Sheriff,
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oienrg3n,l
canna:. boG:itailliliwissaielyi etsohiCeidr'rct
illlrueor‘rls.idnvaeytro:
as he sailed up the Shannon to Limerick.
sce°;l:4:;'Gree'acw.ba..)is.yatabpseuthe site ft,r a provincial college.
tboy‘ :tl,lll,iee Corporation
Ballinhassigrca Carew O'Grady,
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Mathew, 1/. 'There is to be another fair at Ballinhassig
on Monday next.

HUGHES'S MAMMOTH CIRCUS.--Wednesdnv Graves-
end presented a very gay appearance, as the townspeople,
dressed in their holiday costume, lined the principal streets and
windows, for the purpose of witnessing the entree of Hughes's
Mammoth Equestrian establishment into that town. The
master of the menage, Mr. Wild, displayed great skill in
driving fourteen spirited horses, attached to the band's elegant
carriage. He went through narrow streets and turned short
corners in a masterly manner. But perhaps the most extra-
ordinary portion of the public show was a magnificent eastern
state carriage, which was drawn by two elephants, splendidly
deccratcrllwith crimson velvet trappings, fringed with gold lace.
After the long procession of carriages had passed, the stud of
five horses followed, ridden by tho male and female artistes
belo,ging to the establishment. There were two performances
at Gravesend yesterday, in an immense tent, the interior ac-
commodations of which were excellent, and the entertainments
were of a very superior kind, and would certainly do Credit to
Astley's unrivalled house.