The Sun.
London, England, 1844-07-04 00:00:00

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LONDON, THURSDAY, JULY 4, 1844

The House of Commons met yesterday at twelve
o'clock, when Mr. GLADSTONE moved that the House
resolve itself into a Committee on the Joint-Stock
Companies Registration and Regulation Bill. The
motion was opposed by Mr: 11Awas, a lengthened
discussion ensued, Mr. HAwEs iri lly with4rew his
amendment, and the House went into Committee.
IsTral clauses were agreed to and th 9 House re-
sumed.
The Smoke Prevention Bill was withdrawn, and
after the transaction of some other business of little
imvortance, the House adjourned. The House of
Lords did not sit yesterday

The Irish Orangemen are again speaking out, in
their a:nal unceremonious style, on the subject of Sir
E. PEEL And his Conservative Government. They
are always in a ferment about this period of the year,
when the anniverory of the battle of the Boyne
com.as round, which they seem to consider as the
most g:sorious military achievement recorded in
the annals a history, and it revires the utmost
efforts of their' sober an more pro*-14ent leaders
to keep them witin tho hounds ot pro-
of the 4 effervescing
piety. At a public meeLng
Orangemen, which took place ou,Alonday last At the
o
Rotunda in Dublin, for the purpose of commem-
rating their great battle, their incorrigible party pre-
judices, which would appear to be engrained Into
their very nature, and which can no more be roo
out of
,them than an zEthit,p•can be washed white,
were manifested io the boldest rna•nner possible, not
in by a host of bigoted orations, in which each
speaker, whether lay or clerical, vied with the other
In virulence of sentiment and expregston; but by
such flagrant party toasts as "Protestant Ascendancy'
r—which every one knows is synonyumus with the

ascendancy of despotism, corruption, and bigotry in
their most shameless form—" The Orange Societies of
Ireland," of which the illustrious ERNEST of Hanover
is, ta. was, the head; the " Ten Bishops Restored,"
which means that the Established Church in the
sister-country should be rendered a still greater
nuisance than it is at present ; and lastly," Scriptural
education," which, however plausibly th s toast may
sound, and however inoffensive it may appear, implies
neither more nor less than that the education of
all classes of Irishmen should be vested exclusively in
the hands of Protesiant pastors and masters, in order
that another " heavy blow and great discourage-
ment"—as Lord MiLsouRNE would say—may be in-
flicted on the long suffering millions in Ireland who
profess the Catholic faith. But if the toasts of these
desperate partisans of a worn-out system were offen-
sive and intolerant in their character, the appeals
made to their passions were, if possible, still
worse ; and one of the speakers, after abusing
Sir ROBERT PEEL, in terms borrowed from the un-
savoury vocabulary of Billingsgate, went on to ob-
serve :—" the miserable and incompetent Government,
now reigning over them, after having supported
Popery in every other part of Europe, were now
about to put in force what Mr. WYSE calls the Orange
Procession Act. Oh, they little knew the force and
current of Protestant feeling, if they considered that
an Act of Parliament could extinguish the glorious
principle of its life. There were a hundred thousand
Protestants ready, if the tide of anarchy should con-
tinue to advance, and at length assail the
last bulwarks of the Church and Constitution, to raise
once more a Nassau, and prepare once more to cross
the Boyne." The meaning of this passage—that is
to say, if any meaning can be extracted from it—is,
that if Government shall decide on making any fur-
ther concessions to the cause of liberal govern-
ment in Ireland, they, the Irish Protestants, will
assemble their thousands in arms, and resist all
such concessions by open, bare-faced violence ? A 3
this swaggering threat was an after-dinner one, its in-
spiration may easily be conjectured; and indeed so
outrageously absurd is it, so faithful a copy of the
BompASTES FuRIOSO style of bombast, that
we should scarcely have considered it worthy even
of a passing notice, had it not strictly illustrated
the character of the Irish Orangemen. Un-
taught by experience, untamed by the humiliat-
ing reverses they have encountered since the
passing of the Catholic Emancipation Bill, these men
are just as bigoted just as arbitrary and self-
opinionated as they were in the good old ELDON
times, when the game was in their own hands—the
ball at their feet—and Protestant Ascendancy was
the order of the day in Ireland. While the world
about them has been in progress, they alone have
either stood stock-still, gazing about them, like
STDINE'S scullion, " with a foolish faze of wonder,"
or else, when forced into reluctant motion by the irre-
sistible pressure of events, have taken two steps back-
ward for every one they have taken forward. Verily
your Irish Orangeman is a queer creature. He has
scarcely one sympathy or opinion in common with
the age in which he lives, and which he can-
not be brought to comprehend. His mind dwells
exclusively on the past, hating the present, and
filled with distrust of the future. It is vain to
tell him that it is his duty, not less than his interest,
to concede something to the altered character of the
age, and that other men, far more influential than
himself, have done the same ; such reasoning is
wholly lost on his obtuse, purblind faculties, and he
exhibits, in consequence, the humiliating spectacle of
bigotry without power, and perseverance without
hope.

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We entreat the public attention to a circular, which
will be found in another column, addressed, by the
Committee of the Society for the Emancipation of
Industry, to the Members of the House of Commons,
entreating their instant "attention to the consequences
which must ensue from the Bank of England Charter
Bill passing through Parliament in its present state." It
is a well-timed appeal to that House—in which we
fear, however, this fatal measure is destined to run
its full course, perhaps this very evening, for which
we see the third reading is fixed. But prior to the
Bill being carried up to the House of Lords—
a tribunal from whose greater sagacity in the conduct
and investigation of all measures immediately affect-
ing the monetary resources of the country, we look
forward with some confidence to extensive modifica-
tions, if not the ultimate rejection of the scheme,—
it is well that Sir ROBERT PEEL should have been
afforded this last opportunity of reconsidering the
enactments he is calling on the Legislature to pass. It
will not be in his power to plead hereafter that the erro-
neous principle of his Bill, and its inevitably disastrous
operation, (if passed into a law), had not been suf-
ficiently or clearly brought under his consideration.
The " circular" before us is a most able paper,
-xhibiting, in a few short paragraphs, not only the
demonstration of the errors of principle and the prac-
tical tendencies to which we allude ; but a rationale
of the whole theory of our currency system since
1819; of its inherent elements of disorganisation and
disturbance ever since ; and of their indefinite and
ruinous aggravation under this Bill of 1844. This
circular is signed by Mr. SPOTTISWOODE, the Chair-
man of the Society, and forms an honourable testi-
mony to the unremitting and intelligent exertions of
that gentleman to indue Parliament to discharge a
duty which it certainly has not hitherto performed—
in giving to the Bill in question a much more search-
ing, impartial, and dispassionate consideration than
it has found from the House of Commons, owing
_either to the timidity et that assembly in dealing
with great administrative questions of this nature;
or to the overwhelming influence which Sir ROBERT
has managed to eriliStlhere in support of his scheme,
but without reference to its merits—if any could bZ
predicated of it !

Accounts have been received from Naples, dated
the 22d ult., announcing the total defeat of the Italian
emigrants, and the two brothers BANDEIRA, who left
Corfu on the 12th, and disembarked on the 16th on
the coast of Calabria.' On the 19th, they were at-
tacked by a party of the Royal troops at Belvedere,
in the province of Cantajarra. The commander of
the municipal guard and a gensd'arme were killed.
After this success the insurgents continued their march
to St. Giovani-in-flori, on the road to Cocenza. At
the distance of two leagues from St. Giovani they fell
in with another party cif tho Royalist troops, who at-
tacked them, and the result was that three of the in-
surgents were killcd, two were wounded, and four-
teen were taken prisoners. The rest took to flight.
Their object was to release the political prisoners de-
tained at Cocenza.