The Sun.
London, England, 1845-08-18 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON,

direct legal impediments in the way of
assembling :I of bodies constituted 1;14e the
Orange Association ; and as subsequently eetie
guishing their legal existence altogether. Nothieg can
be more paternal or more w ise than the answer oi li"‘ I.g
NV iLLIADI IV. to the address of the Commons.' Ti e
King said, " that he willingly assented to their pi ayer,
that he would take such measures as might seem exe..
dient for the effectual discouragement of Orange lodges,
andj generally of all political societies, excluding per-
sons of a different religious: faith, using secret signs
and symbols, and acting by means of associated
branches." The statutes declare that such: societies
formed with such objects are ipsofacto illegal. Yet the
members of this Orange body—of these " boys," as
Lord GEORGE LOFTUS called them, in the fervour of his
recognition—these affiliated societies, with their em-
blems and party colours and their military bands, were
all of them, in the most ostentatious and offensive mari-
ner possible, paraded on the 11 th of August. Do the
Irish Orangemen, who claim a monopoly of Irish
loyalty, and practically assert a* exclusive at-
tachment to the throne and the institutions
of the moaarchy—do they consider the evidence of that
loyalty and the proof of this attachment to consist in
this contemptuous disregard of the expressed wishes of
a SOVEREIGN whose affection for Ireland, and Irish in-
terests, surpassed that which had been evinced by any
of his predecessors on the throne ;—in this open and
undisguised violation of an Act of that Imperial Legis-
lature, of whose integrity and supremacy they are the
most eager champions ? Truly an Irish " dernonstra-
t;on" this, of deference to the wishes of the Crown, and
of dutiful respect for the authority of Parliament! Mr.
Lucas writes to Mr. WATSON, with equal force and
justice, thus:—" The law being thus unequivocal, and
the sense of the Legislature thus deliberately pro-
nounced, you have, nevertheless, thought fit, while
bearing the commission of the peace, and the office of
Deputy-Lieutenant for the county of Antrim, to attend
and act as chairman of a meeting "—at which the reso-
lutions already noticed were passed. He proceeds—" As
a Deputy-Lieutenant you should be an aid to the Lieu-
tenant of your county in all lawful measures tending to
preserve its peace. You have encouraged asseinblice,
the result of which, in an adjoining county, has been::
formidable affray, attended with loss of life."
After so clear an exposition of the folly (to use tic
mildest term) into which Mr. WATSON had been betrayed,
and such practical, tangible evidence of the evils resultii
from the singular want of judgment he had manifestee:
in dealing with the Lisburn resolutions, as had been sup-
plied by the Enniskillen raree-show, and the political
parsons, and the partizan-bands—is not the last phase of
Irish-Orange fatuity almost inconceivable, which we
find, by our latest accounts, has been exhibited in
the preliminary feting and honoring of the ex-Deputy
Lieutenant ? A number ;of ultra- Orange leaders, and
among them we perceive (with more regret than surprise)
is Earl RODEN are bent on bearing public testimony to their
estimation of Mr. WATSON'S constancy and sufferings in
the great cause, which, of old, had the distinguished honor
to reckon the present King of HANOVER for its " Pon-
tifex Maximus," or its " Grand Master" at any rate.
From the circumstance of seeing that men like Lord
RODEN are committing themselves to this illegal and
most ill-omened counter-movement, we are more than
ever impressed with the serious nature of the conse-
quences in which the unchained spirit that has called up
the Enniskillen demonstration may, ere long, involve the
people of Ireland. It is truly melancholy to find the
English Government (giving them credit, as we are wil
ling to do, for a sincere desire to do more than conciliate
the affections of that country—namely, to merit them 1,3
the adoption of a system of practical amelioration and
equality throughout all the departments of the public
service) —to find that Government thus check-
mated, as it were, by the blundering zeal and
heated party spirit, and religious intolerance,
of its own servants and magistrates,—and even by
officers directly representing, in their particular distric:s,
the authority of the Crown. On the other hand, no
candid person can rise from a perusal of Mr. LUCAS'S
letter to Mr. WATSON without a feeling of profound re-
spect for the enlightened firmness of the Lord Lieutenant
in so promptly and emphatically repressing the first
outbreak of this incendiary zeal, and for the tone of
severe, but dignified expostulation, with which the Irish
Secretary has conveyed the determination which his
Excellency has arrived at, in this case, to the offending
magistrate. It is oily from pereeverance in a stern and
uncompromising assertion of these principles of political
justice anti impartiality in her Majesty's Viceroy, that
we can venture to indulge in any one hopeful augury of
the future peace or prosperity of Ireland.

Accounts have been riceived at St. Petersburgh which
state that there had been a heavy fall of snow in the
Caucasus between the Ifidi and 25th of Jute. It is
add,..11 that the movements of the Russian troops had not
been discontinued.

The Wurzburgh Gazette states that Queen VICTORIA,
on her return from Coburg, will pass a night at Bamberg
and Wurzburgh, and that it is probable the King c,f
BAVARIA will have an interview with her MAJESTY.
Letters from Vienna declare that the StaVs of
Bohemia have obtained an extension of their representa-
tives of the burgess class, fourteen ,towns having been
granted the privilege of sending representatives to the
Diet.

Madrid papers to the 9th have been received. Ac
cording to an official bulletin just received from St. Se
bastian, the QUEEN was to quit that place on the 16th
for Mondragon, where she was to take the Santa-Agueda
waters, and remain till the 25th of August. Her MA-
JESTY was then to proceed to Bilbao, and thence to
Pampeluna, whither the Duke and Duchess DE NEMOURS
were expected to arrive on the 4th of September, or
thereabouts. Troops had left. Madrid on the 6th for the
northern provinces.
The decree for the convocation of the Cortes is to ap-
pear in the Gaceta towards the end of the month. The
Carlists in the Basque provinces are in high spirits,
as a general belief exists there that everything is
arranged for the marriage of the Queen and the Count
of MONTEMOLIN. Some of them even go so far as to
assert that it will take place at Pampaluna during a
visit of the Duc DE NEMOURS. We are not, however,
inclined to attach much credit to these rumours. The
Basques are in great trepidation as to the fate of their
fueros—the Political Chief having of bis own proper
authority installed the prefecture, an act which is a
complete violation of the,fueros. A strong protest has
been drawn up against this act and transmitted to the
Government. General RolicALl is spoken of as the pro-
bable successor of General CONCHA. in Catalonia.

It would appear as if at length it was intended that
something should be done for the unfortunate bond-
holders. The Heraldo says—

" The direction of the Treasury has been ordered to pay
something to the active and passive classes of the State
creditors. Such events take place so very seldom, that we
loudly announce this one, to console and encourage the parties
interested, or in order that the rest of the nation may celebrate
such a phenomenon. To effect this payment the Minister of
Finances has been compelled to apply to the San Fernando
Bank, and to entreat it to advance 14,000,000 reals on the
consignation of September."
The Funds were rather firmer to-day. Three per
Cents. rose for time ; they closed at 34 cash, and
31 at 60 days: 11,000,000 done. Fives, 22 5-16tha at
60 days: 1,000,000 done. Passives, 7 3-16Lhs at 60
days: 1,000,000 done.

• main a shadow of competition. This being the ca,c, the
GAvernteent and the Attorney-General canno• a.•uiti insti-
tuting proceedir,gs aaiust the combination."
Th,: same journal starts " that Louis Philippi- ha. several
times advised .\arame Akin, a (Queen Al2:r;4 thris,ina 1 to iv
turn to Fiance. 1 is also very positively sated that st,p, have
bet n %el y actively and perseveringly taken to er.suri- au:luring,
ioett, ref, the Duke de Moutpensier end the Infanta Donna
Luisa Fernand& "
The Funds of nearly all species gave way on the Paris
Bourse on Thursday. Yesterday being ‘• Ladyday in harvest,"
and one of the four great holidays of France, the Bourse was
to remain closed.
The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on
Thursday at 84f. 35c. ; the Five per Cents. at 121 f. 85c. ;
Orleans Railroad Shares 1,2766 25c. ; Rouen, 1,052 f. 50c. ;
Vierzon, 772 f. 50c. ; Havre, 897 f. 50c ; Avignon, 1,057 f. 50c. ;
Basle, 281 f. 25c. ; Spanish Actives, 36i ; ditto Three per
Cents, 38%.
The following are the quotations for the new lines :
Orleans and Bordeaux, 2301. premium ; Troyes and Mon-
tereau, 57f. 50c. ; Paris and Lyons, (Laffitte), 35f.; ditto
(Calon), 7f. 50c. ; ditte (Ganneron), 12f. 50c. ; Northern Line
(Laffitte), 55f. ; ditto (Rosamel), 24f. ; ditto Pepin i.ehal-
leur, 14f. ; ditto (Decan), 81. 50c. ; Tours and Nantes
(Mackenzie),:lsf. ; ditto (Drouillard), par ; ditto (O'Neill),
7f. 50c.; ditto (Jacques Lefevre), par ; Lyons and Avig-
non (Lecointe), 201. ; ditto (Talabot), 401. ; ditto (Cosn-
pagnie Meridionale), 7f. 50c. ; Bordeaux and Toulouse
(Mackenzie), 1 ; ditto and Cette (Espeleta), 15f. ; Creil
and St. Quentin (Carette), 6f. ; ditto (Colbert), If. ;
Paris and Strasbourg (Ganneron), 12f. 50c.
LYONS, AUG. 11.-Avignon and Marseilles, 1,085 f., end
of August ; Paris and Orleans, 1,2971., ditto ; Paris and
Rouen, 1,078 f., ditto; Orleans and Vierzon, 7911, ditto;
Orleans and Bordeaux, 692 f., ditto; Montereau, 5601., ditto.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT TIIE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, AUG. 15.
Boulogne and Amiens.. - Orleans and Bordeaux 11%
Bordeaux &Mediterran - Over Yssel
Bordeaux and Toulouse - Paris & Lyons (Lafitte) 3%
Do. and Cette - Ditto ( Gann eron's). -
Dutch Rhenish ...
Dendre Valley .... - •Paris and 0r1ean5......-
Dieppe & Paris Junct. - Paris and Rouen 414
Dijon and Mulhouse ... - Paris and Strasburg
East Indian ........ 0% (Ganneron's)
(in Northern of France Do. (Cornpte de L'Est) 2
(Laffitte's) -
Ditto (Rosamel's) - -
Great Paris and Lyons - Royal North of Spain. 214
Jamaica Junction - Sambre and Meuse .... 8
Do. South Mdlnd June - Strasbourg and Basle . -
Louvain and Jemeppe 4% Tours and Nantes
Lyons and Avignon - (M'Kenzie's)
Luxembourgh.. 2% Do. (Lefebvre's) -
Namur and Liege 4% Verona and Ancona.... -
Orleans and Vierzon 164 West Flanders 3%

We have inserted, to-day, a letter on the .4-uhjvct of
claims made by engineers to lines which they profi-ss to
have surveyed, and therefore claim to engr.ss, should
the formation of any line through that country he tifer-
wards determined upon. Such a claim is sufficiently
absurd upon the face of it ; but as the 1 tter deals,pith
it in a forcible way, and bears the name of the writer,
we have given insertion to it in our columns.
REPRESENTATION OF SOUTHWARK.—(SATURDAY.)
As yet electioneering matters in this borough have not
taken any very tangible form, the only reel business
having been done by the friends of Sir William Moles-
worth at the meeting last night. Today Mr. Filcher,
the only other candidate yet declared, held a private
meeting of his friends at his own residence, out of
which the nucleus of a Committee was formed, and
a room taken for their use at the Bridge
Hotel. Up to a late period in the afternoon, however,
no formal meeting bad taken place. Rumours were
afloat yesterday, that Arthur K. Barclay, Esq., of the
celebrated firm of Barclay and Co., intended coming for-
ward in the Tory interest. In answer to this, we may
say that at a private meeting of his friends, held
yesterday afternoon, it was agreed that no gentle-
man connected with that family would contest
the borough. The field is, therefore, at preseLt
between Sir William Molesworth and Mr. Pilcht,r ;
and if the friends of the latter show no greater activity
Limn they have already done in forwarding the interests
of their candidate, they will stand but little chance in
contending against such an active and organiz-d body es
constitute the Committee on the other side.