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of Parliament, 6 and 7 Will. IV., c. 38 ; to the 2 and 3
Vict., c. 74 ; and to the 7 and 8 Vict., c. 78 ; as, in the
first instance, speciilly directed against, and thro win
direct legal impediments in the way of the
assembling of bodies constituted like the
Orange Association ; and as subsequently extin-
guishing their legal existence altogether. Nothing can
be more paternal or more wise than the answer of King
WILLIAM IV. to the address of the Commons. The
King said, " that he willingly assented to their prayer,
that he would take such measures as might seem expe-
dient for the effectual discouragement of Orange lodges,
and 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 Logos 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 man-
ner possible, paraded on the I 1 th of August. Do the
Irish Orangemen, who claim a monopoly of Irish
loyalty, and practically assert an exclusive at-
tachment to the throne and the institutions
of the monarchy—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
mnst eager ehempions ? Truly an Irish " demonstra-
tion" 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. Yon have encouraged assemblies,
the result of which, in an adjoining county, has been a
formidable affray, attended with loss of life."

After so clear ait exposition of the folly (to use the
mildest term) into which Mr. WATSON had been betrayed,
and such practical, tangible evidence of the evils resulting
from the singular want of judgment he had manifested
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
Pver 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 by
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 districts,
the authority of the Crown. On the other hand, no
candid person can rise from a perusal of Mr. Luces's
letter to Mr. WATSON without a feeling of profound re-
spect for t.ie 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 only from perseverance in a stern and
uncompromising assertion of these principles of political
Justice and 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.

A letter from Athens, of the 30th, says :—" The
Government has just discovered the existence of a plot
in the garrison of Nauplia. Several superior and in-
ferior officers have been provisionally placed under
arrest, and a judicial investigation is now going on. It

appears that the projects of the conspirators are con
nected with the general plans of the Opposition. The
gravest suspicions weigh on certain persons, and the
public waits with impatience the issue of the measures
taken by the Government."
It would appear that the position of the COLETTI
Administra lion is very precarious. Accounts have been
received of the resignation of M. .134.1.1 u, the Minister of
Juatice, and of Itear-Admiral CANARIS, the Minister of
Marine.

A Constantinople journal of the 26th ult. has the fo,

lowing :—" M. BOTTA, the French Consul at Mossoul,
has just arrived at Constantinople, on his way to France,
on leave of absence. M. A. BARROT, Agent and Consul-
General of France in Egypt, who came here a few days
ago with his family, takes his departure to-morrow in
the Eurotas fur Smyrna, whence the war-steamer envier
will convey him to Alexandria. By order of the Porte
a commission has been appointed to inquire into the
conduct of Captains Lambert and Dublin, of the
:,teamers Medzerai Tidjaret and Iscudar, on the occa-
sion of the unfortunate accident which happened on
the 11th instant. in the Black Sea. As both the
captains are Englishmen, the Government has thought
it proper that the commission should be mixed,
and there're it is composed of Mehemet Ali Pacha
President ; Tahyz Bey, Hussein Bey, Motritafa Effendi,
Saofct Effendi, four captains of the Ottoman fleet, the
commanders of the foreign ships stationed at Constan-
tinople, and four captains of English, Austrian, Sar-
dinian, and Greek trading vessels. An official .com-
munication will be made to-day to all the embassies
interested, in order that they may co-operate in forming
the commission of inquiry." It would appear that the
negotiations at Erze:roum for a settlement of the points
iu dispute between Persia and Turkey are not likely to
be brought to a spec dy termination.
Accounts from Cireassia state that Count WORONZOFF
had left Tiflis at the head of 20,000 men, for the pur-
pose of attacking the mountaineers.

The Grand Duke CONSTANTINE was expected at Con,
stantinople, on his return from the Archipelago.

Swiss papers to the 12th have been received. On the
1 tth the Diet at Zurich had resolved by a majority of
14 that the Federal staff officers who took part in the
expedition of the free corps against Lucerne should be
struck offthe roll of the army. The motion was ineffec
,ually opposed by Berne, Argau, and Baleicountry. OB
,he 12th it was moved that a Federal recommenda-
ion be made to Lucerne to pardon the prisoners and
he condemned by default, and to recal all others to the
This proposition, however, s. as rejected.