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London, England, 1823-11-27 00:00:00

NEW ORANGE SYSTEM

The Irish Orange Association has adopted a new sys-
tem of rules and regulations, arranged by the Grand
Lodge of Ireland, assembled in Dublin on the 4th of
August, 1823. To these rules they have prefixed a short
decttration, and a copy of the oaths of allegiance, su-
premacy, and abjuration. According to the new rules,
no other oaths are to be taken by the Members of this
Association, nor any secret to be kept, except the pass-
words by which they are to be known to one another as,
members of the same body. The oaths are to be taken
before Magistrates, and not privately administered.--!
The present officers of the Grand Lodge of Ireland are
as follows:

Grand Master--The Right Hon. Charles Henry St. John, Earl
O'Neil, K.S. P. Ste.
Deputy-Grand Master—. Colonel William lillacker.
Grand Treasurer—Sir Abraham Bradley King, Bart.
Deputy-Grand Secretary—Daniel Fred. Ryan, Esq. Barrister.
Deputy-Grand Treasurer—William Stoker, Esq.
Grand Chaplain—The Rev. John Graham. A.M.
Assistant Grand Chaplains—The Rev. Sir Harcourt Lees, Bart.
the Ttev.John I. Beresford, A.B. and the Rev. S. H.Steward, A.B.

The following is the declaration of the Lodge
.g This Association is formed by persons desiring, to
the utmost of their power, to support and defend his
Majesty, King GEORGE the Fourth, the Constitution
and Laws of the Country, and the succession to the
throne in his Majesty's Illustrious House, being Protes.
lent, for the defence of their person and property, and
for the maintenance of the peace of the country; and
for these purposes the members hold themselves obliged,
when lawfully called upon, to be at all times ready to
assist the civil and military powers, in the just and law-
ful discharge of their duty. They associate also in ho-
nour of King William 111. Prince of Orange, whose
name they bear, whose glorious memory they hold in
reverence, and whose illustrious' deeds they annually
commemorate, tending as they did to the restoration of
civil and religious liberty, anikof theipure form of reli-
gion established in these realms. This is, exclusively, li
a Protestant Association; yet detesting an intolerant
spirit, it admits no persons into its brotherhood who are
not well known to be incapable of persecuting, injur-
ing, or upbraiding any one on account of his religious
opinions; but that their principle is, to aid and assist
every loyal subject of every religious description, by
protecting him from violence and oppression."

The Marquis de Marialva, the Ambassador of Por-
tugal at the Court of France, died on Saturday evening,
at six o'clock, of an apoplectic attack, the first symptoms
of which manifested themselves on Thursday evening.
Notices have Just been sent round to the French Con-
suls in the Spanish ports to seize upon all the French
merchant vessels captured by the Spanish privateers
dui ing the late contest, on the ground that the captures
are illegal. This seizure is preparatory to the restoration
of the vessels to; their former owners. Of course the
cargoes are irreparably gone.

Yesterday morning, pursuant to the will of the late
Sir MARTIN BOWES, who served the office of Warden
in the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths in the year
1566, the Court of that Company, attended by their
beadles and gown-men, proceeded from their Hall to
St. Mary Woolnoth's Church, where a Sermon was
preached by the Rev. Mr. Buena, according to annual
custom. At the conclusion, they returned to their Hall,
and partook of an elegant dinner, the_whole of which
was served up on a new service of plate

One of the grounds of the appeal of Castaing to the
Court of C4ssation is said to be the following:—When
the Jury retired to consider their verdict, it was the
opinion of more than the majority that the mink de-
Ikti (the act of poisoning) had not been proved, and con-
sequently that the prisoner could not be convicted, what-
ever might be their moral presumption of guilt. In this
difficulty, it is said that a•propusition was made by one of
the Jurors, that the, guilt should be declared by only a
simple majority, which would leasie the decision to the
.ludges, who,by joining the minority, might acquit, or by
refusing to do so, condemn the accused. Thus the Jury
fancied that their consciences would be quieted, as all
the responsibility would ;est upon the decision of the
Judges, the verdict of the Jury being, without it, a non-
entity. But what must those consciences be made of
which could leave to the Judges (the official prosecutors,
the avowed enemies of the accused, which by the French
law they are) the means of outraging law and morality,
which the institution of, the Jury was intended to pro-
tect?—Paris ktter.