The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-07-21 00:00:00

THE ORANGE INSTITUTION

We gave, in our last, a brief report of the celebration
of the 12th of July, by several of the lodges of the Grand
Protestant Association of Loyal Orangemen, but time
precluded our giving the excellent speeches delivered on
the occasion. The following address, however, delivered
by Mr. John. Payne, at the dinner of Lodge 24, at the
Aigburth Hotel, contains so much that is calculated to
exhibit the real principles of Orangeisro, and the designs of
Orangemen, that we publish it for the information of the
general public, and the edification of our Protestant
readers.

" I have joined the Orange Society, believing they
have no desire but to seek in concert the maintenance and
diffusion of those great principles of the British consti-
tution on which they believe the national welfare to de-
pend. Also, they hold it as a fundamental principle of
the British Constitution, that there ought to he no con-
nexion between the state of England and the Church of
Rome (cheers); that such connexion is opposed to our
civil polity, and to our religious principles. At the Re-
formation, the state and Church of England renounced
their alliance with the Church of Rome. The English
people recorded then their deliberate protest against its
errors and encroachments. (Loud applause.) It was a
protest made calmly : it was meant to be final. To grant,
therefore, endowments to the Church of Rome—to make
the Romish priesthood pensioners of the English state—
to recognise their influence as an instrument of our civil
government—to tax the people of England for their pay-

au altaitiG,LUtal pviiii, ui vices (MIS stair case nas ever peen ment—are all contrary to our Protestant principles and
swolmticelwi,hatthoeuelgdhaapderehoampspacrlaatsi
considered, with its large and lofty dome, one of the finest our Protestant laws. (Loud cheers.) The members
in Europe. It was before done interiorly in plain stonework, of the Orange Society feel it to be their duty to
correct,
appearance.
The a uphold
her
integrity
eEhnargalaentedr.andThleryeleaanndneint
classically
heavyiy
work ofestan
renovation in this instance has been entrusted to and will not concur with those who assail the establish-
Mr. Inghram, of
London and Birmingham. whose work ment of the Church of England. They regard her as
is approaching to completion, and, discarding all local pre- most effective for the teaching of truth, and as the great
judice, is, we think, truly beautiful in design andof social .
execu- guarantee our welfare • for this has been the
tion. The stair case is about 351 feet square below, and marked characteristic of the English constitution, that in
the height from the base to the top of the dome (interi- the midst of great political changes, it has kept firm the
orgy) is 106 feet; the whole lighted by four immense
balance
of our liberties, and has joined popular rights
Venetian windows under the cupola. Mr. Inghram's men with social order. (Hear, hear.) This is due to the
have been engaged upon it for four months. The wall- character of the English people, formed in a great
work is beautifully painted in imitation of variegated degree, as we believe, by the influence of a Scrip.
Sienna marble, in large blocks, so veined, polished, and tural Church—a church which blends the lessons
transparent in appearance, and so cold to the touch, that of truth with the interests of the world, and restrains the
one has difficulty in believing it not to be the real stone passions of men by the words and warnings of God. This
itself. The Corinthian columns supporting the spacious system it is at once our interest and our duty to maintain.
upper landing, equally faithfully represent variegated On the principles which should regulate the Government,
jasper of the richest hues and of the most glossy surface. the Orange Society hold these opinions. They regard it
The basis and capitals of these resemble Parian marble, as the duty of the state to extend justice to all her sub-
and the latter will be touched with gold. jects, to impose no penalties on the Romanists, (except
The bannisters of the stairs are entirely gilded, and the where the Protestant Church is concerned,) and to inflict
ends of the steps, which will alone be seen when the car- no injustice on the Protestants, to look to the first
pets are down, appear to be also of statuary marble, as with deep interest, as a people sorely wronged by
also does the framework of each of the doors. The carved those who have long misled them ; to look to the
ornamental band under each side of the steps is also gilded, latter with cordial sympathy and support, as placed
or rather enammelled, on a white marble ground. in these times, in circumstances of peculiar trial, yet still,
The interior of the cupola, however, in reality, " tops" the firm friends of the British constitution. They con-
all, and has a magnificent and enlarging effect, appearing ceive that every one should enjoy the full rights of freedom,
like the interior of a huge baloon. In the centre there is and that over all without distinction, should be asserted
a circle, grounded with ultra-marine blue. The rest of the supremacy of the law. These are some of the princi-
the dome is divided into radiating compartments, five ples which the Orange Society regard as all important, not
Panels high, and twenty-eight round, making, in all, 140. speculative, but practical, the foundation of our public for-
The backs of these are painted in vermilion and lake, and tunes. For if we duffer the faith of the country to fail,*and
the mouldings are edged with gold. Arabesque orna- I her morals to become corrupt, we prepare, by an unerring
ments fill the centre of each panel of the dome. The two law, the national decline. For, where national religion
flat styles of each panel are finished in two sbades of cream ; decays, the public morals become disord d , reckless
colour ; the outer styles in white. Arabesque ornaments, 1 morals cause restless politics, d, by the shocks of fre-
an
'tar t '
in oil colours, and done on paper, are also introduced in quent change, the confidence of capi is '.4 is disturbed,
and the returns of industry are deranged. Al therefore,
the panels, tops, and sides of the windows..l,
'titan-,
The whole of the veined marble work is enamelled paint- have a deep personal interest in mai log these impor-
ing. There will be eight massive gas chandeliers below 1 tant principles. And now, to conclude, we have the strong
the staircase, which will show all the etching to advantage, conviction that great evils are at har,a, and that there may
aided by the clustered and gilded gas-light pillars round 1 yet be time, by united exertion, to avert them. We would
the balustrade above, and the dished lights, still higher, i call upon our countrymen to adhere to these guiding princi-
that surround the circular cornice at the spring of the pies, and to act in concert according to preserve them,
dome. and putting forth their best efforts, and calmly committing
Taking the entire building, as it will be completed and the issue to Him with whom alone are the destinies of
furnished for the reception of the consort of
our beloved nations. " (Cheers for some time, and Kentish ire.)

THE REAL INTENTIONS OF THE IRISH

REPEALERS.

At a glorification and soforth of " the Repeaiers
of the Custom-house Ward," held in the Northum-
berland-buildings, Dublin, on Sunday week, the
12th instant—Daniel O'Connell, John O'Connell,
M.P., and the rest of the tail being present—a Mr.
Carroll, P.L.G., contrasted a previous meeting in
the same place with the current one thus :

- -
"We then met to offer our condolence to the great
father of his country—to our beloved liberator and his
re.ll"rn rnnrtv.ra in tilair vinincf

we now

meet to celebrate cur triumph over our oppressors.
fIT • PI

" We meet," says Mr. Carroll, " to celebrate our

triumph over our oppressors"—namely, over Sir
Robert Peel and Co. This for Mavnooth ; this for
the increase of the grant to the national anti-scrip-
tural system; this for Mr. Moore's serjeantcy, and.
Mr. Watson's expulsion, and for a loud halloo
against the church—this, " our oppressors." Good!
But hear the great Dan himself :
" Now the Whigs had come into power—he would sup-
port them if they conducted themselves properly, but if
they did not, he would turn them out again. (Loud
cheers.) It was not a Whig government—we annihilated
that party. The Tories destroyed themselves, and the
consequence is, that the present government is a mongrel
of the best kind. Such occurrences have not happened
before in the history of England. Did you read Sic
Rolnut Peel', Lp,f,ech for equ=•iity—the man who was taken
from his father's spinning-jenny, dud sent to preside over
the Orange lodges of Ireland ? Why, be is taking the
gilding off my gingerbread completely. He is quoting
speeches of mine, and appropriating to himself doctrines
which I have spent my life in inculcating. If the Whig*
deviate from the course they propose to pursue, I will
get some tweleepenny nails in the toe of my boot, and
kick the renegades out of office again."

Coarse, but expressive. Admirably conceived.
indeed ! While he threatens the Whigs in futurum,
he spits by suggestion, in passing, on Peel, and
reminds him that he has been removed from office
by the undignified application of the toe of his
(Daniel's) well-nailed brogue. " The Liberator"
speaks as the maker and unmaker of governments.
The Kerry man rules England, thanks to '29 and
Sir Robert Peel. The ball was opened by the chair-
man, James Meade Loughnan, Esq., I'. j. Speak-
ing of the Russell ministry, he said,—

" We may now ask what will they do with the church
property ? O'Connell, with the will of the people, shall
force on England that she has no right to hold it. Vl/4'luy

we not have it appropriated to give glebe lands t;
our parish priests, and make them independent to the
slate ?"

Thanks, again, to Sir Robert Peel ! Mr. Loughnau
of course we don't know, but inasmuch as he has
merely taken up the cue given by Sir Robert, and
admitted as correct by his successor, the thought is
not despicable. Surely this language is unmis-
takeable, and these claims are put forward with
sufficient plainness. Are Englishmen prepared to
yield them ? Let every Protestant look the alterna-
tive in the face; but, in the name of common sense,
let us be one thing or the other,—let us either
maintain and extend our Protestant principles, or
turn Papists, and support the errors of that lament-
able system. But let us not be hypocrites, pro-
nouncing a thing idolatrous to-day and paying for
its maintenance and support to-morrow. Let us be
honest,—let us be Englishmen,—/et us be all of a
piece, and not throughout inconsistent with our-
selves and with the professions of all our past lives.
Surely we ought now to have done with this
wretched pusillanimity; to rise up like Englishmen,
and either pronounce the Reformation a lie, the
Pope a universal Christian potentate, ourselves too
long rebel', and our countrymen all fools,—to rise
up and demand the overthrow of the Church and
of Protestantism, or else, believing as we do, act
consistently with our professions. Let us be one
thing or the other. If Peel and Russell be right,
then is Protestantism a lie, and away with it. If
Popery he an apostasy, let us manfully act accord-
ingly, and say, with M'Ghee,—" Mercy and salva-
tion to Roman Catholics, but no peace with Rome,"

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26th July

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WATERLOO. (new ship,)W. H. ALLEN 1200 tons.
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