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, with the showy and vain-glorious ceremonials of
miversary. We do nr,t rate the ethical

graces or the common sense of the Irish Pro
very high, but we do not place it so low—

stant party
so entirely at

) suppose that its object
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that gratification which is necessarily
min of the vanquished. To sanctify the odious
ions of a civil war—to remember a victory at the
interval of a century and a half—to recall that for that
period a nation has been at the feet of the conqueror—to
by a do this when the conqueror- is one-seventh of the popula-

year the ancient sore of British interference—and, lastly,
to suggest to the civilised world how long and to how
little purpose Ireland has been England's booty, are all
acts of mere insanity—nay, insanity is a mild and apolo-
getic word to express a course for which no parallel can
be found in the worst corruptions of either Christian or
heathen society, excepting only on one supposition, viz.,
that proceedings otherwise so absurd and so gratuitously
offensive, are felt to be a necessary demonstration of
strength. The Protestant party lives with a rebellion
hanging over its head. It is, or what comes to the same
thing, it believes itself to be, the British garrison in an
unfriendly, h —1 and d

Jecause a conquereu .egraded country,
It is, therefore, most delicately sensitive of the vacillations
of Irish prosperity, Irish contentment, and Irish allegi-

indication of a comirg storm. The revival of orange
processions is a precautionary movement, suggested by
the instinct of self preservation.

There is deep truth in these observations, both as
applied to orangeism in Ireland, and in England as
wcll. Orangemen are not banded together to gloat
over the memory of past triumphs. Their object is
not to irritate or to taunt their opponents, but to
show alike to them and to the fainting and dis-
couraged members of their own faith, that they are
still resolved to defend that faith, and the liberties
which have been guaranteed to them, from the hand
of aggression. " The revival of orange processions
is a precautionary movement, suggested by the
instinct of self-preservation."

We may ourselves, and do deprecate orange
processions, in Ireland as well as in England. But
we cannot shut our eyes to the long course of for-
bearance which Orangemen have submitted to,
without a murmur, amidst provocations the most
insulting, and betrayal the most signal and glaring.
Have not the tolerance which has been shown to
rebelliou, agitation, and the abandonment to its
insolent dictates of stronghold after stronghold of
those institutions which their fathers built up, and
which they have themselves been taught to revere,
proclaimed to them trumpet-tongued, the fact that
it is to their own hands that they must ultimately
trust for protection ? Have not the threats of
demagogues, and the avowed organization of their
followers, for treasonable objects—have not many a
deed of blood shed with impunity, and the fear of
many more to come, taught them that the day may
arrive, and is perhaps not far distant, when they
will he called upon to decide Whether they will
submit to he exterminated, one by one, by the knife,
or by the bullet of the midnight assasin, or take
their lives into their own keeping, since the law no
longer performs its duties ? They have been so
tu;ht by bitter experience. They have a right to
come to these conclusions. If they are wrong, or
if they have demonstrated their resolves prema-
turely, be the onus of whatever unhappy results
have followed, or remain to follow, upon the heads
of those statesmen who hold out the hand of con-
ciliation, and almost of fraternization, to their
enemies, and the enemies of the British connexion,
and of the Church of the religion of their fathers,
whilst they discourage and frown upon loyalty and
truth. If Sir Robert Peel and his colleagues want
to disarm Orangemen of their fears, and to repress
their precautionary attitude, let them hold the scales
of justice more evenly—let them GOVERN Ireland,
repre s its tumults, put down the demagogues
whose exciting appeals convulse it, break up its
Ribbon concla es, and render the law one in which
a Protestant may hold his life, his property, and his
religious faith, without the fear of outrage; and,
depend upon it, neither the Viceregal-lodge nor
Downing-street will be startled with another orange
demonstration in Ireland or in England.

The choice of two courses is before them; and,
however their hireling press may rail at the orange
body, or Popery wince at the undue precipitation of
the crisis, the necessity of their position is of their
own bringing about. Government must either
resolve promptly upon the course which we have
above pointed out; they must eitliQr maintain the
integrity of the empire and its Protestantism, and
put down violence and sedition in Ireland, by the
strong arm of the law; or they must leave the two

terises his ordinary ministrations. Therefore it is. that we
have .advanced a claim upon him for something further
still ; and this, the rather, that we have reason to
believe him to be already engaged upon a work
which formed the substance of his Thursday evening
lectures for a portion of last winter in St. Jude's, on the
Church. A work on such a subject, argued on Scrip+ural
grounds, developed and adjusted into thelulness of Scrip-
tural integrity and proportion, in addition to its peculiar
seasonableness at the present crisis, would be sure to
find a speedy and a lasting level among the standard and
established text books of our divinity classes.
Such a work as this, and nothing short of it, we ex-

pect from Canon M'isieile : and we are not without
sanguine hopes that bearing on its title page the endorse-
ment of a dignitary in the church, it may find entr krice
and welcome in quarters, where else it had been over-
looked, while it proceeded simply from the incn:nbent of
St. Jude's, or even of St. Paul's, Prince's park.

We have mentioned that these honorary canonries are
offices created under the act passed at the recommenda.
tion of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for Increasing

the Endowments of Small Livings, by appropriating to
them, as they fall vacant, the funds of the old canonries.
Of these new offices, ten are in the gift of the Bishop of
Chester, two of which are to be appropriated each year
until the whole are disposed of. The first two were con-

ferred last year, one upon the Chancellor Ra,kes, and the
other upon the Rev. Mr. Thurlow, rector of Malpas—
both unexceptionable appointments. The third has been
conferred upon the Rev. H. M'Neile, and marks the high
rank which he holds in the esteem of his venerable dioce-
san. We are informed that the letter of the bishop, in-
closing the appointment, was one of so highly gratifying

the rev. gentleman, and certainly to endear to him the
more both the giver and the gift. It is stated that the
fourth appointment is to be conferred upon the Rev.
Hugh Stowell, of Manchester—a kindred spirit.
The installation, as we have stated,took place on Sunday,
in the cathedral, Chester. The reverend gentleman him.
self read prayers, immediately after which the ceremony
of collation was gone through (the Archdeacon of Chester
officiating) with great impressiveness. As some•wrong
impressi ns may poss'bly arise with respect to the duties
of the new office, we may state that the reverend canon
will not have the regularity of his ministrations here

sensibly impaired. His new office will entitle him to a
vote in the chapter of the diocese, which we know will be
employed_ for the advancement of the church and the

honour of God in the land ; and he will, from time to
time, have an opportunity of pouring out his powerful
testimony to the truth from the pulpit of Chester cathedral.
This notice has far exceeded our intended limits. We
congratulate Mr. M`Neile on this first step in the path of
deserved promotion. We rejoice in common with the
entire circle of his friends—a circle that is only bounded
by the limits of an extensive acquaintance. We.attempt
not to praise him ; he needs no commendation of ours ;
his praise is in all the churches ; his true and sure reward
will be in the fruits of his labours, acknowledged and ac-
cepted in the day of the Lord Jesus. We tender our
most respectful thanks to our good bishop, for the prin-
ciple he has affirmed in this appointment, as well as for
this additional Mond of willing obligation, by which he
has secured our affection and esteem. We congratulate
the Church in general, upon the accession to her highest
ranks of the eminent individual, who reflects more lustre
upon his station, than the highest office in her adminis-
tration, could now by possibility confer upon him.

LAST NIGHT'S MAIL.

Lord Canterbury (late speaker of the House of Com-
mons, then Mr. Manners Sutton,) expired yesterday af-
ternoon, (Monday,) in a fit of apoplexy.
The preamble of the South Western London Extension
Railway Bill was yesterday declared proved by the Lords
Committee.

MARK LANE CORN MARKET-YESTERDAY

There was a moderate supply of Wheat from Essex, Kent,
and Suffolk, this morning, which was cleared off by the millers,
at an advance of Is. to 25. per quarter; free foreign was herd for
rather more money, but sales were made slowly at the prices
asked last week. The accounts from several parts of the country
represent the Wheat as badly set, and suffering from maggot, in
consequence of which there was rather more inquiry for bonded
and f.o.b. cargo. s. and in the sales effected 2s. above the rates
of last Monday were ohtdined. In Barley, Beans, and Peas,
we observe no alteration. The show of Oats being large,
huyers evinced great reluctance to purchase, and sales were
with difficulty effected, at a decline of Is. per quarter from the
prices of this day sen'night. or, the out-of-conditioned fine and
light Irish qualities. In Hamburg and the Baltic prices of
Wheat continue to advance, and Ha:. available stocks in Rostock,
St ttin, and Wismar, collectively, are represented as under
30,00 G quarters.