The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-06-30 00:00:00

CONTEJIPORARF PRESS.

ANNIVERSARY OF THE BATTLE OF THE BOYNE.—We.
beg our Orange bre,pren to believe that we never soli-
cited a favour for ptirselves or others with more earnest-
ness and sin?,eritl than we now entreat of them their at-
tention to the letter of the Earl of Roden on the subject
cf the approaching anniversary celebration of the Battle
of the Boyne, which appeared in a recent numbei-of the,
Mail. Since that document was published, a resolution
of the Grand Orange Lodge. has been passed unani
mously, to which has been appended the letter itself; and.
circulated throughout all the.lodge4 in tire. kingdoiri;—
We agree thoroughly with the latter that " it would be
highly injudicious":--we add injurioup-.--6.4 for,' our breth-
ren to keep up their usual celebration, by walking in
procession With: banners and colorirs"and most anxi-
ously do we unite with the
_former in
.wishing theta to
"abstain from these customary processions.''
.I.lardMUl
graye's conduct., in joining an illegal procession has
placed the protestants andsOrangernen in a position
.of
advantage and triumph, whit they will utterly forfeit
I#.folloWritig,his example; an we further eonsider,-that
the first issue ot:ihe trials lasitear arid.tbe:enggemets
then entered into, with the crown counsel, our brethren
cannot renew these prOcessions without a breach of ho-
nourable understaadiag; of which we conceive no gen-'
tleman, or what is equivalent, no Orangeman can pos-
sibly be guilty.
Our.brethren will find (the popish. press taunting and
insolent enough upon the occasion. But let them ask
themselves what is the object of this?—What, butto in-
volve the loyalprotestant strbjeets of the king in the,
same:discreditable ..dileMma, with theMaelveS,; and to:
throw over Lord Kulgnive.the justifying cloak of a si-
milar breach of the statute on the part of the Orange-
men ? Bat this device 14 too shallow-the
.trick , too
threadbare—to be available against the good sense and
gp64 feeling of
.onr bret6ren: we are persuaded, therer.,
fore, that by their prudence and forbearance it will fail
inits end, and Lord Mulgrave's procession remain tin-
paralleled in its illegality.
We subjoin the ..esolption agreed to• by the: Grand
Lodge, to_ which is 'annexed the letter of Lord Roden,.
faisnerly published :
Committee Rooms, 85, Grafton-street,
••
,•..• . 12th Jane, 1835.
Si.r. and Brother—l have to forward to you the following re-
solution, passed unanimously in the Grand Committee yester-
day, and the annexed letter of the Earl of Roden, to both of
which I beg your prompt attention
"Resolved—That couceiving.it would be highly injudicious
in ,our brethren to celebrate the approaching Ist and 12th of
July, by,walking in procession with banners and colourp, we
cause a suiStient number of copies of our brother the Earl of
Rodeo's letter, on the subject, to Alexander. Lindsay, Esq.,
District Master of Rathfriland, to be printed and forthwith
transmitted to-every lodge in Ireland." 1,
Yours faithfully,
—Dublin &ening Mail.

WILLIAM SWAN.,
Deputy Grand Secretary.

• The following letter has been addressed to us by Mr.
Rodwell, of Ips-wich:--;
"Sir—The letter addressed to me by M. Rigby Wason,
dated Saturday Morning, and which I for the first time read in
your journal of 'this day, I prestiine to be' a copy of that which
I returned unopened to
.Mr. Wason, on. Saturday afternoon,
within live minutes after it was left army hOuse, in an envelope,
containing the following lettei,to Mr. Wason :
" Half-past: hour o'clock, Saturday.
"'Sir—l beg to return, yoire letter, this' instant received,
opened, feeling that; as you deOitie id fulfil pint pubfic pledge;
it is due to myself to decline any further direct communication
with you.—l am, Sir, yOurs, &c.