The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-11-06 00:00:00

ORANGISM IN IRELAND.

'We beg the reader's close attention to the fol-
lowing letter from Londonderry •
•
EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM LONDONDF.RRY.
" On the morning of the 22d September, Sir 0. Hill
having arrived at his residence, Brook-hall, near losrm
donderry. the Yeomanry and Rifle Corps, of which be is
Commandant, marched out to pay their respects to him,
accompanied by music, playing all manner of party
tunes, and decorated with Orange insignia. On their
return, in the evening, to the City, they rushed through
the streets, brandishing their swords, and calling out for
the face of a Panist, exclaiming, that they wished to cut
his guts out.' The quiet and peaceable part of the people
fled at their approach, and the Orangemen continued
their outrageous conduct until '2 o'clock in the morning.
" The Catholics of the City, wishing, as far as in
them lay, to carry into effect the gracious intentions
of their King, determined to call a Meeting, and place
the matter under the eye of Government, and according-
ly on Sunday the 30th of September last, a Meeting of
the Catholica of Derry took place in the Chapel, when it
was determined to forward a memorial to Government,
expressive of their gratitude to the. King for his graci-
ous benevolence and kindness, and setting forth the re-
cent conduct of the Orangemen of this City, and praying
that measures might be adopted to spare the Catholic
Inhabitants a repetition of scenes so ill calculated to
further the heneficient intentions of the Monarch, and
offering at the same time to substantiate the facts con-'
tained in their memorial by evidence.
" It was stated on Tuesday, the 23i10f Oct. though
not officially communicated-to the Catholics, that the
matter was to be inquired into by the Brigade Major of
the District, T. Palmer, Esq. at the inspection which
was to take place that day.
" The Yeomanrv, as usual, proceeded to the inspec-
tion er mnd, playing all kinds of party tunes, and
though the cireutustance was noticed to Sir G. Bill,
they did not desist.
"Time investigation was entered upon on the 24th, the
proceedings are now before Governmeut, and we are all
anxiously waiting the result."
We hope and trust that Government will not allow
this matter to rest. iVe shall only add. that if Sir
George Hill felt, as he ought to do, the admonition and
injunction contained in his Majesty's letter, he could
prevent this insulting and seditious display. A word
to the subalterns, a hint to the band, would have been
sufficient. And yet Sir George Hill bolds a place
under the Crown of 20,000/. a-year ! From the in-
stances of Lord Fitzwilliam, Lord Fife, Sir Robert
Baker, and Sir R•mbert Wilson, we know what would
'be the conseqnence to him, if lie held a place of profit
or honour in England. But it is the fashion now in
Ireland to despise the King's well-known and strongly-
expressed feelings with impunity.--(Dablin Even. Poet.)

Being liable, in common with other Editors, not-
withstanding our utmost precaution, to be imposed
upon by erroneous and mischievous communications,
we are happy to have authority to contradict the
paragraph which appeared in our paper of the 19th
ult. purporting to be an extract of a letter dated
Market Hill, county Armagh, relative to a " melan-
choly accident," stated to have occurred there. We
are assured that the statement, from beginning to end,
is a gross fabrication.
At a Sessions of the Peace under the Road Art,
boteltito-115th Oct. at Clonmel, the several persons
appointed to take the Census of the Collet'', delivered
in their accounts of the population of each Barony.—
They were as follows, viz. :••••
ClRllWilliftM, 41,663; Lower Ormond, 37.271;
Middle-
third, 36,570; lira end Offs, East, 36,187; Eliogarty,
30,170; IR. and Offs Wect, 35,698: Kilnentanagh,
28,959; Sliveardagli, 28,451 Ikerrin, 23.926; Owney and
Area. 23,970; Upper Ormond, 23,029.—Total Population,

363,40•3.
The Magistrates awarded W. to the Collectors for
each 1000 names. subject, however, to the approval of
Ooverotnent, by whom the expense is to be paid, as
well as the charge of the Clerk of the Peace, &c.
DumPRIES.—We may record, as a curious proof of
the ungenial weather that prevailed more or less
during the past season, the general emptiness of our
bee-hives, except such as were placed in moorland dis-
tricts, where the bees are allowed an unlimited range
of the finest heather. In the Parish of Borgue, in
Galloway, (a parish so much celebrated for the supe-
rior purity and beauty of its honey, that the article
uniformly commands a higher price in the market),
the different insect monarchies, so far from furnishing,
the usual supply of this valuable luxury, have scarce.
ly been able to manufacture a sufficiency of comb foe
their own subsistence during the long and gloomy
reign of a northern winter. To use the words of a
Galloway friend, " many small farmers who last year
had twenty pints of honey, have this year scarcely a
chopin"—an evil which will not only be felt by the
victims of colds, sore throats, be.; but which will also
tell against the careful housewife and her bloomiag
daughters, who frequently include among their per.
quisites the produce of the hives, and who for every
deficient pint sr two will probably be disappointed of
a new gown. But let no one ascribe this lack•of
sweets to the idleness of the bee. Hooey, like hay,
can only be made wile the sun shines ; and if the
skies refuse to smile, and the flowers to give out fra-
grance, it was in vain that the great insect artist an-
grily boomed from garden to garden, pushing its deli-
cate proboscis into petals as sapless as the wreath on a
lady's bonnet. Even during the long droughts of
June and July, the weather was rather scorching than
genial, and every Florist complained that his carna.l
tions, pinks, anemonies, and ranunculas, sot to speak
of common flowers, scarcely exhibited a tithe of
their wonted beauty.
MILLANCHOLT ACClDlNT.—Wednesday evening. aboutl
seven o'clock, as a man named W. Murphy, from the
Great Island, Co. Wexford, was going on board the'
brig Lord Nelson, of Milford, lying below the market-J
house, for the purpose of getting into the boat in which'
he had come to town with corn, he fell into the river
from the stage and was nnfortimately drowned, One
of his companions, in his endeavours to save the poor
man, and two other persons, attracted by cariosity to the
spot, also fell in, and were near sharing his fate. The
melancholy occurrence is attributed, by somoof the spec-
tators, to the inner plank of the stage having hips most
unwarrantably drawn partly on board the vesiel—tbus
leaving large space between the two planks. which,
in the darkness of the night, Is impossiblo for a
person going from the snag to perceire.--The unfor
tunate man has left a wtdow, in an advanced state of
pregnancy, to lament his untimely fatal—(Mider/ea
Chronicle.)
A letter from New Orleans of August 18. gives in-
telligence of a distressing steam-boat accident. The
boiler of the Yankee lately burst, by which 15 pas-
sengers were scolded (we do Not heels to Ott dogma),
nd three of the boat's hands isle