The Sun. — 1849-10-20 (London, England)

BEERS. Preparations are making for a deadly onslaught on the sth of November; the shout of "to Hell or Connaught," is again to be raised in the north, because magistrates have been relieved from duties which they refused to discharge ; because Lord CLARENDON did an act approved of by all the good and wise in both island', the furious bigots of the north are in a blaze. Lord CLARENDON, armed with right and law, can afford to despise the insane vauntings of these lip-loyal Orange men, who shouted Protestant ascendancy when they were not interfered with in the innocent pastime of shooting Papists. But the moment it is announced that these Papists are to receive the protection of British law—the moment the principle of equal and impartial laws to all her MAJESTY'S subjects is enunciated, then the Ulster Orangemen throw off the flimsy disguise, and stand forth in open hostility to those laws which their long unpunished ruffianism led them to believe were made exclusively for themselves. Yet these are the men who dare to ask for the sympathy of the manly and generous people of Great Britain ; these are the men who would appeal to the sympathies of a common faith and a common origin, with the law-loving and common-sense people of England. dome BULL repudiates the claim, rejects the unholy alliance; he has nothing in common with such hyenas. If the brave and manly Englishman meets his adversary in fair open fight, he will seek the victory by every means of courage and manhood, but the moment the fight is over, and the guerdon won, he is ready to stretch forth his right hand to his gallant foe, and, whether victor or vanquished, is alike free from vain boasting or vindictiveness ; he would not continue for ages to trample upon a fallen foe, nor add insult to defeat. The fair-play-loving people of England have no sympathies with the Orangemen of Ulster. The Orange magistrates of the County Down abdicated the functions of their office when they refused to administer the laws, and make evildoers amenable to justice; and the Irish Viceroy would have been guilty of treason to the Constitution if he did not vindicate the majesty of offended justice by removing the Castlewellan magistrates from the commission of the peace; and Lord RODEN, Lord ANNESLEY, and the Marquis of DIAINSLIIKE would be much better employed in improving the wretched condition of the bleak and barren neighbourhood of the late scenes of blood and massacre than in giving countenance to the violaters of the law. Castlewellan, the property of one or two of these noblemen, is a disgrace to the north ; no part of the south or west could exceed it ; in squalor, poverty, and neglect, it stands out amid the industry and general improvement of the north a plague spot and a curse, as savage and uncivilised as its inhabitants. There was one circumstance connected with the investigation at Castlewellan, to which we intended on former occasions to advert—we mean the attempt cn the part of a Noble Lord to deprive the unfortu nate relatives of the fallen victims at Dolly's Brae of the benefit of legal assistance ; but the manly and resolute manner in which the rude insolence was met by a young professional gentleman, Mr. REA, of Belfast, deserves the highest praise. He sustained with calm dignity the rights of his profession and the interests of his humble clients, and gave insolent power a lesson which is not likely to be forgotten. It is hopeful and refreshing to see such RAYS irradiating the black North. While there are such Protestants in Ulster, we have no fears of the ultimate triumph of the law and the permanent establishment of peace and order. But the Irish Executive must bold the reins with a firm, even, and impartial hand, and it the assassins of the South and the murderous factionists of the North will not hear the voice of the law through any other channel, it must make itself heard and obeyed even through the cannon's mouth.