The Sun. — 1860-09-26 (London, England)

THE SUN. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 26, 1860.  We could not have supposed that we should be ruinired again to advert to Orange bigotry in Canada, but so it is. The Orangemen of Toronto have been even worse, in one respect, than their brother fanatics of Kingston, for they actually entrapped the PRINCE and his adviser, the Duke of NEWCASTLE, into an apparent submission to their party indignities. We shudder at the outrages of the Druses and Maronites, and of their Mahommedan rulers ; but in sober seriousness, relatively to their respective training and knowledge, the outrage on the Prince of WALES was as bad as anything done in Syria. The men who could so grossly insult a young Prince, yet under age—a Prince invited by themselves as representative of the Crown which he is destined one day to wear— who could affront thus a Royal guest out of what they called religious zeal—these men would surely, with an Oriental training, have readily massacred their opponents by hundreds and by thousands. Canadian Orangemen may thank the country they live in that they are not murderers; they went as far as they could go, in triumphing over their enemies, in triumphing over their own sovereign by lying and trickery. They have made themselves, however, a byeword throughout the British Empire ; for to repudiate their intolerable conduct will be a necessity for the entire Protestantism of our whole country. We all know the story of the fox who had lost his tail, and who thereupon endeavoured to persuade all the other foxes to part with the useless appendage. Some such feeling probably influenced the Kingston Orangemen; for, having lost themselves a visit from the Prince by their rude refusal to remove their party emblems, they laboured in every way to induce other towns to imitate their conduct, and by rude defiance of the PRINCE and the DUKE to sacrifice also the honour of a Royal visit. They sent forward emissaries to the places at which he was to call to instruct them in the art of affronting a Sovereign. The towns were, however, much of a mind with the foxes, and dil not wish to lose the pleasure of displaying their loyalty because Kingston had found greater pleasure in displaying its vulgar bigotry. Coburg, Peterboroxgh, Port Hope, and Whitby declined to embrace the Gospel according to Kingston, and exultingly " gave unto C_ESAR the things which are Cs.s.aa's." At Peterborough the decorations were very beautiful and the cheering tremendous, being intended partly, no doubt, to cow the Kingston emissaries. And, at all the places, the efforts of the fanatics were frustrated by strongly expressed bitter feelings of the people. It was at Toronto, a place once talked of as the Canadian capital, that the Orangemen achieved their main triumph—and actually contrived that the PRINCE should pass under an Orange Arch without knowing it. A little nut, perhaps, it may be, for moralists to crack—whether the PRINCE, morally, passed under the arch at all, seeing he supposed it to be an arch of a very common character, and that a transparency, which we cannot say adorned it, but was part of it, was a picture of himself. It was, however, a representation of