The Sun. — 1834-11-04 (London, England)

LORD CHANCELLOR. But the part of Lord LONDONDERRY'S speech of which we took notice yesterday, deserves attention, because more than one Noble Lord assisted at the concocting of it ; and because, in tho opinion of the most distinguished among the Downshire Orange gathering, it included the whole of the charges which that body had to prefer' against the Government. Having considered five of these charges yesterday we now begin with the sixth. His Lordships says :  " 6. The only protection of the Irish Protestants—their only safeguard, and the only supporters of the British connection— those on whom alone they rely for help in the many pressing dangers by which they are surrounded, are the Protestants of Ulster—( Hear, hear, hear)—and these, by stripping the yeomanry of their arms and disbanding them, they have left at the mercy of their implacable enemies." The disarming of the Orange Yeomanry of the North of Ireland has happily had the effect of stripping the celebration of the Boyne Water victory of its most repulsive terrors. No doubt" Lord LONDONDERRY and his confreres at Hillsborough could reconcile to their consciences the justice of continuing arms in the hands of the Protestants of the North, while the Catholics were amenable to the heaviest penalties, did they not strip themselves of every weapon, offensive and defensive. The abuse of arms was only possible in the hands of the Papists ; whilst among, and by the Protestants, the firing of a musket at a defenceless peasant, was a deed sanctified by the gospel faith of the aggressor. Like Ralph° in " Hudibras," Lord LoxDONDERRY believes that what would be wicked in a sinner, may be the perfection of virtue in a saint • for ) that—  " 'Tis the temptation of the Devil, That makes all human actions evil;" and consequently that Orangemen beirtg sealed with the Lodge signet of election, might shoot Catholics when most under the influence of the Holy Spirit. But, thank Heaven, the days are gone by when such detestable doctrines were swallowed by either the Government or the people of this, country. We no longer confess ourselves so weak, or so savage in our policy, as to say to any faction in the State, " Here arc arms ; pray defend yourselves from all whom your tyranny may force to unite against you as enemies," The present Government acted wisely and well in the case of the Yeomanry of Ireland, who were in truth a curse to the country. By disarming them, the Ministers asserted the just and legitimate power of the British Parliament and people, and gave the Irish of every party to understand, that the peace of that country should no longer depend on the discretion of either Orangemen or Ribbonmen, or any' other faction. It is the duty of the Government to afford equal rights and protection to all classes of subjects, without regard to creeds or other religious distinctions, and that duty the present Ministry will perform fearlessly so long as they are in office. This complaint, therefore, of the Orange Peer, we look upon as one of the highest encomiums that could be passed on the present administration. Now for the next :7. The ministers our religion basely and barbarously murdered with impunity—the single Protestant families dispersed over the country, separately cut off, and those that escape kept in perpetual alarm, not knowing the moment they may be assassinated by day or burned in their beds by night, until at length such a state becomes intolerable, and they desert their homes, their native land, and emigrate to some foreign clime." The impunity in the above charge refers to the conduct of the Government. There is no necessity for defending that, as it happens that there is not a