The Sun. — 1849-10-23 (London, England)

SUN. LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 23, 1849.  and as contradictory evidence was offered, to show from which party they came, I shall only say that the weight of the evidence appeared to me to favour the opinion that they were fired by tw o of the Ribbon party posted on the hill at the Orange party. Immediately after a volley was discharged from the main body on the hill, which appeared to have been indiscriminately directed at police, military, and Orangemen, and the firing from both sides then became general. It was then deemed necessary, and I think wisely, to dislodge the body posted on the heights. and accordingly the police, under Mr. Hill, charged upon and gained the first intrenchment, firing as they ascended at the men who were placed behind it. Immediately after it was carried the body there posted fled, and the police, who had fired in all 18 shots, ceased firing, and took a number of prisoners, among whom were five mounted; several of the prisoners were found crouching, with arms beside them, behind the walls " While this was going on above I lament to say that the work of retaliation, both on life and property, by the Orange party,wasproceedinglower down the hill and along the side of the road, in almost brutal and wanton manner. reflecting the deepest disgrace on all by wham it was perpetrated or encouraged. One little boy, ten years old, was deliberately fired at and shot while running across a field. Mr. Fitzmautice stopped a man in the act of firing at a girl, who was rushing from her father's house ; an old woman, of went y, was murdered, and the skull of an idiot was beaten in with the butts of their muskets. Another old woman was severely beaten in her house, while another, who was subsequently saved by the police, was much injured, and loft in her house, which had been set on fire. An inoffensive man was taken out of his house, dragged to his garden, anti stabbed to death by three men with bayonets, in the sight of seine of his family. The Roman Catholic chapel, the house of the Roman Catholic curate, and the National School-house, were fired into, and the windows broken. And a number of the surrounding houses of the Roman Catholic in habitants were set on fire and burnt, every article of furniture having been first wantonly destroyed." _ .  And now, in the name of common humanity—in the name of the GOD of Mercy—in the name of outraged law—let us ask how was it that these inhuman and demoniac atrocities were allowed to be perpetrated in the face of such a force of police, military, and magistrates ? Why were no prisoners of the Orange party made ? Did these authorities assemble at Dolly's Brae to give countenance and protection to the slayers of innocent children and the murderers of helpless old women ? The tomahawk and scalping. knife of the ruthless savage was never employed in more revolting and barbarous cruelties. We blush for our common nature. We shall never hear the name of Orangeman again without shuddering; the execrable sound will call up the horrid picture of innocent childhood and feeble age calling in vain for mercy. Orangeman in future shall be in our mind but another name for cruelty and cowardice, and the man who would not blush to belong to that sanguinary gang should be branded as the hater of his kind —the enemy of GOD and man. The wicked assassin of the south will respect age and sex ; he stabs no old women, he shoots no innocent children. The murderous Orangeman " robs the assassin of his crimes, and makes him spotless." Yet these are the fellows who dare to boast their descent from the men who fought at the Boyne and Aughrim. Oh no I it is impossible, they are the feculent issue of the campfollowers, those human carrion crows who hover in the rear of armies to rob and strip the dead. There is no touch of the generous mercy of the brave in their composition, and we feel convinced there is no true drop of soldier's blood in their veins.