10 NOVEMBER 1849, Page 1

The inferior and more characteristic sections of the Orange party

have been making demonstrations, in divers parts of Protes- tant Ireland, after a fashion calculated to do real public good. The finest and most full-blown sample was a meeting of the Dublin Conservative Association, at which the Reverend Tresham Gregg made amends for the meallymouthed kind of censure with which other more refined Orangemen had spoken of Lord Roden's dis- missal from the Magistracy ; and he undertook for his party in general, that if the Papistical tendencies of the " British " Go- vernment continued, the Orangemen " would make another Boyne water of it." Lord Londonderry's letter, frankly refusing to sign a memorial against Lord Roden's dismissal, and vigorously declaring that to slight law and constituted authority is not loyal because it is Orange, had already indicated a "split" in the party; but these demonstrations must do more than widen the breach : they indicate a spirit wholly alien to that which must animate every man of cultivated manners and gentlemanly ideas, and must render it impossible for honest-hearted men like Lord Londonderry to renew an alliance with a party so much be- neath them.