The Standard has been begging for ammunition to fight the
battle of Orange- Toryism in Ireland : the accounts from Longford show too well how the subsidies to be raised in England for this purpose would be applied. The Dublin correspondent of the True Sun mentions, that two hundred Orangemen, armed with pistols and bludgeons, sur- rounded a house, where a party of Catholic priests were ii consultation, on Monday night, and broke every pane of glass in is. They after- wards commenced firing pistols at the Catholic electors ; and one man was wounded in the leg. It is added, that on Tuesday an Orangeman shot another Catholic in the head. This ruffian we s apprehended: bullets and a flask of powder were found upon him : he acknowledged
that he came to fight for Fox, and was sent off on a Magistrate's war- rant to the county gaol. The sons of the godly Mr. LEFROY are men- tioned as being very active disturbers.
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