The Brockville Statesman, an Upper Canada Tory paper, boasts that
at the last election the Orange clubs were of great assistance to Sir Francis Head. There are at present, it seems, no fewer than 215 Orange Lodges in Upper Canada, comprising about 5,000 electors. The number of Tory votes given was 11,378; so that, exclusive of those whom they could in any way influence, the Orangemen compose nearly half of Sir Francis Head's party in Upper Canada. These facts are worth remembering. The Liberal Lord John. Russell must be gratified at learning through whose agency his protege Sir Francis Head overbore the Reformers of Upper Canada. He will not propose an address to the Queen condemnatory of Orangeism in Canada. Ile and his friends at the Colonial Office take advantage there of the reli- gious bigotry which they denounce in Ireland. Oh ! the consistency of Whiggery ! . Could not the Morning Chronicle spin a yarn on the blessings of Orangeism in the Upper Province ?
Irish attornies are emigrating to New South Wales in search of business, where they find clients numerous, and causes profitable. One of the latest admitted to practice in the supreme Court of Sydney was Mr. John Moore Dillon, an attorney of the Dublin Courts, and son of Mr. Luke Dillon, of Parliament Street.
A pointed illustration lately occurred in Dundee, of the immense importance sometimes attached by the rustic population in some re- mote districts, to small matters—to the circumstance, for instance, of a number of them clubbing together for a weekly newspaper. A douce, decent countryman, who had for many years been at the head of the political club in a hamlet at the foot of the Sidlaws, and who bad called with as much regularity as clock-work every half-year to pay his subscription, entered a certain newspaper printing.office, and cried out with much pomposity, at the very top of his voice, " Hulloa, there ! " ad- dressing the pressmen, who were busily plying their vocation, " Holloa, there ! stop the press ! for we're no to tak' ony mak o' your papers ! " —Dundee Chronicle.
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