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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XI, Issue 22, 21 September 1883, Page 23

The Orange celebrations of the Twelfth of July passed off this year, we are happy to say, without any great disturbance. In Newry, on the Twelfth, some isolated cases of stone-throwing occurred, and ou the following day a number of fights took place as the Orangemen were returning from the Scarva sham fight. In Belfast some rioting took place, and six persons were arrested. But beyond this the peace was not broken. The demoiTstrations held throughout the North this year were about equal ii number to those held iD previous years. Oae feature in the speeches delivered ac these celebrations may be specially noted. These perfervid orations partook largely of a political rather than a relig ous character. The Pope and Catholicism were not the chief subjects chosen for denunciation. Greater enemies to Church and State have appeared, it seems, in Mr. Gladstone and Parnell, and both of these gentlemen were roundly abused. The political combination scheme found a large measure of support, and appeals were made to all loyal Protestants — whig and Tory— to unite and drive tha Nationalists out of Ulster. The "Vlonaghan election appears to have been too painful a subject to speak about, and only two or three of the orators had the courage to make any refer* ence to Mr. Healy'a victory. — Nation, July 21.