The Sun.
London, England, 1817-09-05 00:00:00

ROMAN CATEIOLICS.

A Meeting of the titular Bishop, and the Roman
Catholic Clergy, of the Diocese of Cloyne, took
place on the 27:11 ult. They passed several Re-
solutions, of which the following is the saibstance,
which- we have extracted from The Dublin Even-
ing Post of the 2d last :

" They begin with asserting, that it is the con-
viction of the Conference that the Catholic Church
of Ireland is in itn'►rinent danger, affirming, that
they would be guilty of " High Treason against
the King of Heaven," were tl.ey to conceal their
sentinieors from their Bishop, at a crisis so alarm-
ing. They then proceed to state their adhesion
to the Resolutions to which the Bishops agreed
in August, 1815, against 'the Veto. In the 4th
Resolution they declare that they

" Contemplate, with undisguised horror, every measure
whi.h ho for its object the concession of any such power, to
wen who are ready to swear, and have already sworn, that
the Reli4ion of the Roman Catholics, as practised in this
United Kingdom, is superstitious and idolatrous."
" The Fibh Resolution is directed against the
plaits sanctioned by Government for the
cluca-
tion of the Lower Orders.

" The .following is the Resolution :--.
" That the plans, sanctioned by our Government, for the
Education of the Lower Orders in this Country, furnish us
with an additional cause of alarm. Those Schools, under the
most specions appearances, have, in our apprehension, for
their ultimate purpose, the proselyting of our poor Catholic
Children. We see immense sums of money levied, annually,
for the maintenance and educatimr-of the Children of Catho-
lic Parents, in Establishments which are exclusively Pro-
testant—the unwearied zeal, and increasing influence of Bible
Soci,ties and other anti-Catholic Institutions for Educating
the PoOr of Ireland, cannotescape the notice of the Most in-
different observer. In these Schools a iersioa of the Scrip-
torus, not only imam henticated, but disapproved of by the
Roman Catholic Church, is made the School Book of the poor
Roman Catholic Children; whilst every Catholic Tract or
Explanatimi of the Word of God is sedulously discarded."

" The Sixth Resolution contains a stron4 pro-
test against the Veto, or any measure, however
modified or disguised, that is based upon a prin-
ciple of Temporal Protestant interference with
the discipline and doctrine of the Irish Catholic
Church.

" The seventh Resolution is in favour of Do-
mestic Nomination by Dean and Chapter (words
that should ever be omitted when the term Do-
mestic Nomination occurs), and declaratory of
the conviction of the Resolvers, that such No.
titillation would " conciliate their political ene-

(111rS,"

The eighth Resolution is a request to Dr.
COPPINGER to use his influence With his brethren,
the Catholic Prelates of Ireland, to establish do-
mesi ic nomination by Dean and Chapter, and to
submit, whether it might not be expedient, at this
period, to assemble a Synod for the purpose of
averting the evili with which the Church is threat-
ened ; of negociating with the Pope in favour of
the ancient discipline of the Irish Catholic Church ;
and of appointing an agent at the Court of Rome,
to transact, at all times at that Court, the busi-
ness of the Irish Catholic Church.

" The ninth Resolution is applied particularly
to Dr. COPPINGER, requesting the Right Reverend
Prelate to apply to the Holy See for the appoint-
ment of a Dean, and to nominate a Chapter.