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Art. I. All fore and aft rigged vessels, taking shelter in
Catwater and drawing less than eleven feet of water, are
either to anchor on the flat in Clovelly Bay, or above
Turnchapel Rock : and they are also required to place
buoys on their anchors and to moor with a kedge.
Art. 11. Ships and vessels drawing eleven feet of water
and upwards, and less than sixteen feet, are to moor
upon the fiat between Turnchapel Rock and Mount Bat-
ten. Large ships drawing sixteen feet of water and up-
wards, are to moor in tiers below and above Turnchapel
Rock, with their stern cables made fast to the shore and
their jibbooms rigged in.
Art. 111. An open passage, of not less than fifty
fathoms in width, on the north side of the harbour, is to
be kept clear for the navigation of ships and vessels
from the entrance of Catwater up towards the Boar's
Head and Turnchapel Rock, and as far as her Majesty's
breakwater establishment at Oreston, and no ship or
vessel whatever shall anchor in or obstruct this passage,
under pain of penalties directed to be inflicted by the
said Act of Parliament.

Art. IV. Vessels frequenting the port of Plymouth,
and anchoring in Deadman's Bay, are to leave a clear
passage, of fifty fathoms at the least, open between them
and the sailing vessels occupying the south side of the
harbour.

Given under our hands the 4th day of January, 1845,
G. COCKB RN.
W. GORDON.
To all whom it may concern, by command of their
Lordships, JOHN BARROW.

IRELAND.

MEETING OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC
CLERGY.

DUBLIN, JAN. 13.—The Roman Catholic clergy of
the arch-diocese of Dublin are to meet to-morrow, in
annual conference, at the Presbytery in St. Michael and
St. John's parish. It is understood that a petition, pre-
pared :by 'Archbishop Murray is to be submitted for
adoption, praying the Legislature to repeal the penal
clauses against the regular clergy its the Emancipation
Act. This, judging from appearances, is likely to be the
commencement of a very general movement to relieve
the regular clergy from the very severe and persecuting
provisions of that Act.
ARRIVAL OF MR. O'CONNELL.

Mr. O'Connell is to arrive in Dublin on Sunday even-
ing next, and is to attend the meeting of the Repeal
Association of the following day. It is stated that the
Hon. and Learned Gentleman intends shortly to pay a
visit to his daughter, Mrs. Fitzsimon, who is in Belgium.
The Pilot of this evening will contain the following
letter from Mr. O'Connell :

" Darrynane Abbey, Jan. 10, 1845.
"My Dear Barrett,—l mean to postpone for a few
day: my second letter on the Bequests Act. I am
tremulously alive to the apprehension that any one should
conceive that my first letter was in any degree disre-
pectful to any of the prelates who have accepted the
commission. I wish to postpone the second that I nay
be able to apologise for, and indeed, repudiate any such
meaning. lam not the less hostile to the Bequests Act,
or to any concordat, or State provision for our clergy,
because of this postponement. Because I expect that the
letter which his Grace the Catholic Archbishop of Ar-
magh certainly received from the Propaganda, on the
subject of the repeal agitation, should appear before I
publish another letter.
" What a ludicrous situation the Ministry are in, as
having procured from the Court of Rome such a letter,
in direct opposition to the oaths they have taken, that
the Pope has not, and ought not to hare, directly or
indirectly, any power, authority, or jurisdiction, civil or
religious, within this realm!
" Besides, the interval between this and my second
letter will be well filled by the admirable pamphlet of
Mr. Sergeant Shee. He is, you are aware, I suppose,
an eminent English barrister—an Irishman by birth, or,
at least, by parentage—and, what is more to the present
purpose, a strictly practical Catholic. His authority
will, deservedly, have great weight with all our prelates;
and for my part I should not be surprised if it produced
a breaking up of the commission by the resignation of
our prelates. At all events, it cannot but have a most
powerful effect on the Catholic mind of Ireland against
the Act. He cannot be considered as the partisan of any
section, spiritual or lay, of the Irish Catholics. His
opinion is, therefore, justly calculated to have that weight
which is naturally refused to mine.—Faithfully yours,
" DANIEL O'CONNELL.
" Richard Barrett, Esq., Pilot Office."
RUMOURED VISIT OF MR. O'CONNELL TO

ROME.
There is a rumour in town, resting, perhaps, meroly on
surmise, that Mr. O'Connell has determined to proceed
to Rome early in the ensuing month.
THE RESCRIPT FROM THE POPE.

The Freeman's Journal thus refers to the rescript from
the Propaganda, published by Archbishop Crolly :
" Now that its contents are known, we are happy to
say that there is nothing to affright or to confound in
that grave instrument. The rescript contains the exhor-
tations of the Court of Rome to the prelates of the Irish
branch of the Catholic Church, in reference to a combi-
nation of circumstances, political and social, such as the
world never heretofore has witnessed. It is not for us
to meddle in a matter which so peculiarly concerns and
interests the hierarchy and clergy of this country. We
have no right, and certainly we have no desire to do so.
The hierarchy themselves have treated the rescript with
that degree of ' respect, obedience, and veneratiun that
should ever be paid to any document emanating from the
Apostolic See,' arid hare pledged themselves ' to carry
the spirit thereof into effect.' The obedience' promised
might well be anticipated from the most strictly submis-
sive branch of the Catholic Church, and the spirit' in
which they were prepared to obey the rescript might
well be predicted of a hierarchy and clergy, whose ear-
nest respondence to the obligations of citizenship reflects
honour on the Irish nation. This obedience' which the
prelates promise in no respect interferes with the obliga-
tions which, as citizens, they owe to their country. The
prelates who take part with the people have manifested
the spirit in which they understand the rescript. In
order to !relieve the public mind, which we know is
anxious to learn the effect of the Propaganda, we shall
take leave to indicate the interpretation which has been
almost unanimously given to it.
'• The Catholic Primate laid before the Synod in No-
vember last the rescript now given to the public. A
resolution was passed upon the subject, and we are as-
sured, on the highest authority, that a copy of the
document was taken by each of the assembled prelates,
that he might have its:injunctions the more continuously
present to his mind. Now, the repeal banquet at
Limerick was held upon the 20th November, and the
Synod had separated on the 15th, From Dublin two
prelates went direct to that demonstration : one of those
was the Archbishop of Tuam, the other the Bishop of
Elphin. The mildness and singleness of heart of 1)r.
Browne have earned for him an epithet consonant with
his characteristics, and the humility of his life would
have prepared us to expect that he should be found the
first to propose obedience' to the rescript of the Pro-
paganda. Accordingly, it was his Lordship who pro •
posed the resolution recorded in the letter of the Pri-
mate ; but, as if to mark, by an overt and decided act
the acceptation in which not only the prelates who agreed
to that resolution, but those also who proposed and se-
conded its adoption received the rescript, the proposer of
the resolution and the most distinguished of those pre-
lates who have adhered to the national cause, were pre-
sent at the great Munster demonstration. Those emi-
nent dignitaries have proved that they are obedient chil-
dren of the Church; but they have also shown that they
are prepared at all times to vindicate their rights of
citizenship, and assert the perfect accordance between
spiritual subjection to legitimate authority and the ut-
most freedom of municipal liberty.
" It is desirable, nay, indispensable, that all ground for
misrepresentation upon this grave subject should be re-
moved. It is necessary that the Irish people, knowing
the whole truth, should be protected against the uneasi-
ness which might otherwise disturb them. With that
objection in our contemplation, we;shall collate from the
speeches of the Archbishop of Tuam and the Bishop of
Elphin, mado by those eminent prelates at the Limerick
banquet, passages which prove at once their eminently
Christian spirit, and their devotion to the temporal as
well as the eternal interests of their flocks. We re-pro-
duce those passages at the present moment for another
purpose also. The Cardinal Prefect, in the rescript we
elsewhere publish, in adverting to the causes in. which
that document originated, uses these words, st relata
subsisterent--` if the representations made were ,
well-
founded.' What the nature of those representations'
must have been, we have abundant evidence in the
transmission of the rescript. We quote those passages
to show that those representations, made no doubt by
Mr. Peire, must have been false. No doubt he has suc-
ceeded in persuading the ministers of the Holy Father
that the repealers of Ireland are like the fraternity of
Gonfalonieri, or the Carbonari of Apuleia or of Calabria.
Men who have no theory of political change but that of
force—Who own no bond of unity unsealed by blood.
We quOte those passages to show to Rouse, what we
should hope is now known almost throughout Europe,
that Or motto, to use the emphatic language of the
Bishop of Elphin, is,
peace, order, and tranquillity.' "
The Freeman's Journal, in illustration of its argument,
quotes passages from the speeches of the two Roman
Catholic prelates named at the Limerick repeal dinner.
GRAND CANAL—NEW RAILWAY.
Mr. Cubitt, the English engineer, having completed
his survey of the banks of the Grand Canal, from Dublin
to the !county of Galway, has made a report highly
favourable to the project for establishing a railway along
the line. A special meeting of the proprietors has been
convened, to take the subject into consideration,