The Sun.
London, England, 1828-01-09 00:00:00

NEW CATHOLIC ASSOCIATION.

(From a Second Edition of the Dublin Evening Post of
Saturday.)
.1. O'DWYER, ESQ. IN THE CHAIR.
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Mr. O'CONNELL entered into an explanation of
the origin of his mis-statement concerning the So-
ciety for discountenancing Vice—his error on that
subject had its origin with a Gentleman who, on in-
specting the accounts of the Society, mistook the
figures following a list of prayer books circulated by
the Society, for the amount charged for them, and
the sum really charged he mistook for the account of
the ?limber of books. Mr. O'Connell then went
into the subject of the Catholic Churchwardens very
fully, but without any strikingly new arguments.
A digressive conversation took place on the po-•
litical character of the Dissenters of the North, in
which Mr. O'Connell, Mr. Lawless, Mr. Conway,
and other gentlemen took a part.
Mr. O'CONNELL intimated that there would be a
separate meeting on Wednesday, when he would be
prepared with a draft of the general petition for
Emancipation.

Amount of the Catholic Rent received this week,
50/. 14s. 10d.—The Meeting then adjourned.

We unaerstand that Messrs. SHEPPARD and
GAINS, woollen-drapers, of this city, and very extensive
dealejs in cloth manufactured from English wool, continue
to receive the most satisfactory accounts from various places,
of the high estimation it is acquiring, and which is verified
by the increasing daily applications they have for supplying
persons at a distance. As the first int-oducers of this arti-
cle into the West of England, we are pleased to find that
Messrs. S. and G. are so largely called upon, both for their
advantage and the country's good.—Exeter Alfred.

A violent disease is prevalent among horses
about Logiealmond. It is a sort of inflammation, and ge-
nerally proves fatal in two or three days. One farmer has
had his stable completely emptied, and many others have
partially suffered. One animal died in two hours and a
half after it was seised by the disorder.— Glasgow Herald.

POETICAL ACCOUNT OF THE WEATHER.
—So changeable has the weather been during this last
week, that we have experienced the apposite extremes of
rain and wind and tempest, and of an unclouded winter
sky, with the Queen of Heaven sailing along in all the
chastened purity of her own loveliness. On Thursday
night it was beautifully serene, and the morning of Sun-
day exhibited the face of nature covered with its venerable
mantle of hear frost. Since then we have had again the
howling of the blast, and the stilly clearness of a starry
night. On the evoning of Tuesday in particular, the full
moon rose majestically o'er Dumiat, and sent forth the
long streams of her silvery light down the sides of the
°chils, with a beauty and a lustre which we have seldom
witnessed. At first, her rosy and expansive countenance
seemed almost afraid of having approached too near this
lower world—as she kissed the bare mountain top, and
then gently rose above its highest peak, blushing in all the
consciousness of her unrivalled charms. Hill and dale,
and the silent Forth, seemed all to be gazing with delight
on this interesting scene, while the breeze 'which began to
move on the face of the waters, whispered, that it was
the parting embrace of the Queen of Night, ere she walked
into the blast vault of heaven, after paying another new
year's visit to the father of the Ochils.—Correspondent of
Stirling Journal.
BEVERLEY MEETING OF THE CLERGY.-
A numerous meeting of the Clergy of that Archdeaconry
was held at the Tiger Inn, Beverley, on Wednesday, to
take into consideration the propriety of petitioning Parlia-
ment against certain provisions in the Unitarian Marriage
Bill. The Rev. J. Grua- was called to the Chair. A
series of resolutions, of which the following is the sub-
stance, were passed, and petitions to Parliament founded
thereon, were adopted. That this meeting have viewed
with alarm, certain provisions contained in a bill intended
to be submitted to Parliament, entitled A Bill for grant-
ing relief to certain persons dissenting from the Church of
'ngland, in respect to the mode of celebrating Marriage."
That these provisions of the said Bill, which degrade mar-
riagei
from a religions to a civil contract, are, in the opi-
of onof this
the meeting, at direct variance with the doctrines
Church of England—and if passed into a law, will
establish
a Precedent highly dangerous to the stability of
the institution of marriage, and in its consequences to the
best interests of society. That we consider those provi-
sions, which require "
to
publish the banns and register
the celebration of the marriages contracted under the
powers of the said Bill, as offensive to our consciences and
degrading to our guaracters--offensive to our consciences,
as compelling us to assist in an act at variance with the
doctrines of our church—and de
grading to our characters,
as requiring us to become the Clerks and Criers of those
who reject our ministry, and the beautiful service of the
liturgy.as idolatrous.—York Courant.