The Sun.
London, England, 1828-02-05 00:00:00

NEW CATHOLIC ASSOCIATION.

From the Second Edition of the nnblin Evening Post of
Saturday.
SIB, THOMAS ESMOND; BART., Ia THE CHAIR.

Amount of Catholic Rent received during' the last
week, 4931.
Numerous letters from various parts of the country •
were read, enclosing Rent and Census Returns.
The O'CoNoR DON read the reply of the Most
Rev. Doctor Murray to the Committee appointed
by the Association, stating that he would lay before
the Catholic Bishops now in Dublin their communi-
cation.

An irregular discussion took place incidentally on
the mission to England. Several motions for this
day were postponed in consequence of the lateness
of the hour at which the regular business of the
Association was concluded.

Mr. GEO. NESS was appointed one of the Audi-
tors to the accounts of the Association in the room
of Mr. Stewart, who resigned—and it was intimated
that a full account of the monies received and ex-
pended for the past year, by the Association, would
be published in the ensuing week.—The Meeting
then adjourned.

A DEFENCE OF THE MUCH INJURED

ENGLISH WORD " UNTOWARD."

It seems inexplicable that men whose habits.,
leisure, and literary attainments, enable them to ob-
tain from their own philological exertions a precision
in the interpretation of the words of their own lan-
guage, should blindly depend upon those blind guides
—the Dictionaries. Had those who have so elo-
quently confused that 'truly English compound—
untoward, exerted their own faculties, they would
have discovered that had they turned over the leaves
of the best of Dictionaries, from the day of the
battle of Navarin to the utterance of the King's
Speech, they could not have selected a word more
felicitous. How I envy its judicious and erudite
selector.

The last syllable of the word, the most essential
part of it, is Teutonic. On the Teutones pasting it
to the Saxons, it became woerd, and they passing it
to us, it became ward. Again, the Teutones send-
ing it among the Franks, it was changed finally to
guard. We have now both words, and they both
convey the same meaning. They primarily mean
to look, then to look steadily (we still have it thus
in the word regard,) and then, by inference, to take
care of. But the word ward receiving an adjunct,
whether that adjunct be a noun or a preposition,
such as Heaven-ward, for-ward, or to-ward, invaria-
bly represents; as nearly as possible, what is under-
stood by- the word tend. 'Therefore to-ward is ap-
plied to actions; &e that tend to ; and, as the adjunct
un is a negative, the whole compound un-to-ward is
applied to actions, &c. that do not tend to. Thus
then the battle of Navarin did, in the minds of his
Majesty's Mniqers, and probably in the minds of
the great majority of the kingdom, not tend to—the
main object of the three Allied Powers—the pacifi-
cation of the Turks and the Greeks. How simple,
how powerful, how appropriate was the word!
But the error of the objectors was a common one;
nay, it is almost universal, particularly among those
who aim to illuminate mankind in their disquisitions
on metaphysics, and who on all the sciences except
mathematics, produce invariably that tremendous con-
fusion which, in their works, is so conspicuous and
so distressing. The error is that of encroaching on
the meaning of a word—of introducing into it an
idea which by no means can or ought to attach to it.
'To make therefore this word represent an idea of
something like Maine, is to make it represent a qua-
lity not less incongruous than that of supposing it to
include blasphemy, wit, risibility, or witchcraft. The
allied fleets in the battle of Navarin, although their
achievement did not tend to the main object, yet, if
it could not be avoided, did what was wholly blame-
less, and did it well.

tiPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

TATTERSALL'S.-FEB. 4.

fwulhlicahttewmasdanccehiefityc-etanY: an
fined to the Derby and St. Leger. The Colonel retains
his elevation, plenty of takers being found at any thing
above 6to 1. Merchant, however, is considered rather
ensued, co
and brisk brriooskmdsay boastedof bettingof a
formidable, and the odds betters rather on the flag. Bess
of Bedlam was backed for the Leger against Navariu for
the Derby. The St. Leger field had backers against any
ten horses. Very little betting took place upon the Oaks,
which remain nearly the same as on Thursday. The fol-
lowing will be found a correct list of all the stakes:—

ItIDDLESWORTJEL
8 to 1 p. p. was taken about Shoveller, and there were
subsequent oilers to take 5 to 2.
DERBY.
6 to 1 agat lion. E. Petre's The Colonel
to 1 apt Mr. Thornhill's Merchant (taken)
23 to 2 agst Duke of Rutland's Sorcery colt
14 to 1 agat Lord Grosvenor's Navarin
16 to 1 agst Duke of Grafton's Druid (taken)
17 to 1 agst Mr. Payne's Johanna Southeote colt
22 to 1 agst-LOrd Exeter's Folly colt
22 to 1 agst Mr. Thornbill's Mariner
OAKS.

11 to 1 agst Rosanne
13 to 1 agst Mr. Peirse's Sarah, Sister to Swiss
14, to 1 agst Elizabeth
15 to 1 agst Colonel Udny's Lisette filly
15 to 1 agst Lord Jersey's Trampoline
15 to 1 agst Mr. Molony's Zoe

Ultimatum
ST. LEGER.
13 to 1 agst Colonel King's Bessy Bedlam (taken)
13 to 1 agst Mr. W. Scott's Velocipede
16 to 1 agat Mr. Petre's The Colonel
IE3 to 1 agst Mr. Watt's Coulon--Mis. Cranfield
eS Juliauna Southeote colt
26 to 1 agat Partizan filly (taken)
SO to 1 agst Cressida (taken) .
2222
ttoo
Il aaggsstt
sMirr.TP.eistrico'sstyEnin,en'elTe
Feu e s Stapleton
25 to 1 agat Mr. Thornhill's 11,ferchant
40 to 1 agat Duke of Gall"' b.:Nitvarin
40 to 1 agst Mr. Petre•A Delphine
4450 toto 11 asst t
Al‘lrr.. PaY°.
45 to 1 agst Ileihert Lacy
55 `o
I agq Duncan Gray (taken).

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Imm.ENsE PILLAR.—The attention of the
pun
,- li ,-, . 1t..1N this forenoon particularly attracted to an im-
mensemarble (we think), about four feet square,
block of
and apparently 10 feet long, which was drawn by eighteen
horses along Parliament-street and through the
eHorse-
Guards.
Bill as
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posed
id
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ehdi s itilna jt eos tyt. '8 1
Palle .
of Lords to dissolve the Baron de RORECK'S marriage.
The remains of Lady CAROLINE LAMB were
removed yesterday morning, in a hearse-and-six, from the
house in Pall-mall, in which her ladyship breathed her
1 eIo A 80. Use
last, for the purpose of being conveyed to the cemetery
belonging to Lord MELnoualiz's family, at Hatfield. Two
mourning coaches-and-four, in which were Dr. Gm:mutt),
Dr. HastuToN, and two 9ther gentlemen, followed the
hearse. The carriages of the Duke of DEvo:isuraE, Earl
SPENCER, the Earl of CARLISLE, Earl of BESBOROUGH,
Lord MELBOURNE, Viscount DUNCANNON, Mr. W. PON-
SONBY, and Mrs. HUNTBR, followed the funeral procession
to a abort distance out of town. The time fixed for the
interment to take place, was three o'clock in the afternoon.
The Hon. Wse. LAMB, husband to the deceased, and Mr.
11731. PoNsoraw, were to join the procession at Bell Bar, to
atteud the funeral at chief lllQUlliers.