Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1825-08-27
From the New- York american, Argust 70.
LATEST FROM ENGLAND.

From the Ne,u- York .anerieaa, .August2 70.
LATEST FROM ENGLAND.
By the fast sailing ship Isaac Rich
ards. we have a continuation OF oul
London papers to the 18th July, from
which we take the following extracts
as imparting of all the little intelli.
gence they contain.
London, july l5.-The steam vessel
Enterprize, which has been handsome.
" fitted for undertaking the voyage to
India. and it was found that she ran al
a rate exceeding 81 knots an haur, a
speed that surpassed the expectations
of all concerned in her, as she was
tried under the disadvantage OF a cargo
of nearly 500 chaldrons of Goals, which
made her draw more than IA feet 6
inches of water. The superiority OF
her boilers was evincedby the fact that
the consumption of fuel for supplying
steam for two engines OF 60 horse
power each, did not exceed eight bush
els an hour.
London, july l6.-The Dublin pa
pers of Thursday, give an account OF
the plan of the New Catholic Associa-
ton. which is to be formed under the
advice of a committee composed OF
some of the leading members OF the
Catholic body. The Catholics dis
claim the intention of doing any thing
which can, with any degree of fairness,
be supposed an infringement Of the
law, and they therefore propose that
the new Association shall con6ne it.
self to objects which are either spe-
cially or virtually legalized in the late
act, viz. the c%ontructions o~fchapels, the
diffusion of education, and the promo
ton of Irish agriculture the encou-
ragement of the consumption Of Irish
manufactures, and the extension OF
Irish commerce the refutatioh OF
charges made against the Catholics,
and the promotion of mutual federation
and kindness through the press
TO the general and somewhat hetero-
geneous objects which we have stated,
the Association is to add a temporary
one, viz. to ascertain the population Of
the several religions in Ireland, and
particularly the number of youths in
each persuasion in a course Of educa-
ton.
The Committee, after recommending
kka f,~ooD, ~ m AccnclofInn TOR
the objects which have nothing to do
directly with grievances in Church or
State, recommend the holding Of Sc
parate and unconnected meetings in
the several counties of Ireland, for the
discussion Of matters by which they
may be aggrieved and they observe,
that these meetings may be held in
succession, and that each Of them may
occupy fourteen days according to law
so that the meetings Of all the coun-
ties in Ireland may occupy something
more than a year, and may subject the
government again to that continued
fire of speeches which, in its wisdom,
it thought fit to be particularly alarm
ed at. 1t is evident that all these plans
are perfectly legal that all these pur-
poses may be pursued without any or
g~anization and connection nor can the
Catholics be prevented from resorting
to some such schemes without reducing
them to absolute slavery. Globe.
1t appears by a letter from Madrid
of the LIST July, that the unprecedented
frost which not long ago destroyed a
great portion Of the vines and wheat
crops, has been followed BY an intense
heat, which scorched much of what
remained. In many parts of the coun-
try the priesthood have taken advan-
tage Of this national calamity to urge
the Royalists to acts of outrage against
the Constitutionalists, by declaring that
it proceeds from the Indignation OF
Providence at their existence. A re-
markable instance of preservation from
the effects of electricity is mentioned
in these letters. During the intense
heat at Cordova, the Hotel of the Mar
chiones Peralis was struck by light
ming; the fluid passed ver the CHM
ney Of the room in which the Marchio-
ness and four others were sitting, de-
stroyed several articles of furniture,
melted a gold chain which the Mar
chioness wore round her neck, and
forced its way through the wall into
the street. The five persons were found
in a state of insensibility, from which
they soon recovered, but they have not
sustained any material injury.
London, July ls.-Consols have clos
ed at sla; Mexican Bonds, 764; New
Colombian, S3a.
The Calcutta Gazette of February
81, contains dispatches from Lieute-
nant Colonel Richards, commanding
the army that marched against Assam
announcing that the whole of the pro-
vince of Assam had been evacuated by
the Burmese, in pursuance ofa conyen-
ton made between Lieut.. Col. Rich