John Wright.
Henry Robinson, jun.
William Chisholme.
Andrew Loughnan.
James Butler.
Nicholas Kirwan,
William Lynch.
George Lynch.
Joseph Lescher.
W. Lescher.
Joseph Lescher, jun.
Charles King.
George Gorman.
John Lund.
George Armstrong.
Edward Whiteside.
John Kelly.
Dennis M'Carthy.
Joseph Booker.
C. P. Sullivan.
John Marsh.
John Crook.
Christopher Crook.
George Keating.
Joseph Vose.
Robert Spain.
Robert Fogg.

SUGGESTIONS.

That as a point of union appears indispensible, to enable the British Roman Catholics to co-operate to effect such measures as shall be deemed expedient to relieve them from all penalties and disabilities, it be proposed,

To form an association for the future regulation and management of the affairs of the British Roman Catholics :

That a general meeting shall be held every year, at which the minutes of the proceedings of the former year shall be read.

That every Roman Catholic in Great Britain, subscribing one pound or upwards to the general fund at the beginning of the year, shall be a member of the Roman Catholic association for that year; and that every Roman Catholic clergyman in Great Britain shall be a member without subscription, and shall assist, discuss, and vote at the open meetings.

That a committee composed of

members shall be annually chosen by the general meeting; that they shall hold one meeting at least in each month; and that the vicars apostolic and their coadjutors shall be standing members thereof.

That the committee shall be empowered to call extraordinary general meetings, on giving days pre

vious notice; and that any members of the association shall be au

thorized to call a general meeting having signified their intention to the committee days previous to such intended meeting being convened.

That the secretary shall be annually chosen at the general meetings, and shall be empowered to act at them; to call special committee meetings; and if occasion require, a general meeting also; to correspond with persons willing to communicate; to keep the papers, books, and accounts; and generally to manage the interests, concerns, and business of the associated body.

That no money shall be expended by the secretary without the previous sanction of the committee, and that his accounts shall be annually audited by the committee, and submitted for approval, and signed by the chairman of the annual meetings.

That as the public press is made the vehicle of much abuse and slander against the British Catholics, it is particularly submitted to your consideration, whether some plan should not be adopted, by which articles in provincial, as well as the London papers, and in other publications, impeaching their principles and conduct, may be promptly answered with temper and brevity.

We rejoice at this first step towards a union of Catholic interest and talent for the general goòd. "It is a consummation devoutly to be wished." From the circumstances which have come to our knowledge, we feel satisfied that the suggestions, mere suggestions, accompanying the circular, are not made in the spirit of dictation, but are meant to call attention to the great desideratum of constituting an association on such a basis as will be likely to secure the general confidence and cordial co-operation of the Catholic body, and we hope the business will be met with corresponding feeling by every Catholic in the kingdom.

We are aware that some prejudices are afloat against the meeting. But let Catholics reflect on the zeal and perseverance of our separated brethren of every denomination, who, as it were, forgetting every minor consideration or misunderstanding amongst themselves, in order the more effectually to UNITE in vilifying what they

have been pleased to denominate Popery; and thus have they kept the light of the true faith from the great bulk of this our devoted country. And let us reflect, too, that the baneful influence of this deluge of iniquity has thus long continued successfully to flow, chiefly because we Catholics have taken no measures manfully to arrest its progress. Thus have we deserved that severe reproach of the apostle, The children of this world are wiser in their generation than the children of light." Let us therefore no longer lose time, nor remember the past, for any other purpose than that of amending the future. A union of Catholic talent, exercised with prudent energy and perseverance, and charity amongst ourselves, will very soon confound the enemies of truth, loosen the strong holds of bigotry, and secure to us, and even to our country also, every temporal blessing which we can desire, and also a well-ground. ed hope of those which are eternal.

Should, as we anticipate, the wishes of the 'promoters of the measure be carried into effect, a new era will open to the Catholics of England, and we trust the result will prove beneficial to the interests of civil and religious liberty in both countries.

dress be presented to our most gra cious sovereign, expressive of our duty, respect, and attachment-and of our sentiments on the present unprecedented state of the Catholics of Ireland, and that the draft now read be referred to the revision of the association."

Mr. O'Gorman read the address, which was unanimously adopted by the meeting, with an understanding that the committee should have the power to make some verbal alterations.

Mr. O'Conor Don moved the following resolution of thanks to Mr. Plunkett, which was carried unanimously amid the most enthusiastic cheering.

"Resolved, that the right hon. Wm. C. Plunkett is entitled to our warmest gratitude and confidence, for the zeal, eloquence, and sincerity, with which he has uniformly sustained our cause. That we recognize his just claims to the most faithful support and attachment of the Catholics of Ireland, and look forward with sentiments of exultation to his ultimate and entire triumph over those enemies to public justice and repose, who have arrayed themselves in hostility to that liberal and enlightened policy of which he is so powerful an advocate."

A similar motion was moved and carried, thanking lord Donoughmore.

Mr. Hugh O'Connor moved a general resolution to the parliamentary friends of the Catholic clams.

A resolution was then proposed and carried, for the formation of an association of Catholics for the general management of their affairs.

On Tuesday, May the 13th a meeting of Catholic gentlemen was held at No 4, Capel-street, for the purpose of forming a deputation to present an address to his majesty, pursuant to a resolution entered into at the aggregatè meeting: and also for the purpose of forming a committee to make such arrangements as might be deemed necessary relative to the Catholic as

sociation, lord Killeen in the chair, when it was resolved that a committee of eleven should be appointed to frame regulations, and to make a report on Tuesday the 22nd. After some conversation, it was at length unanimously resolved, "that the deputation consist of the right hon. the earl of Fingall, attended by the Catholic peers, sons of peers, baronets, sons of baronets, and several private gentlemen."

A press of matter last month prevented our noticing a meeting of the north riding clergy held at Thirsk, in Yorkshire, on the 24th of March last, on the claims of the Roman Catholics. Archdeacon Wrangham was in the chair, and opened the meeting by a mild and benevolent speech, in the course of which he powerfully advocated the claims of his Catholic brethren. A resolution was then moved by the rev. Mr. Young against any further concession to the Catholics. The rev. Sidney Smith, in a masterly and luminous speech, opposed the resolution, and concluded by offering a petition in favour of Catholic claims. This was seconded by the rev. Wm. Vernon, son to the archbishop of York, who delivered a most eloquent discourse upon the occasion. After a few observations from the rev. Messrs. Young and Willis in favour of the petition against the Catholics, the archdeacon read extracts from the speeches of Pitt, Fox, Burke, Windham and other eminent supporters of the Catholic question, kindly and judiciously interspersing his own re marks. The petition against the Catholics was then carried by 20 to 10. A counter petition to both houses of parliament was afterwards signed by archdeacon Wrangham, rev. Wm. › Vernon, the rev. Sidney Smith, and 41 other clergyman, and afterwards forwarded to London.

A meeting was held of the Catholic clergymen of Yorkshire, at Etridge's hotel, York, on the 13th of April, when it was unanimously resolved, "that

the thanks of this meeting are due and should be presented by their vicar, to the very rev. Francis Wrangham, archdeacon of Cleveland, to the rev. Sidney Smith, rector of Foston, to the rev. Wm. V. Vernon, rector of Kirby, and the other distinguished clergymen who at a late meeting at Thirsk so eloquently and so forcibly advocated the Catholic claims.

That the thanks of this meeting are also due to the 41 liberal and independent clergymen of the church of England resident within the diocess of York, who have signed, and to others who have expressed a readiness to sign a petition to parliament in favour of Catholic emancipation, which petition concludes with a sentiment worthy of themselves, and deserving more general adoption, "we feel the blessing of our religious liberty, and we think it a serious duty to extend it to others in every degree which discretion will permit."

In compliance with the above resolution the rev. B. Rayment addressed the aforesaid respectable clergymen of the church of England, requesting that they will condescendingly accept the unanimous votes of thanks so justly their due from the Catholic clergy of Yorkshire, signed in behalf of himself and his vicariat.

The rev. Sidney Smith replied to the rev. B. Rayment in a note, expressive of the pleasure he experienced from their vote of thanks of the 17th ult. and adds, "I am of course a decided enemy to their religious tenets, but I am also a decided enemy to the civil incapacity to which they are subjected in consequence of those tenets, and as often as the clergy of the district in which I live shall assemble to urge the continuation of these oppressive laws, I will be there to contend for their removal."

On Monday the 24th of April, the hon. Edward Petre presided at a dinner given at the London tavern, Bishopsgate-street, where a collection was made towards liquidating the out

standing debt against the new chapel in Moorfields; the company was select, and amounted to about seventy persons; who liberally subscribed 205 pounds.

High mass was celebrated on Sunday the 4th of May, and a sermon preached at saint Aloysius' chapel, Somer's Town, by the rev. Thomas Weld, in aid of those deserving charities the schools under the immediate superintendence of the rev. J. Nerincks, when we have the pleasure to add a sum was collected amounting to 140 pounds.

A grand musical mass will be celebrated, and a discourse delivered on Sunday the 8th of June, by the right rev. doctor Poynter, at the Catholic chapel in Virginia-street, when a collection will be made towards the support of the East London Catholic insitution; and for the same purpose an aquatic excursion to the Nore on board the Royal Sovereign steam packet, will take place some time in July.

On Wednesday the 18th of June, the new Catholic chapel at Bungay, in Suffolk, will be opened for divine service, with all the solemnities usual on such a solemn occasion. This building, the first ever erected in this town since the pretended reformation, stands on a spot formerly the site of a Benedictine abbey, and is now supplied with a missioner of that order. To the public spirit of a few individuals in that neighbourhood, the mission is indebted for this handsome and neat edifice, where our mistaken brethren will have an opportunity of witnessing the celebration of the divine mysteries, which the law denounces to be idolatry, and of hearing the word of God announced by men lawfully sent to preach it. His grace the duke of Norfolk most generously gave the ground and contributed 50l. in money to promote so laudable an undertaking. Other charitable Catholics of all ranks, have likewise subscribed to the building, but still the

expesnes have exceeded by far the receipts, and a heavy debt thus remains to be discharged. The promoters of the measure therefore are under the necessity of making a further appeal to the benevolence of a liberal public, and solicit their contributions to a work which promises the greatest advantages to the Catholic religion in a quarter where it has hitherto, from unable circumstances, been so little known,-Donations will be thankfully received by the right rev. Dr. Milner. Wolverhampton; rev. Mr. Burges Ampleforth college, near York; rev. Mr. Lorymer, 39, Gloucester-street, Queen-square; rev. Mr. Morris, 45, South-street, South Audley-street; John Gage, esq. Lincoln's-inn, London; the rev. Mr. Fairclough, Flixton, near Bungay; by Mr. John Cuddon, Bungay; and by the editor hereof.

ENGLISH CATHOLICS.

In the house of commons on Wednesday the 28th inst. lord Nugent brought forward his motion to put the Catholics of England upon the same footing as the Catholics of Ireland.— His lordship entered into the anomalous state of the Catholics of the two islands, and spoke in high terms of the loyal conduct of the English Catholics, than whom a more respectable body of men could not be. He begged to observe that he did not bring this motion forward at the wish of the Catholics themselves; he had not even consulted them. The purport of the bill which he intended to bring in should the house give him leave, was to adinit the English Catholics to exactly the same offices as they were admissible to in Ireland. His bill would be a precise transcript of the bill of 1793; but as there were some offices in Ireland to which there were no offices in England exact counterparts, they would still be a shade below the Roman Catholics of Ireland. -How much they would still be below the Protestant dissenters, who would sit in parliement, in the confi