26 SEPTEMBER 1835, Page 5

A meeting of some Orange parsons was held a few

days ago in Dublin, at which an address to the Protestants was agreed to, calling on them to join in the " Bible Festival" on the 4th of October. These men had the impudence to style their address "an address agreed upon at an influential meetind of the Metropolitan Clergy ; " but the following letter from Mr. Charles Dickinson, Vicar of St. Anne's, who is styled by the Evening Mail, in its rage, Archbishop Whateley's "clerical cad," puts the affair in its true light.

"TO THE EDITOR OF SAUNDERS'S NEWS-LETTER. "19til:',o1itember "SIR—Yone paper of to-day contains a document which is stated to to an address agreed upon at an influential meeting of the Metropolitan Clergy,' hold in Dublin within the last few ears. I think it right to state to you that you hat a been misinformed. Theta has been no meeting of the metropolitan clergy held in Dublin within the last few days. The A tehbishop or Dublin, who is the proper person to call and preside at such it meeting, is not at present in town, I run one or the metropolitan clergy, and I have tervived no nut ice (nor do I know ;toy one who has) of any suet, meeting. I have

ascertained that no application nor intimation of any It on this subject has reached the A rehbishop or Dublin. it is possible, in"eol, that the meeting spoken of may have consisted exclusively of our Dissenting brethren; but if so, lids should have been stated, awl I am perfectly sure would have been stated, had the address been printed by their authority. It occurs to me also as pm;sible, that some clergymen of the Established Chmch may have assembled privately, for tie purpose or deliberating whether proper application should be made for the calling of a general meeting of the clergy, and have drawn up this adIress, with tie intention of submitting it to the consideration of such a meeting, should it take place; but supposing this to be the case, I think its publication has not been countenanced by them. They would not assemble privately, and call themselves a meeting of the metropolitan clergymen. On the other hand, if any clergymen thought it allowable to unite together as individuals merely for such a pinyon., t hey would have attached their signat tires mills itmahtv t u the document in question, no as to guard against the t type:trance of assn ming for their address a character which does not belong to it. But again. I do not think it likely that any individual clergymen of respectability would think themselves just liii in prescribing a course for the adoia tutu of the Church generally. setting apart one day fir a general fast, another for a juin leo -matters which have been always hitherto:at-angel solemnly by the highest au. thorities. If any such meetiag, then, has been hel i by persons deservedly influential. I am persnaded that it was only designed as a preliminary consultation, for the purpose of privately deliberating as to the expediency orapplying to the proper todhorities.

"I have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient, humble servant, " CHARLES DICKINSON, Vicar of St. Anne's."