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SECURE AND ELIGIBLE INVaRTMENT ON LEASE-
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By Mr. COX,
At the Auction Mart, on TUESDAY, December 20, at 1
precisely,
17111 E LEASE, for an unexpired term of Thirty-six
years, of a well-built HOUSE, No. 80, Marylebone-lanc,
near Bulatrodc-ratreet. at a ground rent of four guineas a year, and
let on lease for near 20 years, producing a rental of I.
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INVESTMENT ON LEASEHOLD PROPERTY AT
HAMMERSMITH.
By Mr. COX,
At the Auction Mart, on TUESDAY, Deeembar 20, at I
precisely,
MHE IMPROVED RENT arising from THREE
1 SHOPS on the Great Western Road, opposite to the Inn
called the Windsor Castle, Hammersmith, and let on lease, pro-
ducing a clear annual rental of
Printed particulars to be obtained on the premises ; of Mr.
Bertalet, solicitor, Northumberland-street, Strand ; and the auc-
tioneer, 26, St. James's-street.

We gave, yesterday, a sketch of the proesetlings of the
Catholic Association on Saturday, from the Dublin Even-
in; Post. The following are further particulars from the
Irish Papers
THE ETOILE.
Mr. CONWAY' was appointed Secretary, and read the minutes of
thelast day's proceedings. He would say a few words with regard
to one motion which appeared on the minutes—that which he had
moved on this day week, regarding the taking in by this body of
the Etoife, end which was unanimously carried. He was happy
that he had gone so, although his friend Mr. O'Connell, who had
'-om notice of the motion he referred to, was not in the room on
4 was brought forward.
',luta, assayed the meeting, that it was profeseireal
, and not any desire to shrink from what he eon.
it and useful duty, that prevented him (attend-
, his notice respecting the Etcik oewspaper ; his
'motion as moved by Mr. Conway. and he (Mr.
aible convinced of the propriety of the meaame,
.ne paper, as a certain source of correct and honest
respecting Irish Catholic affairs. Those publica-
, called " the heat 'public instructors," or London
newspapers, were reculiarly remarkable for gross ignorance of Irish
affairs; and not content with mere negative ignorance, where they
have the knowledge, they falsify facts, m order to the more perfect
gratification of their innlignant hostility towards Ireland. If those
public instructors were to be believed, every portion of the Govern.
ment of this country was zealously active in promoting the interest
ofltlie people, end the peasantry as actively engaged in opposing
their own welfare; they would fain induce their readers to believe,
that Ireland was inhabited by a people who entertained of religion
the most degrading notions, and of each other the most contempti-
ble opinion. It must be evident to those who read the London
papers, that, of all rivalsbips, tbat which they pursue matt intensely
is the endeavour to miseepresent Ireland. Nor does this feeling
exist without interested motives, neither is it peculiar to the vile
Courier, the Times, and fiforning Chronicle, bat extends to the
most obscure and worst conducted Journals, and, amongst the
number, the Morning tlerald ; but, fortunately, Irishmen were
enabled, through the French press, to undeceive Europe, to vindi-
cate their principles, and defend their country against the mercen-
ary calumnies of London Journalists ; and he rejoiced that a pe-
riod was likely to arrive when the boasting pride, and national va-
nity—for (said Mr. O'Connell) the English are the most vain-glo•
rious people in the world—will he kept in check by the publication
of truth, and the exposure of injustice. The public edifiers had
maligned him (Mr. O'Connell) by asserting that it was his object
and wish to obtain foreign influence over the affairs of Ireland ; hut
he could assure them there was nothing in life to which lie had a
greater antipathy than to foreign influence in the destinies of Ire-
land. He (lid not care what might be the name of that foreign in-
fluence. (Laughter, and " Hear, hear.") The Irish might, in-
deed, well dispense with it, for they never could forget that it was
owing to such influence that their country, which Providence had
marked with the features of an independent nation, was reduced to
a pitiful, impoverished province. (Applause.)
THE NETHERLANDS.
Mr. O'Cowiert.r. rose to propose a Resolution grounded on his
notice for the appointment of a Committee of seven, to prepare a
correct statement of the cause and persecution of the Netherlands
Catholics by their King. The Learned Gentleman said that he
had prefaced the notice of his motion with some observations expla-
natory of his motives tar bringing it forward. That any interfer-
ence on the part of the Association with the subjects of g foreign
nation, was an objection which he admitted lay upon the surface,
and that every one saw at once; for, in truth, the Irish people, or
ASsociation, had sufficient grievances to occupy their attention
without travelling out of their own country ; but in this case the
neutrality of the Irish people will avail them nothing ; on the con-
trary, they are forced into action as the Netherland occurrences are
cited to the detriment ofireised, and his (Mr. O'Connell's) motives
for interfering on this subject were basely distorted by the London
Press, and particularly in the Times and Moving Chrootteheein
Erch Jewels, the p!ople of the Netherlands were 'pretreat of •
t of loyal submission to their King's decrees, because they are
holica, and their reference to the Pope is adduced as an argu-
' went against the emancipation of the Catholics of Ireland, but
who, it is not alleged, have conducted themselves improperly.
,Now his (Mr. O'Connell's) motive in bringing forward the motion,
Ihu to show that the Netherlands Catholics are suffering the most
wanton and cruel persecution, at the instance of their King ; while,
on the other band, they exhibit the most exemplary loyalty, with
the most firm and unbending devotion and fidelity to their religion.
Mr. O'Connell concluded by moving for the appointment of the
Committee to draw up a correct statement of the occurrences in the
Netherlands.
After a conversation, in which Mr. Luke Plunkett, Mr. O'Gor.
man, Mr. O'Connell, Mr. Dillon, and Air. Conway, participated,
Mr. SHELL said, I am unacquainted with the details of the
question now pending between a member of the House of Orange
and the Belgian Clergy, but I think it proper that an inquiry
should be instituted into the proceedings adopted in the Low
Countries with regard to the Catholic religion, in order that we
may learn from the illustrative fact how far a Protestant Govern.
meat is disposed to act with fairness and impartiality towards the
Ministers of a rival creed. We shall know how far it is proper
that our Clergy should be submitted to the control of the Cabinet,
and whether we should permit them to be involved in that golden
net-work which the disinterested and patriotic Mr. Croker had
fabricated for their enthralment. (Cheers.) In this view the state
of the Catholic religion in the Low Countries may be in some re-
mote degree connected with the civil liberty of Ireland. In the
concerns of the Belgian Universities it would be preposterous upon
our part to interfere. But an investigation of facts, applicable to
what may become the eventual condition of Ireland, is not inappo-
site or improper. It may also be suggested that we owe to the pro-
fessors of our religion on the Continent some return of sympathy
for the inoperative interest which they appear to take in the suffer.
logs of their brethren in Ireland. 1 ou perceive, Sir, that I allude
to the publications which have lately appeared in the Eloile, and
which have excited so much of the " splendid bile" of the great
Ministerial Journal of England, of the writer in that paper, who
has made such angry conimenta upon Mr. Conway's proposition,
that we ahould take a French newspaper into the Association. I
do not mean to speak pith any sort of disrespect of the editor of' the
Courier. That paper is the organ of a great party, and of course
adapts itself to its interests and views, and it must be owned that It
is conducted with great ability and skill. To the praise of con.
sistency it happily has no very high claim. Not very long ago it
suggested that the House of Lords ought not to come into colli-
sion with the Commons, and resist the intimations of its will
which was given by the popular branch of the Legislature, while,
at present, it seems irrevocably hostile to our claims. In the article
to which I am now directing your attention, matter is intro-
duced which is addressed to the passions of the English people.
It is alleged that we have made the Etoile the organ of tht
Association. That is not the fact. (Cheers.) There is no con-
nection whatsoever between that Journal and this Body. No part
of its funds have ever been allocated to such a purpose. There
stand our books open to the inspection of any man who wishes to
revise them. Every sixpence of our expenditure is minutely en-
tered : we have no secret service money—we .have no friction for
the " itching 'palm." The advocacy of our tense is voluntary
and unpurchased—it springs from an honourable and high-minded
sympathy in our wrongs; and it io equally a calumny upon the
Catholics of Ireland and the leading journals of the French Go-
vernment, to insinuate that the Association have employed them
as instruments for the
_purpose of awakening a detestation for the
intolerant principles of Protestantism through the Continent, and
of laying bare the vulnerable point where the power of England
may be eventually assailed. (Cheers). But is it a crime upon our
part, when a foreign journal, that which has the widest European
circulation, and contains the earliest intelligence—that from which
the Courier itself makes its chief extracts, has denounced the
system of maltreatment adopted towards seven millions of Irish
Catholics, and has disclosed the impolicy of annoying so vast a
num of population, and consolidating them into one great affili-
ation of discontent, that.we should be solicitous to learn in what
language Ireland is spoken of through the world For my own part,
I am free to confess, that I rejoice at this proclamation which has
been made of the sufferings of our country, and feel it to be a sort of
consolation that if our wrongaare uniedressed, they are not at all
events unknown. It is well that England should learn at least to
blush at the reproaches which all Europe has united in casting on
her head. I do not wonder that a French writer should triumphantly
refer to the comparative toleration which exists in England, and in
France. One of the fundamental laws of the French Charter de.
clares, that although the Catholic and Apostolic religun is era.
blfthed, the professors of every other creed an admiseible into every
office, civil, military, and legislative, in the State. (Loud cheers.)
Religion has disfranchised seven-eighths of the Irish people. Seven
millions of British subjects are despoiled of the tights of citizens_
and is there no contrast here ? And on which sale does its glory
lie? And is it not right and fitting that the world should be ac-
quainted with it, and that mankind should know that, in that lofty
temple which England has raised to philosophy, an asylum for in-
tolerance has been preserved? (Cheers.) But, Sir, there is more
important matter, in the article to which I have referred, than the
mere allegation that the EioUe is apprising the Continen al Powers
of the vulnerable condition of this country. It is stated, that the
Association has employed that Paper, in order to propagate calum-
nies against England add her reli4ian. " The Etega;",_ mays the
Courier," is to circulate their atrocious calumnies up= Protestant
England." Calumnies I Thetis *bold word. I, Sh;gewe at this
moment in my laud the articles to which the Currier *kiss, slaA
I shoal be glad to learn whether the statements optimal iiithWe

articles are destitute of truth. First, with , „ 111,
England., die Male IS pleated to refer its in I-
sanguinary tyrant. The bloody Henry, says the Elul sea dsa
Apostle of the English Reformation—flre become the iatermeaerillir
the Gospel. and furnished Its 'notes and comnialatirOpeo the wind el
God. And what else has Gray told us, in his pious coiiplae lapin
the divine origin of the Protestant religion— •
" 'Twas love first taught s monarch to Ili oho.
And Gospel truth first shone duo' Bellen's eyes."
(Loud cheers.) So much for the *calumnies of the Btaife Mau
the religion of the Engloth people. The Voila sets forth fee
numbers of the Irish Catholics, their Increasing wealth, Intel*.
gence, and power. It appeals to the testimony ok Mr. MIN&
loch ' • and having stated tb atla at the number of edted diadems
was known, derives from tbote ilata the average and company.
tire population of Ireland. " The Catholics," says the Rislie,
" are eta millions and a half." Is that false? " The Catholics
(gays the Voile) have no share in the legislative enactment, or in
the judicial administration of the laws which govern them—shed
they ate excluded from all offices of high tumour and epode-
ment in the State—that the spirit of sect makes its way into the
tribunals ofjustice (it quotes Justice Fletcher's celebrated Manse)
—that they cannot hold even the rank of King', Counsel as the
Bar—that they are excluded from Corporations--are obliged to
pay one tenth of their property to the Ministers of a religion
professed by a petty minority of the people—are forced to raise
at their expense the empty and deserted temples of the Pro.
testant religion—that they are in a degraded cast, stamped with an
ignominious inferiority by the law." Now, I ask, is all this
false, and are these the calumnies which the Etoilt is accused of
circulatiag agahlat the religton and Government of England?
(Loud cheers ) But perhaps it is in the detail of the bigotry of
Catholic Ireland that the calumny is so to be detected. The &Dile,
after mentionitag that France was,in the reign of William, in alliance
with Ireland, and that there was a French garrison in Limerick, sees
forth the celebrated articles of its capitulation. 'lt states. that the
very Sunday after they were signed, Dobbin. the Bishop of
Meath, preached before the Heads of the Protestant Government,
in Christ Church, and laid it down as a tenet, that faith was not to be
kept with Papists. and that the present articles should be held to be
null and void is that falall The atrocious morality ofehriat Church
was speedily embodied in he penal code,which Burke pronounced to
be the most ingenious the was ever invented- for the vilification of
man. " Perjury and parricide." says the /;'toile, " were the basin
of that infernal system." Is that false ? In it false ? ask it
of the chief Ministerial Journalist of England.) Is it 'false that
the estate of the father was made the premium of the son's apos-
lacy ? Is it false that, with a renegade oath, he could strike a
poniard into his father's heart ? These laws have been called
' Serpent's teeth." But rosily a Catholic father found them much
" sharper," in the ingratitude of a thankless child. Let the Cott-
rier expatiate, if it will, upon the moral beauties of the system of
legislation introduced by the Protestants into Ireland, and point
out the beneficial results which It most hare had upon the charac-
ter of the people to which it was so bountifully applied. The
Btoile proceeds to detail the progress of the relaxation of the penal
code, and ascribes every concession to the perils and embarrass*.
ments of England. From 1778 down to 1793 the mitigations of
the penal code are traced to the influence of alarm. Hew far hu the
Erode misrepresented the facts ? Let the Courier point out a sin..
gle instance in which relief may be considered to have flowed hoax
the spirit of liberality and of justice. In the year 1792, the Ca-
tholic Petitign, which merely prayed that the Catholics should he
admitted to the elective franchise (no more), was rejected, when a
majority of 208 to 23 was declared, and the great bill of 1793 was
carried with hardly a dissentient voice. On the 4th of February,
1793, Mr. Secretary Hobart moved for liberty to bring in a Bill for
Emancipation, and on the same night announced that hostilities
had commenced. These, forsooth, are the calumnies of the
Etoffe, and it is because we have introduced the Journal in
which this important matter is contained, that we are denounced
as rebels to the state. What ! Is it a crime in the captive to listen
at the bars of his dungeon to the expression of pity which is
offered by the casual passenger to his sufferings? (Loud cheers.)
This, after all, is the extent of our criminality—here is the heed
and front of our offence. But there is further matter in the Eloile,
which is represented as false by the indignant ministerialists of the
Courier. " The Creoles of South America, (it nays) were not
Ireland,more oppressed than the Catholics of and the day may
come when. the example which England has afforded may be turned
against herself." The first branch of this proposition is beyond,
doubt. The second, I trust, is destitute of all truth. It is, after
all, mere prophecy, and whether to the Editor of the French or
English organ the larger portion of inspiration has been awarded,
it MUM be left to time to determine. The Courier tells us that the
bare ----- --"- "" power will of

let me see, here is a passage, in which it is alleged that
the rq-
peated disasters sustained by the Irish people have not yet subdued
their love of liberty, and that the spirit of the country is us-
broken still. (Loud cheers.) Is this false ? Is this among the
insolent fabrications of the French journalist? Is this another
calumny I Is this also false? No ! Thanks to Almighty God !
In the tnidst of all which we are condemned to state—bathed and
spurned as we have been—laden with injustice, and besmeseed
with contpmely, denounced from the steps of the throne itself, and
with almost every thing lost, except what a chivalrous and gallapt
King of France still boasted that he had preserved, with every thing
Inst. except what constitutes the honouruf a people. (Loud cneess.)
Thanks to Almighty God ! and I repeat the adjurstiOn, the heart
of Ireland is not tamed her soul is not subdued, her enthusiastic
spirit is not broken. (loud cheers.) No ! Nor will the meosee
which the organ of the Orange part of the Cabinet—the repre_
senta:ive of Eldon and of Peel, has presumed to utter, deter us
from the pursuit of that great object to which we are dvathai.
The Courier has threatened us with the re-enactinant of the penal
code ! Re-enact the penal code ! Re-enact that barbarous, that
flagitious, that blasphemous and parricidal code, which was
revolt against nature, and an outrage to the eternal Dodd lc-
enact those laws from which the heart of man recoils, and cf
which it is impossible to think without horror I Re-enact the
penal code ! Never ! or if they do, it shall be at the prica of a
deluge of blood ! (Here the whole meeting rose up anti repeat-
edly cheered Mr. Shell.) The earth shall soak with human gore
before it. The sithea of massacre must be fastened to the chariot
wheels of tyranny. Seven millions of men must bet first mowed
down. They must turn Ireland into a sepulchre before it. I to
not speak of the law as it now stands-4n that it is owe moral duty
to submit ; but I do not hesitate to say that any attempt to re-enact
the penal code in the plenitude of its former atrocity, would not
only justify but demand an appeal to those great and origiqal
rights, the consciousness of which is graven in the heart of min,
and that it would be better that our veins should be drained if
every drop of our blood, than they should be laden with the soul-
eating fetters of the penal code again.
(Mr. Sheil sat down amidst loud and long continued cheers.)
The Resolution was then put and carried, with the dissentient of
Mr. Plunkett.
The following Gentlemen were appointed on the Committee :
Mr. Conway. Mr. Shell, Mr. Brie, Mr. Coppinger, and Mr.
Browne, besides the mover and seconder.
M. Bv:l.t.Ew. Esq. was called to the chair ; and after thanks to
the Chairman the meeting aijourned.

DESTRUCTION OF .4 GAMI NG.TABLE INDURLIN.

On Sunday twenty-siz persons of various-occupations —.
private gentlemen, attorneys, working tradesmen, anti
waiters out of place, were brought before Major Sirr (the
sitting Magistrate), charged by Mr. Farrell, chief officer of
police, with being found in the gaming-house of Edward
Reynolds, in Temple-lane, playing at the game of hazard,
at one o'clock in the morning. Informations had beets
lodged, and a warrant directed to Mr. Farrell, on Saturday.
At the hour mentioned, he proceeded, accompanied b a
numerous train of peace officers, and some a the OrSO
police, in coloured clothes, under thei direction of Mr.Bcll,
armed with sledges and crow-bars. Having demanded ad-
mittance, which, as is usual, was refused, a signal was
given, and, in a few minutes, the door gave way berme the
well applied blows of the sledges. Some of the couvaty
were in the dining-room, where there was a large +nal
table, at which they set; many got on the roof, but they
were followed and brought back by the peace officers
Hardy, Jones, and Holland; three escaped into the yard
of a wholesale house in Eustace-street, forced through the
kitchen window, and out into the street, where their retreat
was cut off by peace officer Cox, who bad been statics:3l
there for the purpose. Being asked by Major Sirr what
they had to say, many of them admitted their having gone
there to play ; others said they went to see persona who
owed them money ; there never was a more wretched look-
ing group inside the office. They were each ordered to
pay a fine of 40s. and in default will be committed to
Newgate. No exertion is sufficient to put down this most
destructive vice. It appears that a dinner was give" to at
least forty select gamblers and swindlers on Thursday. the
10th inst. at which a veteran, who has realised a consider-
able fortune by gaming, presided.—Dstblin iforniagPesl.

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Sonar's., 26, St. James's-street. newApapers, were per
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bare sympathy of a foreign power will exasperate the pride of the
English people. I doubt it not. It is with nations as with men.
Prosperity is a great hardener of the heart. There is, however,
one important tact upon record illustrative of the facility met
which a transition from haughtiness to humility may be effected_
The people of England spurned at America, and applauded the
mad injustice of her oppression. Not long *hat It,. peGpla or
England received from misfortune • Immo in humanity, and,
bowed down their heads. But, Sir, I have done with tha ca-
lumnies which the Courier has attributed to the Etoie, and. yet,
. .