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(Front the Dublin Evening Pod of Saturday.]
NEW CATHOLIC ASSOCIATION.

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Tp-day, the first meeting of this body was held at the Come
On the motion of Mr. O'CoerwELl: the Chile war take by
Mr. Redmond.
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Mr. Preston, the Hon. Arthur Preston, the lion. Goeefie,
Ffrench, Sir John Burke, Masers. O'Connell, Shell, Ilubad,
Brie. he. &e.
Mr. O'ColeirEtt said, that as there were already 96 inilivldrele
composing the new Association, it was macifest they were selE-
ciently numerous to proceed to make the necessary Evangel:mime
fen-business. They must, however, act deliberately and cautiously,
so aa not to violate the late Statute, and at the sante time. to ea.
duct the details of the future Association with effect. There was,
be ti ought, no great difficulty in avoiding the prnvisions of the
Stieute, by acting according to the plan detailed in the Report big
before the late Aggregate 3leeting. All the details of the ben.
ness should be consistent with that Report. The first purpose of
the Association would be to reconcile all persons of all sects eta
persuasions throughout Ireland, and to promote public peace as
well as private concord. For this purpose it would be neceuary to
ascertain, in the districts of Ireland, the local causes of disturbance,
wherever disturbance might arise, and to devise the proper methede
that might be used for its extinction. They could not, certainly,
apply to Parliament, or to the Courts of Law, for relief. but they
could, through the medium of the public press, give authentic r..
port, of such disturbances, and their caws', to the public. In tea
'South and West, he felt happy in assuring the meeting, ail was
now perfectly tranquil ; while, In the North, unfortunately, there
were disturbances of the most horrible description. At Machette
where numbers of Catholics had been slaughtered by the Orange.
men last year, and where the Catholics had since made up the de.
Greece, with unsuspecting confidence, he was credibly iefunreete
That the Orange processions there were never so numerous orso
lent as this year. A gentleinse who had come into the ball of the
Four Courts this day, stated, that In a shun journey which he bad
made through that part of the country, he had to ride through so
less than eleven Orange arches. In Coleraine, the i&angetmen de.
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fated the police, and when the military wets eleven oat against
them, they forced them to retreat to their baruldb. By bevel
these circumstances authentically stated in the newspapers, they
Might obtain redress, and if they did not, they would at least show
the public who are the causes of the grievances of the country.
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was, they must all be aware, prevented by the late Act.
Mr. O'CoesEELL said they could not certainly, without violate
ing the statute, correspond with any society ; but they might safely
do so with individuals. As to the grievances which he tied alluded
to, it was necessary to ascertain the facts, and then to apply to them
the lenitive of good counsel and good example—to resist the inns.
lion of party politics, especially those which, in this country, ex.
cited to and hatred atnong individuals. They would, by
the means he had adverted to, be able to present to the Irish pubis
a genuine picture of the causes of the which might exile
among them, to catose the promoters of bigotry and disunion.
and to point out tee encouragers of Orange processions. Tbis
would certainly be of advantage,as thecore generally followed feces
knowing the causes of the disease. The next topic to which the at.
tendon of the new Association would be drawn was that of educe.
tion. The ederation of the Catholics was left altogether to tee!.
victual charity, with the exception of those subscriptions whice,
all large tow neehe Protestants so liberally made at charity serums;
while there were four hundred thousand children educated by tee
Catholic clergy, without receiving die least assistance from ()overt.
ment. There was at present a large fund vested in the Matta
Wellesley, of which he had no doubt a portion would be deroted to
the purposes of the education of the Catholic*, if the proper ninth.
lion of the schnolie conducted by the clergy of that persuasion were
reported to his Excellency. From the Report of the Education
Commission, it appeared that the Kildare-street Society were now
only fit for superintending a model school for the instructional
masters. Ile thought it right that the Catholics ought to base
sno:her model school in Dublin, and if that were once established,
the Kildare-street gentlemen would become as useless hereafter as
they had been mischievoua hitherto. With respect to education
it would be the duty of the new Association to infonn the peal:
of Englarut of the real state of that sebject in this country. Tles
Learned Gentleman entered into a detail of the vast 'moor money
which had been granted by Government to the Bible Society-4i
society whose sole employment he stated to be calumniating tNi
Irish and the Catholic clergy. Ile then alluded to the Hibernia
School Society, which was, he said, above all others, remarkable
for ignorance and in,pudence combined, and never was seek
a set of individuals assembled together as its menage:re
He (Mr. O'Connell) then adverted to the curious assertiots
preached by the Rev. Mr. .151• Neill, the son.in.law of phi
Archbishop of Dublin (from the connexion with whom, ba
stated, he could expect nothing else) to the Hibernia
School Society, namely, that when a Roman Catholic died
without absolution, the clergyman went to the grave, and. eze
!turning the body, administered that sacrament. When he tail
applied to the Body for their authority in asserting this calumny,
the answer he received was, that it liael.been taken from some De.
clesiastieal Review; so that his only consolation was, dust it Sad
been not only preached, but printed in some book which henteeeK
saw. The next object of the new Association would be to alb
fain the extent of the population of this country, which he. OW
aidered to be at least eight millions, distinguishing the Calheliel
from the Protestants, and, where it was possible, the Pro
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and probably when their Protestant neighbours saw on deep
terms the Catholics got to Heaven, they might wish to go there at a
similar rate. lle then alluded to the late Burial Bill, which, ba
said, had come forth literally, and without a pun, a dead lento.
They would build churches where the Catholics could be bailed
ithcut hiving the religious feeling* of their surviving friends out.
raged. He concluded hy moving tee appointment of a Comnettes
of twenty-one to draw up regulations for the future meetings of the
Catholic Association,
Mr. DOWELL O'REILLY opposed Mr. O'Coneell's MOtiona
on the ground that it was meant by that Gentleman to bare the
grievances of the country discussed at the meetings of the As.
iodation, which was contrary to the late Statute. lie stated that
Mr. O'Connell had said such was the object of the Association.
Mr. O'CoelerELL appealed to the Gentlemen of the Press, she
had taken a note of his speech, whether he had not, on the con-
trary, disclaimed all such intention as that attributed to hits by
Mr. O'Reilly.
The Gentlemen all answered that Mr. O'Connell had net at all
spoken es Mr. O'Reilly represented him..
The Reverend Mr. L'Esyetetects, after a few obseevatione,
seconded the Resolution, which was put and carried unanimously.
The Mover and Seconder, Messrs:Conway, Fords, Brown, Kir.
The falloy ine Gentlemen were nominated on the Committee:—
wan, Harty, Huband, Dillon, Brie, Darn., Plunkett, O'Reier,
Staunten, M`Nevin, Corballis, Murphy, P. Ronayne, Hiciia, and
Crane.

Mr. BOUCUILR, of Daggotstorn, County Limerick, was carlcel
to the Chair.

Thanks were returned to Mr. llEn3tonri, for his condos: as
Chairman of the first fleeting of the New Catholic Assaciatirn.
when the Meeting separated.

NAPOLEON's STATUE.

In a work upon the Column of tl: Place Yenduroe,
written by M. Tardieu, the author accuses M. Launy, the
founder of the column and statue of Napoleon which aut-
mounted it, of having offered his servic, a to take down the
latter, and of having afterwards broken it to pieces, sod
remelted it. M. Launv has just published a refutation of
this calumny, which he says made him an object of aci-
venal horror. This refutation is accompanied by justifi-
catory documents, the authenticity of which is incontes-
table. The following is M. Launis account.af•aw Wm'
action:—

" On the 3d of April, 1814, M. Slontbadon called on me. aed
asked me it I was not the founder of the column and status of tbe
Place Vendome. On my replying in the affirmative, he sold me
that 1 was required to takedown the statue, being the only pima
who knew how it was fixed upon the column. This I !shoed te
do, and he went away, stating that he would return with an orate
to compel me. The next morning lie came hack, and presethe
ma with an air of triumph a written paper, which, on perusing, I
found to concern him alone, and as my name was not mentioced:s
it, I again refused. Ile then took me in his carriage to the hotrl
of a General Officer, in the Hue Taitbuul, No. 18. This person.
whom we found is bed, addressed me in a harsh and haughty man-
ner, and on my once more refusing to do what was required of tue,
he told me, that if I did rot obey I should be shot, and added. I
give you three days to think of rt.' Finding myself thureoertodi
I demanded that the statue should be left in my possession's. •
security for 80,000 francs still due to me. This was accededlp,
sad at the General's request I repaired to the headquarters or tae
Emperor of Russia, where the following order was put into my
hand :
*" In the execution of the authorisation given by us so AC L.nz
Montbadon to have the statue of Bonaparte taken down at hie O.',
and upon the declaration of the said M. de 3/ontbailon that kV
Launy, she founder of the column, is the only person capable et
doing it successfully, we order the said Lanny, under pain of on's.
Lary execution, to proceed without delay to the said operation.
(Signed) " DE HOCHTCLIOUART,
" Colonel AiLde.Camp to the Emperor of Buses,
Cmma
" Ilead.quarters, April 4,0 1814.'ndant of the place.
" At the head of this order was written—
" "Po be irutnelliately put in execution.
(Signed) "" Passaurts, Prefect of Police."'
M. Launy then goes on to state that he showed the utmost re-
spect to the statue in taking it down, and did nut, sa was l^loaf
eserted, attach a rope round its neck. During Napoleon's ao-
,ium at Elba, numbers of persons, both native and foreign, eau"'
to M. Latiny's foundry to see the statue. On the return of the
Emperor the statue was given up to the government, but on a- r
second return of the Bourbons it was broken to pima, and L.
bronze employed in making the statue of Henry IV., whioll has
been trestcsi on the platform of the Pont Ncuf.