The Sun.
London, England, 1832-03-30 00:00:00

BIRMINGHAM POLITICAL UNION.

At a meeting of the Council of the Birmingham Political
Union, held on Tuesday evening last, at the Globe Inn, Bir-
mingham, T. ATTWOOD, Esq. in the chair, a petition to
Parliament was adopted, praying the Government not to inter.
fere between the Irish tithe payers and the clergy in the collec-
tion of tithes, by allowing the clergy compensation for tithes
that they were unable to collect. The meeting was addressed
by the Rev. Mr. 3riacdonnell, Mr. Hadley, Mr. Attwood, jun.,
Mr. Weston, Mr. Haynes, and several other able members of
the Council, all of whom deprecated the injustice of the mea-
sure now before Parliament, on the subject of the Irish tithes,
in the collection of which, it was stated. within a comparatively
short period, that no less than 26,000 lives had been sacrificed.
The petition prayed that the subject be deferred until the great
measure of Reform had passed into a law, and so allayed the
agitated state of the country.
The large room in which the meeting was held was crowded
to excess, and the petition, which is to be entrusted to a mem-
ber of the Union (Joseph Hume, Esq.), was unanimously agreed
to. Mr. Shiel will be requested to support the petition,
A new building in Charles-street, Birmingham, fitted up for
the purposes of the Union, is just completed, and a meeting of
the Council is appointed to be held, there, for th• first time, on
Tuesday next.

A gentleman having a recent communication
from New South Wales of the efficacy of a decoction of the
bark of the blue gumtree in cases of the most virulent Dysentery,
would suggest the propriety of its adoption in cases of the pre-
vailing Cholera. It appears to have been the recent discovez y
of one Newman, a convict, and to have restored the lives of se-
veral who had been given over by their medical attendants.
Two ounces of the bark boiled from two pints of water to one
pint, is the dose of an adult.—Chellezthirm Chronicle.
The cholera Asiatic is in Dublin. Of this
no man competent to form a judgment--no man whose feelings
are not seared against the calamities which impend over the
nauner nouulation of this *city can entertain the slightest doubt,
communicated. We should indeed have been slow to make
this statement until the Board of Health had made their report,
which will probably be this evening, too late for insertion, if
we had not ascertained and proved the particulars. Five eases
have occurred in the vicinity of Summer-hill, four of which
have terminated fatally, and all exhibiting the most marked
and virulent features of the malady—purging, total cessation of
the animal functions, disappearance of pulsation, and final ex-
haustion, at a space from thirty to nine hours. However the
disease may have originated, it is certain that it has been com-
municated. This is the time, therefore, for action—for prompt,
immediate, and energetic action.—Dublitt Evening Post.

ItIOT AT PAISLEY.— Sunday afternoon,
some boys discovered two small shovels and a hook on the end
of a cord, concealed beneath a small bridge leading from a
country road near the new burying-ground. These instru-
ments were taken to the town and exhibited there. The public
mind was so excited by the supposition that those dying of cho-
lera were thus transferred to the dissecting-table, that a crowd
collected early this forenoon, and commenced opening the
graves, in one of the first of which an empty coffin was found.
As this proceeded, the crowd rapidly augmented, and collected
round the scene of exhumation. As each successive grave
was opened, it was discovered empty ; the intelligence was
received with a shout by the multitude. At the opening of
the fifth grave, on the same announcement being made, the
fence of stobs round the ground was torn down. Numbers
more commenced leaving for the town, and each individual on
his arrival declared more positively than another the certainty
of the great number of empty graves. About twelve the affair
had math, so much noise, that the Magistrates assembled for
the preservation of the public peace. It was instantly
agreed that a reward of fifty pounds should be offered
for the discovery of the offenders. This had scarcely
been resolved on before the crowd arrived in town, numbers
armed with stobs, bearing an empty coffin. They, notwith-
standing the efforts of the Magistrates, proceeded through the
town, and broke the windows of all the surgeons' houses and
shops, the windows of the hospital, broke the cholera hearse,
and demolished everything connected with the establishment so
far as possible. The first time the crowd, consisting almost
entirely of half-grown lads and Irishmen, visited the hospital,
they were persuaded to desist from their work of destruction,
but after taking a turn through The town, they came back and
broke the windows, forced up the gate, and did other mischief.
A patient in the hospital, named Henderson, was struck on the
head with a stone, and had it slightly cut ; he was not expected
to recover, but after calling for assistance against this treatment,
he shortly after expired. Another patient, Mr. Kincaid, who
was recovered, and who was to have been dismissed from the
hospital this day, has relapsed, and now lies in a very danger-
ous state. A party of cavalry left Glasgow at four o'clock for
Paisley. —Abr id ged front the Glasgow Chronicle of Tuesday.
IRISH TRADE 'WITH LIVERPoOL.—Soine
idea of the extent and importance of the trade between Ireland
and this port may be formed from the following list of Irish
articles imported into Liverpool during the year 11 1. It would
not be easy to form an accurate estimate of the value of these
imports, but it must amount to several millions sterling. It
will be seen that the articles exported consist entirely of agri-
cultural produce. Ireland, in fact, seems destined to become
the granary of England, and we cannot help hoping that the
continually increasing intercourse between the two countries
will, at last, have the effect of raising that rich and beautiful
country to its proper rank amongst nations. The invention of
steam has already done more for Ireland than a thousand Acts
of Parliament, and it must, sooner or later, either raise it to the
same level as England, or drag down England to the level of
Ireland. Our interest in the prosperity of Ireland is, there_
fore, scarcely less deep than that of the Irish themselves. The
following is the table which we mentioned above:—
Cows

, .
Horses
Sheep 134,702 Ditto 19,217 halfdo
Mules 243
Pigs 156,001 Eggs ...... ......... 2,504 crates
Calves
Lambs
Hams and Tongues 590 hhds. Barley
Bacon 13,090 bales I Rye
Pork 14,534 barrels Beans
Ditto
Beef
Ditto 1,189 barrels Meal 149,810 loads
Lard 463 tierces Flour 93,154 sacks.
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Ditto 4,512 firkinsi Li,erpoo Times.
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