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London, England, 1832-01-23 00:00:00

GE h MAN PAPERS.

VIENNA, JAN. 6.—lt is Raid that Count Clam Marti
nitz will again go on an extraordinary mission to Berlin.
The news of the probable retirement of Count Seb rstiaui
from the French Ministry has caused some regret here,
though it is believed that not the smallest change would be
produced by it in the course of the French policy. Count
Sebastiani knows how to direct affairs with so much faci-
lity, that it might be difficult to find a successor equal to
him in this respect. The self-denial of the French Peer-
in the discussion ot• a question so important to them as
that of their hereditary dignity is admired here ; we were
not prepared for it, and are the more pleased at seeing a
question of such importance for the permanence of M. Pe•
rice's Administration decided so much more easily and
quickly than was to be expected. M. Perier may now,
perhaps, direct his chief attention to the foreign affairs of
France, and endeavour to realize the project of a general
disarming. Whatever doubts the French journals may
express of the intention of the Powers on this sub-
ject, it is certain that all nations and Governments
agree in the wish to redace the excessively great
military establisnments, as far as is compatible with
their internal and external security, in order to relieve all
the nations of Europe from the burden of maintaining
them, and that negotiations have bee❑ commenced with
this view, which perhaps might have already led to fa-
vourable results but for the intervention of various events
adverse to the arming of every separate Continental Power,
for instance the late occurrences at Lyons. How far the
newly ordered levy of 80,000 men in France may facili-
tate the execution of the plan, or hinder it, is a question
which cannot be decided without an accurate knowledge of
the present state of the army, and of the numbers required
to supply the place of the . men whose time of service is
expired, to keep the garrisons complete, and to maintain
order in the kingdom. However desirable it may appear
to every European Government to diminish the burdens
of the people by a reduction of the military force, the
present state of Europe does not yet seem sufficiently tt an-
quil to expect that this wish can be soon fulfilled.

A death, occasioned by a rather curious cir
cumstance, took place on Monday, at Hoddesden, Herts.
Mrs. BATTY had been many years hostess of the Black
Lion, at that village, whici. she had rendered famous for
its ale, and her own beauty, having been reputed the hand-
somest landlady on the road. On the previous Saturday,
when in the act of correcting a s-rvaut, she overbalanced
herself. In the fall, one of her pair of long ear.rings
broke, and a fragment cut open the jugular vein, and slit,
died in consequence on the Monday evening.—County
Press.

STATE OF TRADE AT OLDITAM.—The
fustian, check, and Silk weaving branches of trade are im-
proving here as respects the quantity of work given out,
vith a trifling advance for some descriptions of fustian.
Those weavers v%ho were lately destitute of work are now
pretty generally employed, and their wretched condition is
in some degree alleviated...../31arlatstrn Gazette.

The adjourned inquest on the body of the sea-
man, John Potts, who was supposed to have died
of cholera, mai resumed on Saturday evening at the
George and Dragon public-house, High-street,
Shadwell, before Mr. BAKER, the Coroner. It
having been understood that two medical gentlemen
from the Board of Health would attend to give
their opinions on the case, for the direction of the
Jury, as to whether it was or was not cholera, the
room was crowded to a most inconvenient degree.
The following was the additional evidence:—
Mr. Samuel Mason, apprentice to-Mr. Garland,
surgeon, since the lust meeting of the Court, had
analysed the stomach and intestines of the deceased,
in company with Mr. Ferard, of the General Die
pensarv, Aldgate, and they agreed that the deceased
bad not died of cholera morbus, but, as he before
stated, of rapid entirisie, going speedily into a state
of mortification of the bowels, the cause of which
was involved in obscurity. There was no conges-
tion of the intestines, and the urinary bladder was
not contracted. The state of the intestines might
have been produced by drinking, but he could not
positively say it Was.
Mr. Key, one of the gentlemen deputed to uttend
by the Board of Health, stated himst If to be a sure
geon in the Royal Navy, and that he had seen a Por-
tion cf ,he intestines of tie deceased, and he had no
hesitation in saying, from their appearance, and the
evidence he had heard read, that it e as not a case of
cholera ; nor had he ever seen such au appearance as
they presented in a case of esairitis. There was in
the evidence lie had heard, an absence of all those
symptoms which characterise cholera; the vomiting
of blood, the state of the bowels and bladder, and
other symptoms which had been described, were all
proofs that it was not a case of cholera.
In answer to u question by the Coroner, Mr. Key
continued, that cases of cholera are generally marked
by vomiting, but that the matter ejected is always
free from blood. He could not say what produced
the inflemmation of the bowels, nor speak to the
cause of the death of the deceased ; he did not
think that ardent spirits had anything to do with it.
Mr. Morris, master of the vessel in which the
deceased had been employed, deposed that the de-
ceased latterly had been addicted to thanking ardent
spirits; but he could not give any account of him
since they had, about five weeks back, returned to
Sunderland. On their passage to that place, the
mete of the vessel took away some spirits from the
aecerteed to prevent him drinking it, which annoyed
him very much.
Mr. Mating, Deputy Inspector-General of Hos-
pitals, the other gentleman deputed to attend by the
Board of Health, had seen the intestines of the de-
ceased, anti heard the evidence adduced, and bad no
aesitation in saying that it was not a case of cholera.
In answer to a question by a medical gentleman,
Mr. M. said, it was quite unlike any ease he bad
seen at Newcastle or Sunderland. lie beggea to
ataw the attention of the Jury to the contents of
the bladder; in no case of the cholera, where the
patient had fallen into collapse, had the bladder been
:Fscharged ; the contents of the bladder were voided
it first, and no secretion occurs afterwards until re-
ection takes place ; in this case there was a portion
of urine in the bladder. lie had never meets blood
vomited, as in this CAW, in any case of cholera, the
natter ejected from the stomach generally resembling
barley water.
In answer to a question by a medical gentleman,
\lr. Aiding had never made a post mortem exarnims-
,t.iatsttleo fdaonyi
npgatthi een
tt
mweh oh
eh diet!andad
beeonftheehroele;rathaetrNe ehtavd-
aeen one examination made, he believed, at Sueder-
;and, and the operation was not injurious to those
4entlemen who made it, nor to any one connected
Nith it. He had never, he concluded, seen anything
like the state of the intestines produced, nor could
rte account for the causes of such a state. From
die evidence he had heard, there was absence of the
" peculiarity of voice," which is charucterisiic o
cholera ; and but for this, the vomiting a blood,
and other symptoms, he would have thought it a very
.uspicious ease. In the cases he had seen at Sun-
derland, there was no constipation of the bowels;
there was generally purging, hut in this case there
was none.

A Medical Gentleman observed, that in the worsi
itvses of cholera it was on record that there had boen
no purging.
Mr. Jenkins, Chairman of the Committee of the
Central Board of Health, stationed at W'iiitechapvl,
had heard the evidence in this case, and had paid
much attention to the disease called cholera, and
r%as satisfied, from the absence of the three follow-
ing symptoms, that this was not a ca-e of cholera--
namely, " the peculiarity of voice, the spasms of
the extremities, and the suppression of the urine ;"
and that it was a case where death was produced
hyhtemorrhage of the intestine.

Much warm discussion took place between tfit-
medical men on this point. Mr. Jenkins was sup-
ported in his opinion by Mr. Alman, wim referred
to a similar case mentioned in a work published by
the late Dr. Armstrong.
There being no further evidence in the case, the
CORONER addressed the Jury ; and, after a short
time spent in deliberation, they returned a verdict,
" That the deceased had died by the visitation of
God, from natural causes, and not from cholera
morbus, nor from the effects of any poison, or ex-
ternal violence."

The verdict gave great satisfaction to the parties
assembled, and doubtle,s will to the public.

On Friday the 13th instant, the followi❑g
Gentlemen were elected Fellows of Queen's Coil..ge,
Cambridge :—J. E. DALLON, A. 13. ; T. RANGELEY,
A. 13.; W. PHILLIPS, A.B.

It is expected that Mr. TRACY will be re-
turned fur Tewkesbury without opposition. lie has inn&
most successful canvass.— Worcester Journal.

On Thursday night, just as the House W3E,
tbout to rise, on motion to such effect, leave of ahvence
for two months wad granted to Mr. 111ABERLY.

Lord CREWE, on Thursday, in the House of
Lords, took his seat for the first time after the death of his
!'ather.

DON PEDRO'S EXPEDITION.—A Corres-
pondent informs us that, according to letters just received
from an English officer serving on board the Juno corvette,
one of the ships of Dun Penito's squarircn at Belkisle, to
his friends in Undon, that the expedition will not and
cannot sail before the middle of March, us the Juno and
other ships comprising the same must fist he pierced for
the guns they are to carry, and to eceive new standing nil
running rigging, besides various other indis-
pensable before they can put to sea as ships of war on
their intended attack of Portugal.

•
NVe are credibly informed, that two indivi-
duals, in the garb of gentlemen, called, on Akarlay last,
:in a coach proprietor in this town, to hire a coach for
the purpose of conveying hither from Newcastle a conva.
lescent cholera patient ! The request Was very properly
peremptorily refused. We cannot find terms to express
our indignant sense of this reprehensible conduct. Mea-
sures are in progress, however, to prevent so dangerous r.
procedure. If we must have this insidious disease, let it
at all events be in the regular course of things, at d not
to be imported into our town by the voluntary act of indi-
viduals lost to all proper sense of the consideration nue to
the rest of the community.—Liverpool Courier.
Extract of a letter from Jamaica, dated Nov. len
—" His Majesty's sloop Racehorse, on the 13th October,
weighed and made sail from Port Royal, Jam ica.
On the morning of the 17th, between five and six
she was struck by lightning, which came in
contact with the top-mast and top-gallant-mast—shat-
tered the main-top-mast, split the awning in pieces,
went aft under the poop, knocked down the midsbil,-
,nan of the watch and quarter-master at the helm, a"
rico others, but without serious injury ; took its course
:own the pump, which burst with u treineudo
tts noise,
'hence into the gun-room and steward's cabin, l
uuke all
the crockery, ran tinder the hammock,
broke
the helierE,
r the lir.% •
&c. It was supposed that, had it not been, fi'
Toe lightning)r
rain, the sails would have been burnt. D
~,Joa„,:nfowlleorweedvehryy
stored at Santa Mantis. people of the
Racehorse arri thunder. On the 23d o,A,dier the
hsiecakvlyy. Ali on board thr Racehorse are
in good health. She sailed from Santa AI,J tre `?6th,
onl arrived at Port Royal, on het return, the X6tb, all
well. The season bad lAtla wet,"

MR. O'CONN'ELL'S RECEPTION IN

BIRMINGHAM.

On Saturday last the town was placarded, to
announce that a public meeting would be held that
evening at the Public Office, to consider the pro-
priety of giving this gentleman a public reception
on his arrival into the town. Accordingly a meet-
ing took place, but owing, we suppose, to the short-
ness of the notice (only two hours), it was but
thinly attended. In pursuance of resolutions adopted
at this meeting, it was announced by placards the
following morning, that a procession would attend
Mr. O'Connell's entry on Wednesday, and that he
would be entertained at a public dinner. Further
particulars were to be announced on Monday.
Nothing, however, appeared till Tuesday night,
when another placard was posted, stating that Mr.
O'Connell had been unavoidably detained in Dublin,
and that as the time of his arrival was now uncer-
tain, the procession would be abandoned for the
present. At the Political Council, on Tuesday
night, the Rev. Mr. M'Donnell read a letter which
he had just received from Mr. O'Connell, dated
Sunday, in which he stated, that in consequence of
an important engagement in a great will cause then
in course of trial in Dublin, he should not be able
to leave before Tuesday, and would probably not
arrive in Birmingham before Thursday or Friday.
Accordingly on Friday last a fourth placard appeared,
inviting the inhabitants to Beardsworth's Reposi-
tory, where it was announced Mr. O'Connell would
addre-s them. As soon as his arrival at the Swan
Hetel became known, an immense multitude as-
sembled in front of the building, huzzaing and ap-
plauding, and shortly after escorted the Hon. Mem-
ber to the Repository. By the time he had ascended
the gallery, accompanied by the Rev. Mr. M'Don-
nell, the whole of the immense edifice was com-
pletely filled. Not less than 15 or 20,000 persons
were present. Mr. O'Connell was received with
every demonstration of enthusiastic applause. He
was introduced by the Rev. T. M. M'Donnell.
On the motion of Mr. EDMONDS, the Rev. Mr.
M•Donnell was called to the chair.

The Rev. CHAIRMAN briefly thanked the meeting
for an honour, the memory of which he should ever
preserve ; the honour of presiding over an assembly,
and of representing an assembly met to express their
approbation of one who was the personation of every
virtue that entered into the character of the true
patriot.—(Cheers.) He reminded them that Mr.
O'Connell was sacrificing an immense professional
income, in order to do what ? Not to advocate the
interests of Ireland merely, but those of the whole
British empire—not of Britain only—but of the
whole human race.—(Cheers.)
Mr. M. P. HAYNES, after some observation.,
moved the following resolution :—" That D.
O'Connell, Esq., M.P., is eminently entitled to the
thanks of the people of England, and that the thanks
of this assembly are most cordially presented to him
for his indefatigable, uncompromising devotion to
the cause of the people, and most especially for his
generous advocacy of the English Reform Bill in
the House of Commons."
Mr. G. EDMONDS seconded the above ; and the
resolution was put and carried with loud cheers.
Mr. O'CONNELL rose, and was received with
great enthusiasm. He said, amidst this cheering
kindness he thought that one piece of injustice had
been done to him. It was strange he should think
so, but as it was his custom upon all occasions to
speak what he thought, regardless of the conse-
quence, he would state what he considered his
grievance. It was an injustice to suppose that he
came to England for the sole purpose of advocating
the close of his own country. He loved that country'.
well, but now the first object of his mission was to
support the English Reform Bill.—(Cheers.) The
principles of that Bill were not so abroad and popu-
lar as he could wish, but still it was a great mea-
sure, and he would be its determined supporter.
Yes, whatever might be his opinion of the Irish
Reform Bill, his first object should be to support
the English Reform Bill.—(Loud cheers.) He
wished it to be remembered that that was the first
object of his Parliamentary mission.—(Hear.)
Another of his objects was to conciliate Reformers,
to announce that the hearts of Irishmen beat high
for the liberty of Englishmen. He told them this,
that when the English Reform Bill had passed into
a law, they might remember whatever assistance
Ireland had afforded them in the struggle, and after-
wards combine with Irishmen to vindicate Irish
liberty in its turn, and to render oppression impos-
sible.—(Loud cheers.) He was going to give Mi-
nisters the assistance of his voice, and of whatever
peculiarity he might posses to enable them to put
the tyrants down, and to pass a Bill by means of
which die people would trample upon every oligar-
chical principle.—(Loud cheers.) For this pur-
pose he was certain of his own vote, and
that of his son.—(Three cheers for Mr. M.
O'Connell.) Mr. O'Connell thanked them for that
cheer ; it was a consolation to his father's heart.
He was going to Parliament to support Earl Grey's
Ministry in every honest measure, and he did not
anticipate any dishonest ones.—(Hear.) He had
been accused of a wish to embarrass Ministers, He
had hoped ro find some person in that vast assem-
bly who would there and then re-echo the
charges which the base hireling Press had heaped
upon him. Those charges involved imputations
which his heart despised.—(Cheers.) He was the
best abused man in the three kingdoms.—(Laugh-
ter.) In Ireland four or five Papers in the metro-
polis, arid about thirty in the country, abuse him ;
one, two, or three days a week.—(Laughter.) But
atlii his poor countrymen, guided by his conduct,
And not by the calumnies uttered against him, did
him the honour to acknowledge him as their advo-
4ate and repreientative.—(Cheers.) He came to
make no paltry compromise. He did not say to
Englishmen, " Assist me and I'll assist you." No
`rut when their victory was gained, he would again
come amongst them, and doubted not that many
would be ready to give a helping hand to Ireland—
( We will, we will) What, then, did he want for
Ireland ? Merely a Reform as extensive as that pro-
posed for England. He wanted for Ireland a fran-
chise equal to that which the new Bill would give
to England ; and he contended that a 51. franchise
in Ireland would be only equal to a 101. franchise
in this country. But he would make a bargain ; he
would consent to take a 71. franchise, which was
the same as that possessed by the negroes at Ja-
rnaica.—(Hear, hear.) The next subject was the
number of Members. At the time of the Union
of Ireland with England, Castlereagh gave the fol-
lowing as the estimate of the amount of Members
iltie to Ireland :—For population as contrasted with
that of %ngland, 202; revenue, 39; exports, 100;
;mports, 93; which being added together and di-
widad by four, the medium nubmer would give to
Ireland 108 Members and a half.—(Loud laugh-
ter-) Such was Castlereag h's calculation He
would make him a present
of the half man. ' • for
halt a man was of no use but to Barkers, and
Castlereagh was a bitter Buricer of poor
Ireland.—
(Laughter.) From the 108 Members Castlereagh
struck struck off the eight, and he might as well
struck off the 100 ; it would not have involved have
a
greater violation of principle. Castlereagh was a
sad tyrant ; he a as fit for the Holy Alliance Alliance. he
sold his country, and he trampled upon her, but he
took revenge upon himself and cut his own throat.
—(Loud cheers.) Ireland ought to have 170 Mem-
bers, and how many did he ask ? He would not
ask 170, but only 123 ; and he made that request,
standing upon the provisions of the Union. The
Union was considered a national compact, and by
that Union he would stand. He would not boast
i
that he was instrumental n forwarding the emanci-
pation of Ireland, but he must be allowed to con-
gratulate himself that he laboured with success to
obtain perfect relief for the ProtestantDissenters.—
(Three distinct rounds of applause were here given.)
known
that regard to his political creed, it was
that he contended for the right of every man who
pays taxes to have a vote.—(Loud cheers.) Every
man who is liable to serve in the militia should also
have a vote. These were his principles: he was

also the friend of short Parliaments and vote by
ballot. For the present, however, he would be
content with the Bill before the House. In that
House, to which he had the honour to belong, the
Bill was cafe—(Cheers)—and he trusted that Mi-
nisters were strong enough to send up such a
number of honest men into the House of Lordi—
that reftrgium peccalorum—as would at once over-
power the votes of the old Tories and the Bishops
to boot.—(Loud cheers.) If they did not do this,
he should doubt their honesty.—(Hear, hear.)
After dwelling upon the advantages which would
result from the Reform Bill, in the shape of lopping
off sinecures, pensions, &c., Mr. O'Connell said he
had another notion of his own.—(Laughter.) No man
ever thought of paying another man's lawyer, sur-
geon, or apothecary ; and he could not imagine why
one man should pay another man's parson.-(Cheers.)
This must be brought to an equitable adjust-
ment. The tithe system had a very pernicious
effect upon the agricultural interests. Could a
farmer be expected to embark so large a capital in
the cultivation of land, when a tenth of the produce
was taken for tithe, as he could if the whole produce
were his own ? Another thing was, that he dis-
liked the present system of appointing Magistrates.
They were were appointed by the Lord Lieutenant
of the county. In Ireland he knew them well, and
they played such " high fantastic tricks" against the
poor as were sufficient to speak their character. He
thought that in England the Magistrates were the
most active agents of oppression.—(Cheers.) He
was anxious that every Magistrate should be chosen
by the people of the parish in which he was to act
—(Cheers)—and that unless re-elected, he should
not continue in office more than three years.—
(Cheers.) Again—look at the law. He was him-
self a barrister of 32 years' standing; he had devoted
his youth to the study of the law ; he had had, and
he might say this without boasting, an unusually
extensive practice in the law, and yet he would can-'
didly and solemnly avow, that he did not yet know
what the law was.—(Laughter.) He would tell
them why he did not. Because there was no law
at all.—(Cheers.) He wanted a Reroim which
would remove all restrictions from productive in-
dustry. Under certain restrictions he advocated a
free trade. Not a free trade which would give
cheap silks, cheap gloves, and cheap wine to the rich,
whilst it gave dear bread to the poor.—(Loud
cheers.) He hoped to Ged—he asked their pardon
for the introduction of that sacred name—but he
did sincerely hope in God that the corn laws would
soon be repealed, and no longer exist as a drawback
upon the profusion which the Deity designed for man.
Whether he succeeded or failed in obtaining justice
for Ireland, he would not relax his efforts for Eng-
land.—(Cheers.) Englishmen, said Mr. O'Connell,
I have given my pledge; I will struggle for your
freedom to the last. (Words cannot convey any
idea of the applause which was given to Mr. O'Con-
nell at the conclusion of his speech.)
Mr. M. O'CONNELL briefly addressed the meet-
ing►, re-echoing the sentiments of his father.
Thanks were voted to Mr. O'Connell for his Ad-
dress, and to the Rev. Mr. M'Donnell, the chairman.
Three appalling groans were given for the bo-
roughmongers, and the meeting separated.
Mr. O'Connell left Birmingham shortly after, and
was cheered by a great crowd of people. His recep-
ion was highly gratifying to his feelings.