Star.
London, England, 1830-04-15 00:00:00

METROPOLITAN POLITICAN UNION.

Yesterday the fifth meeting of the Metropolitan Poli-
tical Council, since their appointment at the great Radical Reform
Meeting, held at the Eagle Tavern, City-toad, on the Bth of March,
took place at the Globe Tavern, Shoe-lane, Fleet-street, for the de.
spatch of business. This meeting was very numerously attended ;
and, a little after two o'clock o'clock Mr. LoviTT was called to
the Chair.

Mr. RILEY, the Secretary, read a letter, dated the Bth instant,
from Sir Francis Burdett, in which the Ron. Baronet lamented his
Incapacity to attend the meeting of the Council, on account of his
being obliged to leave town for a few days; but he still persists in
his wishes to forward, by every legitimate means in his power, any
society having for its object " an effectual and a radical reform" of
the House of Commens.—The Baronet's letter was read with many
marks of approbation.
Mr. CARPENTER moved that the Secretary do read the notices
of the motions for the consideration of the meeting.-81r. RILEY
read the notice, in effect that " the Council was to consider the ex.
pediency of appointing a committee, for the purpose of drawing up
a manliest° relative to the principles of reform entertained by the
Council of the Metropolitan Political Union."
Mr. CARPENTER then addressed the meeting to the following ef-
feet :—He said he had to remark that he felt some relutance in
bringing under the consideration of the council, a question which
he was aware was opposed to the feelings of more than one of its
members, whose judgment, at all times, he would feel pain in op.
posing. But the view he had taken of the principles promulgated,
and set forth by the Birmingham Political Union, left him no
other alternative than a dereliction of his duty, or to bring the sub-
ject before the council. lie then proceeded to animadvert, with
some severity, upon the principles set forth by the Birmingham
Association, and contended they were an equivocal attack
upon the Metropolitan Union, and to him it appeared to be a
mere pretext for bolstering up the Marquis of Blandford's
motion, or rather his notions of reform. His only objection to the
cause was, that they should conciliate all parties of reformers, and,
as far as they could, avoid any thing like controversy. In this feel-
ing lie concurred, and in that spirit he conveyed it. lie concluded
a powerful appeal by moving that, although the resolution would in
its effect meet the Birmingham resolutions, still they were not
thrown out in the shape of an open challenge ; and as he had the
weakness of conciliation, lie would shove the adoption of his resolu-
tion. The resolution being put v.•as carried unanimously, and a
committee was appointed to carry it into effect. 4 ►thcr minor busi-
ness having been dispose:l of, the meeting adjourned.

PETER Cum YN, ESQ.—It has been stated to us, upon
authority on which we may rely, that about two year► ago a lady
to Bristol received a letter, signed " P.:ter Comm" bearing evident
marks of insanity. She thought no more of it, until she lately read
that sentence bad been pronounced on the unfortunate gentleman,
whose name is prefixed to this statement She caused it to be as-
certained whether the letter addressee' to her was written by hint,
and having found it to be the ca<c, communicated the circumstance
to Mr. Foster, alto immediately preceethal to Lnndon, with a zeal
in the cause of human life.whioh does hint peat credit, and put Mr.
Peel in posses.ion of the circumstance. The Right lion.Gentlentan,
in conscquence,cau•ed a reprieve to be dispatched.—Eveninj
The tbilowing somewhat marvellous stor}• appears in
the columns of a respectable Provincial Journal, from wh:ch we
copy it verbatim On Monday, 1 Bunbary, Esq. of !ILA.
stow, Berks., being out with the Craven Hounds, by some means
his valuable gold watch worked out of his pocket, which was not
discovered till returning front the field. He immediately offered
a reward of ten guineas for its recovery ; and on the following day
several persons went in search of it, and Mr. James Hutt amongst
others, taking with him a bitch of the Newfoundland breed, and
passing over a field of grass near the cover, the bitch fcund the:
watch, and took it home in her mouth, a distance of two n.i!es,
where her master had the pleasute of receiving the reward of ht::
labours.

Rumour states that a Petition against the return made
on the late election for the city of Cork is to be presented and that
It is to be followed up at the expenee of Mr. Newenham, the un-
successful candidate. It is further stated, that the übjec: of this
Petition is not to place Mr. Newenham in tile situation of r:presen.
tative, but to unseat Mr. Callaghan, and cause a new election :9
follow.—Cork Southern Reporter.
The Evening Post of Saturday contains one of the
most merciless and wanton personal attacks ever penned upon pour
Lard Norbury, whose age, state of health, and retirement train pub-
lic life, ought to have protected hint, if other considerations were
forgotten, from being assailed in the brutal and ferocious language
in which the article to which we allude is couched. The pretext for
introdacin; the name of Lord Norbury is tbr the purp,:se of paying
a fulsome compliment to Lord Plunket, and bespattering Mr. Ser-
geant Ilkckhuree with praises the ink:A gross. If w.; know anything
of the Meer gentleman—and we entern.in fur him tile highest re-
spect—he will repudiate a compliment so accompunied.—Etfening

Extract of a letter, dated AleNatiilriot,January 6,1830:
The Samarang frigate has been bete about a month. waiting fur
the despatches expected at Suez since the 10:h of December by the
%leant vessel, which was to be expelimentally started by the Indian
(,overnment, with the view of ascertaining the feasibility and ad.
vantages of this route for mails itipd passengers ; and since these are
sufficiently obvious, we hope to see F.,.,r)pt shortly become (as it
ought to be) the high road to the Bit ish colonies in the Last, and
India brought, as it were, to our door."

COLLYRIUM WELLINGTONIENSE, OR THE

WELLINGTON EYE SALVE.

From the Moriii);y Chronicle.

The proprietors of this matchless ointment, inspired by
a pure zeal for the general weliarc, are happy to be able to lay before
the public the following testimony to its efficacy. as contained in
a letter which they have just received from the pen of the Right
Ron. W. 11.1 ate President of the Board of Trade.

" CIENTLEMEN—Having experienced the benefit of your invalu-
able Collyriuin, I think myself in duty bound to put at your tlis-
' poaal the following particulars of my cage :—I was born with a con.
stitution of vision which rendered me very sharp-sighted as to my
own interests, but very dull of seeing with regard to the welfare of
others. In consequence of this, when I had a good coat on my back,
I was never aware that any one who stood next to me in &crowd was
out at elbows. If my own crop of potatoes was a plentiful one, I
could never perceive a scarcity on the very next farm to niy
own ; and when I beheld a joint of meat onlooking on my own table
I was ready to swear that a similar joint was steaming in the ad-
joining cottage, my deficient optics not enabling me to observe that
its shelves were destitute even of bread and cheese. Hence,
when folks talked of public distress, I talked of exaggeration ; when
they cried out against taxes, I charged them with ignorant impati-
ence; and being snug in office, like Voltaire's hero I thought every
thing was for the best in this best of all possible worlds. Such was
my extraordinary state of partial blindness, when I was taken in
hand by the celebrated disciple of Sangrado, Doctor Welling.
ton. His practice I found rather rough, but very decisive, anti,
thanks to PUOVIDENCE. very successful. He paid me a visit
immediately on my repairing to London after my last return as
Member for Liverpool. His first operation, to roy great sur-
prise, was to tweak me by the nooe. This brought tears into
my eyes, which did me a great deal of good, and was an ex-
cellent preparation for the use of the Collyrium, which was
applied 'modulo anent. My disease, however, being of long
standing, was rather stubborn, and the ointment for At/31C time
seemed to produce little effect. Understanding this, and regard-
ing my case as desperate, the doctor called on me one fine morn.
ink, at my office, opened his box, and after applying his recipe,
assisted its operation by a kick a posteriori, which sent me head-
long out at the door, though I instinctively held fast by the
post. I had no sooner floundered to the outside of my old te-
nement, however, than my cure was perfected. My eyes were
open to behold the general distress. r could see that some-
thing was rotten in the State—a fact of which I had never been
aware before. I could now, for the first time, see the " weight
of taxation pressing on the springs of industry." I became
sensible, that when I was in office, Ministers behaved basely
to the Portuguese Liberals. I now have a taint glimmering of the
impropriety of my receiving a retiring pension of 2,0001. a year
front an impoverished people. I sec notch good in Mr. Hume. and
much reason in the principles of Reform. In short, lam an altered
man; and, blessed be the Collyritim Wellingtoniense, I can see
the nation's sufferings and wrongs, and groan over them in chorus
with Newcastle and Winehilsea.

I remain your obedient Servant,
W. HUSKISSON.

The Bishop of Winchester, as Lord of the Manor of
Droxford, has directed an inclosure of 200 acres of the waste lands
within that manor to he made for the growth of timber. Much
dissatisfaction, we understand, is expressed by the Bondland tenants
of the manor at his proceeding, which they consider to bean invasion
of their rights ; and a meeting of the tenants, we hear, is likely to
be soon called upon the subject.—Hampshire Advertiser.
A curious fact has recently come to our knowledge,
which dhows the spirit in which the dramatic censorship is con-
ducted in this country. Until now our readers were probably not
aware that Mr. Colman looks upon subserviency to " the great " as
an essential attribute of his office t neither should we have suspected
it, had we not been led to that inference by the circumstance to
which we are alluding.—ln the English version of the opera of
Cinderella, brought out on Tuesday evening at Covent Garden
Theatre, the following dialogue originally occurred:—" Dundini.
Pray, Master Alidoro, help me, for I am a great man now, and can
do nothing ! Alidoro. How, &huh ! is that one of our privileges ?
Dirxdini. Certainly ; what do the great do but live by the labours
of the little ? " Mr. Colman struck out the whole of Dandini's
last answer; the entire dialogue was therefore omitted.
THE GIRAFFE.—In accordance with the wishes and
command of his Majesty, very skilful persons have been engaged
for some time past in stuffing the akin of the Giraffe, which -ex-
pired at Sandpit Gate, near Windsor. The Stuffer to the Zoulo-
gical Society, Mr. Gould, has bad the performing of this duty, and
the Articulator to Guy's Hospital has nearly completed the Ike.
leton of the animal, the bones of which have been polished and
set together with the greatest precision. His Majesty has given
full and complete instructions as to the mode in which he wished
the work to be performed. It is intended to place the stuffed gni.
mal, as well as the skeleton, in the galleries at Windsor Castle.
Soon after the Giraffe expired, De Ville, the modellist, was ordered
down to Windsor by his Majesty, and took a cast of the animal.
From this east a wooden form was manufactured, on which the skin
of the animal is now placed, and which preserves its beauty in an
extraordinary degree. The preparation has a very fine appearance,
and stands upwards of eleven feet high from the top of the head to
the bottom of the hoof. The stuffed skin, as well as the skeleton,
will be conveyed, it is expected, to Windsor, In about a fortnight.
THE HEBREWS. —A Society was established about
ten months ago, which commenced its operations by hiring three
houses at Camden Town, for the purpose of forming an asylum to
which Jews inquiring into the truth of Christianity might resort.
In this asylum they are instructed in the Christian religion on the
seventh and first days of the week. On the other five days they are
kept in employment at some trade, the profits of which go to the
support of the institution. A marked blessing has attended the
exertions of this Society, 12 out of li of the inmates having applied
to receive the ordinance of baptism. The holy ceremony was per-
formed on the 14th inst. by the Bishop of London, in St. James's
Church, after previous examination of the candidates by him. His
Lordship has accepted the office of Patron of the Society.
Sir Sri:L.IIEN MA Y.—A paragraph appeared in the
Northern Ifrhig of the 25th of June last, under the head " Belfast
Regatta," reflec:ing on the character or Sir S. MAY, respecting the
purchase of the yacht Crusader; and the injurious imputations con.
tained in that paragraph were efterwatds reiterated in a manner very
offensive to the feelings of that gentleman. A rule for a criminal
information against the proprietor of the paper has, in consequence,
been obtait:ed by Sir S. 31ov, freer the Court of King's Bench. We
have felt it our duty to make inquiry into the particulars of the trans.
action alluded to in the above-mentioned paragraph; and, as
we should not hesitate to aditete to our former statement, if
the facts Lore us out, so we feel that we should act most unworthily,
if w_ were to persevere in error. We., therefore, wish to state, most
unequivocally, that we were altogether misinformed on the subject;
end that the irjerious imputations cast upon the conduct and cha-
racter of :sir S eeen I: V MAY, by the paragraphs above-mentioned,
were totally unfounded. We have to express our regret, that a pub-
' licatior. of such a nature should have found its way into our columns
—and hope that this apology will be deemed tufficient satisfaction
by Sir Smelt err MAY.—Aorthens Whig.
The rmains of the late mach-lamcnted Countess of
Ormoede were deposited in the Wandesford family vault at Carele-
comer, on Thursday last, about two o'clock. Notwithstanding
:he notice which appeared in the STA R, sta. in; that in obedience
to her Ladyship's wishes, the j lateral was to be strictly pri.
rate, the concourse of people, cldefly her Ladyship's te-
nantry, was immense, extending upwards of two :Mice, and
all dressed with searfe and ha:be:ids. would be impas-
sible to convey any idea of the depth of feeling and sorrow
evinced by all classes on this melancholy OCCR:ti'...3. About
a quarter of' a mile before the hearee arrived at the Church.
the coffin was taken front it by the poor people, and carried to the
tomb, which is situated at one side of the emu:union table ; se-
veral re-pee:able persons present also wished to pay that 'Let mark
of respect to her Ladyship's remains, they been allowed the
epportunity. The Very Rev. the Dean cf St. Parolees, who is
also Rector of Cerelecomer' read the funeral service, and afterwards
tcolc occasion to dilate on the virtues art I.er ladyship, and the be-
nevolent interest she always felt in promoting the welfare and pros.
perky of Casa:comer. The Bev. Us tokman was frequently over-
powered by the intensity of his feeitog, and the hunentations of the
assembled crowds arc described to us as truly affecting. It was the
intention of Ma Grace the Duke of NORTHUMBERLAND, and se-
v. rai of the Nobility and Gentry, to have sent their private car-1
riages from Dublin to Castlecomer, but for the wish expressed in
her Ladyship's will, that there should be no public proeceion.—
Ifilkelmy Moderator.

POPERY ! —The Papists are on the alert—the Jcstiits
on the qui vivc—converaions multiply—and apoatacy is at a pre-
mium. The renegade Spencer, according to the declaration of the
Popish priest of this town, and his schoolmaster, has a batch of
young nuns and friars ready to confess their errors, kiss the Pope's
toe, and forswear the church; the dictator has a Popish chcreamie
and a Franciscan in the neighbourhood of Stratfielda.sye; the 3lar.
(la is of liatford is about to endow a convent in conjunction a ith
ILird Hatborough, and the el-dream! Mrs. CaWaft is to be lady
abbess ; anti the tun apostate bishops have it in contemplation us re.
establish the order of Sisters of Charity, for their own private con.
venience. In fact, every thing proclaims that the good old times
arc about to revive. Fire.wood and coals are rising, and, in the
firm expectation and belief that St. Bartholomew's day will witness
the rekindling of the fires of Smithfield, a joint stock company has
been established for the purpose of importing pitch pi:.e iron) the
United States.—Leicesier Herald.