Star.
London, England, 1831-05-17 00:00:00

TUESDAY P.VENINO, M-AY 17, 1831.

UNDER THE IMMEDIATE PATRONAGE OF HIS
MAJESTY.
ROYAL INFIRMARY FOR CATARACT,
and other DISEASES et the EYE,
13. LITTLE PORTLA ND-STREET, CAVENDISH-SQUARE.

PRICE 71..

PATILOM,
The King's Most Ruellent Majesty.

ma-rarsons,
Hb Royal Highness the Prince Leopold of Saxe Coburg, K.G.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester, K.G.

. _
•asaottesses.
Her Royal Highness the Princess Augusta ; Her Royal Highneu the
Duchess of Gloucester; Her Royal Highness the Duchess
of Kent.

,nor-earaoursens
The Marchioness of Salisbury; the Doweger Marchioness of Salis-
bury ; the Marchioness of Westmeath ; the Countess of Tanherville i
the Hon. Mrs. Burrowes ; the Hon. Alm. Hope.
Pal3l
The Most Noble His Grace i
acs-ea
His Grace the Lord Archbishop

NT,
Duke of Devonshire, 8.0.

British defence than the Order of the Blue Button or the Yellow Frog
of his Majesty the Emperor of China; and this is to go forth on our
national gold coin ! and for fear that the folly would not be sufficiently
spread, it is to he stamped on our crowns and half crowns ! The shil-
Hop sad sixpences luckily escape; plain English will do for them.
And di this goes on from year to year, while we have in the example
of MOW a model of what a mint might to he. Every foreigner makes
pal6llBll at the French mint; 41111 the series of national medals
essessed there is a public honour and • public profit too. But who
ever *lnks of purchasing English mintage except for bullion ? With
a history full of the most stirring events, we have not a single medallic
Metes; we have scarcely a single medal. But we have in lieu of these
vanities a Master of the Mint, who is tossed new into the office on every
mange of petty, who has probably, in the whole course of his life„never
Uwe the difference between gold and silver but by their valve in
and shillings; but who, in the worst of times, show. his
by receiving a salary of no less than five thousand pounds a
year.—Maathiy Maputo's.

of Canterbury.
The Marquess of Salisbury.
The Earl of Brownlow.
The Viscount Clive.
Field.Manhal the Lord Viscount
Beresford.
The Lord Calthorpe.

The Lord Skehwersdale.
The Hon. Baron Garrow.
Sir Henry Halford, Bart. M.D.
F.R.S. K.G.H.
Samuel Smith, Esq. M.P.
Henri Philip Hope, Fag.
Henry Thos. Hope, Esq. M.P.
Sir M. J. Tierney, But. M.D.
K.G.H.
Secretary.

BCIENTI FIZZ VOYA 01
HA Majesty's sloop Chanticleer PIM,
Acting-Commander, arrived at Falmouth on the 6th inst.
in eight days from St. Michael's. She brings intelligence
of the capture of the island of Pico, by the Terceirian squa-
dron, about the 18th alt. and of an intended attack on the
island of Fayal on the 23d. The latter place has, no doubt,
long ere this fallen. St. Michael's, it was presumed there,
would be next visited. It was judged, there would be veryl
little, if any, opposition to the Constitutional party: al-1
though there were upwards of 1000 troops on the island.--
The Chanticleer, Commander Henry Foster (b,) was fitted
out by the orders, and under the auspices of his present most
gracious Majesty, in 1827, to prosecute a scientific voyage
of research in the Southern Regions of the globe—to deter-
mine the specific ellipticity of the earth ; ascertain the chro-
nometric difference of meridians of the principal stations in
the Atlantic; and make observations on magnetism, meteo-
rology, &c. With a view to effect to a certainty the pur-
pose of his mission to Panama, Capt. Foster ascended the river
Cliagris in a canoe, and proceeded to Panama, to ascertain
chronometically their relative positions on the globe. This
he did a second time, and was returning down the river
Chagres, in a canoe, on the eve of the sth of February last,
when be slipped from off the covering of the canoe, on
which he was incautiously resting, and was unfortunately
drowned. His body was, four days afterwards, fonnd, and
buried on its banks. After this melancholy occurrence,
the command of the Chanticleer devolved upon senior Lieu-
tenant Horatio Thomas Austin. She was at this time stand-
ling off and on Chagres, waiting the Captain's return. From
hence she returned to Porto Bello, where, having on the
12th of February obtained the necessary sights for the rates
of the numerous chronometers on board, she quitted it, and
beat up to Sinta Martha; from whence she stretched across
for the East end of Jamaica, where the Commander, having
landed and, made the necessary observations, she proceeded
to Cape Maysi, the East end of Cuba ; thence to Crooked
Island. Her instructions being fulfilled, the Chanticleer',
left for Bermuda on the 2d April. The Chanticleer has
completed a voyage of three years' duration, without the
occurrence, of a single death (save thee of her highly-
talented and gifted Commander,) or any untoward event.

Honorary beta.— f,
Thomas Burgess, Esq. 5, Lower Grosvenor-place.
CONOLTIING AND OPZIATINCI 2010[O$,
John Stevenson, Esq.
Oculist to his Majesty ; Alain and Oculist to his Royal Highness the
Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg, and Lecturer on the Structure,
and Author of several Treatises on Diseases of the Eye and Ear,
to, Margaret-street, Cavendisb-square.
MMUS&
The large Ophthalmic Infirmaries already established in this Metro-
polis, with their respective merits and advantages, are well known to
the public; but notwithstanding the able and zealous endeavours ei
those connected with them, and the fact, apparent hom their collective
Reports, that nearly Ten Thousand Cases are annually admitted under
the care of those Institutions, great numbers still remain unprowled
for; while, in but too many instances, the wretched patients, AM
obtaining advice, are unable even to purchase the medicines prescribed.
To obviate in the fullest manner the very serious difficulties just
veiled to, and to furnish, what was much wanted, an additional Opthal.
tide Charity, Mr. Stevenson was lately induced to enlarge, in a paths
form, and on a more comprehensive plan, his former private and limited
~Institution for the Cure of Cataract," which, under royal ausfoilh
was organized and carried into beneficial operation more than fifteen
years ago, with a view to improve the treatment, so as to afford tome
extensive and efficient relief to the poor suffering under that disarms—.
The Infirmary thus constituted, has been recently opened for In and Out.
Patients, many of whom have ahead, been restored to eight.
Necessitous patients afflicted with any of the various diseases of the
Bye, and making appliution at the Infirmary, on Tuesday and Friday
mornings, before ten o'clock, are admitted on the list of a Subscriber,
as out Patients, and supplied with the requisite medical and surgical
aid, free of expense. It is, however, to be distinctly understood, that
only such as labour under Cataract are received as inpatients, to whom
admission is granted in rotation, and as vacancies occur, at any age, and
from any part of the United Kingdom, on the recommendation of a life
or annual subaiber, the names of whom, with a prospectus, and other
particulars, may be obtained at the Infirmary.
The mactice adopted at this Infirmary, in cases of Cataract, is not
guided 11 an unvarying adherence to any one mode of operation ; that
particular mode being in every instance preferred which has been aseur-
tamed to be best suited to the different s and respective stage of
die disease. If the patient applies for v• • es an early period, and as soon
as the slightest degree of opacity or cloudiness be end the pupil is
visible, accompanied with a corresponding dimness and imper-
fection of sight, when the Cataract admits of the easiest and most
successful removal, recourse is had to the treatment long since
recommended and pursued by Mr. Stevenson • ; but, if the Dis-
ease has been allowed to proceed until fully formed, and the
patient is become blind, one or other of the several methods of opera-
ting, by couching, or by extraction, is employed. By the early treat-
ment, patients are saved the suspense and inconvenience of waiting
months or years, with constantly decreasing sight, in the wearisome
expectation of what is termed the ripening of the cataract, at the
risk of some new, or of an extension, or complication of the exist-
ing disease, and while even its temporary presence tends more or less to
injure the Internal structure of the eye, and Its long continuance ulti-
matelj to paralyse the nerve of vision, changes which must render an
operation at last either impracticable, inexpedient, or unavailing if
performed.

THE NORTHERN PITMEN.

The pitmen under the Marquis of Londonderry, agreed a
few days ago, to accede to the terms offered by the Noble
Lord, and to resume their labours yesterday. They have
since however, through the persuasion, it is understood, of
the Delegates, (who receive each five shillings a day, from
the pitmens' fund, as long as the men are off work,)
thought proper to alter their determination, and to hold out
against a proposition which they acknowledge to be just and
equitable.
Some of the colliers of the Tyne returned to their work
on Monday last, though their number we regret to add, is
very inconsiderable. Such as have done so have been pro-
tected by the military, who are stationed in the neighbour-
hood of the collieries. The effects of the differences between
the owners and the workmen are now severely felt. many a
the manufacturers near Newcastle being compelled to re-
linquish work from the want of coal, and several hundreds
of people are to be seen daily gathering coal-dust from the
old pit-heaps, at Elswick, which have laid there untouched
for some years. It is but justice to the body of colliers to
say that they have conducted themselves with great regu-
larity and forbearance, and though they have had several
very large meetings, not one act of violence or spoliation has
to be recorded against them, either in going to or returning
from such meetings. Some individuals, however, have been
guilty of breaches of the peace, and such conduct has not as
yet been visited with its just reward ; the guilty parties re-
maining undiscovered.
W. DANIRI, ESQ. A.
A collection of pictures and sketches in oil, from the easel of this
eminent artist, amounting to rather more than 100 sltogetber, was last
THE NEW COINAGE. week sold by public auction, at Fosta's Galhey, in Pall-mall, after
having been previously exhibited to private inspeedon. Mr. Daniell's
Why does not some man of public research enlighten the public on paintings have been familiar to the visitant at Sonsesset.boose km aces-
the proceedings at the Mint? The whole system is as little compre- siderable number of years, and some of his most 'enmesh* Abney we
bensible by the uninitiated as the philosopher's stone. The cost of the believe, were included in the catalogue lately rhea Indeed, the se-
Mintis prodigious, the machinery is all that machinery can be ; yet we lection of the pieces, and the somewhat venerable of the pit.
have one of the ugliest coinages of any nation of Europe. A new issue tuna themselves, in many instances, sufficiently isdieated rumeteases of
of coin is about to be commenced. origin and maturity of age. Indian scenery, British hada:apes, naval
"It appears, from the King's proclamation, that the new coinage will engagements (from the battle of the Nile down to tbe.aetion at Na.
consist of double sovereigns, to be each of the value of 40s; sore- varino), and Oriental customs, religious and domestic, were the predo.
reigns, each of 29s ; and half sovereigns, 10s; silver a-owns, half rninant subjects represented. For the coerectness of several of the land.
crowns, shillings, and sixpences. The double sovereigns have for the scape views we can vouch, from a knowledge of the locality; but it is
obverse the King's effigy, with the inscription " Gulielmus 1111. to be regretted that such a number of scenes should have been trans-
D. 0. Britanniarum Rex, F. D." and for the reverse, the ensigns ar. ferred to canvass, without a single picturesque feature, or interesting
mortal of the United Kingdom contained in • shield, encircled by the association (literary or historical), which could entitle them to the dis.
collar of the Order of the Outer, and upon the edge of the piece the tinction. Some of the &stem architecture, particularly that in " A
words "Deus et Tutamen." The crowns and half crowns will be Panorama View of Madras," could not fall to be considered in the high.
similar. The shilling has on the reverse the words " One Shilling," eat degree curious, however questionable as mere matter of taste, and the
placed in the centre of the piece, within a wreath, having an olive luxuriance of the vegetable world in that climate of exaggeration in all
branch on one side, and an oak branch on the other; and the sixpence,: things, whether physical or moral, was in excellent keeping with the
have the same, except the word " Sixpence," Instead of ti e words character of the stupendous scenery in the abstract. The only emus-
ol One Shilling." The coppers will be nearly as at present" ing p;etnre in the collection was that of a " klahometan fichoolmasta
Now we must observe, what the Master of the Mint and the people and his Pupils," who famed so grotesque a group, that we ere
about him ought to have observed before. that here is, in the first in. very dubious whether tho head of the Academy could know good and
stance, a considerable expense incurred in the coinage of the double sufficient reason why hr should be admitted as an honorary member of
sovereigns, without any possible object, except the expense itself may the &witty for " the Propagation of Useful Knowledge." One " soft
be an object, which is not impossible. We shall have in this coin one impeachment- wr eannot forbear urging against Mr. Daniell, albeit
of the meet clumsy and useless matters of circulation that could be tie- far from creditable to his gallantry, little as it may detract from his
vised. The present sovereign answers every purpose that this clumsy merits as an artist. How is it that he has absolutely contrived to In-
coin can be required for, and teen the single sovereign would be a much vest a elephants, ruunkies, buffalos, and boas, with mote interest
more convenient coin for circulation if it were divided, as every ore Ow appertains to those specimens of the fairer moiety of the creation
knows, who knows the troul!e of vetting change. The half sovereign wire ..re introduced in a few of his &stein pictures? Whether he
is, in fact, a much more convenient Coin. But on this clumsy coin we Acted on the ungenerous marter.of.fact maxim, which influenced Tea.
mast have a Lolls inscription, as if it were intended only for the Si'- Irani Shandy's description of his aunt Liptak, or meant to insinuate
ciety of Antiquaries, or to be laid up in cabinets, which we acknow. a delicate touch of flattery to the " well-graces" da.sghttra of England.
ledge would be most likely its fate, except tor the notorious bad taste we pretend not to determine; but certain it is, th.t neither bathing,
of the British coinage. Of much use it is to an English putlic nor smoking, nor squat ed upon cushions, do the Oriental ladies in
to have the classical phraseology of (foliar:us Britanniarum Hex, put theme pictures appear by any means killing in poh.t of personal attar-
in place of the national language. Then, too, we must have the collar dons. Ore of the most powerful ocean-scenes in the colleotioo,--artel
of the Order of the Garter to encircle the national arms, of which the they were pretty nunitmmr.—was an illustration of " The Red. Rover "
Order is nonsensically pronounced " Drcus et Tutamen." The Glory which has been already made the subject of a popular engraving. Thel
and Protection. The Order of the Garter, the glory mid proteegion of celebrated " Falls of she Clyde," and a singularly wild and romantic
England 1 We are content to let this absurdity slay in Latin or prospect in the " tsla of Skye" (alluded to in Scutt's Lord of des kW).
Sansait ; English would be shamed by it. The Order of the Garter, were likewise pleas of matt ; but the Arcadian beauty of a sequestered
which goes rourd the knee of any man, who comes with the minister's " bosky vale" in Windsor Park, opening on a fine vernal vista, through
fiat on the subject, and which has no more road= to British glory or which the "Royal keep" is &accrued a little below the horizon, we doubt

Subscribes of Ten Guineas at a single payment, or of a Guinea
annually, are entitled to keep one out-Patient at a time under the
care of the Charity. A subscription of Twenty Guineas constitutes
a Life Governor and of Two or more Guineas yearly, an Annual
Governor, with the privilege of constantly retaining, in succession, two
or more out-Patients on the books of the Infirmary, and of recom-
mending in-Patients. A printed statement of receipts and disburse-
ments, the names of Contributors, and a List of Patients admitted,
cured, or relieved, will be annually laid before the Subscribers and the
Public. _ . _

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Donations and Subscriptions, in behalf of the Charity, are received
at the Banking House of Sir Claude Scott and Co. I, Cavendish-
square; at that of Messrs Smith, Payne, and Smith, Lombard.
street ; and at the residence of Mr. Stevenson; 113, Margaret-street,
Cavendish-equate.
THOS. BURGESS, Hot. Sec.
• A candid and familiar exposition of swoon sol Stets, with in.
Westing Cases, illustrative of the dawn esetlesple on delaying, and
of the advantages derivable from the study removal of the several ape-
eies of Cataract, may be area in the F.uMA Edition of Mr. Stevenson's
" New Mode of Treating Cataract," dedicated, by express permission,
to His Majesty King George IV. andpablished by Bargees end Hill,
Great Windmill-street, Haymarket. Price Its. boards.