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

VIENNA, APRIL 2.

The Austrian Olacrrer says, under the head of accounts from
Sn ythu, that die French brigs of war, the Volage and Surprise,
Which had just arrived in Greece from France, had brought, the
11ni if 1:50,000 francs, and the latter 3511,0110 francs, for the Greek

VIENNA, APRIL 1.-111etalliques, 1041; Four per Cents. 991;
Uank 1,302 2-b.—Austrian Obserrer, April 2.
A ram 2. Aletalliques, 1041 ; Four per Cents. 981; Bank
'harts, 1,377 1,381.--.4llgancine Zeilung, April 7.

Tits- DANGER OE NV LT FEET.—There is no evil to
which mankind is exposed, of equal magnitude to Wet Fret. It
11 a fact universally acknowledged by the Faculty, that more
Dratirs ensue from this one cause than from any other. The rick
of encountering this evil may be avoided by using Hunt's Patent
Water/Roof Compocition, which will render Boots and Shoes :in-
pervious to all moisture, even that of snow water.—Sold in Bottle.
3t ls. each, by Oilmen, Druggists, Grocers, &c. &c.

" Prussic acid, at the ordinary temperature, is liquid, nansparent,
and colourless ; its taste, at first of an agreeable freshness, soon be-
comes acrid and irritating ; it slightly reddens the tincture of turn-
sal. Its odour is powerful and noxious; being insupportable when
not mixed with a large proportion of air—lt then resembles the smell
of hitter almonds. Prussic acid Is extremely volatile ; in fact,
it boils at 26.5 deg. under a pressure of 0.76 deg. and at 10
deg. sustains a column of mercury at 0.38 deg. Its congelation
is, however, easily effected, and takes place at 15 deg. ef Fahr.
so that when a few drops of this acid are poured upon paper, the
portion which evaporates instantly produces a degree of cold
sufficient to crystallite the other: it is the only liquid which "stk.,
seises this property. It is but slightly soluble in water, on which
account, when agitated with ten or twelve times its bulk of this
fluid, it collects on the surface in the manner of oil or ether. It is
readily soluble in alcohol. Left to itself in well.stopped vessels, it
sometimes decomposes in less than an hour ; according to M. Ma-
jendie, it can rarely be preserved longer than a fortnight. Bless's.
Waugh, in Regent-street, are said, however, to prepare it after the
formula of Dr. Nimmo, and warrant it to keep, without deterio-
ration, for ids months.
" Prussic add exerts the same deadly powers that the distilled
laurel-water does, but in a more eminent degree. One drop, in a
pure state, introduced to the tongue of s dog or cat, induces a few
hurried inspirations, and death immediately ensues. Dropped into
the eye, it produces effects equally sudden. One drop diluted with
several drops of alcohol, injected is the jugular vein, will kill the
animal as suddenly as if it were struck with lightning ; and in ani.
mals poisoned in this manner, scarcely any traces of muscular irri-
tability can be detected a few moments after death.
" Cases ate continually occurring in this country In which prussic
acid has been taken with the express intention of producing death ;
and in the Annaks de Mode for 1814, the following one is re-
corded :—A professor of chymistry left a flask contairing alcohol
saturated with prussic acid ; the servant-maid, seduced by the agree-
able smell of the liquor, swallowed a glass of it. At the expiration
of two minute& she fell dead, as if she had been struck with apo-
plexy. The body was not opened.
" Orfila also mentions that Professor Scharinger, of Vienna, pre-
pared some pure and concentrated prussic acid, a certain quantity
of which he diffused on his naked arm, and died a short time after.
" Hufeland relates the following case D. la a robust and
healthy man, tetat. 36, on being seised as a thief by the police snatch-
ed a small aled phial from his pocket, broke off the neck, and
swallowed the greater part of its contents. A strong smell of bitter
almonds soon spread arouna, which almost stupified all present.—
The culprit staggered a few minutes, then, without a groan, fell
on his knee, and sunk lifeless on the ground. Medial assistance
being called in, riot the slightest trace of pulse or breathing
could be found. A few minutes afterwards, a single and violent
aspiration occurred, which was again repeated in about two minutes.
Tne extremities were perfectly cold, the breast and abdomen still
I warm, tke eyes half open and shining, clear, lively, full, almost pro.
jetting, and as brilliant as those of the most ardent youth under
violent emotion. The face was neither distorted nor convulsed, but
bore the image of quiet sleep. The corpse exhaled a strong odour of
bitter almonds. And the remaining liquid in the phial being analysed,
was found to be a concentrated solution of prussic acid in alcohol.
"Even its vapours should be carefully avoided ; for if respired,
it causes considerable pain in the chest, and a feeling of oppression
which does not go off for several hours. It also has a very dele-
terious effect on germination, exerting an influence on living vege-
tables, almost as powerful as on animals, speedily destroying their
vitality."
" MEDICAL PROPERTIED AND Users.—Dr. Elliotson justly
observes, in his valuable work, the hydrocyanic add can scarcely
be ana a new medicine, as the leaves of the laniacerasas, bitter
almonds, and other substances containing it, and horn which they
derive their virtues, were long ago employed as remedies. Dr.
Brown Langrish tells us that the powder of the dry leaves of the
lauracerasus was frequently employed In his neighbourhood
as a certain cure fur ague, by giving as much as will lie on a
shilling, in a glass of white wine, two hours before the fit, and re.
pitting it three times. It is held in great esteem among the poorer
sort of people, and is said to have good success. By referring also
to the account of Amygdalis common* in our work, it will be seen
that Bergius successfully treated it with bitter almonds. Nurses
occasionally put a leutof the lauracerasus in pap, to relieve flatu-
lence ; while Linneus says, Lour° eerasi per neitatis.
sista pro infuso in marble depaseentibus. Iraeytemesusboasts of
its virtues in hectic, and speaks of it as efficacious in attenuating
the blood : that it was given during the last century as a remedy
for consumption, is evident from a reference to it by Cullen, who
says, that it has been of no use in cases of pkthisisprelotonaiis, or
in resolving obstructions of the liver, seems to be concluded upon
too few experiments.'
" Not only every class of agents produces peculiar effects upon
the living body, but every individual, besides the general properties
of its class, is characterised by peculiar effects. The hydrocyanic
acid is a narcotic, but it has not the property of lessening pain in
newel, nor of procuring sleep in a direct manner like opium ; neither
has it the power of controlling the pulse like Digitalis. In a large
dose, short of fatal effects, it, we have already hinted, occasions in-
sensibility and extreme feebleness of the heart's action r in a
smaller, vertigo, faintness and perhaps rapidity of pulse, sickness,
and a sense of constriction at the procordia : in a still smaller
nausea only, with perhaps momentary vertigo, and even pain of the
stomach. Although, in too large a dose, it irritates the stomach, it
has a remarkable power, when properly exhibited, of soothing this
organ when in a state of morbid irritability. In Dr. Elliotson's
extensive practice, at St. Thomas's Hospital, it has been satisfac-
torily proved, we understand, to be the best remedy in gastrodynis
and in pyrosis ; but its powers are most conspicuous in vomiting
unconnected with inflammation of this organ. Frequently, as
in pregnant women, it is observed to arrest, at the first few
doses, perhaps at the very first, vomiting which had existed
for several weeks, merely from morbid irritability, and Ilia
cough also has frequently yielded to it. Yet, what is singular, it
will not mitigate pain in the Intestines, or entendynia. It cannot
therefore be expected to relieve, nor does it even lessen the pain ge-
nerally, in other parts ; and as a consequence cannot be employed
as a general anodine.
" The attacks of pain which occur in angina pectoris. and so
closely resemble gastrodynia in situation and course, as probably to
be mistaken, are said to be more relieved by it than by any other
means.

" It is employed with advantage to the hooping, and what is
called spasmodic cough ; i. e. when there is no inflammation or
organic disease; or where these exist, the cough is disproportionably
violent. After proper antiphlogistic measures in inflammations of
the chest, it has been useful ; and occasionally in consumption, in
palliating symptoms ; but as it possesses no power over organic dis-
ease, it is not a cure for consumption, as some have too fondly
wished ; and a physician asserting in the 10th century, what time
has proved to be incorrect, that it has cured several hundred eases,
either proves a disregard of truth, or an Ignorance of the symptoms
and pathology of this fatal disease, for which he is alike culpable.
" Nervous patients it sometimes soothe considerably. 13ut, ex-
cepting in affections of the stomach, we may doubt whether it pos-
sesses any advantages over opium, properly administered; and in
procuring sleep, relieving pain in general, or as a remedy for diabetes,
it will be found a poor substitute.
" When palpitation depends upon dyspepsia, it, in common with
other symptoms, is greatly mitigated by this acid.
" The external application of the prussic acid, greatly diluted,
has been recommended to tooth irritation of the skin. But it more
frequently causes smarting sensations, and a degree of dryness, even
when extremely diluted, that renders it worse than useless. Ex-
ternally, thougn occasionally beneficial, it is infinitely inferior in its
effects to the cidoruret of soda, which, as a disenfecting agent, and
as a cleanser of sloughing ulcers, we pat ticularly recommend.
" Dose—The largest dose of the acid generally borne,
by Vauquelitr's method, vailcs front one to live drops. WepireasZeki
begin with one drop, and increase the dose one drop daily, or every
other day, till the symptoms yield, or signs of its disagreeing ap-
pear, Ruch aV SeVelfe vomiting, vertigo, or a sense of debility. The
dose should be that tuduc,d to what is borne with comfort. It
may be continued any length of time without fear of accumulation
of effect, or constitutimal operation. It should not be given on an
empty stomack; and when severul doses are combiseed, the mixture
should be well shaken previously to its administration."

Mr. O'Caxxxx.r. rose and said the next person he would propose
to be admitted was his excellent friend Tom Cluney. Ile (Mr.
O'Connell) was not ashamed to avow that Mr. Cluney was in his
day a rebel General. When the Union was about to be carried,
the Orange Gentry of the county of Wexford refused to join unless
Tom Cluney was sent back to gaol. This was done to gratify
them, and he was suffered to linger in the prison-house for two
years. Owing to Lord Clifden he was permitted to return to Ire-
land, from whence he was exiled, and he now lives amongst us, in
happiness and comfort. Mr. Cluney was about to publish (Mr.
O'Connell said) his notes during the period of that unhappy insur-
rection. It would be one of the most interesting works yet pub-
lished on the subject. He (Mr. O'Connell) would now move, " that
the worthy and humane Thomas Cluney be admitted a member of
the Society."
Mr. REDMOND seconded the motion, and offered his sentiments
as to Mr. Cluney's high character. One of the first impressions
made on his mind was by the exploits of Thomas Cluney.
Mr. O'Conwer.r. next rose and said Our object in this Society
is to be practically useful. Our first object is to conciliate all sects
and parties in Ireland—that, I think, can be best done through the
means of an Address to the people at large, whom we should call
upon in the name of Christianity to abandon their feuds, and put as
end to their cnimosities. I hope to be able by the next day of meet.
ing to present the draft of an Address upon this subject—(hear !)
With reference to this topic, it gives me infinite pleasure to be able
to state that all sects and parties are beginning to unite with each
other; a real and substantial change has taken place in Ireland
(hear, hear!). I have lately received, from different parts of
the country, various communications, in which the writers state,

that they should soon have a country, because they began to hope to
have one. It is a good presage, and has been repeated to me
more than once. Ireland has hitherto been divided; she has
gained no advantage by that division. Let Ireland combine
her nine millions of inhabitants, and they would be too strong
for oppression ; the country could not be trampled upon; I
will not say with impunity, but there would not be a peed-
bility of the pressure continuing from the moment that the people
would determine to have an honest and a just government in the
country. (Hear.) 1 have been extremely amused with symptoms
of a different description, which have been manifested by those who
are getting angry in proportion as they find that men of all parties
are becoming good tempered. The time has now come when religion
is an affair between man and his (ion, and not between man and
man, and there is now no reason why one Christian should hate
another on account of his religion. There is nothing now but prac-
tical measures for the good of Ireland to occupy our attention.—
I have thought it my first duty this day to lay before you the
draft of a petition upon the assimilating of duties. This
has been one of the consequences of this society, that practical men,
who never before took part in Petitions, are now coming forward to
give the most valuable assistance in the details of every measure.
I disliked the union act so much that I never read it over till this
morning, and I find that the present attempt at assimilating the
duties is in direct contravention of the eighth article of the Union.
(Hear.) In 1817 there was no objection made to the assi-
milation of duties ; and when I come to read this Petition,
I believe there is not a man in Ireland who will not rise up in ext.
cration against the men who carried that measure, and still more
strongly against those who did not oppose it. I mean to propose
that this Petition be referred to the Committee. I rejoice to say that
Irelalid was neva so well off, with respect to the Press, u it is at
present. We have in Dublin four Journals. We have The Morning
Register—we have The Morning Post—we have The Freeman's
Journal; indeed we have not of late had much countenance front
The Evening Post, but I should imagine it will be with us before
long, as there will not be a penny given in Proclamations to the
newspapers. The Evening Post has made property, and accumu-
lated wealth in the service of the people, whom interests it for many
years honestly advocated. I tell The Evening Post that the Beres-
fords and 3lehonies never can compensate it for the loss of the peo.
pie I throw this out as advice to this paper, which for many years
was the only one we had in this country, which now swarms with
honest and independent newspapers. 111 r. O'Connell then read the
Petition.

Mr. O'Cown ELL continued—l have to move that this petition
be referred to the committee for revision, and when the blanks are
filled up, that it should be engrossed. I beg to call the distinct at-
tention of every man in Ireland to this fact, that when three mil.
boos of taxes are about to be taken from the English people, taxa.
tion to the amount of 300,000 L is to be put upon the people of
Ireland, who are in an infinitely more distressed situation than those
in England. Front England there have been taken thirty millions
in taxes since the war ; and from Ireland but six hundred thou.
sand, half of which is now to be again placed upon this coon.
try.—(hcar, hear). In Ireland the November rents have been paid
out of capital, and the March and May rents will not be paid at all,
unless some contrive to pay them out of their capital. This fact has
not appeared in any of the Government newspapers—the canal boats
bringing provisions to Dublin are obliged to be guarded by the mili-
tary.—(henr). The people are stet ving, and it is matter of astonish.
went they do not she in thousands.—(hear). Something must be done
for the poor of Ireland, or the burdens of society will become too heavy
for them.— (hear). I have resisted, though I admire the principleof,
the Poor Laws; but I rather do anything—that the man who had
but two coats should be obliged to give away one of thean—l
would prefer this to happen, rather than 1 should see the people
perishing as they are in Ireland (hear !). If the Union be not re-
pealed, we must have poor laws. The rents must be spent in the
employment of the people, or they must be maintained in idleness
out of the rents. The people wish for employment—they do not
desire to be dependent upon charity—they want workshops, and
not hospitals; and if the rents be not spent amongst them, they
must be given away to them (hear ! and cheers). It has been
said that a Repeal of the Union would be a Catholic measure.
I declare solemnly, that if I thought it were likely to confer
any sectarian advantage I would oppose it (hear, hear, heat !) I
am anxious that this should go abroad. We owe the concord
that now exists between Protestants and Catholics to the good feel-
ings of individuals—we do not owe E to the Government; they
have done nothing to carry it into etfect—(bear.) Not only have
Catholics not received any, benefit from emancipation, but the liberal
protestant* are as much discountenanced by them now as they were
when the government entertained different views on the Catholic
question—(hear.) Mr. O'Connell concluded by proposing that the
petition should be referred to the committee.
Mr. ANTI/ELL said, he felt it necessary to assign some reasons
why he bad become a member of this society—being the only society
or public meeting he had ever attended. He found by their Reso.
lutlons that this was a Society of the Friends of Ireland— that no
pledge was to be given, nor was even a coincidence of opinion re-
quired (hear !). He, therefore, became a member of the society,
i because as an honest man, he loved his country, and be loved the
people, and the more any man knew of it and them, the more he
must love them (hear ! and cheers). He had been Counsel fur
the people in the memorable period of 1798, and had, in con.
sequence, become a marked man (hear I) At the present day
lie assured them that a system of delution was attempted to be
persevered in by a week and impolitic Ministry. They could not
have failed to observe that the Ministry was attempting to please
two kinds of people—there were men who voted for Catholic
Emancipation, but who in their hearts did not wish to see it
carried—those Dien were not the teal friend. of Ireland, but wished
to put themselves into situation where they might be taken notice

of. (Hear, bear.) Oa the other hand, the men who voted
against them from principle were the men whom the Catho-
lics ought to like most. The man who was actuated by
prindple was open to conviction—he would be their staunch
friend, and could not be corrupted, and all, he trusted,
would soon be found wiled in the one cause—that of improving the
country. One object of the society should be to pht down White-
boy outrages. It was in their power completely to suppress them
in the course of two or three months. The Influence of the Catholic
clergy should be used to induce the people to give up their arms. He
begged new to state, that he di from his learned friend on one
grand point the repeal of the union. An Irish House of Corn none
would be tilled with needy adventurer,, end the junior classes of the
nobility, who would be, at the time of the Union, easily bribed. If
they had a reformed parliament in England, he thought that their
affairs would be better managed than in one which would be open,
like its predecessors, to the corruption of the Castle. lie should
conclude by expressing his hope that the society would be the means
of establishing peace in the country, and that her gentry would re.
turn to Ireland. Let them put down Whiteboy outrages; every
friend to Ireland would bless them for it ; and every man who wished
well to the country would unite with them. (hear.)
Mr. O'Costweee said the Roman Catholic Bhthor of the North
bad written a circular letter to the Clergy, directing them not to ad-
minister the Sacraments to any man bound by the oath of Ribbon.
ism, or any other illegal oath. Mlute did the Ribbonmen do ? They
gave up the oaths, and thus the influence of the Catholic Clergy
could not be exercised. The moment the Enniskillen trials were
over, he would have an address to the people of the North, in which
he would be assisted, he hoped, by his excellent friend who was
as anxious es himself for the peace, happiness' and tranquillity
of the country. (Hear, hear.) In the South he had been able
to put down Ribhonism, though they had been suffering from
bad landlords, and the effects of the Subletting Act. (Hear.)--
His friend, Ur. Antisell, differed from him, as he had a right to do,
upon the question of the Union; but he (Mr. O'Connell) did not
want to restore the Irish Parliament as it was. It would be ins-
possible to 4e so, for government WA bought 110 rotten boroughs
from the proprietors. And where these bouts existed before, by
in the barony, which was like the leelab hundred. they
would have real representatives for the peeps. If the Union was
repealed, it would not be necessary to look ter a reform in Parlia-
ment, for the repeal would be parliamentary Bakens haelL
Mr. Leweess—Tbe loused gestlemes had spoken against a
repeal of the Union. and yet blamed the peasantry for rising up
revenge against the oppression and distress that measure bad brought
on them. For his part, he almo‘t thought they were right; for in.
stance, on the Courteuay estate, and is Tipperary, he could not con-
demn thent for the retaliation of the unfeeling cruelties they suffered.
They were justified by their miserits, in having recourse to the pro-
tection of arms.

Mr. O'Cosrs ELL spoke to order. Ile should condemn them
when he told Mr. Lawless that those misguided and unfortunate
men Lad put to death the unoffending son of a man who was an
agent—a young man of excellent character, who had never taken
any part in the measures fur ahieh he so unjustly suffered. 31r.
Lawless's peat influence with the country should pn vent his using
such language as would give the slightest approval of their conduct,
and he was convinced that he did not mean to convey any sanction
of the shocking and unpardonable crime of blood.
Mr. LAWLESS requested to be heard. lie said that Mr. O'Con-
nell knew, and he hoped Mr. Annuli would believe, flat no man
would go further to prevent the shedding of one drop of human blood
than he would, or exert himself more to avert the suffering of injury
by any fellow being. Few bad done more during the last three
years to restrain the: excesses alluded to than he did, but what
could the unhappy wretches do in the circumstances they
were placed in? They obeyed a law of nature in revenging
what they could not redress; but though he pitied, he did not
think them right. (Hear, hear.) He merely meant to say, that
they were much provoked in many cues, and could scarcely be
blamed under such unhappy excitement. He called for an Irish
Legislature, and denied that it could be so corrupt as a British.—
He could almost hope that no modification of their list of griev-
ances would take place, until repeated refusal exasperated the peo-
ple into unity, and procured for them the only means of becoming
great and happy—a native Legislature.
Mr. LAWLESS gave notice of a motion for calling on every Coun-
U, City,Town, and Perish in Ireland, to petition for a repeal of the
Union.
The question of adjournment till Wednesday next was then CU.
tied, and the meeting separated.—Dublin Paper.