The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1822-12-27 00:00:00

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affirmed that the intercourse between the first port
and England will be so constant pat it is intended
to establish a communication bit ' t DOA.
, Travellers f Peninsula that Merino,
with fighty _ one huts
~... rind fifty foot,
entered Reynosa . e 11th, an committed great
atrocities. He silt three or four of the richest in-
habitants of the town, well knovin for their attachment
Ito the Constitution ; he also disarmed the national
'guard, ill-treated several persons, and raised a heavy
contribution. Two Constitutional columns are in
pursuit of this robber, who will probably end his ca-
reer like Zaldivar. News from Madrid of the 11th
positively affirm that a commercial treaty is con-
cluded between England and Spain.

The first definite legal step has been take) for the
punishment of the Orange ruffians who directed mis-
siles against the person of the LORD LIEUTENANT in
the Dublin theatre, on Saturday week, December 14.
On Monday last Henry Handwich, George GraAsm,
and James Forbes, were fully committed by Coun-
sellor GABBETT, " for having with divers other per-
sons feloniously conspired, confederated, and agreed
to kill and murder his Excellency RICIIARD Marquis
Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland." Other three
men are committed for trial.

Addresses are pouring in from all parts of Ireland.
His Excellency appears to act in the vary delicate
situation in which he is placed with equal spirit and
dignity. The decided tendency of the outrage di-
rected against him, is to bring the Orange faction
into utter disgrace, and to raise a strong feeling in
favour of equalizing the civil rights of Catholics and
Protestants. It stay be recollected that the act of

a miscreant wbo threw a stone at the royal coach in
1817, was signally successful in bringing even all
Reformers into reproach, and strengthening the
Tory Ministers with arbitrary powers of the worst
character and example. The case differed from
the present toto ccelo, and we mention it only to
illustrate the principle to which we adverted as to
the tendency of such acts. No man will impute
the Orange outrage to spies or hired agents of
the Government. It is the genuine offspring of a
domineering, intolerant, and defeated faction. It
Is an auspicious moment for gaining a triumph, at
once splendid and permanent, over the ignoble and
dastardly crew who so long and so fatally abused the
favour of the Goveinment. We believe no man could
more skilfully iiistlittealously avail himself of the ad-
vantages of the crisis than the illustrious Statesman
who now holds vice-regal authority in Ireland.

We took occasion some days ago to express our
satisfaction that twelve were not expelled from the
East India College near Hertford. It is true that
seven are in effect expelled ; but, though we think the
number much greater than the particular offences
or the necessity of a severe example required, we
cannot agree with many of our contemporaries,
that the punishment is too severe, or that its necessity
is any proof of the incompetency of the institution for
its anginal object. If no notice had been taken of the
oobject at all by the newspapers, we should have
4tought it both right on principle and beneficial to
the establishment. But to go beyond the bare an•
nunciation of facts, and to publish from day to
day discussions on the venial nature of the offence,
the inadequate attention of the professors, or the
cruel severity of the punishment, appears to us, to
say the least of it, very indiscreet conduct. Dr. JOlni-
sew says of a celebrated poem--" Poetry has seldom
been worse employed thin in dignifying the amorous
fury of a raving girl." W`e would say, in like man-
ner, that the columns of a certain widely circulated
and most respectable Journal have seldom been worse
employed than in palliating the animal intemperance
of young men, and diminishing the authority by ques-
tioning the justice of their punishment. But the sub-
ject has been freely discussed, and we are therefore
fully entitled to enter into an examination of all the
merits of the question.
It has been represented that the professors ought to
be plain schoolmasters, because the students are mere
children. But it has also been stated that the severity
of the punishment is unexampled, because the habits
and views of the young men are unalterably formed.
Now, both these representations cannot be correct,
for either the students are too old for the mere disci-
pline of a school, or their destination in life may,
without much difficulty, be changed. The fact is that
they are young men, whose minds and tempers are
so far matured as to render them fit subjects for the
highest tuition, in its most dignified form, and to
make it quite impossible to govern them by means of
corporal chastisement, confinement, or scholastic
hard labour. For such young men we can conceive no
possible punishment but expulsion, when they obsti-
nately, perversely, and repeatedly resort to what may
be called wanton and abstract acts of riot and violence.
if the offense were only a deficiency of respect in
manners towards proltssors or superior fellow-
students, or a singularity of opinion in matters of be-
lief or of civil government, we should admit the in-
justice and even cruelty of inflicting expulsion; but
when young men of 18 or 19 become active leaders
of their youthful associates, in offering personal vio-
lence to a professor, or in contriving midnight ex-
plosions of gunpowder, we see no alternative but
expulsion.
This is severe, but not unjust. Rustication may
reform the misled, but cannot change the misleader
so far as to make him again an innocent associate in
the same institution. If great expence has been
bestowed upon his education, and if his acquirements
are peculiarly adapted for eastern occupations, the
motives for good conduct, which he resisted, were
great and peculiar, and consequently his disposition
must be extremely perverse and nntractable. At
any rate the consequences of his expulsive ought to
attach odium exclusively to his conduct antrOot to his
punishment. But in fact the conietilehimi 'tie eitia-
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