The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-12-24 00:00:00

THE BRITISH . PRESS.

no means consider the present uabraccd state of things in
Ireland, as a state of security ; but whatever measures are
to be adopted for dissolving the Catholic Association—if it
shall be thought expedient to dissolve it—we hope they
will be foundtxl on those enlarged and statesman-like
views, which will have for their object the removal of
those long-exiating grievances in which it originator.
Combinations of all kinds are bad ; but we must look
steadily at the objects which give them birth, when we
resolve to put them down: it they arise out of a mis-
chievous disposition—if they arc a muster of strength,
for factious purposes, and with evil designs—the Go-
vernment should at once arm itself against them, and
crush them at a blow. But if the people so combining
oppose themselves only to oppression—if it is found that
the many are goaded by the few until their patience and
long-siffering is exhausted, and they are driven to seek
relief in their own energy and their own courage; in this
case, the rtnudy must he of another kind: it may not,
perhaps, be so readily within reach, but it is not so far
to seek but that MS MAJESTY'S Ministers, if they seek it
in sincerity, may find it. We trust that Parliament will,
next Session, legislate fur the future Typ:ea Ireland ; that
it will look neither to Protestant ascendancy nor to Catholic
subjection—neither to a reigning nor to a rising faction ;
but will examine steadfastly all those wrongs which a series
of ages has begotten, and which a leng abuse of power has
consolidated, and will dissolve the Catholic Association by
acceding to whatever claims shall in fairness be found to
be equitable, and by removing whatever grounds of com-
plaint must conscientiously be admitted to he just. The
evil has become of too great magnitude to admit of any
other cure, and matters have gone too far for compromise.
If, in the present condition of Ireland, we attempt to give
peace to her on any other terms, or., through any other
scheme of policy, the further we advance the more we shall
he bewildered; and if great danger exists—as it is said to
do—how, we would ask, and when, if the causes are not
removed, is that danger to end?

Accounts from the Cape of Good Hope to the 16th
October state, that the money subscribed in London
(5,000!.) for the distressed emigrsnts at the Cape, had been
received ; the amount appears to be given to them in blan-
kets, in household furniture, and various articles of hus-
bandry. It appears to have been distributed with great
care, and with reference to their immediate wants. It
had created great rejoicings among the poor settlers, who
are represented to have sufft.red greatly from the dhow-
! .
imminent of their hopes as to the crops.
A letter front Caracas hints at a revival of the project
fin- uniting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, to effixt which
it is asserted that it is only necessary to cut through a
space of four miles, that separates the heads of rivets fall-
ing into the repective seas.
Extract of a letter from Buenos Ayres, dated 4th Oc-
tober:—" We have had an extensive import of white cot-
ton goods of American manufacture, which bids fair to su-
persede the manufacture of the English goods of the same
description.
Mr. Secretary Canning has been confined to the Foreign
Office, Downing-street, for the last three days with the
gout, having been sized with it on Tuesday morning.
The Right Hon. Secretary had taken up his residence at
the Foreign 011 ice on Monday, and was attacked with a
fit of the gout the next morning. Mr. Canning was very
much indisposed with it yesterday.
Their Graces the Hoke and Ihtchess of Pichmond are
expected to return to Goodwood house by the end of the
week.

Lord Erskine, family, and suite, leave West Grinstead
Park the sth of January, for Wurtemb,rg ; Mr. Whitahrd
(only 6011 of die Admiral) accompanies his Lordship as
Secretary to the Einbarsv, to the above Court.
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The Earl of Lonstlal,; Sir J. H. G. Graham, ILirt. of
Mihail, Wm. James, Esq. M.l'. and 11. Brougham,
Esq. NI.P. have each contributed liberally during the past
week in aid of the Carlisle Mechanics Institution.

GRETNA Gatiact: EXMRIICIN.—OR Tuesday morning
last, before day-break, Captain Gore, with Miss Beddoes,
of Loudgeville, Salop, passed through Chester, in a chaise
■nd four, on their way to the liytncnial blacksmith, at
Gretna Green. They changed horses at the Royal Hotel,
and proceeded with great rapidity on their Journey.—
They had been rivetted only two or three hours, when
the lady's friends, in hot pursuit arrived, but " the deed
was dune."

The celebrated Jeremy Bentham, of London (says a
Dublin Paper) has written to the Catholic Association,
enclming them his subscription of Five Pounds towards
the Catholic Rent.

It is caleulattll that upwards of twenty thousand houses
have been Weil to the metropolis, upon an average of the
last three years.
It is now finally determined to execute the new line of
road from Leeds to Shipley.

Un lVcdnesday morning the delivery of letters through
the General Post Otlice was delayed considerably after the
usual hour, in consequence of the IVarwick mail having
Wen accidentally upset near Windsor.
An apothecary reproached an attorney with the number
of strange words which the law indulged in, and among
others. asked what was meant by the words " Docking an
entail !" " Why doctor," replied the lawyer, "it is doing
what you will nut do with your patients—it is sdliring a,
recovery."

Yesterday, at Erans's, a copy of Wells's Xenophon, five
volumes Mo., large paper, sold for 138/. 11s. A copy of
Horace, the Cambridge edition, with manuscript notes,
sold for 39 guineas.
We understand that the first number of the British
Magazine, which will he published on the Ist of January,
will contain a powerful and comprehensive view of the
character of the late Sir Samuel &mill', ; and which has
already excited so much interest in political circles as to have
secured for the work a wide circulation among the Members
of the Houses of Parliament. The poetry is also tiest-rate,
and contains a poem of Hayley, never published, as well
as some exquisite pieces front many of our most admired
bards. It is, besides, embellished with plates; and bids
fair to become entitled to a place in the library of the ad-
mirers of periodical literature, of either sex. An Essay cis
Female Character is also highly spoken of.
On Monday sennight an explosion of fire-damp took
place at Foxhole colliery, near Swansea, by which four
men were dreadfully scorated, but are in a fair way of re-
covery. On the following morning a second explosion
occurred in the saute colliery. Six men, proceeding to their
labour, the foremost earryinga lighted candle in his hand,
cane iu contact with the noxious gas, and the consequence
was, we regret to say, more fatal than in the former in-
stance; the man carrying the candle was so dreadfully
burnt, that he expirea shortly after being carried to his
house ; another has since died, and the other tour remain
in a deplorable condition.
The sentence of death that was passed on Crawford
Dixon, late seaman of his Majesty's brig Swinger, at a
Court-martial on board his Majesty's ship Victory, on the
30th of last month, has been cummuted to transportation
for life to New Soutlt Wake.

On Saturday, a man named Pat Smith, was shot at
Allan's-town, county death, by Armstrong, a police con-
stable, who insisted that the unfortunate man had arms,
concealed about his person. Smith lies in a very dangerous
state.—Diain Paper.
NEXT FAIDAY.—Bish reminds his friends that there
is only. One Day more to draw, and that will be next
Friday—the last of the year—the last of the Lottery—
when Two grand Prizes of 30,000/., the I I other Capitals,
all the other Prizes, and every 'Picket, will be drawn, and
decided All in One Day. Dish has a variety of Numbers
on sak, and recollect, he sold the last 20,000/., the last
30,0001., two other 20,000 L, last October, and he experts
to show, by the disposal of two 30,000/. Prizes nest Friday,
that his luck has been lasting hoot the beginning to the
end of Lotteries.--4, Coruhill, and !I, Charing-cross.