The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1826-07-06 00:00:00

THE BRITISH PRESS.

of opinion between them. Thla news la amid to be ce►tain.. The
General hail already ma-ched with the column of LSento Cones to
meet the prisoners, who were said to amount to above 1,000 men,
in order to march with them against Lavalliega. We have re-
ceived orders to march with the division to guard Jaguarao, the
point on which the conttat begins.

Political reasoners frequtntly attach too much impor-
tance to Legislative measures, as remedies for the evils
which occur in the social system. They fancy, that a Par-
liament, by passing a Bill for the encouragement of a par-
ticular branch of trade, can, by the simple fact of passing
the Act, produce that effect which is the object of their
deliberations. They do not recollect that there is a power
far superior to the supposed omnipotence of Parliament—
a power which cannot be overcome, and from which there
is no possibility of escape. There is a natural course of
political events, as settled and as fixed, and as little liable
to derangement, as the system of the universe itself ; and
it is as vain to attempt a change in that natural course as
to think of turning the course of the heavenly bodies.
Nor does this lead to any system of fatalism in poli-
tics. Because we cannot control events, we arc
not therefore to give up all thoughts of amelioration ;
and the vdry schemes of amelioration which we may
devise, are themselves a part of the General system :
they arise from the general spirit of the age, and help
either to carry on the natural train of events, or to
check it when it tends to run into useless or noxious
extravagancies. Now, in this scheme of events, legisla-
tive enactments can only be considered as a portion of the
general causes which co-operate in producing or removing
evils. Legislative enactments did not invent the press nor
the steam-engine ; legislative enactments did not give
Britain her superiority ; and legislative enactments will
not destroy it. Rad Statesmen do not attempt to force
nations into a new state; they meiely take advantage of all
the favourable circumstances in the state of things as they
actually exist, in order to improve the preient system,
rather than to establish a new. It is our object to spew,
in these general remarks, that the hopes which we may
safely entertain of improvement in our national condition,
are• not to be looked for entirely in the enactments
of a Parliament ; that the Parliament itself, if it
acts wisely, will only follow the course of events,
and will rest satisfied with preventing any obstructions
to 'that course, without attempting to direct it; and
that laws themselves, in short, are only valuable as
they encourage industry and knowledge, the only sources
either of individual or of national prosperity. The late con-
vulsion in the commercial world is as much the result of
unalterable causes as the falling of a stone to the ground ;
for the principles of the human mind are as fixed in the
aggregate as those of the material world. Men always have
run, and always will run into excess, when long-continued
restrictions are removed; and that excess always has occa-
sioned, and always will occasion, an extraordinary depres-
sion to balance an extraordinary elevation. We have less
to hope in the new Patliament from the laws which it may
pass, than from the unfits which may be elicited and dif-
fused in consequence of its investigations. A few farmers
like YOUNG would be of more service to England, at pre-
' sent, than a dozen legislators.

CITY, ‘WEDNEsoiv EVENING.

There were considerable transactions in the English Funds this
morning, and an elasticity was observable in them during the day.
Consols opened at the closing price of yesterday, 7U a, which they
i proved upon, and left off at 711 i I, at which quotation large bar-
cai•os were completed.
The greatest ansicy prevailed on 'Change to ascertain the state
tithe Quarter's Revenue; but nothing transpired on the sub;ezt
authentic enough to affect the price of Stocks.
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In the Foreign Market, Colombian and Mexican Stock wcte
better: the funner opened at 27. 8, and advanced full 1 per cent.;
thu latter, 6 per cent., are full la per cent. higher, and may b
quoted at 4213. There seemi a general opinion, that the al inns re-
lative to the disturbance in Colombia are not of that descript it is
which should call fur such a depreciation in the Colombian or
Mexican Funds, and that they are like 4 to improve.

IRISH ELECTIONS.

lrnom A CORRESPONDENT.]

You have no doubt perc, ived the zeal with which some of our
elections are contested, and the fervour with which the partisans of
each Candidate are animated. You have also, and no doubt with
regret, perceived that the combats have not been confined to the
brawling of the hustings, or to the noisy though harmless effusions
by which popultr assemblages have been ever distinguished, and
which are at mice the characteristic, and form in a great degree the
protection, of popular government. Blood has been shed, if nut
viciously most unfortunately, at more than one of those meeting!,
which should be the scene of civic contest, of peaceful struggle, in
the exercise of those rights and privileges which the law confers,
and which the Constitution has ever ssnedrined. During the pre-
sent season of exasperation, whilst the passions of the conflicting
parties are still at their height—whilst criittination and recrimina-
tion are bandied about, and uttered and retorted with an impetuo-
sity which cannot stop to reason, and which identifies idle con•rs-
diction with decisive refutation, —it would be at once improper Mid
unsafe, it would be incurring personal responsibility and sporting
with truth, to venture at soy thing like an accurate statement of
these melancholy and degrading occurrences. A catastrophe of
this description is particularly to be deplored on account of the
conclusion which, without any extraordinary violation of the rules
of reasoning, tray be deduced from it, and of those specious argu-
ments, which, founded anti based upon such melancholy experience,
may be put into the mouths of the opponents of that system of re-
presentation which we believe to be the best, and which, if they do
not enable its adversaries to deny its utility altogether, may still
appear to justify them in circumscribing its action and limiting its
existence to those districts which are better ad toed to its recep-
tion, and where that which was meant as a political blessing should
not operate as the signal of (Scully strife and the harbinger of
b'ood.
The verdict returned upon the bodies of two of the individuals
I who lost their lives in Kerry, has just reached me and to any
person who considers the mode in which the melancholy duty ts
petformed in England, who selects that mode as a standard, and
who refers to it as to a rule from which it is at once unsafe and
unwise to depart, thy oniition of the Jar. must at first sight ap-
pear a little stra.‘ge. It finds in substance that the deceased were
killed by the firing of the police and rifle brigade, under the orders
of certain magistrates (naming them), and that such onleis were
unnecessary aid unjustifiable. To my limited understanding it
appeal that if a fellow-creature is d.e.gzgLitfiais lite in ammo
quene• AM maw atoncelttrtttiall, a unjust' aide, such act,
upon the part of the aggressor, amotims to wilful murder, and scch
is the meaning which I attach to the verdict.

The report of the state of the Duke of York yesterday
was, " His Royal Highness has had a very good night,
and is going on very comfortably."
Yesterday morning, soon after ten o'clock, 11Sr. Secretary
Canning left his residence in Downing-street, on a visit to
Mr. Planta, at his scat at Fairlight, near Hastings, Mr.
Under-Secretary Planta having previously left town on
Monday.
It is rumoured that the Earl of Morley will succeed the
late Earl of Chichester as Postmaster-General.

Mss. &ANIL-I'lllS lady, whose vocal talents are still
fresh in the r2membranceot every lover of song, has once
more appeared before the public, and we trust with a
better hope of reward than crowned her last essay at
the Argyll Rooms, which was a total failure. She has
been engaged by the proprietor of the New Vauxhall,
White Conduit-gardens, at a liberal salary per night,
and made her first appearance there on Tuelday even-
ing. She sang two of her favourite ballads, " Wapping
01(1 Stairs," and " Young Love," from the opera of M.P.,
or the Blue Sloeldng. Time may have " thinned her
flowing hair," but it has committed little havoc with her
voice, which was not only sweet but powerful. She exe-
cuted some of her cadences with great elegance, though at
first she seemed rather nervous; however, the warm plau-
dits of the audience, which was very respectable, soon re-
stored her to her wonted confidence. The other entertain-
ments were of a very agreeable 'description. • •

PARTIES.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury gave an elegant en-
tertainment, on Tuesday, at their house in Hanover-square, to her
Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester and a distinguished
party, among whom were the Marquis and Marchioness of Lon-
donderry, the Goisag, r 31srchionesa of Salisbury, the Marquis of
Iluntly, the Earl of Shaftesbury, ready Thynne, Lady Georgians
and Miss Wellealey, Mr. Seahright, he.
Baroness Willoughby dc Eresby gave a grand dinner on Tuesday.
at her house, Whitehall, to a large parry of distinction. among
whom were the Earl of Glengnll. the Earl, Countess. and Dowager
Countess of Clare, Lord and Lady Tullamure, Lord Dudley, Lord
Lovai..e, Lord Ansley, Lady Isabella Fitzgibbon, &c.
Lord Carrington entertained a distinguished party at dinner yes-
terday, at his lino;, Whitehall.
The lion. Mr. Musgrave had a dinner party yesterday. at his
house in Garlev-street.
The following distinguished persons had dinner parties on Tues-
day:—The Dowager Counters St. Germain's, kelix Ladbruke,
Esq., T. C. Glyn, Esq., John Pearse, Esq. M.P.

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