The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1826-06-09 00:00:00

ROYAL GARDENS,YOXHALL.

I:nder the especial Patronage of his Most °melons Majesty.
This Evening. FRIDAY, June V, a GRAND CONCERT, ID Two Acts.
to the superb new Concert Room, which will commence at Half past
Ziibt. Principal Vocal Performers.
Mlas ittephens Madame Vesta. Signor De 8tf(1214 Mr. Tinny
Madsme Curnega Mr. Graham Lir. Rornessibe Mr. Robinson
'flea Covite Mr. Sinclair Mr. C. Taylor Moister Barker.
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iAtider;fihe DeM !which will be nunterota and complete`, Signor
Speenulent—Cootposer and Conductor, Mr. H. R. 131.1t,p.
Kt the end of the First Act of the Concert an entirely nrw Panora!
Ballet, by lion.leur .1. A. Thelour, late Ballet-Master to the Theatre
11Jyal, Athrterdare. entitled
L'INTRTGUE DU VILLAGE.

Pepe!pal Performene—Madernoleelle P.aultae Rotsknot. from the
Theatre Rove). AntAterdam ; and Monsieur 8. Wear'', from the neutral
Itnyal San Carlo.. at Naple.. and La Scala. at Ultra.
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I.M al sr of the Hand fu; the Ballet, Mr. it yoke.
The lllttmliaatlons will be on the most maanlaceut bad*.
The Amusement., to conclude with

A B BIZ A,

Ulm hove, Of the Theatre Royal, Covent.prxrden, and Ml;s Posey, of
the Theatre Royal, Drury.lane, ate engaged, and will shortly maks their
8 ace.
7:rartal eulara respecting Admission Canis for the Etenintr. the Private
Boxes for the Beason or Bitchily, may be had upon api.lieatlou to Ur.
AIIdTCW*, Bookseller, Bond.sittet.
Doors open at Seven o'Clock.—Coneert commences at flalf.past £ late.
Admission -it. _ _ .

CALTION.—The PubllC will please to take notice, that nil Songs °feted
frr sale on the outside of the Gardens are spurious. Caplet of the Songs
Inay be had in the Gardens.

The BRITISH Patss ern nmenced yeaterlap
min-
ing at twenty minutes past five o'clock.

LONDON, FRIDAY, JUN: 9, 1626.

By our accounts from Liverpool, it appears that a spirit
of dissatisfaction had manifested itself amongst the jour-
neymen ship-carpenters at that port, on the subject of the
proposed re-election of Mr. HUSRI9IIOI4 to the Representa-
tion of that Borough. The ground of disapprobation is
the conduct of that gentleman in his official capacity, in
reference to the Combination Laws.

It is well known that those laws were reraled by Act
5 Geo. IV. cap. 95. It is also matter of public notoriety
that, inconsequence of the poising of this Act, great incon-
venience was sustained by the mercantile and shipping in-
terests of the community, and that the most dangerous
effects were threatened to the general prosperity of the
oountrv. It became, therefore, the duty of Mr. He sets-
SON. as President of the Board of Trade, to inquire into
the precise nature of the causes which had led to conse-
quences so much at variance with the intentions of the Le-
gislature. This inquiry he made with his usual sagacity
and judgment, and having come to the conclusion that
some modification of the Act in question was imperatively
required for the benefit of all parties, he brought the
jeet under the notice of the House on the ‘29th March,
ass. The object which the Right lion. Gentleman pro-
fessed to have in view in introducing the subject, may be
best ascertained by a reference to the speech with which he
opened proceedings on this occasion. He states that " he
did not propose to suggest that the old laws respecting the
combination of workmen and labourcra against their em-
ployers should be again put in force. Those laws were,
many of them, oppressive and cruel in their operation on
workmen; and he had always advocated the principle of
allowing every man to dispose of his labour to the best ad-
vantage." He afterwards points out the manner in which
the Act of Session 18'2t failed to give effect to their objects ;
and he proceeds to thew by whet rassale-enesey might be
given to the intentions of the Legislature. He then says,
" be trusted that, on account of what he had been saying,
he should not be considered as a person who was at all
hostile—nay, who was not friendly—to the right which
every man, generally speaking, had to dispose of his labour
and skill to the best advantage, or as he might think pro-
per. As a general principle, he undoubtedly thought
that every man had a fair inherent right to carry his
own labour to whatever market he liked, and so to make
ehe.best of it; and, accordingly, he had always maintained
that labour was the poor man's capital." Ile con-
cluded by moving for the appointment " of a Se-
lect ('omrnittce, to inquire into the effects of the Act of
the sth Geo. IV. cap. 9.. in respect to tlic conduct of
workmen and others in different parts of the United King-
dom, and to report their opinion how far it may be neces-
airy to repeal or amend the said Act." The Right Honour-
ibleGentleman, in making this motion, seemed fully aware
that "he might expose himself to much obloquy and the ex-
pression of much dissatisfaction among sonic of the parties
It related to, and particularly in a place where he was most
anxious to stand well, and among, theme who had ant him
to that House. However this might be, he had only to
do his duty fearlessly; and he had no doubt that, upon a
little reflection, the same parties would be among those
who would feel most obliged to him for having, in this
instance at least, performed it." The final result of this
dissuasion was the passing of Act 6 Geo. IV. cap. 29 ;
and a dispassionate reference to this Act will at once prove
ibit the Right Honourable Gentleman, in bringing for-

ward this measure, and the Legislature, in giving effect to
it, could be influenced by no motive but a sincere desire
to make further prosieion, as well for the security and
personal freedoin of individual workmen, in the disposal
of their skill and labour, as for the security of the property
and p. rsons of masters and employers. What, therefore, ,
does this Act cff,•et, which can cause dissatisfaction to the
parties for whose benefit it was inlet:Pled ? if it be care-
fully perused and considered, it must be looked upon as
an unequivocal Froof of the desire of Government to place
the mechanic on a reasonable footing of equality with his
employer. But we believe thereat state of the case to be,
that some insidious person or persons, actuated either by
feelings of hostility to the Right Honourable Gentleman,
or by the hope of advantage to themselves, have deluded
the mechanics by a false representation of the intention of
Mr. Hcssisso Our *Ned is to dissipate this illusion,
and to sheW that, if great talents, Mil, fatigable industry,
unblemished integrity, a fearless disregard of private in-
wrests when put in competition with the claims of the pub-
lic, and a manly perseverance in the course conscientiously
belikved to be right, do ever entitle a statesman to public
approval, then indeed ought Mr. Ilusatssuis to be, it
Inctkent, in full and legitimate possession of the approval of
his country.

The following are extracts from the Etoik of Wed-
nesday
[From the Rio;le dated Wednesday. Jan. 7.1
coor r. Afar 9
It was affirmed at Corfu. on the 9ilt May, that General Ponsonhy
had sent from Zane several camases to Patriot, Missolongiti, and
Napoli di Romania, in oriler to obtain authentic lidormatinn rela.
live to the fall of Missolonghl, and the rate of the garrison ; but
that not having been able to obtain this information before his de-
parture, he had given orders to send a courier after him to Cepha-
lonia, where he intends to stop. It seems that the Greeks obtained
many slight advantages in Negrepont, and after having taken a
small fort with pretty considerable loss, they gave up their en.
terprise and retired; this retreat is ascribed to imperious circum-
stances.

The Missolonghiotes *his escaped have joined the corps com-
manded by Zoog', and now occupy parts of the mountains of
Acansania. where they are recovering after their fatigues and pri-
vations. They demand for their Clommander-in-Chief only Ka-
raiskaki, who is on the heights or Arts, after having burnt that
town. The commander of an English brig, which arrived on the
Bth, says he saw at Petals, twenty Suliotes and two women who had
escapul from Misaolonghi. One of these women, carrying with
her two children, had stified one of then in her arms, not to be be-
trayed by its cries. These poor wretches have confirmed the report
of tie marline of the aged, the wounded, the women, and children,
by the Greek themselves.
The Suliote Captain, Nassn Fontamgra, who made part of the
undisciplined corps commandrd by Fahrier, seeing the state of
affairs, has marched with 300 brave men to fa asoli di Romania,
and, without communicating his designs, has taken possession of
the citadel of Palamidi, which commands and can destroy the
town. Ile has expelled the Aloreotes who were in it, and de-
clared to the Governmmt that he had taken possession of it be-
cause he was sure that neither it nor its people would ever do it.
It is affirmed that the 3loreote garrison have been expelled like.
• ire from Napoli dl Romania. Corinth, and Athens. This ITWa_
sure has been taken after the positive proofs of the treason of the
Morcott's. and especially of the Mainotes, who are amid to has e
sold the country to Ibrahim fur a large sum. The Greeks at-
tacked Napoli di Malvoiaia, which is in the hands of the Mainotea.
It is asserted that Ibrahim demands of the English the isles of
Petal. and Cahoon; and that, on the contrary, General Ponsonby
is gone to Cerigo to have same uninhabited islets prepared as a
place of refone for the Greeks.

General i'ltnionity arrived on the 6th from hie voyage to the
islands. It was said that almoe all the Mi‘aolonghlotes have pe-
Tithed. Only 26 escaped to Petals, whence they acre immediately
rentoyed to Calamo.

A large steam-boat, supposed to be part of the expedition of
Gerd Cochrane, has been seen to pans to the south of Zante, cont.
ing from the wear.
The nephew of General Gerard has arrived at Corfu though 0,-
car4o of the ver‘el on hoard which he arrir:d is from Smyrna, it is
said that he is going to Napoli di Romania.
[From the Pilate.]
PARIS, JUNE a.

It is affirmed, says the Memorial Bonkla's, that a courier has
been despatched with all speed from Lisbon for Vienna, with des-
patches of the highest importance. It is even affirmed that they
recal the Infant Don Miguel, who is to embark at Leghorn on
board a Portuguese vessel which will be there to receive him and
convey him to Lisbon. It is still affirmed that the Emperor will
not return to Europe, because the Empire of Brazil is going to be
aggrandized by the incorporation of the provinces of the Itto de la
Fiats, which have been ceded to it by King Ferdinand.
FHENCII FUNDS.—PARIS, JUNE r, —ltve per Cents. 07f. 30c.
Three per Cents.. fitif. 55c.; Bank Stuck, 2015 f.; Rentes de Na.
ples, 721. 70c. ; Royal Spanish Loans 471; Haytian Loan, 725 f.
Exchange on Landon—One Month, 25f. 5k.; Three Months,
251. lic.—Coup Authentique.

Dutch Papers of the sth June have been received ; we
subjoin a single extract.
Nti;ss, May 25.
Yesterday afternoon, at two o'clock, • waterspout passed over
the district of Holzheim, in the circle of Dusseldorf. As it
passed over the estate of Itongards it entirely destroyed a barn,
though a very solid building, on the farm. Twelve persons were
buried under Its ruins, and extrica ed with pent difficulty. Nome
were killed, but six were severely injured, and one is not yet out or
danger. A peasant boy, who sought refuge behind the barn on
seeing the strange phenomenon approach, was thrown over a hedge,
to the distance of above 100 paces. Ehn trees, two feet In diameter,
were torn up by the roots, and corn levelled with the ground.
Happily the cattle and horses which were in the stables were not
hurt. This waterspout resembled a thick cloud, hanging very low,
and, like smoke driven by the wind, rose higher and higher, and
went off towards the south, while heavy thunder-clouds came from
the south towards the east to meet ft. We hear of similar ravages
in other places by the storm of the 24th.
Asurrienntiss, JUNE f—Exchange on London, 40. 7. Two
months, 40. 4.—Dutch Parerv,June 7.

Without giving any opinion respecting the justice or in-
justice of the war which now agitates South America, we
may safely affirm that it is not likely to produce any other
etfeets than those which formerly arose from the contentions
of Eurole Sovereigns before the French Revolution. On
this account we should willingly decline entering into the
disputes of the contending parties. At the same time, as
some of our contemporaries have endeavoured to throw
contempt and obloquy on a Sovereign, placed in the closest
relations of amity England, as well by the commer-
cial and political interests of the two countries as by the
ancient and unviolated friendship which has subsisted for
comities between his family and the British nation, it
becomes imperative upon us to look at both sides of the
question; and though we certainly would nut justify any
act of aggression, or any attempt at 000 quest on the put
of his Imperial Majesty, we see no rcacou why Buenos
Ayres should not exist with safety in the neighbourhood. of
the Empire of Brazil. Still le-e do we see any reason on
the part of England for wishing that a Constitutional
Monarchy, attached to us by long habits, should be changed
into a Republic, necessarily subjected to another influence.
If there were no reason but the difference of the origin of
the two people, Buenos Ayres and Brazil would entertain
jealousies of each other. We would only deprecate any
mode of arguing which could irritate the minds of two
nations naturally hostile to each other, and con vet t into a war
for existence, what is nothing more than a war about terri-
torial boundaries. In another part of our paper will be found
a letter from a correspondent, who has written to us upon the
same subject as our correspondent yesterday. 'We need not
add, that we do not go to the same lengths in our conclusions
on this subject as he has done ; but still many of his asser.
tions are well-founded, and Lis remarks evidently the
result of reflection.

Clll, THURSDAY EVENING.
Towards the close of business this morning, there was a little
bustle in the Consols market, which had previously been ins very
inactive state. The consequence watt an improvstuent in price from
80i Itoi /. In other Uritislt Securities there was no variation, and
the Foreign market was totally nes,lectul.
Money ha become more plentiful, and good private bills may be
discounted at 4 per cent.

Accounts from Smyrna of the 3cl ult. state that pira-
cies continue frequent among the Greek Islands. The Eliz4heth,
from London, was plundered olYthe Island of Zea, during a calm.
The pirates took out every thing that was ♦stuable. The Engll4ll
Commodore still continued to give CODYOpI to alt vessels buuud
down the Mediterranean.

THE BRITISH PRESS.

ALSIACE'S.
Alnitsek's Grand Ball on Wednesday evening Pas very elegantly at.
tended. Among the haul ton present were
Hake de Afontibello.
Duchess of Wellington.
Afergulun—Claorlearde, Londonderry. and De Stoul.
Marthionesses--Lotblitn, Queensberry, Londonderry, Emily Londbn-
deny, and Winche.ter.
Earls—narewood, Mansfield, Albemarle, Cloomell, Rosalyn, and
estinorland.

CLuntesses—Albemerle, Harewood, Sheffield, Denbigh, Clonmell, Abing-
don, Leltrlm, Verolam, Kenmore, Beauchamp, and Orford.
Lordr—F. Osborne, Berebaven, Gage, Flociuitle, Begot, Sydney, El-
phenstone, Weymouth, Waring., and Hervey.
Ladies—Rose, Kerr, A. Scottl.. Houghut, M. I)ouglaa, U. Coates,
Mu!grave, Phipps, P. Lanellms, Y. Osborne, J. Mann, livuerin, Donde.,
Eilenborough, C. Murray. E. Murray, J. Petre. H. Fitzroy, E. Palk, L.
Vaughan, A. Hotroyd, C. Buggln, Gage, E. Monck, H. Scott, G. Kcp-
pelt. M. MISS, Grey, Clements, J. St. Clair, A. Vane, A. Paulet, Bar.
nerd, A. Brudeuell, Y. Brudenell, E. Somerset, G. Seymour, M. Kerr.
A'Court, C. and E. Hulkeley, H. Mitchell. Cosh-Moon, Ramsdell,
S. Bailey, Farquhar, F. Osborne, Phipps, Berkeley, Dusk, F. LtlflCellell,
E. Fortesrue, A. Wilbraham, S. Reeve, It. Itentinek, E. Lowther, E.
Palk, Lowther, Pinch, Smith, AVynn, A. Hervey.
Sirs—C. Mundt, Jnhn Trollope, John Copley, A. Edmondsone, W.
nett, R. Gresley, F. Smith; at..l M. Itcwart.
Cuunts—He Mottle, lie Lannuy, and Ue Lotturo.
ilscoont Plavigny.

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