The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — 1826-07-06 (London, England)

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 present season of exasperation, whilst the passions of the conflicting parties are still at their height—whilst criittination and recrimination are bandied about, and uttered and retorted with an impetuosity which cannot stop to reason, and which identifies idle con•rsdiction 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 arguments, which, founded anti based upon such melancholy experience, may be put into the mouths of the opponents of that system of representation 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 reception, 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 appear 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. &