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information respecting the tribes at the foot of the great chain Reviewer states, the height of the lake is not 1200 feet, but where the Niger rises. The Koorankoos and Soolimas are 950 or 1000; secondly, if the length of both rivers is calculated mild in their manners, and possess a considerable degree of in the same way (by taking the same space in the compases) civilization. Their houses are large and clean, their fields an elevation of 1200 feet in the Tsad would not afford to its neatly cultivated, and they are expert in the common mecha-waters much more than half the average fall per mile which nic arts. A part of the people are Pagans; but part have is assigned to the Amazons: thirdly, the Nile approaches the been converted to Mahometanism. It is a curious fact, that sea with a considerable current, and has several cataracts in this religion, which entered Africa on the east, in the time of its course, while the Amazons has not a single cataract below the Prophet, has been imperceptibly gaining ground on Pagan Jaen-has a fall of only 11 feet in the last 600 miles of its ism, seeking its way slowly through a multitude of barbarous course, and is so remarkably level and motionless, that the tribes, and after having its progress long arrested by the tides are felt over all this space. Jebel Kumra, or great central chain of mountains, it has at last surmounted that barrier, and we now find it emerging almost on the shores of the South Atlantic. The late and imperfect conversion of these tribes may be regarded as the last feeble surge of that mighty tide which rose in Arabia twelve hundred years ago, and overwhelmed so many power-in their Delta. The one of these branches he thinks may be ful empires in its course.

The number of the Quarterly Review just published, affords some additional intelligence from the expedition to Bornou. The letters from Major Denham and Lieutenant Clapperton, come down to June 1824. The latter visited Old, Birnie, the former capital, destroyed. by an enemy some years ago, the ruins of which attest the greatness of its wealth and population. It is 8 or 9 miles in circumference, surrounded with walls of brick and clay, 30 feet high, and 10 or 12 thick. He afterwards continued his excursion to the westward along the Yeou or Niger, beyond the boundaries of Bornou. Then entering the territories of the Sultan of Kano (Gana in Arrowsmith's map) he was kindly received and promised a safe protection to Sakatoo, 15 days journey beyond Kano, and which must be near the Lake or Sea of Soudan. Here some Bornou traders reported they had seen him; and at this place he would be within little more than 200 miles of Timbuctoo, to which he was proceeding. If he reach this famed town, his accounts of the Niger will connect with those of Mungo Park, and the geography of the upper part of this river will want little of being fully explored...

The Reviewer thinks that the Shary runs parallel to the Yeou along the base of the Jebel Kumra from a point nearly as far west; or else that one common stream parts into two, and forms the two rivers, which as they fall ultimately into the same lake, must encompass a great portion of central Africa the Joliba, the other the Quolla, both of which have been called the Niger. That the Shary comes from the west is very probable. In all other respects either hypothesis seems to us untenable. It is curious that the travellers met with a son of Hopaemans by an African woman, and they received a pretty distinct account from a native, of the circumstance of Mungro Park's death. The Scotsman.

CITY, 11 O'CLOCK.-Consols are firm at 933. In the Foreign Market Spanish Bonds are 234; Austrian, 984; Danish, 101; Coldásbian, 90; Chilian, 894; Mexican, 794 80; and Greek, 514.

POSTSCRIPT.

MONDAY, March 28,

THE French papers of Thursday and Friday arrived yester-
day. On Sunday se'nnight a deputation of Protestant Peers
and Deputies had an audience of the King, to petition his
Majesty for the re-establishment of the Council of Protestants,
connected with the Ministry of the Interior. This Board has
been suppressed by the present Minister of the Interior, M. de
Corbiere. The cure of Lamentin, in Martinique, M. Cait-
laud, has been received hospitably in St. Domingo, and
promised promotion by President Boyer. Though he enjoyed
a rich living in the French colony above-mentioned, he could
not endure to live in it under the affliction which he expo-
rienced at the sight of the cruelty and oppression to which
the people of colour were subjected. He therefore proceeded
to France to lay the atrocities of the local Government
before the Administration at home. Receiving no promise of
a change, and entertaining no hopes of improvement, he
repaired to Hayti, where he has been received with the dis-
tinction which was merited by his virtues and his services in
the cause of humanity.

The trial of Louis Fort, the Secretary of the Duke of Bourbon, who attempted, in December last, to assassinate the steward and the valet de chambre of the Duke, has commenced at the Court of Assizes at Paris.

Little farther progress had been made in exploring the Tsad or great Lake of Bornou. Major Denham had again visited its southern shores, and had ascended the river Shary as far as Kurmuck in the 11th degree of south latitude. The lake is of great breadth, as well as length, and contains numerous islands inhabited by pirates, who are able, it is said, to muster a thousand boats, carrying from 15 to 20 men each. When the last letter was written, in June 1824, Major Denham was about to begin a journey quite round the lake, proceeding by the south end, and returning by the north. When the result of this enterprise is published, we shall know whether the Tsad has or has not an efflux stream ;-but-the existence of such a stream will by no means prove a communication with the Nile. The Tsad must be nearly 1000 miles from the Nile in the 10th parallel; and in that interval there may be another lake or a succession of lakes, of sufficient magnitude to dispose or the waters by evaporation, if the Tsad, 200 or 300 miles long, be not itself large enough for the purpose. The Reviewer enters into this question, and though we are under his ban as jacobins and what not, and of course are not to be named, we have a sly suspicion that his reasoning is meant as an answer to the arguments we used in our papers of 14th January, and 18th February 1824. We still think these arguments conWe learn that the Government of Buenos Ayres has set clusive against the supposed communication of the Tsad with apart 30,000 dollars per annum, to bear the expense of sendthe Nile, for which the Reviewer contends--though we admiting a number of young men, natives of the republic, to Brithat if the Tsad be bona fide a fresh water lake, the fact may tain or Germany, to be instructed in the natural sciences, în almost be received as a proof that it has an efflux stream. The medicine, agriculture, political economy, &c. Some of the Reviewer refers to the Amazons, which he says falls 7 inches young men, we are informed, have already arrived in Edinper mile, and by a fradulent calculation he finds, that if the burgh. The Peruvians, more than two years ago, adopted lake Tsad is 1200 feet above the sea, this will afford a fall of a similar proposal; but the distracted state of the country has. 7 inches per mile to its waters in their circuitous course to hitherto prevented it from being carried into execution. It is the Mediterranean, Here we are at issue with him. We pleasing to observe, that the freemen of these regenerated maintain; first that if the barometer stood at 29 deg, as the portions of the New World place education among the most

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FRENCH FUNDS.-PARIS, March 25.-Five per Cents. opened at 103.; closed at 103. 10.; Bank Stock, 2,030.; Rente de Naples (Certif. Falconet), 90. 90.; Rente d'Espagne, 19; Royal Spanish Loan, 1823, 59%. Exchange on London, one month, 25.; three months, 24. 85.-Cours Authentique.

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urgent of their wants, and consider knowledge as the most precious of their imports. However much the Governments of Spanish America may differ in other respects, they have all been the zealous patrons of mental improvement; and the whole of these vast regions, from California to Cape Horn, are, at this moment, a scene of the most animating and salutary innovations. Academies and colleges have been planted where literature and science were recently proscribed. Drowsy monks have been replaced by industrious schoolmasters, and affectionate mothers substituted for dissolute nuns; men are now permitted to think and reason, where thinking and reasoning were formerly crimes. What a contrast is this to the state of France, where Ultras and Jesuits are straining every nerve to convert the people into a herd of slaves and bigots, where they are reprinting wretched legends and lives of saints. on superfine paper, with Didot's best type, as manuals for the Duke of Bourdeaux! and making the royal babe the patron of their new convents and other ascetic fraternities-where Corbiere is shutting up Lancastrian schools, social clubs, and reading rooms-where every thing is doing, in short, to reimpose that load of ignorance and superstition on the necks of mankind, which the new world is throwing off with its whole energies.-Scotsman.

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Returns made in the Week ending March 23, 1825, is 41s. 5d. per
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thereon on the Importation thereof into Great Britain.

On Saturday night, about half-past nine, the firmament presented a striking and interesting appearance. To the northward, and along the line of the coast of Fife, a pitchy darkness prevailed; while south, east, and west, the horizon was remarkably clear-the stars appearing of unusual magnitude, and shining with uncommon brilliancy. In a moment, the southern edge of the black cloud became illuminated, by rays of light which shot up from behind it, from east to west. In about forty seconds, à commotion was observed on the verge of the dark mark,-which appeared as if broken by a sudden and violent tempest; and at the same time vivid corruscations shot up in rapid and dazzling suc- THE PICTURES: the BETROTHING. Novels, translated from cession, far to the southward, in a wide range from east to west. Such was the degree of light emitted at this time, that it recalled to the mind of the beholder the appearance caused by the rays of the sun at mid-day, after a summer or autumn thunder-storm. The period of duration of this interesting phenomenon might be about half an hour.-Edinburgh Ob

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It is not true that Miss Foote will be married this morning to Mr. Hayne. This Lady has been obliged to relinquish her engagement at the Glasgow Theatre in Passion-week, in consequence of the extremely delicate state of her heth. Should Miss Foote, however, be sufficiently recovered, she will perform on this day, to-morrow, and Wednesday, at Liverpool, and from thence return to her duty at Covent-Garden Theatre: Chronicle, March 28,

There is at present exhibiting in Canterbury, a lamb, with a face resembling that of a human being.

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THE POLITICAL EXAMINER.

Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.-Pork. PROPOSED MEASURES WITH REFERENCE TO

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ling to concede "Emancipation" on terms that would strengthen
their vested rights" in that rich ecclesiastical fund in Ireland, which
they carve out in such tempting slices among their kinsmen and their
sycophants; but we hope the proposal will not be sanctioned by those
friends of the Catholics who profess the principles of General Reform.
Even the Whigs insist on more honest and decent conditions. In
the excellent article on Ireland in the Edinburgh Review just pub-
lished, a plan is sketched for the re-modelling of the existing eccle-
siastical funds, which is extremely liberal towards the Establishment,
while it cannot be objected to by any sincere and reasonable Pro-
In Scotland, there are 950 parish clergymen, whose incomes may be
taken on a high average of 2751. a-year each and as the Scottish clergy
are not inferior in point of attainments to auy in Europe, as no complaints
but, on the contrary, as their exemplary conduct is the theme of well-
have ever been made of the manner in which they perform their duty,
merited and constant eulogy, we can see no reason why the Irish clergy
should be better paid than they are. The population of Scotland is
2,135,200, of whom a third may be supposed to be dissenters, which,
being deducted, leaves about 1500 parishioners of the established kirk to
each clergyman. On the same scale the half million of Irish Lutherans
would require 331 clergymen, whose incomes, at 2751. a-year each, would
amount to 91,0251. But supposing that double this number, or that 662
thinly scattered over the surface of the country, the whole charge for
clergymen were necessary in Ireland, because of the Protestants being
the parochial established clergy would be 182,0501. a-year: to which,
adding 80007. a year, as the income of the Archbishop, and 20,000, as the
clergy, would be 210,000l. a-year, or not more than one third part of the
entire revenue that either is, or might be, derived from the church lands
alone. So that, were such a reform as this carried into effect, it would be
possible to provide fully for both the Established and Catholic clergy, and
for every other pious purpose, out of the church estates ouly; and govern-
whole of the oppressive and odious burden of tithes."
ment would have it in their power to abolish, at once and for ever, the

Mr. O'CONNELL addressed another letter to the Catholic Associa-
tion (before its dissolution) respecting the measures with which the
Emancipation Bill is intended to be accompanied. We are sorry to
perceive in this letter some angry feeling towards Mr. LAWLESS of
Belfast. Whatever differences of opinion may exist between the
Gentlemen, we are convinced they are both equally animated with
the sincerest affection for their country's cause. Mr. O'CONNELL is
mistaken in saying, that Mr. LAWLESS imputes to him the wish to
obtain a "silk gown" as the motive of his alleged compromise with
the Ministers. We are sure that Mr. L. gives the distinguished Irish
Barrister full credit for the purest motives; and we trust that the
latter would readily, upon reflection, make a similar acknowledgment
in regard to the Belfast Editor.
It is quite useless now to go into the topics of Mr. O'CONNELL'S
letter: because the measures alluded to have actually come before
Parliament: on Tuesday last, Mr. LITTLETON gave notice of a Bill to
alter the law respecting the Irish 40s. freeholders, and Lord LEVESON
GOWER, of a Resolution calling on the House to make some provi-
sion for the Catholic Clergy. The nature of the former measure has,
it seems, been greatly misconceived-and hence the opposition ex-aggregate income of the four bishops, the whole cost of the established
cited against it on both sides of the channel. The real 40s. freeholders
are not to be disfranchised; they will continue to exercise the elective
right just as the same class in England do. But the right of voting
will be taken from the mock freeholders, the wretched cottier-tenants
who hold a patch of ground with a hovel on it, on a life-lease, at a
rack-rent, and who are first compelled by their landlords to swear
that their tenures are worth 40s, a-year more than the rent, and then

the feeling description of the effect of the ecclesiastical tyranny on the We must add the next paragraph of the Reviewer, for the sake of Irish peasant, which is taken from Mr. WAKEFIELD'S useful book :—

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forced to the poll in droves, to exercise their "franchise," by giving suffrages which they dare not withhold! This is a system pregnant with serious evils, without a single counterbalancing good; and independent of any reference to what might be substituted, or to the Ca"We hold it perfectly visionary, to suppose that tranquillity can ever tholic Question, the sooner it is abolished the better. Whether Sir be established in Ireland, so long as the Catholic cottiers and peasants are F. BURDETT'S Bill therefore be lost or carried, Mr. LITTLETON'S ought selves,' says Mr. Wakefield, in the place of a half-famished cottier, obliged to pay tithes for the support of a Protestant clergy. Place yourunanimously to pass. This part of the subject, we conceive, has no surrounded by a wretched family, clamorous for food, and judge what thing whatever to do with the great question of elective rights. By his feelings must be, when he sees the tenth part of the produce of his the abolition of an abuse which, under the guise of a privilege, only de- potatoe-garden exposed at harvest-time to public cant; or if (as is most grades, demoralizes, and impoverishes its possessors, we concede nothing common) he has given a promissory note for the payment of a certain sum to the enemies of Parliamentary Reform-we admit no precedent or of money, to compensate for such tithe, when it becomes due, to hear the pretext for the limitation of the right of suffrage. We consider the ex-heart-rending cries of his offspring clinging around him, and lamenting clusive exercise of that right by 40s. freeholders and borough-tenants, for the milk of which they are deprived by the cow's being driven to the as unjust and corrupt: we would extend the franchise to the poorest pound, to be sold to discharge the debt. Such accounts are not the peasant that could read; but then we would accompany that exten-creations of fancy; the facts do exist, and are but too common in Ireland. sion by the adoption of the secret ballot; we would give the humble voter a real choice-not burden him with a pretended privilege which the state of society converts into a degrading compulsion.

I have seen the cow, the favourite cow, driven away, accompanied by the sighs, and tears, and imprecations of a whole family, who were paddling behind, through wet and dirt, to take their last affectionate farewell of this their only friend and benefactor, at the pound-gate. I have heard, with emotions I can scarcely describe, deep curses repeated from village to village, as the cavalcade proceeded. But let us reverse the picture, and behold the effects which are produced by oppression, when the load becomes so oppressive as to extinguish every sentiment in the breast but a desire of revenge. I have beheld at night houses in flames, and før a moment supposed myself in a country exposed to the ravages of war and the most alarming accounts of Thrashers and of Whiteboys have met suffering from the incursions of an enemy. On the following morning, my ears,-of men who had assembled with weapons of destruction, for the purpose of compelling people to swear not to submit to the payment of tithes. I have been informed of these oppressed people having, in the ebullition of their rage, murdered both proctors and collectors, wreaking their vengeance with every mark of the most savage barbarity.'

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With regard to the payment of the Catholic Clergy, that is a more difficult matter. Such payments would of course afford some pecuniary relief to the wretched peasants, whose religious feelings make their contributions to their priests necessary, even though they thereby diminish the food of their half-starved families. But then a provision from the British Government would violate a great principle, and certainly increase the injustice in theory, though it might diminish the present suffering of one class. The evil is not, that the Catholics pay their own clergy, which on the contrary every body of believers ought to do, but that they are tyrannously compelled to pay the Clergy of the Protestants. Now the remedy suggested would not touch the real grievance, but would create another-namely, that the people at large should be taxed to pay the Clergy of the Irish Catholics:-a sad The reasons which are urged by those who would have the Catholic thing this in a remedial proposition! Such a measure would seem to clergy paid out of any fund rather than by the Catholic peasants, are sanction, by acquiescence, the monstrous injustice of the Church of nevertheless weighty. "It is true (they say) that there already exist Ireland; and we do not know that even the relief it would afford the in Ireland funds more than enough for the payment of the ministers peasantry would be an unequivocal good, since it would tend to make of all religious sects; it is true, that the members of every sect ought them less discontented with a system so shocking and iniquitous, that to support their own clergy, and that the people of England will be they never ought to rest satisfied until it is removed. The Catholics wronged by being compelled to pay the Catholic priesthood;-but are oppressed by the payment of the Protestant Church; and it is here we have only a choice of evils. The church of Ireland will not proposed to relieve them by saddling the British people with the pay-surrender a penny of its shameful riches; the Irish peasant is consement of the Catholic Clergy! Can a Reformer approve this violation quently groaning under the double burthen of tithes to the Protestant of political decency, for the sake of a good by no means unequivocal? incumbent, and contributions to his own beloved priest. Though mers here should ha wil, equally w in principle therefore, it will be a practical charity and

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