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THE VOTE OF LOUISIANA. The following letter, (says a New Orleans paper), on the subject of the vote of our representatives in congress on the presidential question, was received by a gentleman of this city from Mr. Gurley, dated

"Washington, 9th Feb, 1825.

it be convenient, that the civil engineer of the state should co-operate with the board, while examining the localities within the state, both going and returning; and, with the hope that you may concur in this view, you will be duly apprised of the place and probable time at which the board will enter the state, so that you may direct your engineer to meet the board, should you deem it advisable.

I have the honor to be, sir, with great respect, most obedient servant, J. C. CALHOUN,

To his excellency the governor

I have only time to inform you that J. Q. Adams has been elected president of the United States on the first ballot, by the vote of 13 states, including that of Louisiana. I know your attachment to gen'l Jack-your son, and also know that no person is more competent! to duly appreciate circumstances and motives than yourself. Let me give you the following fact-after the western states, Ohio, Kentucky, Illinois and Missouri, came out for Adams, it was generally considered certain that Jackson could not be elected, as the four Crawford states would adhere to him to the last, or, if they should ultimately abandon him, that they would be divided, two going over to Jackson and two to Adams-that the vote, on the first ballot, would be 12 for Adams, excluding Louisiana, 7 for Jackson, and 4 for Crawford. I was not only satisfied of this fact myself, but the whole delegation from our state, both in the senate and house, unless with the exception of one of my colleagues, were of this opinion. At this time, and for two or three weeks before, great excitement prevailed, both in and out of congress, on the subject. I found my colleagues divided in opinion on this important question-a divided vote at home, even the electoral vote-no certain information as to the state of public feeling in our state, but believed to be also much divided.

of the state of Georgia, Milledgeville. Lynchburg, (Va.) March 25. Albon McDaniel, esq. (mayor), last night received a letter from the secretary of war, announcing the receipt of the memorial of the citizens of Lynchburg on the subject of the southern road, and concluding in the following words: "This subject is of great national importance, and arrangements, in reference to it, have been already adopted. A board of engineers for internal improvement, has been organized, and will shortly set out upon their general examination of the country, under instructions from the department, with a view to the selection of the best route for the contemplated road. To this board the proceedings and memorial of the citizens of Lynchburg will be submitted, and due consideration will be given to the suggestions presented in them.

men attached to that service, set out, about a week since, on a tour of reconnoissance through the southern states, with the view of ascertaining the most eligible route for the contemplated national road from the seat of government to New Orleans.

I have the honor to be, very respectfully, sir, your obedient servant, JAMES BARBOUR. Albon McDaniel, esq. Cha'r, &c. The board of engineers, consisting of general BerDelay in making a choice would but have distract-nard, Mr. Shriver, and the other officers and gentleed, agitated and convulsed the nation. Even admitting that Jackson was the first choice, which could not be inferred by the electoral vote, as Clay had a majority by all the members, (had they been present), and it was generally known that his friends were opposed to Jackson-yet no chance existed of Jackson's success: under these circumstances, I perceived my situation extremely painful and perplexing. To have made an unavailing opposition would, in my opinion, have been doing an injury to the state, and have been acting unjustly towards those who sent me here. No less so would it have been to have suffered personal delicacy, arising from circumstances which you can easily imagine, to have influenced me in the discharge of this high and solemn duty. I determined to vote for Mr. Adams under these circumstances. Have I done wrong? I put it to you as an impartial and honest man-as a statesman.

If you condemn me, I know you will do me the justice to say, that my error was an honest one, in mistaking my own duty for the public good.

Your friend,

H. H. GURLEY.

SOUTHERN NATIONAL ROAD. By the following letter from the late secretary of war, to the governor of Georgia, it will be seen that arrangements have been made to ascertain, during the ensuing season, the best route for the proposed national road from Washington to New Orleans:

CANAL MAKING. While the legislature of Pennsylvania, (says a New York paper), were discussing the question respecting the New York Schuylkill coal company, and some threat was intimated of taking the land of the company as an escheat or forfeiture to the state, a countryman from Orange county, who happened to be in Philadelphia at the time, said to one of the citizens-"I tell you what, sir, your legislature had better take care what they are about: the York folks are great hands at digging canals, and tapping rivers for feeders; remember, sir, that this here river Delaware, begins in and runs a good way down through our state before it gets into yours. Now, if you make them angry, who knows but what they may take it into their heads to cut a great big canal from Carpenter's Point, quite across our county, to the Hudson; which would drain off the Delaware, and leave your great city of Philadelphia high and dry, like our Goshen!"

OHIO CANAL. We understand, (says a New York paper), that the whole of the Ohio canal loan, of four hundred thousand dollars, was yesterday taken by John Rathbone, jun. and Eleazer Lord, esq. at the rate of 974 dollars for 100 dollars of stock, bearing an interest of 5 per cent. per annum; stock transferable and interest payable in the city of New York. This shows, in a very particular manner, the opinion entertained of that project among the moneyed capitalists of this city. The completion of this great work will confer immense advantages on the city and state of New York. A close connection with the energy and enterprise of an interior state, is better to us than a mere increase of territory. It gives us an access to the ingenuity, the industry and the riches of Ohio.

Department of war, Feb. 28, 1825. SIR: The board of engineers, for internal improvements, will leave this between the 1st and 15th of the next month, for the purpose of commencing the examination of the several routes between the city of Washington and New Orleans, with a view of selecting the most eligible location for the great national road proposed to be established between those two points. The board will first make the examination of the route by the line of the capitals of the southern states, return by the intermediate route east of the mountains; thence, proceed back through the mountains. As it is a subject of great interest, Another result will flow from this circumstance. both to the nation and the particular states through It shows that this city is destined to become the mo which the road may pass, it is very desirable, should neyed capital of the whole union. If internal improve

ments are projected, or even heavy institutions begun, application must be made to New York, as in the present instance, as well as in the late sale of Louisiana bank stock effected here. By every tie, we are connected with the states around us, and all together swell the importance of this great and growing city.

BONDS OF UNION. Many persons in Philadelphia, Baltimore, &c. are clothed with goods manufactured in the state of Ohio; and now it appears, that the east may be also supplied with window glass from Indiana! Steam boats and carriages, canals and roads, it may verily be feared, will "consolidate" our extensive country before long-but we hope without "alarming encroachments of the general government upon the rights of the states," as Mr. Randolph has it,

"A few days since, (says the Providence Patriot), whilst attending to some business in a mercantile house in this town, our eye accidentally glanced on a box of window glass, bearing the manufacturer's name, and the place from whence it came, New Albany. At first we were at a loss to decide where, or in what state, New Albany was situated; but, upon summing up what geographical knowledge we possessed, we at length ascertained that New Albany is in the state of Indiana, near the falls of the Ohio, about 1100 miles distant from this, and about 300 miles westward of the Alleghany mountains. Inquiring of a dealer as to the quality of the glass, we were informed that it was excellent, and quite superior to any manufactured in the eastern states, and infinitely superior to that manufactured at the celebrated glass-works in Pittsburgh. Indeed, so highly did our friend esteem this glass, that he was anxious to order a large supply, and wants only to ascertain the safest and most expeditious way of bringing it to this section of the country, when he will issue his orders."

BORING FOR WATER.

tage over their grounds, for the purpose both of ornament and utility-in the formation of small lakes and the irrigation of the garden. To the question as to the surrounding country, he says it is as level as the lands on the eastern shore of Maryland, as far as the eye can reach; no overhanging or neighboring higher grounds.

TELESCOPE DESTROYED. The celebrated Manheima telescope, the master-piece of the famous Spaiger, a Hungarian optician, was destroyed some time ago in a most singular manner. A servant of the observatory having taken out the glasses to clean then, put them in again, without observing that a cat had crept into the tube. At night the animal, being alarmed at the strong power of the lunar rays, endeavored to escape: but the effort threw down the instrument, which, falling to the ground from the top of the tower, was broken to pieces. [London paper.

QUADRUPED AND BIPED RACERS-in England. In 1820, the sum of 3,500 guineas was offered and refused for a horse named Sailor-in 1824, 3,000 for another named Serab, and 1,500 for another called Mercutio. And lately, a man named Pedley, run five miles in thirty-two minutes, and won 70 sovereigns, being allowed 38 minutes.

FRENCH FINANCES. The Paris papers contain an account of the proceedings of the chamber of depu ties at the sitting when the budget was presented. The minister of finance, M. de Villele, in the development of his system, gave a flattering account of the financial state of France. The whole receipts of 1823, (the year of the Spanish war), amounted to 1,123,456,392f. (or about 1.45,000,000 sterling), and the expenditure to 1,118,025,162f. or about 1.200,000 less. The whole resources of 1824 amounted to 992,333,953f. (or about 1.39,693,358), and the whole expenditure to 990,119,582f. The revenue for the curCharlieshope, near New Brunswick, N. J. March 24. rent year is estimated at 928,000,000f. (or a little DEAR SIR-The practicability of obtaining water by more than 1.37,000,000 sterling), and the expendimeans of boring is not unknown in Europe, and has ture at 926,500,000f. In extending his views to the been resorted to in this country for salt works; but no year 1826, the minister estimates the national income where, excepting in our immediate district, has water at 924,095,704f. (or l.37,000,000), and the expendibeen made to flow, spontaneously, above the surface. ture at 915,504,499f. leaving an excess of the former It is the greatest improvement in the science of hy-over the latter to the amount of 8,591,205f. (or about draulicks of our or any age, and will result in a new 1.343,328). "I have," said the minister, "laid betheory of the origin of certain springs; I mean those fore you the documents necessary to put you in possprings that do not come to the surface from a higher session of the charges and resources of the years source. But I must leave these speculative points, 1824, 1825. 1826. You have seen that the expenses and comply with your wish to have a copy of the cal- of the Spanish war, borne by France, have been paid culation that I made, of the cost to a city of supplying and covered by the issue of four millions of rentes, itself with delicious water by the new principle of the balance of the last loan, and the excess of the boring. ordinary income over the ordinary expenditure of the state."

I have allowed largely for each well, as you will discover, when I tell you that my well, which is 253 There has been much excitement concerning certain feet deep, cost only 500 dollars, including perpendi-depredations committed on the public during the cular, horizontal, and lateral pipes, to the length of 230 feet, and made of copper, with tin lining.

The water in my bored well has risen at least five feet above the surface of the ground. It is carried to the kitchen-supplies two trough tables for milk pans -two large cattle troughs, and a hog trough. The water never ceases to flow, and is of the same temperature, throughout the year. I wish that you would give as much publicity to the contents of this letter as you can. The Manhattan company are boring in New York. They have not yet obtained water; but if they persevere they will succeed.

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On the same subject we insert the following Dr. S. McCulloh visited, last summer, the new garden of the horticultural society of London, at Chiswich. He there saw their overflowing well, obtained by boring, the stream as thick as his arm, of fine drinking water. It was turned to the greatest advan

Spanish campaign. The amount plundered was enormous; and nearly all the officers of high bank in the army, the duke of Angouleme excepted, are supposed to have had a part of the spoil. A person named Ouvrard, who was appointed by them as general provider, is seemingly to be made the scape goat; but the robbers in chief will remain behind the curtain. The contracts appear to have been accepted at sixty per cent. above the real value, or selling price, of the articles to be furnished!

FINANCES OF MEXICO. We mentioned some time since the memoir of the Mexican minister of finance, read before both houses of congress, on the 4th of January last. The document is published in a pamphlet of fifty-two pages, the execution of which does no little credit to the Mexican press. As the memoir is devoted to the present state of the public treasury, the changes which are necessary to be made in it

and the measures required to produce them, we shall
present an abstract of it, to furnish our readers with
a correct general statement of the financial concerns
of the country.
[N. Y. Daily Adv.

The expenses of the department of justice and ecclesiastical affairs are set down at $77,220; those of the department of war, to sustain the army on the footing ordered by congress, at 12,000,000; those of the marine, in both branches, at nearly 3,000,000; and those of the executive and legislative, 1,000,000. The debts which ought to be paid in 1825, amount to $865,804. The whole expenses for this year, as thus stated, form, in round numbers, the sum of 18 millions; and the revenue amounting to only ten millions six hundred thousand, would leave a deficit of more than seven millions.

To supply this, the memoir proposes the re-establishment of the rents on the manufacture of tobacco, which, in 1808, yielded to Spain about four millions and a half; also the duties on gold and silver, in bullion and coin, and the suppression of some of the maritime custom-houses. These are considered abundantly adequate to the purpose, and are warmly recommended, although there are said to be antipathies existing against the old system of the tobacco rents.

on the same footing with that of slave labor! It is not by orders in council, however judiciously contrived and well intended, that we expect to see the West India population raised from the level of brutes to that of men. So long as the people of Britain consent to pay nearly two millions a-year more for the sugar of the West Indies than would suffice to purchase an equal supply from our own territories in the east, so long will the planter trample the slave under foot. But if you put an end to this odious system, if you cease to pay nearly two millions a year as a premium on slavery-for this is what the exclusion of East India sugars really amounts to-the whole system will fall to pieces. Do justice to the East Indians, by permitting their produce to come into competition with the produce of the West Indians, and the slave system, with all its long train of guilt and horrors, will be effectually subverted. The planters will no longer have an interest in oppressing and overworking their slaves, and will have no motive to induce them to refuse their concurrence to any practical scheme for the abolition of slavery."`

TOBACCO. In the following, copied from a late London paper, there is reason to expect some increase of the consumption of one of our great staples In the estimate of the different branches of the re- "Saturday's Gazette contains an order in council venue, the whole amount of the duties on imports which, we are sure, will be hailed with pleasure by and exports, is rated at $2,732,995; the avails of the the mercantile world. Our readers may know, pertobacco manufactory, on its present footing, at a lit-haps, that, for many years, certain articles, (rum, totle more than one million; the rent of the salines at bacco, &c.) paid an excise as well as a customs duty, 68,000, that of the post offices at 312,000, that of the and two sets of officers proceeded to ascertain the lottery at 95,000; the dicimal rents of the five cathe- quantity, and had a joint surveillance over them in drals at 529,000; the dicimal rents of the mitre of the docks and warehouses. At length the extensive Mexico 87,000; the foreign loan at 1,300,000, &c. patronage of one of the superfluous range of clerks, &c. amounting, as before stated, to above ten million landing-waiters, warehouse keepers, lockers, &c. five hundred thousand dollars. was given up; but it was the excise officers that were retained, and we had the anomaly of articles brought from over the seas, being placed under the sole management of a body, whose proper sphere was to take cognizance only of articles produced or manufactured in England. The primitive distinction between the jurisdiction of the customs and excise was thus destroyed; but, by the present order in council, it is again wisely restored, except as to tea. It directs that the duties on coffee, cocoa, tobacco, snuff, pepper, spirits, wines, and all other foreign goods, now subject to duties, collected by the excise, shall, from the 5th of April, be collected by the customs.

MEXICO. The 'decrce of the constituent congress of Mexico which is published below, is entitled to an attentive perusal in this country, from the importance of the undertaking which is its object, and the nature of the interest which it involves:

[TRANSLATION.J Decree of the constituent congress of the United Mexican States, on the 4th November, 1824. The government shall cause it to be published in this country, and in others where it may be thought proper, that it is about to undertake a communication between the two occans, through the isthmus of Tehuantepee, and that proposals will be received for the execution of the work. That which shall propose to execute the work in the best manner, and at the same time afford every facility and convenience to navigation, will be accepted.

The government shall determine the length of time during which proposals will be received. In the mean while, the isthmus of Tehuantepee shall be surveyed, and all the information necessary to undertake the canal of communication shall be collected.

The government shall submit to the congress, for its consideration and ultimate decision, the information and the proposals that may have been received. The government shall also cause it to be published, that other proposals of a like nature will be received. The principal objects to be thus effected are: to render navigable the rivers Alvarado, Panuco, Bravo del Norte, the Rio Grande de Santiago, and the Colorado, and to colonize the country to the west of it. Mexico, November 4, 1824.

BRITISH WEST INDIES. A late number of the "Scotsman," speaking of slavery in the West Indies, says-There is, we are fully satisfied, but one way either materially to improve the condition of the slave, or to put down slavery, and that is, by allowing the produce of free labor to come into the market

CHEROKEE BOUNDARY IN ARKANSAS. Mr. Allen Martin, who was appointed to run the boundaries of the Cherokee nation, has completed that service.

The boundaries of the nation, as now established, are as follows: Beginning on the Arkansas, at the mouth of Point Remove creek, and running up the former 150 miles, (100 on a straight line), to a point 14 miles above Skin Bayou, or about 12 miles above Fort Smith; thence, a course, bearing 53 degrees, E. 132 4-10 miles, to White river, at a point 6 miles above the Little North Fork; thence, down White river, 134 miles, (75 on a straight line), to Hardin's Bluff, ubout 6 miles above the town of Batesville; and thence, 713 miles on Rector's iine, (which runs parallel with the western boundary), to the place of beginning, on the Arkansas.

The survey made by captain Shattuck, about a year since, gave the Cherokees 3,285,710 acres of land; Mr. Martin's survey gives them an additional quantity of 978,386 acres-making the total quantity, included within their present boundaries, 4,264,096 acres.

The survey made by captain Shattuck, gave the Cherokees a front on the Arkansas of only 36 miles by the meanders of the river; by Mr. Martin's survey, their front on the Arkansas, is increased 114 miles. The former survey gave them a front on White river of 208 miles, and the latter reduces it to

134 miles. The first survey established a due north | Robertson gave his note to Livingston, at such a date and south line as the western boundary; and the last establishes a line running N. 53 degrees E. (being parallel with the eastern boundary), as the western boundary, which gives the present territory of the Cherokees a diagonal shape.

Their boundaries, as now established, include a large extent of some of the finest of the Arkansas bottoms, and a very considerable portion of the most valuable part of Lovely's purchase. [Arkansas Gazette.

as to fall due subsequent to the maturity of the note which the former had received from the New Jersey buyers. Before the note, held by Robertson, became due, the house in New Jersey became insolv ent, and Robertson brought the action to recover the amount, thus lost, from his principal, Livingston.

It was pleaded on the part of Livingston, the defendant, that the account sales and the note given by the plaintiff, went to show that a conclusive settlement was made between the parties at that time. It was further pressed on the jury, that, because the names of the buyers were not mentioned in the account sales, the plaintiff assumed the responsibility of the debt. The judge, in delivering his charge, took an extremely full and clear view of the law of principal and agent, and directed the jury to apply the principles therein stated to the facts which had appeared in the evidence. The jury retired a few minutes and found a verdict for the plaintiff of $187 75 dama[N. Y. Gaz.

THE PAUPER FARM, owned by the town of Ipswich, Mass. containing about three hundred acres, produced, the last year, seventy tons of hay; and there are now kept on it, 48 head of cattle, 25 sheep, and other domestic animals. It affords ample supplies for sustaining and clothing fifty paupers, by whom the greater part of the necessary labor upon the farm is performed. "Without doubt, (says the New England Farner), in a few years, under judicious ma-ges and 6 cents costs. nagement, these paupers will cause no other expense to the town than the interest of the money paid for the farm. Similar establishments, calculated on a plan for the paupers to earn their own support, are in successful operation in the towns of Salem and Danvers. This is a project worthy the attention of every town burthened with a tax for the support of paupers. Reason and justice require that those who throw themselves on the charity of the public, as a Consequence of their own idleness and vices, should be compelled to labor for their support."

FOREIGN NEWS.

From London papers to 13th March. Great Britain and Ireland. The schemes for railways, &c. are going on with unabated vigor, and a number of new companies for mining in Mexico, &c. are getting up, and very high wages are paid to persons about to embark to work in said mines.

A company of merchants, in whose favor an extensive grant of land has been made by the Colombian government, are about to form an association for the purpose of promoting the colonization of British subinjects in that country.

LAW DECISION. Philadelphia, April 6-The jury, the case of commonwealth vs. George Tyson, in the mayor's court, yesterday, brought in a verdict of guilty.

The bill for putting down associations in Ireland, was read a second time in the house of lords, March 3d-contents 146, non contents 44-majority 102.

The petition of the Roman catholics of Ireland, presented to the British house of commons, by sir Francis Burdett, had one hundred thousand signatures

The circumstances which were the subject of this indictment, and which have caused so much excitement in the public mind, are generally known, and were conclusively established on the trial. The in-to it. dictment of Mr. Tyson, who has hitherto held a respectable station in society, was for obtaining from Mrs. Stewart upwards of $1,000, under pretence of purchasing for her, as a broker, bank stock to that amount, but which, in reality, never was purchased, but converted to the uses of the defendant. The felony indicted was constructive larceny, and the great question before the court was, whether it was that of fence or a mere breach of trust. The jury, applying the facts to the law, were persuaded that the defendant had a felonious intention in the transaction, and, therefore, was guilty under the indictment.

In the house of commons, on the 24th February, when on the question of supply for the naval college, sir J. Yorke, said he understood that one individual, at least, educated at this college, had carried the improvements which he had acquired to the United States. Mr. Croker said that a bond of 500 pounds was taken to insure the students entering the British service, and if they left the country, their securities paid that sum.

Mr. Wilberforce, the philanthropic advocate of the abolition of slavery, is, owing to declining health, about to retire from parliament, after sitting forty five years.

Arrangements are made by the British government for carrying 2000 emigrants to Canada.

Messrs. Rothschild and Baring are said to have contracted for the three per cent. loan of three million sterling, raised by the Danish government for reducing the public debt of Denmark.

The dock yards in England, for the last three years,

($29,237,600), and ship building and repairing ships, during the same period, 23,000,000l. ($102,120,000). The indentical press, at which Dr. Franklin worked, in London, is now in the possession of Messrs. Cox & Baylis, in Great Queen street, in the same city.

LAW OF PRINCIPAL AND AGENT. A case in this branch of law was recently decided in the circuit court, at New York. The facts of the case were these:--Alexander Livingston, who resided in a distant part of the state, sent a parcel of wool to James Robertson, a wool-dealer in this city, to dispose for him at the usual commission Robertson did business on commission, and was, in this particu-have cost the British government, 6,540,000 pounds, lar transaction, constituted the factor of Livingston. No particular orders, however, accompanied the wool beyond the general implied instructions which the law recognises in such cases. Robertson, the factor, made sales of the property, and among them, a particular sale, of about $187, to a firm in New Jersey, to whom he had frequently sold before, and who were, at the time of sale, considered of good standing The factor received a note for the amount sold, which became due on a certain day. Previous, however, to the maturity of this note, the principal, Livingston, made a settlement of his account with Robertson, and in the account of sales rendered by the Jatter, the name of the house in New Jersey was not expressed as buyers of the wool. At this settlement,

The use of steam in the manufacture of bricks had caused a saving on that article of 60 per cent. and by a new method, for which a patent has been obtained, security was afforded against the destructive effects of frost or wet weather, while the bricks are drying, only 48 hours being required to prepare them for the kiln, which now occupies two months.

Two school boys, one of them the son of a lord, the earl of Shaftsbury, having had a quarrel, resolved to Isettle it by a boxing match, according to the rules laid

down for that polite amusement of the "nobility, clergy and gentry" of England. They had their "backers" and "bottle holders" in ample stile-they "stripped to the buff-fought sixty rounds in two hours, during which the son of the lord drank half a pint of brandy; at length he fell heavily on his head, never spoke afterwards, and soon died. Neither of the parties was more than 17 years old.

The French chambers have been chiefly occupied with discussing a law about sacrilege, and for the indemnification of those who suffered by the revolution. The first has passed; its spirit is that of the dark ages. One thousand millions of francs is the sum required to satisfy the emigrants. The distribution of two hundred millions of dollars among the old nobility, &c. would make many of them very "comfortable"--but the laboring people would have to pay for it.

Netherlands. Harlem, Feb. 13. It seems that the whole coast of Overyssel, from Kampen to Kuinder, is overflowed, and that the water, impelled by the storm, carried every thing before it, so that very few houses could resist it, and many persons lost their lives. In the province of East Friesland alone, it is supposed that 200,000 acres of fertile land are under water, and that 10,000 horned cattle have perished. Accounts from Husum, on the coast of Holland, are of a similar nature. It is certain that the numerous small islands on the coast have suffered severely, as is evident from the large quantity of household furniture, among which are twenty cradles, that have been washed on shore. There is no positive information, says a letter from Husum, but as far as we can see from the beach, only nine houses are left on the island of Kleinmoor; and Sudfall seems to be entirely washed away. It is estimated that above 200 wagon loads of household furniture, and other goods, are

washed on shore.

The adjacent part of Germany has equally suffered especially Hanover. The details are truly distressing. Hundreds of houses were swept away, and many lives lost.

British House of Commons.

THE CATHOLIC QUESTION.

On the first March, sir Francis Burdett introduced into the British house of commons the following resolutions, which were carried by a majority of 13.*

1. That it appears to this committee, that, by certain acts passed in the parliament of Great Britain and Ireland, respectively, certain declarations and affirmations are required to be made, as qualifications for the enjoyment of certain offices, franchises, and civil rights, therein mentioned.

2. That such parts of the said oath, as require declaration to be made against the belief of transubstantiation, or that the invocation or adoration of the Virgin Mary, or any other saint, and the sacrifice of the mass, as used in the church of Rome, are superstitious and idolatrous, appear to this committee to relate to opinions merely speculative and dogmatical, not affecting the allegiance or civil duty of the subject, and that the same may, therefore, safely be repealed.

3. That it appears to this committee, that, in several acts passed in the parliament of Great Britan and Ireland, respectively, a certain oath, commonly called the oath of supremacy, is required to be taken as a qualification for the enjoyment of certain offices, franchises and civil rights, therein mentioned.

4. That in the said oath and declaration is contained, that no foreign prince, person, prelate, state, or potentate, ought to have any jurisdiction, power, preeminence, or authority, ecclesiastical or spiritual, within these realms.

5. That it appears to this committee, that scruples are entertained by his majesty's Roman catholic subjects, with respect to taking the said oath, merely on account of the word 'spiritual' being inserted therein; and that, for the purpose of removing such scruples, it would be expedient to declare the sense in which the said word is used, according to the injunction issued by queen Elizabeth, in the first year of her reign, and recognized in the act of the fifth of her reign, and Egypt. Paris, March 1-Events of great impor- which, as explained by the 37th article of the church tance are, it is said, preparing in Egypt. The Pacha of England, imports merely, that the kings of this makes great efforts to civilize his country; twenty realm should govern all estates and degrees committhousand troops are being instructed in European ted to their charge by God, whether they are ecclesitactics, by order of the Pacha. Several French ge-astical or temporal, and restrain with the civil sword nerals, among whom are mentioned Boyer and Liv- the stubborn and evil doer. ron, accompanied by a certain number of half-pay 6. That it is the opinion of this committee, that or discharged officers, are arrived at Cairo, where such act of repeal and explanation should be accomthey are employed by the Pacha: it is said that their panied with such exceptions and regulations as may departure was not unknown to the French ministry. be found necessary for preserving, unalterably, the Manufactories and assurance companies are estab-protestant succession to the crown, according to the lishing in Egypt, and there is, it is said, a newspaper about to be created.

East Indies. It is well known that the British poliey in India has been to cause the natives to be actors in the subjugation of their country, by making soldiers of them. Three native regiments lately refused to appear in marching order at Barrickporethey were fired upon by a party of the king's troops, and one hundred of them killed on the spot: and upwards of one hundred were afterwards tried and condemned to death-but only eleven were executed; the rest were sent to hard labor on the roads.

Brazil. Extract of a letter to the editors of the Philadelphia Freeman's Journal, dated Pernambuco, Feb. 13, 1825:

"This place is perfectly quiet. The trials of the revolutionary patriots are commencing; four have had their trials. Three of them are condemned to be hung-two were hung about three weeks ago-the hangman refused to hang one of them, and he was shot at by fourteen soldiers; they all fired twice, and succeeded in killing him.

act for the further limitation of the crown and better securing the rights and liberties of the subject, and for maintaining inviolate the protestant episcopal church of England and Ireland, and the doctrine, government and discipline thereof; and the church and discipline thereof, as the same are, by law, reof Scotland, and the doctrine, worship, government spectively established.

Mr. Canning supported the resolutions, on the grounds stated in the following extract from his speech:

Efface then, I say, the line between the protestant and catholic church, and strengthen the line of de

*It should not, however, be presumed from this vote, that the resolutions will even pass the house of commons-and, if not rejected there, they certainly will be in the "hospital of incurables," or house of lords, wherein the bishops sit and vote: a band that will not tolerate any thing that may lessen their power, or, in the remotest degree, affect the amount of money which they wrest from the people by the sword. [ED. REG.

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