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110 jgMBptaiiii'U' JjW would assign bef, by sensuality or by contempt; admired,Ml not respected; desired but not es teemed; ruling'by fashion, not by affection; im parting her weakness,' not her constancy, to the sex which she should exalt; the source and the mirror of vanity.” “We see her ns a wife partaking the cares, and cheering the anxiety of a husband; dividing his labors by Iter do mestic diligence, spreading cheerfulness around her; for his sake sharing in the decent refine ments of,die world, without being vain of them; •placing all her pride, all her joy, nil her hap piness in (he merited approbation of the man she honors. As a mother, wo find her the af fectionate, tha ardent instructress of the chil dren she has tended from their infancy—train ing them up to thought and virtue, to medita tion and benevolence, addressing them as ra tional beings, and preparing them to be men and women in their turn.” REMAINS OF THE DELUGE IN OHIO. Tho follow’trg is an extract from an article in a recent number of Silliman’s Journal of Sci ence. It is from tho pen of Caleb Atwater, Esq. of Olfo: These are so numerous in this state, that it will not be expected that I should do more in this article jhnn mention a few of them, and the places where they are found. If one tree furnished Mr. Schoolcraft matter for an inter esting and valuable memoir, how shall 1 con dense my remarks, so as even to refer to tho great number of similar facts existing in Ohio] In the vicinity of the Ohio river, in the coun ties of Washington, Meigs, Gallia and Law rcncc, ami on the waters of the Muskingum, in Muskingum and Perry counties, I have care fully examined not a few of tho fossil trees, there existing. Among them I noticed the following, via: Black oak, .black walnut, syca' more or button wood, white liirch, sugar rna pie, (acer saccharinum,) tho date tree or bread fruit tree, cocoa-nut bearing palm, the bamboo, the dogwood, and I have in my possession, the perfect impression of tho cassia and the tea leaf! Of ferns I have beautiful impressions of the leaves, and of the bread fiuit treo flowers, ful ly expanded; fresh and entire! I have speci mens of so pe.foct, and faithful to nature, as to dispel all doubts as to what they once were. The larger trees mo found mostly in sand stone, although the bark of the date tree, much flattened, I ought to say perfectly so, is found in shale, covering coal. I am aware that a mere catalogue of fossil trees, shrubs and plants, is not very interesting—that the Geologist wishes to know among many particulars, in what formation they exist, and the exact spot wiiore they are found. I am in possession of all the particulars. Every stratum from the an. face downwards, has been carefully measur ed, in some places, .to tho depth of 400 feot, and I have correct diagrams.* The date is a large tree, not very tall, and having numerous and wide spreading branches. . - < Nino nnle3westof Zanesville, lying on the brink of Jonathan’s creek, and near tho road leading to Somerset, Lancaster and Circleville, is the body of n bread fruit tree, now turned to. 8uiidstoue, as M. Brogniart found the tropical p! trtts’imbodded in France, mentioned in a for mer numbor of this Journnl. It contains a con siderable quantity of mica in its composition. The c.issia was found in such sandstone in the Zanesville canal; The bamboo is mostly im pressed upou iron stone, at Zanesville; espe cially tho toots and the trunks and leaves, are found in rajo«oeous sandstone. The iron stone is sometimes ai _ _ tlto leaves of fern, am mado of bamboo leaves, bamboo rants. It hap pens frequently, that tlio. trunks of small trees and plants are flattened by pressure, and the bark of them pnrtiplly turned into fossil coal, Thus thft shale, bftener contains a hark, how become fossil coal, aud n stratum of shale in sutccssidn, for several inches in thickness. 'Before I Itfave : Zanesville, I wish to ninko a passing remark or. two, on the subject of find ing the fossilremains of tropical plants here.— Tbo dato, tUO bamboo,' tho cocoa-nut bearing palm, tho cassia, the tea plant, &c.‘nro found at **iis day only in tropical'regions, or in n cli- ito where there ii very little frost. At Zanes- this m ville, so sovero is the winter at present, that the mercury sinks several degrees below zero. Two questions naturally, present themselves to ihe mind—has our climate become coldor than farmorly? or havo tho tropical plants changed their nature? * It is known. that several tropical plants have by degrees been removed, farther and farther to tho north, and at length become naturalized to a northern climate, I refer particularly to palm a christi. But whore is the plant which has been driven from our latitude to Cuba? I know of (tone. II ts the climate of the world generally become colder, then? I say gonorully, for somo coun tries probably have. Some writers suppose that the dimato of England Ins changed in tills manner. We havo good evidence that during eighteen hundred years past, the climate of Romo and Palestine have undergone d great change, as the writings of Horace, Virgil, and others of the Augustan age, clearly evince: "Vides, at sits itet nivc csnditlum Soncte; nec jam suM'mosnt onus Silvas Isborantes; gchtque, Flumina, constiterut acutot Dissolve trigus, ligna euper'foco Large repooebs.”— What a picturo of tho winter which prevail ed at Rome in tbo Augustan age? Such a pic ture would now best suit the mcridfah of Que bec. In other passages of tho same author, we icarn that tho snow was so docp near ;Rome, that the deer pushed it aside by tlieir breasts, os they wero pursued by tho dogs. Who now secs tho roofs of houses at Rome, or even in Paris ready to break down with snow?—Ii David’s time there was snow in Palestine, and allusions to frost, snowand hail nro frequent in tho Psalmsand in the writings of tho prophets. Tho inhabitants of Palestine aro no longer in the habit of attacking lions in their dens “on n snowy day,” for no such days now exist in that country. .But Italy and Germany, and indeed all Europo are no more what they were in tho days of David, of Horace and Virgil. Those vast forests, which formerly generated so much •I have not leisure to copy these now, and! may Want them in a lar|0 work at some future day. moist tire', cold weather, snow, hail and rain, are swept away by tiro hand of roan, and the cli mate is meliorated. But no such eauso has operated here, and the fact being ascertained, that tropical plants and animals once existed all over the world, clearly proves that tropical cli mate was mice equally extensive. The supposition that these tropical plants were transported northward by the ocean, un fortunately for such an opinion, is disproved by tho fact, that some of these trees, or Jatlter roots and a part of their trunks, stand upright t evidently on tho spot where they grew, and o- tliers, with every root entire, lie to appearance exactly whore they fell when turned up by the roots. Again, if floated from tropical regions, how happens it that their flowers wore uninjur ed? These show all their original beauty of form; they are fully expanded, and could not have been transported from any considerable distance. Scarcely a day could have interven ed between the period in which they wore in full bloom, and that in which, by that catastro phe which long since overwhelmed our globe, they were “embalmed” in the spot where they are now found. foreign. . uel Zanesville. , If hereafter I find leasure to describe our coal fields they will be noticed. Antiquities of Oliiq.—lu excavating the earth fora Iockpit,about half a mile west of Newark, Ohio, a large number of human hones were turned up by the plough. They were not more than two feet below the surface of the earth, in a pla :o where there was an elevation of the ground, of about 30 indies, but not sufficient to entitle it to the name of a mound. They were all carbonised, or burnt, wero of different sizes, aud amountod to the number of ten or fifteen. They were all covered with a greater or less quantity of very beautiful transparent mica.-— O ue of the skeletons was completely covered with the mica, and by way of distinction buried, it short distance from the remainder. This was a largo frame, and like the rest, was carbo nised. The quantity of mica would amount, according to the statement ofa gentleman who was present at tho time of the discovery, to eight or ten bushels. No mounds which have .over been opened hi tho western country have contained tho re mains of any human beings carbonised and cov ered with mica in this manner. From the Tendon Quarterly Rei-icw. GAMBLING PRIESTS IN SOUTH AMERICA. Greatly as the revolution may have diminish ed the power of tho priests at Buenos Ayres it self, our traveller soon found that they still swarm in tho other towns of the 'Viceroyalty, practising and encouraging laziness and imrno rality. At Mendoza, they are stated to load a most dissolute life, most of them having fami lies; and ’’several living openly with their chil dren.” Their chief aniusements, it seems, is cock-fighting on Thursdays and Sundays.— Captain Hoad visited their nrqpa. “It was crowded with priests, Who had each a fighting until nnilri tii, aim^iwl -it gnu surprising to SCO. FROM INDIA. Tho Boston Daily Advertiser announces Calcutta papers to the 28th of December. It is mentioned in one of those papers, as a prool of tho newly acquired English possessions on the Jcnasscrim coast, that samples of cotton havo been already produced, in quality superi or to Hie Banda, which had been consider ed the best-grown in Hindostan. They were flattering themselves with the hope that this cotton would become a competitor in tho Eng lish market with the American Sea Island. Orders were received at Portrmouth on tho lOth to discharge from the transport service, all the ships which were hired in December, to carry troops to Lisbon. Rear admiral sir Charles Ogle is appointed to the command of tho North American sta- FROM WESTERN AFRICA. A letter from Liberia, received in Washing ton City, dated at Monrovia, February 5, says: “Lieutenant Norris arrived on the i2th of January, and expects to sail for St. Thomas on the i2th of February. The twelve pound guns and ammunition have been received and landed safely, and. in good order; and tho presence and services of the Shark have proved equally how earnest and yet how long they were in ma king their bets. 1 ” By Mr. Miers’s account the priesthood are guilty of tho greatest baseness and immorality in every part of the couutry, and tho first to encourage gaming and every species of licentiousness, lie says: “It ij'the custom throughout South America, and more especially In these united provinces for every ha- cicpdado, [land-holder,] to hniid upon some central part of his estate n pulperia, [tipling-bousc, ] and a chap el close together; the latter as the means of drawing „ . rawing custom to the former, which forms no trifling branch of profit. On n feast day, tho people within a certain distance, repair to the puiperia. Drinkingand gaming are carried on without intermission until tho hell an nounces that the elevation of the host is at hand; in an instant thoy all rush out of the pulperia, leaving the stakes, whichtare sometimes considerable, on tho table, and with demure faces kueel before die host, tbe ele vation of which is about to aave their souls from dam nation; they groan and cry uloud to the Virgin to t tcct them, and, in their momentary devotion, mi| ho taken-by a by-standcr for penitent and sincere T - ■ Christians. But the moment the service is concluded, ,ain; and those who have left their II.flock back with precipitation to pro- Ly; in n moment tall their religion is for they r stakes undccidei lect their property; inn moment Dll tnelrreligi gotten, nil aro occupied in betting mid drunken revel ry; in whichthe friar who has beenthcorgnn in effect ingthe momentary penitence and sorrow, and has Sav ed their souls from perdition, stands foremost in the general 'debauch, which is continued till late at night." In .Chile, they havo lost nothing whatever of S eir iusoloncc and intolerance and, very little that influence which they havo always oxcrciscd, more especially, over tho fe male mind, in that roostWicked and de* testiblo .practice of extorting - confessions of their littlo wanderings and weaknesses, and worming out of thetp secrets, which lay whole families at the mercy of these unprincipled vagabonds. “The streets of Santiago,” says Capt. Head, “are crowded with a sot of lazy, indolent, bloated monks and priosts.” Ho is indignant that tho men .should all touch their hats to these drones-^ who; ho says may bo scon talking openly with women of tho most n- , class of bandoned class of society—and that tbo com mon people, though they laugh nt their immo rality, persist in going to them fop images and pictures, and in sending thoir wivesnnd daugh ters to confession. Tho Dumfries Courier says, it is worthy of remark, that London porter has lately been discovered to possess ’tho wonderful power of inducing leeches to bite with astonishing avidi ty.' They should be immersed jn the porter for about a quarter of a minuto before thoy aro applied to tho sxin.. Edinburgh alo has not by any means tho same effect, a circumstance which is hot a littlo remarkable. An*Ohl Bachelor In Ohio by way of a set off against Gen. M’Cluro’s proposition to tax Bachelors instead of dogs, proposed as follows —hear him. “Let every one who is tired of conjugal felicity, pay a certain fee to tho state for a divorce, according to his ability; and it will not only supercede the necessity of taxing dogs, but there will bo no need of taxes of any kind. And if government will give mo the ex clusive privilege of unmarrying all thoso who wish to be unmarried in tho United States, I will pledge myself to pay off the National Debt in fivo years." seasonable and advantageous to the Colony.— Not a slaver lmd attempted his operations be tween Trade Town and Cape Mount, (which limit at the two extremes, the line of coast, a- long which it is an object of great solicitude in us, to effect its final and entire abolition) 3ince the date of my last letters, until five days pre vious to the arrival of the Shark, when a French schooner from Martinique, landed her cargo at Little Bassa, for two hundred slaves. Tho Shark, in detaining this vessel on tho 3d of the month, fur a few hours, in order to in vestigate Iter character, prevented her escape from a French man of war, then cruising in search of her, aud which at that moment hove in sight. Site has been sent to Goreu for con detonation.” A bulletin issued from the office of the Co lonization Society, on tho i7th April, says— “letters have been received from Liberia up to the ntli February, representing the colony ns in tho enjoyment of health, peace and pros perity. The colonists are engaged in con structing new and more extensive fortifications, and various other public buildings, and aro making great- improvements in their condition. The agriculture of the province promises well for this year. Tobacco is seventy-five ceuts the pound, and none can be bought even at this rate. A valuable grant has been obtainod of tho Junk Territory, forty-five miles south of Capo Monserado, and a factory commenced at that place. The establishments at St. John’s,' Grand Bossa, Young Sister’s, and Factory Isl and, aro still maintained, and promise impor tant advanfages. The Colonial Agent, .Mr. Ashmun, expresses his determination to visit the United States early in the ensuing sum mer.’ - tfROM SMYRNA. Smyrna papers to the i2th January have been received at Now York. 1* heir contents are highly favorable to the G»6eks; and, as u- sual in all speh cases, furnish evidence that that paper does sometimes assist, however un- •willinqly, in the dissemination of truth. Iii beginning wjth tho latest paper, wo find, the dissensions at Hydra havo been completely terminated through the influence of Conduriot- ti; and that Colocotroni is on perfectly good terms with. him. Some of tho arrangements for a comh|ned attack on Athens, for the relief of Fubvier and the citadel, are confirmed.— Sixty thousand francs had arrived from the Pa ris committee, which had long bocirexpectcd. A report was spread at Smyrna, on the 7th of December, that captain Hasting’s steam boat, which had been seen on her passage from Syra, was to join tho Hydriot squadron at Sa mos, to make an attack on the Turkish port of Scala Nova, near Smyrna. The editor some times affects to speak contemptuously of die Greek, navy; but ho gives this report with trepidation. The Greeks still held tho fortress of Gra- bousi in Candio, which tho Spectator complains of as affording great facditics to predatory ves sels. Indeed u letter from Canco says they are blockaded by Greek pirates. It is situated on a rock, on the western point of the island of Candia; thirty miles from Cance, and com-, mauds a small port that has two entrances, one of which is only acccessible to small ves sels. Tlio fort has thirty guns nnd thr6e hun dred men; commanded by Doscalos Cummi, of Celinq, with two Suliots for his principal offi cers. They have fitted up a large schooner from Napolt, ns a galliot, with 24 oars, and several barges; and have declared the island under blofeknde. , The British vice consul for Rhodes has late ly been captured, on his way from Caramania, Who carried him to Simia, under a promiso ofa ransom. Tho pirates however wero fired upon, at his request, and escaped after losing some of t heir-numbers-— — - , Tho Scraskier Pacha, at Constantinople, had nearly recovered from his wounds. The troops are said to make great proficiency in On tho birth of his child, (which has sinco died,) Mr. S. Canning liberated eleven Greeks, who luid been imprisoned for various causes; and the account of tbe child being burie.O, in the Greek-Church, is confirmed. • M. Forneti has arrived atCahee, in Candia; as French consul; ’and M.'S. Sauvcr has gono to the Dardanelles, as vice consul from tho same country.- Tho Austrian vice admiral Paulucci had ro-. cently left Smyrna for .Venice, in tho frigate Elbe, having performed his service of six month, as fixed by the Aulic Council. Portugal and Spain.—It was confidently reported in London on the i2lli March, that sir H.. Clinton had written home in the strong est terms for reinforcements. The.gallant gen- were eral, it is said, has declared five thousand ad ditional troops absolutely necessary. Madrid dates of the 22d February state, se veral British regiments had been engaged with the Portuguese Royalists,. and had -bealen them. Tho aiddocamp of general Clinton was killed in the action. [We doubt the fact of there having been any engagement of the kind.] It is stated by a gentleman from Madrid and Paris, where he had the best opportunities for gaining information, that if Ferdinand, situated as lie now is, if he were the most sincere peni tent that ever confessed his sins, he could not, with ihe present government of Spain, pursue an honest course of policy. He is obliged to pander to the bad passions of the rabble, and they are instigated to . gross excesses by the priests. The state of society in Madrid is re presented to be dreadful.—Families aro ha rassed by spies and informers, and tlie head of a family does not know how many of its mem bers act in that capacity. Letters from Madrid state, that new difficul ties have just arisen between the Spanish min ister and Mr. Lamb. The latter has complain ed that the principal part of the arms found on the Portuguese rebels, are of tbe manufacture of Seville, which aro under tho control of the Spanish government, and could uot be deliver ed without its consent. It was rumored that a chango in the Spanish ministry was to take place. Orders lmd been sent to Paris for the return of the duke San Carlos. Alarming accounts have been received from the Dutch establishment in India. Constantinople, February 8.—Tho English ambassador has renewed his proposals relative to the pacification of Greece, and in a note which ho has just presented, has demanded in the first place, the cessation of hostilities. It is believed that this demand will be supported by tho ambassadors of Austria and Russia. London, March i2. Wo are concerned to say that Mr. Secreta ry. Canning was indisposed on Saturday and yesterday. Tho right lion, gentleman receiv ed visits yesterday from Lord Grenville, Lord Morloy, and a number of other persons of dis tinction. ' <4 Greece.—The third victory gained by Ka- rniskaki is confirmed. The booty taken at Volizza was much more considerable than at first reported. Salona is in the hands of the Greeks. Knraiskaki, after his victories at Ara- kova and Volizza, where, he took fifteen hun dred horses; all kinds of ammunition, provi sions, etc. surprized and cut to pieces, near Lc panto, acorpa of one thousand Turks, who were marching to Salona to relieve, that placo. Part of Karatskaki’s troops'are to bo sent to the ar my of Elcusis.. Two hundred Pcloponesians have already repaired thither, and two thousand men, under colonel Gordon and Petromichal- ly, are going by sea to tiie Pirceus, escorted by tho American frigate, commanded by Mi- aulis. All these forces, united, are simultane ously to attack tho seraskier, Rescind Pacha, who has approached Athens from which he had retired in consequence of the victory at Arako- va, thus giving Colonel Fabvier an opportuni ty to enter the Acropolis with ammunition and provisions. •„ . * Accounts have been received at Previsa that two vessels, laden with provisions, were nt Pa- tala, waiting orders from Karaiskaki; and that kry had mado himself master of Stamnias, r Missolonghi. These favorable circumstances, says a letter to the Geneva Greek committee, prove how useful our' consignments of provisions havo been, since tho Greeks have thereby been en abled to resume offensive operations. Tho Augsburgh Gazette mentions that tho Porte, on the 4th of February, declared, thro the Reis Effondi, that it would reject oil diplo matic overtures in favor of tho Greek insur gents. Paris, March t.—Letters from Prussia say, that Prince Phokler Muskan, who was marri ed to tho daughter of tho late Prince Harden burgh, has divorced her, to marry the widow of King Christopho, a negress of Hayti, who is still young, if wo may believe tho German cor respondent.—[She .might have carried her charms to a better market, by coming to t)io Southern States. A certain most excellent per sonage would, in all Jikolihoodi, have, bcutr happy to exchange for her smiles his heart, and a participation of power, together with , a Trans Atlantic throne in prospective, infinitely more splendid than' that on which she sat in the palace of Sans Soucs. How unlucky her stars! Miss an American Autocrat to marry a beggarly German Prince!] ‘ The president opened the meeting jveti o'clock, undone of.the'membersn/ ceeded to read the constitution. Upon to article thirteenth, one of the electors nM J Barbaran, observed that it appeared to him just to deprive a citizen of his rights, beca^ lie did not know how to'write, when; perhj? ho might possess all the virtues of a good fn? er ofa family, and every other necessity^ lification; that a period ought to be prefoj after the expiration of which, this provi* ’ might take effect. His voice was immediate)! lost in cries; upon silence being obtained,/ reading of the instrument was resumed, this person was called but of the Hall by Intcndant, who demanded of him nbw.ho do! cd to oppose the dispositions of the Liberate adding that if he should be so imprudent as ,j indulge in any further observation, he wo-jy have reason to repent of his'temerity! poor man, thus intimidated, returned to ii. Hall without daring to open his lips afterward, even to protest against the violence made of to obtain his suffrage. " • During the reading of the constitution, c one of ih e j LATEST FROM ENGLAND. London papers to tha t2th of March havo been received at New York. Tho resolution, proposed by Mr. Canning, to make sixty shil lings the average price of wheat tho quarter, with a duty of twenty shillings, diminishing two shillings for every shilling in rise of price, lmd been agreed to in the houso of commons, with- division. out a i [The English “quarter of corn'” is eight bushels, so that sixty shillings the quarter, tho average price proposed, will be equal to ono dollar sixty:six and a half cents.] was taken to distribute to every i lectors, i tickot, containing tho following w orfe “Bolivar president for life and autacrat.\ Freyre himself took charge of this distribution and towards 2 o’clock, the reading ljpj^g ^ islted, tho majority of the electors, oppri and sold to power, cried out jn a loud * repeatingthe words contained in the ticket!,- In this way was the constitution admitted..... Many of the electors then wished to retin. to dinner, and for tho purpose of eluding th necessity of signing the proceedings drawn o But the government had fores en that if ^ meeting wero of short duration, no one would credit that tho adoption of the fundtuneoal compact lmd been the result of a mature eli mination and profound discussion; as the pa. amble to tho proceedings stated. Accords;, ly centinels had been stationod in tho doors rf the Hall, to prevent the electors from leaving it until 7 o’clock in the evening. A cold col lation, had been provided, and, tho clecion passed the period of their imprisonment at tk table. A similar course was observed initio;: of tbe other collegos.- [From the Condor de BoHeia, of the 29lh of Seplirltr, ^ 182GJ, Discourse pronounced try ltolivor to the Elected Colleges of the Province of lama, onheing pre-tst- ed with the act admitting his Constitution. “It is with great satisfaction, I hear that the Electoral Colleges have accopted tho Consul!. tion which I gave for tho Republic hearing i name. Tbe Council of Government, desires; of fixing the fortunes of tho country, consulted me, and I'agreed that it should bo offered' tho people of Peru.—This Constitution is t! work of ages; inasmuch as I have brought to gether in it all the lessons of experience and lb! cotsncilsand opinions of tho wise. I congnt'-n late tho representatives of this province in thi! they havo adopted it. They have conforms! their opinion to mine, in respect to tho polio cal interests, stability, happiness, and traniji of nations, ft will not bo able, to be sure, preservo them from tho great'disasters whirl change tbo face of the earth, ovcV’turn,Vgcni* piros; but it will shield therhTroni’all momen tary evils, which are, nevertheless, of great transcendency to tho generation who suflet Mok near J them. “But Peru possesses eminent men, .capable of exercising the first m to them it be FROM SOUTH AMERICA. [Translated jfor the Jjhode Island American.] ELECTORAL COLLEGE OF LIMA. The following account of the proceedings in the electoral collcgo of Lima, at tho adop tion of tho Constitution framed by Bolivar for Bolivia, was drawn up by a gentleman of un doubted veracity, who was present at that far cical ceremony: . On tho i4tlr of August in the afternoon, the electors were notified verbally, by the ward commissioners, to attend on tho Wednesday following, :6th of the same month, at 9 o'clock in tho morning, in tho Hall of tho University of Saint Mark, for the purposo of approving the constitution. Accordingly,’ somo of tho olectors, to tho number of porhaps sixty, (Lima reckons three hundred,) 'met together at ten. o’clock in tho place designated—Tho Intcndant of Police, Freyre, then caused some twenty copies of tho constitution to be distributed, of which somo of ihe electors had no knowledge. longs td obtain it T cannot, therefore, of tho charge. I owo myself to Columbia, and should sho permit it to mo, 1 will, rji’n case, save my. conscibnco touching the sanctiai with which you havo honored'me—for Ism chained to the service of Peru, in as'fcrx 1 dopends upon mysolf." Extract of a letter, dated Lima, December 15, 13 to a gentleman in New York, received by tbe Hi- . goto united States. “Wo havo had great doings at this times Limay owing to the declaration of the now cm stitution, which was yesterday sworn to bjflk public authorities. Bull fights, serenades, illu minations, etc. followed; and, to crown al' fountain, which usually runs water, is' nt; at present to run claret. Two long poH greased so as to muko .them-slippery, W crowned with a silver vessel, in which nre otr hundred doubloons: the whole to be the p« porty of tho ono who can climb to the top ^ take tho prize. The attempts arc sufficient k make ono .burst with laughter.” Latest from Peru.—From Bogota, papers to March.i3th, have been received at York; from which it appears that General Sui ta Cruz published a decree on the 28th ofb r uary, convoking a constituent congress for ih” ist of May, to form a constitution adapted t tho country, and to oloct a president and yi«* president. »* . This measure proves tbe force and thetn- umph pf tho Constitutional* party. Bolivar, whatevor his motives may have been, has l«b ly appeared friendly to anti-republican priw* pies. Whether lie. is or not, it is clear tW Peru, as well as a largo proportion of Cow®** bio, will not tolerate them. The , ’’ m ” tion of Santa Cruz virtually ovori Bolivian constitution, adopted in December, Peru, and, in our opinion, seals its fate ver. Its resolute opposers in Colombia, fi 00 * eral Santander and his friends, were, well pl csi * ed with tho nows,.which was brought to Bog”' ta by two Colombian officers; and every cS " pression of joy was exhibited in that capital. This blpodlcss revolution was comment at Lima, on the 26th of January, by lombian officers, who elected general * illi mente for tho commander in chief, and arres ed their chief officors, to send thorn l 1 p a ' ( V They then passod a kind of protest against revolution of Paez, nnd tho proposition t°. Dictator in Colombia. A mooting of “J® tizens was also held in Lima, which rePj*Jf ’ ed that tho constitution of Bolivar had h« dopted under constraint. This induced Cruz’s proclamation. Tho result of this ly important measure will bo, in all hi liability, to discourage'any design agam st strict republican system in South America- Mr. Thomas Cam unanimously elected sity. of Glasgow, ipbcll, tho poet, ha* Lord Lector of the