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London, England, 1822-01-09 00:00:00

CLONMEI„ J \SCARY 2.

Mr. J. BAKER, of Millyniule, in West Carbery, in
Cork, had stores 8() feet in length tilled with corn,
and on the night of the ‘27th tilt. the whole was set
on fire, and burned to a,hes ; and a sloop belonging
to him, lying at anchor, was burned to the water s
edge; also nine stacks of barley, the property of the
same Gentleman, standing on a farm about two miles
distant front Irk home, were scattered over a space of
eight or nine acres, and thereby rendered useless.—
The incendiaries tired into the house of ►Mr. BAKER'S
,steward. We have been told that Mr. BAKER had
arms—that he had received intimation of an intended
visit from the insurgents, that he. uttered a defiance,
laud U 4 mileastlt es of security.

Tuesday sennight, as W. Thomas, 15 years of age,
with his !mother, were returning from a club feast,
in Caermat then, they called at a hublic•hou.e, from
which they were quietly going borne. When the for-
mer was beat in s.triva manner by J.DAvies, a tailor,
that be died On the spot. The Coroner's lnyne,t re-
turned a vet dict—" Al urJer against J. Davies,
and also against T. Miler, a accessary to the tact."

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ANTIQUITIES OF NUBIAb 2a-r
111. Jomard, of the French Institute, hit ist re-
ceived a letter from M. Cailliaud, dated the sth 'of
May, from Assour, a village.about a day's journey
from Chendy, in Nubia, in the kingdom' of Sennaar,
in which that traveller communicates his latest disco-
veries. At a short distance to the south of the con-
fluence of the Atbara*, the ancient Astaboras, and
four days' journey from Barbas, he found the ruins of
a great town, with a temple and 40 pyramids still
standing, and 40 others in ruins, The bases of the
largest of these pyraMids are about 62 feet, and their
height 77, and on one of the sides of each is a small
temple ornamented inside and outside with hierogly-
phic characters; two of those temples are arched,
and the arches are decorated with hieroglyphic em=
blems, and with key-stones and ribs like ours. This
traveller has ascertained that those temples are of the
same age as the Pyramids. All the materials are of
freestone, like the lock on which they are built. Is-
mail Pasha, who commands the military expedition
into Abyssinia, pet mined M. Cailliaud to open one of
these pyramids; some Greek letters wet e found in
another of them. The scite of the temple and the
ruined town is about a league and a half from the
Nile, and most of the pyramids are a league farther,
the same as at Memphis. Bruce must have passed
two leagues only to the east, without suspecting their
existence. An avenue of Sphinxes, in the shape of
rams, 262 feet long, leads to the temple, and the wall
which incloses it is 426 feet round. The island of Cur-
gos, mentioned by Bruce, is to the south of Assour,
and contain.no monuments. M. Jomard is of opinion
that the great ruins near Assour arc those of Mei oe ;
their latitude, about 16 degrees 50 minutes, agrees
with that of Merne, as given by Strabo and Eratos-
thenes. The positions laid down by Bruce, in his
map, are tolerably accurate, but he has traced the li-
mits of the ruins too much to die south. M. Cailliaud
proposed to remain during the rainy season at Sm-
naar, with the expedition, to take up his residence in
die Fazuelo,. and to proceed afterwards up the Balrr-
el-.4biad, or the White River, which he will ascend to
a certain distance, to procure information respecting
the courseof theNiger.The thermometer was constantly
during the month of April as high as 45 deg. and up-
wards, and even as high as 48 degrees (43 degrees of
Beam:mar, exposed no doubt to the sun). M. Cailliaud
could not discover any remains of the tradition of
Queen Candace, whose dynasty, according to Bruce,
were in his time still on the Threine of Chendy. For
a long time our traveller has not taken the meridian
altitudes of the son, which is too close to the zenith,
and he can only determine the latitudes of places by
means of the moon and stars.
• The Antiquities of Mount Yarkal, near a place called Nle-
rawe, are about 70 leagues below, and very far from the con-
fluence of the Atbara, which formed the Isle of bleroe.