Star.
London, England, 1825-09-26 00:00:00

MILITARY PROMOTIONS.

WAR-OFFICE, SEPT. 23, 1825.
3d Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Rdward Wethered, Gent. to
be Cornet, by purchase, vice Macke, promoted.
9th Regiment of Light Dragoons—Cornet Hon. W. R. Fitzmau-
rice to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Musgrave, promoted :
Nathaniel Weekes, Gent. to be Cornet, by purchase, vice

Fitzmaurice.
18th Regiment of Foot—Ensign Edward Kent Young to be Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vier Lynar, promoted.
C9th Ditto—Lieutenant John Weir to be Captain, by purchase,
vice Pennington, who retires; Ensign George Browne to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Weir; Peter Slingsby Fitzgerald,
Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Browne.
3271 Ditto—Ensign Frederick Downer Hodge; to be Lieutenant,
by Furchase, vice Harrison, promoted ; Charles Stracey Beasley,
Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Hodges.
40th Ditto—Jaines Stopford, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice
flow, promoted.
46th Onto— Francis W.ykeham Martin, Gent. to be Ensign, by '
purchase, vice Taylor, promoted
5.1.1 Ditto--Tbonias Carnegy, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase,
vier Hill, promoted,
~;sth Ditto—Kessneth bLickensle, Gent. to be Ensign, by pur-
chair, vice IL A. Mackenzie, promoted.
Ceylon IlegiiiieritL—Lieuten.ant William Keen, lions the half.pay of
the 97th Foot, to be Lieutenant,
Royal Vzterasi Companies for Service at New South Waits—
, To be Captains—Brevet -Ueutenani-Culonel Henry Durnaresq,

The following details have been furnished by Af.
Humboldt respecting America, and ate considered
.accurate: Square leagues. Inhabitants in 182;*
United States contains 174,500 10,21:u ,(.00
Alex ico . . . 75,850 6,800:000
Guatimala . 16,740 1.668,080
Colombia . 91,932 • 2,785,000
Peru . . 41,420 1,4(1),O00
Chili . . 14,240 1,100,c00
Buenos Ayres . . 126,770 2,500,0G0
Brazil . . . 256,990 4,000,000
The Island of Cuba contains 700,000 inhabitants,
among whom are 256,000 slaves ; Jamaica 402,000,
among whom are 342,000 slaves ; Porto Rico 225,000,
of which 25,000 are slaves. Guadaloupe and its depen-
dencies 120,000, of v. hich 100,000 are slaves; Marti-
nique 99,000, among which are 78000, slaves!
The whole population of the two Amificas an 3 the
(aribbee islands is 34,942 000
'persons; a.nong whom
are included 5,047,000 black slaves, and 1,386.000
black freemen, 13,471,000 whites, 8,600,000 Indians,
Of .which about 820,000 are still independent; and
/3,428,000 of a mixed race; •

This population is thus distributed, according to the
different forms of 'worship-22,486,000' ltoillan Ca-
tholics; 11,636,000 Protestants; and 8'20,000 IndiAus,
not Christians.


'l've following are the proportioss'in which the lan-
guages prevail in the new world. The English lan-
guage spoken by 11,647,000; the Spanish by
10,504.000; the Indian by 7,593,011 X); the Portitknee
by. 3,740,000; the French by 1.'24-2,000; the Dutch,
Danish, and Swedish by 216,000 itilrabaants, making
altogether the number of 27,349.000, speaking tt* Eu!
ropean languages, and 'T,593,000 the Indian.

THE, GREAKS AND THE TURKS.

FROM ThE GERMAN PAPERS.

The Augsburg Ciazdie of the 19th has the following
news from Constantinople, 23d.August, by way of Bu-
charest :

41 Accounts received from Smyrna, dived 18th Aug.
if credit can be attakhed to them, and not. a little im-
portant. Ibrahim Pacha, alter being joined by the
corps brought him by Hussein Bey, undertook a se.
coed expedition against Napoli di Romania, and had
already arrived before the walls of that fortress._ On
his approach, the Greeks, who were ia a most critical
situation, declared by a form.' act, and as is generally
believed litre, at the instigation of Commodore Hamil..
ton, that they implored the protection of England.—
Ibrahim Pacha, disconcerted by this event, applied to
C ,mmodore Hamilton for an explanation; but instead
any answer being given him, the Greeks, impelled
by despair, mad. an unexpected attack on the Arabs,
who were already dispirited. After several partial but
sanguinary combats, Ibrahim Pacha hastily retreated to
Tripolizza. This news and the reverses at Missoionghi,
have produced a very great sensation here."