Star.
London, England, 1824-02-10 00:00:00

LAUSANNE, JANUARY 27.

The Government of Berne has just issued two remark.
able ordonnances. By one, the exercise of the Catho-
lic Religion is authorised in the r.ity of Berne, so long
as there shall not result from it any abuses or disagree.
able consequences; but at the same time, as well the
Ecclesiastics of that religion as all other Catholics are
strictly enjoined to refrain from all kinds of attempts,
direct or indirect, to induce Protestants to change their
religion. Every contravention will be considered as a
formal infraction of the laws of the country, and as a
violation of the religious peace and severely punished.

By the second Ordonnance the Government of Berne
forbids the Sons of foreigners, who have not obtained
the rights of citizenship at Berne, from being admitted
into the superior academies, destined to teach the higher
branches of knowledge. Even those sons of citizens of
Berne will not be admitted, who do not possess an inde-
pendent fortune, and whom the poverty of their parents
hinders from prosecuting their studies.

We have received, by his Majesty's ship CYRE NE
which arrived at Spithead on Saturday, advices from
the African coast dated the 14th December. The dif-
ferent settlements enjoyed the best state of health. Sir
C. M'CARTHY sailed in the Colonial schooner Prince
Regent, from Sierra Leone, on the 27th of October, but
owing to calms and strong currents, did not get to Cape
Coast till very early in December ; he was then actively
engaged in prosecuting the Ashantee war, as well as
making great and necessary improvements, and ar-
ranging the different establishments. He was highly
esteemed and regarded by all the Europeans. He has
given general satisfaction, and is stated to have done
more to improve Cape Coast during the short period it
has been in the Royal hands, than was effected during
the previous fifty years. His arrival has alarmed the
Asha::« or the tate of their capital (Comassir).

We copy the following from a Morning Paper (The
Post), which has been more remarkable for its generous
ardour in behalf of the Spanish Constitutionalists than
for either the correctness of its information or the saga-
city of its prophecies respecting them. It is worth while,

1,, cover, to know, from time to time, what the hopes of
the Part,' are :
ity private letters received from Gibraltar, dated the 19th ult,
‘,.,lave accounts of some interest. One of these, written by a
Nember of the late Spanish Cortes, states that accounts are daily re-
coed of the dreadful state of Spain in the interior, and that large
of the Constitutionalists had begun to show themselves on
several points, waiting only for a favourable opportunity of again
lt,Aing the standard of the Constitution. It further states that the
rirrity of the people were ripe for revolution, that the expression
f opinion was openly made, and that in a very short time the peo.l
rig of England would hear of a most decisive blow to the cause of
t.e•putistn. The want of money is stated to be so severely felt at
11adrid, that even the King's immediate attendants hoped for same
change, by which the poverty of the Government might be put an
end to. This communication further adds, that • the money and
arms remitted by the English nation, in aid of the Spanish cause'
are so far from being lost, that they will (more particularly the Lit-
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ter) be very instrumental in the success of the approaching struggle.'

Nothing of importance took place in Parliament last
night. In the flume of Lords, the Lonn Cti NCELLOR
announced that he had received his MAJESTY'S Sign
appointing, Baron (7IFFonn (the LORD CHIEF
JUSTICE of the Court of Common Deputy
Speaker of the House of Peers.