8 DECEMBER 1838, Page 3

The Augsburg Gazette points attention to the progress of the

English towards the Red Sea. According to that journal, the English " were daily extending their sway along the coast of Arabia," and had made two settlements on the Abyssinian coast ; the ultimate object being the conquest of Egypt. England, however, has too much on hand in America and India,_ just at present, to undertake new conquests in Africa.