Star.
London, England, 1808-09-01 00:00:00

Reportsays,

that General SpExcrit or Sir SAMUBt
AUCHMUTY Will get the 16th Regiments, vacant by
tho death of Lieutenant General Bowun ; and that
Gen. MACFA RLANE, General CAMPBELL (61st), or Ge-
neral WH►THAM, will get the battalion vacated by
either General SPENCER or Sir SAMUEL AucuMurY.
By the death of General BELLES'S, the command in
chief of the army in Bombay is vacant. Generals
BERESFORD and MURRAY are mentioned as the most
likely to succeed. _ _ _

Vhe 51st Regiment, and the Royal York Rangers
still continue on board transports at Spithead.

Major-General Sir WILLIAM CLARKE, who lately
diefl in India, was Lieut.-Colonel of the 84th Regi-
ment• By his death, the valuable command of the
Mysore, which had before been held by Sir ARTHUR
WELLESLEY, becomes vacant.

The embarkation of Sir DAVID BAIRD's army is
going on at Cork with all expedition. Some cavalry,
and the whole of the Foot Guards, will join him,
with the 51st and 59th Regiments from this country.

The Leicestershire Militia, 900 strong, have vo-
lunteered their services for Spain. ;,

EDINBURGH, AUGUST 29.

Wednesday a Meeting of the Lords Commissioners
of Justiciary was held at LOAD Juvricit CLERK'S
Chambers here, for the purpose of receiving Lord
HERMAND'S commission as- a Judge of that Court—
present, LORD JUSTICE CLERK, Lords CULLEN and
MEADOWBANK. His Lordship's commission having
been read, the usual oaths were administered to him,
and he was appointed to go the Western Circuit,
along with Lord CULLEN.

The Folkestone machine, foi pumping ships with-
out men, was again successfully tried on board the
FLAMER gunbrig, at Hythe, on Tuesday. It deliver-
ed water frcm two pumps, without intermission. The
Earl of DARNLEY and a numerous party were on
board during the experiment, and appeared highly
gratified with the exhibition.
Our commerce with Spain is already become very
considerable. One house in London has received an
order from that country for coarse woollens, sufficient
to clothe 20,000 troops. Trade is looking up in the
West Riding of Yorkshire; and the intercourse be-
tween this country and Spain is already of great and
reciprocal advantage.
ANTONIO PEREZ is the only Spanish writer who
records the words of the celebrated Oath of Allegi-1
ance taken formerly by theArragonese to their Sove-
reign : ANTONIO PEREZ is an authority of great weight,
and sufficed to remove ROBERTSON'S doubts as to
the authenticity of this extraordinary oath, though
that profound historian denied that ZURITA, BLANCA,
AREGENZOLA, or SAYAS made any mention of it, or
any of the Spanish writers consulted by him. The
actual words prescribed by ANTONIO PEREZ, who
was Secretary to PHILIP the lld. are as follows—
" Noi, que valemos tante como vos, or luzzemos nuestro
Rry y Segnor, con tal que nos quardryr nuestros fueros y
likrtada, ysi no, no." Which has been thus rendered
« We, who, are each of us as good as you are, are
willing to acknowledge you for our. Sovereign King,
on the express condition that you maintain our rights
and liberties ; but if not, not."

The death of the venerable Bishop of Etv was very
sudden. His Lordship walked on the Terrace, at
Forthampton, about seven o'clock the preceding even-
ing, in perfect health, after which he supped, and re-
tired to rest at his usual hour.

In the course of last week, three London Coal-
heavers, being accidentally at Fulham, were em-
ployed by the Sexton of the Parish to dig a grave, with
a promise that they should be rewarded with as rm e'l
porter as they could drink during 'the operati( n.
Whether these Knights of the Black Diamond ve e
affected by the grav'ty cf their employment, as 't's
known that Sorrow is dry, we cannot tell ; but it is a
serious fact, and can be attested by the publican, that
these thirsty souls contrived to finish 135 tots of porter!
A Gentleman of grenadier growth, having tra-
velled in the mail all night, observed to his fellow
passengers in the morning, " that he would just get
out, and stretch his legs :" when his opposite friend,
an Irishman, who had been greatly annoyed by them
during the night, observed, " that there was no oc-
casion for the Gentleman to trouble himself, as they
•were quite long enough already."
An Irishman being detected in the act of picking a
Gentkman's pocket of his watch, was taken before a
Magistrate for the offence, who, after hearing the case,
told him he must stand committed, as the theft was
brought hone to him." Ah," cried PAT, " then how
could I nail the watch?" sz.

A dreadful explosion took place on Thursday
morning, at the Powder Mills at Ballincollig, in the
eounty of Cork, by which, we are concerned to hear,
some lives were lost. The shock was strongly felt in
the city of Cork.

Mr. CAMPBELL, the Tieadborough, whom our rea-
ders will recollect to have been committed to the
County Gaol of Somerset, on a charge of having shot
a person who opposed him in the execution of his of-
fice, was convicted of manslaughter at the last assizes,
and sentenced to three months imprisonment and a
fine of 51. The trial lasted nearly the whole of the
I day. The parish of Weston indicted him for mur-
der, but the Grand Jury threw out the bill.
Saturday se'nnight, John Kelly, Fardy Glynn, and
John Linnane, found guilty of murder at Galway
Assizes, were conveyed from the county prison to
the public place of execution; where, after spending
some time in prayer, they underwent the awful sen-
tence of the law, in presence of upwards of 20,000
, persons who collected to witness the fatal exit of those
unfortunate men, two of whom did not appear to be
more than 20 years of age; the other was married,
and has left a wife and children. Since their con-
demnation they evinced a lively feeling of their un-
fortunate situntion, and conducted themselves with
the utmost piety 'and fortitude to the last moment,
protesting their inueoceng of the crime for which they
were about to suffer.