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

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Abont'foor o'clock yesterday Owning, a fire broke
out in the large drug-mills and roclt-salt warehouses of
Mr. F. Andrews, in Lamb-alley, Sun•atreet, Bishops-
gate street. It would appear that the fire broke out in
the back part of -Mr. Andrews's premises, where the,
drug-mills and steam-engines were situate, and this part,
of the buildings burnt with a fury that defied the exer-
ti ins of the Bremen and engines, aided by a plentiful
supply of water, as it was found impossible, from the
closeness of the adjoining houses for some distance
from the seat of the fire, to get engines so near the rear
of the premises as would be desirable. In a short time
the whole of the drug•mills, steam-engines, and appa:
ratus, fell in with a tremendous crash, to the imminent
danger of a large timber-yard immediately adjoining,
belonging to Mr. Bateman, the timber-merchant, in
Sun•street. It is but justice to the firemen to say, that
their great exertions saved Mr. Baternan's yard and
prettifies from total destruction. We are happy to say,
that no lives were lost, nor did we bear of any serious
accident taking place.
Thursday morning, about a quarter past eight o'clock,
a Ere broke out.in the heckling shop and warehouse of
Mr. George Hammond, flax And linen manufacturer,l
at the B'nk, Leeds. The progress of the frames was
so rapid that it was with difficulty the workpeople
effected their escape, and in less than half an hour the
roof fell in. The engines belonging to the town
arrived at the spot with great promptitude, and were
worked with much effect. It was impossible to save
the premises, which were reduced to a shell ; and only
a small part of the stock was saved. We are happy,
however, to learn, that both the stock and premises are,
insured, the former in the Atlas, and the latter in the.
Guardian Fire Offices. The cause of the fire may sug-
gest a salutary caution to those engaged in fitting up
gas apparatus; a workman had been fixing a gas
pipe, in the room below the heckling shop, and, in order
to ascertain if the jointing: were perfect, he put a light
to ir. There was an escape of gas, which burst into a
flame, but was instantly blown out. The flame, unob-
served by the workman, communicated itself to the
fibres of flax which adhered to the wall, and passing
through the aperture in the floor made by the pipe,
reached the heckling shop, where it produced an in-
stantaneous conflagration. The mill, which was sepa-1
rated from the warehouses by a narrow street. entirely
escaped, as the wind fortunately carried the flames in
an opposite direction.

Letters from Carthagena, of the 30th July, represent
the state of commerce in that city to be such, that the
immense quantities of goods with which that market is
glutted, renders it impracticable to make sales. Business
is totally at a stand, the supply of European goods
having so greatly exceeded the demand, that even the
interior of the country is overstocked to a degree that
renders even the commodities an absolute drug:
A monument of very chaste design was last weet
placed in Culford Church, to the memory of the late
Marquis CORNWALLIS.
Coxvicr SillP.—The name of the man who was slit*
in the late attempt to escape from the Hulk, at Kings.
town, near Dublin,• was Cullen. He was one of the
persons sentenced at The commission for the assault
on Mr. Butterwot tb. Three others of the convicts leaped
Overboard, one of whom swam towards the yacht, con-
ceiving it to be the land. He was picked up and sent
back to the convict vessel. The. second became ex.
bausted in his exertions to gain the shore, and having
cried out for assistance, he was taken into, a boat and
transmitted to his old quarters. The third, a *man named
Kilbride, who was concerned in the robbery of the
Donnybrook Church, gained the land, and has escaped
for the present.
A man named James Glavin has been apprehended
in Waterford, by several Police Officers from England,
on a charge of having been concerned in a murder at
York, some time since. He was taken to the Head-
Police Office, Dublin, on Saturday morning, and has
been transmitted to England.
Examples of longevity are less frequent in Portugal
than other countries; the following. is, an exeeption:
on the Bth of August last there died, in the convent San
Bento d'Ave Marie, a servant aged 128 years, a cen-
tury of which be bad spent in the said convent, and
continued to perform his regular duties till within the
last five years; he preserved all his intellectual facul-
ties to the last moment of his life.
In a cause respecting a will, at the last Derby Assizes,
evidence was given to prove the testatrix (an apothe-
cary's wife) a lunatic : amongst other things it was de-
posed that she had swept a quantity of pots, phials, to
lions, potions, &c. into the street as rubbish." I doubt,"
said the Judge, 44 whether sweeping physic into the
Street be any proof of insanity." " True, my Lord,"
replied the Counsel, " but sweeping the pots away cer-
tainly was."
One of the shafts of the mine called Frederick,
ajar Tarnowitz, in Silesia, and known by the name of
Titan, being fifteen brasses in depth. suddenly gave
way, and buried three miners in its fall ; two of them
had sufficient force and presence of mind to save them-
selves with their hands, by scratching their way
through, but the third was buried under the ruins;
fortunatey, be fell into a cavity six or seven brasses in
depth, where he was preserved from stifling. It was
feared be was drowned or suffocated by the fixed air.
Precautions were immediately taken to remove the
rubbish and give vent to the water which had caused
the disaster, and after two days and nights he was
drawn out. For some time previous be had been able
to make himself heard by his comrades ; he held out
courageously, without having any sustenance all 'that
time, and had even dozed from time to time, taking
care to move his limbs as much as possible, in order
that they might not be benumbed by the cold.
In an American Paper we find a poem in favour of
Lafayette and the United States, by a Mr. E. Louvet. It
is unluckily twenty mortal verses long,-which bring too,
much of a good thing, we can only afford a sample.'
After describing the oppressed Tribes of America!
weeping under the unjust laws of Britain, in the most.
approved lyrical fashion, he calls on tile hero in a strain
which in English may run thus—
This conduct outrageous
Was speedily met
By that hero courageous
Monsieur Lafayette :
He bad money in plenty,
His years were but twenty,
His virtues were those Odle ages gone by ;
116 he heed all the dangers,
eigued oat Al the strangers,
And t , deserved such a poet as I.
is the Portuguese word for bugbear; it wase
to the frutt from tire resemblance of an ugly,
!ids may be traced at t4e btalk-cud.