Star. — 1808-09-01 (London, England)

CULLEN.  The Folkestone machine, foi pumping ships without men, was again successfully tried on board the FLAMER gunbrig, at Hythe, on Tuesday. It delivered 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 between 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 Sovereign : 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 evening, in perfect health, after which he supped, and retired to rest at his usual hour.  In the course of last week, three London Coalheavers, being accidentally at Fulham, were employed 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 travelled 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 occasion 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 readers 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 office, 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 murder, 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 sentence 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 condemnation they evinced a lively feeling of their unfortunate 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.