Star. — 1825-12-06 (London, England)

LEIGH. Besities, sunk as Spa;n is now, it is not to be supposed that her lethargic slumber will last for ever, or that her sprit is so completely broken that she will suffer a partition of the kingdom without a struggle. FlRES.—Friday morning, about half-past one o clock, the warehouse and workshop of Mr. 'Thome; Burns, joiner and cabinet-maker, GI isgow, were again discovered to be on fire. The intelligence was soon communicated to the Police Office, when the fire-engines and water butts proceeded to the spot, accompanied by Mr. Graham, Mr. Davi lson and an effective body of Firemen and Police, but owing to the distance, the 'are gained such power before their arrival, that all efforts to save the buildin4 were unavailing; however, they were fortunate enori.:ll to save the rdjoining Fr, perty, and the very valuable stock of v and in the yard. At the time when the whole eas one misc rf burning ruins, there was another fire in the Saltmarket. This fire was in the ripper flit of an old tenement at the back of London-street, occupied by a currier, and being on the b ink of the Nlolindinar Burn, the supply of venttr was abundant. However, the roof was cl,7stroyed. one a statement recently published in Berlin, the Prussian Army now consists of two hundred thousand meii, iaclu2ing every de,cliption of force. William Allan, at present prisoner in Aberdeen jail, has been indicted to stand trial before the High Court of Justiciary, on Tuesday, the 27th inst. for the crimes of robbery and murder,lately committed al Fyvie. A fraud of the most extensive natdre has been discovered by Mr. SUTHERLAND, Supervisor of Excise, at Linlithgow. The parties implicated, are proprietors of a cotton work in that neighbourhood ; who, it appears, have been in the practice of using a forged stamp for their printed goods, immense quantities of which have been seized at their works, and in Glasgow. Thursday morning, while Mr. Thomas Hatton, a respectable victualler, at Parkhead, near Glasgow, was, from curiosity, examining the sinking of a new coal pit, at Westmuir, he fell down to the bottom of the pit, about seventy fathoms, ani w is killed on the spot ; his thigh bone was broken, and his head dreadfully cut. A bon vivant one night, told a friend that he intended to leave 201. to be spent at his funeral, which induced the other to ask him if the money was to be spent going or returning? "Going, to be sure," replied lie, " for when you return, I shan't be with pu." DELPINI, the clown, on the Prince of WALES'S refusal to ask HARRIS to give him a benefit, said, " Very well, Sir, den I must go to your Papa's Bench." Cesar having found a collection of letters, written by his enemies to Pompey, burnt them without reading : " For," said he, "though I am upon my guard against anger, yet it is safer to remove its cause." The celebrated philosopher Pittschafft, the Diogenes of Germany, who escaped from the Hospital at Hofhelm, has been retaken, at the moment when, dressed in the Austrian uniform, he wished to approach the Countess dissambourg. Having again attempted to escape, they have been obliged to bind his hands behind his back. lle thus arrived on the sth ult. at Han 'u, having no dress but a counterpane, in which he had wtaKed himself.