Star. — 1825-09-26 (London, England)

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, conceiving 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 HeadPolice 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 century 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 faculties 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 apothecary's wife) a lunatic : amongst other things it was deposed 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 certainly 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 themselves 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.