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S'ngalar instance cf Longepily.-A housebreaker in France was condemned in the early part of the last century, and nn- der peculiar circumstances, to the ga1leys for hundred years, and, strange 10 relate. this man recently made his appearance in hls own native province, at the advanced age of l2O he being about 20 years of age F'hen the sentence which which ooiideii1eti inn, io so dreadful punishment was passed. It may be easily conceived with what eager- ness and delight he flew, as soon as eman- clpated from the shackles which had en- thfalied him for an entire century, to breathe once more the cherished air of the scenes of infancy. Bouge, in the depart ment of Ain, was his native home: but time had so changed the aspect of the whole place, that he recognized it only by the old church of Brou, which was the only thing that had undergone no alteration. He had triumphed over laws, bondage, man, time-every thing. Not a relation had he left-not single beng could he hail as an acquaintance; yet he was rot without experiencing the homage and re- spect the French invariably pay old age.

 For himself. he had forgotten every thing connected with his early youth; even all recollection of the crime for which he had suffered was lost, or if at all remem- bored it was but as dreary vision of days long by. His family and connections were all dead-himself living proof of the clemency of heaven and the severity of man, regretting, perhaps, the very irons which had been familiar to him, and half wishing himself again among the wretch ed and suffering beings with whom his own fate had been so long associated-we!l might he be called the patriarch of burg lars. 4 few years since this extraordina- " long lived man was still in being and in health.