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London, England, 1825-09-30 00:00:00

SINGULAR FOOT RACE.

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About half-past ten o'clock on Saturday night, a Gentleman and
Lady came out of one of the botch near the Steyne, Brighton, and,
after taking a fair start, set off running round the Steyne. They both
ran very swiftly, but the Lady bounded forward with the agility of
the chamois, and returned to the spot from whence they started
considerable distance before the Gentleman. There wire but few
persons on the Steyne at the time.

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Wednesday evening, an Inquest was held before T.
STUMM, Esq. Coroner, and a respectable Jury, at the Bell and
Crown, King-street, Camden Town, on the body of Mr. Thomas
Wallis, the principal partner of the firm of Wallis and Sons, coach
varnish manufacturers, of Long-acre, who died suddenly in his
bed, at his residence in King-street, Camden Town, on Sunday last.
The deceased had attained the age of 81 years, nearly 60 of which
he had been in business, and had been an inhabitant of Camden
Town about 40 years. lie had been Jong afflicted with a hectic
cough, which, it had been ob.erved, had troubled him very little
f.tr the last month. Front the evidence of the daughter of the de-
ceased, it appeared that he was an early riser, and not haying made
his appearance on Sunday morning at his usual time. she went into
his bed-room, and found him dead in his bed. A surgeon was sent
for, but his assistance was of no avail; and, from the appearance of
the body, the surgeon was of opinion the deceased had been dead
two tours before he arrived. The Jury returned their verdict-
That the deceased died by the visitation of Goo.
A letter, dated Buenos Ayres, August 3, states that
the Brazilian squadron, aes.cliored in the outer Roads,
consists of a ship of 36 guns, one of 22, two brigs of
18 guns, one of 14, two schooners, and three gun.
'boats. They have not committed any act of hostility,
but board vessels that arrive or sail.
CORN EXCHANGE, MARK-LANE, SEPT. 30.
We had a steady demand for fine samples of Wheat this morning,
and the Mealing trade has improved since last market-day, such kinds
fully supported the prices of last Monday ; not so with Batley, the
maltsters being unwilling to purchase at the present prices, but we
perceive no alteration whatever. Oats, although the arrltal front
Ireland is large, fully maintain our last currency for fine fresh
Corn. In other articles no alteration.
SMITHFIELD MARKET, SEPT. 30.
Beef remains nearly as on Monday, gdod Men being quoted ss.
to 55. 2d. per stone; and coarser 49. 6d. to 5,. per stone, and the
appearance of the market is Brut, In the Mutton trade also, the
quotation remains nearly steady, ss. to ss. 4d. per stone being the
quotation for the best Downs; and 4s. ed. to 44. 10d. per do. foe
the coarser Sheep. Lamb is now out of season; and Veal is in
good demand at 6s. to 6s. 6d. per stone for the best ; and ss. 4d. to
ss. ad. per do. for the coarser. The Pork trade looks up, fte. to 6s.
6d. per stone being the price.-Beasts, 650 ; Sheep, 6,660 ; Pip,
130; Calves, 187.
Beef, 4s. 6d. to ss. £d. per stone; Mutton,
Veal, is. 6d. to 6s. 6d. Pork, ss. Bd. to els. i 4.•
101. to £5 ; Clover, £4 to £5 10s. Straw, 4EI

$, 4s. 10d. to 54. 4d.
L—Hay per load,
I Ms. to JCL 4a.
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WOMAN.

0, Woman, sport not with distress,
Nor add A pang to wretchedness:
Not in the gay and heartless throng,
Where the eye sparkles, and the tongue
Shoots forth its wit; not in the stream
Of revelry's delusive scene;
Not where the dance, in joyous round,
With music, mirth, and wine abound;
But in the chamber of distress,
Where with unceasing tenderness
She strives to soothe, nor strives in vsin
To mitigate the sufferer's pain;
Where, comforting, she stnilingocheers
The heart depress'd, while. through her tears,
The glistening eyes their rays impart,
And hope once more pervades the heart;
Where the low voice, its murmur'd tone,
Speaks with a pathos all its own,
Falling more sweetly on the ear
Than music's soft cadence ; the fear
Of breaking stillness forms a charm
Tkat stillness' self cannot disarm:
In such a peaceful scene as this
'Tis that man feels, acknowledges,
Women and Angels are the same.
Differing ydevi.but in the name.!

AIIvIiAt.LMAS DAY.

G. S.

The festival of St. Michael, and all Angels, has been
celebrated %. ith great solemnity by the Christi in Church
ever since the filth age, and was certainly kept sacred
in A;Julia as early as 493.
The dedication of the great church of Mount Gor-
gann, in Italy, to St. Michael, gave rise to the celebra-
tion of this least in the %Vest. It obtained the common
name of M;chaelmaF, and the dedication of numerous
churches at Rome and other parts of Italy, subsequently
took place on this day, a practice followed in other
counts ies.

The churches dedica cd to St. Michael are usually to
be found on elevated spots, in allusion to this Saint's
having been the highest of the heavenly host. St. Mi-
chael'a Mount, in Cornwall, and that in Normandy, are
confirmations of this remark.

Michaelmas Day is one of the regular quarter days
)r settling rents; but it is no longer remarkable for the
hospitality whith once attended this anniversary. At
Martinmas, the old quarter-day, the landlords used for-
merly to entertain their tenants with geese, then only
kept by opulent persons. But these birds being esteemed
in perfection early in the Autumn, most families now
have a goose diessed on St. Michael's Day; for
At Michaelmas, by custom right divine.
Geese are ordained to bleed at Michael's shrine.

Very many inquiries have been made by antiquaries
into the origin of eating goose on this festival, none of
hich, however, prove satisfactory, and, in our opinion,
it had no particular meaning, except that stubble geese
are now in perfection. People like to do things that
are pleasant on holidays; and feasts, both among Poly-
theists and Christians, make up a great part of the mis-
cellaneous customs attached to their calling. Geer_ are
eaten likewise at Martinmas; and in Denmark, and
other countries, where they are later in being ready for
the table, this is usually the time when they are in
vogue. As matter, however, of antiquarian informa-
tion, se shall cite the various explanations of this.cus-
tom from different authors. It has been ascribed to the
accidental circumstance of Queen Elizabeih's being at
dinner on a goose at the time she heard of the defeat of
the Spanish Armada, and that in consequence She ate
of goose every year on that anniversary.—ln Gascoigne's
Flowers we find,

And when the tenauntes come to pale their quarter's rent,
They bring some fowle at Midsummer, a dish of fish in Lent;
At Christ:mese a capon, at Miehmilmasse a goose :
soul:what else at Newyere's tide, for fare their lease the loose.
A writer in Ihe World. No. 10, probably Lord Or-
ford, remarking on the effects of the alteration of the
style, says, a When the reformation of the Calendar
was in agitation, to the great disgust of many worthy
poisons, who urged how great the harmony was in the
old establishment between the holydays and their at-
tributes ; and what confusion_ would follow if Michael-
mas 1.) •y, for instance, was not to be celebrated when
stubble geese are in their highest perfection ; it was re-
plied, that such a propriety au merely imaginary, and
would be lost of itself, even without any alteration of
the Calendar by authority; for if iu it the errors were
suffered to go on, they would in a certain number of
years produce such a variation, that we should be
mourning for good King Charles on a false thirtieth of
January, at a time of year when our ancestors used to
be tumbling over head-and heels in Greenwich Park,
in honour of Whitsuntide; and at length he choosing
king and queen for Twelfth Night, when we ought
to be admiring the London 'Prentice at Bartholo-
mew Fa i r."

It is a popular saying, that " if you eat goose on
Michaelmas D.it, you will never want money all the
year ronnd." 'ln the British Apollo the proverb is thus
discussed:

Supposing pow Apollo's sons,
Jun rose from picking of goose bones,
'lbis on you pops, pray tell me whence
The customed proverb did commence,
That who' eats goose on Alichael's day,
Shan't money lack his debts to pay !
This notion, framed in days Of yore,
Is grounded on a priadent score;
For, doubtless, %was at first 'clesgn'd
To make the people moons mind ;
That so they inisht apply their care
To all those things which needful were,
And, by a good industrious"hand,
Know when and haw t' improve their
In Poor Robin's Almanack for 1695, tinder Septem-
ber, are the foliowing quaint lines :
Geese now In their prime season are,
Which, if well roasted, are. gocid tare :
Yet, however, friends, take peed
Ilow too much on.them you ft.C4l,.
Lest, whew as your tongues ,ruts loose,
Your discourses do smell of goose!

Or. the election °fa oailis ff at nidcleimlniter, which
occurs at this season of the year, 'the lilllagilantf
assemble in the ' principal street to throw csibbi!gri
stalks at each other. The town house-bell gives signal
for the affray. This is calleclissilisst!Or., This•clone,
for it lasts an hour, the 1143iffeleat Find Coi'phiatiOn;
in their robes, preceded by drums and:;files, For they
have no waits, visit the old and new. bailiffs, constables,
&c. &c. attended by the snob. In the .tntatitinze the
most respectable families in "the beighbOurloOd art
invited to meet and fling app''es at them on' their inr
trance. More than forty pots of apples 'have been
expended at one house.

COMMON HALL.


Yesterday being Michaelmas Day, a Common Hall
was held, as usual, for the purpose of electing the Lord
Mayor for the ensuing ar. The Hall was very fully
attended, and the Lord Mayor, accompanied by several
Aldermen, the Recorder, the two Sheriffs, and the
Common-hajeant, having taken their seats on the
hustings, the common crier made the usual proclama-
tions for opening the Hall, after whirh
The RECORDER came forward and said, that Ok-auty
of the Livery was to select from a list, which they've-6111d
have tead to them, of the names of those Gentlenien'
being Aldermen, who had served the office of Sheriff,
two persons, to be returned to the Court of Aldermen,
for them to elect one of such two, so nominated by the
Liverymen to fill the important office of Lord Mayor
of this great and illustrious city. The duty which the
' Livery had to perform was one of their mast ancient
and undoubted rights, and from the list of names they
. would hear read, en whomsoever their choice should
fall, there could be no doubt but that it would be on a
man who would go through the duties of the office
with credit to himself, and honour to the city of London.
The Common SZRUANT then read the following names :—ltoberf
Albion Cox, Esq. Alderman and goldsmith ; Veu.rbks,l
Esq. Alderman and stationer; Anthony Brown, Esq. Alderman
and fishmonger; Matthias Prime Lucas, Alderman and vintner ;
William Thompson, Esq. Alderman and ironmonger; John Key,
Esq. Alderman and stationer.
The strew of hands being taken, there was not one for Alderman
Coz—a strong drew for Alderman Yen ibles—about ten for Alder-
man Brown—and scarcely one for any of the others.
The SHERIFF then declared that the election had
fallen on Alderman Venables and Alderman Brown.
These names having been returned to the Court of Al-
dermen, the Lord Mayor and Aldermen shortly re-
turned to the hustings, when the Recorder declare,: that
William Venables, Esq. Alderman and stationer, was
duly elected Lord Mayor for the year ensuing.
The LORD MATOR ELECT was then invested with the
gold chain, and came forward. He thanked the Livery
tot the honour they had done him, and assured them
that whatever ability he possessed should be studiously,
faithfully, and zealously exercised by him in the dis-
charge of the duties of the office. He passed a high
eulogium on the present Lord Mayor, and assured them
that he would devote his whole time for the next year
to the office, and declared it to be his intention of going
through the whole of the duties of it with that splen-
dour and hospitality for which that great City had
always been so distinguished: be assured them that he
would be ever ready to call a Common Hall for the
discussion cf any public matter, and would to his utmost
protect their municipal rights, as well as support the
commerce and trade of the city.
A vote of thanks was then moved to the two late Sheriffs, upon
which Aldermen Brown and Key, the late Sheriffs, returned thanks.
A vote of thanks to the Lord Mayor was unanimously passed.
The Loan Maroareturned thanks in an appropriate address, and
the Common Hall was then dissolved.

A Court of Aldermen was afterwards held, at which
the Lord Mayor stated that he had applied to the Lords
of the Treasury on the subject of the new Act for the
uniformity of weights and me.isures, which is to com-
mence on the Ist of January next, and on some diffi-
culties as to the heaped measures, the diameter of the
heaped bushel only being defined in the Act; and laid
before the Court the copy of a report made to the Trea-
sury by Dr. Wollaston, thereon specifying the breadth
the several measures should be from outside to outside
on the top.
The Court thereupon directed the proper 0— fn Cela at
Guildhall to mark such measures only as are made con-
formable to Dr. Wollastoa's report, and directed par-
ticulars thereof to be published in the Gazette, for
general information.
The Court also approved of new stamps for the weights and
IIIeaSLITeL

A Petition from the Liberty of St. Bartholomew-the-Great, for
the appointment of proper officers to inspect the weights and mea-
sures used in thatLiberty,was presented and referred to a Committee.
Mr. Beddow was sworn into the (Ace of Common Crier, and
the Court adjourned.

The new Customs Consolidation 13i11 will afford great
facilities to families for importing their own spirits and
wines. Rum, which could formerly be imported only
in quantities of sixty gallons, may now be imported in
casks of twenty gallons; brandy and genera in casks
of forty gallons, instead of 100 ; and wine in casks of
twenty-one gallons instead of hogsheads. The latter
may also be imported in cases of three dozen of reputed
quart, or six dozen of reputed pint bottles. The impe-
rial gallon is the measure alluded to.
A serious affray took place last week, between Banff
and Macduff. A party of Officers of the Customs from
Banff, we are informed, boarded a foreign vessel in
that harbour, to exact payment of the light-house dues,
which the master of the vessel resisted, on the ground
that lights were not exhibited ; and the Officers per-
sisting in their demand, the Master ordered his crew to
throw them oveibo ird, which was instantly obeyed.—
Their boat being alongside, the Officers were picked
up, and on going ashore, lodged a complaint against
the Master, and procured a warrant for his apprehen-
sion for the assault. The Master having landed, was
apprehended; the fishermen of Macduff attempted a
rescue, .and a party of the coast guard, who were em-
ployed to execute the warrant, were compelled to have
recourse to their arms, and • several were wounded, one
man so severely that he is not expected to live.
Wednesday evening, Mr. Robert Anderson, of Wor-
myhillr, Arbroath, on returning home, went into the
bleaclifield erected on his farm; and, on ascending a
stair which leads to the boilers, owing to the darkness
of the night, lost his footing, and .fell head foremost
into a boiler, which contained a quantity of caustic
solution of potash. Medical assistance was imme-
diately procured; notwithstinJing which, from having
swallowed some of the liquid, its corroding quality
caused his death on Friday morning.
At the Court of Assizes at Rouen, Jules Roustel,
.called Cagnard, was condemned to suffer death. Cadot
and Grossent, each to twelve years of hard labour, and
Louis Lefebvre tp eight years-implisonmenr. They
'A' e retoniricted cf a riotous assemblage at Hoseme, in
Augiist last, when a Gendarme was shot by Roustel.
It is not. generally known that there were formerly
appointments to the Office of Chancellor of the Exit -
vier,* life. in the Herald's =Office is the appoint-
ment of JOHN Bouncnrimi Lord- Bernerf, to that office
for life, for the services whit!' he performed for figNlti
NHL o as-Captain of Pioneess at the siege of The-
' rooenne." 'He'first obtained his Military -Commission
under HENRY VII. tot quelling an 'insuirection in Cirrn-
wall, conducted by one Jostaot, a blaik:itiitli.
Tuesday evening, the litv., Edward Johnson, Rector of St. Cie,
menet, East Cheap, and :qr. Taibrahain, of No. it/7', rft:gentLitaeti
presented themselves 'at brarlborougli-iyart 'Oilier, as'trail f
es Sine2son, now in custody for ail offence. On. Wing thalqh Ant
sane person had been committed from flow-iireet, for a ennila
crime, and that the charge wisinneh incite airtime 'titbit they hall
been led to believe, they declined becoming baiL

PARISIAN CifiAL COM r•

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PARIS, SEPTEMBER tut.
A very scandalous cause is shortly to come before
the Tribunal of Correctional Police of Paris. It is a
complaint in adultery, preferred by tl-e Marquis de
Cairon against his wife. The following is the substance
of the memorial drawn up by the Marquis himself, and
laid before the King's -Attorney :
6, Augustin Marquis de Cairon has the honour of et-
hibiting the following facts to the King's Attorney :
When Madame de Cairon quitted, in 1819, the convent
of the Dames St. Michel, she went to reside in the Rue
du Regard, and then commenced an action again t me,
with a view to a separation a mcnsa et thoro. When
the President of the Court asked her what domicils the
should make choice of during the continuance of the
action? she proposed returning to the convent of the
Dames St. Michel, and where, in fact, she remained
until the end of April, 1822, when she was obliged to
be turned out of the convent for her notorious miscon-
duct. During her residence in that house, she had
frequently absented herself, sometimes even for whole
months. On one of these occasions, October, 1820, she
entered as a boarder, under the name of Adele Leconte,
the establishment of M. Bounassier, accoucheur, where
she remained three months, and was delivered of a male
child, which was enregisteted at the Municipality, un-
der the names of Pollidor Eugene, father and mother
unknown. This child was recognised in 1823, by M.
Soubrianne, a medical student, as his son. This child
was sent to Antony, to a woman named Aumont, to
nurse. Madame Cairon, under the name of Lecomte,
went frequently to see it. At first she was accom-
panied by a young man, who she called Lecomte, and
with whom she lived as with ber husband, occupying ,
the same room and bed in the Auberge of Antony—
From some repressions that escaped them, the none
judged that they were not man and wife, and on taxing
Madame Cairon with it, she acknowledged that the
young man was an attorney's clerk, named Catherinet.
—ln many of her subsequent visits she was accom-
panied by Lew lovers : each of whom, however, bcre
the name of Lecomte. In 1822, when Madame de
Cairon had been turned out of the Convent, she went
to live with M. Soubrianne, in the Rue des Fosses la
Prince. During the summer of the same year they
went to lodge at the Auberge, at Antony, where they
lived as man and wife, and took no pains whatever to
conceal their criminal iatercourse,which will be proved
by the owner of the Auberge, his wife, and the servant
who attended them. In April, 1823, Madame de
Cairon gave birth to another male child, as will be
proved by the accoucheur, the nurse, and the servant.
This child was legally acknowledged by Soubrianne to
be his son. He is nursing at Meudon, whither Madame
de Cairon and Soubrianne go frequently to see him.
Besides these facts, I could name several individuals
with Whom Madame de Cairon has carried on a crimi-
nal intercourse. Amongst the number, are Messrs.
Barreau, Charpentier, and Lemaire, medical students.
The meetings wi:h these persons took place in the house
of a fruit-woman, named Beaugrand, rue do Harly,
which it appears has been frequently the theatre of
Madame de Cairon's orgies. But it is unnecessary to
enter into further details on this subject—sufficient
proofs of Madame de Cairon's misconduct already exist.
She is even at this moment living in open adultery with
M. Soubrianne. All that I here advance is unfortu-
nately founded upon irrefragable testimony, and it is
full time that I should invoke the aid of the laws, to
save my legitimate offspring from being despoiled of
their tights by the children of crime."

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

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GUILDHALL

George Moore, a resident of Clifton, near Bristol, was charged
with felony. His wife, a very elegant young female, had been dis-
charged from the bar scarcely an hour before, under the following
circumstances:—Mr. Smith, of the firm of Smith and Co. of Bris-
tol, mercers, stated that the husband had lived with them as shop.
man, until about a fortnight ago, when he was dismissed, and a
day or two after a shop, which he had opened at Clifton, was
searched, and a quantity of plate and other articles, their property,
were discovered. The husband wile bad lied, however, pre.
vious to this investigation, and be had made a fruitless tour of up-
wards of 600 miles in pursuit of them, but had abandoned all idea
of further inquiry, and came up to London yesterday, and on bis
way to Mr. Harvey's, on Ludgate-hill, he casually met the female,
wearing a gdwn which be was convinced was composed of silk
stolen from his stock. Ile accordingly save her in custody, and
now begged the Magistrate to send her to Bristol, or remand her,
to give time to search for her husband, whom he suspected to be
in London.

After some consultation with his legal adviser, the Worthy Alder-
man observed, that if a felony had been committed, if she was the
wife of the thief, and found in possession of the property, ber co-
verture would be a good plea and if she was not his wife, of which
fact Mr. Smith had expressed a doubt, she might be presumed to
have received the materials for the gown as a present, and he should
therefore discharge her.
This result astonished Mr. Smith, but, by cautiously watching
her after she quitted the Office, he traced out her lodging, in Shoe-
maker-row, and caused her husband to be apprehended. Mr.
Smith estimates the deficiency in his stock to exceed .ElOOO. The
prisoner was brought to the Office, but not examined. He was
taken away to be conveyed to Bristol by Mr. Smith, who happens
to be a constable of that city for the present year.

MAR LBOROUG H-STREET.
Three lapidaries, of the names of Garner, Moseley, and remote,
In the employ of Mr. Ilyams, lapidary and jeweller, of Regent-
street, were brought up on a charge of having conspired to rob
their employer of a certain portion of pink topazes entrusted to
their care to polish and cut.
Mr. Ilyams deposed that on Monday last, he gave out to the
prisoner (Garner), from a parcel, 210 pink topazes, in the rough
state, to cut and prepare. On Wednesday morning, he brought in
sixty of the number given, but so reduced in size, that they were
not worth the money which the labour amounted to; the stones
which he gave out, although they would be a little reduced, ought
upon being polished to be worth from 2s. 6d. to 3s. each; bat, in.
stead of being of that value, they were scarcely worth above 4d.
each; whereas the price sbf the labour amounted to that suns on
each stone. It was his firm opinion, that the prisoner bad con-
verted to his own use the large topazes, an 4 to make up the defi-
ciency, had split the smaller ones in half; foi he had been given to
understand, that the wives of the lapidaries in general were in the
habit of carrying their precious stones to a public-house in the vici-
nity of Soho, and selling them. Had the stones been returned In
the proper size, the intrinsic value in his favour would have been
£2O; and now by those which were returned, he should have but
£5. By the like system, which his workmen had carried on for
years, he bad lost between £2,000 and X 5,000 ; and although the
prisoner had been in his employ for thirteen years, he had not been
Able to detect him before.

Mr. Bunting, a friend of Mr. tlyams, and also a lapidary, stated
that be had been acquainted with the nature of precious stones for
several years, and in his opinion they were improperly reduced,
for be happened to be at Mr. liyams's on the morning when he
gave them nut, and he never: amid finer In his life ; by polishing
they would be reduced, yet nut so nttich as the prisoner had re-
duced those he had returned.

Mr. Ilyams here shewkt to the Magistrate the two parcels of
stones, and those returned by Garnett were considerably smaller
than the others.

Garner, in his defence, denied reducinitbe stones beyond what
nrcessity'required; they were every one of themfout, that 6 to
say; either veined or :pecked .t.d they were compelkd to reduce
stones of every deseripti,,n, until :Ley could erase the veins or
specks : ir. proof of his assert:oh he 111 r. Moseley,
One or two other witnts•es were examir.ed, %Lose te.stintony
was in favour of the nun, ai.tl they settr. di:thargtd.