Star.
London, England, 1828-09-16 00:00:00

GREAT FOOT RACK

Yesterday afternoon the long-talked-of match between Steward
and-Stevenson, for £4OO a side, a length of 10 miles. came off on
bird's Cricket Ground, it St. John's Wood.
At ti little after five o'clock the two competitors made their ap
pearance ready to start. They each wore a pair of short cotton
drawers. Not long past Ave o'clock they started.
Sheppard as usual, hapunded'aff with good heart; Stevenson was
tether more in a flutter, but confident enough. and although Shep-
pard had the lead at marring—within the distance of the first and
second miles Stevenson passed him ; but Sheppard shortly after re-
covered his first place, and took the lead, which be kept till the
fifth mile, on which bets bad depended. bad been completed. After
the eighth mile &etenson took the lead, and kept it till the race
-was finished. The advantages on either side throughout the race,
never etceeded a couple of steps, and frequently not half that dis-
tance. The ground was so_laid out, that it. required the apace to be
three times run overAttcomplete a sulk. When within about eon
yards of the finish, Sheppard was within two steps of Stevenson,
and then the grand tug comnienbed. Sheppard let oat, and Steven-
aists increased his mettle k.each went to their utmost speed. Steven-
son pined ground ateeery stride, and Sheppard in equal proportion
fell ell , N the winning point, when Stevenson bad reached the
goal, be had outstripped Sheppard about 30 yards. The distance
atm nalles-avas tampitted In 53 minutes and 23 'emit&
At starting 6to 4 had been betted on Sheppard, *it after the
race bad emonteseed there was no sod thing as ruing so a bet •
far from the soundness of wiod and tbcomy net eat Streeneele
exhibited, be immediately became the (remake. •
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• Iffsmi.rA, Avg: 27.—The treaty for the evacuation of
the Mopes* the Egyptian troops was signed at Alex-
andria the 6th of August. Admiral,Codrington, with
the Asia, Ocean; and four smaller vessels, was at that
place and about giving convoy to the transports destined
Ifor the embarkation of the troops from Navarin. .•
It is now understood that Government have deter-
mined to pension off all the present Commissioners of
Bankrupts with 1601. per annum, and to substitute six
regular Commissioners with a salary of 2,5001. per ann.
each, who are,of course to renounce all other employ-
ment. The Court is to sit daily if necessary, and four
are always to be ptesent, but only one Cemmistion is to
be worked at a time.—Sunday Paper.
Friday morning the house of Mr. A. Friet, Gen-yard,
Houndsditch, was feloniously, entered, and tabbed of a
quantity of wearing apparel-, with five notes of the Bank
of England for 1001. each-3001. in smaller notes, and
240 sovereigns.—The tame morning the house of Mr.
Galles, Claremont-square, Pentonville, was found to
have been broken into, during the night, and the lower
part of the house, sts ipped of every portable article, with
41. in money.
A Netherlands Journal relates the following remark-
able instance of female courage A Dutch vessel,
she Vrouw Alide, bound from Neustadt to Amsterdam.
with a cargo. of corn, was totally lost on the 16th of
August, near the Isle of Langeroog. The men of the
island looked on without employing a single effort to
afford assistance; but the women rushed among the
billows, a thougb.in great danger of perishing, and
brought to land a cable of the vessel, by means of which
they saved, the etew."
In the yekt.ll6s.•the population of New York was
only 23,0000 t now amounts to 200,000—an increase
probably unexampled in any other city during a space
of only 43. years. The speculation for building hay,however, more than kept. pace with the population,
'there being at this moment. perhaps, 1,000 vacant
houses in New York.
• There is at .resent living in the parish of Pott-ha
Monteath, a so,olllllo called widow Cameron, who is
about 100 years old, and who, is remarkably stout and
healthy. She 'beeps two cows, for which shethresfes
all the fodder; and manages the *fairy department with
great activity. Last winter she was observed walking
barefooted during frost and snow to Rustic, a.distance
of nearly two miles. .
An old pensioner. named John Howe, who had been
in the employ obi .Mr. Austin, was on. Saturday found
dead in a vault in the north. wing of Greenwich Hospital,
into which it is :opposed he must hive accidentally
fallen. A Coroner's Inquest was taken yesterday, when
the Jury yawned the following verdict :•••44 That the
deceased was found suffocated in the public vault of
Greenwich Holpital, but ,how or toy.what means he
game there was to them unknown."
George Colston, butcher, preferred a charge against
a man for "cling him part of a cat; instead of a rabbit.
as was stated by the.defendant. Complainant said that
he gave 101. for it..and was to have had it cooked for
that, day's dinner; before they had prepared it for that
purpo.e. however, they, discovered, to their astonish.
met-I.:sad great mortification, that it was no other than
a poor grimalkin, which had been bereft of its skin,
head, and tailo and shaped after the fashion of a rabbit !
The Magistrates said they mete Au, pri-ed that Colston,
whn was a butcler.• should not base distinguished one
from the other, and recommended him. in order to be on
a •level,Viith the defendant. to sell him. some horse-fiesk
in the TCOM of beef. Case dismissed.—Leiceiter Chi OIL

BOULOGSE, San- 96.

plice is.-much crowded ;* and although houses
can be built at One-third the expense Of English houses.
the tents ale excessively hi,t. Amongst the residents •
and visitors here ate the following:.—Cited. Bury and' •
Blantyre; Sir Jeremiah Homfray. Sir G. Gould, Sir.
James Noxell, It. Cuningliam;
Gordon ; General Shaw.; Admiral Aylmer; Colonels
Spicer, Butler, I).ckens; Majors Simmons. Butler;
Messrs. F slum, Martin of Galway, Barington, Twee
dale, Kerr, Thomas. Beecher. Clatke, Wynie, 'Ack-
er° d. eressaell, Grady, hlacklin, Pat klierst, arc.
Inc weather continues fine, and the steam packets
have been enabled, for the last sii..nth, to Ply regularly
four times is week between this place and Dover. The
mass's tint number of passengers. landed here, in one
wrelc, was upwards of 309; the departOricwerera'her
minm Thus affords, however, but a very imperfect cri-
cm ion of the ratio of British cant nental travellers aho
pass by 'Boulogne. as' an infinitely greater number pass
from and to Etgland by Calais.•
The shooting seasod has commenced, and 'feeds
snme sport to such of the English as have [mewed
Ftench heel ses to carry a gun.
The two Irishmen who awe arrested here some time
ago-one for 'passieg brass sovereigns, the other for
ssirselneakitig—still continue in prison.
I he third and lint English Pray was pert' Tired Eno •
last IVeine day, by amateurs priocipally, the only
ine.,sowsl arti•ts swing Mr. and Mrs. Htu., of the
D Nee Theatre, who had a benefit on the occa.ton. The •
entertainments. were scenes from Othello and King
/deigned the Sylv:stei Daggenoood and Ann.
liastes.lutioso. The acting in the two tormer patrons
wire not destitute of merit, but co:ssed rather heavily ; •
them° latter pieces were well su:tained, and afforded
great 'mere .ininent. It-Would be ungenerous and un-.
grateful tociiticise dramatic talent, which is he-totted
gratuitously and for public amusement: Two or three
'4 the amateurs, certainly, showed some dramatic
powers, and appeared only to stand. in need of a little
snore rictice to become efficient performers. Mr. and;'
Mil. HILL filled their parts with much ability. A
ludicrous occurrence took place during a scene in King
Richard ; when that tyrant cries out, " A horse, a
tune, my kingdom for a horse!" some wag in the pit
vociferated, " I. will lend you a donkey," which prompt
exclamation was followed by long and loud applause%
The quarrel which took place a few evenings ago at
the public card-rooms here, between an Irish Gentle-
man of rank and i Frenchman, does not-appear to have.
been settled. •It is said the immediate cause of the
rupture arose from the palpable gross conduct of the
lat er in projecting a candlestick at his antagonist—an•
outrage w hich could not but be resented by the injured
party. The original cause of the dispute appc.rs to
have been a misunderstanding at the gaming table,
that curse of modern sccie?y, and cf Boulogne partici:.
'lady. to whirl direfhl source all quarrels at this. place,
dieectly or indirectly, may be traced; and always.
growing out of air indulge, ce in idlene-s, avarice,-
vicious habits, and bad company. Tie parties' ma for -
mental strife upon time sea beach with pistol and sword;
lbet-the Frenchman, disliking to commence action with
fire-arms, a though the other party gallantly promised
to accommodate him with the sword after two rounds, • -
.yet they separated without any fighting at all, since
which time the Frenchman has taken himself off.
The long pending legal contest between Mrsirs. Very. -
sial and Cabot-he', respecting the assumed right of the -
former to monopolise all tt e machine sea-bathing at
this piate,his been tivnicated_ in favour of the latter.
This is the •trinmith iit.a poor man over a rich and
powerful rival, front' Which the public will be it gainer.
The new English Chapel in the Lower Toted is ex-
pected to be finishediWthe beginning of October. Its
site is much more centrical, and the size much better
talculred for the etnnereW-Eailish residents', than the
small temporary building n64rettortel to iwthe tipper
Town, which is always crowded to elects And in the
sommer..munths most intultlitiblY•hotand oppressive.
The number of English debtors in the
.prison here is-
not quite so great-now as k used to be. They amount
to about one-fourth of the whole. Whether from acci-
dent or otherwise, it seems to be the fate cf the English
place of worship at Boilogne to be placed within unholy
precincts; for it is remarkable that-the old Chard is
ecntiguous to a noisy" Prison, white the new one is built
in over-propenquity to the Play-house; a place of cubl:c
amusement open and most frequented on. the Lord's
Day. above all other days of the Reek, here, as well as '
in all other I/math coons. -'•-• • -
The Cathedral building by the Jesuits in the Upper -
Town, with the implied countenance of the present King, .
is still at a stand-*till. far tram otE 10.,d,;

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OLD Wins:—The passion for old wines has sometimes .
been catried to a very ridiculous excess, for the thick.
crust," the 46 bee's wing;" and the several other criterions
of the epicure. are but so Many proofs of the decompo-
sition and departure of some of the best qualities of-the
wine. Had the man that firit 611 ed the celebrated
Heidelberg tun been paced as sentinrl. to see that no,
other wine was put into it, he wruhi Lave fi.ufld 4 muck.
better at twenty-five orthiriy years old, th n at
hundred, had he lived so long, and been peimitted•now
and then to taste it. At Bremen there is a o ine cellar.
ailed the Store, .where.five hogsheads cf Rhenish. wine
have been Preserved since ISO. These fivehogsbeds
cost 1,200 trance. Had this sum been put out to tom•
pound interest, each hogshead would pow be worth
above a thousand millions of money, a bottle of this
precious wine would cost 21.799,480 francs, or about
9081111. and atingle wine glass. 2,723,809 Franc!, oc
about 113.4921.
'fris briosta.—Of all the in ezt tribes this is assuredly
'be most curious. Fait, tie Barba y spider, which is
as bilge as a man s thumb. This singular ci come car,
rtes its offspring in a beg like a gipsy. During Omit
nonage the young folks reside there altogether, carol?. .g
out occasionally tor recreation. In requital for this
kindness on the pair of their nurse, the young spidets,
when they ate full grown, become mortal foe, to their
parent, attack her will violence, and it they are con-
querors, dispose of the body as a fit subject for their.
nest meal. .Then there is the American spider, coveted
all over with hair, which is so large AS to be able to de-
stroy small birds, and aft-swards devour them; and
also the common spider, whose body looks like a couple
of peninsulas with a small isthroui .(its back) between.
Europe furniihes two instances of the existence of spi-
deis. which may justly compete with those described
by out tiansatiantic brethren. Itis said that the tenon
• the St. Eustace,•in Paris, was.sOrprised at vet; Wien
discovering a certainlamp extinct in the morning. The
03 appeared regularly consumed. He sat up seseral
nights in order to discover the CAlebt of its mysterious
disappearance; at lest be saw. a Spider of vast size conic
down the chain or, cord, and drink ep .all the oil. A
.pider of enormous dimeu•ions was also seen is she year
1751. in, the Cathedral Chinch at Milan. It was
oweived to r eil on the oil of the lamp. It was
killed, when it weighed four pounds! and afterwards
,etc LA the Imperial Museum is Vienna.