The Sun.
London, England, 1827-09-03 00:00:00

BARTHOLOMEW FAIR-(THIS DAY.)

This scene of metropolitan festivity commenced
to-day, and many were the votaries assembled to
hear that wonder of the civic world, the Lord
Mayor, declaim with pains-taking dignity his
ponderous edict against all sorts of debauchery,
late hours, and little goes. Great as might be the
civic maw for sights, those caterers of wonders, the
showmen, had provided monstrosities to satiety, from
a " living skeleton" of four stone, to a canny Scotch
bairn of 4 cwt. Richardson's and Ball's Theatres
promised wonders. The Menageries could boast of
" Wallace" and " Pompey the Great," two lions of
extraordinary attraction, the first having slaughtered
six dogs at Warwick, and the other having very af-
fectionately killed his keeper at Bristol. A Dolphin
and a Mermaid, also put forth their attractioia, and
were almost distanced by " Pincushion Jenny, the
astonishing racer with seven legs." The company
itself was not the least amusing, or the most in-
viting; operatives, attended by their wives, and
drovers by their dogs, forming a good part of it.
Laughable was the consternation of many a fair
damsel, who, elbowing in virgin white through
this mass of eccentricities, encountered in front
a dingy knight of the brush grinning at her
sorrows, and hearing in her rear the impera-
tive mandate of " Go on, Ma'am" from a
slaughterman in full dress : the felicity heightened
by the wry faces of a London shopman in white
ducks, finding himself suddenly over his Sunday-
going pumps in cow-dung; and the whole celebrated
by the rude mirth of some half dozen drovers, who
had " got up" the entertainment. Dogs, pigs,
sheep, and a stray cow or two, joined the group
without hesitation, and were received with good fel-
lowship, so long as they conducted themselves re-
spectably. No accident had happened previous to
our going to press.

WORCESTER MUSIC MEETING.—It affords
IIJ great pleasure to say, that the inquiries ibr lodgings in
daily.—Warwick Advertiser.
this city during the ensuing Music Meeting are increasing
The joint production of an Irish dictator and
an English amanuensis, affixed by the former to his shop-
Window in a street in St. Giles's :—" Hay sack and flour
to let."—Qusry. A second floor?

Silver coin is so abundant in this quarter just
now, that the banks will not give their notes in exchange
for large quantities of it, and one establishment here was
so encumbered with it, that it lately remitted silver to the
value of 40,000/. to London.—Scotsman.

About eleven o'clock on Tuesday night, the
northern sky here was illuminated with a most splendid
aurora borealis, which, we understand, was observed in se-
veral other parts of the'country.—Scotsman.

The feelings of the inhabitants of this town
this week have been considerably excited, by a report that a
female child, of which Mary Ann Henwood (servant to Mr.
Judd, corn-factor), was delivered on Wednesday afternoon,
had died from -the cruel treatment of the mothe,.. The
Coroner (Mr. Todd) held an inquest on Thursday, when
the following evidence was elicited :—Mrs. Judd deposed
that the girl had been in her service about eight months ;
that on Wednesday afternoon, after some other suspicious
circumstances, the girl was observed to deposit a bundle on
a copper lid in the kitchen, which, on examination, proved to
contain a new-born infant. Mr. Winter, surgeon, was isnme-
diatelysent for, who found the child still living, and it sur-
vived about ten hours. The Coroner observed that the Jury
had not any thing to do with the concealment of the birth,
that alone not being an offence under their cognizance, lcAt,,
a verdict of " Wilful Murder," or " Died by the Vklta.
tion of God," must he returned under the circurmtancet.
After some deliberation the Jury pronounced-54 That the
death of the infant was occasioned by inattention and ne-
glect on the part of the said Mary Ann Hemvood," The
young woman craved forgiveness, and confessed that the)
father of the child was her own brother !...,a.„„vhdr4
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