Star.
London, England, 1830-09-06 00:00:00

BARTHOLOMEW FAIR, Saturday.

Talk not of the luxuries of a Bardanapalus, he was a besotted sen-
sualist—name not the pomp of a Nero, he wu a compound of vice and
effeminacy—cite not the glory of a Cesar, his use of it made him die of
a surfeit of cold steel—refer not to the gorgeous splendour of a Diony-
sius, his very sycophant prayed to be released from such awful happi.
ness. In short, if you would picture the acm6 of enjoyment, you must
get a well-fed, ignorant, and good-humoured Cockney, and put it in his
power to go the circuit of the shows at Bardemy ,fair. His lack-lustre
eye rolls from booth to booth, and his countenance is admirably illus.
trative of delighted Inanity. The mind has nothing to do in the matter
—it is pat excellence, an exclusively animal gratification. What, then,
are the attractions which can impart such a degree of temporary bliss to
a sight-bunter ? We will explain. A vast concourse of fools, drunkards,
pickpockets, and ladies, assemble to jostle and annoy each other, and
to throw away their hardly-earned, or suspiciously obtained, money, for
the purpose of gazing on monkeys and mountebanks. In at-
tempting to squeeze through this living mass, a fellow, weighing
18 stone, treads upon your most dearly-cherished corn ; in endeavouring
to extricate yourself, your snow.white deeesseies are Improved by coming
in contact with a chimne bags, while a baker gives you
the finishing touch, by leaving a portion of the best flour on your
bit of black.

Bit WelHere be the players ! Gaze on that groupe of thoughtless,
undone devils, parading in front of the portable theatre, with all the
appliances of spangles and brick-dust. The Harlequin is upwards of
sixty years of age; the Juliet is a very amazon; her eyes cutting most
suspicious angles, and her breath richly impregnated with Hodges best.
Thejtomeo has a most romantic obliquity of vision, and an extensive
crop of whiskers s and Holy Friar Lawrence is romping with Lady Ca.
pulet behind the curtain. With " even-handed justice" Macbeth is as
foully murdered as Duncan ; and Shylock tosses with Cardinal Wolsey
foe a rasher of bacon. "For the small charge of three-pence," you see
a dramatic exhibition which you cannot witness elsewhere for any sum.
Not that the actors are all so despicable. A leading man at Asley's
was formerly Richardson's tragedian, and a a-dermal member of the
same corps Is engaged for the walking gents at Dristy-lane. This said
Richardson is a most eccentric character, and has contrived to pick
up a considerable fortune. It is said that his dresses and pro-
perties are worth 4,5001 and he has the credit of being strictly
honest in all his dealings. There are other theatres in the fair; Sam-
well's, Morgan's, Lams', Brown's, Re ; while Jack Clark hall a circus,
where his daughter exhibits her wonderful feats on the tight-rope.
Wombwell and Atkins are directly opposite to each other. Both,
of course, declare that their collection of animals is the greatest treat
in the fair, and they seem to find a good many believers. Con.
jurors exhibit their feats of legerdemain to many, who think that
they must have dealings with the devil, and to others who are
paying more attention to the pockets of their neighbours, and exem-
plifying a law pleasant sort of sleight of hand. The publicans prove
themselves sinners, and get rid of adulterated trash and bad victuals
with amazing rapidity—having no remorse of conscience regard-
ing the effects on their deluded customers. As night approaches,
quarrels enliven the scene, and black eyes and bloody noses give an in.
teresting east to the human face divine. The wife and the husband
evince their conjugal sympathy by getting religiesely drunk together,
and the children imitate the worthy example with all filial devotion.
They spend during their saturnalia what wield make home comfortable
for weeks, and inflict anticipative misery es themselves, for the purpose
of a little temporary and swinish gratilkadsu. The Lord Mayor,
" dressed in his little brief authority," leplisss these excesses by his
fiat, and personally proclaims the revel scum Every denizen should
see it once, but he must possess very little senss if be visits it habitu-
ally. Such is Bartholomew fair—such arc is neseseWs of which it is
oomposed—and such a scene commenced as Fdday last. It will termi.
nate on Tuesday.
Great consternation was speed among the pip who congregate at
this scene of fun and folly, by a manaum put into practice by the new
police. The city dicers, being nearly all aid bands, an well -known in
the /4941. fingered world, and successfully avoided. The uniform worn
by the new police is also a signal of danger ; but many of them have
laid aside tiseirappmbedges, and, mixing with the crowd in plain
dresses, have more offenders, the lint day of the fair, than
the whole four ys of its continuance usually averaged, while the city
Maus have scarcely succeeded at all. The &ism were wholly unpre.
pared for this species of attack; and thus, being usable to distinguish
between a police constable and another person, am sbn to give up
business altogether, or run the risk of putting their Nada into the
pockets of the enemy--a mistake which did positively occur in one in.
stance !—Sunda, Paper.

KENSINGTON ELOPEMENT.—A certain Grey lover is
said to mean honourably. It is very consoling to a wealthy father to
see his daughter induced to throw herself away on a man thirty or forty
years her senior, and then to be told that he who thus clandestinely at.
tempts to accomplish his sordid object, means honourably. Report says
ber fortune will be withheld, unless the fair one tries her hand at a new
elopement...4olday Times.
A Besconfield timber merchant was on Thursday doge
oat of 121 L by a couple of fiat-catchers, one of whom took a fancy to
him in the street. The confederate in the public-house to which he
was taken was also so struck by his pretty unsuspecting countenance,
that he offend to spend 61. in a treat. The sensible tiaber.merebaat
took all this gospel, proved his respectability by showing 6L and even.
Cby leaving behind the sum of 1211.
AUSE OF THE SUICIDE OF THE DUKE Da BOURBON'.
—Some of the Paris Papers say the Duke de Bourbon hanged himself
from grief for the death of his son, the Duke d'Enghein ; others, that
it was from the excitement produced by the fists revolution. The first
is, of course, a joke; and the second is, in all probability, untrue.
Be was a man of pleasure, and was accustomed to use extraordinary
stimulants that he might extend to age the dissolute pleasures of youth.
These are said to have tended, not indirectly,to produce the catastrophe.

MR. COBDETT.—The Morning Chronicle represents Mr.
Cobbett to have almost lost his faculties. On Monday last be undertook
to give a lecture, " the subject of which was to be the effects which the
late Revolution In France Is calculated to produce upon the people of
England; but (adds the waiter) after the first flee minutes he threw the
whole of the French Revolution (with the exception of the tai-coloured
riband which he wore in his button.hole) overboard, and talked one of
his ordinary Registers full about the curses which the Aristocracy of
this country entail upon the community." Thus bad begins, but worse
remains behind, for afterwards we find him desaibed to have fully lost
both memory and intelligence, and are told, "Mr. Cobbett digressed
into the history of the glorious Revolution, and then to the alteration of
triennial Parliaments to septennial, which he would have It took place
in 1815, theagh he was assured over and over again by better-informed
persons, that the year was 1715."
NATIONAL DZDTS.—A statement by President Von
Malebus of the debts of all the pre n States, 'has been put forth.
The glorious pemaninenos of BogLod is most conspicuous. We owl
boast of ow no lees than 819,000,0001. The only moderately genteel
neighbour we Uve is France, and she cannot lay claim to more than
one-fourth of our debt--hers being only 194,400,0001.
SIR ANTHONY CADLISLII AND Gaw. BHARPS.TheSS
gentlemen have been flatly contradicting each other through the week.
The former denies the truth of what was described in the report of the
Coronet's inquest to have been sworn to by the latter. The Genteel'
complains of this, and correcting the report in some instances, asserts
that statements made by Sir Anthony are untrue. The bandying of
contradictions has been seldom equalled, save a. ' except In that con.
carted pine in Midas which so finely gives forth " You lie, you lie,
you lie."
BOATSWAIN SMITIL—Mr. Smith (Boatswain Smith, as,
he 1$ sometime* called), has published a book in condemnation of the
police, for the treatment he has received at their bands, on one or more
occasions, when he thought it right to preach at the door of a well-1
known house of fashionable resort in Chandos-street. He has acted
throughout with a great deal of resolution, but his taste is very ems-
nit. To common minds it would seem indecorous to utter a discourse
on sacred things where it was likely to be interrupted by the impreca-
tions of profligate females and their companions, and downright pro-
taxation to attempt a religious sermon in a fair, where a call to the hear-
ers to seek Heaven might be followed by the cry of " Shew 'em tin,
'hew 'cm up," and the pious exclamation of " Glory to the Lamb,"
succeeded by an invitation to see the ram with two heads, or the horned
tkff I
On Saturday morning, between nine and ten o'clock, as
Mr. James Munro, coal-merchant, of Selbridge-terrace. Kensington,
was driving his gig towards town, accompanied by his wife, the horse
bum= restive; and on Mr. Munro using the whip rather smartly, the
animal set of as a fusions gallop, but had not proceeded above twenty
Etrdis4.lLltni it stumbled, and was thrown with great violence on its side
both the shafts in its fall. Mr. and Mrs. Munro were preci:i
7tt-e7 a= the rood, and we regret to state that Mrs. hlunro broke
bock the bases of her right arm below the elbow, and Mr. Munro re.
ceived a severe cut and contusion on the right temple, which it is feared
has produced a catenation of the brain. He was taken up in a sweet
insensibility, and on medical insistence being procured, It was deemed
necessary to convey Wen to the nearest hospital.