Star.
London, England, 1818-05-25 00:00:00

THE NEW MANIA.

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Of late when the Greenland-bound ships had set sail,
And the shot at Lord Wiu.neason happen'd to fail,
A strange dearth of topics began to prevail.
No subject was offered to interest fashion,
No touching new mania, or whimsical passion ;
While the world look'd and languish'd in silent attention,
Some clever soul hit on a famous invention—
• Tis a tube made of brass, pewter, copper, or tin,
With a hole at one end of it, where you look in,
And see—gracious Heavens!--you see such a sight,
Should I try to describe it 'twould take me all night;
The exquisite figures and colours you can see,
No painter can copy, no poet can fancy ;
You see—what must all you've before seen surpass,
Yod see—some moll old broken pieces of glass I
Need I tell you indeed, that with such preparation,
So lovely a bauble has caused a sensation—
I doubt whether Bilboquet, monarch of toys,
Or the devil himself, ever made such a noise ;
'lts the favourite play-thing of school-boy and sage,
Of the baby in arms, and the baby of age ;
Of the grandam, whose sight is at best problematical,
And the soph, who explains it by rule mathematical ;
Of the saint, who in vain tries to laugh at and mock it,
Yet, ten to one, carries a brace in his pocket.
All are bit in their turn, from the belles who have borne it,
I'm told, to the Op'ra instead of a lorgnette;
To the cripple who makes them " so pretty and cheap,"
And hawks them about at " a penny a peep."
Such indeed is the rage for them, chapel or church in,
You see them about you, and each little urchin
Finding a sixpence, with transport beside his hope,
Runs to the tinman, and makes a " Kaleidoscope !"

HYDE PARK.—The uncommon fineness of yester-
day made Hyde Park the centre of attraction for the
Fashionable World. The equipages were numerous
and elegant, and the-superb liveries of some attract-
ed great attention. Among the distinguished per-
sonages present were—
Ills Royal Highness the Duke of Clarence, his Royal High-
ness the Duke of Gloucester, the Prince of Hesse Hombourg,
the Dukes of Beaufort and iedford, Marquis and Marchioness
of Downshire, Marchionesses of Cholmondeley and Hertford;
Earls Sefton, Scarborough, Carnarvon, and Darlington; Lady
Ellenborougb and Miss Law • Lords Mulgrave, Valletort,
Nolyneux, W. Lenox, F. Bentinck ; General Phipps, &c. &
The immense concourse of equipages on the Wel-
lington were, between the hours of three and four,
completely blocked up, amidst clouds of dust. The
summer heat and clearness of the day, filled the
walk with loungers of all ranks and ages. The Ladies
looked to great advantage. As to the male ultra-
erquisites, they still retain their paste-board cravats,
their mustachioes, and their stays—the only altera-
tion of the week is their universal rage for immense
overalls of dowlas, in lieu of the woollen cossack
supetfivities !

Peas sold for 255. the half-sieve in-Covent-garden
market on Saturday, and were eagerly bought up.
The accounts received of the state of the hops in
the neighbourhood of Maidstone continue to be very
favourable, and there is every prospect of a success-
ful year.

The new afterpiece of The Castle of Paluzzi, or the
Exterted Oath ! is written by young HAY►toxo, the
son of the late respected Drury-lane stage-manager,
a Id is spoken of as a Drama creditable to the talents
of so young an Author.

Sir ISAAC NEWTON considered the Binomial Theo-
rem of more importance to Science, than all the rest
of his discpveries. The CO-efficient: are of most ex-
tensive use in whatever relates to Combination, and
Truths are sometirAes discovered by a mere inspec-
tion of then), which really excite amazement, as will
be evinced in the following instance:—lf you hold
Two Tickets or Two Shares in this Lottery, you will
have 4`20 Chances to get either One or Two Capital
Prizes in the First Half Hour, on the KING'S BIRTH
Day ; and it is highly creditable to the CosrnAc-
TORS, Hsz.►nn and G>. in forming the Scheme on a
basis that so much increases the Chance of Adven-
turers for Capital Prizes.

Seven or eight persons have been seriously woun-
ded by a wolf in the neighbourhood of Marsanne,
in France, which would have devoured two young
girls keeping sheep, had not Jean Laurie, a peasant,
seized the animal, whilst another shot it. Supposing
the wolf dead, Laurie let go his hold, when the wolf
reviving, tore his arms, and lacerated his body, but
was at length killed. The poor man was conveyed
to an Hospital.
Saturday, between four and five o'clo:k, as Mr.
TAYLOR, street-keeper. of Lombard-street, was con-
veying a man, for picking of pockets, to the Compter,
a companion of the prisoner's canie behind him, trip.
ped him up, and dislocated his collar-bone. The men
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both escaped.
Saturday morning, between the hours of one and
two o'clock, an alarming fire broke out in the pre-
mises of Mr. PUTT, cheesemonger, in Charlton-street,
Somers' Town, and in a very short period totally
consumed every article of his property, his land),
scarcely having had time to get out of the house with
their lives. Mrs. Purr had only lain in three weeks.
It is thought the accident occurred from Mr. PUTT'S
selecting some eggs from his shop to put into his
back premises to keep them cool before he went to
bed, and that a spark must have dropped from his
lamp amonst the straw. Upon the shop door being
burst open, the flames devoured every thing within
their reach. The house dog was burnt to death.

CLiAND;G or Wwaowa av Erntatt.‘—.An Inquest was on
Saturday held upon the body of Jane Gardii r, at the sign of the
FriEnd-in-Iland, in the Colonade, near Bernard-street, Russell-
square, who lived as servant with the family of John Crisp, Esq.
Bernard-street. About eleven o'clock on Friday morning last,
the deceased was employed in cleaning the front windows of the
attic, or fourth story, of her master's house, when, being on the
outside, in the act of kneeling to get back into the room, she lost
her. lold, and was precipitated down into the area. Her screams
were terrific just before she fell, while clinging to the window_
frame, but she was killed on the spot. Deceased, it appeared,
had been cautioned not to venture on the outside of the window,
which could be cleaned from within ; but she replied, that it
was nothing when pec le were used to it, and disregarded the
admonition. The evidence was fully and minutely gone into by
the Jury, who, although they censured the practice of employing
females for the purpose of cleaning windows so elevated, were
satisfied that no real blame was imputable to the mistress of the
unfortunate girl. Deceased was between the years of 17 and 18.
It is remarkable, that she observed to a neighbour, about three
days before, that she had dreamt of her falling front a window
down into the street. Verdict—Accidental Death by a fall from
a window.