Star.
London, England, 1817-09-04 00:00:00

BARTHOL 9111tlY

This City Carnival commenced yesterday ander
the favourable auspices of a clear and serene sky.—
The Louu Mavort had scarcely gone through the
usual form of the proclamation, when the silence that
had previously reigned, was broken by the dissonant
sounds that issued from a thousand discordant instru-
ments,
.from the jew's-harp to the gong, which ac-
companied the tuneful ,hours of the populace—
whilst the wild Learn in the different caravans, deter-
mined to shew that tht ir lungs were as sound as those
of their bipedal neighbours, joined, with " hideous
howl," in the astounding uproar.
The Fair is as lull of amusement, and as nume-
roualy attended, as on :my former occasion, within
our recollection. It is thronged with booths, some
of them formed on a very extensive scale—others
raised on a more moderate plan—but all containing I,
something very wonderful. To those visitors who
have a turn for the drama, Mr. RICHARD: ON presents
a sort of scenic olla podrida If you are dissatisfied
with The Ileroic Chimnry.scucelters ; or, The Black Prince
—(a grand melt dramatic romance, with a quantum
tujcit of love and murder)— you can scarcely fail'
to be delighted with the pastoral opera of Harvest
Nome—which is followed by a splendid pantomime,
" worthy (as the bill says) of performance at either
of the patent theatres." Young SAUNDLIIS charms
the Cockney eqtrestrians by various feats of horse-
manship. Mr. GYNCELL almost persuades his cre-
dulous visitors that he can 4t call spirits from the
vasty deep," so expert is he at conjuration. Whilst
Toby, the Sapient Pig, attt acts to his levee a vast num.
ber of the Swinish Nultituele. Several Dwarfs and
Giants, Fire•eaters, Spotted Men, and Albiness
Ladies, levy large contributions on their wondering
visitors. To those who are toed of viewing the
" monsters a the forest," the menageries of Messrs.
BALLAKD and Joss hold out many attractions. In
the collection of the former, we observed the Linen,
which attacked the horse, Pomgranate, while proceed.
ing with the Mail, at ‘Vi,'tersloo-laut, near Salisbury,
in the month of October last. She is a very large
and beautiful creature, and is, apparently, less fero-
cious than many animals of the same species that we
have seen. Ifer strergdr, judging from her forma-
tion, which is exceedingly muscular, must be prodi-
gious. The horse which she attacked, and which
bears, on the neck and chest, the marks of her teeth.
and claws, and the mu!' dog. which fixed on the
lioness, are also shewn. The horse was formerly a
racer, and is rather It small animal—but seems to be
possessed of great spirit. The dog is a very quiet
creature, of a dark brown colcur, and, in point of
size, scarcely bears the same proportion to the lioness,
that a lap-dog would to the largest bull-dog.

Monday se'nnight an old woman, aged about 80
years, who has resided many years at Liverpool, died
after a short illness. Intelligence of her death being
brought suddenly to her husband, who aas about
the same age, he sunk down and expired in about
five minutes.

Monday afteltoon the house of G. Hi ReiRT, Esq.
of Clapham, was broken open. and robbed of plat()
&:. to the value of 1000.

SHOCKING OCCURRENCL.—Yesterday, about nine
o'clock in the morning. Jolla, the infant son of Mr.
Howes4. of Mary-la-bonne-lane, was crawling von the
floor, while its mother was pouring some boiling
water into a pan which was on the ground, and du-
ring the time sbe went to fetch some cold water to
put to it, the child fell into the pan head foremost.
The mother returned and found her child in that
horrible situation ; she took him out of the water,
and ran off with him to a surgeon ; be said that he
could not do any good for him, as he was dying.—
He expired in a few hours.
Yestetday morning Thomas Miles, a dust collec-
tor, in the employ of Mr; Smith, of 13.ttle-bridge,
was accidentally killed in the following manner :
He had drove a horse and cart up Guildford-street,
St. Pancras, and the harness became deranged ; he
stopped the horse and got on the .haft of the cart to
put it in its proper situation ; while he was so doing, '
a water plug, which was a few yards before the
horse, flew out and the water rose in a stream ;—the
horse took fright, threw Miles off the shaft under his
feet and kicked him violently on his breast ; the
wheels passed over him. He was taken in a most
dreadful situation for surgical assistance, but, before
he could receive any assistance, he expired. He has
left a wife and several children.

We copy the following paragraph from the Leah'
Mercury of last Saturday :--', In the examination
taken on oath before the Lord Lieutenant (Earl Fat-
wttuAse) and the Magistrates of the West Riding of
Yorkshire, at Wakefield, on Monday, the 16th day
of June, it appeared that Mr. Oliver was in the habit
Of taking a card from his pocket, and reading over an
account of the physical force which, as he said, was,
ready to come into the field for the purpose of over-
turning the Government; and in order to give these
' returns an natures:Mg air, he in sume•places stated the
umbers of insurgents so high as actually %One:wed,
the whole population of the places nanitd in his list.
According to Mr. Oliver's returns. 40,000 men were
ready to rise in Leeds, 30,000 at Wakefield, from 40
to 50,(W at Nottingham, from 60 to 70,000 at Bir-
mingham, and in London about 140,000 men panted
for the fight, and upbraided the country towns for
their apathy I For the veracity of this statement,
however incredible it may appear, we appeal to the
Magistrates themselves."
Cormun-novsas.—lt is recorded in a Review of
London, published nearly a century ago, that es the
first Coffee-house ever established in -England was
kept by a barber, named JAMS& FARIti at the sign of
the Rainbow, opposite Chancery-lane. In MIS he
was presented by the Inquest of St. Dunstan's in the
West, for making and selling an outlandish liquor
called Coffin, to the great nuisance and prejudice of
the health of the neighbourhood."--Who would
have imagined then, that, fifty years after the above
period, such. swimmer would have increased in num-
ber to three thousand. 'ln 1765, when the signs
were taken down to give a freer circulation to the
air of the metropolis, and the stint paved in the pre-
sent manner, the numerous little ?awry decreased,
but Coffee-lionses continued to multiply, in conse-
quence of the College of Physicians publicly stating
that Coffee was a wholesome beverage. The Coffee-
houses in London and its maims now Weed 9000
1 in numbs.. ,