The effects of the policy resolved upon by the City authorities in 1840 became more perceptible every year. In 1842, only one of the few shows that appeared in Smithfield issued a bill, which, as a curiosity, being the last ever issued for Bartholomew Fair, I subjoin:-- EXTRAORDINARY PHENOMENON!!! THE GREATEST WONDER IN THE WORLD Now Exhibiting Alive, _At the Globe Coffee House, No. 30, King Street_, SMITHFIELD, A FEMALE CHILD WITH TWO PERFECT HEADS, Named Elizabeth Bedbury, Daughter of Daniel and Jane Bedbury, Born at Wandsworth, Surrey, April 17th, 1842. The public is respectfully informed that the Child is now LIVING; and hundreds of persons has been to see it, and declares that it is the most Wonderful Phenomenon of Nature they'd ever seen. ADMISSION 1_d._ Each. No Deception; if dissatisfied, the Money Returned. Nelson Lee played a trick at Croydon Fair this year which can only be defended on the principle that "all is fair at fair time." Finding that the Bosjesmans were being exhibited in the town, and were attracting great numbers of persons to their "receptions," he hung out, on the second day of the fair, a show-cloth with the announcement, in large black letters, "_Arrival of the Real Bosjesmen_." to represent the strange specimens of humanity which had lately been discovered in South Africa, and their appearance on the parade in an antic dance produced a rush to witness the further representations of the manners and sports of savage life to be seen inside. A startling event occurred on the following morning. One of Wombwell's elephants escaped from confinement, and at the early hour of three in the morning was seen, to the amazement and alarm of old Winter, the watchman, walking in a leisurely manner down High Street. He was in the habit of being taken every morning by his keeper to bathe in Scarbrook pond, a small piece of water skirted by a lane connecting the modern and now principal portion of the town with the Old Town; and on such occasions he was regaled with a bun at a confectioner's shop at the corner which he had to turn out of High Street, near the Green Dragon. While a constable ran to the George the Fourth, where some of Wombwell's _employés_ were known to be located, the elephant reached the confectioner's shop, and, finding it closed, butted the shutters with his enormous head, and, amidst a crash of wood and glass, proceeded to help himself to the delicacies inside. On the arrival of his keeper, the docile beast submitted himself to his guidance, and was led back to his stable; but Wombwell had to pay the confectioner seven or eight pounds for the damage done to the shop window and shutters.