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TilE LONDON JOURNALS. DAILY EXiIIIEES fro - nt Hie Morning Papers, Aug. 5, 1895. [THE TIMES.] In noticing some recent observations of ours on the intended changes which are announced for the Parks, and on. some which, without being de clared, may nevertheless be meditated, a corres pondent suggests that the new Bucking!eam-Palace i 3 as well entitled to a slice out of the much-di minished Green-park as many other dwellings the -owners of which have suffered to encroach tipon that scene of healthful recreation. We on the other hand are disposed to say, that the Greett-park having been so much cut up already, will bear no further robbery. The houses of Arlington-street and St. James's-place have gar dens pilfered from that -little pleasure ground. The Ranger has on his side not been idle. The Duke of York's garden is, every inch of it, Green-park cribbage. The illustrious Duke has enclosed the said garden, or paddock, with a me. lancholy black paling, fitted only to substitute blue devils for the light, and air, and walking ground, from which it debars the pedestrians of all ranks and , ages, but more especially the poor little children who have no resource but in these green enclosures. The paling, however, will ) we trust ) come down as the mansion now building for the. illustrious personage rises ; and the public will at least have the privilege of see ing that which they can no otherwise enjoy. But we really do not yet understand why the Buck ingham Palace should be so contrived as to ren der necessary any new encroachment on the com fort of the inhabitants of London. There is yet no evidence of such a scheme, and all we are anxious for is, that some pledge or promise should be given to satisfy the people that the fear has been unfounded. No reasonable person will grudge the Sovereign of this country not merely the magnificence which befits a Royal habitation,_ but nn ample stock of such personal and domestic comforts as circumstances, independent of the mind itself, might be capable of administering to any private gentleman. On this principle it is right that the King, the first' in rank of English gentlemen, should be otherwise pro vided for than a King of France at the Tuil !Pries, who has not a square yard of open ground on which to stretch his legs, but, like most Frenchmen, seldom thinks of taking a walk for exercise or amusement. The King of England ought to have a private pleasure-ground wherein to enjoy himself undisturbed ; and at Buckingham-house he has that accommodation— s() abundant measure of it—without picking or stealing from the Green-park. The fine field known as the Queen's Garden, is, we believe, equal to the Green-park in its dimensions. If it were desirable to stretch the Palace from north to south, the continuation of the building, we submit, might be made more beneficially towards Pimlico than Constitution-hill : for, on the side of Pimlico, the object would be attain ed by only razing to the earth an irregular mass of wretched houses, which soon will tremble of themselves ; whereas towards the northward, no room can be had but by the sacrifice of public health and pleasure. We press these points upon the attention of men its office, because we believe that there is on their part no disposition to molest or meddle with the innocent enjoyments of the people, when the subject is brought fairly into view. With regard to the proceedings beyond Hyde-park-corner, we have already pointed out the row of wretched houses along the Knightsbridge-road, and the mean and ill-placed Horse-barracks, which both confine the space nominally set apart for the pub lit,.and disfigure the whole scenery. A small sum of money, in comparison with the end pro- P°sed would effect the demolition of all these annoyances, and combine with an exhilarating prospect a spacious, easy, and cheerful avenue prom the great western road to the finest part of the metropolis. [New TIMEs.I To-morrow will be a critical day for M. de Villele. The official statement must then be made of the quantity. of Rentes converted into the New Three per Cent. Stock at 75. ft is certain that the amount is far below the Minis ter's original expectation ; and the French Op position Papers, both Royalist and Libel-n[4 talk I I .000''the greatest confidence of hiS being forced to:Cesign. For our own part, .we always ,enter testae(' doubts whether M. de Villele's plan was si.4it premature : it. seemed to us to assume a lower rate of interest. for money in France than Shot-which really existed ; but still, if the mea -146 should fail, we do not think the Minister's removal from office would .a necessary consequence. Supposing:him .to have entertained teo - ,,sauguine. hopes of reducing the public bur tisensirit does not follow that he' may not be, OPon the whole, the best Financier' in France.--- Wo;do,not say that he is so ; but we must con feas.:that among 'hisnumerous opponents we have siciftemarked any, whose financial abilities ap fiettreil to us-to be very commanding. Should M. deiXiNele -be.retnoved from office, his successor iti4uit.likely to be choSen from among the party moat favourable to freedom of trade ; so that the eveittual result-of a change would -hardly be 'to augment the national resources. The writers against M. de Villelle, however, do- snot seear ';'to - . have looked 'much to this part of tliei„,questiOn. They 'have principally lavish ed.' their abuse - on the ~means which, they say,, the has resorted to, for the purpose of forcinit.the reduction. . lout. supposing; ,that-the reduttion' should be ultimately Pffected, the meins of bringing it about will'surely be of less moment to. the-. nation - than the CanseL joilices likely to result from:it ; and the most question will be-i-whether the financial pelicy'Or the Government are - Of sa narrow or .eJtliihtened character ;-whether -cOmmerce and tnikilifactures are encouragedi , and whether the 1414Cintrse, of France .with 'other countries' is - by -views of. mutual and reciprocal ad- We are not aware that f 7. cie Villele ha44vincedliny.great degree of llbeiblity In 're gard to the commercial relations between ;France and England; but that is a point on which mosti of his adversaries would probably be still more illiberal. The Journal des Debuts, a Paper call ing itself Royalist, cannot avoid a sneer at Eng land, even in mentioning the Lion Fight at War ick.—" The victory of the dogs," says the Editor, " was proclaimed with huzzas and shouts of Rule Britannia," as if we identified our na tional greatness with the fierceness of our Bull Dogs. This Fl ows the petty contemptible feel ing of envy with which this narrow-minded writer thinks of England. [BRITISH PRESS.] As the day approaches for closing the conver sion of the rentes, the Parisian Journalists, ac cording to the political views of their respective parties, are advising and exhorting the rentiers to keep or change their stock. The Journal des Debuts insists that it is impossible to pay off the dissentients ; and in support of this opinion, it quotes a speech of M. de Villele, delivered in the Chamber of Peers in April last, on the law of conversion. In this speech the Minister contended that there was no foundation for the alarm of repayment, which he represented as a mere trick of the Opposition to throw dif ficulties in the way of passing the law. " If," said M. de Villele, " as we are told, the great mass of the rentiers continue to hold their five per cents, is it not evident that a speedy repayment is little to be dreaded by them ? Last year indeed it was possible. The Government was prepared to have carried it into execution; but this year 30 millions have been added to the public debt, and that circumstance will render necessary new combinations and new resources, which the State will not be able to obtain without difficulty. Let us hear no more then of the alarm for the inte rest of the rentiers, nor of the embarrassment they will suffer as to the employment of their capital ; that embarrassment will, perhaps, never arrive." The Journal des Debuts adds—" If the rentiers will not believe us, they will at least believe M. de Villele." The political intelligence in the Paris Papers which arrived last night is neither new- nor important. The convulsed and agitated state of Spain seems to be arriving fast at a crisis. The French camp forming in the de partments of the East and Wrest Pyrenees is un derstood to be a measure of precaution for the support of the Royal authority in the Peninsula. The violent or apostolic party, as they style them selves, threaten the deposition of Ferdinand by force of arms, because he retains M. Zea in office, whose comparatively moderate course does not accord with their principle and interests. The Clergy openly revile the King, whom they charge with being more a negro than the worst Member of the Cortes! Since the retirement of a part of the French Army of Occupation, the . Spanish Ultras have been carrying forward their conspiracy with undisguised boldness, and it seems that the time has nearly come when the interference of foreign power will be again necessary to keep Ferdinand on his throne. Now .he must be protected from his friends. It is obvious that until the political parties of Spain are allowed to settle their dis putes among themselves, no sound nr.dearly sys tem of Government can be - established. His Catholic Majesty is said to be so much alarmed at his present situation that he intends, for safety, to make a journey into France. [THE PUBLIC LEDGER.] . - The report - that the French Government is on the point of signing a Treaty with St. Do mingo .has been most conveniently revived at this moment, when that Government stands so much in need of a good character to go through with its scheme for converting the Iterates. We shall soon have other testimonials of character from the same quarter ; but that the Rentiers will be induced to make a sacrifice of one-fifth of their incomes in consequence, we very much doubt. That the report has been circulated for this purpose is extremely proba ble, particularly as in the whole scheme o( French policy there is nothing analogous to the resolution said to have been taken with-respect to Hayti. In Spain, where the Cabinet,of the Tuilleries exercises an unlimited controul, things present the same disheartening aspect as they did eighteen months since ; and if these hor rors are permitted there for the sake of legi timacy, is it not absurd to suppose that the principle will be disavowed in the case of Hayti ? Besides, in her domestic policy, France is approaching rapidly as possible to the sys tem that prevailed befOre the Revolution ; and if the Priests and the Nobles do not poscess the same privileges, it is not the fault of the Govern ment, as it is evident that the latter connives at their pretensions. To expect that such a Power will publicly sanction the right of resistance, is as absurd a notion as was ever entertained. How ever, as a rumour to this effect is convenient at the present moment, we are not surprised at its circulation ; but its success, as far as the French' are concerned, is very problematical. Though it may not suit the meridian of Pa ris, it may adapt itself better to that of Lon. don ; and as the French Ministry may soon stand in need of an enormous loan, the ru mour is not discreditable to their ingenuity.— In the mean time, the French Opposition Papers continue to scout the idea that Villele will be able, either by hook or by crook, to carry his scheme; and they speculate, naturally enough, ,upon his dismissal as the consequence of his failure. If he should survive the disgrace of Such a miscarriage, he would be a fortunate man indeed ; and the Cotirt that could overlook it 'would furnish a solitary instance of magnanimity. Such generosity would be the more extraordinary, as it would be productive of great embarrass ments ; and when these may be avoided by the Sacrifice of an unsuccessful Minister, there can hardly be a question us to the alternative that will be finally adopted. [MORNING POST.] The French Papers of Tuesday and Wednes day` reached us last night by E;cpress. The in telligence` which they bring from Greece is . more cheering , -than the last. A Report had been re. `ceived at Napoli di Romania from the Corn. wauder-in-Ohief of the Morea, Colucotroai, stating that he had suffered Ibrahim Pacha to advance through a rugged and - mountainous coun try as far as Poliana, where he stopped him by a vigorous resistance. A warm skirMish took place on the 20th of June, in which the Egyptians lost several hundred men. The same day a detach ment of 500 cavalry having ventured amongst nar row defiles, were cut to pieces by the Guerillas, who defended the mountain passes. Every day the Greeks obtained some partial advantages over the enemy, who, instead of pushing forward, hesitated six days whether hP should entrench himself where he was, or fall back upon Cal i mata, of which he had taken possession in his advance. During this time of inaction on the art of the Egyptians, Colocotroni had been en abled, by his perfect knowledge of the country, Ito occupy the positions which threatened the rear of the enemy ; and in a second dispatch he an nounced that the Egyptian infantry was in a desperate situation, as he had succeeded in surrounding it with 13,000 Pelopennesians on the heights of Poliana. Every thing he added was prepared for a general attack on the part of the Greeks, but Ibrahim did every thing in his power to avoid an action in a country where his cavalry, even if it had not been reduced to nearly one half, could be of no utility to him, where his artillery could not act, and the regular tactics of his infantry availed it nothing. These reports, which are given as official, contradict the pre vious accounts of the taking of Tripolizza, and of the massacres said to have taken place during the conflagration of that city. It is possible, however, that the general attack contemplated by Colocotroni may have been made without success, or that the Egyptians, finding their re treat intercepted, cut their way into the interior, and thus reached Tripolizza when it was de fenceless. But in that case the capture, and still more the destruction of that city would he of no use whatever to the enemy, for having the Pelo ponnesian army between him and the sea, and a hostile country before him, all his communications would be cut off, and he must either be reduced to surrender by famine, or be annihilated ulti mately by a succession of partial „conflicts, in which success would be nearly as fatal as defeat, for it would diminish his numbers and his milita ry stores without the possibility of their being recruited. His army when he commenced his ad vantageous march inland was not as powerful as it had been represented. It consisted only of 6,500 infantry, 1,500 cavalry, and 35 pieces of can non. His cavalry is said to have suffered so considerably in its advance as to have been diminished one half when he arrived at Po liana, and his infantry must also have experi enced great losses, so that his expedition, though daring and successful at its outset, may after all have a fortunate issue for Greece. Odysseus who had surrendered himself to the Greek Govern ment,and had been sent to the Citadel of Athens to await his trial, growing tired of delays, en deavoured to effect his escape, and to descend the walls with the aid of a rope. Unfortunately the rope broke, and having fallen from a consi derable height he was killed on the spot, at the very time when he was included in the amnesty. [MORNING CHRONICLE.] The English Funds were very steady yester day : Consols for Account 90a.—In the Foreign Market, the South American Stocks had reco vered from the depression of Wednesday ; Co lombian Bonds, which fell from 8 1 to 831, again rallied to 84; Mexican Scrip, which on Wed nesday was quoted at 41 discount, was yesterday 34- ; Greek Scrip fell to 161 discount. In other Foreign Stocks there was little alteration.—The business in the Share Market continues confined to the minor Associations. There is great business in the Tobacco trade ; the dealers are purchasing eyensively for the home. trade, on account of the Treacury order for the reduced rate of duty, 3s. in place of 4s. having made its appearance at the Custom-house; the first effect is a claim of above 80,0001. for the high duty paid since the sth ofJuly.—There has been quite a battle on the tobacco question, between the gentlemen, " dressed in a little brief authority," at the Custom-house, and the Merchants. The former, we hear, were indig nant at the mistake, and at first declared that an Order of the King in Council would be immedi ately issued, ordering that the high duty should be paid. The reply of the Merchants was, that it was impossible, under any Order in Council, that taxes should be levied on the subject with out the consent of Parliament. The Treasury very wisely put an end to the uncertainty.— (16dd.) LMOUNING HERALD.] Travellers, it is said, see strange things ; and they have the credit too of letting their wonders lose nothing iu the recital. As a specimen of this, one of the itinerant orators, who is now on his joint circuit of law and Catholocy, is repre sented to have addressed his gaping audience at Waterford it, the following terms, as an instance of part of what happened when he, the said orator, was in London :—" When it was an nounced," says he, " in the money market of London that Lord Liverpool had become favour able to Ireland, the intelligence was received with acclamation ; a burst of applause pealed (no pun is intended) through the Exchange. Whence did the plaudits proceed ? Not from a band of patriots and philosophers, but from the Jews and money-brokers of London. The venerable Hebrews blessed Heaven for the great event, and the Sky locks of Change-alley lifted up their hands, and thanked Jehovah for the conver sion of the noble Gentile." Now, we ask any mall who may read this, whether a greater instance of sheer bombast and non sense ever came within his observation ? Does this Learned Gentleman deal in such arrant gul libility as to expect the most drivelling of his hearers to suppose that the British Funds could be affected by—or Jew or Gentile care one farthing whether he and his associates got ten per cent. added to their fees, by converting their stuff gowns into silk ones ? There is but one way in which the funds could ever be affected by the Catholic Question; and that is, by its ill flammatory agitators bringing about a public commotion. Happily all chance of that seems to be almost gone by. The eyes of the people are gradually opening, and, if we mistake not, the time is not far distant when those who have been most warm in applauding these wild and injudicious harangues will see what miserable dupes they have been made; and that, instead of serving Ireland, or even the Irish Catholics as a body, their main object has been to serve themselves ; and that the proceedings of some of their legal patriots are governed by the account of fees past, present, and to come. But let us hear the orator in question again. " The Cross of Christ," says he, " is cut down into faggots, to scatter the flames of discord through the land." Into faggots ! Is it wise to talk of faggots to those who remember in what way th fires were kindled in which so many Protestant martyrs were sacrificed ? But let us pass by that, and ask whether this be not bombast run mad ?—ls this the way in which any man professing the Christian religion can bring himself to talk of its most awful events ? Is tl►ere taste, is there piety, is there good sense, or one atom of com mon sense, in such jargon as this ? Yet these are the persons who assume the possession of all the wisdom, the virtue, the patriotism, and.the political foresight of a whole nation ; and who, with quackery hitherto unequalled and unheard of, hold themselves forth to a whole people as their saviours, their liberators, their instruc tors, and their guides ; condemning the most virtuous men in the cou►►try as monsters ; and susceptible themselves to a pitch of al most ridiculous nervousness of every word which is said to their disparagement ! Surely it is high time that the country were disabused of any confidence in, or attention to such weak ness as this. It is high time that the Press at least should unmask such miserable sophistry ; and, by dint of alternate ridicule and seriousness, convince these people that the world is not to be duped by such pretences, and that the reign of deception and nonsense must have an end. LAM INTELLIGENCE. VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, ADO. 4. BAXTER V. THE ASSIGNEES OF MARSII AND CO. Mr. HORNE stated that this was a case arising out of the bankruptcy of Marsh, Stracey, and Co., the bankers. The facts of the case were as follows :—The plaintiff, Mr. Baxter, had contracted to build a house for a Mr. Woodcock. The parties entered into an agreement, by which Mr. Baxter bound himself to complete the house by the month of June, 1824, for which he was to receive the sum of 5,0001. The money was placed in the hands of Messrs. Graham and Stracey, as trus tees, but those gentlemen lodged it in the bank of which they were part of the firm, in the names of the parties con cerned in the agreement. It was part of the agreement, that if the house should not be completed at the time specified, the money was to be paid back to Mr. Woodcock. The house was not completed in June, and Mr. Woodcock gave the builder further time to complete it in. Mr. Woodcock took pos session of the house in August, although it was not quite com pleted, nor was it completed until after the bankruptcy of Marsh and Co., which took place in September. At the time of the bankruptcy, Mr. Baxter was indebted to the firm in the sum of 15.0001. He had since paid the assignees 10,0001., and required that the 5,0001., which was lodged in the bank on ac count of the building agreement, should be taken as a set off for the remaining 5,0001. which he owed to the firm. To that proposition, than which nothing could be more reasonable, the assignees refused to accede, and the plaintiff therefore came to the Court to obtain its order on the subject. Mr. MONTAGU, on the part of the assignees, said that his clients were desirous of doing nothing but what was just.— They were of opinion that they could not legally allow the 5,0001. to be used as a set-off by the plaintiff, because the house not having been completed at the time the bankruptcy took place, the money, according to the agreement, remained the property of Mr. Woodcock, and could be employed as a set-off only by that gentleman. The Learned Counsel, in sup port of his agreement, referred to the case of Barton, in which the Lord Chancellor had decided that money lodged in the hands of bankers roust continue the property of the person to whom it belonged at the time an act of bankruptcy took place, and could not be made otter to another person, to be employed as a set-off. His HONOUR said that he did not feel himself called upon to make any order on the subject. The question was one which might be properly determined in a Court of Law, to which he would refer the parties for their remedy. A DOUBTFUL CASE, UNDER MR. MARTIN'S ACT. GUILDHALL.— William Bromley, the proprietor and driver of one of the spring vans, for removing furniture, No. 130,572, attended yesterday before the sitting Magistrate, Mr. Alder man SCHOLEY, upon a summons obtained against him by Mr. Martin, the Ilonourable Member for Galway, for wan tonly and cruelly ill-treating a horse in the Old Bailey, on Monday last. Mr. Martin, in opening his case, stated, that although he now complained against the defendant, for wantonly and cruelly ill treating his horse, he did not see him inflict a single blow upon the animal. No, the species of cruelty that he now charged him with practising was of a very different description. It was that of grossly and shamefully overloading the horse, and he appre hended that the overloading an animal to the extravagant ex cess that he should prove in this instance, and the setting him to draw a weight so wholly disproportioned to his strength, was certainly most wantonly and cruelly ill-treating him, and as much an offence within the reach of the law as knocking him on the head would be. The manner in which this van was loaded, was not merely such as to call forth a passing observation from the persons in the street, that the animal had too much for his strenth to draw; no, but every body saw at once that the van was a great deal more heavily laden than should have been attempted to be drawn by. ii single horse. If the van had come any distance he should have said, from the load in it, there ought to have been three horses at least to it, instead of one ; but certainly, however short the distance might be, there was load enough for any two horses. The poor animal, in his efforts to get it along, fell on his knees repeatedly; in fact, he could with difficulty move it. That thus overloading an animal was an offence clearly under the Statute had been decided a twelvemonth ago,' when the fine was inflicted on the driver of those immense vans in which East India goods are removed from the Docks to the Company's warehouses. The very pre amble of the Act would, however, settle that point, and ht begged the clerk would be so good as to read it. The clerk accordingly began— " Whereas it is expedient to prevent the cruel and improper treatment of horses," — Mr. Martin—That's enough—that's enough. Nobody, I believe, will deny the overloading of a horse to be treating him improperly, and consequently an offence which the Act was in tended to punish and prevent. How far had you come, good man ? said Mr. Martin, addressing the defendant. Bromley replied, from the Waterloo-road, and proceeded to deny that the horse was so tremendously overloaded as Mr. Martin had described. The load, though bulky in appearance, was in fact a very light one, not exceeding half a ton, and con sisted of chairs, tables, and other articles of furniture, light in themselves, though occupying a good deal of space. He had the inven s)ry of the whole contents of the van there, and was prepared with witnesses to proite its correctness, which indeed might be ascertained immediately, as the whole contents of the van were still in the Old Bailey. He set too great a value upon his horse to overload it; it was an excellent animal, a very great favourite, and was always called " the family horse." Mr. Martin r e p ea t e d that he was ready to swear that the horse was greatly overloaded, but as few persons had been charged with this description of cruelty towards their horses, and it might not generally be understood that it was an offence punishable by the Act, he should not press for a conviction in this instance. The defendant was by no means satisfied with this manner of settling the charge, and seemed extremely anxious to be per mitted to go into the proof of the contents of the van, to exone rate him from all suspicion of having overloaded the animal. The ALDERMAN however thought, as Mr. Martin had de clined pressing the case, it was unnecessary to go into any such proof. He hoped, however, the proceedings in this case would act as a warning, not only to him, but through the publicity usually given by the press, to others in the same way of life, not to persist in this species of -cruelty towards the animals under their care. NATURAL HISTORY OF THE LION, &c, al The LION produced under the burning surl'„ Africa is of all other animals the most t er ribl e , the moat ti": daunted. In the vast desarts of Z aara a n d M aur i ta nia, whe re man has not fixed his habitation, they are found in greatpfir, bers, and preserve their natural courage and ferocity. A sl er Lion of the Desart often attacks an entire caravan ; and a.„ an obstinate combat, when he finds himself overpowered, ,1,, stead of flying, he continues to combat, retreating (still facie` the enemy), till he dies. The elephant, the rhinoceros , .L a tiger, the hippopotamos,, the wild boar, and the leopard , 7,,„ the only animals that are not afraid singly to oppose Ilit,!'„' ot They do not seek the lion to attack, but if provoked, will " 1 fly at his approach ; they wait his onse t, w hi c h he stir makes, unless compelled by hung e r : th e y th en exe rt al IA strength, and are sometimes successful. Th e se instaric however, are very rare, for the Lion is in ge n era l th e undispu ted Monarch of the Forest. , .1114. The Lion, in its natural state, is commonly said to de7, o as much as will serve him for two or three days ; a nd,.l o, satiated with food, to remain in a state of retirement in h? . ir ' e a which he seldom leaves, except in search of prey, and ° p i:. then only at night. When hungry he boldly attacks all 4 :101 mall that come in his way; but, as he is very formidable,..sAer they all seek to avoid him, he is often obliged to hide, in °li• to take them by surprise. For this purpose he crouches °% /e ii belly, in some thicket, or among the long grass, and ' 0 springs on his prey, 15 or 20 feet from him. if he chant" miss his leap, he' will not (as the Hott e nt o t s i nvar i a bly ass , ,, ° hi Dr. Sparrman) follow his prey any further; b u t, a s thottb!';, • were ashamed, turning towards the pl ace , where he lay in a O. bush, slowly, and step by step measures the exact lengtoo tween the two points, in order to find how much tno !TM or how little beyond the mark he h a d t a k en hi s leaf ) . 0 4, roaring of the Lion when in quest of prey, resembles thelfia of distant thunder; anti being re-echoed by the rnek s oo mountains, appals the whole race of a nim a l s , an d puts thel. •• • sudden flight. hey The Lion may be said not to be a cruel ani ma l, since . de; so only from necessity. When satiated, he is perfectly ge ° o ll while the tiger, the wolf, &c. and a ll their inf er i or kinds, ° lie , as the fox, the pole-cat, and the f erre t, kill w ith o ut rer°l°,oo are fierce without cause, and by their indi scr i m i n ate slang , seem rather to satisfy their malignity than their hun,_grt. Lichtenstein, in his Travels in Southe rn Af r ic a , sa ys t"?.. na s, Lion, when in search of prey, approa c h e s th e d we lling of L ied he will never seize upon the hu m a n sp ec i es w hil e a four-not animal is in sight.—The hunters in Caffraria also told, i 6a traveller, that if any one had the m i s f or t une t o meet a seo ti unarmed, his only hope of safety was in c o urage and pre, s' , i }! of mind : lie who flies is inevitably lost, but he who !;ib motionless as a statue, and looks the animal in the Iles • perfect steadiness and composure, is never attacked. A fel The Lioness goes with young a bo u t five months; an d oa d rarely in a domestic state produces more than four young at a litter, which are about the size of a l arge p u g -dog, ei ielfl. less, pretty, and playful ; they continue at the teat for % D e months, and the animal is about five years in corning t" b. fection. In its imprisoned state, the life of the Lion, deprived: t o is of his natural climate, food, a nd exerc i se , is Veri iftV abridged. Count Buffon, reasoning from the size aria e ° o tution of the Lion, and the time required for his arriving g .'244 growth, concludes that lie ought to live nearly to the ° DP 25. The great he-lion, Pompey, whi c h di e d in the year A d was known to have been in the Tower for above 70 years 0 ) one lately died there, which was brought from the river 0 , 0 1 bia, that lived to the age of 63. Most n a turalists WI 0 think it very probable, that the life of the Lion, in his. 1 ? ,- forests, exceeds even that of man himself. 1i 0 , 4 • The Sire and Dam of Nero, however, died before thelor I completed their tenth year. They were caught together , A A: somewhat more than a ye a r old, in a t ra p, ma de in a ~7 „ „9 the coast of Barbary. They were consid e r e d the finest ° li v id of their kind ever imported from the wilds of *Africa , in e the first specimens of the black-maned speci e s that were duced into this country. After their deaths they were ii,io: ed by Mr. Geo. Freer, of Birmingham, w h o g ave Mr.. l ' well a pair of fine kangaroos in exchange for them. ~ a ll We are assured, from numberless authorities, t h a t the ~ si. , of this animal is noble, that his courage is magnanime u t ;i!, his disposition grateful. He has been often seen 03 0 ,11 01 1 contemptible enemies, and pardon their insults when it.„ . 0 11 : his power to have punished them. He has been known '4l the lives of such creatures as were thrown to be devoT e l . ,l3 him, to live peaceably with them, to afford them Pori r er subsistence, and sometimes even to want food himseu, t ,e, i i then to deprive them of that life which his generosity 1 1°.',1 ) ed.—A dog is related by Sir. Bingley to have been I/7 IA ; the cage of a Lion in the Menagerie at the Tower 1 Ole don some years ago for his food. The stately ald r° 1101,• l ever, spared its lif ; and they lived together for a c0n : 6,1 ~ time in the same den in the most perfect h a rmony, an i t ", ed to have a great affection for each other. The dog h to - 11 ; f • times the impudence to growl at the Lion, and even• 0 ,,, pute with him the food which was thrown to thetnj t t , ~„°', is the old proverb, that " f a mili a rity b ree d s contera b il r 1 noble animal, however, was never known to chastise ' fi l pudence. . Far Mr. Brown tells us, that while he was resident tt o Loi if Africa, he purchased two Lions, one of which was j 5 , 1,01 months old. By degrees he rendered this little an tame that it acquired most of the habits of a dog. o il," itself twice a week with the offal of the butchers%eti 11 0 commonly slept for several hours successively. ' o dory,,; o l was given them, they were not only furious to each et , P;' to any one who approached them ; excepting, howeT jo s t o o intervals, though both were males, Mr. Brown never ; 9 disagree, nor exhibit any signs of ferocity towards the St!lit lambs passed by them in the street unmolested. 0 . had also two tame Lions, which'their attendant alwa,Y° ' of into the Market to be fed. tJ' is The same author relates, that a Lioness, at prose; lif i foll Museum of Natural History at Paris, permits a dog ° s yli her den, and is excessively fond of it. She ' l ore P 2 h, pleased and gratified by its caresses : she is A tte/ 1 , 3 00. II ) its wants, and is unhappy when it is reinnveu. cro Ail( sight, though for a few moments only. The kefl' i l e steisst that to this singular attachment alone they are In JO the tranquillity with which she has hitherto supporte 40 10 of her liberty. ;iet t A Lion and Lioness brought over together fro ¢t 00 I about twenty years ago, were kept in the same den o - 1 0 0 0 t 'Change in London. They were each about 18 1 %040 1 and were attended by a Negro who had reared `40 1 ,14 whelps, anti had come over with them. • The7;lol 3 fil a l, this man to enter thei r d en i n th e grea t es t safety, Ilene', f would fawn upon a nd pl a y roun d hi m lik e • kitten.5.. 0 ,4,70. quently had a table in their den, with pipes and g l i 7 0 t ' o pP, sitting down there, would quietly smoke his pipe. ~, 0 . 'OO occasions their frolics were too boisterous, lie.had-on,Aiaws.i. his foot, and by his countenance to express his diaP' e • ' they would immediately cease. ' DUEL.—Friday morning last, a duel in the neighbourhood of Killarney, between Mr. O'e . 0- 11 Limerick, and Mr. BALDWIN. of the County of 01. ."va • ll ' after an exchange of two shots each, the matter adjusted. : BIRTH. - ' ' ~, tll'''' On the Ist inst., at Barnet, the lady of Mr. .... 11......,, geon, of a daughter. „44 MARRIED. On the 4th Inst., at Westmi ns t er , J o hn Gorql,p r o;." / ~, of Plasket-house, E sse x, t o R ac h e l, thi r d daug"'" of a, Foster Reynolds, Esq., of S ou th L am b e th. On the 4th inst., William Flexman Vowler_, , s l i . 1 ;0 - Newington, to Ann, dau g ht er o f G us t a iuS doP yif s of A Esq., of Hornsey-lane. f 010119: On the 3d inst., at Harro w - on -th e -Hill, Georg e - L . l i Oi l - ' ' of Hanger-hill, to Mary, e ld es t daughter of Char ' rs ,, Esq., of Sudbury-grove. DIED. 010°"',,i0,h1 On Wednesday morning, after a procrastinated ')--tor, residence North side, Clapham Com Mon, Tlic d t g - ePt 41 Esq. of Warwick-square. He was many years -- ni . J., o f t „ Provincial Press, and a man highly respected bi: e lllC , circle of friends, by whom his loss will long be S e ' ' ' . 0 deeply lamented. „ a e olas ' : Yesterday, at the house of her son-in-law, r• f , '' On the Ist inst., at Canterbury, Great Smith-street, Chelsea, Isabella, relict. ° ~i d r Beetham, Esq., late of Fleet-street. a 00: 0 ,0 rough, of the Royal Marines, aged 66. .„ , 0 , r ''lli° On the 3d inst., Elizabeth, wife of Thomas i'v ' r t ) I;* . ,i' ' Es, of Deeves-hall, Herts. On the Ist inst 1 h in n stree-/ _,, , yrs' ~ at ler ouse erners— W I worth. Ph ° al° On Wednesday morning, the 3d inst., IT'• I-, Miles-lane, Cannon -street, in his 50th year. „Aght°l4 d' On Lieutenant-- 6 On the 30th ult., at the Marine Porade 0-1 ° tit OA Meyer, M.D., of Broad-street-buildings, Lon 'd , ° ,, n o ;ol l * O r IP On Wednesday morning, at his house at 3IV", if._Tht l ip bridgeshire, in the 55th year of his age, the - 04 ,pinti many years pastor of a congregation of Protestat,4o 6 that place. His memory will be long cherisliea. , PJ ,a circle of friends and p u pils. , iti P i Printed and Publi s hed for the P n(s pnigTo n it 'ofr i Orrii:x, No. 112; Strand, by . J. 8 .431 .