The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-04-06 00:00:00

Amtuatututg.

QUEEN'S-HALL; BOLD-STREET.
SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS.
THE EXHIBITION of Ancient and Modern
'' PAINTINGS, ENGRAVINGS, and PHOTOGRAPHS,
is OPEN DAILY, in the Queen's-hall, Bold-street, from Nine
a.ih., until Six p.m. Admission, One Shilling; Children
under Twelve, Half-price; Catalogues, Sixpence.

ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS
LIVERPOOL.
Proprietors, the Zoological Gardens Company (Limited).

EXTRAORDINARY ATTRACTION.

THIS DAY (GOOD FRIDAY), THE 6TH INST.,
TIIE GREAT
• HIPPOPOIAMU.S,
With his native Arabian Attendant from the- White River,
near the centre of the great African Continent.

No specimen of this very rare and immense animal has ever
been exhibited in Liverpool or the provinces of-England.' The
Hippopotamus has been brought, with the greatest trouble and
enormous exnense (rid the Nile), from the distant regions
under about the fourth degree of latitude, near the centre of
Africa.
The gentleman who brought it is -Mr. John Petheriek, her
Majesty's vice-consul at ehattomn Sudan, a town fifteen linn-
dred miles above Alexandria, in Egypt.
The Hippopotamiis is amphibious. It chiefly resides at the
bottom of the great rivers and lakes of Africa, the Nile, the
Niger, the Zara the 'Ziiinlieii;"-Where it has been seen by. Dr.
Livingstone.- Such is the great strength of this terribleMint*
that it- hai heen-seen (according to Dampier's statement) to
seize a boat with its immense jaws, and at once bite and sink
it to the bOttom ; and in another instance to nee -under-the
bottom of a boar with six men in it and overset it.
A large tank will be-so- arranged that the visitors will have
an opportunity of seeing the animal in its fairourita element:.
Etehett, which is the name of this Hippopotamus*, is at pre-
sent in excellent health, and is. attended by his -Arab keeper,
...sslameir (in his picturesque costume), who came over with the -
animal, and to whom he is much attached, Mr. Dickens, in -
his Household-Words, gives a Very 'graphic de.scription ofthe
great difficulty and danger attending the capture of the Hippo-
potsmus in the distant regions-Of Africa, find aLsb the enormous
expense of conveying so large an animal with safety through
2,00 t) miles of country. -
A company of gentlemen being now-the proprietors of the
Zoological Gardens, they have thought the introduction of so
wonderful a specimen of the animal kingdom both an instsuct-
tive amusement and an, appropriate commencement of their
management, which they beg to assure the general.public will
be carried forward with both spirit and enterprise. Great and
inrportant alterations "and improveraenth will ._he-matle iv, tb-e-
-gardens, some of which are now in active preparation, of which .
notices will be given previous 'to the opening of the sessoteine.:
May next.
The splendid group of Lions, of all ages, together seith the:,
other specimens of Natural History at present in the Gardens,
will be seen on Good Friday. The Company, ultintatelytriterict:
to increase the collection. _ .

The other favourite amusements of the GardenS--41e•Ma,
Gymnasium, Centrifugal Railway, the Camera labscura,
will also be open.

Morning Exhibition, ls. each, from Ten until Two o'clOzk.
Afternoon ditto; fromfTwo until dusk, ed.
Children admitted only in the Morning at Half-price.

A -R
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7.OOLOGICAL
• . _LIVERPOOL.
Terms of Subscription for this Season will be as usual :
._ Tiakata ..-.. • • . - - 6d. •
For Lady and Gentleman les. Od.
For every additional Member, 5s •
Admission by Tickets will terminate at the close of the
Summer season. Tickets may be had at the Entrance lodge
of the Gardens.