The Sun.
London, England, 1864-08-19 00:00:00

New Arrivals at the Zoologicid Gardens.

The following interesting letter from the pen of Mr Frank
Buckland appears in the Times :—" Those who are unfor-
tunately obliged to stay in London at this time of year may
possibly like to know that many additions have recently
been made to the Zoological Gardens, Regent's-park. Mr
Thompson, the head keeper, not long since took out with
him to India a consignment of fallow dear, American rheas,
pheasants, peafowl, Californian quails, various kinds of
ducks, &c., and landed them at Calcutta without a single
death. He has lately returned from Ca'cutta, bringing
back with equal success a large number of rare and valu-
able animals, which are presented to the Zoological Society
by the Baboo Rajenda Mullick, Mr A. Grote, and Mr W.
Dunn. A list of these Mr Bartlett, the resident superin-
tendent, has given me; they are three fine specimens of
young rhinoceros, one rhinoceros hornbill, two concave
casqued hornbills, green-necked peafowl from Tharmah,
sundry very handsome Indian pheasants, besides other
smaller birds, and two very large tortoises. One rhinoceros
has been sent to the Dublin Zoological Society, the other
two are in perfect health and condition, though the original
rhinoceros is somewhat jealous of the attentions the illus-
trious strangers receive from visitors. The height of the
male rhinoceros is 4 6 et 3 inches, of the female 4 feet; the
the length of the male 9 feet 8 inches, of the female 9 feet
43/4 inches; the girth of each being about 8 feet. One of the
tortoises is a gigantic specimen, its weight being about 150Ib,
and its girth 6:t. It seems very active and lively this warm
weather. The large hornbills, which are placed close to the
pelicans, are magnificent birds, and welt worthy observation.
Besides these Indian creatures the viaitora should examine
the little chamois, which has lately been born in the gar-
dens; it is about the size and shape of a small kid, and,
although so young, is nearly as active as its mother. In
the curious house which the beaver has constructed for it-
self Mr Bartlett informs me that the mother has laid up
a nest of young, one of which came out fur the first time
into the pond on Saturday last; another having died in the
nest some days ago, the parents brought it out and laid it on
the bank. I had hoped to have been able to report that the
new pond contained a very large sturgeon, for on Tuesday
last Mr. H. J. B. Hancock and Mr. Bartlett, learning that i
a fine specimen of this fish was tethered in the rivet: Severn
at Tewkesbury, went down to fetch it; with much diffi-
culty and labour they succeeded in bringing it alive as far
as Paddington, where it unfortunately died, and was, I re-
gret to say, transferred to Mr Groves's shop at Charing-
cross, and not to the comfortable pond, where we had hoped
it would have lived many months. The weight of this
splendid fish was 2251 b., and it measured no less than 8 feet
9 inches in length. I found that it contained an enormous
mass of roe (such as is manufactured into caviare by the
Russians), which weighed 421 b., and which, as a calcula-
tion showed, contained no bes than 1,881,600 eggs. The
visitors should not forget to examine the young salmon and
trout which were hatched last year in the gardens, the
salmon averaging 5 inches, and the great lake trout no less
than 8 inches in length. They are perfect beauties, and it
is quite a treat to look at them."

AN ENGLISH LADY DROWNED IN LOCHAWE.—
On Saturday the inhabitants of this sequestered
district bordering on the lower end of Lochawe were startled
with rumours of a young lady having been drowned while
bathing in the loch. Oa inquiry the painful tale was found
to be too true, 'r he unfortunate lady was Miss Grove, the
daughter of an eminent member of the English bar of that
name, who, with her mother and some other members of the
family, had come a short time ago from the south to spend
a few weeks in the Highlands. The occurrence was rendered
all the more distressing by the painful catastrophe having
been witnessed from the shore by the poor girl's mcther and
sister. From the fact cf Miss Grove being able to swim, it
is suppsed that cramp or some attack of a like nature must
have been the cause of the melancholy accident. Miss
Grove was 20 years of age, and was about to be married.
FALL FROM HITh STANTON CLIFFS.—A terrible
accident occurred at Hunatanton, St. Edmund's,
yesterday morning about 2 o'clock. William Oldfield, a
photographer, having fallen asleep or the top of the cliffs,
about 200 yards to the eastward of the Lighthouse, rolled
over and fell to the rocks below, about 65 feet. The only
marvel is that he was not killed instantaneously. At about
7 o'clock he was found among the rocks by a Mr Milne, and
an alarm being given, assistance was speedily procured from
the Co tstguard station, and he was removed to the town.
Though very badly,injured, he was still alive, but it was
deemed necessary to send him to the West Norfolk and
Lynn Hospi,al by the 10.30 train.
A letter from Toulon of the 12th published in the
gessenger du lifidi says that the stage coach which
arrived there that morning from St. Tropez was forced to
travel all night through fire. All the forests to the right
and left of the road from Mede to Hyeres were burning
over an extent of 12 miles. At the hill of Grateloup, where
the passengers found it necessary to alight and walk in
order to relieve the horses, they were forced to traverse a
complete furnace, and the fir cones which fell under the
horses' feet and on the travellers rendered their position ex-
' tremely dangerous. But there was no time for reftiction,
for they Here compelled to quicken their pace in order to
avoid being roasted alive. the following evening the
horizon was more clear. The fire was still burning, but it
was further off, and it was driven to 'yards the sea by the
mistral, which was blowing with terrific violence. The
last accounts state that the fire in the forest of Reyest
was extinguished by the troops sent from Toulon for that
purpose.
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An ingenious "calkerlator," in Jefferson county,
New York, has been " footing " up some of the losses
of the war; andlthe result of one section of his calculations
amounts to these fac!e :—That enough men have already
been slain to encircle the entire gate of New York, if their
dead bodies were laid in one continuous line ; that if they
were placed in coffins and corded, they would count 39,0,0
cords; that if laid in a wall 25tt thick, and 30ft high, it
would be over a mile in length ; that if piled on a ten-acre
lot, they would be nearly 200 ft high; that if laid upon the
ground, they would cover every toot of soil in Jefferson
county; and, finally, that 75,000 tons of human blood have
been spilt fn Dixie's Land—enough to turn every spindle in
Lowell. Nay, if the tears were added to the flood, it would
turn the machinery of the entire continent; and the un-
availing sighs would fill every ocean sail.

A NEPHEW SUED BY HIS UNCLE FOR FUNERAL
EXPENSES —A case of an unusual and rather extraordinary
character came under the notice of the judge of tne Mau
cheater County Court, on Tuesday, in which the plaintiff,
Thos. Wilkinson, a shuttle maker, residing in Tibe-street,
sued his nephew, Joseph Robinson, engine driver, Hyde
road, to recover 12 10s, a third share of the expenses con-
nected with the burial of the plaintiff's brother, who died
insolvent. Mr Hodgson appeared for the plaintiff, wh,
deposed that on the night of the funeral, on the sth of Feb-
ruary, an agreement was entered into between the plaintiff,
another brother, and the defendant to divide the expenses.
The brother paid his share, and the defendant promised to
do the same ; but on being applied to he said he had consultee
his wife, who wos of opinion that the twu brothers were the
parties liable to pay, and that the nephew ought not to be
called on. The defendant, on being sworn, denied that he
had ever made the promise alleged; but his Honour
thought the balance of testimony lay on the other side, and
gave judgment for this plaintiff for the amount claimed.
MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF A MAN AND WOMAN.—

On Tuesday evening great excitement prevailed
throughout the city of Worcester by the discovery of two
bodies—a man and a woman—in the river Severn, close
under the bridge. The deceased, a bargeman named Wm.
Crumpton, and a woman, Ann Scarp, bosh apparently
between thirty and forty years of age, have for some time
past been living t gettter as man and wife. They were
missed in the morning, but no fear as to their fate was en-
tertsined by their friends till the middle of the day, when
information was given to the police, and the river was
searched by some watermen, who succeeded in find-
, ing two bodies under the first arch of the bridge. They
were lying in comparatively shallow water together, and had
been dead some hours. The bodies were removed to the
Bridge Inn, where they await an inquest. There seems to
no suggestion of any foul play; it is most probable that
b. -lan, who was drunk, fell overboard, and that the
the -ho had been drinking, fell over with him in trying
woman, w.

to save him.
CURIoIIS NAL:TICAL EVEN T,—An extraordinary
freak of wind and t70:4 occurred at %V tiitehaven last
week. About 4 p.m. Captain Dodd, of the brig Astrea, was
''e harbour to the North
hauling over the south side of 1.-
-rdden lurch, broke her
hu rice, when the vessel, making a b.
t‘s-td was carried out
ropes, knocked her bowsprit holds out,
,f wind right
of the harbour in the face of a gale ~
in. Captain Dodd and his crew, perfectly astounded,
astounded, imagined that then, was nothing for but but a
miens volens voyage ; but they had scarcely made up ths'ir
minds upon this point when the brig, as suddenly as before,
took a turn and ran in on the beach by the buoys. The tide
was continually flowing and ebbing during the time in which
the Astrea was going through this marvellous performance,
and the gale that was blowing seems to have partaken very
much of the character of a whirlwind. Whatever it may be
called, it was a whirlwind practically to the Astrea, which
was carried out of the harbour as already described, with-
out the slightest signal, and as unceremoniously and in de-
spite of all control, turned and carried back in the direction
indicated. Two of the hoppers were carried out of the har
hour in the same manner and at the same time,—Cumber-
land I'acquct.
DIY 0 RCE AND RE-MARRIAGE.—The marriage re-
turns for 1862, which have just been issued, distin •
guish the marriage of 28 divorced persons in the year. Ten
of these marriages took place in London. Fitteen divorced
men married spinsters, and two divorced men married
widows; nine divorced women were married to bachelo
lsors,
and two divorced women to widowers. There was a
another instance, occurring at Birmingham, where a man
and woman, once husband and wife, but divorced, were re-
; married. The number of divorced persons is increasing,
and hence these marriages of divorced persons ;ncrease ; the
number reported in 1862 was about three times as many as
in any previous year.
KNOWN THIEVES AT LARGE.::-I! appears from
a recently issued blue book that last year there were in
England and Wales at large 5,995 known thieves under 16
;$l.O of sga, and 28,261 above that age,