The Sun.
London, England, 1869-02-19 00:00:00

FIGHT BETWEEN LEOPARDS.

Manders' Menagerie is becoming famous for sensation:
encounters with wild beasts. A terrible fight bet
two of the largest leopards took place the other night' to
is usual before feeding to place large moveable slicielp
separate the animals while feeding. While preparing t° 6
this the keeper had difficulty in keeping the two 1141/0
leopards from engaging in a combat, and no sooner had •
turned his hack to bring up the slide, than there 105 i•
howl, and the two had commenced to fight. Both fatif.:‘
boldly confronted each other; crouching down, 13sLf
their sides with their tails, and, making a spring, tri,P-h6
fell heavily, locked in each other's embrace. Leto
struggle that followed was long and fierce. Mr. Alttn:to
used every endeavour to separate the infuriated eorobata'.- ;
but all with no avail. He then procured a lon, scrap
and dealt each a blow, which had the effect of siparat'i
them, only to renew the fight with greater fierceness. Maid%
asecond spring, they both fell with a fearful crash on t`l,l",
floor; the larger one seized the other by the shoulder, Ifild
ing the fore foot ; the other laid hold of the fleshy 103."•1,1
the back. The struggle was still great, and the aniti-
rolled together over and over. Mr. Maild s this t'"",
had had the slide brought, and, oneera blow 154_.,11-.3
large piece of iron, and causina, it to releasea its hold v'gi,
slouch to the other side, the° slide was placed intdiy
tion. One was left prostrated on the floor and 11: -11
hurt,. the blood flowing freely and the fore leg being brt)ierSe
in several places, and beyond recovery. Mr. Afiln,r-b0
then procured some prussic acid and poisoned' it. 'L-0
leopard had received a compound fracture of the Ileia.cel,
leg and the scapula ; in fact, all the bones were 0334:00
the largest piece being only two inches, and the flab "-
into ribbons, and one of the claws was torn off.

POI
The Marquis of Buto has received the sacraln

of confirmation in the private chapel of the Pope.
Mr. Drax, M.P. for Wareham, is at present Wreo'
so ill at his town residence that the most serious Pars

entertained as to the result.
The Royal Court Rouse at St.. Helier's, oe-ro il 0.
has been broken into for the purpose of obtaining P°B-yre
sion of an important document referring to a case 12014 r
fore the Court. The attempt was not successful.
General Renard has left Brussels for Paris. to
1e the bearer of an autograph letter from King Lee' ate
the Emperor of the French, explaining that the bill °/1,4*
Belgian railways has purely a financial bearing and

strategical one.
The investigation of the charges agaills-
t
Haynes, the former attorney to Madame Rachel, Wg- pti
aimed yesterday before Master Maule Smith, at thevf of
ing Master's Office, Queen's Bench. RepresentatiVeB

press were excluded.
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So large was the amount voluntarily sent
the committee to which the management of Mr. GlO6-'3llO
re-election for Greenwich was entrusted, that it bag,,,rer
decided to return to subscribers of 10s. and upwards, '-
sevenths of the amount of their contributions. heSie?
The London correspondent of the itfcir-iiso
Guardian has the following:—" I am sorry to saY th-vr
have seen very unfavourable letters to-day from W56-2tio4
ton and Boston regarding the probability of the ratige;sig,
by the Senate of the Clarendon-Johnson Conventioc• ;00
I am afraid, too true that the President Elect evte;;.,ial
strong opinions on the impracticable question of Br)g

concession of belligerent rights to the South."
sale
On Wednesday the Leeds Corporation offered orfloc
a portion of some land which they had purchased but ch,isest
require. The site at the corner of Albion-street, at Pr' tjo,
occupied by Mr. Alfred Lea, was purchased by that gelloitS
man for £53 per square yard. The property on the °P,'
i13°,104
side, occupied by Mr. Strickland, realised £4O per s'sr„,"
was purchased for Mr. Holmes, of the Mercantile Bs".
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A declaration recording the accesssion of cand
lenberg-Schwerin, Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Lauenherg'oo
Lubeck to the treaty of commerce of 3133''' Deer
between Great Britain and the Zollverein, 000
published, as well as a declaration recording the aeceigesil
of Mecklenburg-Schwerin to the treaty of navigati°lll3
between Great Britain and Prussia in August, 1865. viti
In a case heard at the Bristol county court $1)000
ness was called who objected to be sworn. (-)n, g,
asked by the court what his religious denomination "sa tlll/
said he was a member of an American sect call one
Christos Adelphos." He believed ho was the 0111)-t- OAt
the denomination in England. On assuring the Cetirvolle
he conscientiously objected to takingan oath, he 10
to give his evidence without doing so. n
On Tuesday morning the body of a rlia-;foeth,
parently about forty years of ago, was found on the 081/
near Ramagill, in Nidderdale. The features were r
recognisable. it is supposed the man may have ishet;
place where he was found for upwards of a fortnig r roOw
he had been trying to cross the moorland for a shcs.iiteiog
into Lancashire in search of employment, and in
bad gone astray and perished in the wet and cold.
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The newly-married wife of the Duke of ,L'eticii, ig
berg, son of the Grand Duchess Mario Nie0131e17,13„0 08-
receive for herself and descendants the title of v"bi, 01
of Beauharnais. The decree sets forth that eanljoi
organic law of the Empire the Duke's titi° Dorti"
pass to his children, nor can the title of Duchess in toe!
by his wife. it adds, however, that the marris.bs-i0
place with the full consent of the Emper.r• form ,
first time that a morganatic marriage has bee: The'
sanctioned in Russia, and it is thought now that
recoruition will be given to other =lone of the lOW