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

FIGHT BETWEEN LEOPARDS.

Manders' Menagerie is becoming famous for sensationl'i
encounters with wild beasts. A terrible fight bet Wee::
two of the largest leopards took place the other night.
is usual before feeding to place large moveable elides to
separate the animals while feeding. While preparing t°ds
this the keeper had difficulty in keeping the two 1180
leopards from engaging in a combat, and no sooner had
turned his back to bring up the slide, than there W 3/ OTo
howl, and the two had commenced to fight. Both anin3li,
boldly confronted each other; crouching down, lashing
their sides with their tails, and, making a spring, they
fell heavily, locked in each other's' embrace.
struggle that followed was long and fierce. Mr. Man
used every endeavour to separate the infuriated combatant'
but all with no avail. He then procured a long scraper
and dealt each a blow, which had the effect of separatitlg
them, only to renew the fight with greater fierceness. .3131{i 6
asecond spring, they both fell with a fearful crash on the
floor; the larger one seized the other by the shoulder, hretti
ing the fore foot ; the other laid hold of the fleshy part is
the back. The struggle was still great, and the anima
rolled together over and over. Mr. Manders by this WO
had had the slide brought, and, dealing one a blow with
large piece of iron, and causing it to release its hold an
slouch to the other side, the slide was placed in P°,ll-fi.
tion. One was left prostrated on the floor and badly
hurt, the blood flowing freely and the fore leg being broken
in several places, and beyond recovery. Mr. Alml,cime.o
then procured some prussic acid and poisoned it. I—fe
leopard had received a compound fracture of the near fc).A.
leg and the scapula ; in fact, all the bones were sinaall'-'
the largest piece being only two inches, and the flesh Will
into ribbons, and one of the claws was torn off.

The Marquis of Bute has received the sacrame
of confirmation in the private chapel of the Pope.
Mr. Drag, M.P. for Wareham, is at present VI
so ill at his town residence that the most serious fears 9:"
entertained as to the result.
The Royal Court House at St. Helier's,
i:
'Terse/6'
has been broken into for the purpose of obtaining 13005 e
sion of an important document referring to a case nor ".
foro the Court. The attempt was not successful.
General Renard has left Brussels for Paris. lit:
is the bearer of an autograph letter from King Leopold
the Emperor of the French, explaining that the bill on to
Belgian railways has purely a financial bearing and 71°.t •
strategical one.

The investigation of the charges against 31t.
Haynes, the former attorney to Madame Rachel, if° 1;
sumed yesterday before Master Maule Smith, at the irgtho
ing Master's Office, Queen's Bench. Representatives of
press were excluded.
So large was the amount voluntarily sent ill to
o
the committee to which the management of Mr. Gladstone
re-election for Greenwich was entrusted, that it has b°80
decided to return to subscribers of 10s. and upwards, three'
sevenths of the amount of their contributions.
The London correspondent of the MandteSte
Guardian has the following:—" I am sorry to say that
have seen very unfavourable letters to-day from Wasbin,g;
ton and Boston regarding the probability of the ratificati!
by the Senate of the Clarendon-Johnson Convention. It
I am afraid, too true that the President Elect outerlo
strong opinions on the impracticable question of Englau
concession of belligerent rights to the South."
On Wednesday the Leeds Corporation offered for sal:
a portion of some land which they had purchased but did 11:t
require. The site at the corner of Albion-street, at Prosee,
occupied by Mr. Alfred Lea, was purchased by that g°lltlte
man for £53 per square yard. The property on the ePP°,,,-i
side, occupied by Mr. Strickland, realised £4O per yard;
was purchased for Mr. Holmes, of the Mercantile Bank'
A declaration recording the accesssion of Afecnic;
lenberg-Schwerin, Mecklenberg-Strelitz, Lauenbergt °5,
Lubeck to the treaty of commerce of May, IS„6es
between Great Britain and the Zollverein ,
, has w"-00
published, as well as a declaration recording the necessi
of Mecklenburg-Schwerin to the treaty of navigation signed
between Great Britain and Prussia in August, 1865. t,
In a case beard at the Bristol county court a Ivila
floss was called who objected to be sworn. On 13,, 110
asked by the court what his religious denomination wi,llo
said ho was a member of an American sect called
of
Christos Adelphos." He believed ho was the only one' thgt
the denomination in England. On assuring the
court
via
he conscientiously objected to takiugan oath, he was allo °
to give his evidence without doing so.
On Tuesday morning the body of a man,oo o
0,
parently about forty years of age, was found on the if
near Ramsgill, in Nidderdale. The features were 6cai the
recognisable. It is supposed the man may have lain
tiott
place where he was found fur upwards of a fortnight ;
cute
he had been trying to cross the moorland for a shorter r°
into Lancashire in search of employment, and in doing

had gone astray and perished in the wet and cold.
The newly-married wife of the Duke of Letichtelit;
i
berg, son of the Grand Duchess Marie Nicoluievuni s so
receive for herself and descendants the title of Collets
ae
of Beauharnais. The decree sets forth that bY
of
organic law of the Empire the Duke's title came
pass to his children, nor can the title of Duchess be took
by his wife. It adds, however, that the marriage
be
place with the full consent of the e EmP erur. This is
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first time that a morganatic marriage has been lorvirlsl
sanctioned in Russia, and it is thought now that Ire Fed.
recognition will be given to other unions of the paw kip