The Sun.
London, England, 1857-07-17 00:00:00

ROYAL CREMORNE GARDENS.

This agreeable place of suburban recreation pre-
sented a brilliant appearance yesterday, when a
performance, comprising peculiar attractions, was
announced to tike place under tho patronage of
the Princes of Oude. The weather was happily
propitious through the greater part of the fete,
in spite of sundry clouds of di-anal appearance
which overshadowed the horison in the earlier
part of the day, and the festival passed off with
eclat.

The entertainment commenced with the per-
formances of the R iyal Marionettes, which still
continue their attractions. Master Bond, "the
contortionist, " exhibits his extraordinary pos-
turing, showing the most astonishing muscular
development to a wondering c.mapany. We have
before spoken of the learned dog Lily, whose
whist playing, arithmetical calculation, an 1 gene-
ral shrewdness have formed one of the great at-
tractions of these gardens. Their Highness the
Princes of Oude were as delighted with Miss
Lily's private performance before them yesterday
as Mr. Simpson 's ordinary less " Serene" patrons.
A young lady of the classical name of Smith
adds another to the great attractions of the Ore-
morne programme.

Miss Smith had the honour of giving a private
performance before the Princes of 0 ude, and re-
ceived a flattering recognition from theirlligh nesses.
The concert commenced as usual at six o'clock,
in which Mr. Fourness Thilfe, our old friend
of the " Gossiping Concerts," displayed his voice
iu high perfection. Mr. Rolfe gave his favourite
songs, " The Death of Nelson," and " Good bye,
sweetheart," iu first rate style. In the commo-
dious theatre a new ballet, entitled " The Mystic
Branch, or Norah and the Fatal Gift," has been
brought out under the direction of M. Milano. In
the Cirque Oriental, exhibitions of first-rate horse-
manship are displayed by artistes of some little
celebrity both on the Continent and in America
Great preparations were made for a pyrotechnic
performance of great pretensions, under the direc-
tion of Chevalier Mortraw, but the rain, which
began to descend about ten o'clock, unluckily put
a stopper on this part of the entertainment.
On the whole, however, the fete passed off we'l,
and the visitors, in whose honour it was devised,
were, we have reason to know, especially delighted
with the variety of the amusements, and the quality
of the refection provided for them by the care of
Mr. T. B. Simpson, the spirited lessee of this fa-
vourite rus in urb

DR. .KAHN'S MUSEUM.

THE HETERADELPH.

One of those strange phenomena by which the
waywardness of nature is displayed was exhibited
privately, for the first time, yesterday, by Dr.
Kahn, at his Mueum, in Coventry-street.
It consists of a Heteradelph, or double-bodied
boy. As its expression may not b ) t)
non-medical readers, in plain terms, the luaus
natural to which wa refer is a live male child just
six weeks old, from whose chest a second, or
parasitical body projects, more than half the size of
its natural per.on. The arms of the second body
are very slightly developed, but the trunk and
lower limbs are properly shaped. Whether the
child may possess the power of moving the second
body, it is not possible to conjecture. A very inte-
resting lecture by Dr. Kahn on the subject stated
that this peculiar kind of malformation had been
frequently met with in Europe, but never in a
child which had survived its birth. In China one
instance had occurred of a man who had a second
body, like the child exhibited, but the appended
body did not grow in proportion to the man's
years, and so, when he had arrived at manhood,
the appended body was still only that of an in ant.
Whether such will be the case with respect to the
English child, it is difficult to say, but the most
probable conjecture leads us to expect a similar
result.

The child exhibited yesterday seems to enjoy per-
fect health, and there is at present little prospect
of its not surviving. The parents of the infant are
perfectly healthy, and the present is their ninth
child. It is, of course, impo•isible to enter into
detail on this subject to general rt aders. It is
enough to state, thut scientifically this child must
prove more interesting to physiologists than the
Siamese twins, or any similar lusus• natures that
have been exhibited ; while to the public, who
love " to see some new thing," what novelty can
surpass a child with one head and two bodies?
Dr. Khan will accompany the exhibition of the
child, which begins on Monday next, by a lecture,
in which the scientific laws by which such strange
malformations can be accounted for, will be dis-
cussed, and the several theories of embryologists
explained.
We may mention that Dr. Kahn's Museum will
shortly be removed from its present rather incon-
venient locality to the more extensive exhibition.
rooms lately occupied by Mr. Gordon Cumming, at
the end of Piccadilly, next Coventry-street.

The Count de Paria and the Duke d'Aumale were in
the diplomatists' gallery daring the debate on Mr. Roe-
buck'. motion lAA night