The Sun.
London, England, 1857-10-27 00:00:00

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Old Bank, Tonbridge, onbridge and Ton-
bridge Wells Old Bank, Tonbridge and Ton-
bridge Wells and Sevenoaks Bank, Ton-
bridge—T. H. and S. Beeching ............
Oxfordshire Witney Bank, Witney....4. w.
Clinch and Co. ................................. . 11,085
Pease's Old Bank, Hull, the Hull Old Bank
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Reading—Simonds and Co 30,154
Reading Bank, Reading—Stephens, Blandy,
and Co.
Richmond Bank, Richmond—Roper and Co 7,04z
Rochdale Bank, Rochdale—Clement, Royds,
and Co. 4,526
Rochester, Chatham, and Strood Bank, Roches-
ter—Day and Nicholson 8,562
Royston Bank, Royston—Fordham and Sons 13,885
Rugby Bank, Rugby—A. Butlin and Son 10,999
Rye Bank, Rye—R. C. Pomfret, & 11,883
Ross Old Bank, Heredfordshire, Rose
Allaway and Macdougal --
Saffron Walden and North Essex Bank, Saf-
fron Walden—Gibsons and Co.
Salop. Hank, Shrewsbury— Burton, Lloyd,
and Co.

13,047

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10,429

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E;;;()A PE OF A .2"" a iAr 7`C ,r,IFFE-11 16 WAY'

Yesterday afternoon, about one o'clock, as a
cattle-van was conveying from the London docks a
remarkably fine specimen of the Bengal tiger, re-
cently imported by Mr. Jamrach, the eminent na-
turalist, of the above neighbourhood, the latch or
lock of the door gave way, and the animal finding
itself at liberty, bounded into the road, to the in-
tense terror of the passers-by. For some distance
it proceeded rapidly up the carriage-way, in a
crouching position, until by a fetal chance it en-
counteied, at the corner of Betts street, a little
boy, aged 11 years, who stood gazing curiously at
the strange spectacle. Before the lad had time to
escape from the savage animal's path, it sprang
upon him, lacerating the back of his neck and head
in a frightful manner. In the meantime one of
Mr. Janirach's men, who had followed the beast in
its flight, had armed himself with a crowbar, with
which he struck repeated blows on the animal's
head to compel it to relinquish its grasp of the boy.
The last of these blows took effect, and so far
stunned the creature as to enable it to be secured ;
but we regret to say the bar, glancing from the
skull of the brute, inflicted a blow upon the head
of the already fearfully mangled little sufferer, who
was promptly removed to the London Hospital,
where he lies in a very precarious condition. But
slight hopes are entertained of his recovery.
We have received another account of the occur-
rence, as follows :—" Yesterday morning Mr. Jam-
rach received several boxes, containing two tigers,
a lion, and or her animals, from the steam ship Ger-
many, lying off Ilambro'-wh :rf, near the Custom-
house, Lower Thames-street, City. The packages
were safely placed in a van, and conveyed to the
warehouse in Betts-street, St George's-in-the-East,
where a number of labourers began to unload the
vehicle. They had removed several boxes into the
premises in safety, and had just lowered a large iron-
bound cage to thepavement in front of the gateway,
where Police-constable Stewart, 427 A, requested the
persons standing round to keep back from fear of
an accident. The next moment the occupant (a
fine full-sized tiger) became restless, and forced out
ono end of the cage, when the spectators rushed in
every direction from the spot in a state of extreme
terror. The tiger appeared to be in a state of mad-
neQs, and ran along the pavement in the direction
of iatcliff-highway, where it seized the little boy,
John Wade, by the upper part of the arm. The
enraged animal was followed by Mr. Jamrach and
his. men several yards, when the former obtained
possession of a crowbar and struck the tiger upon
the head and nose, which ciused it to relinquish its
hold. In the meanwhile ropes were procured, and
the savage beast was secured and dragged into the
premises, where it was firmly fastened up by the
keepers. The poor boy was raised up by Stewart,
the police-officer, in a state of great suffering, with
two severe lacerated wounds in the arm and right
side of the face, and it was quite a miracle he was
t tarn to pieces. The teeth of the animal passed
completely through the right aria. A cab was pro-
cured, in which the wounded boy was conveyed to
the London Hospiltal, where Mr. Forbes, the
house surgeon, rendered every assistance. The buy
was in a very low state from loss of blood from the
wounds, and last evening, at 7 o'clock, he was in
very precarious condition, both from the injuries
and shock to the system through fright. At the
time of the escape of the animal the tradespeople in
the neighbourhood closed their shops, and remained
in a state of fear and anxiety for nearly half-au-
hour afterwards."