The Sun.
London, England, 1868-03-24 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 24, 1868.

THE MORTON TESTIMONIAL.

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CONTRACTS FOR NORWAY SPARS.
Contract Department, Admiralty, Somerset
House, March 20, 1868,
THE COMMISSIONERS for EXECUTING
the OFFICE of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of the
UNITED KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRE-
LAND do hereby give Notice, that on TUESDAY, the
14th April next, at Two o'clock, they will be ready to trea
with such Persons as may be willing to CONTRACT for
supplying and delivering into Store, at her Majosty's
several Dockyard;
10,950 NORWAY SPARS,

by the 31st December, 1868.
The Spars (except such as may be rejected) to be
exempted from the payment of Customs duties.
A Distribution of the Spars, and the Form of the Tender
and Conditions of Contract, may be seen in the Lobby of
the Storekeeper-General's Department, Admiralty, Somer-
set House.
No Tender will be received after Two o'clock on the
day of treaty, nor will any be noticed unless the party
attends, or an agent for him duly authorised in writing.
Every Tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the
Admiralty, and bear in the left-hand corner the words
" "Tender for Norway Spars," and must also be delivered at
the Department of the Storekeeper-General, Admiralty,
Somerset House, accompanied by a letter signed by two
responsible persons, engaging to become bound with the
person tendering in the sum of £25 per coat. on the value
for the due performance of the Contract.
By order,
ANTONIO BRADY,
Registrar of Contracts and Public Securities.

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BETTS'S CAPSULES.—Mr. BETTS, of No. 1,
Wharf-road, City-road, desires to give public no-
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(see Times of the 10th inst.) do nit in any way affect any
person using any Capsules made by Mr. Betts, and bear-
ing his name, or name and address, all of which may be
used without risk or question.—Feb. 15, 1868.

Ti/f R. HOWARD, SURGEON-DENTIST, 52,
.171 Fleet-street, has introduced an entirely now de-
scription of ARTIFICIAL TEETH, fixed without
springs, wires, or ligatures. They so perfectly resemble
the natural teeth as not to be distinguished from the ori-
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would meet with from the crowd beneath. A ladder was
hastily raised, and a kind-hearted fireman ran up with a
noose to throw over Bruin's head, but the suspicious beast
dexterously fended the rope off, and turtle back into the
.
smoking ruins. He was of course given up
1
a‘..; lost; but
imagine the surprise and astonishment of the pellet.; fire-
men, and citizens who were on the ground on Wednesdai
to see the bear come leisurely out of the main entrance
and amble down Broadway. Arriving at Spring-street,
Bruin hesitated, seemed uncertain where to turn, but pre-;
sently making up his mind that he belonged properly on
the "East-side," he made down Spring-street towards the
Bowery. He was captured after an exciting chase in a
stable on Marion-street. The good fortune of this sala-
mander bear is only to be explained on the theory that
getting on the platform where the baud played in the
afternoons, the water from the engines drenched him and
then froze over his fur, protecting him by a mail of ice
from the heat of the fire.
The collection of animals belonging to Messrs. Barnum
and Van Amburgh was held at a large price, $lOO,OOO
having been refused from the city of Boston. The pair
of tigers, said to be the finest in the country, were valued
at $15,000. The giraffe was valued at $20,000, In addi-
tion, a large expense had been incurred in the getting up
of a costly and laboured spectacular piece, which was
shortly to have been produced. The Gordon Cumming's
collection was entirely destroyed. Mr. Barnum has the
sympathy of the public in his overwhelming misfortune,
but, like India-rubber, the harder P. T. is hit the higher
ho bounces, and we expect to shortly see the unquench-
able showman in a grand and gorgeous Museum, which
will take rank among the great institutions on the earth.
The prime cause of the total destruction of the Museum
and its contents was that the hydrants on the street were
frozen. For some time no water -could be obtained. When
the streams were got on, no band of beavers could have
worked more industriously than our gallant firemen, but
the Old Curiosity Shop was doomed. Among the animals
saved besides the Fat Lady, the Giantess, and the beauti-
ful Circassian, whom we have mentioned above, were the
dwarfs General Grant and Sir William Wallace, between
whom a bitter rivalry exists ; one giraffe (since dead), one
zebra (held " sacred " by Barnum, but nobody else); one
baby elephant (very sick yet from excitement and smoke),
three llamas, one four-horned ram, one Hindostan goat,
two pelicans, one Bengal tiger (who was kindly allowed
an uninterrupted passage by the crowd), one moose, two
camels (who got their backs up because they were hurried
out), two Japanese hogs saved their bacon, one Persian
sheep, three kangaroos, two silver pheasants, three fretful
porcupines, one wambat. Among the animals destroyed
were many of the most rare and costly beasts, including
four lion cubs, four leopards, two hyenas (the " Violators
of the Tomb "), one white bear, two lynx, four porcupines,
two large lions, two black bears, one ibex, one Brazilian
tiger, four kangaroos. The Learned Seal, which was
&bout the only animal that escaped from the old Museum
fire on the 13th of July, 1863, was boiled this time beyond
recognition by his most intimate friend. Two white
peacocks and all the birds on the upper floor perished.
The beautiful Circassian lost about one thousand dollars in
wardrobe and jewellery. Miss Anna Swan, the giantess;
had her diamonds and money, to the value of three
thousand six hundred dollars, in her hand when she at-
tempted to rush unaided through the flames; but, being
kindly assisted by the surrounding crowd, she was re-
lieved of all anxiety and her property by their kind atten-
tion. Mrs. G. C. Howard, who was playing Topsy, lost her
wardrobe. The proprietor of the shooting-gallery lost
everything—about two thousand dollars in all ; the glass-
blowers were also bankrupted. The property was held
by the Barnum and Van Amburgh Museum Association,
Mr. Barnum owning forty per cent. of the •s'ock. The
company had just bought the Museum building for the sum
of one hundred and sixty-five thousand dollars. Insured
for sixty-two thousand dollars in city companies.
Mr. Phoenix T. Barnum promptly published the follow
big card after the fire, which disaster he bora with his
usual philosophy and good humour :
" Mr. Editor,—The loss of the Barnum and Van Am-
burgh Museum and Menagerie Company is as follows :
Contents of Museum cost over $400,000. It was insured
for about one-third of its value. The building was in-
sured for $62,000.

"We shall not build on the present site, but the six lots
on which the Museum stood are for sale-75 on Broadway,
and on Mercer 200 feet deep.—Yours,

"P. T. BAR:cum."

—Wilkes's Spirit of the Times.