The Sun.
London, England, 1845-12-08 00:00:00

ESCAPE FROM A TIGER.

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The following account of a narrow escape from a, tiger
is contained in a letter from a townsman of Macclesfield
to his parents. The position of the writer will be evident
from the language of the letter, which is dated " Camp,
near Deesa, September 17, 1845:—" On the 28th of July
I and three more of 'ray comrades made up a party to
get four days leave of absence to go to a place called
Palempo, the residence of a native Prince. It is about
thirty miles from Deesa. We got leave from the com-
manding officer, and hired tat Los, or horses, and bor-
rowed four fowling-pieces, as we were told there was
plenty of game,f pheasants, deer, pea-fowl, wild ducks,
boars, &c. The country is 'infested with robbers and
wild beasts. We started on the morning of the 29th of
July, about three o'clock, from Deese. We were not
dressed in our regimentals, but we had on white dresses,
being the coolest for the day time, with very large
hats with broad brims to keep the sun off our
faces. We had a mau to guide us on the way, it being
a very mountainous country, and jungles all about.
Just about daylight we had got about fourteen
miles, the guide had taken us a short cut across
a mountain, and our horses had hardly room to pass one
abreast, it being so very narrow. When we got nearly
to the top, we saw a tiger in the act of making a spring
at us. I cannot describe the fright I was in—for we
had all get our guns slung to our backs, and we coald
not get at them in time ; and as I was in the rear
about twenty) ards he made a spring at my horse, but
it turned on one side and he missed his mark, and
tumbled over the rock into a gulph below, on the
other side of the pass ; for there was a large ravine
just alongside, about 200 feet, and the tiger fell to the
bottom, my hat falling with him. As soon as I got
my senses, for I was nearly insensible with fright, I got
off my horse and saw the tiger deep below. I fired at
him, and I am sure I hit him, for be began to howl
most piteously, and go under a piece of rock, so that we
could not get at him, and it was too steep to go down. I
had lost my hat and I did not know what to do; for the
sun was very hot, and in the fright the guide had run
away and was nowhere to be found. I said it would be
best to go back, but the rest would not; so I put my
handkerchief round my head, and we went on till we
got to a native village, and then we got something to
eat and another guide, and I bought a turban of one of
the natives. I put it on my head, but it did not keep
the sun off my head like my hat. Nothing more oc-
curred to us on the road, and we got to Palempo that
night. We had plenty of sport at Palempo ; we
shot deer, wild ducks, pea-fowl, and two wild boars."
The result, however, was, that the writer was laid up
with fever from exposure to the sun, and had only just
recovered at the time the letter was written.—Mac•
clesfield Chronicle.

DRURY-LANE —The more we see of Mademoiselle
Flora Fabbri, the more we are convinced of her being one of,
and almost the first of, the eminent dancers who have visited
this country. That this opinion is partaken of by the public
at large two facts will testify—one of which is, that the ap-
plause attendant on her performance is beyond all precedent;
and thC other is, that the theatre is crammed every night she
makes her appearance. The success of Mr. Wallace's opera
of Maritana increases with every performance.
THE CITIZEN OF PRAGUE, EDITED EY MARY

Howrrr.—We understand that the new novel, entitled
" The Citizen of Prague," is likely to be considered the most
striking and attractive of any that Mrs. Howitt has yet intro-
duced to the notice of the English reader. The public are
certainly much indebted to this lady for the amusement and
instruction she has been the means of affording them. As
the Quarterly Review justly observes, " Among the divers
writers to whose skill we owe the acquisition of many pearls
of price, must be classed the translators of the present day.
Among the rest, the world owes much gratitude to Mary
Howitt. No language so closely resembles another, either
in vocabulary or construction, as not to require considerable
skill and judgment in rendering the sense as the author in-
tended it should be taken—without any appearance of con-
straint—any leaning to that patchwork style which forces
on the mind the fact that it is a translation we are reading.
That skill and that judgment Mary Howitt has shown."
DEPOSITS wx ill THE BOARD OF TRADE.—We are
requested to supply the following omissions to our list of de-
posits with the Board of Trade ;—Derbyshire, Staffordshire,
and Worcester Junction ; Direct East and West Junction ;
Leeds, Huddersfield, and South Staffordshire Junction ' •
Melton and Driffield Junction Railway ; Newcastle and Leeds
Direct Railway.
"A HAPPY COUPLE.—A few days since a man
named Wm. Pick, of Beck street, in a drunken quarrel with
his wife, was wounded on the temple and upper lip by his
better half,who assailed him with a heavy brass candlestick.
He was taken to the dispensary, where he is doing well.
Nttingohani Journal.
The importation of cattle from the Continent by
sailing-vessels does not appear to answer very well. While
the steamers have been making their passages regularly from
Hamburgh in two or three days, and landing their live stock
in good condition, a sailing-vessel has arrived here. after a
week's passage, having been compelled to throw overboard
seven out of seventeen of the cattle with which she had com-
menced her voyage. The whole seven had died from the
effects of the voyage.—Hull Advertiser.
The general order against smoking in the army
has occasioned a deep sensation in every mess-room in the
kingdom, and created such a panic in the cigar market, that
good cheroots were done at an unsuallyilio: figure, and
, and the
which Manillas were down at a penny,
ing threehalf-pence, with a fair sprinki g
are in despair, for
Ii of buyers, for the
last eight months. The cabbage growers
the young officers had been the chief consumers of the hardy
winter savoy, which must now be sold as food for the lower
classes, instead of being packed in ivory cases r mess
room tables, as the best llavannahs, imported direct from-
Havannali by the Hammersmith 'bus. As to the military
consider whether the officers shall coolly submit to allow the
Duke of Wellington to put all their pipes out. The Duke of
Wellington has blown a cloud over the whole of the army by
his inconsiderate endeavour to banish the cigar from the mess-
room. The officers naturally ask what they are to do when
they meet; for they are to be restrained from boxing, wrest-
ling, leap-frog, blind-man's-buff, as well as prohibited from
smoking. and they dread the possibility of being thrown
upon their conversational resources, which must have a most
dreary effect. Under their present trying position we can
offer no consolation to the inmates of the barracks, except
such as they may derive from taking it by turns to read
Punch aloud to the whole mess.—Punch.

BRISTOL SUGAR-MARKET, have still
a very dull sugar-market, and prices must be quoted rather
easier; the sales of this week do not exceed 500 hhds. West
India and a few iota of Bengals. Nothing doing in Mauritius,
(al the deinsaid for. rum is still limited. Mercury.