The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-08-17 00:00:00

Mr. Samue

andbach, Es

forming a total" of £l2

gratified with their afternoon and
A SenooNEß RUN DOWN.—L
announcing a fearful collision at
tross, belonging_to Plymouth, wa
crew sacrificed. The vessel left
the 16th of April, with a miscell
comprising the master, mate an
night of the 21st, five days after
three-masted vessel was observed
The crew attempted to get des
the vessels came in contact with
of the large ship carrying away
side of the schooner, which, f'
foundered in sixty fatho
the Albatross, who were on deck, s
selves by laying hold of the rig
preserved. The other poor fell(
their births, it is supposed,
vessel which came in conta

au-Prince, in the island of St. Domingo. She
the two survivors to that place, and their distr
dition being relieved, arrangements were mad
safe return to England.
On Wednesday last, the foundation stone of
sidence, called Blonde Villa, was laid at the
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and rising village of Litherland. The occasior
brated by a large party of the friends of the of
Clarke, of Church-street, who were provided w
sumptuous and excellent dejeuner, in a tempo
erected for the purpose. The stone was laid

Quick, who made it the occasion of givir
description of the progress in importm
and its environs, and of justifiably laud
like energies, enterprise, and generosit:
resident. On the conclusion of the cen
pany adjourned to a repast provided, ant
justice to the vials, partook of the exc(

e for ti

wines, while each toast was so happily relieved by a shoe
reply, a merry song, or the enlivening notes of the al
tendant band, that the hilarity prevailing so drove t 1
thought of time away, that it was not till darkness wl
drawing nigh, that birth was given to the thought of s 4
partition, which was consummated only in the hope th,
the day was not far distant when they might again me
under the auspices of Mr. Clarke, to celebrate a simil

event.
TEM ERITY

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annoyed by silly people at
taking advantage of the absence of the keep
poor imprisoned animals by various tricks and an
Some will puff the fumes of their cigars at the c
and falcons, others insult the poor imprisoned __
casting handfuls of soil over them, while not a

Bulge in the cowardly pastime of poking
the ribs of the larger carnivori, which they know to

•evented from res-e

1- will even I
rc

iron bars. Some fool-hardy indiviu,
their hands in between the irons, a most d
experiment for those who do not know the to
the respective animals ; for while some (of the
for instance,) are so quiet that they woo the
hand with all the happy solicitude of a dome
others are so fierce that they would tear an ar:

cli, till -he
le lordly hi

3one in an instant. Un Tuesday
took to teasing one of the lions with his st
asperated the animal beyond measure. T
at length seized the stick and broke it instant
It is supposed that the man put his hand within the bars
to recover his stick ; be that as it may, the hand was seized
.
by the lion, and before the keeper could re
f I ing the animal off, it was severely lacera

le it by driv-

neously stated by one of our contemporaries that the bars
of the cage were broken. Any person who will examine
the bars will at once perceive the impossibility of such an
accident. The bars are of prodigious strength, and would,

them. Not one of the bars was in the slig
injured ; such an accident could not happen:

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