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

the 16th of April, with a miscellaneous cargo ; the crew
comprising the master, mate and five seamen. On the
night of the 21st, five days after she had left Liverpool, a
three-masted vessel was observed bearing down upon her.
The crew attempted to get clear, but in a few moments
the vessels came in contact with frightful force, the bows
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side of the schooner, which, filling almost immediately,
foundered in sixty fathoms water. Two of the crew of
the Albatross, who were on deck, succeeded in saving them-
selves by laying hold of the rigging of the ship, and were
preserved. The other poor fellows, however, who were in

to be a Spanish ship called the Nonpareil, bound for Port-
au-Prince, in the island of St. Domingo. She' conveyed
the two survivors to that place, and their distressed con-
dition being relieved, arrangements were made for their
safe return to England.
On W^A--

Wednesday last, the foundation stone of a new re-

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brated by a large party of the friends of the owner, Mr.
Clarke, of Church-street, who were provided with a most
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erected for the purpose. The stone was laid by Mr. J.
Quick, who made it the occasion of giving a retrospective
description of the progress in importance of Liverpool

like energies, enterprise, and generosity of its intended
resident. On the conclusion of the ceremony, the com-
pany adjourned to a repast provided, and after doing full
justice to the viads, partook of the excellent and various
wines, while each toast was so happily relieved by a short
reply, a merry song, or the enlivening notes of the at-
tendant band, that the hilarity prevailing so drove the
thought of time away, that it was not till darkness was
drawing nigh, that birth was given to the thought of se-
paration, which was consummated only in the hope that
the day was not far distant when they might again meet
under the auspices of Mr. Clarke, to celebrate a similar
event.

TEMERITY PUNISHED.—We have frequently been much
annoyed by silly people at the Zoological Gardens, who,
taking advantage of the absence of the keepers, tease the
poor imprisoned animals by various tricks and annoyances.

Some will puff the fumes of their cigars at the caged owls
and falcons, others insult the poor imprisoned eagles by
casting handfuls of soil over them. while not a few in_

dulge in the cowardly pastime of poking their sticks into
the ribs of the larger carnivori, which they know to be
prevented from resenting the injury by the intervening
iron bars. Some fool-hardy individuals will even put
their hands in between the irons, a most dangerous
experiment for those who do not know the tempers of
the respective animals ; for while some (of the leopards
for instance,) are so quiet that they woo the fondling
hand with all the happy solicitude of a domestic cat,
others are so fierce that they would tear an arm to the

bone in an instant. On Tuesday last a strange gentleman
took to teasing one of the lions with his stick, till he ex-
asperated the animal beyond measure. The lordly beast
at length seized the stick and broke it instantly to pieces.
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 rescue it by driv-
ing the animal off, it was severely lacerated. It is erro-
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,
we should think, resist the efforts of an elephant to break
them. Not one of the bars was in the slightest degree
injured ; such an accident could not happen.

ACCIDENTS ON THE RIVER.—On Tuesday morning an
accident of a very serious, and, we regret to add, of a fatal
character, occurred on the river. At eight o'clock, a
Prussian barque of moderate size, named the Edouard,
was what is called " dodging " up the river under her top-
sails, waiting for sufficient water to dock and discharge the
cargo, some say of timber, others of corn, with which she
was heavily laden from Danzig. When she got abreast of
the Brunswick Dock Pier, she struck on a " spit " or
bank, which has for years been known to form there at this
season, and which runs out a considerable distance into
the river in the direction of Rock Ferry. She immedi-
ately capsized. Her keel was visible from the shore, and
it is supposed that the yards, which struck right down-
wards, prevented her from rolling completely over. Three
of the hands, consisting of the mate, carpenter, and a sea-
man, the latter of whom was lying sick in the forecastle,
were instantly drowned ; and the wonder seems to he how
every soul on board did not perish with them. Fortu-
nately, however, the rest of the crew contrived to lay hold
of some of the ropes, and to hold themselves up until
they were able to clamber up the side of the hull that was
out of the water, where they remained until a couple of
tug-steamers put off, and took the whole of them, ten in
number, on board. The Edouard remained on the bank
until the tide rose, and she was drifted about four
miles up the river to a bank c„..ffied the Snuff Mill Bank,
where she at present lies. The name of her captain is
Kranse. There was a pilot on boar.
1 at the time of the
accident, and he was ignorant of the existence of the
newly-formed bank off the Brnnswick Pie:. or he never
would have taken the vessel near it, and in .such
shoal
water. Two other accidents occurred on the rive:. _
vessel broke her back in front of the Coburg Dock, ,an,d.
the Fingal from Quebec, while attempting to dock, toofr,•
the ground, and when she came off on the flood she was
'flaking much water.