The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-05-26 00:00:00

ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS

The third gala of the season, at this picturesque resort,
took place yesterday evening: and if we may estimate the
succe.s from the attendance or from the unbounded satis-
faction evinced, the attractions have been more trium-
phant than those of any previous year. The weathtrt which
had been for some days showery, was fortunately propiti-
ous, and, from the number of pedestrians who thronged
the approximating thoroughfares, and the rattling of ve•
hicks, it was evident that the interest manifested was un-
usually great. On entering the gardens, every visitor
seemed struck with the order and recularity, they pie-
sented, and, though there are few flowers yet visible,
nature seems to have smiled on every plant, each variety,
displaying its peculiar and beautiful rich tint of green,'
and filling the air with perfumes. Amongst the improve,
ments first noticed i 3 the extension of the centrifugal rail,
way, which now runs round the parterre, forming a com-
plete circle, so tkat those who wish a turn in railways may
now be gratified; but, like most circuitous lines there ie
no end to ii, for the passengers are landed at the place
from which they originally ,carted. To the menagerie
several important additions have been made, amongst
which are enumerated four splendid lions, panther, tigers'
&c. ; and so successful has the keeper been in domes-
ticating many of them, that lions and leopards are not
only together in the same cage, but he often pays them a
visit, and while in the den, they obey him as a laitliftil
spaniel would its master, showing an almost incredible
docility. A very spacious concert room is erected near
the margin of the lake, and will be completed in about
ten days. It will be capable of containing about three
thousand persons. The refreshment rooms are under the:
management of Mr. FiA, of Castle-street (an excellent
caterer), End are supplied by Messrs. Bird mid Crank, of
I.6rd-street,' with their famed beverages.
For the lake representation it would be difficult to select
a piece of greater interest, (ant:cipating, as we do, the
visit of royalty,) or one cff-ring greater capabilities for
diversity of scenery or for illumination, than the metro
polls of Scotlsnd (luring Her Majesty's visit. Its site'
says Black, is admitted to• be unequalled in panoratelle,
splendour
.by any capital in Europe. Every prospect is el
siricu'ar beauty and grandeur—the noble •estuary of the
Forth expanding from river into ocean; the solitsr/
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beauty of "

_ , _ Arthur's Sear; the varied pa(IE and woodlanc
eery ; the pastoral a( c ivhies of the neilhhouriog hills'
the more shadowy snlentinnria of the extending vde°'

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form some featores of a landscape, combining in one Vas
expanse the richest elements of the beautiful and 1'

sublime--

"Traced like a map, the land-cape lies
In cultured beauty ,tretcliing wids

There nreun with its
There Arthur's Seat ; a
Thy son:herts wing, nuttenen b't
While in the Or'.ent, Lammer's
A eistant giant ranee seen—

ure tide

earring thrc ugh

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Cone of green,

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The general architecture visible is most imposing. ritf,
ther we regard the picturesque confusion of the old e"
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is the standard of rx.relience hater maintained, for if t