The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-09-16 00:00:00

THE FLUID EXTRACT OF SARSAPARILLA

In this preparation are concentrated all the Medicinal Pro-
perties of Sarsaparilla Root. ' To persons, therefore, who,
from various causes, would experience great inconvenience.
or with whom it would be utterly impossible to prepare the
Compound Decoction, the Fluid Extract, which possesses
the advantages of portability and of keeping in any climate,
will be found a most desirable mode of employing this mach
esteemed Medicine.

Two teaspoonsful of the Fluid Extract, put into a wine-
glass full of water, makes a preparation equal in strength to
half a pint of the Compound Decoction, formerly prescribed
by the London, Edinburgh. and Dublin Pharmacopoeias.
The diseases in which it has proved most beneficial are
those of the Skin ; such as Scorbutic Affections, Eruptive
Diseases, Secondary Symptoms. &c., arising from a diseased
state of the system at large. For removing Blotches, Pim-
ples, Sze. from the Face, this Medicine has no superior.
The extensive use and high reputation of this preparation
has led to numerous imitations, disguised by the name of
Syrup, Essences, &c. The whole medicinal virtues of the
Sarsaparilla consist in its extractive matter, and it possesses
no real property in the form of essence, while the Syrup is
injurious to the digestive organs by causing acid fermentation.

VEGETABLE HAIR OIL
Is allowed to be an excellent discovery for invigorating and
renovating the human Hair. It eradicates the Scurf, nou-
rishes the Hair, prevents its falling off, produces a most beau-
tiful natural curl, and gives to artificial Hair a peculiar soft-
ness of texture and luxuriant appearance. Sold in Bottles
at ls. 3d. and 3s. each.

VEGETABLE TOOTH POWDER.
A pleasant Tonic Tooth Powder, which simply removes all
tartarous incrustations from the enamel ; and by its peculiar
properties preserves that necessary covering.—Sold in Boxes,
2s. 6d.

PRIESTLEY'S FURNITURE PASTE.
For Cleaning and Polishing Furniture without labour or
trouble. This paste is used for cleaning and polishing every
description of furniture, whatever preparation may have been
previously used for that purpose , it adds a high lustre to
French polish.—Sold in Pots at ls. each, or 3 pots for 2s. 6d.

FURNITURE OIL,
Half-pint Bottles Is .' Pint Bottles s. 9d.. Quart Bottles 3s
GENUINE METALLIC LUSTRE. ,
This article is recommended to Housekeepers for cleaning
all manner of Gold and Silver Plate, Metal Teapots, Pewter
Measures, Brass Fenders, Candlesticks, Stair Rods, Brass
Plates on Doors, Tin Covers, &c. &c.: with half the usual
labour which is generally required with other preparations
the above Lustre leaves a beautiful polish on the Metal. It
will also be found useful in the Stable department, for clean-
ing Brass-mounted Carriage, Gig, or Coach Harness.—Sold
in Squares at 6d. and ls. each.

ESSENTIAL SALT OF LEMONS.
For taking Iron Moulds, Ink Spots, and other Stains, out
of Linen, Muslin, Lace, &c., and for many other useful pur-
poses.—Price ls. per Box, or three Boxes for 2s. 6d.
MUCH ADMIRED ALMOND FLAVOUR.
A few drops of this Flavour added to Custards, Puddings,
Cakes, Wines; Jellies, &c., communicate a most•delicious
taste of Almonds.—Sold in Bottles, with Directions, ls. 6d.
and 3s.
CONCENTRATED ESSENCE OF JAMAICA GINGER
A teaspoonful may be taken for a dose three times a day
in any liquid.
NEWLY INVENTED CRYSTALLINE OIL.
This is a limpid Vegetable Oil, consolidated by a peculiar
process, and really is one of the best Preparations ever made
for nourishing and beautifying the Bair, and keeping it in

curl.
Physicians' and Surgeons' Prescriptions carefully prepared.
Medicine Chests fitted up for sea. Genuine Drugs and
Chemicals.
An order from persons residing in the country for any of
the above preparations, with a remittance or post-office or-
der, will meet with immediate attention

PRICE FIVEPENCE.

LIVERPOOL ANNUAL EXHIBITION.
?THE EXHIBITION of the LIVERPOOL ACADEMY
of WORKS of MODERN ARTIATS will OPEN on
MONDAY next, the 12th instant,pywelve o'clock, at the
ffi
Exhibition Rooms, Old Postoce- ce, Church street.
Admission Is., Catalogue Is., Season Ticket ss.
JAES T. EGLINGTON,
Secretary to the Academy of Arts.

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ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.
THIS Popular and pre-eminently attractive Resort is
OPEN Daily, front Seven A.M. till Dusk.

„..
By particulai (Friday,) and
on MONDAY next. the ROMAN FESTA ; at'Dusk, the
GRAND ILLUMINATION OF ST. PETpit'S ; after
which, the Friday's Exhibitions will be Discontinued.
This inconceivably magnificent Spectaore is succeeded
by the Pyrotechnic Wonders of the GANDOLA OF
ST. ANGELO, with all its splendid` incidents, termi-
nating with the Gorgeous Cascade of Brilliant Fire, and
Tremendous Flights of Rockets.
The Grand Musical Promenade at Five o'clock.
Fire Works of St. Angelo to commence precisely at Half-
past Seven o'clock.

The famous performing Elephant RAJAH will promenade
the Garden, drawing a splendidly decorated Car, with the
attendants in the full Eastern Costume, during the Afternoon.
To enliven the Evening's Promenade, Mr. STUBBS'
ROYAL HARMONIC BAND will Perform a favourite
Selection of Music.

The Gardens are Illuminated with beautiful tripod Gas
Lamps.

ADMITTANCE, ONE SHILLING.

I - LIVER THEATRE,- CHURIM-STREET.
POSITIVELY THE LAST WEEK. ~-
PHE Public of Liverpool are respectfully informgd, that,
1 in consequence of arrangements having bacn,niade for
Ite,e
the removal of the CENTRIFUGAL RAILW A', its ex-
hibition, in the above popular place of resort ust POSI-
TIVELY CLOSE on SATURDAY, the 2 instant. The
Proprietor is happy to announce that he hastat considerable
expense, retained, previous to their final departure for the
Continent, the celebrated SEVEN ORIGINAL LANCA-
SHIRE BELL-RINGERS, and Mr. H. JOHNSON, the
talented VIOLINIST, who still continues to elicit the
wannest and most cordial acclamations from crowded and
admiring audiences. The scientific portion of the exhibition
comprises OXY-HYDROGEN and BUDE LIGHTS,
BLOWPIPE, FUSION of METALS, &c.
There will be two grand Fashionable Nights during the
week, Wednesday and Friday, of which particulars will be
given in future bills.

The Performance will commence in the Evening at Half-past
Seven and Nine o'clock. For the convenience of Parties who
cannot attend at the aforesaid times of exhibition, the Rail-
way alone will be exhibited throughout the day.
Admission—Boxes, Is. ; Pit, Gd. ; Gallery, 3d. ; Schools
admitted at Half Price.

HARMONIC MEETING EVERY EVENIN,G.
RICK'S COFFEE HOUSE,
WILLIAMSON-SQUARE.
TT NEWTON informs his Friends and numerous Visi-
Li • tors he has completed a comfortable, commodious, and
highly-decorated SA LOON, which he has NOW OPENED
for the purpose of affording a MUSICALATIIE'AT, consisting
of Glees, Solos, &c., in the London style'; with Piano-forte
accompaniments ; and hopes, by keepingthe company strictly
select, introducing a succession of novelty, good cheer, and
every attention to the comforts of his guests, to secure a
remunerating patronage.

SI3I4EDS, CHOPS, STEAKS, KIDNEYS, &C,
Wines and Spirits of the best quality.

TUITION ON THE GUITAR/
A/FR. WITHYCOIVI BE begs to announce tplhe Nobility,
-IA-1- Gentry, and his Friends, of Liverpoql,A that he conti-
nues to give INSTRUCTION on the above fashionable
Instrument, at his Residence, 28, JUVENAL-STREET.
Schools and Private Pupils attended.

LADIES' AND GENTLEMEN'S
PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SEA-WATER BATHS,

GEORGE'S PIER, LIVERPOOL.
. PENN,
: in returning thanks for the kind support
VI RS
she has received, hopes, by strict atNention to the
comforts and convenience of Visitors, to mer a continuance
of their patronage. I

TERMS FOR BATHIIit

COLD BATH. 1
Subscribers for Six Months to the Public Bath... £1 10s. Od
Children under Twelve years of age
Non subscribers, for each time of Bathing .. ... 0 1 0
Detached Private
Shower .
Children under Twelve years of age 0 0 6

WARM BATH.-NO SUI3SCRIPTION.
Warm, Medicated Vapour, or Tepid Baths..... 0 2 6
Plunge Tepid Bath, with Douche, or Invalid Chair 0 3 0
Warm Shower..
Ladies and Gentlemen Subscribing are particularly
requested to Register their Names.
Bathing Hours from Six in the Morning to Nine in the

Evenin

London and Liverpool Daily Papers for the accommodation

of Visitors to the Warm Baths

UNRIVALLED DISTRIBUTION !-8,200 MONEY
DIVIDENDS will be divided in November next,
MIENT tinalFsll.O3rai-iiilless the GRAND DUKE of
BADEN.

1 Dividend 50,000 Florins .
1 do. 25,000 do. .
1 do. 12,000 do. .
1 do. 10,000 do. .
1 do. 5,000 do.
8 do. 1,000 do. .
10 do. 500 do. .
10 do. 200 do. .
200 do. 110 do. .
200 do. 105 do. .
467 do. 100 do.
300 do. 94 do. .

r 40,000 Florins

X 25,000 do.
12,000 do.
10,000 do.
5,000 do.

8,000 do

5,000 do

2,000 do

22,000 do
21,000 do
46,700 do
686,299 do

8,200 Money Dividends, amounting to 892,900 Florins,
or £74,400 Sterling Money.
8,200 SELECTED Bonds, EACH of which obtains
ONE of the above Dividends.
Largest Dividend £4,166 13 4
Smallest Dividend 7 16 8
12 florins equal to £1 sterling, a trifle more or less, as per
the day's exchange. All the Dividends payable without any
deduction whatever.
Direct for the few Bonds which are still on sale, WITH-
OUT DELAY, to
THINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH.
Bonds are on sale now at £l3. AFTER 30th Instant,
if not earlier, A HIGHER RATE WILL BE ESTA-
BLISHED, should the stock not suffice for the orders.
Those, who remit £l5 BEFORE A RISE IN PRICE
WILL HAVE BEEN ESTABLISHED, will receive an
order for the surplus of £2, together with a warranted
SELECTED Bond. To those whose order reaches us too
late for being attended to their remittances, will be returned
by first post. H EINE BROTHERS.
Hamburgh, Ist Septembrr, 1842.

BY SPECIAL APPOINTMENT

TO HER MAJESTY AND THE ROYAL FAMILY.
CHWEPPE'S SODA and POTASS WATERS, and
IJ tERATED LEMONADE. The continued preference
of the Public for the above preparations, celebrated for their
superior quality throughout the last half century, calls for
the respectful acknowledgments of the Manufacturers, who
beg leave particularly to CAUTION their Friends and Cus-
tomers in general against an imposition continually practised
by unprincipled persons filling SCHWEPPE'S bottles with a
spurious composition, and passing it off as SCHWEPPE'S
manufacture. The imitations contain no alkali, and are alto-
gether destitute of those medical qualities which have contri-
buted so materially to establish the credit of the former, and
to secure for it the approbation of the Faculty.
None are genuine without a label, representing the ;lame
of their Firm.

J. S. and Co. are continually receiving, from their Agent
at the Springs, fresh supplies of German Seltzer Water, of
which they are the largest importers.
Export Orders manufactured especial g for Warm Climates.
The following are their Agents f Liverpool and Neigh-
bourhood :—T. Nixon, jun., J. De e, 1L Lathbury, Castle-
street ; J. Priestley, Evans, Sons, and Co., Lord-street ; T.
Thompson and Son, J. H. and S. Johnson, Wm. Ramie,
Church-street; Mann and Crosthwaite, Win. Lloyd, J. Hiles,
Parker-street; J. Woodville, R. Clay, Hope and Wheeler,
"Wald-street ; Wrn. Procter, Ranelagh-street ; Wm. Jones,
Berry-street; G. Wood, Pitt-street; G. Aspinall, G. Web-
ster, St. James's-street; Wm. Wagstaff, W. Bromley, Great
George-place; Thos. Hogarth, M. Redhead, Great George-
street ; F. B. Sykes, Upper Parliament-street ; G. Balder,
ston, Mill-street ; J. M. Syers, Park-road ; E. Pearson,
Fair View, Aigburth ; G. H. Howell, Dale-street ; James
Gerrard, Oldhall-street ; E. Bradford, Old Haymarket; D.
Scholefield, Queen-square ; Jas. Owen, E. Tiernan, S. Ball,
London-road ; W. W. King, William Henry-street, Soho-
street; James Fergie, Brunswick-road; E. Tiernan, Everton ;
Joseph Ball, West Derby-street ; James Pendlebury, R.
Price, Brownlow-hill ; C. W. Shaw, Russell-street ; E-
Bradford, T. Titherington, Oxford-street; S. Maskery, West
Derby ; G. Dare, Seacombe ; John Eastwood, W. Higgins.
Birkenhead; R. Smith, Woodside G. Wainwright, Wa-
terloo.

The failure of Mr. Richard Roberts, a cotton dealer in
Manchester, and one of the directors of the bank of Man-
chester, is announced to-day by the letters from that town.
The full extent of the liabilities of the concern is not stated,
but as the bank in which he was a director appears to have
been favoured with his custom to such an amount as upon
balance now to leave it creditor for as mentioned, no less
than £66,000, it may be presumed to be a heavy concern
altogether. The bank of Manchester seems to have had an
extraordinary run of business--amongst its own directors, at
least—for reports were current some time ago that one or
more other directors besides Mr. Roberts and Mr. Heron
were on the books for very large sums, which they had obliged
the bank by borrowing upon bills discounted or on loan. It
is asserted that, in respect of the "indebtedness" of Mr.
Richard Roberts, the bank holds collateral securities which
will cover one half of the loss, but this is a fact which remains
to be proved, and if proved would be a piece of good fortune
to which it has been little accustomed. It is difficult to
understand what could be the pretensions of a tradesman
of standing so moderate and of capital in his best dal s
so comparatively limited as Mr. Richard Roberts to .a
credit at the bank of about £lOO,OOO, for at one time
it is stated that such was the balance against him for ad-
vances. This failure with the enormous bank bad debts
accompanying it, may be accepted as additional evidence, if
any could indeed be wanting, of the vicious system of trade
pursued in Manchester during the ten years preceding 1840,
which corresponds with tolerable exactness to the first creation
of joint-stock and subsequent inordinate extension
all comers
e banks.rswith
The facilities of credit and money openedotoatl c
such magnificent prodigality under the brilliant though not
long-lived reign of the new banking system, naturally led to
the prevalence of overtrading and speculation in a ratio pro-
portionally extravagant, as the proofs have been since, and
are still, in existence in the shape of countless new factories
erected, filled with machinery and now at a stand-still, un
fortunate operatives out of work by tens of thousands. and
finally in the Gazette teeming with bankrupt traders and
speculators. Mr. Richard Roberts was original!?
a dealer in
raw cotton, and perhaps is so still, although it may be in-
ferred from his large deficit with the bank, that he must have
been engaged in other branches of trade or speculation also,
for the means of carrying on which his position as a director
and his credit at the bank afforded him every possible ad-
vantage, so far as an unlimited command of money.—Morn-
ing Herald of Thursday.

DANGER OF INCONSIDERATE OFFERS.--A gentleman in
this county, who was much annoyed by wasps, rather thought-
lessly offered a shilling for every wasp's nest which should be
brought to him. All hands in the neighbourhood immedi-
ately set to work, and the unlucky gentleman had to pay
nearly forty pounds, there being nearly eight hundred nests
brought to him.—Derbyshire Courier.
DEATH OF JUDGE BRADY, OF NEW YORK.—We Ob-
serve, from The New York Truth-Teller of the 30th July,
an announcement of the death of Judge Brady, which event
took place in that city Gn the 29th of the same month. Mr.
Brady was a native of Ireland. On emigrating from Cavan,
many years ago, he opened a classical school in New York,
and was, in some time afterwards, chosen an alderman, after
having been previously called to the bar, and finally was
elevated to a seat on the American bench.
The Gazelle de Picardie says that the heat was so excessive
lately in that part of France that a young girl at work with
her father in the fields fell dead, from being exposed to the
rays of the sun. She had suddenly stopped working, and
exclaimed that she could not continue any longer without
getting some water to quench her thirst. The father, how-
ever, advised her to wait, observing that they could return
home in a short time together. She consented, and he con -
tinued his work. Suddenly he heard her fall,
and, running
to take her up, he found that life had departed.
EXERCISE.—Mr. Curtis, in his work on the simplicity of
living, strongly recommends exercise in the open air, and
states that it is not only conducive to the preservation of
health, but it is in many case the most efficacious means of
benefitting those whose health has become impaired by ne-
glect of the natural laws. He strongly urges the necessity of
lessening the hours of indoor employment, and observes that
the proposal for shortening the hours of business, now so ge-
nerally supported in London and other towns, is one the
adoption of which would prove highly beneficial to the health
of a very large class of the community, and would not, he
thinks, be any detriment to trade; and further recommends
that the banking houses be closed at four o'clock, instead of
five, adding, as a precedent, that all the banks in Dublin are
closed at three.
MONTE VlDEO.—Letters from Monte Video to the mid-
dle of July have been received, and announce the fact of the
conclusion of a treaty of commerce there with this country,
signed by Mr. Mandeville, the resident British minister at
Buenos Ayres. It will be remembered that the intelligence
of the conclusion of a similar treaty with Monte Video, signed
at the Foreign-office here by Senor Ellanry the representative
of that republic, was communicated several days since. The
following is a copy of the letter in which Mr. Mandeville an-
nounces to the British,mercemile community in the !Vete_
Plate the fact of the signature of the treaty.
" Monte Video, uly 15.
" Gentlemen,—ln the month of December last you de-
livered to me a memorial signed by the British merchants and
residents at Monte Video, expressing a hope that on the oc-
casion of my visit to this city the amicable relations between
her Majesty's Government and the republic of the Uruguay
might be more firmly cemented and protected by the conclu-
sion of a treaty of amity and commerce:
" I have the satisfaction to acquaint you that yesterday
evening I concluded and signed a treaty of amity, commerce,
and navigation on the part of her Majesty with the republic.
" I have the honour to be, &c.

" To Messrs. —, Sze.'
A Dwa IIF. —Thursday a little old woman, whose Lilliputi-
an proportions had excited the open-mouthed astonishment
of a number of juveniles in Gallowgate, and who felt herself
seriously incommoded by their impudent attentions, applied
to the police for protection. So far from the presence of the
officers, however, serving to disperse the gazers, it had quite
an opposite effect. They crowded, coushed and jostled each
other with such vigour, that by the time the dwarf had reached
Nelson-street, the passage was nearly blocked up, and on
reaching the office, the gates had to be closed to prevent their
ingress. The little woman, however, at last arrived in safety,
out of breath, and looking almost as much surprised, as those
who were so anxious to behold her. She described herself
as a native of Wales, and about 57 years of age. Her fea-
tures were dark, but animated and expressive ; her figure
squat, but pretty well shaped. She might be about 21 feet in
height, and was rather an interesting dwarf. Of course she
obtained lodgings for the night, and early on Eriday morning
took her departure. It would seem that she had made her
escape from some travelling exhibition, the proprietors. of
which are, no doubt, by this time sorrowing for their loss.
On her way up the Gallowgate, it appears that she had gone
into several public-houses, inquiring for company, and that
in several instances, by exhibiting herself, she obtained a few
halfpence.—Glasgow Argus.
Lord George William Loftus, now a prisoner in the Fleet,
applied a few days ago to the magistrates of Guildhall for a
peace warrant against Major Willan, and a gentleman named
Tolfrey, both also in the Fleet. Lord Loftus stated in his
application, that on the 13th inst. he answered a knock at his
door, when he saw Tolfrey, who said to him, " I'll settle with
you." The same person came on the second visit; Major
Willan was with him, and they both used the same phraze that
Tolfrey used before, viz., " I'll settle with you." His lordship
states that he considers these expressions to be threats against
his life, and he told the intruders that he should appeal to
the higher powers. The major then said, "If you refer the
matter to a magistrate I'll cane you ;" and Tolfrey said, " If
you do I'll post you." Upon these and other representations,
Mr. Roe, the officer, was sent to the prison to make enquiry
whether it was a case which required the intervention of a
magistrate. The result was that on Friday afternoon Sir G.
Carroll and Mr. Payne went to the Fleet to hear a viva voce
statement. His lordship repeated the same threats which
he had communicated by letter to the justice-room, and
declared that he was appehensive of personal violence. Major
Willan, in answer to a question from Sir George Carroll,
said, " That by the words I'll settle with you," he alluded
to a sum of money which his lordship owed him. After a
lengthened inquiry, Sir G. Carroll said, that as Lord Loftus
had sworn that he was in personal fear, he should order the
warrant to be lodged at the warden's office against Major
Willan.—Observer.

"J• H• MANDEVILLI

A NEW MODE OF RAISING THE WIND.—The following.
humorous and extraordinary anecdote, illustrative of the de-
grading extent to which even Lords and M.P.'s will some-
times go to achieve pecuniary ends, is daily furnishing con-
versational food for the gossips at the west-end :—Some
short time since a scion of nobility, who recently acquired
some notoriety Pstris.... aernier
resort, applied to his noble parent (a gallant marquis) for the
trifling accommodation ; trifling, however, as the sum may
appear, the heroic M.P. is reported to have met with a plump,
and not very courteous, negative to his application. Disap-
pointed and enraged at the refusal, and the peremptory tone
in which it was conveyed, he, as a brave son of Neptune, hit
upon and, Proteus-like, carried into execution the following
eccentric stratagem to effect his purpose:—lt happened that
at a crossing opposite the window of the room in which slept
the noble marquis, his father, a mendicant sweeper was in the
habit of taking his stand in pursuit of his daily avocation. To
this " knight of the broom', the hero repaired, and for a small
sum bought him off his " lifehold" or crossing for a day.
and on the following morning, about the hour the marquis
usually rose, the distinguished scion, disguised as a beggar,
with a bran-new broom, was seen industriously employed in
sweeping clouds of dust towards the gallant marquis's window.
On looking out the noble marquis, to his utter astonishment,
beheld a fresh and ill-conducted sweeper, and incensed at the
rude manner in which he was carrying on his operations,
despatched a servant to know the cause. The servant having,
in the person of the mendacious sweeper, discovered Lord—,
returned in breathless haste to his master, and informed him
that it was his own son who was thus occupied in kicking up
such a dust ! "Oh hang him," said the noble and brave
veteran, " that is done to raise the wind (writing) ; here,
take this to him—a cheque—tell him to be off and change his
rags—his morals he never can." The command was no sooner
given than obeyed, and the beggar quitted his post of honour
and retreated in double quick time, highly gratified, however,
with his new mode of " raising the wind."—observer.

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PROVIDENTIAL ESCAPE OF A VESSEL AND CREW. On
Wednesday the 31st August, about twelve o'clock at night,
the schooner Sarah and Mary, of Barmouth, from Sligo, with
a cargo of oats, butter, and preserved salmon and lobsters.
bound to London, from some defect in her compass, and the
haziness of the weather, struck on the rocks at the south-east
angle of the bold promontory of Malinbeg (Malinbeg is at
the angle of a coast, formed by Donegal bay and the western
coast of Donegal county.) Panic-struck at the suddenness
of the shock, on so iron-bound a coast, with the stu-
pendous cliffs of an unknown shore hanging over their
heads, and blinded by the denseness of the fog, the crew in-
stantly took to the boat, without waiting even to throw a
biscuit into her, and beat about at sea till eight o'clock
on Thursday morning, deterred by the breakers from at-
tempting a landing ; but at length they effected oue on
Rathrey brow, an uninhabited island about two miles from
Malinbeg. In the meanwhile the vessel had bounded from
the rock on which she had first struck, and came upon the
rocks, a little more within the boat port—a narrow and ro-
mantic, but very exposed inlet of the sea. There she was
observed by the country-people at day-break, who manned
their fishing-boats and brought her safely within their fair
estuary ; and here, had I the pencil of a painter or the pen
of a poet, I might describe a beautiful little vessel, of 70
or 80 tons burthen, embedded deeply in the little caver-
nous inlet, with lofty and perpendicular cliffs towering
her, while cloud-capped Slievebeag (above two thou-
feet high) rose majestically over all. But what pen
can sufficiently eulogise the conduct of the peasantry in this
secluded and distant part of the empire ! They brought
her in, and, had not her rudder been rendered for the time
unserviceable, would have taken her to the more secure
harbour of Killybegs ; kept the pumps going, and everything
on board safe until the coast guards, some three or four
hours afterwards, came to the spot, and nothing was pilfered.
I had nearly omitted to mention that the men, two in nem_
ber, after being on the island without food till Friday morn-
ing, were brought safely into Malinbeg, at the instigation of
the Rev. Edward Labatt, who had proposed, under the pos-
y
HIS ANIMALS.---Mr. Carter, whose
sibilit of their having got into Rathrey porn, -
Lo go for tilthe night before, could he have got any men to venture witrah
him.
—n. Derry
TEjnou
power in taming the most ferocious animals 'has
ANDrnal .
rendered his name familiar with the public, long since
seri-
ous accident at the English Opera on Tue':inet with a
appea th the magnificent lion, whose appearance
evening. It
apparently perfect subjection so much delighted appearance and
asto-
nished the audience on Monday, the first and
pearance, had been only in the possession night of its ap-
pearance, short space of a fortnight. of Mr. Carter for
ness of this period, Mr. Cart Notwithstanding the short-
er had contrived to obtain such
a mastery over the noble beast as not only enabled hilnt(;
other animals which he cage with some tigers, panthers, and
time, but also himself to had had in his possession some
One part of the performance enter with impunity into den.bis
in Mr. Carter placing rmance on Monday evenin consisted
evening
the lion
was lying alone, and g himself in the den in which .
him
to exhibit his fine, h
there playing various tricks with
tameness of disposi-
tion. While this andsome form and
ccident occurred
which, through thwelsexgtoingd.
forwaredo,aanragae
of Mr. Carter,
Passed unobserved by the
raaaordieinnacery.
At one part of the per-
formance the lion grased Mr. Carter tightly in the upper part
of the arm, and assumed such an expression of countenance
that Mr. Carter was induced to strike him on the head with
the loaded end of his whip. The animal fell, perfectly stun-
tied, in a corner of the den, nor did he recover until means
were used for the purpose after the conclusion of the per-
formance, through which Mr. Carter, hoewever, went, as if
nothing untoward had occurred.ofOtiLthling evening
(Tuesday), while the same part
_. exhibition was being
made another spring at Mr.
performed, the animal Carter,
this time, regret to say, succeeded
In inflicting an
and we
with very serious injury which has been attendedc b conse.
He seized Mr. arter y the hand and fore-
finger, ly penetrated. M
finger, the tusk complete
mediately struck him violently with the butt-end of his whip'
but did not, as on the previous evening, Completely stun him
and the animal, in drawing out his tusk, so lacerated th '
hand as almost to separate the thumb from it. The e
dropped, and Mr. Carter was soon after ' scene
was wards attended
by a surgeon.
able to appear since the accident. He has bee •
not been
a very precarious condition from fever, b •n, indeed, in
that he is in a fair wry of recovering fro ut it is now hoped
injury. Mr. Carter is a man of most m the effects of the
courage, his body, indeed, offers SID-prising nerve and
injuries he has met with, which numerous evidences of
persons from continuing the fearful would have deterred most
so long distinguished himself. course in which he has
last accident would have been There is no doubt but his
suspicion of the intentionsn prevented had not Mr. Carter's
tameness which lie of the lion deeii lulled by the
exhibited th in •
formance. He appears e previous part of the per-
the punishment he received t o have smothered his revenge for
on the evening before until the
favourable opportunity of gratifying it occurred, which we
have just described.—
_Observer. rver.