The Portland daily press., 1866-08-28

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Park are the Gardens Of the Geological Socie-
| ty. These are on the northern side of the Park
| and cover seventeen acres. It is a collection of
| living animals from all Chimes the greatest in
| the world, being superior to the collection in
Antwerp, Paris and Vienna. There are about
twenty thousand animals in these Gardens.
some free to roam as they please, some under
| the care of keepers, others in yards, and others
still in buildings and cages made expressly for
them. Almost every rare and curious animal
to be found in nature is to be seen in the ROYAL
Geological Garden Of Regents Park 1t has
received contributions from the Queen of Eng
land, the Queen Of Portugal, the Emperor Of
Russia, the late lbrahim Pacha and from the
Vice Roy of Egypt.
The animals are of all species; but those
which seem to attract the most attention are
the CarniUora, or wild beasts, and the Paclty-
dernadta or thick-skinned auadrupeds Amongst
the first, we noticed lions, lionesses, Jaguars
Pumas, Chans, and the Tasmanian wolf, or dog
headed Opossum, Of which no other living ex-
ample has ever been seen in civilized life.
Amongst the last named are elephants, from
cubs to grandsires, vlack-vack and the hippo
potamus or river horse, seen in the rivers of
Africa. This is the only living specimen which
has left Africa since the days of the Roman
emperors. He has his abode in pond formed
on purpose for his majesty. The Geological
Gardens are point of universal attraction to
all strangers in London. Every Saturday the
Band of the First Life Guards of her Majesty
the Queen erforms, from four to six o'clock
The admirable selection of music, and the brill
liant execution Of it is itself enough to attract
all lovers of music to the Geological Garden.
~ f.t..r, sr TRAXI.
Z. 5. Please pass the compliments Of TRAXI
to your highly respected Antiquarian cores
pondent, wv" and award him my thanks for
his correction of the several errors" which.
he says I fell into in my article on THE PR1N-
CESS MARY OF ENGLAND, albeit there were
but taco which he criticises, and one of them
was not an error, he having nnisread me- That
the Princess MARY's father was the last Duke
of Cambridge, rather than of Cumberland,
knew very well at the time of writing; but
having, at the moment, before my minds eye,
the mansion Of the Duke of Cumberland on
con ;ervatory, it was convenient to enunciate
Cumberland instead of Cambridge IN the act Of
writing. The error was more lapsus penn9,
ohan anything else, and I hardly thought it
worth while to dispatch a correction to your
Office, before its publication, deeming it one of
little consequence as affecting the general de-
sign of the article. He further saws: uca
"The County Of Cumberland was not named
for the late Duke of that name, who was moi
born until the County had been living eleven
years. But it was named for the uncle of
George III, the celebrated William Augustus,
Duke OF Cumberland, born 1921, died 1866"
did not say your County was named for the
late Duke of Cumberland knew better-but
for his Inherited Dukedom." He certainly in
herited that title, which was held by VIM. Au-
gustus, when Cumberland County was incer-
porated in ITO. TRAXI.
English Opinions of President johnson.
[From the London Daily News, July Al
The announcement which recently came from
Washington that the breach between the Pres
ident and Congress is becoming wider is one
for which late events had fully prepared us,
and is quite borne out by facts that have come
to our knowledge. The whole course of Amer
lean politics during the present year has indi-
Gated the gradual severance of Mr.. johnson
from the party which elected him, and the prin-
ciples on which he was supposed to have taken
his stand. Bitterly opposed by the Democratic
party in the North, denounced in unmeasured
language by pro-Slavery journals and politi-
clans on both sides of the Atlantic, he went to
the White House with the reputation Of being
more Republican than the Republicans, and
more Northern in his sympathies than the
Northern people themselves.
His earliest language justified this reputation
though his earliest acts looked in different di-
rectiOn. The South trembled at his words
though they never had occasion to tremble at
his deeds, and the moderate section of the Re-
publican party were not without apprehensions
that policy of repression might be entered on
which would give vindictive character to the
Northern victory But Mr.. johnson soon be-
gan to show thet all these fears were ground
less Treason "chastised with the valor of the
tongue found that it was to suffer no other
chastisement. The rebellious States soon dis
covered that though the voice was that of an
enemy, the hand was that of friend and the
more extreme politicians of the North had
speedy reason to regret a change which they
had once thought might be favorable to their
plans. From the opening fthe present session
of Congress, a gradual but most decisive change
had been taking place in Mr., Johusons atti-
tude. s ~
He seemed at first to assume the lofty posi-
ton of a mediator between the divided sections
of his country. He put a necessary and bene-
fetal curb on the excited feelings of the North,
and stayed some hasty legislation which Con-
gress had unwisely attempted. But in doing
this he needlessly placed himself in in a po-
sition of antagOnism to his former friends,
which has acted prejudicially upon his temper,
and has fatally controlled his policy. The
breach has never been healed, but has gone on
gradually widening until at length it has be-
come impossible. By the force Of old associa-
ton, of the temptations of his position, and, it
must be added, Of petulant preference for his
own plans, he has thoroughly severed himself
from the Republican party, and assumed the
attitude Of q Southern advocate and an opposs-
ton leader. v ..* .f.e.4lfti - h.
The break with his old friends is complete
and his quonddne opponents are those who are
now rallying to his 1eapership. Unconditional
restoration of the Southern States, with their
inequality of representation and their oligarch-
ical Constitutions, has now become Mr. John
sons policy and the pro-Southern party in the
North have hailed him as their leader, much as
the Tory party here hailed the leadership of
Mr. Lowe and the disappointed section of the
Liberals, when they combined to overthrow a
Government which had unpardonably sinned
by not including them. Under the name of
s'The Union party" the Democratic party is
reforming under the leadership of the Presi-
dent and the patronage of Mr.. Seward, and an
attempt is to be made to carry the elections
this Autumn so that the two-thirds majority in
Congress may be diminished, and Mr.. johnson
may practically become master of the situa-
ton" 1850 r. ,ss t.r. - 81