Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1865-08-18 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

WOLF IN SHEEP'S O.OTIIING.—TiIe public has often heard of Lite ailroitne.s of ladies of the demimonde in drawing money from the male frequenters of the gaming table at Geinn at watering-places, but few would have ever imagieed that the son of a Bavarian butcher, by assuming the crinoline arid other accessories of female toilet, could succeed in passing himself off as a Polish beauty of ancient and noble family, and thus trick admiring dupes eta of their money. This has, however, jut been achieved at Wiesbaden by a butcher's son, who managed to get in a good pecuniary harvest, and when his deception was at last accidentally disoivered, got clear if with his bo gy.--1//iynatti. BANKS OF ISsUE.—A return made up to the beginning of the present year shows a list of 137 private banks in England issuing their own unites, and authorised to issue them to the sin tint in the aggregate of £4,212.846. The largest amount authorised is £112,280, the issue of the East Cornwall Bank. Forty-nine joint-stock banks in England have also authority to issue their notes to the amount together of £3,226,27. Stuckley's Ranking Company are authorised to issue to the extent of £3511976, awl the National Provincial Batik of England to the extent of £442,371. The twelve ticoteli banks of is,ue are authorised to issue their notes to the aggregate amount of £2,794,271, and the six Irish to the atnount irf 1:6,351.494, tine of these, Ire Bank of I veland, having authority to issue £3 738,428. In the course of the last ten years 13 Engihit private banks of issue hove stopped pay meet, three English joint-stock banks of issue, and one Scotch bank of issue. A LION AT lARGE.—LC .V.,Fri states that a few days ago a lioness at the Antwerp Zoological Gardens broke out of its cage through a port which gave way, and bounded into the gardens with a loud roar. The visitors were seized with a sort of stupor, and remained fixed to the ground where they stood, a cir• cumstance which perhaps saved them, for the lioness, which would probably have been excited by exclamas, began to promenade the gardens peacefully with a dignified air, trusting, doubtl,,a, to the cubs following, but they did not stir. The keepers brought pieces of fresh uteat and threw them beim e the lioness, which devoured them eagerly. But the question was how to make it re-enter the cage, and at length one of the keepers conceived the happy idea of going to the cage and irritating the young lions, whose cries would bring the mother to their side. The ruse sue--ceded, and the lioness, returtilug to its cage, was securely shut up. Tbus terminated the disagreeable scene, which had continued about a quarter of an hour. SUICIDE OF A floasE.—A correspondent writes :—A few days ago a poor creature, worn to skin and bone, put an end to his existence in a very extraordinary manner. His pedigree is unknown, as he was quite a stranger. A very worthy gentleman here met him in a public market, and thiiiking he could find employment for bins put him to work, hut it was soon discoverel that work was not his forte; in fact, he would do•• anything save work and go errands. His great delight was to roam about the fields and do mischief People pa-sitig him used to ejaculate, '• Ugh, you ugly brute," when they saw the scowl which was continually on his face. His master tried to win hitn by kindness. lie remembered the old song, " If I hail a donkey that wouldn't go, do you think I'd wallop him ? Oh no, no." The kindness was lost upon him. He next tried the whip, then the cudgel, but all in vain. Work he would not. And as a last resort th- punishment of Nebuchadnezzar of old was tried He was turned out, "but house or hauld." to eat grass with the oxen. With hungry belly anil broken heart, he wended his lonely way down by the Moor's Shore passed Luckyseaup, turned the Moor's Point, and still held on his lonely way, regardlets of the wondering gaze of the Pool fishermen. At length he arrived at a point opposite the wreck of the Dalhousie, where he stood still; and while the curiosity of the fishermen was wound to the highest pitch as to what was to follow, he, neighing and tossing his old tail, rushed madly into the briny deep, got beyond his depth, held his head under the water, and soon ceased to be. The fishermen conveyed the true, although strange and startling tidings to the respected owner, that his horse had comm.tted suicide. —Dundee Adeirliser.