after a short struggle, completely overpowers the animal.

He next drove the African lion in a car on the stage, and it was curious to see the animal harnessed and dragging the car with the driver, who whipped him as if he was a waggon horse; he then entered the den in which all the animals were kept together, and began boldly to thrash them and make them obey his commands. He made a bed of one, a pillow of another, and bolster of a third, to take, as it were, his nightly rest, while a fourth animal played all manner of tricks with him; and there he was, composed and fearless, as if he had been bred and born amongst the ferocious and greedy children of a wild and dreary forest. The terms of admission areBoxes, four shillings; Pit, two shillings; Gallery, one shilling.

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VICTORIA THEATRE.-This is a beautiful little theatre, situated on the Southwark side of Waterloo Bridge. We saw here "Paul the Rover," in which we saw Mademoiselle Goodesham dance; she is the Taglioni of this place; she is a pretty little woman, and a very nice dancer. But here we saw the "Incredibles," in which Monsieur Laroche and Monsieur Noel, two Frenchmen, performed some extraordinary feats of strength. They were bound to a whirling pole, and, suspended by one leg, lifted several persons. bridge with sixteen persons was lifted, and a car,

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with an immense number of people in it, was lifted. Suspended by their feet, they drew up several persons to the ceiling of the stage, and exhibited various proofs of their great strength and muscular power; they were both fine made and powerful men. In another very amusing piece, called the "Dumb Savoyard," a Mr. Blanchard performed a monkey, and it was almost impossible to distinguish him from a real monkey. He ran rapidly on his hands and feet about the stage, played all manner of tricks, ran up the side of the house to the ceiling, and all round the gallery, descending on the other side. constant laughter at his freaks. We were much pleased with our evening's entertainment.

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The English are decidedly a wonderful people, and money in England can do every thing; it makes Horses dance, Lions work as Horses, and men assume the appearance of Monkeys.

Besides these there are a great many other Theatres in London, where we have not been to, such as the Haymarket Theatre, the Surry Theatre, the Adelphi in the Strand, the Prince's Theatre in King Street St. James's, and others, the whole of them are about twenty in London, but as they are minor ones to what we had seen we did not deem it prudent to waste our time by visiting all of them.

In concluding our description of the Theatres of London, we have to recommend to our country

men, should any of them on their visit to England desire to see the Theatres in London, always to go to the boxes, which are frequented by a respectable class of people, and there they will receive much civility and attention, but never for the sake of economy go either to the pit or gallery of any of them, (except the Italian Opera) because these places are always resorted to by the humbler classes, as well as by rogues, thieves, and pickpockets, and should a stranger happen to be there, he is often teased and insulted with gross and abusive language by these fellows, besides he could not see much of the performances; we state this from the treatment we once experienced at Astley's Amphitheatre, but on our discovering the error, we immediately left the place. We therefore advise our readers, always to pay a little more and go to the boxes, rather than be in company with a set of fellows, who derive pleasure at the expense of your comfort.

And here we would inform our countrymen that the majority of the lower orders in England are very rude in their manners and behaviour towards strangers, whom they do not like to see in their own country.

CHAPTER XI.

SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTIONS.

THE GALLERY OF PRACTICAL SCIENCE is situated in the Lowther Arcade, near Charing Cross, in the Strand, which is kept for the exhibition of models of all kinds of machinery; there is to be seen the Steam-Gun of Perkins, which showers forth bullets, more than one hundred and sixty every minute, and we could not help thinking, if universally adopted, the Steam-Gun would go far towards putting an end to war. For when the inventions of man have so far improved the numerous instruments of destruction; so that men marching to a breach in a fortress, go to certain death, no word of command will urge them forward. And the strong man will then no longer be able to tyrannize over the weak. For provided any fortress is but provided with a few steamguns, throwing out bullets made of IRON instead of lead, column after column would be mown down. Ships, which at present attack forts, almost with a certainty of success, would by a well

pointed steam-gun, have their decks swept of their men and they themselves would be perforated through and through and be sunk. We can also conceive there would be no difficulty if the balls were of iron in firing them red hot. And then the trifling expence of the machine required for the steam-gun, places it within reach of every body's pocket. We saw here very beautiful models of locomotives, and of engines, and machines of all descriptions. And we also saw the Daguerreotype which is the most extraordinary production of modern times. We know not how better to describe it than to say, that it is embodying a shadow, or, in other words, that it permanently fixes upon a plate previously prepared for the purpose, the reflection of houses, trees, &c., and the picture is more perfect than any painter can make it. The French government purchased the discovery of Monsieur Daguerre, and very kindly made it known to the public. In a room fitted up as a Theatre, with shutters by which the light can be totally excluded, M. Dele Croix, a French gentleman, explains all the process. Five distinct processes are required to perfect a drawing by means of the Daguerreotype. The plate which is of thin copper silvered over, must be carefully polished, an operation requiring much care and nicety of hand, very fine pumice stone is applied in the first instance with cotton and oil. It is then applied with dried cotton, after which, a small quantity of