Among the improvements we ought not to omit the affixing of the scientific
and popular names to the abodes of the respective animals. This is one of
the beneficial results of the honorary aid of Messrs. Swainson and Gray,
the distinguished zoologists.
By the way, there has been in these grounds a Fancy Fair with the laudable
object of aiding the funds for the repair of the Ladye Chapel of St.
Saviour's Southwark. We anxiously hope the _faire ladyes_ were successful
in their appeal to the fancy of their visiters.
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THE LATE MR. COLTON.
(_To the Editor_.)
Having observed in several papers and periodicals, (amongst which is _The
Mirror_, No. 553,) sketches of "the late Mr. Colton," and none of these
tending, in my opinion, to convey a correct idea of the character of this
extraordinary man; allow me to offer you a slight sketch of the latter
period of his life.
I am aware I shall be met by many with the squeamish proverb, _De mortuis
nil nisi bonum_; though I am not disposed at this moment to enter on a
discussion of the merits of this received axiom. Shakspeare tells us "The
evil that men do, lives after them."
Mr. Colton, or as he was vulgarly called, Parson Colton, arrived in Paris
in the year 1825 or 1826, from America, to which country he sailed from
England shortly previous to the murder of Weare.
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