ge; and
though, beyond doubt, mentally enfeebled, has no betrayal of such
imbecility in the expression of his face. He has been in his present
unfortunate condition since the year 1830; and, for a great part of that
time, he has maintained an immovable taciturnity. No ingenuity has been
able to extract a syllable from him. He answers no questions, nor asks
any--enters into no conversation--and, even during the whole journey from
Milan to London, he never spoke a word to his attendants, or any one
else. Neither could the medical gentlemen who waited upon him here
induce him to reply to any of their inquiries; and no doubt, this fact,
of itself, formed no inconsiderable ingredient in the judgment at which
they arrived. The unhappy man is extremely docile, has no disposition to
violence, and readily understands and obeys any signs made to him."

Van Amburgh's stud, lions, etc., were sold at Manchester on 17 March, and
fetched high prices; a fine black maned lion, 350 pounds; another, 6
years old, 310 pounds; two lion cubs, eight months old, male and female,
sold, the one for 12 pounds 10/-, the other for 35 pounds. An elephant
realised 750 pounds, and a giraffe 400 pounds.

Hungerford Suspension Bridge, the first of its kind over the Thames, was
opened on 1 May, and, although a toll was demanded, it was calculated
that, before dusk, some 25,000 persons had crossed from one side of the
Thames to the other. It was taken down in July, 1862, to make room for
the Charing Cross Railway Bridge. It was transferred to Clifton, and
there opened, on 8 Dec., 1864, and it now spans the Avon.

On the next day (2 May) a terrible accident occurred at the Suspension
bridge at Great Yarmouth. A clown was to emulate Barry's folly, and
cross the river in a washing-tub drawn by geese; and thousands of people
assembled to see him, of whom a great number (accounts vary from 300 to
600), containing very many children, were on the bridge. Some of the
suspension rods snapped, and the crowd fell into the water. Every
assistance was rendered, but the number of recovered dead bodies, nearly
all children, or young persons, was 77, and many are supposed to have
been swept away by the current.

On the 2nd of May, the famous Excise trial at Bar, _i.e._, before twelve
judges, the Attorney General _v._ Smith, came to an end, after lasting
eight days. Mr. George Smith was a distiller, in a large way of
business, at Whitechapel, and the premise