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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume III, Issue 78, 2 April 1868, Page 2

The Dundee Advertiser, in reporting the arrival of the Arctic at Dundee, says : — After leaving Cape Hooker, the Arctic fell in with a large number of walrus or seahorses. They were swimming ia the water. A good deal of amusement aud excitement was created by shooting them. Eight were killed, aud a half-grown male was captured alive by Captain Wells. The animal was at. first put into a cask, but as it did not seem to thrive there, a cage was made for it, and now it appears to be doing well. It is rarely that a seahorso is brought home alive, and sums have been offered in the event of any one being able to secure one of these singular animals. The .one brought by the Arctic is about the size of a small cow. The tusks at the mouth are only growing yet, and are not very , large. The blubber of the walrus shot would yield about half a ton of oil. Tho hides are, "however, rather valuable. Simpson, the actor, would never take any medicine, and his medical man was often -obliged to resort to some stratagem to impose a doso upon him. There is a play in which the hero is sentenced, in prison, to drink a cop of poison. Harry Simpson was playing this character one ni"-bt, and had given directions to have the cup filled with port wine ; but what was his horror, when he came to drink it, to find it contained a dose of senna ! He could not throw it away, as he had to hold the goblet upside down, to show his persecutors he bad drunk every drop of it. Simpson drank the medicine with the slowness of a poisoned martyr ; but he never forgave his medical man, as was proved at _is death, for he died without paying his bill.