Fearful has been of late a practise with proprietors of wilcU beast shows, to employ a " Lion Queen;" that is a person who enters the den of some of the animals, and takes various liberties with them. Mr. Hylton has for the last nine months employed in this capacity a young woman named Caroline M'Pherson; who on Monday night, spon after ten o'clock, entered a space formed by a rope which was placed in front of the dens to keep off the company. At this time the lion " Nero" was lying down very quietly in his cage, his paws protru ding slightly out of a nick underneath the bars. No sooner, however, had the young woman got within his reach, and put her hand on his head, saying, " 0, poor Ne ro !" than the fierce animal put out one of its paws, and immediately seized hold of a child, a niece of her's, named Catherine Ellen Chittock, between two and three years old, which she was carrying in her arms. With a scream of horror, the girl let go the child, and the lion, then caught it by the head with the other paw, and so held it fast, trying to drag it through the bars into his cage. Meanwhile the crowd, panic-struck by the occurrence, had re treated to the farther side of the place, and the alarm was much increased by sonic one shouting that the lion had escaped from his den. Just at this juncture a man named Thomas Browning, living at New Lenton, rushed forward, and caught hold of the child by the legs, pulling with all his might for full half a minute, and so tightly did the beast hold it, that Mr. Browning says he almost expected the child's head must come off. At this mo* ment, however, the lion, angry at the obstruction to its desires, left hold of the child's head with one paw, for the puqjose of punishing Browning, whose hand it seized, scratching it downwards with its claws, in such a manner as to tear off the flesh of a great part of it; without, how ever, causing the man to let go his hold upon the child. 