The Express. — London, England, 1867-01-16 00:00:00

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Tun terrible disaster in Regent's-park, which will darken the memory of this New Year holiday season in many mounting households, will, we fear, Jo forgotten before another thaw has been succeeded by another frost by a public of all others, on this aide of the Atlantic at least, the most savagely and stupidly reckless, a public who resent the commonest measures of precaution and restraint, however imperfectly devised, to protect them against the most obvious dangers and their own folly, as encroach ments and assaults upon their public and private liberty. On Monday last, according to the news paper reports, there were about 3,000 people on the ice in Regent's-park in the morning ; in the afternoon, when that number was diminished by perhaps a third, the ice gave way under one of the skaters ; as it always happens, there was a general rush to the dangerous spot, and in a moment twenty-one persons were im mersed ; but, thanks to the prompt assistance of the icemen, all were safely landed, and all alive. It may be absurdly supposed that an accident so nearly fatal to so many persons would be a warning to skaters on the same piece of water next day ; a warning at least against skating or sliding upon spots marked out as dangerous, and against a mob making a rush towards breaking ice, not from an impulse of irrepressible humanity, but from a suicidal curiosity, which will not let the regular iceman do his duty when it can be done. A warning, indeed ! Your true British public defies warnings ! Yesterday morning there were at least as many thousands on the ornamental water in the Regent's-park as the day before; the " accident," which on Monday had nearly coat twenty-one lives, had probably operated as an attrac tion to that mysterious " crowd," who in this hardworked city are somehow or other always to be found looking on at something or at somebody as if they bad nothing else on earth to do. It had frozen hard all night, it is true, and the ice might be reasonably trusted to bear ss well as the day before, but it was rough and patchy(perhapathe surface of the water was rippled by the strong wind when the ice took it), and a Corfu had been clearly and conspicuously drawn by the icemen in charge round the parts which com mon experience and observation alike pronounced treacherous and unsafe. Of course, among the thousands on the ice no one was rash enough to venture beyond this cordon of safety ; of course, there was no crowding of idlers and lookers-on where the skaters were thickest, some ingenuous stranger unacquainted with the British public will imagine. The plain fact is, that of the thousands who were present on that piece of water in the Regent's-park, which extends in a westerly direc tion from York-gate to Hanover-gate, and in a northerly direction to the Inner Circle, at three p.m. yesterday, when the ice gave way, and in a moment became a confused hummock of struggling human heads, by far the greater number were not skaters at all. Of the skaters, few were better at the art than a chess player who just knows the moves ; and the rest were idlers, loungers, lookers on, men, women, and children, mischievous boys sliding, "roughs " waiting for "something to turn " up," and—nursery maids with children. Alas for the mothers who send out their little ones for a walk in the Parks in this fine seasonable weather to avoid the dangers of the streets There was absolutely nothing in this " accident " (if the natural and inevitable result of the moat wilful folly is not rather an involuntary kind of self-murder) to distinguish it from other " accidents " which happen daily on almost every piece of public water in the country during a skating season, except the unusual number of the immersed, and consequently of the drowned. There was nothing unusual in the extent of the ice that gave way, nor indeed did it give away all at once, so to speak, in a "sheet," but piece by piece. It would be worse than mockery to waste words upon that scene of agony in the midst of all the monstrous vanities, the atrociously indifferent and careless curiosity of such a town as London. If we could only give up just enough of our native bounce to enable ue to perceive that recklessness is not courage, or prudence cowardice, or leave and license to drown oneself at large liberty ! What, then, in as few words as THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 16, 1867. possible, is the meaning of this disaster 7 Tu begin with, it is a natural result of the national character and conduct. " 'Tis no use putting up a danger " line, sir, they mill go beyond it," any policeman will tell you ; and we believe him. Then it is not the number of skaters, even of the common and clumsy skaters, who cause these acci dents, still less the ber of good skaters who glide lightly along the ice, claskse the firmest and the soundest parts, and do the " figures " in a space no larger than a room. It is the mob of idlers who form a circle round the skaters ; the miachievo us boys, the "roughs," the silly crowd who always "make a rush " towards a sinking man, not to save him (for that is one iceman's work) but to see him sink. How can this crowd be pre vented from going upon the ice, on an open piece of water in a public park, to which all the world has access, from dawn to dusk ? It would take a thin red lino of guardsmen, or half Sir RICHARD MAYSK'S divisions, to keep the public from rush ing into danger, in a place where they have a right to be drowned. What law can prevent " ac " cidenta ?" This is not a case in which one might wish that a sliding Bishop or a skating Cabinet Councillor were the victim, in order to quicken Legislative action. Either Regent's Park must be closed altogether during a sharp frost—which is impossible—or the Ornamental Water must be open to skaters ; and if open to skaters, open to the sliders, and to the idlers who stand round the skaters and help them to sink when the ice gives way. Is it, then, we would, without much con. fidence, ask, impossible to station a sufficient number of policemen round the banks of these ornamental waters to prevent any but skaters from going on the ice ? If this could be done one principal cause of such disasters would be re moved. But we do not pretend to be sure that it is possible. It has been urged that the regular icemen and the servants of the Humane Society might make an official survey of the ice each morning, so that, according to their report, it sl Id be declared open or closed to the public. But this is only one of many perfectly sufficient precautions which may be taken if it be possible, without excluding the public from the Parks, to exclude them under certain circumstances from the water in the Parks. If this is not possible, we must in all humility confess that for our own part we see no alternative but for the proper authorities to soil by contract all the ice on these ornamental waters and employ the proceeds for the public good in maintaining the Parka as pleasure grounds for the public. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) MASTER AND StRVANT. The constitution of the committee of last session on the Lw of muter and servant explains, the Daily Nees says, why the report should have failed to give satisfac tion not only to the class with whose complaints it dealt, but to gentlemen like the speakers at the meeting of the Law Amendment Society. The suggestions of the com mittee that cues must be adjudicated on publicly by two or more magistrates, or one stipendiary magistrate ; and that workmen charged with breach of contract shall only be liable to arrest under warrant in the event of their failing to answer a previous summons, and to imprisonment only in cases of aggravated injury to person or property in the event of inability to pay the tine—lead to the mitiga tion of existing evils, but leave uncorrected the funda mental inequality ; until the law recognises the per. feet equality of both the contracting parties, not only as having equal freedom to make their bargain, but as liable to identical penalties for breach of it, it will not rust upon a sound and permanent basis. The resolution of the council of the Trades' rnion that people of different countries should have a communica tion among them for the purpose of regulating the hours of labour and assimilating the rate of wages is met by the Times with two objections. The fist is that if it were practicable it would be exceedingly injurious to the great mass of mankind, who would have the commodities they require raised to an artificial price, and secondly, that the object even if desirable is absolutely unattainable. It is impossible to assimilate the rate of wages all over the world unless you can assimilate the ratio that population bears to capaul. The fact seems to be that trades' unions must run their course until they are taught by bitter experience how finite, how easily °alienated is that capital on which they are making reiterated demands as if they believed that it would never come to an end. It is something, however, that they have discovered how futile are their efforts unless seconded by the unanimous exer tions of foreign countries. They have thus gained a point of view from which they may, if they employ their posi tion well, obtain a complete comprehension of the whole question. be built on the mutual dread of these two military states for the future tranquillity of Europe ; and, indeed, on the almost perfect equality of their forces a more durable balance of power may be grounded than the ass that 1 , 1.11 disturbed by the cannon of Koniggratz. The Star observes that the Court of Chancery: by its decision in the ease of the rival Bel grariai has declared the state of the law to be jolt this:—Mr. Dickens might have spent his 1,0001. or 1,1001. in advertising "Mosby Junction" utterly in vain. Another " Mugby Junction" than his might have been brought out before his was ready. Pub lishers and authors are now utterly unprotected against the vilest wrong, and at the absolute mercy of the most ridiculous vexations. Clearly all would be set right by the establishment of a system of toad tide provisional re gistration, the time being limited during which the designed publication should be permitted to lie in abey ance. The Star would go further, and advocate an enact ment enabling advertisers of literary ventures to secure for themselves by the mere act of advertising—to an extent, of course, to be specifically exacted—the right of undisturbed possession, for a certain time after the brat announcement, of any projected work. the Court. OSBORNE, JAN. 15. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Christian, drove out yesterday afternoon attended by the Dowager Duchess of Athole, and her Maje.ty walked in the grounds this morning with Princess Christian and Princes. Louise, attended by the Hon. Emily Cathcart. Prince Arthur arrived at Osborne yesterday afternoon from Buckingham Palace, attended by Major Elphinstotie. Prince Arthur and Priam Christian went out shooting this morning, attended by Colonel Ponsonby. Prince Leopold, Princess Beatrice, and Prince Henry of Prussia walked in the grounds. The Hon. Emily Cathcart has succeeded the Hon. Flora Macdonald as Maid of Honour in waiting. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the official residence of the First Lord of the Trea sury, in Downing-street. The ministers pre sent were the Earl of Derby, the Lord Chan cellor, the Duke of Buckingham, the Earl of Malmesbury, the Right Hon. Spencer H. Wal pole, Lord Stanley, the Earl of Carnarron, Gene ral Peel, Viscount Cranborne, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir John Pakington, Sir S. North cote, Lord John Manners, the Right Hon. Ga thorne Hardy, and Lord Nasa. A Committee of the Lords of her Majesty's Most Ho nourable Privy Council sat yesterday, at Whitehall, on the subject of the cattle plague. The lords present were the Lord President and the Right Hon. H. Cony. Mr. Har rison and Dr. Alexander Williams attended the com mittee. A deputation from the Council of the National Asso ciation for the Promotion of Social Science had an inter view with the Loud President of the Council and the Vice- President of the Committee of Council on Education, at the Privy Council-office yesterday, to ask for additional help for poor towns' schools. The deputation consisted of the Hon. Arthur Kinnaird, M.P., Mr. R. Culling Hanbury, M.P., Mr. G. W. Hastings (honorary general secretary), Mr. G. Godwin, F.R.S., Mr. J. Marshall, Mr. J. A. Bremner, Mr. Seymour Toulon, the Rev. Brooke Lambert, Mr. A. 0. Charles, Captain Clods, Mr. Henry Butter, the Rev. W. L. Clay, and the Rev. J. R. Green (secretary and honorary secretary of the Educational Department), Mr. C. R. Ford, the Rev. C. R. Carr, Mr. C. Ratoliff, Mr. Andrew Edgar, Mr. J. E. Gout, M.P., the Rev. G. H. M`Gill, the Rev. J. L Davies, the Rev. R. H. Hart, and Mr. James Heywood, F.R.S. A deputation from the Midland Counties Anti-Malt Tax Association, and also from the Central Anti-Malt Tax Association, introduced by Viscount Curzon, M.P., had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer in Downing-street, yesterday. The deputation consisted of Lord George Manners, M.P., Sir Edward Buller, M.P., Colonel North, M.P., Mr. C. S. Read, M.P., the Rev. H. G. Bailey, and Messrs. Punnett, Bacon, Eley, Brandram, Noekolds, Hodaoll, Collett, Fielded, Everett, Turner, Smythies, Hodgson, Baldwin, T. 'Willson, Murrell, Collett, Bartlett, Miley, Fowler, Hawley, May, (Aare, Hadbusd, Birdett, A. Pell, Frewen, Clay - den, Hanley, Edward Umbers, Beardsley, Ivett, and Kintral. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial Office from the Governor of Canada. The Duke of Buckingham arrived in town yestenlay from Stowe. DEATH OF THE MARQUIS OF EXETER, E.G. We regret to announce the death of the Marquis of Exeter. A telegraphic message was received in town this morning, announcing that the much respected noble. man expired at 1 a.w. to-day, at Burghley-house, his princely seat near Stamford. For some months past the deceased marquis has been labouring under • malady which from the first precluded all hope of recovery. The late Right Hon. Brownlow Cecil, Marquis and Earl of Exeter and Baron Burghley, county Northampton, in the peerage of the United King dom, was the eldest surviving son of Henry, first marquis, by his second marriage with Sarah, daughter of Mr. Thomas Hogging, of Bolas, county Salop, which estimable lady died in January, 1797, after giving birth to the late marquis's only brother, Lord Thomas Cecil. The deceased marquis was born the 2nd July, 1793, and just before he had attained his ninth year, namely in May, 1804, succeeded to the nutrquisate on the death of his father. He married May 12,1824, Isabella, daughter of the late Mr. Wm. Stephen Poyntz, of Cowaray.bouse Sussex, by whom, who survives her husband, he leaves sur , viving issue, three sons—Lord Burghley, M.P. ; Lord Brownlow,bom Feb. 27,1827, and married to Charlotte,only daughter of Mr. G. Thomson Curry ; and Lord Adelbert Percy, born 18th July, le4l ; and two daughters—Lady Mary Frances, married in 1861 to Viscount Sandon, M.P. ; and Lady Victoria, married last month to the Hon. Wm. Chas. Evans Freke, brother of Lord Carbery. The deceased peer was educated at Eton, whence he was transferred to St. John'. College, Cambridge, where bin great ancestor William Cecil, high treasurer and prime minister to Queen Elizabeth, was educated. For just half-a-century the late Marquis of Exeter bad lent his high character and influence in support of the turf, baying commenced his racing career as far back as 1816, when he won 'plate at Stamford. It would far exceed our limits to enumerate Lord Exeter's various successes on the turf, of which he has been designated • pillar of that national institution. For forty years he bred his own racing stud, which was at one time the largest in the kingdom ; and was the breeder of Stockwell, which celebrated horse has been happily called king of the stud. Lord Etter never won the Derby, although he has run fourth twice in that race, namely, with Stockwell, and last year with Knight of the Crescent. His lordship won the Oaks no less than three times, namely, in 1821 with Augusta, in 18'n with Green Mantle, and in 1832 with Galata. In 1812 he had almost unexampled success, having won the Two Thousand Guineas, the Great Yorkshire Stakes, and the Great St. Leger. He had won the Two Thousand two years in succession, 1829 and 1830, as well as in 1832, above mentioned. He won the Ascot Cup in 1833, the Goodwood Stakes in 1847, and many other races of less importance. In 1835 Lord Exeter contemplated breaking up Ms extensive stud, and • portion was sold by Mr. Tattersall, when the late Lord Londasborough became the purchaser of his famous horse Stockwell. The late marquis was Groom of the Stole to the late Prince Consort from September, 1841 (when he was made a Privy Councillor) to January, 1846, and in February, 1832, on Lord Derby's' first administre tion, was appointed Lord Chamberlain of Her Ma jesty's Household ; and from February, 1858, to June, 1839, was Lord Steward of the Royal Household. His lordship was Hereditary Grand Almoner, and for many years Lord Lieutenant of the counties of North ampton and Rutland. The deceased marquis was the Senior Knight of the Garter, having been invested • Knight of that illustrious order in 1827. The late marquis is succeeded in the family honours by his eldest son, William Alleyne Lord Burghley, M.P., Lieu tenant Colonel of the Northamptonshire Militia, born 30th April, 1825, and married 17th October, 1848, Lady Georgians Pakenham, second daughter of Thomas second Earl of Longford, by whom he has several children. His lordship was M.P. for Lincolnshire from 1847 to 1857, when be was returned for the northern division of Northamptonshire, which becomes vacant by his asessdon to Us House of Lards. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. MANIFESTO OF THE COUNT DE CHAMBORD. The Count de Chambord, under the form of a letter addressed to General de Saint-Priest, but distributed amongst his partisans throughout France, has given expression to his views on the new situation of Europe, the temporal power of the Pope, and the condition of France. The letter is dated Frohsdorf, December 9. It commences as follows : The year which is about to close, my friend, has not been a happy one for Europe, and for France especially. The gravity of the circumstances strikes all minds ; the situation is full of uncertainty and peril ; public opinion is agitated. The interests, that are threatened, are disturbed for the present and alarmed for the future. Scarcely escaped from one violent shuck they fear Irish ones• Questions that seemed settled ore red ived. They are arming on all sides ; on all iiides they an preparing formidable means of destruction and w.ir. The events, of which Germany and Italy bare been the theatre, have •lefeate,l all calculations, deceived all anticipations, have rudely broken the equilibrium of Europe, and no country luis felt more strongly than ours the force of the rebound. Still, thanks be to (;od, looking at things calmly and coolly, I see nothing irreparable in what has occurred. After some further remarks on the position of Franco in regard to foreign nations, the Count speaks of Rome and the situation of the Pope and catholic church : No—(he writes)--the cause of the tempo's] sovereignty of the rope is not isolated : it is that Af all religion, all society and liberty. At any cost, therefore, we should prevent his MI. With regard to the internal state of France the count says : You draw an afflicting picture, my dear friend, of the internal state of France. I admit with you the depths of the evil which arrests at home the grandeur of our destinies. You know long since the wishes for try country which my reason and my heart dictate. Is it necessary to repeat them here ? A power founded on hereditary monarchy, respected in its principle and its action, without weakness as without caprice ; a representative government in its vigorous vitality ; public expenditure seriously controlled ; the reign of the laws ; free access for all to employments and honours ; religious and civil liberty preserved and unassailable ; internal ad ministration freed from the totters of an excessive central notion ; landed property restored to freedom and independence by the diminution of the burdens which weigh upon it ; agriculture, commerce, and industry constantly encouraged, and beyond all this that great point—uprightness—which is not leas an obli gation in public than in private life—uprightness which constitutes the moral value of states as of private persons. Is it necessary to add that one of the first wants of France, after so many internal commotion, is union? The only policy which is auitable for France is a policy of conciliation, nee which would bury in oblivion all old divisions, which would make an appeal to all the noble and enlightened hearts which, loving their country as a mother, desire to make it greati free, happy, and honoured. As for me, my grief is that t see the woes of my country from a distance withone being permitted to participate in them. But if, in the trials which may yet be in store for it, Providence should call me one day to serve it, be assured you will see me appearing resolutely in your midst to save us or to perish together. You know, my dear friend, that these have always been my ideas ; they were the ideas of my youth, they art my ideas of to-day confirmed by mature expe rience. Accept, dear general, the renewal of the assurance of my sincere and constant affection. HENIT V. (R1L:77,11 . 8 TILIGILUIS.) AUSTRIA. VIENNA, JAN. 16. On the occasion of the celebration of the Greek Sew Year's-day, the Russian ambassador to this court forwarded numerous invitations to a banquet to the Greeks residing in Vienna. Count titackel berg proposed the toast " To the prosperity of Greece." A clerk in the Finance Minister's office, named Antoine, was yesterday convicted of having em bezzled 54,143 fr. of public money. The embezzle menta extended over six years, and were effected by means of clumsy forgeries of receipts for divi dends on the Rente which passed through the prisoner's hands, and which ho altered by scraping out some figures and substituting higher ones. For six years it had been found that the dividend account would not balance properly, but this circumstance was attributed to mistakes, and the chap/oyes were never suspected. The presiding judge made some severe remarks upon the superior clerks, whose duty it was to have checked the pri soner's papers, and observed, as an extraordinary circumstance, that a great many of his for geries, which were most palpable—the paper on which they were committed having been scratched almost into holes, had passed under the eyes of the court of accounts. The prisoner, a fashionable-looking man of 33, confessed his guilt. M. Lachaud, his counsel, asked for extenuating circumstances, on the sole ground of the negligent surreillasce of his superiors. The jury granted this indulgence, and in consequence Antoine received the mitigated sentence of six years of that kind of imprisonment called rechtsion, which involves forced labour, though not the " hard labour," described as trareas. fords. Mr. Gladstone is expected to be in Paris on January 23, on his return from Florence. There was scarcely any change at the Bourse. The new Spanish Loan, in spite of the immense sums spent in advertising it, has been already done at a discount. LONDON AND WESTMINSTER BANE. DAY.) The annual general meeting of the proprietors was held this afternoon in the new board-room. at the Bank, Lothbury, Mr. Aldcnuan S.u.ouuss, M.P., in the chair. The Szcarr.ter read the following report and balanoe sheet : "The directors have to report that, after making pro- vision for all bad and doubtful debts, poing the income tax, setting apart 2,0001. towards the buildings of the bank, and presenting gratuities on their salaries to all the officers of the establishment, the net profits of the bank for the last half-year amount to 212,8,11. P.N. Id. This aunt, added to 2.'3 0171. P.N. 2d., the unappropriated balance of the preceding half-year, will amount to 231,88 W. 4s. 3,L Out of this amount interest on the rest or surplus fund at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum (11,210/.) has been added to such fund, which now amounts to 461,V,W. The direc tors now declare a dividend to the shareholders at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum, and by way of further dividend out of the profits, a bonus of 13 per cent. on the paid-up capital. After these payments are made there will remain 64,63 W. 4s. 3d., which the director; have appropriated as follows, viz. :-18,7501. to the Rest, which will then amount to 480,0001., and the balance 45,889/. 4s. 3d. carried to profit and loss account for the current hall-year. The directors who retire by rotation are lionamy Dobree, FAq., David Salonions, Eaq., Alder man, M.P., and Alexander Gillespie, Esq., all of whom being eligible for re-election, offer themselves accordingly. " I)r.:—To proprietors for paid-up capital ? 1,000,000/. ; to amount due by the bank on deposits, circular notes, and other monies payable on demand, =672,558/. lls. 14. (this sum does not include acceptances, PU1,529/. 16e. 541.) ; to rest or surplus fund, 450,0001. ; to balance of profit and loss account, 30th June, 1866, 23,0171. 12s. 2d. ; to net profits of the past half-rim, 212,871/. 12a. ld. ; total, 24,35447/. 15a. 4d- Cr. ;—By government stock and Exchequer Bills, 1,828,445/. be. 7,1. ; by securities guaran teed by the government of India, 8Z3,8701. ; together, 3,02,315/. fie. 7d. ; by bills discounted , leans, and other securities, 18,178 12a. 7d.; by cash in hand and at Bank of England, 2,527,923/. 16e. 241 ; total, 24,338.4471. 15s. 4d. " Profit and Lop.—Dr.: To total expenditure of the eight establishments, including rent, taxes, salaries, sta tionery, Ara, with gratuities on their salaries to the oiSoers of the establishment, 65,8081. 10s. 7d. ; to amount set apart towards the buildings of the bank, 2,0001. ; to amount added to rest or surplus fund, by interest thereon at 5 per pent per annum, 11,250/. ; to payment of the dividend now declared, at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum, for the last half-year, on the paid-up capital of 1,000,000/., 30,000/. ; to bonus of 13 per cent. on the capital, 130,0110/. ; to special addition to reserve fund, 18,750/. ; to Latinos of profit and loss ac count, 45,859/. 4s. 3d. ; total, 3113,1104/. Ids. 10d. Cr.: By balance of profit and loss account, June 30, 1866, 21,0171. 12s. 2d. ; by grins profits of the last half-year, after paying the income tax, and making provision for all bed and doubtful debts, 280,6011. 2s. Sd. ; total, 303 690/. 14a. 10d. 'Rest or Surplus Fund.—Dr.: Present amount, 480,0001.—Cr.: Amount on July 1, 1806, 450,00f8. ; by interest on ditto at 5 per cent. per annum, 11,250/. ; by special addition, 18,750/. ; total, 400,0001. • The dividend and bonus (without deduction of income tax, which is paid by the bank) will be payable on Mon day, the 21st mat." The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report and accounts, said they brought them to the close of a most eventful year in banking history and he hoped they were all satisfied that the hank had been prudently managed. There had been no losses out of the ordinary course of business, and those incurred were of small amount and below the average. (Hear, hear.) The deposits were 1,740,000/. more than at the end of June last, and the amount divided for the year was 300,0001., or 30 per cent. per annum, that dividend Laving been declared now for three years. The reserve now stood at 400,0001., all collected out of savings since the bank was established, no part having arisen from premiums on shares. The assets in funded securities showed an improvement of 800,000/. since this time last year, and the total available assets amounted to 6,000,000/., added to which there was a mil lion advanced on short loans. The sum of about 5,000/. had been divided in gratuities among the officers, and after that 45,000/. was carried forward to the account of the present year. (Cheers.) This was a prosperous state of affairs, and the directors took some credit to themselves and the managers for having steered the concern so successfully through a very difficult year. (Cheers.) Mr. PRIOR seconded the motion. C. ON SLOW wished to know why so large s sum u CORM.. which was in excess of the usual amount, was carried forward. TheemaillMAN replied that considering the lowrate of in terest which now prevailed the board thought it desirable to carry on a large sum to meet that state of things. One object was to maintain dividends at a pretty equal rate ; and he would add that although the report was true and accurate it was well to provide for possible losses. To make a large addition to the reserve and carry forward a large amount appeared to the board the beat course for the interests of the shareholders. Mr. SI.ATIR was glad that 5,000/. had been given to those busy bees the clerk', and wished the amount had been still larger. He agreed with the preceding speaker that more of what had been earned should be div ide,!. As regarded the reserve fond he saw no reason why i t should not be gradu ally_raised to 1,000,000/. The CHAIRMAN. in reply, observed that the question of the sum divided and of the reserve fund was a difficult one, involving in a great degree the position of the bank in relation to the commercial world. He would rather not state what course the board were likely to take; but, looking to the progress of the bank, the directors thought it better to be charged with inconsistency than to do anything which might endanger their position. He might take that op portunity of saying that it was nut unlikely that the prin ciple of rotation would be applied to the chairmanship, and that some other member of the beard would occupy his present position next year. (No, no.) Should this be the case, however, it must not be supposed that the e arose from any difference between himself and his e acl leagues. The motion was then adopted. and the dividend and bowie, amounting together to IG per cent., having been declared, the proceedings terminated with the customary votes of thanks to the directors and the managers and other officers of the bank. The Duke and Duchess of Argyll and family are expected to return home from their tour in Italy the week preceding the opening of parliament. The Duku of Buckingham arrived in town yesterday from Stowe. A marriage is arranged between Colonel the Hon. Frederick Augustus Thesiger, of the 95th Regiment, eldest eon of the Lord Chancellor, and Miss Heath, daughter of Major-General J. C. Heath, commanding the &Made division, Bombay. The Earl and Countess Russell and Lady Georgians Russell are among the arrivals of the English nobility at Cannes. The noble earl and countess intend to make a short stay in IPa.-is on their way home for the meeting of parliament. It is ataied that during the subaiatenee of the question about the Scotch services at Rome Baron Henry Arnim, the Prussian Minister to the Vatican, very kindly offered to place his Lutheran chapel in the Palazzo Caffarelli (the residence of the Prussian Legation) at the disposal of the Presbytsriaim THE TERRIBLE ACCIDENT IN THE REGENT'S-PARK. MORE BODIES RECOVERED. LATEST PARTICULARS.-(THIN DAY.) The scene in Regent's-park this morning is not to bo adequately described. The public were strictly pr o . hatted from entering the enclosure ; and among Ohe nacy thousands congregated around the park railings many tale of woe was narrated, and incidents of the most pitiable description. Anxious mothers rite inquiring after miming children ; relatives and friends were on the same melancholy errand; and rives were crying frantically, and making eager inquiries as to their absent husbands. The moment break set in, the employis of the Royal Humane Society (under the direction of Messrs. Williams and Young). the whole of the park.keepers and a number of tupenur. meraries, commenced breaking the ice to afford en opportunity of dragging for the bodies supposed to be underneath. This work was attended wit , , much difficulty, owing to the effects of the frost (registered at 10 deg. below freezing) during the night ; but after labouring for nearly two hours a cry from one of the boats indicated that two bodies bed been brought to the surface. They were found to be two men, and from their iqmarel of the poorer class. The features of both were greatly distorted ; and one of the poor fellows had his arms outstretched as if clutching at something. They were recovered by Maple, one of the keepers, and two others. About half-past 0 the body of a young woman was brought up with her skates still on, and shortly afterwards some men who were employed in building a conservatory at the residence of Mr. W. S. Burton, in the Inner-circle, succeeded in rescuing a hoy apparently between 12 and 15. The little fellow was neatly clad, having on a pilot-jacket and side-spring boots. The body was brought to the grounds of Mr. Burton, and fol. lowed the preceding ones to the Marylebone workhouse, As each of the bodies were carried out on a stretcher. the rush in the direction was terrific, and such ex clamations as "Is it my poor husband ?" "Is it one about 15 ?" were heard. About 11 o'clock two more men were conveyed to the shore ; one 'supposed to be about 23, of fair complexion, and the other known as tho orangeman, who vended his fruit on the ice. A little later a cry was raised " Another man," and this body was identified as John Bryan, who was known to have been on the ice when it gave my, selling chesnuts. At 12 o'clock the bodies of two other boys were found. Among the gentlemen who were immersed yesterday were Mr. H. Walker, of tiO, Portsdown-road, and Mr. John Taylor, of 14, Upper Woburn-place, Tavistock square, both of whom were removed to their homes after having restoratives administered at house in Hanover-terrace. Two of the Humane Society's men narrowly escaped death. and both are now lying in a dangerous condition. One of them, J. Sheridan, ' after having rescued 30 persons from drowning, was eon.. pletely pulled in the water by those struggling for life, and it was after considerable di ffi culty that he was extricated. The other man, H. Smith, was in a similar pasi tion. Mr. Williams, the society's offiotr, informed our reporter that every precaution was taken to keep the people off the ice yesterday ; that even on Monday morning the part where the accident occurred was " clear rater and that when the catastrophe happened it ws altogether unsafe for pleasure-seeker.. Inspector Howland and Sergeant Watson, of the A Division, with a large body of police, had no easy task in keeping pee; le out of the enclosure, and in some cases the railings wire ' completely torn down by the mob. VICTOR COUSIN.. H. Victor Cousin, says the Daily Noes, lung survived the period of his active philosophic life, but he deserves to be commemorated as a great teacher, who taught the youth of France to take ennobling views of life, whose lessons have formed high characters, and who gave a powerful impulse and wholesome direc tion to the studies of more than one generation. In an introduction to his political writings published in 1851, Cousin maintains that politics are a branch of morals, and thus have a natural origin and foundation. Human societies, made by men and for men, do not hold their authority from any foreign and mysterious power, and the sole foundation for a legitimate government is the interest and consent of the people. From this truth results the great doctrine of the aoverritiity of the nation, proclaimed by the French Revolution, and answer ing to that of the sovereignty of reason in philo sophy. At bottom there are only two schools in philosophy or in politics, one, which sets out from authority alone, and with it, and by it, instructs and shapes humanity; the other, which sets out from humanity, and bases all human authority upon it. " The future will see the triumph of the philosophy and the political doctrines inaugurated by Descartes and the French Revolution. Such is my faith, my hope, my con solation, the inviolable asylum of soy reason, my boast in the midst of the troubles and agitation which consume our life." To the Post, M. Cousin, as a philosopher, seems to have been everything by turns and nothing long ; it may be also added, nothing deep. His writings, in a philosophieal sense, are very superficial. He was essentially a meta physician, and be took his metaphysics from original ana deeper thinkers ; but he succeeded admirably in making their views known and intelligible among his countrymen, so that his books occupy an important niche in a complete French library. Considered as literary compositions, they will ever hold • high rank for eloquence and lucidity among the best productions in the French language. The Teltpro 1 regards 11. Cousin's philosophy as • bril liant failure, though his gifts of eloquent and luminous statement rendered him one of the ablest philosophical teachers that ever lived. Comte, put into the language of the fashionable Parisians by H. Taine and M. About, is drawing France back to materi►limn ; but when the wave of reaction shall come, ahe will again turn to Cousin, and will gratefully remember how lofty were the doctrines taught by the most brilliant of her philsophers. MISCIELLANZOL'S TOPICS. The Tina gives from the German journals a narrative of the negotiations between the Emperor Napoleon and Count Bismarck at Nikolsburg previous to the Prussian war, stating in detail the various demands made and re fused on either side, and deducing from the account the fact that, without the moderation of the two great men at the head of affairs, those negotiations might rather have led to the prolongation and extension than to the close of the German °outset ; for, bad either the Em. peror Napoleon been really in earnest about territorial indemnity, or had Count Bismarck shown himself in dexible about Saxony or North-Schlsewig—had not, in short, France and Prussia been actually afraid of each other, the collision between them was inevitable. Not a little, in the opinion of oar contemporary, may also THE HUNGARIAN DIET. ADOPTION OF HERR DEAK'S ADDRESS. PESTH, JAIL 15. The draft of address proposed by Herr Dealt, in reference to the Imperial patent, was almost unanimously adopted by the Diet to-day. The additional proposal of Herr Madera' that the house should declare the imperial patent to be null and void was rejected as inexpedient. Herr Tissa expressed apprehension that the government would not re-establish the constitution of 1848. ITALIAN FINANCE. FLORENCE, JAN. IS, EVILNING. An appendix to the budget for 1867 was laid before the Chamber of Deputies to-day, in which the public revenue is stated at 865 millions lire, and the expenditure at 1,024,000,000 lire, leaving a deficit of 159 millions. By this statement a reduction of about 27 millions upon the estimated expenditure of the budget presented in December last is effected. The Chamber ban approved with some modifica tion the bill upon parliamentary disqualification, by 147 against 79 votes. AMERICA. (BY ATLANTIC TELBGBAP/L) NKW YORK, JAN. 15, EVIININC. Gold 135 i. Sterling exchange on London, 1001; 5-20 United States Bonds, 101 ; Illinois, 120 ; Erie, 653. Cotton, middling upland, 341. The North German Lloyd's steamship Bremen arrived out to-day. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (SNOW OUS OWN COERNSPONDINT.) PARIS, TUESDAY Levianwo. The Galilean sentiments exchanged between the Emperor and the Archbishop of Paris on New Year's-day wore much remarked at the time. The public was not aware that there was a special reason for them. lam now informed that the Emperor immediately after Christmas telegraphed to Count de Sartiges to ask that the cardinal's hat vacant by the death of Mgr. Gouaset, Archbishop of Reims, should be conferred upon the Archbishop of Paris. Count de Sartiges telegraphed back that the Pope gave a flat refusal. France is by custom entitled to have six cardinals chosen from among her episcopacy ; and the Emperor next suggested that Mgr. Landriot, the newly-appointed archbishop of Reims, would be a fitting person for the dignity. The Pope again refused. He will not promote any of the prelates chosen for their anti-nitramontaniam. The conjecture is that the new French cardinal will be Mgr. Lavigerie, just appointed to the new archie piscopal see of Algiers. He is not a favourite at Rome, but the Pope would think his nomination the least of any evil of which he has the choice. M. Thiers is going to give a parliamentary dinner this week ; and it is understood that the opposi tion deputies who in former sessions were wont to meet at M. Marie's to discuss their plane of action, will this year assemble at M. Thiers's house, in the Place St. Georges. The change is important a s showing a coalition between the old Orleanists and the Democrats. It is facetiously said by the Liberti that the op position feels itself so strong this year, in conse quence of the failure of the Mexican expedition and the " Prussification" of Germany, that it in tends to astonish the majority and the government by its moderation. ANOTHER ACCOUNT. lip to 12 o'clock this forenoon ten bodies had been re covered and taken to the Mary'shone Workhouse, where they were identified by their sorrowing relatives, as (-A lows : William Parkinson, Plicenix-place, Somers-town. James Griffith,, 20, Lincoln•place. Drury-lane. John Braygent, 9, Church-lane, St. Giles's. John Woods, 93, Chiswell-street, Finsbury. Richard Howick, 5, Charlotte-street, Fitzroy square. Thomas Barris, 156, Camden-road Villas. Edwarn Shenley, butler, 17, Hanover-terrace, Regent's- Park- John Mutely, aged 15, a 131ne-ooat boy, 25, Gomm.:. Place, Murton-road. Henry Hardiman, 13, Manden4rtreet, Somerrtown. Henry Gamble, aged 14, 32, Leighton-read, Omani. town. On o'CLocL Another mournful procession, with three more bobs., has just entered the workhouse, but they have not yetbou identified. The entrance to the workhouse has teen con, Pletely blocked up all the morning by persons who have relatives missing, the scenes of distress being constantly exhibited were of a very painful nature. As the bodies are brought in they are laid aide by side on mattresses, and the people outside are thus let in a dozen at a time for the purposes of identification. As may be supposed the most painful scenes take place es each body becoming identified, in most eases by the mother, the wife, or the sister. Up to this hour the total number of bodies re• covered has been twenty-five, of whom two are lyin4 at St. Mary's Hospital, and the remainder A the workhouse. Those taken to the hospital last evening sub faring from cold and exhaustion are all going on well. From an early hour this morning the park has be a ' crowded with people of all classes in life, some anxious about missing friends, but the majority from curiosity to witness the dragging for the bodies. In most of the cases of the bodies recovered the arms are stretched upward'. as if the unfortunate deceased had heart vainly endeavour ing to save themselves by clutching at the ir . e. About 12 o'clock the crowds of people v.- had hitherto been kept out of the ende.l overpowered the few police on duty at the gates. n; thousands rushed in all directions, necessarily bine& I the work of humanity in progress. Despite the warning offered by the catastrophe of ye“ tenlay several foolhardy persons this morning ventund sac the ice in the part where it bad not broken through y0t...• day, but the cries and hootings of the people 60 . shamed them off again. In proof of how little some Peol''' regard the warning afforded them, it is stated th while the people were struggling in the wato yesterday there were actually a number of U" skating on that portion of the ice adjacent to dr scene of the accident which had scot broken until f.r police compelled them to desist. The dragging for the bodies will be continued tiU this day and will be resumed again to-morrow morning it is certain there are more bodies still at the bottoe • the water, many persons being yet missing who •" known to have been on the ice at the time of itl ins up. The inquest will he opened this evening at 5 o'clock in the board-room of the workhouse, but nothing ther will be done than to take the formal identiticati f the bodies. Yesterday afternoon the Rev. Charks giw..51 ,, eoneberkeed a short course of lectures at the Royal l!':. tution, " On the Ancien Rigirue as it existed on tia C.: . tinent before the French Revolution." At the Victoria Theatre, Berlin, au opera company is at present performing. the members of that company is the bass singer llentoi , When, some evenings ago, the King was pre,tent ..t tLr performance of ItossinPs Ba:•4er of Serilh ,he haul 3R ' portunity for giving a proof of his excellent memory. , name of Dennis, as be told the manager, M. Pee, afT• the conclusion of the second act, reminded hint of At currence at which he was present, when in .Ipril, 1%1 a. i was sojourning at Paris, where, with Lis father, Le s.. the Festal performed at one of the Paris theatres. that performance, the King sabl, a note, tied to a st was thrown on the stage ; a singer of the name of Pent.. picked it up, and after a rapid perusal he suppe.l the leader of the band, and having exchanged a fro s ' with him, he began to sing a hymn in honour of the ln New Zealand, sa fast as cereals and root Cr-:' are planted, the worms and insects that blight and .!. them are found alive and at work, although such and insect, were never seen in the colony before. T'. ? eggs and pubs of these destructive creat ures • duoe.l into the colony with the seed. The New colonists are now paying 2Us. a bead for every lectivorous bird that is landed alive in the cu:ony. said he Would lits hands r when the accidi Watts gave a Kiln of the accident was against his right an The shutter was i three witnesses for lieved that it was n itwas not tipped wi Mao said that since - - been to Amt the pl In the summing fondant would be I l an jury through negli Bence on the part owed Watts to d The jury found Ittm to two if he co nuictance. Sittings in Banco. Baro - • . Only three judge Blartin having bee seq,enoe of the de r - iie,;.;,,;;;;.; the head of tho Qu J at the sitting of tin After hearing or solved no feature a needed with the sp . THE t , ARINc BALDER' w row, Union-street, Edwards, who gar( Bent-road, macleini R. W. Carden, chat session of a cheque Mr. It. Smith, of that the prosecutor. and Dover Railway gates he was surrOt who bustled him, o were gone he felt in robbed of two chi gold, which wen Its believed that tht had committed that Mr. Francis 11 - 11 branch of the Unio about half-past 9 present.' to him .on. T 1 .,, cheque cheque was end.trat bad been there berm pay that elo—itie. 1 banded the cheque a witnes. le, otted hi] was ¢ictn into rust° Willi:Ml Snow - sail and Horne at the 14 itriatoit Rotes t 04. limo be Itit,l it, in/. in 5 01 d. 'IV bill statim three and after they had lo the two cheques and in the nom nice and I Re saw the prism wan given into c the door of th, his attention was ca the corner of 14Ide off immediately, but hint into T and from itiforn, pe,u to his had imparted to the ment or the cheque his pocket. It was I smitten by his :palm Cross•ce:v.,int,l is he (Edwar.ba was on but be believed hill \Valian t sinintoMl e Yelleeryla to ne, an ' fnend nail him d opposite the hank. tine buiioling. Ed and west to t !le. Snow, and In coming from the _bud tes he could. mile's-place and PI stopped awl taken ti John Webb, ill. station be searched to unitation of sort three racing cards with two leaves in i Mr. Reuben Smiti bow to offer, b u t if eh!e to apprehend ti refuse Edw d. ards ask e d t T he Prisoners wen LMV COU (l Pl' lILI ' was anode of public oi ut ten chief ell THZ Au application hlers for furthe ' ,p o rt of their s he Lords Justice Aster of the Rolls t thatgentleman amine Major Ji p o int, ,I, but con ,puce of a domes Mr. Linklater, I pose the preen anuary. but dcclii The Chief Clerk mu not op . eosin at January instal. ' COURT ttin7s in 1:1112C0 al Justice and Jug NI The Queen havia e great a...al of t point Mr. John r. Ben:,. Hart u. Mr. Francis R L. 11,3.ry Cotton ,rge liruce, and Ilif.jesty's comicl oran ing called will gIY• iinaNr.v (Ares This raised a ye Trades' ['Wens ,pellaut and TIM rder of Boiler-ma spondent was sun or having, as an 'thheld the sum iety. By the ye power to nd, though the rpoaes of the sod jects enumerated hick are nut Siege own by the rules the character of nee and they doe '‘lnissed it. Mr. bleUish and ecision of the just' The court, howev COURT 'tangs at Nisi Pr Byle APSTI I This area an noZ lON. lie. Seymoni e plaintiff ; and the defendant. The plaintiff, RE uaband was a cab g of the 2nd Now op, which is at i reet, Linedn's-in as putting up the Ira. Austin upon er down. She did n dons, but as sheg y to King's l'olle, or a fortnight. St lace, and still ran of yet able to Mil ered pain. The b as not big enough rs: Austin added endant's shop sins Frederick Porter her, said that he he night in .111( mud Watts, a la COUP