The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-01-31 00:00:00

WILTS.

The Cathedral, Salisbury, Friday, April 7, at 3.
Damerham, Saturday, April 8, at 1.-4alisbury St.
Martine% Palm Sunday, April 9:at 6.3o.—Downton,
Sunday, April 23, at 3.—Marlborough St. Patera,
Saturday, May 20, at 11.— The College, Marlborough,
Saturday, May 20, at 3.—Deviaes, Monday, May 22, at
10.30.—Warrninater, Monday, May 22, at 4.—Westbury
not fixed.

A MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT occurred near Leeds on
Monday, through the breaking of the Me on a sheet of
water. A number of persona were enjoying themselves
in sksting and otherwise, when the ioe broke, and a
young lady, daughter of a surgeon, fell in and was
drowned. A gentleman ale°' Mr. Lyndon Smith, lost
his life whilA nobly trying to save others.
DEATH OF VISCOUNTESS DOWAGER Or TANEERVILLE.
—We announce the death of the above lady, which
took place on Monday morning at nine o'clock, at her
residence in Hertford-street, May Fair. Her ladyship
Mdde.Corisande-Armandine Loonies Sophie Helene was
daughter of Antoine, late Duke de Grammont, by
Aglne, daughter of the Duke de Polignao, and was born
in 1782, and married in 1806 to the fifth Earl of
Tankerville, by whom she leaves issue the present earl
I and the Countess of Malineebury.—A great number of
I families are placed in mourning by her ladyship's decease.
THE WEATHER AND THE PARE& Monday the
greatest animation was visible in the various parks in
and about the metropolis. In St. James's Park there
wee an immense number of persons, estimated at
about 2000, sliding and skating upon the ice. The
banks were also crowded by many thousands of
persons. During the early part of the day some 50
persons fell through the ice, and others were injured
by falls. No fatality occurred, owing to the
promptness of the officials of the Royal Humane
Society, and the arrangements made in the
society's receiving houses and marques. On the Round
Pond at Kensington gardens, there were some 3,000
sliders and skaters during the day. The accidents were
not so numerous as in St. James's Park, and none of
them were fatal. At the Serpentine notices had been
posted up prohibiting persona from going on the ice, it
being in a dangerous condition. Nevertheless, some 500
persons ventured on, and as a consequence there were
several immersed. A number of the members of the
skating club visited the long water, Kensington-
gardens, and about 2,000 others. There were 10
cases of immersion, two of which were rather
serious, but all the parties were ultimately restored.
About 300 persons, against the instructions given by the
Royal Humane Society's men, ventured upon the ice in
Regent's Park during the day. The Ice was of • more
dangerous character, but oaanalties were few. Some
fine skating took place in Battersea Park during the
day, the public knowing that if the ice should give way
the sliders and skaters would only get knee-deep in
water. Several persons were badly injured by falls.
Hampstead and Highgate Ponds, the Victoria Park, and
the'Grand Surrey Canal were all frozen, and on these
80Me thousands of skaters and sliders amused them-
selves during the day, but the ice on the canal
was being rapidly broken up and carted away to
supply the ice cellars in the City and West-end.
The most exciting part of the performances in St.
'James's Park during the day took place about four
o'clock in the afternoon. About two or three dozen
children had strolled upon the ice, and some
unprincipled persons at the risk of drowning the
ohildren, amused themselves by throwing halfpence
and oranges and other things upon the ice, which caused
the children to rush en MUM towards the spot.
Deputy Superintendent Perry cautioned the persons
who were so risking the lives of the children, and he
ordered them off, but it was of no use, and as tong as
the money kept falling upon the ice, oolong the Children
continued to scramble after the coin. All of a sudden
the ice parted asunder to a considerable extent, when
not fewer than ten of the unfortunate children fell into
the water, some floating , under the ice, and
others struggling in the water in order to save them-
selves. Perry, his nephew, Iceman Haskell, and other
offlc re, rushed to their assistance with hand-ropes,
breaker ladders, and boata, but 80 treacherous was the
ice that it Would not bear the weight of the men, and
breaking, they also were immersed. At one time nothing
leas than a fearful loss of life could be anticipated,
as it took nearly half an hour before they could be all
got out of the water, and it is hardly necessary to state
that the children were all in a very exhausted state.
They were taken to the marquee, and Dr. fd`Canri, of
Parliament-street, promptly attended, and did all that
humanity or surgical skill could devise for the poor
sufferers; but the ten remained in bed at the time the
enclosure gates were about to be closed. It is expected
that owing to the treatment they received that they
will recover.'
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