The Express.
London, England, 1865-01-24 00:00:00

MELANCHOLY ICE ACCIDENT NEAR LEEDS.

♦ GENTLEMAN AND LADY DROWNED•

A deplorable accident, attended with fatal re-
sults, moaned yesterday thermos • short datum, from
Leads. The keen frost of the last few days having frame
over the stream; and plaids, the levers of the right-
laratiag amusesuots of skating were not unwilling
to avail themselves of the opportunity of enjoying
this active mows of reoreatioo. Pot some years ow
el the most favourite resorts al the lovers of skating has
been &eyries Pond, within the pounds of Oledhow Hall,
about three miles from Leeds. It is as artificial lake,
about 200 yards lose, varyieg in breadth from 40 to 50
yards ; sad although situated in • private park it was,
during Mr. &rayon's oceupancy of Oledhow Hall, always
available se • skating veiled, and when the opportunity
offend shies Mr. Joe. Cooper became the owner of the
property, the public have also ben allowed to nee tt for
• similar puma's. Yesterday afternoon there were about
100 paean, most of them belonging to the upper and
middle clam, abating on the Amend them was
Miss Boner, daughter of Mr. Pszkaquare,
• young lady sixteen years of age, 'wsl7l2 eccompanied
Mr. Samuel Haigh. her father's assistant, and Mr.
Broughton a medical Mildest, aid, we believe, brother et
Mr. Brouibtoe, professor c/ mule. Showily before 5
o'clock, Shea the 'venetian of the day were approaching
their termination, Mims Balmer matted in • chair, was beim
pulled aloe' the ice by Mr. Broughton. No illthCaikNlS Si
weakeen in the ire had exhibited themselves, bull as
the chair reached the end of the pond nearest Leas,
where It instated • spring or drain exists, and where, there-
fore, it would naturally be weakest, there was • crack. the
fragile support suddenly disappeared, and Miss Latimer mad
Mr. Broughton mob beneath the surface of the water.
Instantly an alum was raked, and movers! of the skaters
hurried to thespot. Foremost mooed them was Mr. Lyndon
Smith, who, in his gallant efforts to save the life of °thus,
sacrificed his own. He fell leo the water, the depth of
which unhappily was so gnat that he was usable to
extricate himself. Others fell into or entered the water in
the hope of rendering assistance, sod one of them, • geotle-
man gamed Jackson, by the rid of • ate*, succeeded in
rescuing Mr. Broughton, but, nafortunately, neither Mies
Balmer nor Mr. Smith could be reached. Information wen

imm;;Tiately-;;; to the polioe-station, and Sergeant
Handley, accompanied by Mr. Carter, surpoe, and three
coestable., as soon as possible arrived at the place, and en-
deavoured to recover the bodies. To acoomplish this they
bed to dig out the boat from the ice in which it was im-
bedded, transport it to the side of the pond nearest the spot
when the melancholy accident had occurred, and then to
break the ice until it reached the piece when it had given
way. This having hem does, the body of Mies Hubner wee
first recovered, and in a few minutes afterwards that of
' Mr. Smith. Mr. Hey, surgeon, who resides near, in the
meantime had arrived, but as the bodies had then twee
in the water for nearly two hours, it is needier
to say that any attempt to restore life would have bon
altogether fruitless. The body of Miss Buttner was removed
to the /timbre Arms, Chapeltown, and that of Mr. Smith
to the residence of his grandfather, Mr. William Smith, a
gentleman known throughout the country by his noble con.
tributium to the Wesleyan Missiceary and other charitable
objects. Mr. Lyndon Smith, who was • partner in the firm
of William Smith, Son, and Co., woollen merchants, Cook-
ridgestreet, Leeds, also occupied • distinguished position
as an amateur photographist. He was about thirty yews
of age, and leaves • widow and three children. Informa-
tion of the melancholy event was communicated to Mr.
Blackburn, the borough corner, who will probably mien
the inquest this day.—Lads Mercury of this day.

The encyclical latter continues to be most un-
favourably neeived by the Portuguese prem. Though
readily acknowledging the virtues of Pins IX., the great
majority of the journals repel the doctrines propounded in
the document as being reactionary and contrary to the
spirit of all civilised nations.
Three Roman urns have just been dug up at
Newport, in the Isle of Wight. They are each about a foot
I and a half in heifiht and one foot in breadth. Th eir posi-
tion, as they were found, formed a triangle, and the Mate-
rial of which they ere composed le a black wares were.
A new church is about to be built at St. Denys',
Southampton, near the Netley Abbey railway station on
the South Western line. This will be about the tenth
church built in Southampton and in its immediate neigh-
bourhood within the last quarter of a century.

Forty-eight letters to one individual of the popu-
lation pass through the London and Brighton peat-oak= in
the rums of a year ; 38 to one individual pass Unmask
Southasuptoo, 36 peas through Oxford, 34 through Chelten-
ham, 31 Liverpool. 29 Bristol and Plymouth, 28 Bath, Bir-
mingham, and Derby ; 27 Hull, 25 Portsmouth and York,
22 Devooport and Exeter, 21 Manchester, 19 Sunderland, 18
Leeds, and 16 Heddenfield. At Malvern, in Worcester-
shire, the number is 103, and at Ashton-under-Lyre only 6.
It appears by a letter from the foreman of the
jury in the Chatwynd ear that at prevent those gentlemen
have not received one peaty in compensation for the Moon-
venires and expense they were pat to in the Ito days'
trial. The "guinea" which was proffered to them was W-
Idignantly refined.
DEATH or THI DOWAGBIL COUNTESS OF TANKER-
VILLE.— We regret to learn that the Dowager Courses of
Tankervilis expired at her realism, in Herthereletreet,
May Fah, at 9 o'clock yesterday morning. The
who, up to the 12th inst., was apparently to Is=
state of health, ma that night mind with paralysis, shire
deprived her of the use of her right side, and was Masada
with loss of speech. Up to Friday evening last the amp-
teas yea going on favourably, but a change took place that
evening, sad since thou her ladyship has bre gradually
shine" The lamented countess was bore 6th Oreher,
1782 ; she was daughter of Antonio late Duke de Oteateat
bed aunt of the present duke), by Aglae, daughter of the
Duke de Politer. Her ladyship married Mb July, 1806,
Charles Augustus, filth Earl of Tankerviliss, and by that
; poblemae, who died in June, 1859, leaves issue the present
Berl of Taakerville spa the Counties of Mabsesbnry.
New HORTIOUNTUSAL SOCIETY.—.A. meeting of
cultivators end exhibitors of pleats. flowers, fruits, de.,
was held last amain at 37, Arsedeletreet, Strand, for the
• =of considering proverb for the formalicon of a sew
tarsi society. The ear was takes by Mr. Shirley
Hibbeet, who stated briefly the aeresity that existed for
an organisation devoted to the secrusgusent
tare and pomology, sad to salts togotlisr the 091114110111
cultivate 's and peactieal 'Weser, resident is the °Sanity
of the metropolis, for the latsrehasge cif °plaices sad
' mutual assetoom la matter of pretties. Os the motion
of Mr. Joseph Newts., it was resolved to establish the
London Society of Flerists end Penologists, sod other mep-
hitises ezpreesive of the objects of the moiety and appoint-
ing • committee to prows the rube, ha.. were agreed to,
• and the meeting was adjeansed to Feb. 13.