The Express.
London, England, 1867-01-22 00:00:00

TALLOW MARKET.-(THIS DAY.)

The market—is quiet et the following quotations:—
Town tallow, 445. ; Petersburg, Y.C., on the owl,
445.; January to March, 44a; March, 44e. to 445. 3.L
April to June, 445. to 44a. 3d. ; October to December,
45e. to 45a. Gd.

SMITHFIELD HAY MARKET.—(THIS DAY.)
Mr. Charles James Easton reports trade at last day's
prices. Prime clover, from 100 s. to 115 e. ; inferior
ditto, Me. to 955. ; prime second cut clover, ten. to
100 a. ; inferior ditto, :16s. to 70e. ; prime meadow hay,
80s. to 9,11. ; inferior ditto, 55a. to 705.; straw. 38s. to 48..

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TILE REGENTS PARK ACCIDENT.

THE INgI'EST-
O:i the re-assembling of the court, after our imourt
left yesterday, the Coroner, addressing the jury, said
be thought the cause of Ike accident might he de-
monstrated on scientific principles. Scientific men
might be found who could set at the reason for the
t:e going away in the 11111111t,rdescribed in the evidence,
but lie had no power to call ouch witnesses. Before he
could cAll thou he moot h,ln,pareil to pay them himself,
a responsibility which he had on some former occasions
taken upon himself. tie thought it was rather hard that
the (mot a ouch evidence should devolve upon him. The
only.loofessional eviileno that he was empowered to call
at the public expense woo hat of ame dial man. In some
hist:oleos he hail sought authority from the Home-office
to peso fm- scientific esideme, hut the answer he received
woo th it the Home Secrtrity hail no power to grant it.
This difficulty was a great drawback to the satisfactory
pro4seso of the inquiry in which they were engaged.
Alfred Ward said—l reside at St. John's .wood-
terrace. and am one of the Boyal Humane Society's men.
This* are printed direction for our guidance.
A Juror asked if them: instructions could be produced?
Mr. Young, the secretary, iaid the instructions referred
to wen: printed on a card. and lie would read them.
.

This Waving been done.
The wituese then proceeded with hisevielence. lie said—
I was on duty upon the lei: last Tuesday, but hail nothing
to do with breaking it up round the edges. 1 broke a small
portion About 3 o'clock to earn people of danger. It was
near she nivel. eliere the ice wits break.
Mg Anil cracking into diamond shapes. I was
directed by the manse in what to watch this part
wish toy basket sledge boat, and wherever I placed
it, it. weight made the wat r come up. I cautioned people
off. lint they took no heed of me at all. I thought then if
I to id.. a hole to get a water mark it would keep people
from skating over it. Whilst I was afterwards sitting in
my boat this gentleman (pointing to the witness Spencer)
calm near me. 1 took my chopper out of my boat at this
time,- and put it down one of the cracks to try the thick.
near of the ice. The gentleman then came up to toe in an
insulting manner, asking me what I was about, and I told
him 1 was doing my ditty, and advised him to go off and
niake one the less on the ice. I did not break the ice as
he saps. but put my ace into the crack. I made no bole,
and it wise the premium of rid y boat that brought the water
up. The ice as rotten, and it broke first in front of one
of the mansions. About 2 o'clock I warned the people off
till I was quite h .as I saw a dreadful accident
Was coming. I arrived atoarse, the park about 8 o'clock in the
morning. and even then the ice was not safe, but I thought
we aliemlil be able to get over the day in the name way as
ou Mouday, when we had a good many immersions. I
apprehended .danger meet 1 o'clock, when there must
have been about 800 persons on the ice. The part near the
boathouse broke on Monday, and yet the men who lent
skates on hire encouraged little boys to go on. These
men, in my opinion, coutrihitted in ie great measure to the
cause of the accident. • ou Tuesday the people were on
the Miami part of the water, which had only two inches of
ice on it. The sun had affected the ice very
much, and the men playing at " hockey " and
the people jumping on and off her:reseed the danger.
It was all these things that produced the accident.
After one o'clock the ice kept getting worse and worse.
1 know nothing at all about cutting away the edges except
this, that it has always been done, and generally about
ten o'clock in the morning. I cannot say whether this
cutting weakens the ice. 1 was called first to an accident
near our tent, but the man who hail fallen in was got out
before I arrived. After that I kept on the breed water,
and I clearly saw that the hest piece of ice could not last
an hour longer, and I said to our superintendent, " Fu.
Coil's *Ake get these people off, or there will be a dreadful
accid•on by and by." Then came a second accident, near
the south shore, when three ells got in. This was about
a quarter of an hour before the final breaking up. I called
upon the people, " Now go ashore before you allget in," Some
of them went off, but many others jeered me, asking who
hail put nie in office. I then returned to my boat, which
was now a short distance from the long Wand, and in a
few minutes• aftfeniaids the third and great incident
occurred. There was one greet heaving up of the ice, and
in a Pleasant the people were all struggling in the water.
It woe before impossible to drive the people off. Yon might
just is well have attempted to drive a lamp-poet off, and
you can only caution them. I moved my boat with great
difficulty, and got two persons into it. I saw niy deputy
superintendent in the water, and I dragged him in. We
then got three more in, and one was hanging to the side ;
but the boat was filling with water, and it would have
been dangerous to take him or any others in
who called on all sides for help. We got the boat to the
south island, and after landing the rescued persons I
pushed back again to the broad water. I saw is young
man fleeting on the ice, who seemed to take care of every-
body but himself, and he pointed me to spots where people
where sinking all around. I threw him a line, but it did
not reach him, and I never saw him afterwards. I did all
I could to get peep!e out, and when I found I could do no
more, as it was getting dark, I returned to the tent on the
other side. My opinion is the people went down all at
once, and the ice must have closed upon them like a trap.
By the jury—lt would have been foolish to place only
one caution post up, becau.e the ice was dangerous in all
directions, and we should here wanted hundreds
of poles. The depth of the water where the three girls
fell in was about four feet. 1 have been here all the
morning, but I happened unfortunately to be outside when
Mr. Spencer was making his charge against me.
Mr. Young, the secretary of the Royal Humane Society,
was then examined, and after explaining its objects
read • statistical statement, from which it ap-
peared that, in the past twenty years in the Serpentine,
Hyde-park, there had lean 1,205,240 skaters, 250 im-
mersed and rescued, 4 deaths, 3 broken limbs, 148 severely
cut or bruised. In the long water, Kensington-gardens,
436,721 skaters, 199 immersed and rescued, and 9 who
had been severely cut or bruised. In the round Pe
Kensington-ganlens, 248,231 skaters, 121 immersed, i
broken limb, 1 severely cut or bruised. In the Regent's-
park, 1,251,493 skaters, 125 imniened and rescued, 1
drowned, 4 broken limbs, l 4 severely cut or bruised. In
St. James's-park , 999,609 skaters, 1,216 immersed and
rescued. 10 drowned, and 43 severely cat or bruised.
Total, 4,201,21k1 skaters, 2,125 immersed and rescued, 15
drowned, 8 broken limbs :mil dislocations, and 219 severely
cut or bruised and who received medical attendance. The
secretary further read a statement to the effect that re-
specting the accidents from bathing during the sane time,
119 bathers bad been rescued, 196 suicides rescued, and 43
ditto prevented. Total lives saved, 358 ; said bathers
drowned, 24 ; suicides drowned, 120; total lives lost, 144.
After reading the above statement,
Mr. Young continued his evidence to the following
effect :—lf the water in the Regent's-park could be re-
duced in depth, it would tend greatly to the prevention of
fatal accidents, but we have nude no official representa-
tion to the government on the subject. My
duty is to inspect the parks daily, and I visited
the Regent's-park last Tuesday. from half-past 11 till
• quarter to 1. My object in going round is to see
if our men are doing their duty. I went on the ice, and
I noticed that it was in an unsafe state—et least in such a
state no to make it unwise for people to venture on it. I
entreated and cautioned people not to go on. I told our
men to try and get the people off ; but it seemed to he
emeles The police have orders not to go on the ice. On
Thursday last I got the assistance of 25 policemen to clear
the ice in Hyde-park at night, and it took us an hour to
do so. In some =fences we had to use force, and lam
told I rendered myself liable to a charge of assault. I ap-
plied to Mr. Walpole for the assistance of 200 men to get
the people off the hoe before six o'clock, because I appre-
hended another accident there, but Mr. Walpole said he
had no power to give the order. We had ten men and a
boy in the Regent's-park. Having specified the appliances
the society had in the park to meet cases of accident. Mr.
Young continued to say—lt is useless to place up notices,
except at the gates, as the public tear them down, and
often our appliances arc destroyed. The ladder already re.
leered to was broken by the people sitting on it.
We Lave had no written report upon this accident, but
repot ti are made to me verbally every morning. Within
an hour and a half of the oceurrence, complaints were
made that two of oar men were drunk, but I saw one of
the men, whose name is Mitchell; an hoer after the
accill,id, and he was then perfectly sober. We are quite
entithed with the exertions of our men. Two were taken
to the infirmary, one of them almost in a dying condition.
The d•sy after the accident, however, we discherged one
man in the Regent's-park, for having been intoxicated.
To prevent such accidents in future, I would in the first
place strongly advise a reduction in the depth of the water,
my to four to five feet, gradiudly sloping to the maximum.
The objection to making the water less shal-
low would be that it would encourage the growth
of weels. I think, in the second place, the government
might make it a punishable offence to go on the ice while
in a dangerous state. A ball should he hoisted to warn
people off, and if they remained on after, the police should
hare power to take them into custody. I suggested the
other day to Mr. Walpole that the park should be closed
while the ice is not fit f r use: Certainly there ought to be
some authority who should have power to act in all these
eases.

• By the Jury—la 188.% the income of our society was
1,11.54/., which was all xpended, with the exception of a
balanc” carried over of '27 si. odd. I think it undesirable
to brealc the ice at the sides. The rush of people was,
in my opinion, the prime cause of the accident.
Mr. Charles White, of 21, Rt. John'iowood-terrace. gave
some evidence tending to show that one of the Royal
Humane Society's men had been guilty of gross misconduct
the day before the accident.
The Coroner said the evidence of the witness was not
admiss‘hle, as it applied to incidents which bad taken
place before the accident.
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Mr. Charles Edmunds was next examined. He said—l
em the superintendent of the Ilegent's-park. I was Ap-
pointed by the Chief Commissioner of her Majesty's Works,
and have held the office since Jawlary, MI. I saw the
ice on Monday, and thought it was dangerous, especially
on the broad water. and I directed the consubb s both on
that day and on Tuesday to prevent persons &dug on as
much as possibly could. We havepower to remove
people froths peck after certain stated hours, but no
power t prevent their going on the wafer in boats or the
ice while the park is open to the public. It lon been the
practice foe many years to break the lee round the islands.
so as to prevent the people from getting on to them. an .I I
gave instructions that the ice should be broken in this

The foreman of the jury asked whether it would be ne-
cessary to take some steps to bring their opinion under
the notice of the government!
The Coroner said he did not think that any resolution
they could come to would induce Lord John Manners to
act more readily than he was already disposed to do. They
had heard from Mr. Russell that his lordship was most
anxious to do all that he possibly could in the matter,
and he (the coroner) felt convinced that after what had
occurred something would be done to render the ornamen-
tal waters, and especially that in the Regent's-park, less
offensive in the hot season and more safe in winter.

Mr. Young announced that the Royal Humane Society
had appointed, or were about to appoint, a committee to
inquire into the whole subject.
The court was then formally adjourned until Monday
next, the ....Nth inst.

The same operations that were resorted to on Saturday
and Sunday were continued yesterday. The drags were
supplemented by the use of fishermen's net ; and in the
afternoon the divers again searched. No bodies were
found. The divers brought up two hats, a pair of boots,
and a walking-stick, which were handed over to the park
constables. They represent the bottom of the lake to be
in such a state as to place great obstacles in the way of
their progress. In one part at which one of the divers
descended, be found the mud to have accumulated to
the extent of live feet, and the average depth of the
muddy bottom through which he traversed he pronounced
to be :1 feet 6 inches. The broad part of the water, with
the exception of Rome fragmentary blocks of ice, is now
open and free to the navigation of the boats. The collect-
ing of ice on the banks proceeded as before, and
contributions were made by some of the epee-
tators towards the necessary funds for remunerating
the workmen. The accumulation of ice on the banks con-
tinues. It is said that previous to the accident large sup.
plies had been brought to London from its surrounding
districts, and this circumstance may in some measure ex.
plain the great falling off that has taken place in the
demand at the Regent's-park. Notwithstanding a bitter
northerly wind, a large concourse of people, for whom the
labours of the divers appeared to possess a peculiar attrac-
tion, clustered on both banks, and did not quit the park
until dusk, when of course the day's search concluded.
It is stated that only one fatal ice accident has occurred in
this park for the last twenty years, and that was the case
of a gentleman who lost ilia life in the shallow water by
venturing upon the ice before it attained sufficient strength
11 to bear even his own weight.

THE WEATHER AND THE PADES.—The frost
continues with unabated severity, accompanied yesterday,
as on Sunday, with an intensely cold north-easterly wind.
Yesterday morning, and during the previous night, the
Receiving-house thermometer regiatered 27 deg., or 5 deg.
below freezing point. At noon it had risen to 32, where
it remained until 8 o'clock last night,. when it receded to
29, showing 3 deg. of frost. The various parks and the
ice were crowded during the day, and the evolutions of the
ladies and gentlemen connected with the Skating Club
on the water in Kensington-gardens was a source of groat
attraction to a large number of fashionable spectators who
lined the banks in carriages or on foot. The ice in these
waters is from t# inches to 5 inches thick, and in good
and sound condition. On the Round-pond there were about
5,000 persons on the ice during the day, and on the Long
Water about 7,000. No casualties are reported beyond
some injuries from falls. On the Serpentine there were
12,000 persons. The ice here is four inches in thickness
and sound. No casualties were reported up to 8 o'clock of
a serious nature. At that hour there was a large number
of persons on the ice following their favourite sport by
torchlight. Al on Sunday night the police cleared the
stallkeepers out of the park at 6 o'clock, but no attempt
was made to prevent the night skating, the strength of
the ice removing the fear of danger. The lake in the en-
closure of St. James's-park was also crowded during the
day, chiefly by the working classes. Upwards of 10,000
visitors were on the ice, but without any accident save a
trifling immersion or two.
THE EXTENSION or THE FACTORIES Acr.—Yes-
terdsy an important conference of employers engaged in
the trades of South Staffordshire and East Worcestershire
was held in the Town Hall, Wolverhampton, called
together by the South Staffordshire Educational Associa-
tion ; Lord Lyttelton presided, and he was supported
amongst others by the Earl of Lichfield, Mr. W. 0. Foster,
M.l'., and others. The noble chairman said be could not
see why the act which had been so beneficial wherever it
had been introduced should not be introduced everywhere.
That the principle was about to be extended was clear,from
in letter which his noble friend the Earl of Lichfield had re-
ceived from the Home Secretary. Mr. Walpole wrote that
it was the intention of the government at au early dal to
ce introdu two bills, the one having the effect of extending
the act to large factories, and the other of placing small
shops under such regulations as had been recommended.
The Earl of Lichfield rejoiced that, from the letter which
he had received from Mr. Walpole, in reply to a com-
munication from himself, it was the intention of the
new government to take up that which had been so
lung delayed by the late government. Again and
Noun he had expressed his surprise that notwith-
standing the excellency of the working of the
Factories Act, and notwithstanding farther the Children's
Employment Commission bad so long ago revealed the DO-
oessay for the extension of the act, yet that nothing had
bees done. Come from whom it might, be would accept
anything that was good ; and he was glad to remark that,
AS the noble chairman had said, " a new broom might
I sweep clean." (Laughter and applause.) His lordship
referred to the great good effected by the introduction of
the act into North Staffordshire. Hie remarks were con-
firmed by the Kee. Sir Loveleoe Stainer and Mr. Challinor,
An employer. Mr. Hartley. late chairman of the Iron-
masters' Association, and other manufacturers, spoke in
opposition to the half-time movement, but expressed their
general approval of the principle of the act, and a resolu-
tion was passed recommending its extension.

A LIGHTHOUSE KEEPER DROWNED.—Ott Friday
the Trinity boat took over to the Lonphips Lighthouse,
near Land's End, the usual supplies of water and provi-
lions for the three lightkeepers on duty, and before the
boat reached the mainland again the black Hag was hoisted
at the lighthouse, which was not perceived by the Trinity
boat's crew. The crew of a fishing boat that was a short
distance off, seeing the signal of distress, pulled to the
lighthouse and found that • man was drowned. It
appears that Anderson and Graham, two of the light-
keeps, had wide' in landing the provisions, and then
remained on • ledge of the rocks washing clothes. Sud-
denly a heavy sea came in and washed Anderson into the
water, and he was carried away by the great run of tide
which prevails there, and soon disappeared. Mr. Smith,
the head lightkeeper, sent • letter ashore by the fishing
boat announcing the melancholy fact. It is singular that
Anderson sncceeded the man who was drowned at the
Lonphirs Lighthouse a few months ago. It might not be
generally known that the force of the sea and tide is so
great at the Land's End that frequently a boat cannot be
got across to the lighthouse fur a week or ten days, or
even more, in rough weather.
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