The Express.
London, England, 1867-01-21 00:00:00

THE Vi 1,1.:Nr•

The tine a : ,t:
the work of breaking.un.the dew itat funned during
the previous night.' Beyond this nothing was done
unttl the amitotic/1 of, noon, when the small band
asearchers -here, assisted in their wearisome la-
boar by rite kill of experienced divers. The
news of tin, ...on spread over the western dis-
tricts ~f the metrapolis, and in the afternoon the
binks'of the like here very math crowded, for the
most part with well-dressed p,trsons, who watched
the netacimitts of the square pi:iit atrryii.g the
pumping apparatue of the dicer Walt intense ite-
rnat. When the first diver mute upon the scene,
already dressed for his first descent, with the ex-
ception of his helmet, a thrll of eacitement ap-
is .0..01 to pass throti.,ll the crowd, and the previous
silence was broken by low murmuring snouts. No
time was lost in pushing the vessel into the deep
portion of the broad water opposite the mansion
which lies between the ton islands in this part of
the lake. Here c.sild be seen te e' pause 1.1 ice
which the lett :..-keet.er sr id had I.•,.l.eitit broken or
disturbed since the accident, .a..i apot,
after the lapse ~f some ten minutes ,tr :1 quarter of
an hour, the glittering head-p:tee of the diver was
seen to drop slowly under the water. His seam!!!
however, Noyes; limitless. Nor wr.s the Set, aa
dim era hoafterwardswelit tbm a miirestiecessful,;l•ll
night closed in without the recovery of the bodies
that were, and are, supposed to be still tinder the
water. The secondary incident of the day was the
abandonment by the volunteer ice eolleet•,rs of the
isouthern shore of the lake. The wells, it was said,
hail become full, mid the demand for ice had
ceased. One or two large consumers of the
article brought their boats and appliances into use
upon the deep water, and carried away consider-
able quantities. The heavy ice thus landed pre-
sented various degrees of quality. Some of it was
beautifully clean mid transparent. while the other
and the more considerable parts bad a dull dirty
appearance. A few active mil benevolent gentle-
men impressed with the necessity of keeping the
banks fret, front the ilriftim, fragments, so that the
after fn .at might not consolidate them into one
solid mass, determined to appeal to the crowd for
pecuniary assistance. The result of this appeal
was a sum sufficient to induced a umnber of those
who had "struck " to resume their work for the
remainder of the afternoon.

The operations of the divers were vuttineed yes-
terday, and the same living stream that on Wed-
nesday swept the thoroughfares converging on to
the park appeared to have again set in. The cold
air and threatening e!onds overhead did not check
either sympathy or curiosity. and throughout the
day the park may be said to have been completely
mobbed. Skating and sliding were general on the
tipper parts of the lake, where the ice was evi-
dently very strong, and every foot of the accessible
islands from whence a view could he obtained of
what was going on in the boats was covered with'
spectators. Except here and there, however, the
conduct of the multitude wasnot marked by theleast
indecorum. The same gentlemen who on Saturday
collected money to remunerate the men employed
in clearing the ice, renewed their appeal to the pub-
lic, not only in person, but also posting bills on
the gates and trees soliciting subscriptions. The re-
spouse received enabled them to pit on nearly 20
teen ; and at the close of the day a longand high mound
of ice testified to the industry of the men, as well
as indicated the neighbourhood of the calamity. The
diving arrangements were, as on Saturday, under
the direction of Mr. Heinks. The divers, in circular
routes, examined the entire bottom of the broad
water, that must by this time have become suffi-
ciently familiar to most newspaper readers. Up to
suezet, when the diving was suspended, they had
found nothing but a pair of skates, and the grati-
fying inference drawn from this trifling discovery
is, that there could be no bodies lying there ; if
therehad it was said to be very unlikely that they
cold have escaped the vigilance of divers who
could detect and bring up such small objects.