The Sun.
London, England, 1815-12-11 00:00:00

SKA,ITISG.

!The eatrerness of'a number of persons to enjoy
the diversion of skaiting as soon as the frost sets
in, and before the ice is,firnt, has frequently led
to tatal accidents, and we regret to learn that Ate
experience of former'seasons has not diminished
the imprudence, -.Saturday a lad named George
Kendal; belonging to the I-log in the Pound. Ox-
ford-streetr tell into the Canal in St. James's
but. was fortunately rescued from death. Yesterday
aigreat crowd assembled at the Canal, and the
plessure on the-ice, pot-yet firm,,eaused one fatal
accident,. and had .ne„arly produced several cidiers.
Aboat ten o'clock-in the tn.Orning a person liv-
ing in Waterloo-street, Shore-ditch, fell in, but
was got out..safe; about .two, „another individual
Of the name of Beal, living in Northinnberland-
street, Strand, also fell in, but was saved. Soon
afterwards four men and a boy fell in ; the men
were get ont about halt-past. three alive, hut the,
boy %grits unhappily drowned 3 his body was found
at live o'`e!oelc, and taken to St. Martin's work-
house'. Four watertnen, named Heath, Wood,
and: Scott, deserve great praise for
eir activt. humanity in extricating the persons
above allia4 to They, with the assiStance of
°tilt exerted themselves:greatly with drags and.
ropes, had it not beep' for which more lives WoOld
pr- have been lost.
Ou. th.,: Serpentine. River there were yesterday
a gleat.nuniber skaiters, but up to three o'vlock
no accident•ocenrred. A short time atter, we un-
detstand; that a 1::dy and gentleman attempting
to !itts% from one side to the other, got on a weak
par.t
.ice, and both went down. Several
persons who were near the spot rushed forward to
061' essistancc, but the ice being to-0 weak to sup-
purr ao.soilden and great a pressure, instantly gate
-ay, and they sank. The endeavours of.some
ate' employed by. the Hainiane Society, rescued
froth certain destruction, and others were
enabled to get -out by their own exertions. We
are ,soury, however, to•state, that several persons
were drowned, artiongst whom, it is said, were.
two leinales.- The Lady and Gentle Than who were
pa; fly the innocent causes of f the
nielantholy ca-
tastrophe were taken out, but tile Lady teas ppik.
rentiv-liteless, and very little hopes were enter-
tained of her benefiting by the Means generally
resurted to on such occasions. 7 •

Dutch litters say, the departure, of_ the Prince
of Orange for St. Petersburgit has given rise to
muck interesting speculation on the future union
of ROSsian interests with those of the Nether.i.
lands., and the consequent decline of. British In-
fluence lit the latter quarter. Those who wish
well to a connection with w, utter -the most
• poignant regrets on the disappointment of that
matrimonial union, by which it was once hoped
that the House of Orange would have allied itself
to our throne. " You have fougSt," -say:they,
you have bled, you have negociated for the.
erection and consolidation of the Belgian king-
dom. You have generously sacrificed, your inter
rests to the formation of a power calculated
to, go hand in hand with yourselves in main-
taining the political equilibrium of Europe : and
now, it is to be feared, your hopes will be in a
great measure frustrated. The political system of
the Netherlands will be detached trona your own,
and will be thrawn into another scale," Such
-are the consequences of evil counsel suggested by
'evil passions.? Such are the results of a fatal in-
. Atience, which blinded the juslgiuent of
,a young
atititkirtiable Princess to the important interests of
Li batiou she was probably 41es!ine4 to govern.
A short time since, as some labourers, emphiy-
ed in removing ground in the vicinity of, the Ro-
• min toad, Ermitierstreet, leading from Chichester-
(the Regnum of Antoninua) to London, a short
distance -front Arundel, and near the recently!
discovered ROman Villa at Bignor, they disco-
vered in--an earthen vessel, nearly two hundred
:coins of the third...brass, In good preservation,
~,kf(lowtich tutut have been deposited in that situ-ti It-Upwards of 1509 years; none being of later
d ttlqtan Tetricus. A great proportion were of
,110-.Etuperurs
,GanelltlS, POSLUMUS, ViCtOrillUS,
Caudius, Quinctillus, Tetricns,
,and of the Ern-.
4ress Salonina, and of Vietorina. At the same
tiine.iverd found several sepulchral urns, some of
'.shout-cutlet and cqutainin4 liviit huiwaa as4es

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