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THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 16, 1867.

AFTER Covent-garden Theatre—EVANS' to
SUP.
After Drury-lane Theatre EVANS' to SUP.
After Lyceum Theatre EVANS' to SUP,
After Adelphi Thehtre EVANS' to SUP.
After Olympic Theatre .
After Strand Theatre EVANo' to SUP.
After New 'loyalty Theatre VANS' to SUP.
After St. James's Theatre . . ... ...EVANS' to SUP.
After Prince of Wales' Theatre....EVANS' to SUP.
London Singing and Supper Club, EVANS', Covent-garden,
Vocal Entertainment at Fight.

of the whole strength of the Rhine frontier. To
these demands Count Bismark gave a firm and de-
cisive negative answer. It is not difficult to under-
stand what importance these revelations, giving the
seal of authenticity to what was hitherto mere vague
rumour, may have in the eyes of the Germans.
Coupled with the declarations made, by Count Bis-
mark in Parliament with respect to the deference
paid to French mediation in the terms granted to
Austria, to Saxony, and the inhabitan ts of the Danish
districts in North SchlesWie, they are calculated
greatly to enhance the merits. of the statesman who
knew both how., to yield and how ,to hold fast
according to opportunity. For what concerns the
rest of Europe all that there is to be learnt from
those negotiations of Nikolsburg is the fact that,
without the moderation of the two great men at
the head of affairs, those negotiations might rather
have kelt() the prolongation and extension than to
the close of the German contest ; for, had either
the Emperor Napoleon been- really in earnest
about territorial indemnity, or.had Count Bismark
shown himself inflexible about Saxony or North-
Schleswig—had not, in short, France and Prussia
been actually afraid of each other, the collision
between them was inevitable: Not a Hale, in our
opinion. may also be built on the mutual dread of
those two military States for the future tranquillity
of Europe ; and, indeed, on the almost perfect
equality of their forces a more durable balance of
power may be grounded than the one that was disz.
turbed by the cannon of Koniggratz. Were the
Emperor Napoleon to carry into full effect his
scheme for the organisation of the French army,
atl his efforts would not establish in his favour such
a superiority as could justify a venture on a single-
handed conflict. It is so evident that a mortal
duel between the Gaul and the Teuton can-
not enter into the boldest calculations of
French statesmanship that endless rumours are in
circulation about Franco-Austro-Italian alliances
against Prussia, which have as little foundation on
fact as on probability. The only chance that
France can have against Germany lies in those
divisions which have at all times thrown open the
Rhine frontier to her inroads. And we are by no
means surprised at the importance given by the Ger-
mans to the alleged advances of M. de Moustier to
the Government of Wurtemberg and to the other
south German States for the establishment Gf a
common standard of coinage, weight, and measure,
which is construed into an attempt to detach those
States from the Zollverein and to bring about be-
tween them and France commercial relations which
may easily lead to political combinations. Perhaps
Teutonic imagination runs rather too fast in this
matter. If, indeed, the French Minister by this
proposal hopes to introduce the thin end of the
wedge that is to split up the Fatherland, it is always
in the power of Prussia and the Zollvereiu to baffle
his designs by the timely adoption on their part of
that system which would place them on a common
footing with, four of the most thriving European
communities—France, Italy, Belgium, and Switzer-
land. In any other respect, we are not aware of
any great endeavour of France to win over any of
the German States of the South or North to a policy
which ought to be repugnant to their national
feelings.

The F6arful Accident in the Regent's Paik.

The following is a more detailed account of this mel-
ancholy accident than appeared in our late edition of last
evening:
Yeste'rdaY' after:l-I'6'6n a fearful accident took place
•on that part of the Ornamental Water in the Re--
gent's .Park immediately opposite Sussex-terrace, by
'Whie.h -a large number of persons have lost their
lives. On this part of the lake, which is the broadest,
several thousand persons had been skating during
the forenoon without any accident taking place,
athough the ice was looked upon by the
experienced icemen on duty as very unsafe,
from its being principally snow-ice. At about half-
past three o'clock in the afternoon there were near
the same spot about 500 skaters, among whom were
many ladies, there being at the same time on the
banks from 2,000 to 3,000 spectators. Suddenly,
and without any warning, the ice at the sides of the
bank became loosened, and was drawn from the
'edge: Within 'a. minute the whole sheet of the ice
over the full width of the lake gave way, and split
up into fragments of a few yards square. The con-
sternation and alarm of the skaters and other per-
sons on the ice may be well imagined, and a general
rush was made for the banks. Unfortunately this
broke up the soft ice into still smaller pieces. Num-
bers of persons fell through the crevices into the
water, which is at least 12ft. deep, and several ap-
peared at once to be sucked under the ice. At least
200 persons were struggling in the water, and
screaming for help. A few, with great presence of
mind, threw themselves flat upon the surface of the
pieces of ice, and were thus not onlyinstrumental in
saving the lives of many of those in the water, but
preserved their own until assistance came to them,
The screams of those struggling and sinking in the
water, and the shouts of the people on the banks,
added to the horror of the scene. The icemen, of
whom the full number were on duty, did all that it
was possible to do under the circumstances, and
three of them narrowly escaped from drowning,
having when in the water, helping the people out,
been seized by others drowning and pulled under
the ice. Several of the park keepers and spectators
rendered all possible aid, and more than 100 persons
within a few minutes of the accident were got on
shore, the great number of whom were so much ex-
hausted that they had to be taken to the Humane
Society's tent and placed under medical treatment.
While this" w-as going on several-persons who were
in the water in the middle of the lake, and whom it
was impossible for the icemen to reach, the ladders
and boats being rendered almost useless owing to
the state of the ice, were seen to sink back exhausted,
evidently benumbed with cold, after vainly endea-
vouring to support themselves by clutching at the
rotten ice, which • crumbled away in their grasp.
What made the scene the more dreadful was that
the female relatives of many of those who fell into
the water saw their struggles from the bank without
the possibility of saving them. One lady saw her
husband sink and lose his life, while two sisters were
sending forth piercing screams and calling on the
people to save their brother. He was drowned, and
the two ladies were taken away in a most pitiable
state, and sent to their home in a cab. Shortly after
4 o'clock a strong body of the D division of police,
and an additional number of icemen from Hyde-
park, arrived, but too late to render any aid except
in getting out the bodies of those drowned, all the
persons alive having by this time been rescued and
taken to the tent. Some had suffered simply from
the immersion and fright, but 40 were lying more or
less exhausted. Several of the medical men in the
neighbourhood had hastened to the scene of the ac-
cident on hearing the news, and by unremitting at-
tention on their part, under the direction of Dr.
Obre, of Melcombe-place, Dorset-square, surgeon of
the district for the Humane Society, had sufficiently
recovered by 5 o'clock to be taken away in cabs, some
to their own homes, some to the hospital, and others
to the workhouse. The inhabitants of Sussex-terrace
vied with each other in sending over to the tent all
the necessaries required by the medical men. The
most mournful part of the accident has now to be
recorded. As soon as the ice was cleared, a body
of icemen and labourers with great difficulty got
out the boats to that portion of the water where it
was known several persons had sunk. Before dusk
seven bodies had been recovered, but it was known
that there were many more under the ice. These
wereto be dragged for until this morning, as it:was
quite certain life must be extinct. Itis the opinion
of the icemen who witnessed the accident that there
are at least 20 persons drowned. The bodies, as they
were brought one by one to the shore, were taken '
to the tent, and their pockets searched for the
means of identification, but in no case was this suc-
cessful. One body was that of a gentleman aged
30. The others were those of young men, appa-
rently in the middle class of life, from 18 to 20 years
of age. All the bodies when recovered had skates
upon their feet. At seven o'clock the bodies were
removed on stretchers to Marylebone Workhouse,
where they will lie for identification. A hat was
picked up in the water, supposed to have belonged
to one of those whose bodies have not yet been re-
covered—the maker's name " T. Ashton, London."