The Sun.
London, England, 1867-01-16 00:00:00

ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS THIS DAY.

Thousands of persons thronged the Regent's-
park this morning, and, despite the precautions
taken to prevent the admission of other than those
provided with keys and those engaged in the melan-
choly duty of recovering the bodies of those unfor-
tunate persons who have perished by the lamentable
accident, an immense number of persons climbed
over the park railings and proceeded at once to the
mound in the cow-park to the north-east. The
appearance presented was extraordinary—the rising
ground was literal'y covered with human beings, who
watched with the greatest anxiety the efforts of those
engaged in the boats. The operation of dragging fcr
the bodies was resumed at daylight this morning,
but the work was of the greatest danger and diffi-
culty, as the frost daring the night had refrozen the
broken ice into one complAe sheet, and before the
drags could be put into operation the ice had again
to be broken up. The men of the Humane Society,
the park keepers, and a number of other persons
manned the ice boats, and commenced their work in
right good earnest, but the means at their command
were of the most primitive description. There seemed
to have been little or no preparation for the work they
engaged in, and beyond one or two men being pro-
vided with a pickaxe, and another or so with a
mallet, no other means appeared to be at hand to
make channels through the ice for the seven boats
engaged in the work. Even this morning there was
a deficient supply of rope, and, in some cases, work
on board one or two of the boats was suspended for
a time in consequence of the want of such a very
common article. The result of the opera-
tions being carried on on so small a scale was
that nearly as fast as the small space around the
boats was cleared of the ice the water again froze,
and the work had to a certain extent to be per-
formed over again. To many persons it did not
appear to have been an impossibility to have con-
veyed a couple of empty barges from the Regent's
Canal,'and by means of boards being laid from
one to the other some more powerful and effectual
means could have- been called into requisition to
break up the frozen surface and allow the drags to
be used with greater freedom. However such
was not the mode of operation, and taking into
consideration the nature of the work in which
the men were engaged, and the hearty and will-
ing manner in which they performed their labo-
rious task, they each deserve commendation and
praise. In a short time after the drags were in
operation the bodies of two young men were
brought to the surface, and when the fact became
known to the thousands of persons who, by this
time, had thronged the banks, a scene of the
wildest excitement ensued; hundreds rushed from the
different sides to the spot the boat containing the
bodies was making for, with the desire of catching
a glimpse of the unfortunate deceased. The police,
however, the instant the bodies were landed, threw a
blanket over each, and then, laying them on
stretchers, carried them to the dead-house of St.
Marylebone workhouse. In a short time after an-
other body—that of a lad about 16 years—was re-
eovered ; and, later on, five other bodies were found,
making in all eight more, in addition to eight
already identified.

The names of two of those recovered this morn-
ing are William Parkinson, of Phoenix-place,
Somers-town, and James Griffin, a vendor of
oranges, Lincoln-court, Drury-lane. The others
had not, at the time our reporter left the work-
house, been identified.

That the calamity is no worse than has been de-
scribed is more than doubtful, and it is to be hoped

that the deaths will not amount to more than has
been estimated, but we very much fear such will
not be the case. At one spot, where it is known,
for certainty, that five or six people went
down not one has yet been recovered, the search
being entirely confined to the broader portions of
the water. A gentleman, an eye-witness of the
dreadful scene, this morning said that the estimate
of those who have perished must be very far be-
low the actual number. The moment after the ice
broke the water seemed to him to be full of people,
the heads of nearly all of whom he saw gradually
disappear. Those in the middle of the ice had no
means of getting off alive, and therefore until
the ice is cleared away it will not be
possible to tell whether the bodies of all those
who have perished have been recovered.

Of course there was no skating on any portion of
the Ornamental Water to-day, yet a number of
persons, amongst them being many ladies, attended
evidently for that purpose, from the fact that they
each carried a pair of skates.
The scene at St. Marylebone Workhouse this
morning was heartrending. Mothers and fathers
were constantly arriving at the gate, begging for
leave to see the bodies of those now lying in the dead
house; and although Mr. Douglas, the master,
whose conduct throughout has been above all praise,
informed them that all the bodies had been identi-
fied, such was their anxiety—as some of their rela-
tives had been from home during the night, that
refusal would have been unkindness ; and
he, therefore, in the most humane manner,
not only granted what they required, but
did all that was possible to quiet their
alarm. These inquiries were not confined to the
humbler class, but in a variety of cases carriages,
with rich armorial bearings emblazoned thereon,
brought anxious inquirers after missing relatives.
The scene within the dead-house is melancholy in
the extreme. The bodies lie side by side, and as
identification takes place, a blanket is thrown over
the frozen corpse, and his name and address is
pinned thereon. All the bodies present the same
appearance—the features fixed in a most determined
aspect, the lips compressed, and the hands firmly
clenched. Around some of the unfortunates
the parents stand in a desparing way, weeping in
the most pitiable manner, As au addition to the
number of the dead is made, hundreds pass through
the place to identify, and when the body is recognised
a piercing shriek is generally the only thing that for
some time announces the fact that the hody has
been owned.

The most distressing appeals have been made to
Mr. Douglas for permission to remove the bodies
from the workhouse, but of course such cannot be
done till the coroner, Dr. Lankester, has made his
inquiry, and on Mr. Douglas informing that gen-
tleman of the great desire that existed amongst the
relatives of those lying dead at the workhouse, he
at once consented to open the inquest this evening,
as far as the identification of the bodies, which will
enable the friends to remove them to their own
homes.

The inquiry will embrace the case of all those
who may be recovered from beneath the ice up to
five o'clock this evening. _ _

We shall publish a full list of those identified up
to that hour, with as much as possible of the pre-
liminary proceedings in our late edition.

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET.
(This Day.)

Market opens with a better demand Sales, pro-
bably, 7,000 bales.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

(BY TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Wednesday Morning.
Arrived, Jan.ls.—Romulus, from Gothenburg ; Joseph
Somes, from Dantzic.
Arrived, Jan. 16.—St. Bode, from Gothenburgh ; Flecha
(steamer), from Ghent.
DEAL, Wednesday Morning.
Passed- - Sanspareil, for Brixham ; Rhoda, for St.
Michael's ; Orissa, for Greenock ; Midlothian, for St.
Helena— all from London.

DEATH OF THE MARQUIS OF EXETER.—STAM-
FORD, Wednesday Morning.—After a lingering illness,
Lord Exeter died at Burghley-house at 1 o'clock thim
morning.
37TH MIDDLESEX RIFLE VOLUNTEERS.—NO. 1
Company Challenge Cup was competed for at Willesden
on Saturday last during a snow storm, when it was won by
Quartermaster Sergeant Hays. The cup is to become the
property of the member who first wins it three times. It
has now been won twice by Quartermaster Sergeant
Hays, twice by Colour 9orgeout Uatfield, and CMCO by
COrp9X6ll44rTey.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

FOREIGN RACING INTELLIGENCE.
BADEN-BAD EN RACES.
AUGUST 31, SEPTEMBER 2,4, AND 6, 1867.

The programme for this popular meeting has just boon
issued, and manifests a considerable improvement on those
of the previous years. The principal alteration is that the
races, instead of being spread over a considerable timer are
now confined to four good days' sport, with an interval only
of one day between each. The steeplechase, which was
the only event on the last day, will no longer now be run
alone, as three other fiat races will also take place on the
same day, the selling steeplechase being now suppressed.
This arrangement will ha much appreciated by the English
division, many of whom could not wait for tho last day
with the Doncaster attractions so close at hand. Some
useful alterations and additions have been made to some of
the stakes. The r;ontinental St. Leger, with 400 sovs
added, is now called the International St. Leger, and is
open to horses of all countries, which will most probably
greatly increase the number of entries and starters, as lat-
terly this race has only brought out small fields. A novelty
this year in racing is advertised in the Prix du Rhin, which
is a weight for ago race, with 200 sovs added, open to horses
of all countries, the winner to b.) sold for 1,000 sovs ; to bo
run in three heats, in three separate days ; the winners of
the two first heats can only start for the third, and a win-
ner of any heat to receive one-third of the entries; distance
the first heat, about one mile, the second two miles and a
half, and the third about one mile and three furlongs. On
the last day the Prix do Fromersberg, open to all horses
two years old and upwards, about one mile and a quarter
will form a useful trial stake for young horses. The
amount of public money given at this meeting is about
3,500 sovs, which is rather more than 300 sovs in excess of
last year. The Produce Stakes for 1870 at Baden has closed
with GO subscriptions.

Spinks, trainer to Count D'vry, arrived at Chantilly last
week from Maison Lafitte, with the following horses, viz.,
Joli-Coeur, 5 yrs; St. Contest, 5 yrs ; Silly, 5 yrs ; Grenoble
5 yrs ; and Testament, by Fandango, 3 yrs. Spinks has
taken stables at 2G, Grand Rue, Chantilly, and is at liberty
to take horses as a public trainer, and from the long expe-
rience he has had in preparing horses for cross-country
events gentlemen may rest satisfied that horses entrusted
to his charge will have every attention.
M. Dorlodot's horses, consisting of Monitor, Novateur,
Caleb, Stoneham, and Little Black, have lately left Chan-
tilly under the care of Sprooty, his private trainer, and
will now be trained in Belgium.
M. 11. Delamarre's Vermont (winner of the Grand Prix
do Paris in 1864), by the Nabob—Vermeille, is advertised
to cover at the Hares do Bois Roussel, near Alencon, in
Normandy, at 24 sovs each mare ; good accommodation
foi mares at three francs per day.

STOCKBRIDGE MEETING.
Th UESDAY, JUNE 20.
Stockbridge Cup, 300 sovs, 10 soya each; two-yr-olds 6st
31b, three Bst 51b, four 9st 11b, five and upwards 9st 41b,
mares and geldings allowed 31b, maiden horses at the
time of starting to be allowed as follows :—two-yr-olds
31b, three 61b, four 101 b, five and upwards 141 b, horses
that have won 100 sovs in 1865, 1866, 1867, 31b ; 300 soya
51b, 600 soya and upwards 121 b extra (ontches and han-
dicaps excepted). Seven furlongs, on the New Mile. 56
subs.
Savernake, 4 yrs Lecturer, 4 Flying Scud, 3
Ben Nes is, 3 The Duke, 5 Pet 3r, 2
Aquila, 2 . Boreas, 2 The Don, 2
Lady Hester, 3 Mameluke, 2 Bonapar Le, 2
Vortigern, 2 Naiveté, 2 Logarithm, 2
Viridis, 3 Mrs. Stratton, 4 Lady Roee, 3
Hermit, 3 Copenhagen, 6 The Demon, 2
Inspiration, 2 Chic, 2 Friponnier, 3
Mar esia, 2 Bel Giorno, 2 Biuesk:n, 3
Boarklu, 2 Cerise, 2 Archimedes, 5
Brother to Ar:el, 2 Phaeton, 2 Monarch of Glen, 4
The Nymph, 2 Leading Suit, 3 Lord Lyon, 4
Raglan, a Camellia, 5 Ostreger,
Three per Cent, 4 Mail Train, 6 Actma, 4
Agnes do Maps-Pint. of Gai.er, 3 Distin, 3
feldt, 2 Impostor, 5 Hereunianus, 2
Kaffir's Land, 2 Cawdor, Fairfield, 3
Leonio, 2 Sunflower c, 2 Ines, 3
Lanark, 2 Ailesbury, 3 Ardbeg, 3

NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE SUMMER MEETING.
WEDNESDAY, Juno 26.
The Tyro Stakes of 5 sovs each, with 150 added, for two-
year-olds; colts, Bst 101 b; fillies and geldings, Bst 61b;
winners of 100 sovs previous to starting, 41b; of 200
sovs, 71b; or of 500 sovs 101 b extra (extreme penalty);
horses having started twice without winning allowed
31b ; thrice, 51b ; second to receive 20 sovs. New T.Y.C.
37 subs.
br f Ylang Ylang, Shibboleth bc by Wild Dayroll
by Buccaneer Caprera —Chow
Stockade Annora Broughton
Thankful Secret Service Doctor Syntax
Stella Secret Treasure Br. to Redmire
C by Thormanby— Skedaddler Viscount
The Nymph Van Diemen Progress
Canoe Lady Cavendish br f Albatross by
Haymaker Bassoon Buccaneer —Miss
Percussion Cawdor Armstrong's dam
br f Frolicsome, by ch cby The Marquis Warring ton, by Y.
Weatherbit —Buttercup Melbourne—Little
Frolic Proctor Lady
Affection Chelsea Privilege
br f by NowminsterLady Alleash Hermosa, by Barn-
-English Rose Festivity ton or Carbiueer
Br. to Bombastes bf by The Marquis —Castanette
Br. to Bivouac —Catherine Parr

SALES OF HORSES AT ALBERT GATE BY
MESSRS. TATTERSALL.

Tho hunting stud of J. Coupland, Esq., owing to his
having met with an accident, were sold on Monday by
Messrs. Tattersall, at Albert Gate, and as several of them
were thorough-bred horses, up to considerable weight, and
well known in Cheshire and Leicestershire, some good
prices were realised, as will be be seen by the subjoined
return. Eleven lots were " put up," but two, Fenian and
Honeysuckle, were withdrawn, not having reached the
reserved price. Prior to the sale of Mr. Coupland's horses
a few lots were disposed of, which will be found below:

THE PROPERTY OF J. COI/PLANA ESQ. Gs.
Broxton, by Peppermint (Ur. Price) 76
Champion, by Defiance (Lord H. Bentinck) 250
Blackcock, by Slynge (Mr. Sheward) 100
Rupert, ch g, by Mountain Deer...(Lord H. Bentinck) 280
Challenger, by Defiance (Mr. Price) 200
North Star, ch g, by Young Augur out of Rona
(Mr. E. Robinson) 125
King Tom, b h (entire), by King Tom out of Constance
(Mr. Lombardo) 55
Abboyville, by Magnum, dam Kathleen, by Angelo
(Mr. King) 42
Brian Borhoime, by Faugh-a-Ballagh ...(Mr. Dlxon) 70

THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN.

Dancing Mistross, 3 yrs, by Longbow, out of Mistress
(Mr. Banks) 25
Br f, 2 yrs, by The Groat Unknown, out of Mabel
Lindon •• .....(Mr. Bright) 20
B c, 2 yrs, by Chevalier d'lndustrie, out of Fannie
(Mr. Benson) 30

RACING FIXTI
FEBRI

Lincoln Spring
Harrow
M A

Liverpool Spring
Chelmsford Spring l2
West Drayton l9
Bromley

Northampton
Windsor Spring 4
Edinburgh Sp. Meeting 6
Newmarket Craven 8
Curragh
M
Chester (continued)
York Spring 7
Salisbury
Doncaster Spring ...... 9
Bath

RES FOR 1867.

ARY.

Nottingham 26
Derby

Epsom Spring 26
Lowos Spring 2B
Croxton Park 29

Ascot Summer 4
Windsor Summer
Manchester Summer
Hampton l3
Odiham l7
Bibury Club lB
---

T husk
Durham .. 22
Newmarket ist Spring 22
Catteriek
Chester 3O
Y.
Harpenden
Epsom Summer
Newton 29
Croydon

E.
Stockbridge l9
Chelmsford 26
Newcastle ..•••••• 25
Curragli
Worcester Summer 27
Ipswich 27
,Y.
Down Royal Corporate
Stamford
Huntingdon 23
Winchester
Southampton
Goodwood

Clarlislo 2
Newmarket July 2
Pontefract
Reading •••.• 9
Liverpool July Meeting 10
Hungerford
Nottingham July
AU(
Goodwood (continued) 1
Ripon
Brighton 6
Brighton Club 8
Lewes
Egham • • • l3
13
Wolverhampton
Stockton
Oxford

UST.
York August 2l
Dover ................... 22
West Drayton ......•••••• 22
Plymouth . . 23
Canterbury
27
Lichfield
Derby Summer ' 28
Weymouth
Tunbridge

Hastings
SEPT.
Warwick ....... .
Margate
Curragh
Leicester
Abingdon
Doncaster
OCTI
Northampton Autumn. 1
Edinburgh Autumn
Newmarket 2d October 7
Cheltenham l5

:MBER.
Richmond l7
Hendon l9
Monmouth
Manchester Autumn 2O
Newmarket Ist October 24
Walsall 23
,BER.

Gurragli
Newmarket Houghton 2l
Worcester Aututnu 23

NOVE
Liverpool Autumn
Shrewsbury l5l I

MBEII.
Leamington Hunt

STEEPLECHASE FIXTURES FOR 1867.
FEBRUARY.

Carmarthen
Birmingham l2 Derby
Windsor

MARCH.
Liverp00l Spring
,Grand Military
Chertsey
Maltoi

It is announced that in April next the Paris
Petites-Voitures Company will start 500 small
basket carriages, to run at the same prices as the
pregent cab.