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

THE SUN, LUNLON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 16, 1867

Many of the victims in such cases are no
do, ibt victims to their own recklessness and fool-
har iiness. But folly and recklessness are neither
very uncommon nor very heinous faults in the class
of yo ung men and boys who generally form a large
propartic aof the company on the ice. Older and wiser
persons may well censure and caution them, but
they ca: snot really be surprised if their cautions are
disregarded by vigorous and careless youth. It
would, then, be very desirable to remove some of
the risks attending the sport. In the ornamental
water on our parks surely it would be possible,
either by granting the assistance of the police to
keep persons off ice known to be in the dangerous
condition of the Regent's-park water yesterday, or
else to reduce all our ornamental water to
the depth of that in St. James's-park, which
answers every purpose of ornament, and
in which no accidents of a very serious
extent are any longer possible. The fact is that
it is some years since we have had an accident of
this nature, and we fear that all parties have begun
to lose sight of the danger. We should like to see
the perils of skating, at least in London, to be re-
duced to the risks of a fall, or a concussion, and not
as now to include the possibility of so great and
melancholy a disaster as that which we record in
our columns to-day.

The Conservatives of Durham have given a great
banquet in order to celebrate the accession to office

of a Conservative Government, and also to compli-
ment the member for the city, the Right Hon. J
MOWBRAY, upon his re-appointment as Judge•

Advocate-General. The Right hon. gentleman
made an interesting speech upon those topics
which at the present day engage most deeply

Only two evenings before his death he had a num-
ber of friends at his house on the Quai Voltaire,
and he was in the best health and spirits. There was
nothing to indicate approaching illness. This great
painter commenced the study of drawing when he
was only five years old. At 17 he was a pupil of
the celebrated David, and after four years' study he
gained the second great prize for painting. A year
afterwards the first prize was awarded to him. Some
of the pictures he sent from Rome were rather coldly
received. He, however, remained in that city until
he married iu 1817. His picture,' " The Vow of
Louis XIII.," now at Montauban, which he painted
at Florence, was at the Satin of 1824, and created
a great sensation. Al. Ingres at once assumed
the first rank among idealist painters. In that
year he was appointed Professor at the Academy of
Fine Arts. He began to paint pictures in great
profusion, and some of them were so adversely criti-
cised that he decided upon leaving France, and was
almost discouraged. lie was appointed Director of
the Villa Medicis, from which he seat more pictures
to Paris. When he returned from Rome for the
second time, however, his fame was placed upon a
sure foundation. In the year 1855 he was named
Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour. His death
has created quite a sensation in Paris.
The Constitutionnel says :—" The Grand Duke of
Hesse made a strong remonstrance to Prussia, with
the view that the communes of Castel and Kostheim,
situated within the radius of the fortress of Mayence,
should not form part of the Confederation of the
North. It is now certain that the Prussian Govern-
ment has not paid the least attention to his claim,
for a Grand Ducal ordonnance has just been issued,
which provides for the elections in those communes
to the Parliament of the North."
The frost continues. It has been very cold, dull,
and foggy all day, with snow occasionally.

LA TEST INTELLIGENCF.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

AMERICA.

(By Atlantic Telegraph.)
NEW YORK, Jan. 15, Evening.

Gold, 135 k-. Exchange on London, 109 k. Five-
twenty United States Bonds, 1071 ; Illinois, 120 ;
Erie, 651-,. Cotten—Middling Upland, 34i.
The North German Lloyds' steamship Bremen
arrived out to-day.

THE HUNGARIAN DIET.

PESTI', JAN. 15.

The draft of Address proposed by llerr Deak, in
reference to the Imperial patent, was almost unani-
mously adopted by the Diet to-day.

The additional proposal of Herr Madaras that
the House should declare the Imperial patent to be
null and void, was rejected as inexpedient. Herr
Tissa expressed apprehension that the Government
would not re-establish the Constitution of 1848.

ITALIAN FINANCE.

FLORENCE, Jan. 15 (Evening).

An appendix to the Budget for 1867 was laid be-
fore the Chamber of Deputies to-day, in which the
public revenue is stated at 865 millions lire, and the
expenditure at 1,024,000,000 lire, leaving a deficit
of 159 millions. By this statement a reduction is
shown of about 27 millions, upon the estimated ex-
penditure of the Budget presented in December last.

The Chamber has approved, with some modifica-
tions, the bill upon parliamentary disqualification
by 147 against 79 votes.

VIENNA, Jan. 16.

On the occasion of the celebration of the Greek
New Year's Day the Russian Ambassador to this
Court forwarded numerous invitations to a banquet
to the Greeks residing at Vienna. Count Stackel-
berg proposed the toast to the prosperity of Greece.