The Sun.
London, England, 1861-01-11 00:00:00

THE WEATHER AND THE PARKS.

The various Royal Parks, which were a year or
two since the arenas of political discussions on
Sundays, have for the present, and will no doubt
continue during the prevalence of the frost to be
the resort of the aristocracy and other members of
various grades in society. Judging from the ap-
pearance of the different parks yesterday, and the
scenes on the Serpentine last night, skating by the
fair sex and others does not appear to have lost any
of its attractions. The various parks were crowded
by thousands of persons during the day, not only
by those who disported themselves upon the frozen
waters, but also by many thousand persons who
lined the footpaths along the different parks for
the purpose of witnessing the extraordinary exer-
cises of the skaters and sliders.

During the early part of yesterday 6,000 per-
eons amused themselves upon the ice on the Ser-
pentine, but that number was nothing to be com-
pared to the muster of last night. During the
daylight performance skating matches on a very
extensive scale were carried out, and such as would
even astonish our Dutch friends, who have hitherto
been considered the greatest and most expert skaters
in the world.

The great affair, however, came off on the Serpen-
tine last night, and towards ten o'clock the
scene that took place was such as has not been sur-
passed, except on Monday night. About 15,000
pthens ventured on the ice. Some few hundred,
tents and marquees were erected, the canvas stretch-
ing in some directions many yards in length. These
were filled with all sorts of provisions for the use of
the ladies and gentlemen skating. Continuous
show ers of fireworks were kept up, and the skaters
of b)th sexes carried on what might be termed a
very dangerous match, by skating with torches, and
in imitating a sham fight, using lighted links
instead of swords. This had a novel and grand
effect, but unfortunately was attended with serious
though not fatal consequences to more than one per-
son. At the same time skittles and thimblerig-
ging were going on on the ice to as great an extent
as was ever witnessed at any of the great race-
grounds out of the metropolis. The police, how-
ever, went into the tents and seized the gambling
apparatus, thereby putting a stop to the robberies
that were being perpetrated upon the unwary
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who had attended purposely to witness the
sports
upon the ice.
At eleven o'clock last night several thousand per-
sees were still pursuing the exhilirating bat still
dangerous exercise of sliding and skating, and the
torcn-light procession, still carried on, had a most
novel appearance.
Similar scenes occurred on the waters in the other
parks. a .

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