2 FEBRUARY 1867, Page 3

The coroner's jury assembled to inquire into the accident in

the Regent's Park has returned a verdict equivalent to one of accidental death. They add that it arose from the heedlessness of the crowd, recommend that the police should have power to order persona off unsafe ice, urge a reduction in the depth of water, praise " ice- men, park constables, police, parochial authorities, and others," " commend the Royal Humane Society to public consideration," and generally express themselves in the tone of an embodied public. Their remarks are sensible enough, but Dr. Lankester was quite right in striking them out of the verdict as irrelevant. The business of the jury was to ascertain and state the cause of the deaths, not to write a leading article in short paragraphs.