Nothing further has transpired as to the accident to the
'Prin- cess Alice,' except that it was more disastrous than was believed last week. No less than 623 bodies have passed through the hands of the police, and the total of the dead will probably reach 650. The number unidentified is still very great, thousands of persons living in London whom nobody cares enough about to notice whether they have disappeared. The public, at last awaking to the fact that each death of a father or mother whose children had remained at home involved misery to some house- hold, have been this week most liberal in subscribing, and an un- precedented amount of cash, £.100 a day, has been left in a box fixed outside the Mansion House. Much of this money is in silver, and there is other evidence of the unusual degree to which the catastrophe has attracted the sympathy of Londoners. In two separate instances at least, enormous crowds, in one instance 5,000 persons, have forfeited half a day's work to attend the funerals of neighbours who were among the drowned. Offers to
adopt orphans, too—not a usual form of charity—come in from all sides.
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