The Sun.
London, England, 1863-12-17 00:00:00

/SS 111 DE P ARTMENT.
rotes issued ......X27,586,245,

Government Debt £11,015,1C0
Other Securities .. 3.6.14,900
Gold Coin & Bullion 12,916,245
Silver Bullion

427,566,2451
*'roprietors' Capi-
ANILING D,
tal X 14,553,000
Rest
L'ublic Deposits (in-
cluding Exche-
quer, Savings'
Banks, Commis-
missioners of Na-
tional Debt, and
Dividend Ao-

£27,566,245

,EPARTMENT.
Government Secu-
rities (including
Dead Weight A-
nnuity) X10.762,330
Other Securities 21.443,719
Notes .... "
7,765,7i0
COlll.
Gold and.. Silver 759,229

counts) 9,103,738
Other Deposits 13,265,068
Seven Day and
other Bills 582,259

£10,731,018
M.l

RSHALL, Chief £40,731,G13

Melancholy Accident at Lytham.

(From the Preston duardian of yesterday.)

One of the most melancholy occurrences we have
for some time had to record took place at Warton,
near Lytham, last evening, by which seven persons
were drowned. For three weeks past there have
been staying at Lytham, Mr. Sugars, a merchant,
of Manchester, together with his wife, two sons, and
three daughters. The sons, Henry and Thomas,
were aged respectively about 21 and 16 years; and
the daughters, Jessie, Laura, and Mary, were 21, 15,
and 10 years old. Daring their visit to Lytham,
.Miss Eliza Wilson, a young lady of about 20, has been
staying with them; and on Tuesday week the party
were joined by Mr. Walter Wilson, brother to Miss
Wilson, aged 23, who, it is believed, was betrothed to
the eldest of the Misses Sugars. About 11 o'clock
on Tuesday morning all the party, with the excep-
tion of Mr. and Mrs. Sugars, proceeded to the river
for the purpose of hiring a boat and shooting birds.
None of the youths, we believe, were accustomed to
rowing; but as there were little wind blowing,
although the tide was beginning to flow, no danger
was apprehended. They stated to the owner of the
boat, a man named Parkinson, that they intended
pulling as far as the docks, and left with a pair of'
oars. Soon afterwards two of the youths were ob-
served on one of the sandbanks with their guns,
and nothing more was heard of them until a tele-
gram was received by Mr. Sugars, stating that they
had gone on to Preston with the tide, and would
return to Lytham in time for dinner, at six o'clock.
As they did not arrive at home at that hour,
Mr. and Mrs. Sugars became very anxious, and
a boat's crew was despatched up the river
in search of the party; bat, after proceeding
as far as the Naze Point, they had to return with-
out any tidings of them, beyond what they had
learnt from the men on the dredge, who saw them
pass homewards about half-past five o'clock. At
daybreak this (Wednesday) morning, the search
was renewed, when the boat in which the missing
party left Lytham was discovered oppositeWarton,
and soon afterwards the body of Miss Laura Sugars
was found on tie sand. All farther search, which
was prosecuted all day, on both the Lytham lira
Hesketh sides of the estuary has so far proved fruit.
less. Of course, nothing is known, and, never can
be known with certainty, of the cause of the fearful
casualty; but it is supposed that the boat's ]reel
must have caught on one of the net stakes
idthitey,catshee, as below
We
cn. If fsuch were
rapidity
e tide Was
gwith great
b the
would pro-
bably be instantaneously upset, and the whole en-
raerdtion
least warning
en-
gulfed without the
-•
of rescue.