The Sun.
London, England, 1863-12-18 00:00:00

ISSUE DEPARTMENT.
Auto issued ........X27.366,215

Government Debt £11,015,1C 0
I Other Securities .. 3.634,900
Gold Coin & Bullion 12,016,245
silver Bullion

£27,5E0,215

£27,565,245

BANHING D
oprietors' Capi-
tal £14,553.000
Rest
public Deposits (in-
cluding Exche-
quer, Savings'
Banks, COMMDs-
missioners of Na-
tional Debt, and
Dividend Ac-
counts) 9.103,758
Other Deposits 13,265,068
Seven Day and
other Bills 582,259

EPAPLTMENT.
Government Secu-
rities ((including
Dead Weight A-
nnuity) .......... X 10.762,330
Other Securities .. 21.443,719
Notes ........... 7,765,740
Gold and Silver 759,229
............

X 10,731.018
111.

£40.731,0is
[ARSHALL, Chief Cashier.

Melancholy Accident at Lytham.

(From the Preston Guardian 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 21,16,
and 10 years old. During their visit to Lytham,
MissElizaWilson, a young lady of about 20, has bsen
the
staying
oft
with them; and on Tuesday week the party-
ware
eldestjoined
by h
Misses Walter Wilson, brother to Miss
Wilson, aged 23, who, a is believed, was betrothed to
Sugars. About 11 o'clock
on Tuesday morning morn • all the party, with the excel).
tion of Mr. and M Sugars, proceeded to the river
for the purpose of s:
hiring a boat and shooting birds.
None of the youths,
eve e believe, were accustomed to
there rowing; but as were little wind blowing,
although the tide was
b
was apprehended. They stated beginning to flow, no danger
to the owner oi the
boat., a man named Parkinan:,
pulling as far as the docks, and
dtlhat
left they intended
with a pair of
oars. Soon afterwards two of the
youths
ob-
served on one of the sandbanks with
h were
their guns,
and nothing more was heard of them
until
tele-
gram was received by Mr. Sugars, stating a
tdhat they
had gone on to Preston with the tide, and
return to Lytham in time for dinner, at six o'clock
As they did not arrive at home at that boo.
Mr. and Mrs. Sugars became very anxious, and
a boat's' crew was despatched up the river
in search of the party; but, afttr 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 the sand. All further search, which
was prosecuted all day, on both the Lytham and
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 keel
must have caught on one of the net stakes below
Warton. If such were the case, as the tide was
receding with great rapidity, the boat would pro-
bably be instantaneously upset, and the whole en-
gulfed without the least warning or hope of reecue.

RACING FIXTURES FOR 1864.

FEBRUARY.

Lincoln Spring 23

MARCH.
Nottingham Spring 1 Chelmsford Spring .... 16
Derby Spring 3 York Spring
Liverpt)ol
Shrewsbury

AP
Oro:don-park 1
Epsom Spring

'RIL.
Newmarket Craven 11
Newmarket First Spring 25

--
PRIZE FIGHTING AND TRAINING.—As much Mis-
apprehension exists in the public mind respecting
the condition of Heenan before and after his late contest
with King, the following authentic particulars may not be
without interest :—Four or five hours after the termination of
the fight on the 10th inst. he arrived at a friend's house in
scarcely
London. Mr. J. F. Clarke saw him immediately. He Was
then suffering from great exhaustion. His face was con-
siderably disfigured, and there was a cut on the right side of
the upper lip about half an inch in length, which required a
stitch. There were no bruises of any consequence about the
body, but there were a few scratches on the chest.
fainting fit.
action of the heart was very feeble, and the pulse The
that d u
dalalyy h e
had a f
until
the
perceptible. Suitable medicines were resorted t
with Mr.
tlh3othi.nguoenneethoef
eimnhPtraaldvbecieencleustaledsesr,
On the 14th Dr. Tanner saw him in consultation
ewvhenieihngheof
Clarke. He was then weak, his nights
and there was considerable uneasiness
in-
spiration. On examining him, all mark taking a deep
had nearly disappeared, while the bruisese about the chest
were evidently quickly fading. The upon the face
healed. The right nasal bone was loosenedet" in his upper lip had
articu-
lations; but there was no fracture. from its
auscultation, the heart's action On carefully practising
though there was no bruit, the was found to be feeble,
The pulse was weak, very c valves acting efficiently.
100. The left lung Was ompressible, and rather above
right there was dullness, healthy ; but over the apex of the
On either side at the h e) with evident signs of congestion,
able stiffness, which back of the neck, there was consider-
tendinous attachments Was ascertained to exist chiefly in the
pital bone, 1* ents of the trapezius muscle to the occi-
spine of the
slgamentum nuchw, dorsal vertebra, and
muscles about capnla.
The immense development of the
They stood out the shoulders and chest was ver y remarkable.
fat as if they
had been
andb encumberedathselistetaelpel.
In "
they
resembled cartilnageeleanTedhe by the
conditions were firmnessalso
apparent in the recti muscles of the abdominal waif, the
tendinous intersections (liners transverse) of which were
strongly marked. But with all this splendid development
it was evident that lieenan had received a shock from
which his system was only slowly recovering ; though
whether this loss of power was due to the punishment re-
ceived in the fight or to the hard training which he had
may be a disputed point. As pre-
viouslyphysiolo-
undergone,
gists, it seems to us highly probable that his training had
been too prolonged and too severe. When Heenan went
into training on Wednesday, the 23d of September—just 11
weeks before the match—his weight was 15st. 71b. As ha
stepped into the ring on the 10th inst. he was exactly 14st,
At the saute time King weighed 13st., though he was
I three-quarters of an inch taller than Heenan, whose height
is Eft. liin. Those who know what severe training means,
will, perhaps, agree with us that Heenan was probably in
better condition five weeks before meeting his antagonist
than on the morning of his defeat, although when he
stripped for fighting the lookers-on all agreed that he seemed
to promise himself an easy victory, while exulting 'nhi
fine proportions and splendid muscular development. It fi''
now clearly proved that Heenan went into the contest. t 4
ranch more muscular than vital power. Long t
With
he had met with any severe punishment—indeed, )ng before
states, at the close of the third round—h es he
breathed with much difficulty, and, as he d e fdt faint,
respiration was " roaring." He declares that
described it, his
more severe treatment at the hands of s he received
from King, yet at the termination of the Sayers than he did
lasted upwards of two hours, he was former fight, which
two or three hurdles, and distance so fresh as to leap over
the race. It was noticed on the many of his friends in
physique had deteriorated, and present occasion that his
than at his last appearance' in that he looked much older
any opinion as to the met' the ring. Without offering
cer-
tain that Heenan was in' its of the combatants, it is cer-
when he faced his a state of very deteriorated health
deterioration was duoiopponent, and it is fair to say that that
the training which h n a great measure to the severity of
so with the body, u e bad undergone. As with the mind,
undue and prolonged exertion must end
in depression of
cation of the
Power. In the process of the physical
edu -
Young, in the training of our recruits, or in
the sports
Of the athlete, the case of Keenan suggests a
striking
commentary of great interest in a physiological
point of view. While exercise, properly so called, tends to
development and health, excessive exertion produces de.
t'-iitY and decay. In these times of over-excitement au .d
''' e' - com,et Won in the race et life, the case we num, pul, on
record may be studied with advantage. —The Lancet.