The Sun.
London, England, 1850-10-25 00:00:00

BANKII4G D

Proprietors 'capital • • 14,553,000
Rest - •• • • ... •• • 3,101,740
Public deposits (In-
abiding Exchequer,
Commissioners of
isiAtional I)ebt, Sav-
ings-bank s, and Di-

vidcnd accounts)" 6,284 496
Other ,lcposits • ... • • 9,550,613
Seven day and other

bi 115.... •• .• .- ....

1,333,9:2

£34.876,7d 1

Dated the 21th day of October,

COURSE OF EXCH.

Amster •• •• 11
intl.:), three months.. 11 1934
Rotterdam •....„ 11 :9
Brumels .• • • .. 25 45
HAuwurgh • 31.8. 13 12

.$ days'sight ... 2S 22%

littte. 3 months .. 23 46
M ,rseil!k,ti •••-•• . • • • • • 25 4i jy
Bon rleatix ••••• • •• • •

frantfort on .Spina...,

effee. do •••• •. 12 1 t
Tneate, 12
PAter.ourttb. Sll. Rble.• 37%
Matra ••.. •• ........ 49%
Ca. 11.1 .. • ............ 49%

Be.r.*iona

8 villo ........ .... .

SHOCK' NG 0 CC (MBE NCE in CHESHIRE.

DtUNKENNESS AND DEATH.

Yesterday con,iderob'o sonsation was produced in
Bu k-nhead and the adjoining district in consequence
of rumours which prevailed that several men had lost
their lives through drinking en excessive quantity of
raw spirits on the previous afternoon. Altnough the
cireua,stances are extremely painful in themselves, as
shoeing the fearful exteret to which some men will
pander to their pa,sion for strong drink, and have
been fatal in their results, yet, so far as we have been
able to ascertain, the loss of life is not so great as was
at first supposed. We give the particulars as fully as
could be obtained up to last night.
It appears thee, for the last week or two, some-
where about 250 men have been employed by the
Liverpool corporation in restoring the Wallasey
embankment, which had been washed away during
the late gale. Early on 'Wednesday afternoon,
some of the cartmen discovered a large cask or
puncheon of rum at the head of the embankment,
which had been washed ashore, and is sup-
posed to have been a portion of the cargo of the
ship Providence, recently wrecked on the Burbo
Bank. The men instantly secured their booty. Sir
Edward Cost, Bart., of Leasowe Castle, who, we are
informed, was passing at the time, warned them not
to broach the cask, but, toj take care that, it be se-
curad. The men, however, heeded not the injunc-
tion, but proceeded at once to open their fatal
prize. The contents were soon taken away in buckets
and jars, and no little strife arose as to who should
get the largest quantity. At dusk the great body
of the labourers left their work, and then a scene
commenced which baffles description. Many of the
men, in. their madness for the raw spirits, disputed
will one another as to who should first partake
of the liquor. Some of the men managed to take
quantities away from the ground ; others drunk and
drunk until they were in a state of helpless and hope-
less intoxication ; whilst not a few, in consequence of
the general rush, never tasted a drop. The newness
and strength of the rum soon produced its effect.
In every direction the men were to be seen prostrate
from the effects of their immoderate draught., and it
is matter of astonishment that many did not perish
in endeavouring to reach their homes through
the marsh which adjoins Wallasey. Abcut nine
o'clock infl,rmation was obtained that one of the
men, named John Morris, had been taken out of a
ditch into a field about a mile from the embankment,
and was supposed to be dead. One of the labourers
immediately proceeded to the spot, where Morris was
found in an apparently lifeless condition—his clothes
saturated with wet, and his body cold. He was convey ed
to his house at the Dock • cottege?, where Mr. Downing,
surgeon, of Birkenhead, was in immediate attendance,
but without any beneficial effect, as the vital spark had
fled. During the evening the body of James Farrell,
foreman to Mr.W.Rirrner, the contractor for the Cor-
poration, was also discovered in a field in the neigh-
bourhood of Wallasey. This man had also: Wien
a victim to his thirst for rum. He was conveyed to
the Leasowe Hotel, where the body now lies awaiting
a curuner's inquest. These are the only two men, so
fix as we have ascertained, whose lives have been ,