The Sun.
London, England, 1862-03-06 00:00:00

EFFECTS OF RAILWAY TRAVELLING'

Those effects on health which are clearly traceable to the
influence of railway travelling differ both in degree and in
character; for although there are certain symptoms which
are nearly always present, yet no two cases are precisely
similar throughout. Now, setting aside for the present all
enabled
thel ed to
man. re-
cognisepersons
a suffering
certain
classfro m local disease,
symptomsdis ee' we
which, are
from ab
ner and history of their 000urrence, we are justified in con-
sidering as attributable to the influence of travelling on rail-
as
whi
duce, and from the known effects of any casual complications,
ways, as distinct from what other modes of conveyance pro-
such as anxiety, dyspepsia, chilled extremities, retention,
retinal impressions, and the like. The symptoms are mani-
fested through the nervous system chiefly, or through
those physical conditions which depend on the perfect
physiological balance of the nerve-forces for their exact ful
filment, They vary (in persons of very similar constitutirAt)
from simple irritability, restlessness, and malaise after
long journeys up to 8 condition of gradually supervening
paralysis, which tells of insidious diseP.Se of the brain or
spinal cord, such as, in its most Prnounced form, follows
on violent shocks or injuries to the nervous centres. These
latter are the syn.lptoms which frequently ensue from the
vehement Wits and buffetings endured during a railway
collision, And to the same cause, diminished only in in-
tensity, may be also referred the less formidable group of
symptoms, . It is to this which the.Assridence and cases ad-
duced in these reports point as the chief source of mischief
and that most detrimental to travellers. For each of those
short sharp vibrations felt in a railway carriage (and of
whir.i. the number in every hour amounts to upwards of
20,000) resembles on a small scale, the jerk and violent
motion produced by a collision, from which it differs only
in degree. The extent is so far lessened that the elasticity
of the voluntary muscles suffices to maintain the equilibrium
of the body against the disturbing force, so that it moves
only with the motion of the carriages. Bnt the ner roust
centres slung within their bony cavities have no such safe-
guard, as these latter move with the short sharp jerk which
prevades the carriage. And the effect of this motion thus
directly affecting their contents may be estimated when
is rememtered that one of the most elaborate and beautiful,
adaptations among all the wonders which anatomy revaslS
is that which provides a series of successive springs, UV-or-
der that the nervous centres may be always guarded front
the direct effects of sudden jerks. But for such
.provision;
every bound of the stag, every leap of the horse,-would,
inevitably produce spinal concussion.—Lancet.

EXCHEQUER BILIS. ;- •

The bill brought in by the Chancellor of the Exchequer
and Mr. Peel recites the 24th Viet., c. 5, and the 9th Geo.
IV., c. 92, by the latter of which certain powers and autho-
rities are given to the commissioners of her Majesty's Trea-
sury to create permanent annuities chargeable upon the
Consolidated Fund in lieu of Exchequer Bills held by the
Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt un-
der the authority of that act, and to cancel such Exchequer
Bills in consideration of the permanent annuities so created
in lieu thereof, and enacts as follows :-1. The authority
granted by the said first recited act shall be limited to and
shall not extend beyond the year commencing on April 1,
end ending on March 31, then next immediately followings
during which any such Exchequer Bills shall be paid off,
or paid in for duties, and shall thereupon be dowelled. 2.
The several powers and authorities vested in the com-
missioners of her Majesty's Treasury in relation to the
creation of permanent annuities, and to the cancelling of
Exchequer
ansedconsdhallreccieteaade oarndbdye
any
mine on yl
other act are
and after the passing of this act. 3. There shall
Bills by
repealed, the
be paid to the governor and company of the Bank of
England out of the Consolidated Fund of the United
Kingdom, or out of the growing produce thereof, for the
management of the unredeemed public debt in Exchequer
Bills, for the year commencing on the Ist December,
1861, an allowance at the rate of £lOO for evezy mil-
lion of Exchequer Bills which were outstanding on that
day. 4. All Exchequer Bills charged on supplies granted
by Parliament, which shall be outstanding after the 31st
day of March, 1862, and the interest thereon, shall be
charged upon and paid out of the Consolidated Fund of the
United Kingdom, or out of the growing produce thereof,
and the authority to pay the principal and interest of such
Exchequer
Bills out of any supplies appropriated by Par-
liament to such purposes shall henceforth cease and deter-

mine.

MELANCHOLY DTElDitstou'izelrNmG.o—st Tdhise.
dis-
tressing c g women
h
lives of two.S Yaveßbeen lo
stances at Garthmill, Montgomeryshire.
Mrs. Swift,l circumstances young
of
the
Cottage, sent her servant-girl upon a
message, and, becoming alarmed at her not returning,
search BA
was made, when her hat was found floating on the
canal, which she had to pass on her way. The canal was
instantly dragged and the body found. The grief of the
girl's mistress being very great, Mrs. Mellings, of the Nag'S
Head, kindly sent her stepdaughter to be eompany for her
for the night, and soon afterwards called at the house her-
self. Not seeing her stepdaughter, who she ascertained had
been there, she inquired, and found she had been sent on
the same errand in essaying which the servant had lost her
life. Another alarm was raised, and early the neat morn-
ing the canal was dragged, when hei lifeless body was
found net far from the plac3 where the other had been dis-
covered. It is supposed that in the darkness of the night
both the p4or girls mistook the canal for the road and
!stepped into it.

THE GREAT ROBBERY OF JEWELLERY AT
HUDDERSFIELD,—AIbert Foster, who states that he comes
from
Manchester, was charged at Sheffield, yesterday,with
being concerned in the extensive robbery of watches and
jewellery perpetrated at the shop of Mr. Love, pawnbroker,
Huddersfield, on the 28th Janu4ry. Between six and seven
o'clock on Monday evening, the prisoner, a young man of
very respectable appearance, offered a lady's gold watch in
pledge at the shop of Mr. Marshall, pawnbroker, West-
bar. Mr. Marshall had been supplied with the num-
bers and descriptions of the watches stolen from Mr. Love,
and, on examining the watch offered by the prisoner, found
it to correspond both in number and description with one
of the stolen watches. He gave the prisoner into custody.
The young man
expressed his readiness
officer to the Town Hall,be attempted to trip the officer, and
to
give any explanation
be required, and was allowed to walk without being hand_
readey to
naaticocnomthpaatny
mightthe
waywbthyaptured
theethe throat, and prevented him from effect-
ing ranuff hand-
cuffed.O
off, but a
asrecapturedin the yard of the Pack Horselnn, where he
attempted to swallow a ring. The officer
purpose. Three valuable rings and a gold guard
were found on him. The prisoner was remanded.
ignrgasrsd him