The Sun.
London, England, 1845-09-27 00:00:00

THAMES.

—Frank Fowler,
EgnE,',ZLEMENT BY A RAILWAY SER.v .
young Doan, aged 24, who is respectablyA
c7unteted the was
`,nought betbre Mr. Ballantine, charged with embezzling
„,,, of 35/. 135., the moneys of the London and Blackwall
gailway Company.
The prisoner, who is a well-educated young man, has bee n
" 'at ely reduced to a state of great distress, the co
this dishonesty, and for several weeks past has been
vending
f
li bottles of ink about the metropolis.
?Jr. Arthur Wightman, the superintendent of the Black-
'mi. Li Railway, stated that the prisoner was money-taker at
street station on Sunday, the 20th of July last.
t h k,
e i: niICP -
It was i.he cuitom of the money-takers to remit all the cash
im in , the course of the day to the office at Blackwall, at
a
o'clock- in the evening. The prisoner did not comply
,„,
elation on the 20th of July, and witness re-
's ith- this reg
dived inform, *ion that he had left his pest before the trains
rid taken all the money with him.
~used running, a .' said he should remand the prisoner for
Er. BAL TIN,Li* pee-wary evidence till next Tueaday.
Ih4roduction of i
, t -.

Mr. Wightman—Will you be so good as to remand .him
till Wednesday. I have to attend the Board of Directors on
Tuesday.
Mr. BALLANTINE—Let it be Wednesday then.

DOES RAILWAY TRAVELLING
INDUCE APOPLEXY ?

(From the Medical Times.)
In our leader of last week, we advertkl, in general terms,
to the subject of apoplexy induced by railway travelling.
We now proceed to treat the matter more in detail, and tq
offer some further and concluding observations. And we do
this the more willingly, because of the interest which the
public and the profession naturally feel in this important
topic, and because, as there is truth to be arrived at, it is
desirable that such truth should be elucidated and made ge-
nerally known.
/ It is fitting that we should take occasion, a priori,
to state, that the notion of railway travelling having a ten-
dency to produce apoplexy in persons predisposed to that
ailment, is not the offspring of any idle speculation or con-
ceit, but is indebted for its origin and promulgation to certain
matters of fact. These consist of curious and seemingly in-
explicable instances of apoplexy, occurring to apparently
healthy individuals, during, or shortly after, railway travel-
ling. Almost without an exception, the sufferers were in to-
lerable health before commencing their journeys, or at least
neither complained of nor exhibited any symptoms of
cerebral disturbance. This fact, coupled with another
of equal importance, namely, that of the sudden
deaths (not arising from external injury) of railway tra-
vellers, the ascertained cause has almost invariably
been apoplexy, will remove the anticipated objec-
tions, that, what would appear to be consequences are merely
coincidences—that the individuals might have died at the
same time, and of the same disease, had they been placed
under other circumstances—and that apoplexy only shares,
with other pathological conditions, as an agent of death in
the instances in question. The removal of the last objection
is a matter of much importance, and, indeed, essential to
the whole weight and bearing of the arguments about to be
offered. Sudden death, from various causes, we know to be
one of the common heritages of humanity, and the wonder
of its occurrence ceases with advancing pathological know- '
ledge. Apart from relative considerations, it is not more
singular that people should suddenly die in railway carriages
than in other places, and did the instances of death so hap-
pening present a variety, instead of preserving a uniformity of
cause, they would be no matter of surprise, but would be con-
sidered as belonging to the common category of calamity
" that flesh is heir to." But when, on the contrary, indi-
viduals, seemingly healthy, are observed to die under parti-
cular circumstances, and almost constantly of a particular
disease, we naturally enough connect these things together
in the relation of cause and consequence.
It is not necessary to our purpose that we should give a
history of the apoplectic deaths that have occurred during
railway travelling—most of our readers, we presume, are fa-
miliar with the chief of them ; but to such as may net be,
we may observe, that one of the earliest of these melancholy
events is memorable from Sir Henry Halford, in his delicacy
of etiquette, leaving his friend at a lonely station to be bled
by any chance surgeon, rather than delay a dinner-party an
hour, by himself staying to render the extreme services of
humanity and professional skill. More recently, Viscount
Canterbury and Lord Bateman have died under these pecu-
liar circumstances, and to their names might be added many
of people in more humble life, who have suffered in like man-
ner from a like cause.
Before proceeding with a further explanation of these
things, we must remind our readers that, in treating this
subject last week, we premised the probability of a predis-
position to apoplexy on the part of those who bad fallen vic-
tims to it on railroads. It is only upon people so constituted
that we can suppose trifling moral or physical causes to ope-
rate with any degree of force in the production of this ail-
ment. Now, we know that in such people, whether owing
their peculiarity of condition to birth, to accident, or to dis-
ease, the slightest deviations from their ordinary habits and
modes of life suffice to place them in jeopardy. Examples
of these deviations we shall find, abundsatly enough, in
railway travelling. For convenience sake we will divide
them into moral and physical.
We should say that fear deserves a prominent place in the
first division. It is not necessary that we should quote from
the many cases on record which prove the influence of this
emotion upon the functions of the human organism. We
know it to be capable of arresting the heart's action in fatal
fainting, or of terminating life more slowly, but as surely, by
an impression upon the brain. Nor do we think it impro-
bable, that amongst the cases of apoplexy which have hap-
pened upon the railroad, some may have been due to this
condition of the mind. It has occurred to us, on many
occasions, to witness an agonising fear on the part of travellers
sv.to have coupled a terrific pace of the engine, or a passage
through a tunnel, with a reflection upon th destiny to which
e:ther event might tend. Nor should we be inclined to pay a
cempliment to the sensibility of any man whose mind would be
int effected by a journey in an express train, or by a transit
ti rough one of those awful excavations which typify to one's
fancy the vestibules of the grave. It was only the other
d that we were travelling in the same carriage with a lady,
whenever we approached a tunnel, buried her face, in
as unutterable agony of apprehension, in her husband's lap,
a. I could scarcely be roused from her silent dread until long
sSt sr the object of her terror had been passed. Who can
s y that such an amount of fear, in a system less able
t., resist it, might not have been productive of nervous
poplexss
There are some people, again, in whom the mind is
s'rongly affected by certain external objects or circum-
stances operating through the senses. Some cannot
Esten to a continued murmur, or noise, without experiencing
s painful headache ; others cannot look upon a dazzling,
rapidly-passing, or revolving object, without a sensation of
giddiness ; and others cannot travel with any degree of
velocity but some head trouble or other will be the
sonsequence. What are these various states of the brain
Lut so many advances to a condition that may be
Lite' ? Increase any one of them to a certain extent,
and even the strongest will become the victim of apoplexy.
And is it any wonder that this should sometimes be the
issue of railway travelling in cases of individuals peculiarly
susceptible in temperament ? Take, for instance, a man
wh6,le head is easily made to ache by monotonous or dis-
agreeablSS sounds, and subject him to this annoyance on a
railroad for foss or six hours in succession, with the addi-
tional troubles which of necessity await him there, such as
absence of diversion, exercise, and uniform ventilation, and
it will be no matter of astonishment if he shall suffer from a
serious, or even a fatal impression upon his brain. Take
another whose head soon becomes disturbed by the sight of
objects in rapid motion, and see, after he shall have gazed
for hours at the banks and hedges apparently flitting past his
carriage, whether he will not be the worse for the experiment.
Take a third, who is both morally and physically incapacitated
for swift travelling, and depend upon it a ride of one hundred
miles in an express train wail make an onslaught upon his
nervous stamina. We have never seen a complete case of
apoplexy consequent upon railway travelling, but we have
met with individuals, of the peculiar temperament just men-
tioned, who have suffered so seriously from this form of loco-
motion, as to lead to some apprehension of their safety. And
we know plenty more, amongst whom, indeed, we may class
ourselves, who can never travel by rail without headache,
giddiness, or sickness, more or less severe, and entirely owing
to the disturbance which the mind suffers through the af-
fected senses, This disturbance is not sufficient to be alarm-
ing, but, vis foram' ritium, it requires no stretch of iruagina-
tiois for the belief, that in persons of greater susceptibility
and leas' vigour, the effects might be fatal.
The mischievous influence which railway travelling may
exert physically, is perhaps chiefly due to irregular or im-
perfect ventilation, and to e consequent impediment to the
proper performance of the respiratory function. If this be of
any continuance, congestion of the brain will of course-result,
and apoplexy will be the issue of Cele singly,viz. or of one of the
consequences to which congestion tends, , extravasation,
or effusion. And here, again, we must premisessthat though
people the most hale and healthy might probably suffer in
sonic measure from the irregular respiration caused by
railway travelling, yet only in people of particular states and
constitutions could it be expected to threaten fatally. These
would be chiefly such as were sufferers from organic disease
of the heart, or its vessels, giving rise to interrupted return
of blood from the head—from disease of the lungs, limiting
their extent of surface, and their efficiency for the purposes of
complete respiration—from any mechanical impediments to
the due action of the heart and lungs, such as tumours, or
fatty- accumulations in the chest, empyema, hydrothorax, or
wiles—from laxity of the bloodvessels, favouring ruptare of,
or transudation through, their coats—from tendency to deter-
mination of blood to the brain, &c. These affections we
know to be common enough, and we also know that those
who suffer front them are amongst the multitude who are
exposed to the vicissitudea and liabilities of railway travelling.
The irregular ventilation we have spoken of affects, though
in different ways, travellers who face the engine, as well as
I those who ride with their backs to it. The former, from the
pressure of air against them, the latter. from the rush of air
from them. We all know what are the effects of facing
a very high wind. Inferior animals instinctively turn
their backs upon it, and we ourselves observe a
similar precaution by a partial inclination of the heed, To
breathe in direct opposition 0 it is next to impossible, from
the spasmodic closure of the glottis, which almost invariably
accompanies the attempt. And it has been found, that if a
strong current of air be continuously directed In an animal's
face he becomes asphyxiated In a few minutes. This is from
spasmodic closure of the glottis ;s we have said. If the
current be of less intensity,' so that the respiration of the
animal shall be irregular and interrupted, bot without be-
coming actually suspended, then he slowly falls asleep, and
bq continuing the experiment he may be rendered apoplectic
/S urse-maids are in the habit of quieting (soporising, we should
say,) cross children by blowing in their faces. Now, the
draught of air which meets you in a railway carriage, when
your face is to the engine and the window is down, will of
course vary with the velocity of transit : in many instances
the rate is such that you cannot respire, without extreme dif-
ficulty, under the impetus of air, and in most instances the
d upon health indivi-
duals respiratory function meats with a perceptible imp
are now speaking of the effects produce „
ediment. We
(di
saelass;e
sanwde stinarNe4yL
eufoproen
allhuods
eedwtolt°,
yncrasy or local
tshuteffsee r
effectsfrom mustthe organic
pro-
portionally severe, If a man, who, from idol
ailment, may be unable to mount a flight of stairs, or climb
a hill, or face a moderate wind,
withont a feeling of suffoca-
cation and a throbbing head-ache, shall travel for several
hours by rail with the transit current in his face, cell it be
any wonder if apoplexy be the consequence? Independently
of direct proof of the fact, we should say that analogical evis
dence was very conclusively in its favour.
People who ride with their backs to a railway engine, of
course have thus current of air from them, and this in pro-
portion to the rate of travel, Under these circumstances
respiration is far from natural, end some voluntary effort Is
required to draw as much air into 1410 lungs as shall suffice
for the proper oxygenation of the blood, After a time this
effort ceases to be made—it may be from fatigue, it may be
from diverted attention, or from diminished sensibility—
whatever may be the cause, the effect will be the same, viz.,
the imperfect decarbonisation of the blood will be followed by
sleepiness or stupor. In a healthy individual it may simply
be the former ; but in one liable to congestion of the brain, the
latter would not be an unlikely' occurrence.

---,,,------ SEPT.
THUNDER-STORM.-110CHESTFIt, 22.—On
Thursday evening, between six and seven o'clock, this neighbour.
hood was visited by a fearful storm, which fortunately was but of
short duration The vivid dashes of lightning were followed by
thunder.elaps bud and deep, and aeetunpanied by a heavy shower
of hail and rain, during which a young man named Catt, a brick.
seeker, about twenty years of age, lost his life. He left strood
at about the commencement of the storm, on his way home to
Cuxtone, a village on the bank of the Medway, about three miles
above Rochester.bridge, and before he had proceeded one-third o
the distance lost his life. The corpse was found early this morn-
taithy a labouring man in the employ of Mr. William Manelark,
near wee farm the melancholy catastrophe occurred. The elec-
t:iceald appears to have struck the unfortunate man On his head,
n side
rent openo,fanthdehfisa"shbgoesin
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have swept away from 30
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been prostrated, 114 hops.
Many of those remaining
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past week has been
to 50,0001. of the duty. rules
onscattered all over the gardens.
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bad in 41,1407., 10.44 very light. General likewise been
been carried on
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Observer.

NAMES OF RAILWAYS,

Aberdeen • . • • .. • • . • • • ..
Airdrie and Coatbridge .•
Arbroath and Forfar ....
Ditto Half Shares • • • •
Armagh, Colr., & Portrush
Bandon and Bantry .. • • •
Belfast and Ballymena ..
Belfast and County Down
Birknhd.Lan. & Ches.Jnc.
Birmingham and Glo'eter
Do. New (iss. at 7 % die.)

Ditto Half Shares • • • •
Birminghm &Oxfrd.June.
Blckburn, and Preston • •
Blckburn, Darwn,& Bolin
Bolton, W igau, & Liverpl.
Boston, Stamfrd and Birm
Brighton, Lewes, & Hast.
Bristol and Exeter • . • • • •
Ditto New ......
Bristol and Gloucester • •
Bristol and S. Wales Junc.
British and Irish Union • •
Caledon. and Ayrsh. Janc
Caledon. & Dumbar. June

!aledoniau .• • • • • • • • • • • •
Ditto Extension • • • • • •

Cambridge and Lincoln• •
Chester and Birkenhead
Ditto New Shares • • • •
Ditto Half Shares • • • •
Chester and Holyhead • •
Cheltenham and Oxford
Chichester and Brighton
Churnet Valley . . ..
Clitheroe Junction .... • •
Clydesdale Junction
Cork, Blackrck & Passage
Cork and Bandon ..... • •
Cork and Killarney
Cork and Waterford
Cork and Youghal • • .• • •
Canterbury and Dover
Coventry and Leicester
Cornwall .• . • • • • • • •• • • ••
Derby and Crewe . • . • • • .

Direct Lon. and Manchstr
Dies, Beccles, & Yarmotla
DirectMan.(Remington's)
Direct Northern • • • • • • • •
Direct Norwich .•• ......
Dublin and Belfast June.
Dublin, Belfast, Coirne
Dublin and Drogheda• • • •
Dublin and Galway . • • • •
Dundalk and Enniskillen
Dundee and Arbroath . • •
Dundee and Perth •• • •
Durham and Sunderland
East Lancashire (No. 1)
Ditto (No. 2) .. • • • • • •
Eastern Counties . • • .. • •
Do. Perp.s pr Ct., No. 1
Do. do. N 0.2
East Deroham & Norwich
East Union . • . • • • • • • • • ..
Ditto Extension • • • • • •
Edinbgh, Glas., and Dam.
Edinburgh and Glasgow..
Do. Quarter Shares • • •
Do. New Quarter Shares
Edinb. Leitk, and Granton
Do. Pref. 5 per Cent..
Edinburgh and Northern
Edinburgh and Peebles..
Edinburgh and Perth....
Ely and Huntingdon ....

Enniskillen and Sligo ~ .

Exeter, Yeovil, & lirchstr
Fit wood, Prstn, & W. Rid.
Garnkirk and Glasgow • •
Glasgow and Ayr. • • • •
Do. Quarter Shares • ...
Glasgow and Greenock..
Ditto New. • .• . • •• •
Ditto Preference • • • . • •
Glasgw, Dmfries, and Car.
Glsgw, Kilmarnck, & Ard.
Glasgow and Belfast Un.
Goole and Doncaster ....
Grand Junction
Ditto Half Shares ... •
Ditto Quarter Shares . •
Ditto New Quartets • •
Ditto Eighths
Grand Uni0n...........
Great Eastern & Western
Gt Grimsby & Dk Extens.
Gt Grimsby and Sheffield
Gt Sthrn & Wstrn (Wild)
I)itto Extension .. • • • •
Great Munster • . • • • • • • • •
Gt Northern of Scotland
Grt Northern of England

Do. New 401. Shares ..
Do. New 301. Shams ..
Great Western .........
Ditto Half Shares • . • •
Ditto Fifths ..........
Guilfrd, Farehm, & Ports.
Iliarwieh ...............
Hudrsfid &Man. H. & Canl
Huddersfield and Sheffield

Hull and Gainsborough.
Hull and Selby • • •• • • . • •
Ditto Quarter Shares.
Ditto Half Shares ...

Inverness and Elgin •• • •
Isle of Jersey • • .. • • .. • .
Kendal and Windermere
Kingstown and Bray
Killarney Junctions . •..•
Lancaster and Carlisle ..
Lancaster and Preston ..
Leeds and Bradford ....
Ditto Extension ......
Leeds and Dewsbury....
Leeds and Think
Leeds & W. Riding June.
Leicester & Birmingham
Leicester and Bedford ...
Limerick and Waterford
Limrck, Ennis, & Kid. Jnc.
Lincoln, York, and Leeds
Liv. Man. & Gt N. of Eng.
Liverpool and Manchester
Ditto Half Shares • • • •
Ditto Quarter Shares..
Liv erpl, Or mskrk, & Plats
London and Birmingham
Ditto Thirds • • • . • • • • • •
Ditto Quarters.. • • • • • •
London and Blackwall • •
Lndn. Oxfd. & Chltnham
London and Brignton • • • •
Ditto Cousolid. Eighths
London and Croydon • . • .
Ditto New . • •• • • •• • •
Do. Guarant. 5 per Cut.
London and Greenwich . •
Do. Pref. or Privilege..
London and South Weatrn
Do. New Cons. Eighths
Do. New, 501. Shares..
Do. New, 401. Shares• •
London and York .• • • • • •
Ditto (Bawtry) . • .. • .
London and Windsor....
Londn, Salsbury, & Yeovl
Londonderry & Coleraine
Londonderry & Enniskilln
Lynn and Ely . • .. • • • • • •
Lynn and Dereham .• . • •
Manchester and Leeds • •
Ditto Half Shares •• • •

Ditto Quarter Shares • •
Ditto Sixteenths • •
Manchstr and Birkenhead
Manchester Ikllirminglun
Ditto Quarter Shares..
Ditto New Quarters . • •
Do. Cou. & Welsh June.
Manehestr, Boltn, & Bury
Mnchstr, Buxtn, & Matik
Man. Shef. and Mid. Junc.
Manehestr & Southamptia
Midland .. • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Ditto Fifths • • • • • • • • • •

Ditto New ...........

Do. Con. Birrn.B‘ Derby
)tidhid Gt Westrn (Irish)
Do. Extension to Sligo
en-esti k Daringtn J nue .

De. New (Brantiling). •
Newcastle and Berwick..
Newcastle and Carllllle. •
Nwestle, Durham, & Lan.
Newport & Abergavenny
Newry and Enniskillen..
Newark and Sheffield . • •
North British • • • • . • • • ..
Ditto Now shares • • .•
Northern and Eastern
Do. Scrip (iss. at 5 dis.)

Do. Quarter Shares • •
North Pow , • • ...... •
Korth 11-ant •
North Staffordshire •• • •
North Eastern . • •• • • •• •
North Union (A)• • • • • • • •
Ditto (11)•.
North. W.lco Mineral., • •

Ditto New Shares •
Nor th Western ...... • •
North Wales ••••• • • • • •
Norwich and Brandon ..
Ditto New ..
Not., Belvoir, & Granthni
Nottingham and Boston..
Nott., Er wsh. Val. & Man.
Nottingham & Mansfield
Oxford and 13irming. June
Oxford and Worcester • •
Oxford and Cambridge ..
Perth and Inverness . • . •
Portsmouth Direct • • • • . .
Preston and Wyre • • • • • •
Ditto Half Shares • • • •
Do. Pref. 5 per Ct. Gnu
Do. Pref. 5 per Ct. Sc div.
Preston & Wyre Extend.
Richmond & W. End June
Rugby, Wurcestr, & Tring
Scottish Central
Scottish Midland...
Sheffield and Manchester
Ditto Quarter Shares..

Ditto ditto (No. 2).:
Ditto ditto (No. 3)
Sheffield and Lincoln....
Sheffield anti Rotherham
Shrewsbry & Grand June.
Shrewsb„ Wor., & Crewe
Shrws,,Wolv„ Duell,Bc Air
lirwsbry & Tun. V4l. Ua.
Slows, II orofd,& N. Wales
Slamannan . • • .. „
South Devon . „
South Midland
South Eastern and Dover
• Do. New (Iss. 321.) No, I
Do. (155.331.65.8 d.) „ 2
Do. (iss. 301.) „3
Staines and Richmond . • .
St4ffordsht re & Shropshire
Stirling god Dunfermline
South Wales . ..... „ „
Tean and Dove Valley • •
Trent Valley
Do. and Holyhead June
Vale of Noatli • • • • • • • • •
West London, Old inheres
West End & Sothrn Conn.
Wexford and Carlow • • • •
Warwick andCheltenham
Waterford and Kilkenny
Watrfd,WxfdAVlck& Dub
Wakefield and Bradford
Wakfid, Pontefrct, & Gool
Wakefield and Harrogate
Wurwlek and London .
West Laonashire•, „
Worcester and Tring
Whitehaven and Furness
Do. New Half Shares
Welsh Midland.... • ... •
West CO/1/Wiiii • t
West Yorkshire • • •• •
Wilsorttwn, M. & Coltness
Wilts, Somrst. & Weymth
Yarmouth and Norwich

Ditto New . • • •• • • • • •
York and Carlisle
York aryl NOTtli Midland
Ditto Half shares .. • •
Ditto Scarbro' Branch
Ditte Selby
Ditto Extension .. • • • •
Yorkshire Is Glasgow Un.

EXETER, SzPT.
sTocic 47Azros.—The sales ars—
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