The Sun.
London, England, 1842-01-24 00:00:00

RAILWAY RETURNS.

We extract from the Railway Magazine the sums
received on the principal Railways of Great Britain
for the week ending on the day of the month prefixed
to each. The return includes the money received for
passengers, parcels, carriages, horses, mails, and mer•
chandize :
Week Name of Railwr- Miles Total.

ended an. 3. Opened. £. s. d.
Jan. 8 Birmingham & Derby Junct. 351 1,339 11 2
14 Birmingham and Gloucester 55 1,327 16 7
.. Brandling Junction 25 No returns
.. Chaster and Birkenhead ..
16 Dundee and Arbroath
16 Eastern Counties
17i 635 5 5
15 Glasgow and Ayr .. .... .....
15 Glasgow, Paisley, & Greenock 221 602 11 9
8 GrandJunct., Chester&Crewe 1031 6,757 10 0
15 Great North of England
16 Great Western
15 Hull and Selloy
15 Lancaster & Preston Junction 201 375 6 2
17 Liverpool and Manchester 3l 4,057 2 0
15 London and Birmingham.— 112/ 12,407 15 7
20 London and Blackwell ... 31 544 910
15 London andllrighton
15 Ditto Shore am Branch
18 London and Croydon lOl 242 2 0
20 London and Greenwich 3l 736 13 7
15 London and South Western
13 Manchester, Bolton, and Bury 10 580 9 7
17 Manchester & Birmingham
15 Manchester and Leeds
15 Midland Counties
15 Newcastle and Carlisle 6o} 1,226 8 5
322 6 0
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780 3 11
1613 NorthernNewca
15 North Midland
14 North Union
15 Preston and Wyre
17 Sheffield and Manchester...... 7 174 16 16

16 Ulster
15 York and North Midland 23

260 2 6
1,145 18 4

CAVANAGH, THE FASTING MAN.
In the first Report of the Inspectors of Prisons is to
be found a singular instance of long abstinence from food,
terminated, however, at last by death, as Cavanagh's would
have been had he carried out his system of fasting to the
last extreme. Under the head of " Ipswich Borough
Gaol" the following anecdote is recorded :—" There has
been one death in the present year under such extraor-
dinary circumstances, that I venture to cite the case, al-
though not immediately in connection with the subject
of the Report. William Casey, a native of Ireland,
was tried March 9, 1835, for the murder of his child,
and was acquitted on the ground of insanity. He
then manifested a determination to destroy himself; and
every care was taken to prevent him. He then resolved
to effect it by starvation, and refused all food. The first
ten days he was without a drop of water. On the 11th
day he drank a quart. Then he went for several days
without food, and drank a quantity of water again. Food
in every enticing variety was placed and left before him,
and carpets were laid in the approaches to his cell in
order that he might be watched. He was frequently seen
to crawl out of bed and smell the food, and then return.
His wife once attempted to put a strawberry into his
mouth, and he would have strangled her had ho not been
prevented. Ho lived on in this way, taking nothing but
water, except on one occasion, during the last five days
of his life, when he took a little rum. He died on the
Ist (of August. During the whole period of his confine-
ment he always stood, and was never known to sit down
when not in bed. His violence was so great as to pre-
clude the possibility of the surgeon's administering nu-
triment to him otherwise than by the natural channel."

The man named Deschamps, whose arrest at
Toulon we mentioned the other day, has been sentenced
to transportation by the Court of Assizes for the
Bouches-du-Rhone, as being ono of the chiefs of the
late Republican conspiracy of La Villette, near Marseilles.
By order of the Minister of War, considerable
works of defence are to be undertaken at Cherbourg
during the present and five following years. A credit
of eight millions of francs is allottedfor this urpose,
without comprising the expenio of mal"bary buikangs.
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