The Express.
London, England, 1859-08-26 00:00:00

AN lIIIIRMAN IN NONE.

A letter from Rome in the Alarming Post contains
a curious narrative earpecting the adventures of an Irishman
In Italy. The correspondent aye :
t• There fa now in confinement in the Hones of Camden,
adjoining the 'Carnal Neon,' or new prisons, in Home, the
amenities of which establishment he bee strawy emporienced
for about four months, • young Irishman, tamed William
Hogan, who describes himself as the son of Mr. Dennis
Hogan, sleek fa a commercial establiebnient, raiding at No.
24, Millard-street, Cork. The ' truant disposition' having
taken pesseatioa of this young genileman soma time ago, he
came over, according to his ova statement, to
revert, Intending to protante his journey se far se the
Eternal City, In order to enter the frig con _
vent of Prowls-
can friars. But in Franca he says that he lost his pes-port,
which suggested to him the Hes of pretending to be
as Hellen, in which plan ha was saeieted by some know-
ledge of the Isugusge, so that no obstale might be
read to his proceediug to the canary which be thence-
forward sib:rued to be hie native land. The adventurous
wandersee pecuniary means teem to have token have of
him together with his pitapat, for, having made his way
through Piedmont and Lombardy Ia e very destitute con-
dition, he wee arrested between four end five mouths ago in
the bitchy of Modena upon a charge of vagabonding,.
Doctoring that his same was Giovanni Guarini, and that be
was a satire of Rome, the Modentre gendarmerie conveyed
handcuffed, to the frontier of the Papal dominione,
la the province of Bologna, and there formally
eaudgeed hint to the gendarmes of his behave,
to be peeped on to the soi.diaant city of his birth. Acoordiog
to the nasal tally mode of conveying criminals In this
canary, young Hogan &niecd in due time at the Eternal
City, and WAY forthwith plated In duraoce vile. But
after some preliminary saaainatioas be found it utterly
impossible to keep up hit alias, and came out again in hat
true Cook coloure, stating that he was an Inehtnen and a
toed malefic, with an earseet de4re to become a monk.
Application was then made to the Irish Franclocens of Bt.
Leduc, to know 'whether the postulant could be rocatved,
but the fathers of that convent related, imprimis, that the
utmost regularity wa required niche °minders of baptism,
:Idiocy, end other paper, to he presented by say brother
applying for admittance to their cloister; and secondly, that
Uwe 'nag so nos iciest) school in the convent, the appli-
cent would require to have been already shinty/I into
the order before preventing himself at the C..riv. tat of Isidore.
In this stet l of things the Routes director of police, feeling
soaker, to get lid of hit latest, has applied to the British
acting runnier agent, Mr. Jacek, to provide the fends
aeoeosary to tend Mr. William Hogan back to Cork,
by-the-bye, Mr. William Hogan pates.es the utmost un-
willinatess to ,aura. Meanwhile the prienner behoves him-
self with the moot exunplay potion: • to hie place of cm-
Isement, and affords alto an dityieg ozonthle of piety by
the religious decorum with whim he serves the prism meas,
He appears twthetly satialed with his mese of been soup
and lout of Mead fir dinner, and hie breed and sided for sup-
er, and with ouch tote it seems a pity that his aspirations
ler a friar. fore and garb cannot he gratified."

DlrCOTt.hltil Iv NIIWYOUNDLAND —ENfeamelia
nay ounetal direiveries bare lately bun tnitata in Neatanda
land, whiath rill boooma the Canaan of North America.
We bare biota abuts apecinatna tat cower yritea containing
from Mot to twelve pr cent. of metal, taboo from a lode 60
fret in bread. b; tin ore being as valuable for sulphur u for
copper. It cr.pa out urn tit- endue, sad tbaraods of
WWI em be of:dittoed at a very tr.fliair outlay. gereral very
viol lulo of lead bare also bier' dacarred ; and lb. tele-
graph row macre that a valuable vein of silver ore has been
found.—Qtarber elsroaide.

1116 (ANVIL'? ELLEN Rurres.—The Home Sec►e-
tary bas Mt ((Howl( justified I. advising the extamien of the
royal prerogative to tau mteerable ...man, convicted at the
lou Gt.ucesoer array rf the murder of bar bnaband. Her
seaman will to commated 6. pond arrito.fe for lite. This
result is owing to numerous spplioatkme on the priPoner'•
behalf, based principally in the grated of the goes
treatment .be cuff-red 1r m the decowed. It may be remem-
bered that the jury sccumpanird slew verdict with a :eonm-
nw•adation to a similar rife:A.—The Wester* 7i. ..I
says : Her condact la rug Ms been voniewhat
romakeble At drat. we hair, We Mooed to eat, bat subse-
quently she said she was not geleg to faint or to IV laughed
at on her trial, and, therefore, the eight before her trial ate
had mum mutton ' t. tarp up hyr etreadtb,' which she ate
voraciously. She capture I her eleternduatioa to plead guilty,
and tin !aim told the judge wow.' tot show her to d,
a-bed. • What's the um of telttrig a lie about it?' Mr.
l'oesil, who was to have defeated her, surgre-tai that
she mould apply to have the tnal deferred, and
in the ne datum her defence might bs properly
got up. • No; she replied, ' pure to .he Load
gully, mil I may as well be hanged sow as in
sic tanths' time.' She also expremal a wish to be hanged
fa pertinence to having penal ornritode for life. A great
number of philanthropist. have applied at the gaol to
Pee her, one of whom rammed a mph, aa he pbraaed at, 'to
beer ft out her dying Iv 'lv wormers that Ler reelaoobol•
fete end that of her husiani was attributable to alcohol.'
Were lb- popover's hie trended for two years she meld Let
is that ,iose read religious trams and paniphlete which
have Less forwarded for her perusal:'

GREAT WlB TERN AND BRESTFODD
RAILWAY.-112118 DAY.,

This morning the general meeting of the share-
holders was held at the company's editors, No. 27, Great
Georgrostreet, Westminster; lir. ratan DtSLY in the
ash..

In their report the direetors informed the sharele.lders
that, since the last half-yearly meeting, the bill for authoris-
ing the lease of the railway, dock, and other works belong-
ing to this company, to the Great Western Railway Com-
pany had poised both Roams of Parliament, and received
the total aseseat. The railway and dock barites been
aaresa. held hem publicly opened on the Ibth of
Jab, last; end the Great Western Compaq had
commenced tarrylag traffic on the 18th of that month.
Upon the completion of the approach road from the town of
Braniford to the dock (which wee in a forward stale), the
lease would come into operation. Pending the completion
of the aPProlioli med. the 'relic carried over the line was to
, be paid for at the rates set forth in the schedule annexed to
' the set of parliament. The removal from Bull's bridge, and
the re-erection of the hydraulic and other apparatus were in
progress. Farther experienoa had confirmed the board of
directors in the belief that the traffic anticipated by them
when they determined to construct the works upon the pre-
sent comprehensive mole, would be fully realised ; the advsn-
tags of so reedy an access to the tidal out of the river
Thames amid not fell to promote a large goods tragic over the
Great Western Railway, of which teak all that destined
for the rime Thames was secured to this company ; wend
hrsh contracts, is coals, lion, &c., had already been under-
taken to pass by this route, and others of considerable mag-
nitude were in coarse of negotiation. A portion of the share
capital had yet to be mimed, and it we. desirable that maps
should be taken for the pupate of raising it at the earliest
moment. The lies Ming now opened and an income appli-
cable for dividends accruing, the directors iavitad the share-
holders to respond to the allotments of new shares which
had been made to them, that the claims upon the company
might be discharged and the capital account completed. The
directors had hitherto avoided the creation of soy preferen-
tial share stock, but should the unisaued shares remain
unappropriated, it would become nominally to exercise the
powers of the act of parliament by honing them with a pre-
ference. In °occlusion the directors felt that they could
safely congratulate the shareholders upon the future prospects
' of the undertaking, which after unavoidable delays hod been
aussioionsl7 inaugurated. The CHAtILWAN, in moving the adoption of the report,
said that the directors were of opinion that it would le beet
to raise 40,0001. by a Ave per cent. irredeemable stock. It
was hardly poseible that there could be a bettor security than
that which the company would be able to give for that stock ;
and if it were taken up it would at once relieve them from
all their dasnolal difficulties. At rte same time, as the
directors felt that their line would ultimately p'y 5 per cent.,
he did not see how the Gantlet this prelerental stock could
be prejudicial to the original shareholder.. It would, how-
ever, be necessary to hold a spelal meeting before the stock
could be issued. Re might add that the loan to the Greet
Western would come into operation on the 15th cf nest
month, from which date their guarantee wculd login.
After a short discussion, the motion was agreed to; and
it was resolved to hold the special meeting referral to by the
chairman at the earliest possible day.
The nasal complimentary vote. were then pawed.