The Sun.
London, England, 1860-08-13 00:00:00

TUE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, Atrausr 13, 1860.

stable and 11 relwyn section a fixed dividend on -
the original c capital, amounting to £70,000 com-
mencing at 3 percent. for the first year,4 per cent.
for the second I and third years. and 41 per cent. per
annum subse cuently ; for the Welwyn and Hert-
ford section 1/ per cent. per annum until April, 1866,
upon £55,00(4, and 31,- per cent. per annum there-
after, the G -reat Northern Company alto under-
taking the liability of paying the interest on the
mortgage acid preference capital, amounting toge-
ther to £l5 2,500, the total sum spent upon both
lines being about £277,500. Parliamentary sanc-
tion must b e obtained to this arrangement, and the
directors re commend the proprietors to consent to
an applicat ion being made for it in the next session.
A company had been established for the erection of
an hotel at Sheffield, on a site adjoining the station
of the Manchester, Sheffield, And Lincolnshire
Railway. The capital of the undertaking was
£16,000, towards which the directors of the Great
Northern have promised to ask permission to sub-
scribe £2,500. The Manchester, Sheffield, and
Lincolnshire Company subscribe a similar amount,
and the Midland proprietors would be asked to con-
tribute the same sum. The remainder of the capi-
tal would be found by local shareholders. The neces-
sity for this accommodation had long been felt ; and
it was expected that a remunerative retarn for the
outlay would be realised. The capital account
showed that £11,852,748 had been received, and
£11,532,666 expended, leaving a balance of
£320,082.

balance of £1,514, out of which a dividend is re-
commended at the rate of 3 per cent. per annum,
as at the corresponding period of last year. The
falling off in the passenger receipts was caused by
the extraordinary inclemency of the past season.
The directors regret the expenses which have been
forced upon this small line by the proceedings of
other companies in Parliament. No outlay has
been incurred in Parliament this session.

The capital account showed that £99,942 had
been expended. The revenue account for the half-
year ending the 30th of June showed, after deduct-
ing 50 per cent. for working expenses, that the re-
ceipts amounted to .£2,270, the other expenses to
£317, and the interest on loans to £465, leaving a
balance of £1,487.

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any effect in thinning the ranks of the Dover
Volunteer Artillery Corps, but no doubt the confi-
dence and patriotism of those whose lives are not
only their own fortunes, but the sole reliance for
wives and families, will depend very materially
upon the course the Government may think proper
to adopt in the present case.

Tlx E' ROAD ZWURD.ER.

APPREHENSION OF THE CONFESSED
MURDERER.
TROIVBRID GE, SUNDAY.
The deep interest attaching to this mysterious
affair has been again largely augmented, in conse-
quence of a man who gives the name of Edmund.
John having been apprehended, on his own state-
ment, that he murdered the little boy, Francis
Saville Kent, at Roast-hill House on the night of
the 23d of June last.
It appears that on Friday morning he went on to
the platform of the Wolverton Station of the Lon-
don and North-Western Railway, and acknow-
ledged to Sergeant Rowden that he committed the
murder, and the sergeant handed him over to the
parish constable, Henry Goodson, who is also em-
ployed by the railway, and by him John was
taken before the Rev. J. H. Barton, magistrate, at
Stoney Stratford. He stated that he had been out
of work, and on applying in the village of Road
for employ was engaged to perform a hideous deed,
ror which he was to receive a sovereign in pay-
ment. The child, he said, was handed to him from
a window in the house, and though it had at first
been intended to bury the body in the garden, he
was instructed to put it down the water-closet.
He then walked away towards London, passing
through Reading and other places, and from Lon-
don made his way to Leicester, where he could not
obtain work. Hence he proceeded to Northampton,
where he likewise failed to obtain employment,
and he became so dejected that he felt ready to lay
his head upon the railway and allow a train to pass
over it, but he thought the policeman would lose
his place for not finding out the murderer, and
therefore desistel. He said he could not live, for
the child was before him wherever he went, and he
felt also that the eye of God was upon him. On
being searched, a mason's rule and trowel, toge,
ther with a pant-ticket for another trowel,
and a pocket-book were found upon. He
stated that he had given his knife to
one man, his tobacco-box to another, and
his pipe to a third; and :he asked that, after he
was executed, his things might be given to his
mother. He said he had a wife who was a laun-
dress in London, and three children, and it would
break their hearts if they knew he was connected
with the affair. The magistrate ordered him to be
taken to Trowbridge, where he arrived yesterday
afternoon, in the custody of Henry Goodson,
and Sergeant Royal, of the Bucks constabulary.
The constable went to the man he said he gave the
knife to, and obtained it. It was a common clasp
knife, and on the way down it was dropped, where-
upon John said " That's my knife. Have you been
and got it then ?" During the night he inquired
particularly if Miss Constance Kent having once
been tried by a jury of her country could be
brought up again, and was told that she could. He
then asked if the bedgown had been found, and on
being told it was still missing, said he would con-
fess something relative to that to a minister, and he
should prefer a Wesleyan. At Trowbridge, where
the news had arrived before the officers got there,
as well as at other places on the way, especially at
Swindon, the greatest excitement prevailed, crowds
of persons thronging the way to catch a glance of
the man. He was taken before W. Stencomb, Esq.,
and the depositions taken before the Rev. J. H.
Barton having been read over he was remanded till
to-morrow (Monday), at two o'clock. Two officers
were with him throughout last night, and he com-
plained of a pain in the head, and then made the
inquiries respecting the bedgown. He made
several contradictory statements, to the effect that
he had never been at Trowbridge, Road, or Frome ;
that he did not know Mr. Kent, had never seen
him, though he had previously described the house,
and would never be convicted of the murder, deny-
ing, indeed, that he had committed it. He is a
bricklayer, and about 35 years of age, of round
features, red face, and light hair. He was un-
known in the neighbourhood of Wolverton,
and he exhibited to the police some draw-
ings of what he called a plan for making bricks
without laying them by hand. He said he had
never received the pound promised him for
doing the foul deed, and would not say who pro-
mised it to him, but he expected still to obtain it.
The officers who brought him ara firmly convinced
of his sanity ; but he certainly appears to be labour-
ing under mental aberration. On his trousers is
some blood, which, when asked how it came there,
he said was human blood—the blood of the mur-
dered boy.