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

THE SUN," LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, AITGITS II 13, 1866.

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, SATURDAY MORNING.
THE POPE'S OWN IRISH.

The papers continue to chronicle the return home-
wards of the Irish pilgrims from the Eternal City.
Act:lording to present appearances, the share of the
Brigade in the glories to be won under General
Lamoriciere promises to be on the homoeopathic
scale, for by this time the phalanx of 1,500 must be
reduced to a mere skeleton depot, if all the concur-
rent accounts are to be credited of the numbers who
have deserted the Papal standard before striking a
blow to sustain the Chair of St. Peter. The cor-
respondent of Saunders, writing from Limerick
yesterday, thus reports the arrival there of a fresh
batch of repentant prodigals :
" Letters previously received prepared the rela-
tives of a number of the foolish young men belong-
ing to this city who were afflicted by the Romish
mania a few weeks since, and in consequence rashly
took their flight hence to join the Pontifical army,
for their return to the homes of their parents, and
last evening a batch of about 22 arrived here by
train, in a worn and used up' condition, depressed
in spirits, and all repenting the misguided course
they had pursued. Those with whom they con-
versed they have given a deplorable picture of the
privations and sufferings they endured throughout,
alleging that but for the exertions of the Rev. Dr.
M'lloughlin, late of the Franciscan Order in this
pity, but who has now chief charge of the Irish
Volunteers in the Eternal City, the case would have
been even worse with them than it was. To him
they are indebted for having been sent back, and
in all particulars the accounts they give of matters
generally tally with the statements of the returned
Volunteer, O'Brien, which have been published in
his letters, and are therefore unnecessary to be re-
peated. It is, however, essential to mention that
many of them were induced to go to Rome under
promise of being appointed to high positions in the
Pope's army, instead of obtaining which they were
subjected to join the lowest ranks. One respectable
young man was assured he would at once be
made a colonel, but this he soon found out was an
illusion. Three of the county constabulary who
resigned the force are among those who arrived last
night, and their intention is to join the British
army, as numbers of the men who previously re-
turned have done in different parts of Ireland, and
who will no doubt, having learnt a satisfactoYy
lesson from their rash and thoughtless conduct,
prove good.and loyal soldiers. It appears this is
the second batch of disappointed adventurers that
has arrived in Limerick within the last fortnight,
and are without means of employment."
The Cork Constitution of yesterday thus chronicles
the arrival there of a fresh batch of the repent-
ants :

GREAT WESTERN.

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The capital account of this company for the half-
-3 ear ending 30th of June last shows that £13,044,777
had been raised on shares, including £4,805,911 on
preference shares; and £10,590,518 on debenture
and loans, making the total £23,635,296. Of the
£4,805,911 raised on preference shares £1,471,000
was at 4 per cent., £2,009,911 at 41 per cent., and
£1,325,000 at 5 per cent. The two latter are re-
deemable stocks.

The expenditure on capital account amounted on
lines constructed by the company prior to January
1, 1850, to £10,904,288, including £1,016,591 for
rolling stock; and from the latter date to June, 1860,
on various lines and stations a further sum of
£10,440,872, including £6,702,457 expended on the
Oxford, Wolverhampton, and Dudley, £1,688,073
on the Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth; £649,504
on the new station at Paddington, and £872,162
on locomotive and carriage stock, making alto-
gether £21,345,161 for lines, stations, and rolling
stock. The subscriptions and disbursements for
other undertakings amounted to £1,991,810, includ-
ing £637,220 for the South Wales, £225,000 South
Devon, £103,434 Gloucester and Dean Forest,
£545,000 Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth,
£181,500 Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton,
£60,000 Cornwall, £132,155 Shrewsbury lines, and
£70,000 for the Metropolitan Railway, making the
total expenditure on capital account £23,336,971,
leaving a balance of £298,325.
The principal alterations in the capital account
during the half year consisted of the complete issue
of £2,009,000 redeemable 44 per cent. preference
stock, and the liquidation of a similar amount of
loans. The full advantage of this operation would
not be felt until next half-year. In the debenture
and loan account the sum of £856,425, borrowed
at 5 per cent., and £153,025 at 411 per cent., to-
gether £1,009,450, was paid off during the half-
year, and a larger amount was re-borrowed at 41,
and 4 per cent. making a saving in interest of more
than £9,000 a year.
The capital account of the Shrewsbury lines
showed a total expenditure.of £3,439,750. The
traffic on those lines for the half-year amounted to
£138,003, from which was deducted £4,726, for
the proportion of Birkenhead expenses, leaving
£133,276. The working expenses amounted to
£86,712, including £9,385, being the moiety of the
expense of relaying 13 one-third miles of railway,
including materials • also in another item a further
sum was included, being a proportion of relaying
a joint line cf foir miles between Wellington and
Shrewsbury, leaving a balance of £46,563 towards
the interest on loans and dividends on preference
and guaranteed shares, amounting in all to £64,833,
and leaving a deficiency of £18,270, which was, as
usual, charged against the revenue of the Great
Western Company. Had it not been for the extra
cost of those renewals being charged entirely against
revenue, the deficiency would probably not have ex-
ceeded £8,2Q0 in the present account. But those
charges were made against revenue in accordance
with the principle laid down by the directors of
the Great Western Company since the completion
of their lines. Not only were all renewals strictly
charged against revenue, but in some cases addi-
tional working stock was provided out of revenue
by spreading the large amounts when necessary
over a limited number of half-years until liquidated,
with a view to keep down the expenditure of
capital as much as possible.

If present appearances are not very deceptive,
the Brigade that was to achieve so much glory on
Italian soil will soon be little but a nave. For the
last few weeks numbers of those who went from
this country to Rome have been hastening back
and giving such accounts of the treatment they re-
ceived as satisfactorily explain the subsidence of
their zeal for the service of the Holy Father. Some
who went from this city, it has been already men-
tioned, have returned, but more have since come to
corroborate the statements of the horrors endured
by the recruits. Yesterday no fewer than 36
arrived here. Worn, pallid, and miserable, their
appearance left no necessity for tongue to tell of the
hardships they went through since a few short
months ago they embarked at our quays in the cer-
tainty of finding glory and good pay on the banks
of the Tiber. Their description of what they en-
dured is just the same as that which has already
been given by those who preceded them. The hardest
of marches, the vilest of lodging, and the worst of
food, and even of that same only just as much as
kept them from actual starvation, left them little
mind for bearing arms under Lamoriciere, and,
before it was too late, they left the Pontine Marshes
and their autumnal fevers behind them. Many of
the 36 belong to this city, but the greater number
are from Kerry and the adjoining counties."

The revenue account of the Great Western lines
shows that £863,229 had been received during the
half-year ending June 30, including £6,750 for
Bristol and Birmingham rent, £11,740 for use of
plant by other companies, £3,068 for interest
on cash balances, £5,181 for rent of Great Western
Hotel, cottages, and other property, and £279
for registration fees. The total expenditure
amounted to £352,700, or 42.179 per cent., includ-
ing £17,381 for passenger duty, £14,310 rates
and taxes, £2,500 reserved for doubtful debts,
and £l,OOO reserved for fire insurance, leaving a
balance of £510,529. To this sum was added
.E 25,749 brought from the preceding account,
£4,395 on account of the Kennet and Avon Canal,
and £11,389 for dividends on shares held in the
South Devon and South Wales Railways, making the
total £552,162. From this was deducted £20,189
for guaranteed annuities to the Wilts. Somerset, and
Weymouth Railway, and Kennet and Avon Canal ;
£20,028 for rent charges of Glocester and Dean
Forest, Hereford and Glocester, Brentford Dock
and Railway, Wycombe R tilway, and trustees of
the Paddington Estate ; £9,942 for loss on the lease
of South Wales Railway ; £245,455 interest on
loans; £1,331 interest on Berks and Hants exten-
sion shares; £l5O on Henley Railway subscriptions;
£107,650 interest on Great Western preference
stock ; and £18,270 deficiency before mentioned in
respect of Shrewsbury line—total, 423,016, leaving
a disposal balance of £129,046. The proposed divi-
dend on the ordinary stock (18,237,276) at the rate
of 3 per cent. per annum for the half-year, would
absorb 1123,559, and leave ft balance 0f.£5,487.
The increase in the expenditure on capital ac-
count during the half-year amounted to £37,023, of
which £12,283 was for old liabilities, and £24,740
for new works and additional station accommoda-
tion. The increase in the receipts on revenue
account during the past half-year amounted to
£67,783, as compared with the corresponding half
of 1859, while the increase in the working expenses
only amounted to £19,100, of which it appeared
that about £14,000 was expended in providing some
additional stock and improving a large number of
second-class carriages, supplying them with seats
and cushions, and otherwise increasing the passen-
ger accommodation. The dividend at the corres-
ponding period of last year was at the rate of 2 per
cent. per annum, using £29,582 of the balance
brought into that account, while the dividend on
the present occasion was et the rate of 3 per cent.
per annum, using £20,261 of the balance brought
into this account, showing an increase of 1 per cent.,
or rather more ; and if the dividend for the next
half-year should also increase 1 per cent. over the
corresponding
_period, of which there was every
probability, the dividend for the year 1860 would
amount to 31 per cent, on the ordinary capital.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN.

The report of the directors, to be submitted to
the proprietors at the half.yearly general meeting,
to be held on the 17th inst., states that " the re-
venue account exhibits the following results of the
half-year :—Receipts from passengers, parcels,
mails, &c., £946,526, being an increase over the
corresponding half of 1859 of £55,048; ditto from
merchandise, &c., £1,065,816 ; increase, £124,397 ;
total, £2,012,342; increase, £179,445. Working
expenses, £869,619 ; increase, £80,363. During the
past six months the increase in the number of pas-
sengers and tons of goods carried, and of train miles
run, as compared with the corresponding period of
1859, has been—Passengers, 264,355 ; goods and
minerals, 575,394 tons. Mileage of passenger
trains, 203,626 miles ; mileage of goods trains,
359,067 miles. The increased receipts have not arisen
from a return to more remunerative rates, little
change having taken place in that respect, the
traffic generally, both merchandise and passenger,
continuing subject to active competition, and there-
fore worked at a high rate of expense. The rapid
development of the business renders necessary the
enlargement very generally of stations, sidings, and
other conveniences, requisite for its conduct and for
the safe working of the line. This description of
outlay amounts, over so extensive a system, to a
large sum in the aggregate, and the practice of this
company to debit such charges against revenue, in-
stead of against capital, has had the effect of in-
creasing the working expenses, and thereby
of reducing very considerably the apparent pro-
fits of the past and previous half-years. Acts have
been passed by Parliament authorising the lease
of the St. Helens line between Werrington and
Garston, and for the transfer of the Warring-
ton and Stockport line to this company ; author-
ising contracts for the use of Normanton Station,
and of the line between that station and Goose-hill
—the point to which the powers obtained last year
extended; authorising the construction of a branch
from the Stockport, Disley, and Whaley-bridge
Railway to Hayfield. For the construction of a
railway from Bedford to Cambridge ; for the con-
struction of a railway from Nuneaton to near Lei-
cester, and confirming agreements between the Lon-
don and North Western and Midland Companies,
for the mutual use of the lines and stations between
Leicester and Coventry inclusive. By agreement
with the promoters of the bill for amalgamating the
Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton ; Newport,
Abergavenny, and Hereford, and Worcester and
Hereford Companies, under the title of the West
Midland Railway Company,' clauses have been in-
serted in that act providing for the exchange and for-
warding on satisfactory terms of traffic between the
principal stations on the respective lines of railway.
The directors regret to report the failure of the re-
newed application to Parliament for authorising
arrangements between the London and North
Western, the Great Northern, and the Manchester,
Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Companies. The bill
for the proposed line from Huy ton to Moore was
also rejected on the opposition of parties interested
in the navigation of the Upper Mersey ; and the
bill for an extension of the Gersten and Edge Hill
line, and for a station' at Brunswick-dock, Liver-
pool, passed the Commons, but was withdrawn in
consequence of unexpected opposition. The works of
the West London Extension Railway, and of the
Sutton Coldfield branch, have been contracted for,
and are in course of construction. The agreements for
working and for a lease of the Birkenhead Railway
by this and the Great Western Company jointly,
which have already been approved by the proprie-
tors, will be submitted for confirmation to the
special meeting, as will also the extended traffic
agreement with the North Staffordshire Railway
Company, as finally settled by Mr. Buller. It being
desirable that the principle of the renewal of road
aecount, which has been established with the sanc-
tion of the proprietors in respect of the main line of
'the London and North Western system should be
adopted on the Lancaster and Carlisle and Chester
and Holyhead lines, the amount appropriated
from revenue will in future be increased se as
to embrace those leased lines, as well as the
branches under that head recently constructed,
-An additional vessel being requisite for the in-
creasing merchandise traffic between Holyhead and
Dublin, the directors propose, in accordance
with the course heretofore adopted, to appro-
priate
to £24,000) f that purpose a further sum (estimated at
suranee from the balance at the credit of the in-
and depreciation_ funds for the boats of the
Chester and
palstlionllvhend Company. On the 2:1 of
av the
:fire. The building, Iotte:l was pertially destroyed by
was amply coverea_net,
ipropertythis
ofCOTIVATI7,
hYad
beerst eir policies of insurance;
considerable injury
done to the furniture,
and as the term of the lease was
WaS nearly expired, the
directors deemed it expedient to anticipate that
period, and accordingly they
,negotiated for the pur-
-43. GI, an ur-
rilas?, of furniture, stock of wine, and stores of
kkds, connected with the Ruston and Victoria.
Hoe els, for the SUM ,of £20,1e8
merit which the directors cn„sider
ad
111,-"e
t ',genus. Me hotel
_being
The directors re-
quest a vote of the proprietors for the following
works :—Enlargement of worworkshops;workshops at Iyolverton
and houses for workpeople, 120,060; carriage shop,
land, and new offices at Crewe, £4,204; covering
over yard at Earlestown waggon works, £0,700;
station enlargement at Hayden-square, Easton,

GREAT NORTHERN.
The report of the directors of this company states
that the total amount expended on capital account
was £11,532,666, including £44,267 during the
half-year, principally for land, at the new junction
with the North London Railway, for works at the
eastern junction with the branch of the Metropolitan
Railway in Maiden-lane • the extension of the coal
drops at King's-cross, and for additional accommo•
dation at London, Hitchin, Peterborough, and Gran-
tham. It was intended to expend about £lB,OOO in
the construction of additional carriage and wag-
gon stock to meet the requirements of the in-
creased traffic. Nearly £324,000 had been received
on the 4 per cent. perpetual debenture stock dur-
ing the half-year, making the total amount paid up
£1,412,165. The gross receipts for the first six
months of 1860 amounted to £659,010, and for the
corresponding period of 1859 to £596,939, showing
an increase of £62,071. The gross expenditure
amounted to £363,064 against £330,243, showing
an increase of £32,821. The excess of receipts over
expenditure was £295,946, against £266,696,5h0w-
ing an increase of £29,250. The total net revenue
amounted to £301,734, out of which was. deducted
£185,647 for fixed charges, including mortgage and
debenture stock, interest and preference dividends,
leaving £109,087 available for dividend on the
original and A and B stocks. The disposable
balance of £109,087 would suffice to pay dividend
at the rate of 41 per cent. per annum on tha origi-
nal stock, and therefore of three per cent. for the
half-year on the B, 1-A- per cent. for the half-year
on the A stock, and the directors recommend that
a dividend at those rates be accordingly declared,
leaving a balance of £1,161. The locomotive power
had cost more by £11,146 than in the first half of
1859, which was mainly accounted for by 252,068
additional train miles having been run. The re-
pairs and renewals of carriages and waggons had
caused an increased outlay on revenue account of
£3,258, a portion of which had been expended in
improving the second-class carriages. The com-
pany had to appear in Parliament against two bills
promoted by the Midland Company for powers to
construct a station contiguous to the King's-cross
station, and to use the North London and other
metropolitan lines. Clauses were consequently
inserted in those bills for the protection of the
Great Northern Company. The Dnnstable, Luton,
and Hertford Railway, which intersects the Great
Northern main line near Welwyn, about 20 miles.
from London, was nearly completed, and would be
ready for traffic in the course of a short time. The
directors were of opinion that the permanent in
terests of the Great Northern Company would be
promoted by the incorporation of the line from
Dunstable to Hertford with the Great Northern
system, and recommended the proprietors to sanc-
tion an agreement with that company. The prin-
ciple of the agreement was that the Great
Northern Company should pay for the Dun-

lVfedbourne, Seaton, Islip, Darlaston, Willenhall, • stable and Welwyn section a fixed dividend on
original, cap
additional sidings at Bushbury, Birdswood, Acton, mencing ital, amounting to £70,000 com-
Stockport, Mossley, Morley, and Atherton, £12,439 ; the
at 3 per cent, for the first year,4 per cent.
Hartford, Delph, Tattenhall, Huddersfield, and for the secon
and third years, and 41 per cent. per
Spring's Branch, £4,150 ; diversion of two level annum subsequOnt
ly ; for the Welwyn and Hert-
:l
crossings at Northampton, £11,000; total, £58,493. ford section 1 per &at. per annum until April, 1866,
The statement of the half-year's accounts show that upon £55,000, and 3:1--; per cent. per annum there-
the net proceeds are £607,279 10s. Bd. ; to which after, the Great Northern Company also under-
add the balance carried from last account, £10,870 taking the liability of paying the interest on the
7s. ; showing a disposable balance of £618,149 17s, mortgage and preference capital, amounting toge-
-Bd. ; dividend recommended (5 per cent.) £605,341 ther to £152,500, the total sum spent upon both
Bs. 6d. ; balance to be carried to next account, lines being about £277,500. Parliamentary sane-
£l2,BoB 9s. 2d. The directors recommended the tion must be obtained to this arrangement, and the
payment of a dividend for the past half-year after directors recommend the proprietors to consent to
the rate of 5 per cent. per annum, carrying forward an application being made for it in the next session.
a balance of £12,808 9s. 2d. 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 return 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.

NORTH EASTERN.

The half-yearly meeting of this company was
held on Friday—Mr. H. S. Thompson, M.P., pre-
sided.

The CHAIRMAN said that, in drawing the atten-
tion of the proprietors to the results of the half-
year's working, the directors, of course, felt very
much gratified at being able to state that the increase
in the gross receipts amounted to £77,852. In the pas-
senger department the increase during the past half-
year, as compared with the corresponding half of last
year, had been £18,511 ; in the goods department an
increase of £45,144; and in the mineral depart-
ment an increase of £13,779. The gross receipts
had increased very nearly 9 per cent., but the net
increase had been 1 per cent. more than that, so
that the general result of the working of the half-
year had proved very satisfactory. The increase of
the passenger traffic in their district had been more
than at the average rate of the population of the
country, which was very gratifying, considering the
unfavourable weather that had prevailed during
the whole year. The increase of £45,000 in the
goods department was very satisfactory, and it was
the great item of increase during the half-year.
Nearly all branches of trade which are represented
in the goods department had been extremely active,
and one portion of their district especially had
shown this increased activity, which was the port
of Hull, where it was essential to provide addi-
tional accommodation, particularly dock accommo-
dation for the large steamships, to meet the in-
creased import and export trade as connected with
the large manufacturing districts of Yorkshire and
Lancashire. Speaking on behalf of the board of
directors, he (the chairman) had to express his
great gratification that they could show an increase
at all in the mineral traffic at a time when there had
been a considerable falling off in the coke traffic.
That traffic had undergone a steady and continuous
decline; but he was happy to say there had sprung
up a demand for coke for smelting purposes, which
had not only counteracted and neutralized the de-
cline in the demand for railway coke, but had
caused an increase in the receipts of a character
which he hoped would continue. The directors
had turned their attention to re-rolling the rails
and relaying the line with them instead of new
ones ; for when they were re•rolled they were as
good as could be procured, and when they were
subjected to the process of steeling they would be
better than those laid down previously. In the re-
port of the directors it was stated that the new stock
to the extent of £500,000, bearing a preferential di-
vidend at the rate of 41 per cent., had all been sub-
scribed for by the shareholders, and, with the
exception of about £lO,OOO, paid up. There
was now, however, a balance of only £5,000
remaining to be paid. The sum of £45,000 had
been renewed at 3/, per cent., and £1,072,000 at 4
per cent., so that there had been a saving of interest
of £7,753 per annum. (Applause.) He concluded
by moving the adoption of the report.
Mr. Alderman LEEMAN seconded the motion,
which, after a few remarks, was carried neon. con.
The CHAIRMAN next moved—

" That dividends (less income tax) be declared, for the
half-year ended the 30th June, 1860, and be paid on the
21st inst. to the proprietors, on the Berwick capital stock at
the rate of 5i per cent. per annum ; and upon the Thirsk
and Mallon stock at the rate of 4 per cent. per annum ;
upon the York capital stock at the rate of 41 per cent. per
annum ; and upon the Leeds capital stock at the rate of 21
per cent. per annum."

Mr. PULLEINE seconded the motion, which wal
carried.

The CHAIRMAN then proposed a resolution ap-
proving renewed applications being made to Parlia-
ment for the amalgamation of the Newcastle and
Carlisle Railway Company with this company; for
power to construct a railway between Blaydon and
Conside ; to complete the North Yorkshire and
Cleveland Railway through to Grosmont ; and to
deviate the Whitby and Pickering line near Goath-
land, in order to avoid the incline there.

This resolution was also adopted.
The CHAIRMAN next moved a resolution in favour
of the amalgamation of the North-Eastern with the
Stockton and Darlington Railway Company.
Mr. Alderman SEYMOUR seconded the motion,
which was carried.

The CHAIRMAN then proposed a resolution author-
ising the directors to concur in an application to
Parliament by a new company for power to con-
struct new docks on the west foreshore of the Hum-
ber at Hull, in connexion with this company's rail-
way, and for subscribing thereto to the extent of
£50,000.
Mr. PRIESTMAN seconded the resolution.
Mr. FOSTER recommended the shareholders to
be cautious before passing this resolution.
The CHADIAN said it was necessary to make the
dock, and no doubt it would be made ; if not, Hull
must go down.
The resolution was carried unanimously, a vote
of thanks to the chairman closing the proceedings.

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.

any effect in thinning the ranks of the DJvcr
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.

THE ROAD MURDER.

APPREHENSION OF THE CONFESSED
MURDERER.

TROWBRIDGE, 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 Road-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,
for 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. Hemee 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 desisted. 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 pawn-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 hp 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 are 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.