The Sun.
London, England, 1858-09-13 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN.
It appears that Captain Huish is about to retire
from the posit ion which he has so long occupied in
this company, and that the Board of Directors, on
receiving his resignation, unanimously passed a.re-
!;olution recording, " their sense of his great ability,
integrity, unwearied industry, and steady devotion
to the interests of this company during tyre length-
ened period of 18 years, as well as the expression
of their personal regard and esteem."

EDINBURGH AND GLASGOW.
The report of the directors of this company states
that there has been a decrease in the traffic receipts
for the half-year ending the 31st July last of £4,436
as compared with the corresponding period of 1857.
The w ki:ig after deduction of the sum
due for working the Helensburgh Railway, amount
to £52,227, or 38 per cent. The charge for inte-
rest was £2,714 in excess, arising in some degree
from the heavy payments made for temporary ad.
vances in the beginning of the year. The net ba-
lance, after payment of all charges and providing
£12,000 on the Stirling and Dunfermline Railway
account up to the date of the transfer of that line to
the company, amounts to £39,842, which, with a
balance of t 1,287 from last half-year, makes a total
of £41,129, from which the directors recommend
payment of the 5 per cent. preference dividend,
amounting to £6,875, and of a dividend on the or-
dinary stock at the rate of 3 per cent. per annum,
or £33,350, carrying forward £905. With respect
to the capital account the sum of £3,654 has been
expended on works in hand, estimated in last re-
port to cost £16,500. The directors see no reason
to doubt that the balance of £12,846 will complete
these works. In like manner £3,894 has been paid
towards the £12,000 then estimated as necessary
for new plant wanted on account of the opening of
the Helensburgh Railway. There was also a charge
of £1,333 against that railway, the interest on the
amount paid for the company s share of the line up
to the Ist June last, the date of its being opened
for traffic. The total cost of the company's
share, or one-third of the Glasgow, Dumbarton, and
Helensburgh Railway, amounts to £89,058 ; and
although the two months for which the line has
been open form too short a period to warrant an
absolute conclusion on what the net annual revenue
will be, the directors are of opinion that there will
be a fair interest earned for the capital invested.
That company's accounts not being finally adjusted,
an estimated dividend at the rate of 4 per cent. only
on' the company's share has been taken credit for.
The act for the transfer of the Stirling and Dun-
fermline Railway to the Edinburgh and Glasgow
Company was passed in the last session. The stock
(£450,000, at 4 per cent.) has been created and
issued to the company, and £130,000 of debenture
debt has been assumed. The expenses of the act
have yet to be paid, and there will be some adjust-
ment of balances with the Stirling and Dunfermline
Company, but this long-debated matter may now be
considered as virtually closed. The agreement be-
tween the Caledonian, Scottish Central, and this
company continues to work very satisfactorily. The
previous agreement with the Scottish Central Com-
pany, referred to in the report of March, 1855, has
been renewed for a further period of six years. The
capital account to 31st of July last showed that
£254,513 had been received, and £4,228,972 ex-
pended, leaving a balance of £25,540. The revenue
account for the half-year ending 31st of July
showed that £144,371 had been received, and
£56,841 expended in working, £25,811 interest on
debentures, and £21,875 dividends and rent payable
to other companies, leaving £39,842.

LONDONDERRY AND ENNISKILLEN.
The directors of this company state in their re-
port that the traffic receipts for the half-year end-
ing 30th June last amounted to £17,991, against
£17,744 for the corresponding period of 1857, show-
ing an increase of £247. The expenditure shows
a saving in the locomotive department of £429,
an increase in the coaching department
of £B9, in the permanent way of £6B, and in
the general expenses of £l5. The interest on
loans and debentures amounts to £4,319 against,
for the same period of 1857, £4,026, being an
excess of £293, arising from the renewal of a
large number of debentures, and paying all
existing interest on borrowed capital to 30th June.
The accounts for some years past have shown
an excess of expenditure over the authorised capi-
tal, but it does not much, if at all, exceed £17,000.
Owing to the constant claims for land conveyances,
which have since 1854 amounted to upwards of
£5,000, and are a charge entirely beyond the con-
trol of the directors, and being unwilling to in-
crease the capital beyond the present amount, it is
their intention to pay all future claims from revenue.
With the above exceptions, the debts of the company
are arranged, and with some few exceptions paid.
Neither do they calcultite on any further amount
being expended beyond giving increased accommo-
dation to the Dundalk line at Enniskillen, and the
Dungannon line at Omagh, when their junctions
with the company's railway are effected ; and no
other important works are in contemplation, or will
be undertaken without the tnnetion of the proprie-
tors. The Dundalk line now conveys passengers to
Lisbellaw, within four miles of Enniskillen, and
that portion is shortly expected to be completed,
giving a through route from Londonderry to Dub-
lin. The company's rolling stock and permanent
way continue to be maintained in an efficient state.
The mode in which the working of the line has
been conducted for the past six months is very
satisfactory, and continues to reflect much credit
on the manager and other officers. After payment
of interest on the Government loan and ordinary
debentures and providing interest on temporary
loans and liabilities there remains a disposable
balance of £3,494. This sum is sufficient, after
payment of dividend on the 6 per cent. £lO shares,
to give a dividend of 2s. 6d. each on the £l2 10s.
preference shares. These dividends the directors
recommend to be paid on the 30th inst., leaving a
balance of £lB for the next account. Were it not

for the high law charges and extra cost of interest,
both of which are considered exceptional, the divi-
dend on the £l2 10s. shares, after paying all pre-
ceding claims, would have been 3s. Bd. per share,
against 3s. 3d. at corresponding period last year.
The capital account shows that £696,123 had
been received and £698,473 expended, leaving a
balance against the account of £2,350.
The revenue account for the half-year ending the
30th of June last showed that £17,991 had been
received and £10,303 expended, including £950 for
law expenses, leaving a balance of £7,688.

I?ETURN OF A DISTINGUISHED
FUGITIVE.

Last night a tall man, with rather a stooping
gait, and about 60 years of age, entered a public
newsroom at the Ilrest-end of the metropolis. He
was dressed from head to foot in a suit of shep-
herd's plaid, and carried a small carpetbag. From
long exposure to wind and weather •his features
were well bronzed, and his appearance, which in
such a place was rather calculated to attract notice,
suggested the notion of a Highland sheep-farmer.
To every person in the room, save one perhaps, he
was an utter stranger, and yet he had a reputation
which of its kind may be said to have been at one
time, if not now, world-wide. For full three months
of the present year his exploits and those of his
confederates were a theme of conversation through
all Europe, and his presence was so much in de-
mand in this metropolis that the Government offered
a reward of £2OO for his capture, and the
Whichers, Williamsons, and Fields, with the
rest of the detectives here, on the continent, and
in America, were upon his trail night and day. He
contrived, however, to baffle all attempts at appre-
hension, and now—the storm over, the prosecution
against him abandoned and the reward withdrawn,
the fugitive free from justice returns to his native
country a free man, and, one would hope, a sadder
and a wiser one. By this the reader will have
anticipated the denouement of our story, and will be
saying to himself, "It must be Allsop." Exactly
so. " The man with the carpet-bag" is no other
than the veritable Thomas Allsop. He it was,
as we all recollect, who one day in December
last wrote and despatched the little mis-
sive from Ginger's Hotel, Westminster, to a
Mr. Taylor in Birmingham, ordering the manufac-
ture of certain small articles, wiiialf were subse-
quently used with such disastrous effects on the
memorable night of the 14th of January in the Rue
Lepellctier. He it was also who began the new
year of 1857 by indicting another epistle, now
matter of history, to his quondam friend Dr. Ber-
nard, applying sundry complimentary epithets to
the Emperor of the French ; who again, in the
autumn of last year, raised £4,500 by mortgage
upon his property in Surrey, which in considerable
part furniShed the sinews of war to Orsini and his

confederates; and who furnished the passport
given to himself in 1851 by Lord Palmerston, to
Orsini, by which he was enabled to travel from this
country to Brussels and thence to Paris on the
murderous enterprise which inflicted death on se-
veral innocent persons, cruel injuries on many
more, and the forfeiture of his own troubled exist-
ence by an ignominious death. There is no doubt
that Mr. Allsop has been in London for a week or
two, though he has escaped observation until now
by all save his own immediate relatives, and a few
others. It is said that on quitting this country he
went first to the United States, and after remaining
there some time proceeded to Mexico, and thence
again to California. So soon as he found it was safe
for him to do so, he returned direct to England.
Mr. Allsop was at one time a member of the Stock
Exchange, and resided at Nutfield-house, near
Reigate, his own property. He formerly lived at
Redhill, in the vicinity of Lincoln. In 1847, when
Feargus O'Connor propounded his allotment
scheme, he adopted the views of the Chartist leader
in that respect, and joined in submitting the pro—
ject to a practical trial on the estate at Red-hill,
but it failed, as it did everywhere else. It is under-
stood that Allsop censures the negligence of Dr.
Bernard in not destroying the famous letter
which he addressed to hi'm on the Ist of January,
1857, and which, it will be remembered, was used
in evidence against both parties on the trial of Dr.
Bernard at the Old Bailey.

EXTRAORDINARY PROCEEDINGS IN
A PASSENGER SHIP.

A correspondent of the Northern Whig makes
the following singular statements :—Having just
arrived here from America, I consider it right to
mention a circumstance which, I think, merits some
attention from the British public. On the 10th of
August last I took my passage on board the Ame-
rican ship —, New York, Captain —, master,
bound for Liverpool. When a short time on board,
I discovered, no little to my surprise, and, indeed,
much to the terror of several nervous passengers,
that I was in company with a party of lunatics.
This may astonish your readers, but it is quite
true. As they entered the ship their ghastly
visages, staring eyes, and unmeaning looks, unmis-
takeably- indicated that the intellect was gone. There
were about sixteen of them. It will naturally be
asked if some Yankee asylum had disgorged its
unhappy inmates. This, I understand, was literally
the fact. These poor creatures, who, perhaps, long
since emigrated to the blessed country of the stars
and stripes, and had. spent the vigour and strength
of their days in enriching the bloated republic,
have been at length sent home to remain a tax
upon this country, or an insupportable burthen on
their unhappy relatives, although they contracted
their frightful malady upon American soil.
The passengers suffered much uneasiness and an-
noyance during the whole voyage, as these maniacs
had no person to look after them, but were allowed
to range through the ship both day and night, rum-
maging through the berths of passengers, as I sup-
pose in quest of food, and screaming and yelling in
a most hideous manner. Of course, having no per-
son to take charge of them, their persons were
foul and filthy, and their actions disgusting in the
extreme. It is a crying shame that these mad-
men and madwomen were suffered to wander
unguarded among the other passengers. If
the United States is to return its lunatics to
this country, it should charter a vessel specially for
that purpose, and not mix them unprotected among
sane people. It was a woful sight to see these
miserable wretches conveyed from the ship in a
cart up the streets of Liverpool. My history of
them ends here.

During the passage acts too odious even to con-
template were committed among themselves and
some of the seamen. Surely some inquiry ought to
be made into this strange affair ; for I can posi-
tively say a more horrible and a more disgraceful
occurrence has seldom happened. The captain
denied all knowledge of their being lunatics. Let
this be so or not, he can, at all events, give some
explanation of this mysterious business.

THE NAVY.

Preparations are being made at No. 1. building
slip, at Sheerness, to build a new screw steam cor-
vette of 21 guns of heavy calibre. She is to be
called the Stork.
During last week some satisfactory trials were
made on board the training brig Nautilus, Lieut.
W. B. Grant, at Plymouth, both under way and at
moorings, of Capt. Kynaston's method of disengag-
ing boats from their ordinary tackle. This mode
was reported on so strongly by Capt. Robinson, of
the steam reserve at Devonport, that during their
late ial visit the Lrds of the Admiralty ordered
the qu offic
arter-boats of o
the Diadem to be supplied
with the invention.
The merchant brig Alma, Capt. Ham, from the
Mediterranean, which arrived at Plymouth on
Saturday morning, reports Admiral Fremantle's
fleet, six in all, standing to the southward, under
canvas only, 25 miles off the Scilly Islands, on Fri-
day evening, at half-past 5 o'clock ; wind, S.S.W—
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THE ARMY.

The Commander-in-Chief reviewed the 100th
Regiment at Shorncliffe on Wednesday last. At
the close of the review his Royal Highness ex-
pressed his satisfaction at the state of discipline in
which he had found the regiment, and passed a
high eulogium on the loyalty of the Canadian
population in raising so fine a body of men at a
moment of need.