The Sun.
London, England, 1863-11-06 00:00:00

SECOND EDITION.

SUN OFFICE, HALF-PAST 4 O'CLOCK.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE—This Day,

HEREFORD RACES-THIS DAY.
(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
CORPORATION PLATE.

Flower Safety
The monkl

:Eleven ran.

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, Nov. 5.
The Irish North-Western Railway, passing from
Dundalk, in the county of Louth. to Enniskillen,
had not been doing well, and a committee of share-
holders was recently appointed to examine the
aiftirs of the cornPany, and to put everything
relating to its concerns honestly and fairly before
the shareholders. The Earl of Erne, chairman of
very large amount. He held £43,600
the board of directors, became the creditor of the
coofmthpean
to
debenturesa of the company, and he bad lent
together
money to it amounting to £81,145, making
the sum of £124,645. Lord Erne wrote to the com-
pany, on the 3d of this month, that, in order to
assist in relieving the shareholders, as far as Was in
his power, from the present embarrassment, he was
willing to place £28,500 of debentures in the corn.
pang's hands, on condition that the amount realised
by them should be applied, as far as it would go, in
payment of the debts due to the Bank of Ireland
and the Belfast Banking Company, amounting to
£30,000 and .£1,700, the company providing the
balance. He agreed to accept shares in the coin-
party of the same class as the existing A preference
shares. In order to issue such shares new powers
must be obtained from Parliament, but if the com-
pany were unable to obtain those
powers, he agreed
not to call is the sums above-mentioned for the next
10 years, and during that time to receive interest on
the money at the same rate as may be payable by
way of dividend on the existing A preference shares.
At the meeting of the shareholders in the North-
umberland Hotel yesterday the report of the com-
mittee was submitted, and the proposal of the,
chairman unanimously adopted. Mr. Edward
Litton said that in thus changing his relation to the
company from that of a creditor to a shareholder,
Lord Erne might be said to have made a present
to the company of one-fourth of the money due to
him, or close upon £30,000. By the committee's
report it appeared that the total liabilities of the
company amounted to £198,000; Lord Erne's pro-
posal would reduce them to £BB,OOO, and against
that the company had assets to the amount of
£22,000. The balance was further reduced to
£41,000, and this is to be provided for in various
ways which were pointed out. The chair-
man said he could not help expressing the sense he
felt of the valuable service the committee had ren •
dared to the shareholders by bringing forward such
a creditable and honourable report. Lord Castle-
rnaine having taken the second chair, Sir George
Preston moved that " the shareholders avail them.
selves of this opportunity to record their deep sense
of gratitude to the Earl of Erne for his valuable and
zealous services, and for his great personal sacrifices
to promote the interests of the company." The
resolution was seconded by Mr. Litton, and passed
with acclamation, The Earl of Erne thanked the
meeting for their great kindness. It was right to
state that acne of the directors ever asked him to
advance money. They looked at him queerly now
and then, but, he repeated, never asked him to ad-
vance money, and the money he lent the company
was altogether on his own responsibility. He
always had great confidence in the line. He
proved that confidence, for he had that day by
security and personal risk taken £200,000 in shares
in the line. He had great pleasure in telling them
that he had just heard that the company would de-
rive £BOO of profit for at least two years by working
an arrangement with the Northern Counties Rail-
way.

Another Attempted Outbreak of Convict 4
at Dartmoor Prison,

For some weeks past the convicts at Dartmoor Prison
have been manifesting symptoms of renewing their at-
tempts of outbreak and insubordination. On last Saturday
evening, after the warders had served each convict with
his supper, and clean linen for the ensuing day—being
thus supplied with all their wants, they commenced to
shout and hoot at their windows, and use threats of defiance
towards the highest prison officials. All theprisonerslo..
cated in A and B Hall, No. 2 Prison, joined in one continuedtir cell
shout of defiance, and doggedly refused to
close
he
and a
detachment of the armed civil
adcoqoursa.intCedapt;ißthestth(ethediDsteuprubtayneGe,ovpernmor)pt,iyonabpepineagre indaodne
cell
the scene, accompanied byastrounsgrd.Captaino bodyfwarders,
Bestordered
the warders to close all the eeldosonrds,
konnoweithiinchgahgeseinonstvitchtes
commenced yelling,
doors and partitions of thw whistling,
ells. Quietness and good order
were, however, ultimately restored. But on Sunday after-
noon, after having heard a most impressive lecture from the
prison chaplain, all the convicts located in a hall, No. 2
Prison, refused to enter their cells and openly bade
defiance to the warders, demanding their regular exer-
cise and that their cell, doors should be left open, other-
wise they would not return to their cells. The governor
had given orders that all the prisoners located in No. 2
Prison should be deprived of their Sunday's exercise',
and not be allowed to assemble together on parade, also that
their cell-doors should be kept closed as a punishment for
their outrageous conduct on the previous evening. The
warders, with staves in their hands, courageously advanced
on the infuriated convicts, and drove them towards their
cells. The scene of tumult and coufusion that ensued baffles
description. Shouting, yelling, imprecations, and threats
of vengeance were uttered by the convicts if their demands
were not complied with. A detachment of the civil guarc!,
with fixed bayonets and loaded arms, were drawn up in
front of a hall, No. 2 Prison, and all the available officers
that could be procured were despatched to aid the warders
in charge of No. 2 Prison ; the warders whose turn it was
to be off duty that day were also called into the
prison at 11 30 a.m. t') act as a reserve. The con-
victs, seeing such a formidable and determined force,
after giving full vent to their 'nags, succumbed to the war-
ders and returned to their cells. Nine of the instigators,
or rather ringleaders, were secured and removed to the re-
fractory cells, to await the decision of Captain Gambier,
the visiting director, who is expected to arrive at the prison
in a day or two. One of the ringleaders, named Griffitno,
has been sent back en two different occasions to the penal
on
class at Pentonville Prison for murderous assaults
oust::
warders at Dartmoor ; so that, after completing his
r Po
carry
at Pentonville, he has been let loose at Dart: to
out in-
out his murderous designs, and was allorme
incite his companions in villany to acts of
the convicts at
subordination. Only last month five of
the lash for vio-
Dartmoor underwent the punishment of
paag
Nereury,
lently assaulting the warders.— IVes e u,;ial:lylscope to

PIRATES EN THE CHINESE SEAS,

The following letter has been received in Liver-
pool announcing the.) fate of the ship Parana and

her crew :

tt Hongkong, Sept. 24, 1863.

"Dear Sirs„.—Referring you to enclosed press
copy of our Last respects under date of the 10th
inst., it is no,vir with most sincere regret that we
have to ann ounce to you the reported loss of your
bark Parana, and the still more melancholy fact of
the murder of Capt: Morrish and the entire crew.
The fo'dowing are the fullest particulars regarding
this rr,ost unfortunate affair.

As we wrote you on the 12th inst., Captain
slorrish started on his homeward voyage from hence
on the 2d inst. On Saturday morning, the 12th
inst., news arrived from Macao (about 40 miles from
this), where the Parana loaded, that some mandarin
boats had bad an engagement with piratical junks,
which ended in the former capturing one or more
of the junks, as also 20 prisoners. These they
brought over to Macao. On reaching the junk
it was found to contain about 300 cases of cassia,
.which the agent of the Parana found to be marked
0. and. Ca,, Parana,' and a portion of the cargo
he had shipped by that vessel. On an examination
of the pirates by the mandarins, one of them stated
that When close by Latai they attacked and boarded
a foreign vessel, plundered her, and then set fire to
her, after having killed the captain and crew.
" Oar senior, with one of the firm of Oxford and
Co,, the charterers, waited on the senior naval oi cer
immediately after the receipt of the news and
com-
municated the facts of the case to him, uponwhich
he ordered the Opossum gun-boat out with orders
to procure any tidings they might be able to gain
of Capt. Morrish and the crew, or any other parti-
culars of the unfortunate event. The gunboat re-
turned on the 21st inst. They had twice visited
the piratical haunt, destroyed in all five of their
junks, and brought with them 13 prisoners, a small
a timepiece, and some ship's gear,
quantity of cassia,
which has been proved to have belonged to the
Parana. The examination of these 13 men took
the 21st, at the Police-court, in
place on Monday,
the presence of our senior, when it was proved by
the China pilot of the gunboat that one of the 13
infan acknowledged to at least being cognizant of
the whole circumstances attending the affair. His
story was that five boats had attacked a foreign
Ne„01, taken all her valuables out of her, put the
crew below, battened down the hatches and set fire
to the vessel. This, if true—which we have little
doubt of—is in its result the most barbarous pira•
tical attacks we have ever heard of, even in China.
We regret to say that after the conclusion of the
examination the magistrate thought there was
.hardly sufficient evidence to convict them of mur-
4er. He could only there commit them for
piracy, but gave us the option of a remand for
further evidence, of which we have availed, and
have addressed her Britannic Majesty's Consul,
Mr. D. B. Robertson, at Canton, with full de-
tails of the case, requesting that he would lay
the matter before the proper Chinese authorities,
la whose custody is the first batch of the pri-
soners taken by the mandarin boats, in order that
they might, if possible, aid us with any evidence
tending to, convict the above 13 men of murder. To
this we have not as yet received any official reply,
but tram a private source we gather that six of the
20 taken by the mandarins have confessed to having
,been in the piratical attack ; that the vessel was
boarded out at sea in the night, pillaged, and burnt,
all the Europeans on board doubtless perishing;
but of this there is no actual certainty. We shall
hope to hand you the official report per Peninsular
and Oriental steamer, which will, we trust, be of
such a nature es will enable the authorities here
without any difficulty to convict the whole of them
of murder, as also of piracy.
" The arrival of the English mail yesterday, so
close on the departure of the French steamer, pre-
vents our writing you at greater length, and trust-
ing to be able to give you further;intelligence per
Peninsular and Oriental steamer on the 27th inst.
---We are, dear sirs, in haste, yours faithfully.
" WALKER, BORRODAILE, and Co.
" Messrs. James Poole and Co., Tower-buildings,
Liverpool."