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

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
affairs of the company, and to put everything
relating to its concerns honestly and fairly before
the shareholders. The Earl of Erne, chairman of
the board of directors, became the creditor of the
company to a very large amount. He held £43,500
of the debentures of the company, and he had lent
money to it amounting to £81,145, making together
the sum of .C 124,615. 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 com-
pany'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 com-
pany of the same class as the existing
Apreference
shares. In order to issue such shares new powers
must be obtained from Parliament, but if the cotn -
pany were unable to obtain those powers, he agreed
not to call in 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 h
—3 Payable by
way of dividend on the existing A preference sharer.
At the meeting of the shareholders in the North_
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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
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amounted
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£88,000,L0 and against
Lord Erne' s pro.ai s
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-
dered to the shareholders by bringing forward such.
a creditable and honourable report. Lord Castle-
maine 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 none of the directors ever asked him to
advance money. They looked at him queerl now
y
and then, but, he repeated, never asked
hina 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. Tie
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 then
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
way.

Another Attempted Outbreak of Convicts
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 aupper, 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 the prisoners lo-
cated in A and B Hall, No. 2 Prison, joined in one continued
shout of defiance, and doggedly refused to close their cell
doors. Capt. Best (the Deputy Governor), on being made
acquainted with the dietuibance, promptly appeared on
the scene, accompanied by a strong laxly of warders, and a
detachment of the armed civil guard. Captain Best ordered
the warders to close all the cell doors, on which the con victs
commenced yelling, whistling, and knocking/against the
doors and partitions of their cells. Quietness and good order
were, however, ultimately restored. But on Sunday after-
noon, after having heard a most impressive lecture fro= tho
prison chaplain, all the convicts located in a hall, No. 2
Prison, refused to enter their cells and openly bade
defiance to the wardens, demanding their regular (exer-
cise and that their cell• doors should be left open, o ther-
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
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 coufusien that ensued bi Wks
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owfavreenen-oetancocmpliod with. A detachment of tho civil vane,
with fixed bayonets and loaded arms, were drawn u p 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 in to the
prison at 11 30 a.m. to act as a reserve. The con-
victs. seeing such a formidable and determined force,
after giving full vent to their lungs, euccumbed to the war-,
dors and returned to their cells. Nine of the insti-ators
or rather ringleaders, were secured and removed to ;le re-
fractory cells, to await the decision of Captain Gam bier,
the visiting director, who is expected to arrive at the prison'
in a (lay or two. One of the ringleaders, named Griffiths,
has been sent back on two different occasions to the penal
class at Pentonvillo Prison for murderous assaults cin the
at warders at Dartmoor ; so that, after completing penancePentonville, he has been let loose at Dartmoor to carry
out his murderous designs, and was allowed full Bove to
incite his companions in villany to acts of mutiny tool in-
subordination. Only last month five of the convicts at
Dartmoor underwent the punishment of the lash fox vio-
lently assaulting the warders.— Western Daily Acre