The Sun.
London, England, 1862-03-05 00:00:00

THANES TUNNEL COMPANY.

A general assembly of proprietors was held yes-
terday at Radley's Hotel, Blackfriar's, Mr. Wilson
in the chair. Mr. Mason, the clerk, read the finan-
cial statement, from which it appeared that the
gross receipts for the year ending Dec. 31, 1861,
had been £5,636 13s 4d, and the gross expenditure
£4,932 4s sd, leaving a balance in hand of £724 8s
Ild. The Chairman, in moving the adoption of the
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number was 972,602, but taking the last five years,
1861 showed more than the average number. The
total
openingnumber of passengers through the tunnel since
its
to Dec. 28,1861, was 20,176,019, amount-
ing to £84,066 14s 11d. The amount of tolls in
1859 was £3,828 Os ld ; in 1860, £4,052 lOs 2d;
' and in 1861, £3,921 13s sd. There had been some
expectation of the tunnel being taken for the pur-
forplace.into
bill
he
Parliamentpur-
ng
orders, and last session it had not been thought ad-
in 1860, was too late to comply with the standi
visable to re-introduce the bill, owing to the state
oes
being
give
of the money market ; and this year, he regretted
to say, the engineer of the proposed railway was
busily engaged in h
n . embankmentas
Himselfst
and his colleagues deeply this
prevent the necessary notices Thamest
regretted disappoint-
ment, but he trusted a scheme so beneficial
to the
company would yet be carried out.
Mr. Warring-
ton seconded the motion, ;which was agreed to.
Messrs, Wollaston, Hawes, and Barker were elected
as directors of the company. After some discussion
as to the propriety of
making an alteration in the
tolls, the question was ultimately left to the discre-
tion of the directors, and a vote of thanks to the
chairman concluded the business of the meeting.

THE DAMP/I'OOR CONVICTS.—The Governor of
Dartmoor Prison writes to the Western Daily Mercury :
_
" I am surprised to read in to-day's impression of the
Western Daily Mercury a statement reporting that pn
outbreak among the convicts of this prison occurred on
Sunday last, requiring strenuous efforts for its suppression
—a statement so untrue, and utterly without foundation,
that I must beg of you to give it an early and unqualified
contradiction; as also to the assertion that any intention has
existed to apply for the aid of troops, owing to the staff of
officers here being inadequate for the preservation of proper
discipline in he prison. The only portion of the Statement at
all true is that having reference to assaults made on myself
and the deputy governor, neither of which, however, were
of a serious nature, snd were committed by two prisoners of
notoriously bad character, and in my own case at a month's
interval from the present date. I shall, therefore, ha
obliged by your early insertion of a denial to the statement
in question, as unauthorised
wr communications
oio
ro:s:Dcahr kind,tm oor
from whatever source received, tend most unjustly and
. MoRRISII,
unfavourably to impress the mind of the public,--I am, sir,
Prison,your obedient
ys servant,