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

711A111ES TUNNEL COMPANY.

A general assembly of propriators 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
11d. The Chairman, in moving the adoption of the
accounts, said that the tunnel was in good repair,
and in a satisfactory state. The number of passen-
gers passing through the tunnel in 1861hhaedn thebeen
741,201, being a decrease from 1860, when
number was 972,602, but taking the last five years,
1861 showed more than the average number. The
total number of passengers through the tunnel since
its opening 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-
poses of a railway, but up to the present time no ar-
rangements had taken place. The bill for the pur-
pose, which had been introduced into Parliament
in 1860, was too late to comply with the standing
orders, and last session it had not been thought ad-
visable to re-introduce the bill, owing to the state
of the money market ; and till, o
he regretted
to say, the engineer of therprorpetotseedd
thisrailwaydisappoint-
ment,n
busily engaged in the Thames embankmentive
w Himselfaltas to
stoo
prevent
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a scheme
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and his colleagues deeply eg
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
ofultimately
making analteration
tolls, the question
ef t to in
the
the
was
discre-
tion of the directors, and a vote of thanks to the
chairman concluded the business of the meeting.

THE DARTI\TOOIt CONVICTS.—The Governor of
Dartmoor Prison writes to the Western. Daily Mercury :
—" I am surprised to read in to-day's impression of the
117cstcrn Daily Mercury a statement reporting that en
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 unquatibitde
contradiction; as also to the assertion that any intentsiotanif
of
' existed to apply for the aid of troops, owing totheof
proper
officers here being inadequate for the preservation
fth c
discipline in the prison. The only portion of m statement at
ade on myself
all true is that having reference to assbatuob,
however, were
two prisoners of
and the deputy governor, neither of.twted
by
of a serious nature, and were commini
I shall, therefore, be
notoriously bad character,
interval from the present date.
of a denial to the statement
obliged by your early ins and in y own case at a month's
tendmost • unjustly and
from whatever source received,
the mind of the public,—l am, sir,
unfavourably to impress
Governor,—Dartmoorunauthorised
1862."
Prison, 27th Feb.) -
your obedient servant, ~• Mc)

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