The Dublin Prison Board is at war with the Viceroy's
govern- ment. The Board having dismissed Mr. Rawlins, the Deputy-Gover- nor, for alleged violation of duty, they were informed, by order of the Lord-Lieutenant, that the dismissal was illegal. A few days since, they met to consider this communication, and by a majority of one they resolved that Mr. Rawlins should not be reinstated in his office. In consequence of this the Under-Secretary has addressed a letter to the Board containing a peremptory order from his Excel- lency, which concludes thus :—
"I am now directed to inform you that Mr. Rawlins, the Deputy-Governor, still holds his office; that the order for his dismissal is inoperative, and that the Board of Superintendence, as well as the governor of the prison, is bound to see that he discharges the ditties of that office as if such order had never been pronounced."
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