The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-06-12 00:00:00

THE LATE GALE: LOSS OF 170 LIVES

An expedition despatched from Great Yarmouth to
search for the eleven missing fishing luggers belonging
to that port has returned without any tidings of them,
and they and their crews are now given up for lost.
Four luggers and two cutters belonging to Lowestoft
are also missing. The loss of life in connection with
the Yarmouth boats is about 120, and the Lowestoft
boats had also 50 men on board, so that in all 170 poor
fellows have perished. Many of them were married
men, and have left their wives and families destitute.
The boats are supposed to have been lost near the low
Dutch coast, and to have been capsized in a sudden
squall. Those which succeeded in gaining the open sea
rode out the gale, and have long since come into port.

THE PAPAL ENLISTMENT IN IRELAND.

(From the Saturday Review)

So constables and enthusiasts all are off, hurry, skurry,

to join that remarkable body of troops who are to be
dignified with the name of the Pope's Own. They will find
themselves a strange company when they are all collected.
That mercenary hirelings should join the army of the
Pope as soon as any other, is intelligible. That Austrian
and Spanish fanatics, whose conceptions of political
liberty are about on a par with their notions of
religious toleration, should be anxious to serve the most
lying and cruel government but one in Europe,
is also natural. But that Frenchmen and Irishmen, who
have had the privilege of knowing what a civilised and
free government is like, should be so led away by fana-
tical insanity as to be ready to fight for despotic terror-
ism against liberty and progress, is really horrible. The
French have at least this excuse—that the Catholic
movement is with them a means of annoying the govern-
ment, and protesting against any step which may weaken
the only rival power now left in France to be a check
upon Imperialisin. But the Irish Ultramontanists have no
such political palliative to allege. This crusade in their
case, is sheer superstitious intolerance. Some months
back Young Ireland was all for nationalities, revolution,
liberty, and Napoleonism. Now it is all against nation-
alities, and in favour of the powers that be. The igno-
rant clergy of Ireland have much to answer for. We
may judge of what Popery is on a large scale by
what it is on a little one. What a curse the Pope
must have been to Italy, if his missionaries and minis-
ters have been such a bane to the sister island With
all their absurdity, these poor fellows who are going
out to do battle for they know not what have the
making of real heroes in them. They will fight,
no doubt, well enough, if the miasmas and fevers of
Ancona do not anticipate the bullets of the revolu-
tionary army, and cut short their brief career of cru-
sade. But they are flinging away their lives on the
most desperate and the most worthless of causes. Irish-
men are always 4oing something of the kind. It is
impossible to be angry with the simple peasantry, who
are so ready to devote themselves for their religion ; it
is impossible not to be indignant with those who urge
them on. The Roman Catholic priests of Ireland, in
addition to their other sins, will have to answer for the
blood of this little army of Barnaby Budges.

HORRIBLE DISCLOSURE.-CRUCIFIXION
OF pRISONERS.-NEAPOLITAN ATRO-
CITIES IN SICILY.

Mr. G. W. Bridges, of Beachly Parsonage,
tv 6Lo Tiiiles on Saturday :

"In one of your powerful appeals to humanity on
behalf of the yuu
atrocities committed under authority by the police of
Palermo in the year 1848, when they last attempted to
free themselves from the oppressor, and most true
is your unvarnished tale. On the morning of the
17th of February in that year I was among the
foremost, and the only Englishman present, when the
rush was rrtade into the disclosed region of death
which you refer to. The facts were these :—About
forty of the sbirri had been captured by the revo-
lutionists, treated by them with kindness, and placed
in security until they could be sent to Naples,—
a friendly precaution to prevent their being mur-
dered by the indignant mob, which then broke into
the police palace, and cast the books and furni-
ture from the windows. A portion of the spacious
buildipg appeared, however, to he inaccessible ; win-
dows and loopholes there were in it, but no open-
ing to one entire wing of the dark prison-house.
Presently, on removing one of the huge bookcases,
some fresh-plastered wall appeared concealed behind
it; a passage was quickly broken through it, and the
senses were almost overpowered by the steaming
effluvia which issued from seven dark chambers corn-
municating with each other, where, upon clearing the
loopholes, a secreted scene of horror was before us,-such
as wants the best testimony to be believed. There lay
human bodies, and the mutilated remains of such, in
every state of death and decay—bundles of rotting rags
mingled with bones, and limbs, and filth filled the cor-
nea of the smaller rooms ; chains hung rivetted to the
walls above, whence some of these remains had dropped
as they died—some still holding In their iron grasp the
arms or ancles of their famished victims. Skele-
tons, almost fleshless, were piled upon others which
were quite so, and placed on stone shelves which
had served as their beds while living ; naked
bodies, black and pulpy, were hidden beneath others
more recently dead, yet alive with maggots ; and,
greater horror still, two human bodies n writhing
attitudes were hanging erucified won the wall of the
largest chanilier, the' reeking, blood-stained stones of
Which held rusty spikes corresponding to the *out-
.
stretched hands and feet of others which had been so
suspended, ' and still retaining the stringy remains of
muscles torn to shreds, from `which the.herlyier portions
had dropped Etncl lay in heaps of putridity beneath.
Shrieks of indignant horror arose 4.oin the in-
furiate crowd, a portion of which rushed back to the
prison `here the captured sbirri were secured; brought
them out, and shot • them down on the instant.
Others remained, raking and searching among the
bones and bodies, examining minutely the putrid rem-
nants of those they Meted might have been their
fathers, brothers, or kindred, who had long been missing,
but whose fate they knew not. One of the sbirri, whose
life I tried in vain to save, endeavoured to persuade me
that the suspended bodies were not;oruoified while alive,
but nailed there to ollgiilent tll@ OrtUres of the living
prisoners. Further details I could give. froz my
intimacy with Sicily rvvle during those stirring
times; this, indeed, was a scene never to be forgotten—
enough to sicken the thought that dwells on it, and to
attest, were it needed, the usual and very accurate
truthfulness of your assertions."

During tbe late storm, at Bull, the camphor in storm-
glasses rose to the surface in a mass like ice, leaving the
spirits in the centre of the tube perfectly transparent.

The fancy fair at Bologna in favour of the Sicilian
insurrection has produced a clear sum of 4,500 f. (140),
independently of a vast number of articles which the
buyers have left to increase the fund. Upon the whole,
Bologna is on the eve of sending a second remittance of
10,000 f. (£400).
MANNING TILE NAVY.—A return to the House of
Lords, issued on Friday, gives the number of men
actually raised in pursuance of the recommendation of
the commissioners appointed to inquire into the best
means of manning the navy. The total recommended
was 6Q,0Q0, the number actually raised, 23,073. This
does not include a proposed addition of 5,000 marines
!lid 5,000 Royal naval volunteers assumed to be absent
on long ;;'7,-°,41.
THE ROYAL
MILITARY COLLEGE.—On Fri-
day the half-yearly public examination of the gentlemen
cadets destined to serve in her Majesty's forces in India
was held at the Military College of Addiscombe, near
Croydon, the Right Hon. Sir Charles Wood, M.P.,
Secretary of State for India, presiding. For the second
time, after an interval of several years, the ceremony
was honoured with the presence of his Royal Highness
the Duke a Cambridge, the General Commanding-in-
Chief.

EDWARD EVERETT AND JUDGE STORT.—Many years
ago the law students of Harvard College gave Judge
Story a dinner, at which Mr. Everett presided. During
the feast the president was called on for a toast, and
drank his sentiment : " The legal profession—No matter
how high they ascend the temple of Fame, they will
never reach one Story." To this toast Judge Story
responded : i 4 Applause follows the footsteps of Fame
where kerett goes."