The Express.
London, England, 1860-08-27 00:00:00

TIM POPES OWN.

The turning point its the fortunes of the Irish
crusaders has not yet arrived, and matters are altogether
looking aa dismal as when the brigade first set foot on the
sod of Italy. One Denis O'Keefe, smarting under his mane•
fold wrongs, hr.s addressed the following to au official at
Spoleto:
"Spoleto, August 4.
" Dear sir,—l appreech you with this riensonal on be.
half of myself and nls,ut en others, all British subject+, in
prison i❑ this town, smemsl in the citadel, for refusing to
sign the oath of allegiance to his Holiness for four years.
We are badly situated in every way, not having proper
food end huddled together on some dirty straw. We are
closely confined, having two guanh placed on us night and
day, which prevents us from getting a clean sheet of paper
to address you. Dear sir, we are ignorant of the length
of time we are to be here, and we now claim protection as
British subjects from you, hoping you will exert year influ.
ence to have us released immediately, and sent home. We
are now 15 days in prison, and have suffered greatly in health
from such close confinement. Your memorialists, as in duty
bound, will ever pray. —I remain, Sir, your respectful servant,
"Dents O'Kuric."
Another unhappy man writes as follows, under date of
Rome, August? :
"From information I have recently received I have
reason to believe that the Irish in Spoleto are in a very
insubonlinate and discontented state. It is said that an
outbreak occurred there the other day, to quell which the
Roman Carabinieri were called in by Colonel Pimodan,
contrary to the wishes of the officer commanding the Irish
Brigade ; that more than one Irishman was cut down by the
Carabinieri, one, it rs said, by Colonel Piniodan himself,
and that a very ill feeling will arise between the frith and
Roman troops in consequence of this collision. It is further
stated that Omens! Lamoricitve is desirous of distributing
the Irish among various foreign regiments, instead of
forming them into a distinct Irish Brigade ; and that
he is not (avowable to the Irish officers, and would be glad
of an opportunity of supplanting them by young men of
good handy from other countries, who, from the sowed,' of
commissions, are now serving in the ranks of the Papal
army. It is also said that the Irish clergy here are much
offended at the treatment which their countrymen serving
as volunteers have met with from the Papal government.
Numbers continue to leave the brigade. On the Ist inst 50
discharged volunteers left Civita Vecchia for Marseilles, sad
I have just learnt that IA more are about to Ise sent
away. Thole who left on the Ist were young, undersized,
chiefly of the lowest class of Irish ; those previously dia.
charged appear to have been for the most pert ablc.bodied
men. Some are still arriving. About 30 recruits came
from Marseilles to Civita Vecchia by the steamer which at,
rived there on the Ist inst."

The Atlantic Royal Mail Steam Navigation Com-
pany's steam ship Prince Albert will mil (ruin Galway to.
morrow (Tuesday), the 28th Mat., for St. John's, New-
foundland, and New York, with her Majesty's mails.
Me...ages for America St. John's receive.l at Galway by
1.12 it WI and Irish Magnetic Telegraph Company up to 2 p.m.
CS that day.