The Express.
London, England, 1861-02-16 00:00:00

THE CONVICT REVOLT AT CHATHAM.

The rigorous measures adopted by Sir &tabus
Jebb to suppress the convict revolt among the inmates at
St. Mary's Prison, and the severe and prompt punishment
inflicted on those men who were proved to have taken a
leading part in the terrible scenes of riot which recently
occurred at that establishment, have had the effect of re-
storing comparative order and subordination within the
Vwalls, nothing approaching the least disturbance
ult; occurred among the prisoners during the but three
days to lead the authorities at the pris3n to fear a repeti-
tion of the outbreak. . .

Since the revolt on Monday, the whole of the convicts,
with the exception of about 150, have been kept confined
to their cells, and supplied with nothing but breed and
water. A certain number are allowed to take exercise
at stated intervals in the prison-yard, under the strict guard
of the keepers. Only • small number have been permitted
to attend the daily prayers in the prison chapel, and these
are men of generally good character, who refrained from
taking any part in the bite mutiny. Up to Wednesday
evening 48 prisoners had been severely flogged, and the
punishment inflicted on them is described by those whose
duty compelled them to be witnesses of the sickening spec-
tacle as being of the severest character, the strongest ter-
tian from the Royal Engineer Train, and drummers from
the various corps in garrison, having been purposely selected
to administer the punishment, fur which each of the men
engagedtwill receive se. Contrary to the practice always
observed in the army—where, after a soldier has received
corporal punishment, be is immediately conveyed to the
military hospiral for treatment—each convict, after receiv-
ing his well-merited punishment, had his clothes thrown
Over him, and he was then marched to his cell, which be
was not allowed to leave again. No floggings took place at
the prison yesterday, but there are still 76 of the convicts in
irons nod securely chained, with a strong guard over them,
waiting the decision of Sir Joshua Jebb and tliptain Gam-
bier as to the amount of punishment to be inflicted on
them. For the first time since the revolt a portion of the
convicts, to the number of about no, resumed work yester-
dry in the dockyard and on Bt. Mary's Island, and con-
ducted themselves with great decorum. It should, how-
ever, be stated that these men were scarcely at all con-
cerned in the riotous proceedings enacted on Monday. Ru-
mours have been freely circulated that one of the keepers had
died from the effects°, the injuries he received at the hands
of the convicts, but such is not the tact. It is quite true
that one of the keepers, named Framer, died a day or two
since, but his death arose from an illness that bad no con-
melon whatever with the late mutiny, and he was not
even in the priauu on the occasion of the outbreak on
Monday.
At au early hour yesterday morning a convict named Rudge,
who is under sentence of four years' penal servitude,
attempted to commit suicide by hanging himself to the
ventilator in the ceiling of his cell by 01.111116 of his hand-
kerchief. He was, however, discovered by one et the
keepers before life was quite extinct, and ow being cut
down and the usual remedies applied he was restored to
consciousness. Rudge is one of the men who was mini-
nently concerned in the recent riot.

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