The Sun.
London, England, 1862-10-06 00:00:00

THE 813 N, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 6, 1862.

GA.RIBALDIAN RIO7S IN HYDE-PARK.

THE SYMPATHIES OF THE ARMY.
Hyde-park yesterday was the scene of a riot far
exceeding in magnitude and in its serious conse-
quences that which took place on the previous Sun-
day. In consequence of the interruption there was
to the meeting of sympathy with Garibaldi by a
body of Irish roughs, and who succeeded in thwart-
ing the object of its conveners, large bodies of work-
ing men had given notice to the committee that they
intended being present in the park yesterday and
supporting them at all hazards. The committee, not
feeling justified in incurring the responsibility of
calling a second meeting for yesterday, when a col-
lision was likely to ensue, determined to abandon
their intention to hold the meeting, and during last
week issued a notice to that effect. The publicity
given through the press to last Sunday's proceed.
ings, however, combined with the fact that the
abandonment of the meeting had not become gene-
rally known, caused an immense assemblage in the
park yesterday. Before 2 o'clock all the principal
thoroughfares leading to Hyde-park were crowded
with persons proceeding towards it, many of them
carrying thick sticks, and by 3 o'clock the police on
duty estimated that. 100,000 persons had passed
through the park gates. As on the previous Sunday
the mound of earth near the Marble arch was the
centre of attraction, and at an early hour of the
afternoon it was taken possession of by a body of
about 200 Irish labourers, armed with bludgeons,
who at once raised the cry of " Three cheers for the
Pope, and down with Garibaldi." Immediately sur-
rounding this mound were stationed about 500 more
of the same class similarly armed, and who openly
expressed their intention to oppose by force any
meeting being held in favonr of Garibaldi. It soon
became rumoured through *e crowd that the com-
mittee did not intend holding any meeting, and
while many approved of this decision, by far the
greater number `expressed much disappointment.
On this becoming known to the Irish party on and
about the mound, they set up a loud shout, and
began taunting the Garibaldian party for their
cowardice. A working man who, unperceived by
the Irish, had made his way on to the mound, here
rushed to the front, and, waving his hat, and hold-
ing a board with the name of Garibaldi painted on
it, called upon the vast mass of people in front and
around the mound to give three cheers for the Ita-
lian patriot, which appeal was responded to by a
tremendous burst of cheering from the assembled
thousands. In an instant a dozen of the Irish blud-
geons rattled about the head of the Garibaldian
champion, and he was hurled from the mound
bleeding profusely. This was the first act
of violence committed, and was followed
by a desperate rush of the Garibaldians
upon the Irishmen, who, from the advan-
tageous position they held, their determina-
tion, and the free use of their cudgels, succeeded
in beating back their assailants, but few of whom
had anything but nature's weapons at their com-
mand. Just at this time a body of powerful Irish
labourers and others came upon the ground, all
armed with sticks, and fought their way up to their
countrymen, who, thus reinforced, and emboldened
by their recent triumph, with loud hurrahs for the
Pope made a desperate rush amidst the crowd,
knocking down indiscriminately men, women, and
children, amongst others two or three soldiers of
the Guards, who seemed an especial object of dislike
to the Irishmen. The Garibaldians, irritated at this
cowardly and ruffianly attack, and headed by about
20 soldiers who had rushed to the aid of their com-
rades, then fought their way up to the mound, and
after a severe struggle with the Irishmen ranged
round its base, succeeded in obtaining a footing upon
it. The scene now became one of great excitement.
The soldiers, who were armed with sticks supplied
them by the crowd, amid the cheering of the Gari-
baldians and the yells and shouting of the Irish,
laid about them with unsparing vigour. The blows
from the sticks resounded on all sides, and blood
began to flow freely from the heads of both parties.
Each soldier had at least a dozen assailants to con-
tend with, many of whom were evidently expert at
the use of their weapons, and possessed of sufficient
ferocity to make them most formidable opponents.
At least a dozen men were lying at this time bleed-
ing and senseless on the top of the mound, and the
soldiers were on the point of being overpowered by
numbers, when about half-a-dozen of the Life
Guards, about the same number of the 3d Buffs,
followed by a body of at least 50 working men with
sticks and umbrellas, rushed on to the mound and
turned the tide of victory. After a terrific melee
of about five minutes the Irish gave way, and
made a precipitate retreat from their position. One
soldier of the 3d Buffs, a short thickset man, armed
with a piece of park rail, knocked down six of the
Irishmen in succession, receiving in return a severe
woundin the forehead. As the Irishmen were beaten
from the mound, the people below seized upon those
who had made themselves most conspicuous, and
dragged them to the outskirts of the crowd, and
gave them in charge to the police, several of whom
were there stationed, but with orders not to inter-
fere unless under the personal orders of the com-
missioner. Those who were identified as having
taken an active part in the first onslaught on the
people were at once taken off to the station-house.
The Garibaldians and the soldiers being now in
possession of the mound, one of the soldiers was
hoisted on the shoulders of his comrades, and said
if any of the committee were present who had called
the meeting last Sunday, and wished to propose a
resolution in favour of Garibaldi, the soldiers woul
form a circle around the mound, and guarantee them
a hearing. No one, however, responded to this ap-
peal, but it gave rise to one of the greatest bursts
of cheers that ever resounded in Hyde-park, fol •
lowed by more cheers for the army. The Irish, now
driven from the mound and rendered perfectly in-
furiate by their defeat in that quarter, formed
themselves into several detached bodies of about 200
each, and forcing their way into the crowd in diffe-
rent directions, began striking at all within their
reach. It was estimated that there were at this
time 200,000 assembled, and the wishes of one por-
tion of the crowd to escape the blows of these ruf-
fians, the determined stand made against them by
other portions, the shouts of the men, the shrieks of
the women, and the cries of the juveniles, presented
a scene of the most alarming description. Sticks
were being used and stones were flying in all direc-
tions, and at least 2,000 people were battling in dif-
ferent parts of the park. In some cases knives were
used, and several persons were taken off the ground
who had been stabbed. About 500 soldiers were
now mixed up in the crowd, great numbers of whom
were fighting against the Irishmen, who at last were
overpowered, and fled in all directions, many of
them meeting with knots of Garibaidians, by whom
they were severely maltreated. Sir It. Mayne and
Captain Harris, the Commissioners of Police, now
uue
came upon the ground, and it getting dusk,
and seeing the alarming state of affairs,
despatched a constable to the Wellington Barracks
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out whom, under
arms, speedily attended, one party taking pos-
session of the mound, and the other ordering the
soldiers into barracks. A strong body of the D
division of
police, who had been kept in reserve in
the Marble-arch, were also brought on the ground
under the command f C • 0 Captain Harris. These mea-
sures, combined with the retreat of the Irishmen,
and the approach of dusk, put a stop to the proceed-
ings, and the people gradually left the park, which
became quite cleared byffi o'clock A large
number
of persons were severely injured during the after-
noon, and the various surgeries in the neighbour-
hood were crowded with parties waiting to have
their wounds dressed. It is to be hoped the autho-
rities will take measures to prevent any repetition
of these disgraceful doings next Sunday.

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ANO7HER MARSHLAND SLUICE
DES7ROYED.

KING'S LYNN, SUNDAY AFTEROON.
The series of misfortunes in the train of the
Middle Level catastrophe seems almost endless.
At about six o'clock on Saturday evening the out-
fall sluice of the Marshland Smeeth and Fen Drain,

an important arterial drain running into the Ouse,
about 200 or 300 yards northward of the ruined
Middle Level Sluice, became the subject of an acci-

dent precisly similar to that which destroyed the
last-named work on the 4th of May last. The re-

suit has been again to flood a portion of the Fen
country, and the extent of the inundation will very
probably be in a day or two as great as that of the
celebrated " Middle Level deluge." It may be re-
collected that in consequence of that " deluge" a great

quantity of water had to be discharged off the
drowned lands through the Marshland Smeeth and
Fen Drain, and the adjoining Marshland Sewer,
both of which run parallel for a considerable dis-
tance to their outfall sluices—the one draining the
Fens and the other the higher lands of Marshland

proper. This unusual test of the two sluices caused
some apprehension as to their safety; and in conse-
quence, shortly after the Middle Level inundation,
both sluices were strengthened by an " apron" of
clunch, held up by piles, being laid against the
outer face, and the adjoining banks faggoted and
further secured by walls of sheet piling. In the

case of the Smeeth and Fen Drain these precautions
have proved unavailing. Nothing peculiar was

noticea about the work until about ten minutes be-

fore the injury was fully developed. At that time
the sluice-keeper, Smith, casually observed what he
thought was a log of wood across the roadway over
the sluice bridge, and going to the spot found it
was a deep and extensive fissure. He had scarcely
time to examine it when the bank against the south-
ern side of the sluice fell in with a crash, leaving

a gap of 40 feet width in the roadway. The cause
of this evidently was that the water rushing down

the drain had undermined, and scoured away the
earth behind the southern flank walls of the sluice
exactly as in the case of the Middle Level sluice,
but with this difference, that the sluice itself (which
consists of one arch only)is at present left standing.
It is, however, very much injured, the bank on the
north side is cracking and crumbling in ; and in a
tide or two, the sluice must inevitably fall into
ruins. In the meantime the water runs through the
gap it has made for itself ; and such is the force of
this stream out and the tide inward, that the bed of
the drain is partly filled for a hundred yards up-
wards with bricks, stone, earth, and other debris,
washed away from the sluice. The occurrence
took place about an hour and a half after
high water ; and, of course, on the return of
the tide, the sea water flowed up the drain,
and though the springs have only just begun
to " put in," the top of the tide was sufficiently
high for the water to pour over the banks
for a space of some 300 yards above the sluice into
the adjoining Marshland drains, running up into
the Marshland internal drains, and causing great
apprehension. It also, at a distance of a mile or
two up the drain, overflowed the opposite bank, and
again flooded some of the identical lands in the
occupation of Mr. Little, Mr, Robert Coe, and
others, in Marshland Fen, which were drowned by
the bursting of the Middle Level banks, and had
only within the last few weeks been reclaimed and
brought into cultivation. The flood has also run
through the culverts under the Middle Level Drain,
and again drowned some of the land in Broad and
Short Fens, and threatens Bardolph and Stow Fens.
Of course, immediately the misfortune became
known, the Marshland, Smeeth, and Fen commis-
sioners took steps to prevent, as far as possible, its
further extension. Mr. Wm. Wright, Mr. James
Walker, Mr. Harry Little, and others, consulted as
to the steps to be taken, and it was at first attemp-
ted to make a dam for the exclusion of the sea
water at Thornton's Bridge, two miles above the
sluice ; but this was soon abandoned, and, under
the direction of Mr. N. D. Harding, C.E., about
200 navies were set to work to form a dam, with
sacks of earth, close to the first bridge above the
sluice, near St. Mary's Church, the parapet of the
bridge being thrown down to facilitate the tipping
of the sacks. The work was continued all Satur-
day night and Sunday, and considerable progress
was made, but there was no reason to hope for its
success that day, and the consequences of the after-
noon's tide it is feared must be very serious. Some
men have been set to work "cradging" (i.e., making
a small ridge of clay) along the banks of both the
Smeeth and Fen Drain and the Marshland Sewer ;
but the banks of both are so low in many places that
the lands on both sides are in the greatest danger ;
and, besides, great apprehensions are entertained
that the Marshland Sewer sluice will ere long suc-
cumb to the unusual pressure upon it and follow the
example of its neighbour. The opinion of all com-
petent judges and of the residents themselves is,
that a large breadth of country must be inevitably
drowned by the approaching spring tides, unless the
success of the works in progress for excluding the
sea water should be all but miraculous.
The announcement of the occurrence in Lynn on
Saturday night was at first received as one of those
innumerable canards which have owed their birth
to the Middle Level deluge, but on its truth being
ascertained, hundreds of people flocked to the spot,
L and all Sunday the scene has been similar to that
which used to be witnessed at the celebrated dam.

COLLISION ON THE NORTH-EASTERN

RAILWAY.

LOSS OF LIFE.

A very serious accident occurred near Milford
Junction, a few miles from York, on Friday evening
last, which resulted fatally, and was attended with
much destruction of property. It appears that a
heavy goods train from Darlington, consisting of
about 40 carriages, laden with pig iron, arrived at
the Sherburn•branch end of the Old Junction
(which runs and joins to the Hull main line) about
11.15 p.m. At the same moment a Hull goods train,
grain laden, was passing along this loop line, which
joins the main line in an oblique direction, near to
the Sherburn station. Both trains were proceed-
ing with some degree of velocity; consequently
when,through some misunderstanding or negligence
in the signalling, the two trains unfortunately met,
the shock must have been terrific. The left buffer
of the Hull engine struck the right front of the
approaching one from Darlington, and shattered
a large portion of the latter to pieces. The sud-
den inertness of the front acting against the mo-
mentum of the latter portion of the Darlington
train caused the waggons to burst asunder in
the middle and take a sideways direction. Some
of them struck the engine-tender and " crumpled"
it to pieces like a piece of tissue paper. Some
20 to 30 yards of the main line was torn up, and
the debris caused by this and other means had the
effect of stopping the traffic for soma time. The
driver of the northern train was jerked off his en-
gine a long distance on to some waggons, and was
taken up very much shaken and bruised, but for-
tunately no bones were broken, and after a few
hours he was enabled to depart home to Darlington.
His companion, the:stoker, unfortunately met with
a more melancholy fate. He seems to have been
oiling the fore part of the engine, when he probably
noticed the converging train, and jumped into the
six foot-way to save himself. Here he must have
been knocked down by the loose waggons, for
his mutilated remains were found under ono of
them, crushed to the most minute atoms. He
was killed instantaneously. His name is
Markham, and he has left a destitute wife and
three children, who at present reside at Darling-
ton. The driver and fireman of the Hull train
were also seriously shaken and bruised, but they
sufficiently recovered to proceed to Hull by the next
train. As to the cause of this unfortunate affair,
nothing probably will be known, until the inquest
takes place on the body of the deceased, but a
knowledge of the locality, which may be described
as particularly flat and unobscure. If blame
attaches to any one, it will probably rest between
the signalman
and the driver of the Hull goods
train. It cannot be believed that the affair is purely.
accidental,
and consequently a searching investiga-
tion will no doubt result,

211 E CIRCASSIAN CHIEFS Al MACCLES-
FIELD.

On Friday the two Circassian chiefs, who have
visited this country for the purpose of presenting
an address to the Queen, attended a meeting held
at the Macclesfield Town Hall. The object of the
address, which was presented during the month of
September, was to obtain if possible protection from
the Queen of England against the Russians. The
Circassian chiefs came over to this country in the
capacity of delegates, presented the address, and
received a formal reply from the Foreign-office,
intimating that England could not interfere in the
matter. The Circassian chiefs have accordingly
visited the north, apparently with the view of en-
listing sympathy in their behalf. On Thursday
they attended a meeting at Preston ; and within a
day or two they will visit Manchester. The meet-
ing on Friday was called by large placards of a
somewhat sensational character, which quoted the
opinions of Mr. Urquhart and Lord Ponsonby as to
the treatment of the Circassian people. The an-
nouncement that the chiefs would appear in their
native costume attracted a large audience, the hall
being well filled. About half-past seven Mr. S. E.
Rolland, the two Circassian chiefs, Colonel Lapin-
ski, commander of the Polish legion in Circassia,
and:a few working men, ascended the platform. The
chiefs were attired in long, loose, blue coats with
red facings, and on their heads they wore hats com-

bining the characteristics of the bearskin and the
artilleryman's hat. They carried long swords, and
daggers were also stuck in their girdles. They are
tall, good-looking men, and one of them especially
would pass for an Englishman. A look of deep seri-
ousness adds to the somewhat striking character of
their appearance. They remained covered during
the proceedings. Mr. Thos. Norbury, a working
man, was voted to the chair, and the proceedings
were opened with the usual formalities of placard
reading.
Mr. S. E. HOLLAND said it was no light matter
that he had to introduce to the meeting. He was
using no rhetorical flourish or oratorical trick when
he told them that there never was an event of
greater importance than that which was now taking
place. Whom had they before them ? The placard
had furnished the answer—apparently simple in
itself, but still full of serious meaning. Was not
Poland a dead nation, and was nat Circassia a na-
tion, all but dying with the sword and dagger in
its grasp ? Grievous as might be the distress from
which our operatives were suffering, and black as
might be our future, what was all that as compared
with the feelings of his friend Col. Lapinski, who
belonged to a nation without a foot of soil to call
their own, whose very language was proscribed,
whose sons were forbidden to read their own tongue,
whose daily food was stripes, whose daily drink was
tears. Such was a Pole, and such was one of the
gentlemen now present. At his side were two men
of whom he could not trust himself to speak ; no
words of his could convey the simple and child-like
yet heroic words in which they had, in his hearing,
recited the story of their lives, and their anticipa-
tions as to the future. One of those Circassian
chiefs for 45 years had been engaged in struggling
sword in hand against the Russians, and he had
seen the blood of his compatriots quenching the
blazing rafters of the village where they lived. He
had told those chiefs that at the present time the
people of England themselves wanted help, but that
notwithstanding that, they would help the Circas-
sian people. That day their words to him were :
" We are men devoted to death, and all we hope is
that the Muscovite plough may not be driven over
our sepulchres." At a meeting at Preston, on
Thursday evening at which he (Mr. Rolland) was
present, the chiefs expressed themselves thus :
" We are as near despair as brave men can be, we
are in the fire night and day. We have heard of
the Epglish nation, and we have been told it pro-
tects the distressed ; and our wives, our children,
our old men and our little ones said, with tears in
their eyes, You must go to that nation and get us
help.' They said that we must go to the English
nation and tell them that, if they would not help
us, we must be destroyed by Russia. For 40 years,
every hour of the day and night, our houses and our
villages have been in flames, our sons' throats have
been cut, and our old men have been killed. Unless
the English nation help us we must die, for there is
no one to whom we look for help but to the people
of England." Mr. Rolland then proceeded to read
the address recently presented to the Queen, and
the reply of the Foreign-office thereto. Respecting
the latter he said they needed no comment of his
upon this most infamous, most vile, and atrocious
answer, which was but the logical consequences of
the betrayal on the part, not of the people of Eng-
land, but of its Government, of these gallant moun-
taineers. After further pressing the claims of the
Circassian people, and giving much interesting in-
formation respecting the country itself and its in-
habitants, Mr. Rolland introduced Colonel Lapinski
and the Circassian chief to the meeting. Each made
a short speech, which was interpreted to the au-
dience.