The Sun.
London, England, 1860-05-18 00:00:00

TIIE POPE'S IRMiI BRIGADE.

The recruiting goes on briskly, the Pope's shilling
seeming to have a peculiar attraction for the young
men of the southern counties. In Cork and Kerry
especially, the warlike enthusiasm is manifest, and
it is believed that the contingent is mainly fur-
nished by members of the Phoenix Clubs in those
districts. The Cork Herald of yesterday announces
that on the previous day between 30 and 40 young
men from Killarney proceeded by the Sabrina
steamer to Bristol, en route to join the Papal army,
and it is stated that several persons moving in re-
pectable circles in the city of Cork are also about to
swell the list of crusaders. With regard to the
Government threat of putting an end to those
plainly illegal proceedings, there appears to be a
good deal of sense in the following suggestions of
the Dublin Evening Had:—
" Military service is an excellent school, and, we
doubt not, that a campaign or two would remove
many illusions from the minds of such drapers'
shopmen and apothecaries' boys as may pass Pio
Nono's medical inspector, who, it seems, is parti-
cular to a degree, quite inconsistent with justice to
Ireland. If these devoted crusaders should ever
return to our green isle they will be wiser, and, in
likAtihnod. sadder men than when thpjr
cepted the Papal shilling. if they never come
back they will not be much missed in the muster
of true British men.. We, therefore, are not anxious
to see any very active enforcement of the Foreign
Enlistment Bill instituted upon the present occa-
sion."

The Cork Constitution of yesterday supplies the
annexed particulars:—

" Kerry appears to be contributing largely to the
army now in course of being raised for service un-
der General Lamoriciere in the Papal States. In
Saturday's onstitution it was mentioned that 20
persons head left Kilarney on Thursday, and 50 on
Friday, in order to enrol themselves under the
banner of the Church. A further quota has since
left the Lakes behind them. The train which ar-
rived in this city from Killarney at 10 o'clock yes-
terday morning brought 30 recruits, who left by the
Juverna steamer for Bristol en route to London.
Their ages varied from 15 to 40, and they were
the most unpromising materials for soldiers
that could be seen. An extract of a letter
from Trieste, published in Saturday's Constitu-
tion, stated that the persons charged with the
enlistment in Ireland was very deficient in their
selection, and that in consequence several of the re-
cruits had been rejected by the military inspectors.
Any one to look at the Kerry reinforcement yes-
terday would readily acknowledge the justice of
this observation, A bystander who was at the train
thus summed them up as they stepped on the plat-
form—' They are the most despicable lot of fellows
I ever saw.' If the Holy Father's military inspec-
tors do their duty as they are said to have done it
already, there can be little doubt that few of the
30 will have an opportunity of lending their aid
to crush out the aspirations for liberty in the
Patrimony of St. Peter. The party was in
charge of a priest named Griffin, from Killarney.
In the Romish Ecclesiastisal Directory ' his
name appears as the Rev. A Griffin, and he stands
third of four curates alloted to that town,
which is a bishop's parish. On leaving the
train he led his companions to a hotel in
King-street. There they remained until near
1 clock, when they all went on board the steam-
ship Juverna, and left for Bristol, whence they will
proceed to London to be sent on to Trieste. They
will remain there until passages can be procured
for them to Ancona, where the new levies are to be
organised. One of the recruits was addressed as
1)r. Sullivan. Father Griffin proceeded with his
charge as far as Passage, where he left the vessel
and returned to Killarney. The steamship Flora,
which left this city for Bristol on Friday, took over
the recruits which arrived from Killarney on that
and the previous morning, it is mentioned through
the city that six of the assistants in one of our
principal drapery establishments have laid down
their cloth yard shafts•in exchange for the carbine,
and 6d. a-day allotted by the Successor of the
Fisherman' to his militant auxiliaries."