The Sun.
London, England, 1860-07-27 00:00:00

ST. JOHN OF WAPPING REGATTA.

The annual regatta at Wapping came off yesterday, for
a new boat and other prizes, and attracted a large number
of spectators.

First Heat.

J. S. Rae, Union-stairs (White) 1
J. Church, Hermitage-stairs (Yellow) 2
J. Cannon, King Henry-stairs (Red and White) 3
Won by three lengths.

Second Heat.
E. Briant, Wapping Dock-stairs .... (Blue and White) 1
J. Chandler, Wapping Old-stairs (Pink) 2
R. Bottomley, Alderman-stairs (Green) 3
Won by three lengths.

Third Heat.
Pink
.d
Yellowa .. .
Green....... 4
2 Red
Won by two lengths.
Fourth Heat.
3
White
Elue and White 2 Green .. 4
Won easily.

Grand Heat.
White ..... 1 I Blue and White ........ 2
White took the lead, which he kept throughout, winning
by several lengths.

NEWSPAPERS FOR CHINA, &C.—As many news-
papers intended to be sent to China and ether places
eastward of India, via Southampton and Suez, continue to
be posted insufficiently prepaid, the public are reminded
that newspapers for any of those places are liable to a
postage of 2d. each, and that, unless that postage be pre-
paid, the newspapers will not be forwarded.
%Baron James de Rothschild, jun., has arrived at
Wallace's Hotel, from. Paris

A letter bearing the signature of " John A.
Walker" gives the following particulars in connec-
tion with the account of the return last week to
Dublin of a batch of the Pope's Irish Brigade, and
of their sufferings abroad and at home. The writer
puts down the number of these prodigal sons at
116, instead of 69, as stated in the first instance :
" One hundred and sixteen of these unfeetu-
nates presented themselves before Mr. Sullivan,
of the Nation newspaper, on Sunday morning last,
and demanded an interview, because, as they said,
he had led them (by his statements) in
his paper) to believe they would receive a large
bounty if they joined the Pope's army, 2s. a day
pay, and the treatment of gentlemen ; and there-
fore, when they found out how utterly, how
cruelly they had been deceived the moment
they touched their native shores, they, penniless
and starved as they were, rushed off to the mars
who had been the means of misleading them, and
who by his mis-statements had induced them to
relinquish their good situations and leave their
comfortable homes to be treated as brutes, or as one
of them said to me, far worse than we treat our
dogs.' But Mr. Sullivan would have nothing to
say to them, and therefore they were cast—many
of them without a farthing in their pockets
upon the streets of our city, to pick up a morsel
as best they could. One or two of them
went to priests for aid, but no aid was given ; the
door was shut in their faces; their naked, starved
appearance did not move the hearts of those ghostly
men who had so shamefully betrayed them ; and
the children of the Church,' the Volunteers of the
Pope, must find their way home—wherever that
is—as best they may. The tale of their sufferings
is horrible, audithe treatment they endured so
shameful that we ask ourselves in amazement,
Can these things be P' One of the young men,
whom I knew very well. in Cork, and who held
a respectable situation in that city, gave me a,
written account to-day of his sufferinge.
It is too long to publish, but I will give its
substance. They were engaged in Dublin by
_Mr,
teener ad or the Nation ; 12s. 6d. was paid them
as passage money to Liverpool, where a Father
O'Reilly met them, and forwarded them to Hull.
Here a Mr. Cooper gave them 10s. Gd. each, and
forwarded them as deck passengers to Antwerp,
and from the time they left Hull their trials began.
On the voyage to Antwerp they were two days
and two nights, and were allowed all the time
only two meals; and when they got to Antwerp
a person named Barry forwarded them to Bel-
gium. All this time they had but one meal a
day. They were conveyed regularly but rapidly
to Rome, kept travelling four days and nights'
in railway carriages, and when they entered a
town, if to sleep, it was a stable or a watch-
house, upon the floor of which they had to lie,
while their food Was black bread and beer,
or occasionally maccaroni soup and stinking Ger-
man sausages. English workhouse paupers are
treated as gentlemen in comparison,. because they
are at least allowed their three meals a day, and the
food is healthy and good, but were neVer allowed
more than two, and those in such small quantities,
and of such bad quality, that they served rather as
emetics than as satisfle:cs of the appetite. But their
journey from Macerata to Rome was really the
most cruel. 'nee weather was so oppressively hot
that they could hardly bear up against it, and not-
withstanding this they had to march an average of
40 miles a day on one meal of brown bread and
bad soup, and as if to add insult to injury,
the young man writes,—' A Dr. O'Loughlin,
of Waterford, who had a car and a pair
of good horses, accompanied us, and urged us
on by telling us the Holy Father was waiting for
us, and would receive us and treat us like sons."
Meanwhile every post-house or hotel we stopped
at he got plenty to eat, but never offered one of us
a mouthful, while he knew we had not a penny to
buy for ourselves. Oh, we have a blessing in store
for this man ! " When we arrived at Rome '—l
give the young man's own words—' we were
marched about four miles to a barrack, where we
were thrust into a yard to get our dinner, which
turned out to be our supper as well; it consisted.
of half a pint of sour wine, and twelve ounces of
black bread. We remained in Rome three weeks,
and each day was more miserable than its
predecessors. Our food was horrible and scanty ;
and even this we could not enjoy were we disposed,,
for the number of beggars who surrounded us crav-
ing for a.share of it. I saw fine, strong, able-bodied
men who went out with me visibly sink under their
sufferings, our treatment was .so bad. When
we applied to the priests, they all laughed at
us ; they either could not or would not help
us. In fact they appear to be both hated
and despised by the soldiers and people of
Rome, and we found out to our cost what a
set of hollow wretches they were. We com-
plained, and well we might, to the English Con-
sul ; for we found the English Government was
feared in Rome above all others, so much so
that we were told if we applied to him, or made
any complaint, we should be shot. However, we
stole to his house at night, and he kindly, although
we knew we had forfeited all claim upon him,
helped us. Many of us feigned illness, and some
cut their legs to get into hospital, and when there
I saw many maim themselves that they might be
sent home, for we were determined to suffer any-.
thing rather than continue in that horrible service;
and home we have been sent, thank God !
But if our journey out was bad, our treat-
ment at home was far worse. It seemed as

if nothing could be bad enough for us, and the
worst food too good. We were told in London
by the agent there that Mr. Sullivan would pay
our passages home from Dublin ; but we were told
what we were told from the beginning—a lie. Had
it not been for the kindness of Mr. Aitken, of the
firm of M'Birney, Collis, and Co., I might have gone
to the workhouse for anything either he or the
priests to whom I applied cared.' Hear what he
says about Rome,---:' Rome is a small place, and its
streets are narrow, and so filthy that every one is
like a stench-hole, while the beggars that follow you
everywhere look so miserable and wretched that
they nearly break your heart to hear theta cry for
bread, bread,' while the priests are seen everywhere
eating, drinking, and smoking, as if they had no-
thing in the world else to do. Oh! how my heart
panted for old Ireland, and how I prayed to be
away from this accursed place !"

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS—(YESTERDAY.)
The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack
at five o'clock.

PRIVATE BUSINESS.

Domvile's Estate, Earl of Longford's Estate, and
Beanchamp's :Almshouses Estate Bills were read a third
time and passed.